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Counting down to the day streaming services put more effort into boiling the oceans by re-encoding every show and movie with targeted ads for each user to get around adblock.
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Streaming music services pay artists three tenths of sweet gently caress all, so I don't use them. I buy the music as directly as I can. Video games makers gotta eat too. Especially indies, which is most of what I play. Unless a studio has been particularly terrible, I buy there, too. But TV and movie studios can get in the loving bin, and so can streaming services.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:54
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It just doesn't make sense. You can watch Sister Wives on Max or Discovery+ or TLC Go or Philo, but you can only watch the new Talk Back spinoff on the TLC Go app. There are just too many options and too many companies trying to milk this poo poo And yeah yeah schad's on me for being a Sister Wives watcher lol
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Jan 8, 2024 21:59
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Between ad-blocking and an ad/malware blocking DNS, I haven't had any issues with ads at all except I think with Pluto TV where it would occasionally think it was playing an ad so if it hosed up where I was it was a hassle to get back.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:00
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Counting down to the day streaming services put more effort into boiling the oceans by re-encoding every show and movie with targeted ads for each user to get around adblock. They won't need to re-encode, just change their streaming server so it effectively proxies the ad servers and there's no detectable difference to the client
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Jan 8, 2024 22:04
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The future is here, according to Ask A Manager. > men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name quote:> I have sort of a strange situation. I provide consulting services for (mostly) small business owners. This generally involves scheduling some meetings, and I have an email “Personal Assistant” bot that does this for me. It has a female name (which was the default), and does not announce that it is a bot (though I don’t think it’s hard to tell). It gives a standard salutation and signs off with “Thank you, <bot name>.” All it does is schedule meetings, and it’s not nearly to the level of an AI chat bot or anything. Any parts of an email that it receives that don’t seem related to scheduling just get ignored by the program. The emails show up in my inbox and I review them to make sure everything got added to my calendar correctly.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:04
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This Her reboot sucks
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Jan 8, 2024 22:11
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Jan 8, 2024 22:13
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Cythereal posted:The future is here, according to Ask A Manager. Kill all men
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Jan 8, 2024 22:13
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It's a honeypot trap, to distract the defective men from reproducing. It's one of them Australian bottle caps or whatever
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Jan 8, 2024 22:49
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Elias_Maluco posted:Kill all men What are you doing later, sweet cheeks
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Jan 8, 2024 23:04
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Nfcknblvbl posted:One hour on a AAA game isn't enough time to know if it's good since the tutorial phase usually lasts about 3 hours. That first hour lets you determine if the game actually runs well enough on your machine. A bunch of people were rightfully pissed off when the latest MS Flight Sim released a few years ago. The Steam download was just their own downloader. So tons of people who downloaded the "game" went over the refund limit simply because it considered the MS downloader being the game running. And it took hours to download the game when it came out.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:06
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holtemon posted:It just doesn't make sense. You can watch Sister Wives on Max or Discovery+ or TLC Go or Philo, but you can only watch the new Talk Back spinoff on the TLC Go app. There are just too many options and too many companies trying to milk this poo poo You're the one getting the schadenfreude seeing those polygamist marriages falling apart. I didn't even realize it was down to just one right now. Edit: Tagged for the international fanatics who might not be caught up yet!
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Jan 8, 2024 23:20
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https://i.imgur.com/dT8tbrf.mp4 It's no Conqueeftador, but I love the abject misery/disappointment in dad's voice.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:31
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I love videos that have the Schadenfreude sound.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://i.imgur.com/dT8tbrf.mp4 Must be a really staunch atheist.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:44
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limp_cheese posted:I love videos that have the Schadenfreude sound. 
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Jan 9, 2024 01:41
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axolotl farmer posted:Steam will give you a no questions asked refund if you played the game for less than an hour or so. they're pretty good if you're nice but also seem kind of stupid, like i accidentally bought Stellaris a few months back thinking it was No Man's Sky and i played it for a few hours before figuring out it wasn't and they refunded it no problem
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Jan 9, 2024 01:56
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I just opened Steam and have no idea wtf is going on:
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Jan 9, 2024 02:03
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I just opened Steam and have no idea wtf is going on: Simulation and economy games. Think games like Rollercoaster Tycoon and Recettear.
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Jan 9, 2024 02:19
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axolotl farmer posted:Steam will give you a no questions asked refund if you played the game for less than an hour or so. I think it's 2 hours or two weeks after purchase now. We purchased a co-op game in a sale and then didn't get around to playing it for a while, then when we finally got the group together to try it the game was dogshit so we quit just before the 2 hour mark and tried to refund it. Got denied because it had been too long since the purchase date. Which is kind of fair but also buying things and not playing them for years is the Steam meta, dammit. Pennywise the Frown posted:A bunch of people were rightfully pissed off when the latest MS Flight Sim released a few years ago. The Steam download was just their own downloader. So tons of people who downloaded the "game" went over the refund limit simply because it considered the MS downloader being the game running. And it took hours to download the game when it came out. I feel like it's becoming A Thing for developers to plan their tutorial missions to take just long enough that you can't refund, so that when you get into the game proper and realize there's nothing there it's too late to get your money back. That's not what happened with Flight Simulator, but I suspect it's starting to happen more with some of the dodgy devs.
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Oh it's definitely happening. Every time you have a bright-line rule like that the people it's meant to apply to figure out how to get as close as possible to the line with as little cost and effort and then relax Just like how every TV show had a major bombshell at the end of episode 3 shortly after the three-episode test first became buzzy
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Jan 9, 2024 03:46
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Holy poo poo someone was in that car.
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I mean on the one hand, why would you ever stop there? But on the other, lol that bridge operator is out of a job.
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freeedr posted:So anyway after a few minutes of talking she told me HR wants my résumé to evaluate how big of a raise they can give me before the merit raises happen this year. Nice of her to not lead the conversation with that bit. Pack up your poo poo, security will escort you from the property in 5 minutes. Is something we would never say to you. Anyway, let's talk about how much more money we can get ya! Nfcknblvbl posted:Counting down to the day streaming services put more effort into boiling the oceans by re-encoding every show and movie with targeted ads for each user to get around adblock. Was going to say that would just cause everyone to use a plugin like SponserBlock to crowd source skipping over the ads, but if they customize both location and duration for each individual then yeah we're hosed:  davidspackage posted:What are you doing later, sweet cheeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sogCmB_ifw&t=55s
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Takes No Damage posted:Was going to say that would just cause everyone to use a plugin like SponserBlock to crowd source skipping over the ads, but if they customize both location and duration for each individual then yeah we're hosed Nah, at that point you just rip and rehost. Plus, Sponsorblock is an answer to ads placed in the video by the creator, not ads injected by the service. It's not the same problem.
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Jan 9, 2024 04:23
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Tagra posted:I think it's 2 hours or two weeks after purchase now. We purchased a co-op game in a sale and then didn't get around to playing it for a while, then when we finally got the group together to try it the game was dogshit so we quit just before the 2 hour mark and tried to refund it. Got denied because it had been too long since the purchase date. Which is kind of fair but also buying things and not playing them for years is the Steam meta, dammit.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I mean on the one hand, why would you ever stop there? But on the other, lol that bridge operator is out of a job. depends on what ship was incoming. Bill's schooner? sure, fired. something that couldn't stop in time?
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What did White Shirt put on top of the bowl and why did Black Shirt want to take it off?   btw I did the same kind of poo poo as a kid.
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deoju posted:What did White Shirt put on top of the bowl and why did black shirt want to take it off? That looks like a big rear end pack of firecrackers.
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I'm confused. Were they on their phone or something? Did the boom gates come down and they just panicked and froze? Were they just incredibly loving stupid?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I'm confused. Were they on their phone or something? Did the boom gates come down and they just panicked and froze? I'm guessing that the "Bridge opening, do not proceed" siren was on so they did not proceed, or whatever the local equivalent is. I've seen similar videos where drivers stop in the middle of a rail crossing because the boom gates came down, and drivers who heard an ambulance coming so they stopped their car in a spot where it's blocking the ambulance rather than pull over and make room So yeah, the answer is "they were just incredibly loving stupid"
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Jan 9, 2024 05:25
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Maximum Overdrive reboot looks piss weak
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Maximum Overdrive reboot looks piss weak This is the prequel, Minimum Overdrive
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the holy poopacy posted:This is the prequel, Minimum Overdrive Controversy arose over the scene where a child is shown being slowly run over and lightly tickled by a sentient ice cream truck.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I just opened Steam and have no idea wtf is going on: Their "rules" for the publishers. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/upcoming_events/themed_sales/economy_2024#eligibility "Games that are about capitalism, economy, or money grubbing are allowed in this event. It doesn't have to be real money—cookies count as a currency!—but the entire goal of the game should be to make money. If your game is mostly about shooting, or is an action-adventure game where you can buy things with your money, or is a city builder where you have to survive zombies/the heat death of the universe/dinosaurs, unfortunately this is not the event for that title. Do you game-over if you run out of money? If the answer is yes, then your title is likely a good fit. If the answer is no, but the player can take out loans to try and extend that runway, then the answer is almost definitely yes. If you can game-over while you have money, then it's it's probably not a good fit for this event. Games that are mostly about trading or bartering are not eligible for this event. Sorry, this is an event for Capitalist titles only!"
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Mierenneuker posted:Their "rules" for the publishers. This is horseshit. Like, I don't care about this event one way or the other, but this last point is incredibly nit-picky and pedantic.
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