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skooma512 posted:Wait, you weren't talking about SA? Lol no, but I'm sure someone who goes there will know what site I'm talking about since there's a lot of crossover between user bases. The nice thing with SA is that it's much larger so I can just read the megathreads about random interests and not run into a ton of drama most of the time. There, if poo poo goes down it's literally all anyone is talking about.
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euphronius posted:lol I thought you were describing SA They were even if they didn’t realize it.
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I used Discord exactly once to play Divinity: Original Sin 2 online with some friends that only have PCs because one guy insisted we use it for voice chat. I still don't understand the point. Fuckin MSN messenger handled voice chat equally well decades ago. Though I sometimes lol about the time some chud on twitter told me that he is more successful than me because, and I quote: "I am a member of several very exclusive discord communities".
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The killer feature of Discord is that it provides a low friction, ad-hoc group voice and text chat at no cost. It has solved this problem basically as well as you possibly could and in an era where Skype was absolute dogshit at everything it was doing, and mumble/teamspeak/vent had much higher barriers of entry for setup and use. It's success was a foregone conclusion to me the first time I used it, but the fact that it's become a defacto hub for communities has been a net 'bad' for the Internet as a whole.
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Quote-Unquote posted:"I am a member of several very exclusive discord communities". That's when you respond, oh yeah, well, do you have stairs in your house? 
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have noticed Google Play Store has started showing adds that contains an install button when you open an app page to install it, so if you are careless it's super easy to press the first install button you see, except you're installing some random software from an ad, not the actual thing you were trying to install. To be fair hosting sites have been doing this for decades with ads that all prominently display a "DOWNLOAD NOW" button. You'd think google would care enough to keep that poo poo away but 
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Quote-Unquote posted:Though I sometimes lol about the time some chud on twitter told me that he is more successful than me because, and I quote: "I am a member of several very exclusive discord communities". Right up there with "I maintain an extensive realdoll collection"
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Outrail posted:I maintain an extensive realdoll collection You do? You sick gently caress.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have noticed Google Play Store has started showing adds that contains an install button when you open an app page to install it, so if you are careless it's super easy to press the first install button you see, except you're installing some random software from an ad, not the actual thing you were trying to install. They did that themselves back when chrome was new. Paying scummy download sites to bundle it into installers, all the usual "Do you not not not not not want to install chrome? OK / Proceed", and only offering that choice of you clicked the 'custom' install button. Just like all the other bullshit software that used that route.
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Gwely Mernans posted:Lol no, but I'm sure someone who goes there will know what site I'm talking about since there's a lot of crossover between user bases. The nice thing with SA is that it's much larger so I can just read the megathreads about random interests and not run into a ton of drama most of the time. There, if poo poo goes down it's literally all anyone is talking about.
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Gwely Mernans posted:Lol no, but I'm sure someone who goes there will know what site I'm talking about since there's a lot of crossover between user bases. Please don't tell me, I don't think I want to know.
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Popsicles no longer put jokes on the sticks.
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shazbot posted:Popsicles no longer put jokes on the sticks. As they get smaller and smaller for the same price, eventually the popsicle will be the joke.
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Gwely Mernans posted:Lol no, but I'm sure someone who goes there will know what site I'm talking about since there's a lot of crossover between user bases. The nice thing with SA is that it's much larger so I can just read the megathreads about random interests and not run into a ton of drama most of the time. There, if poo poo goes down it's literally all anyone is talking about. *Penny Arcade forums *Forumopolis (PvP Forums) *Uh bread & roses? *some other obscure webcomic forum one of these i wager
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Penny arcade is weird because originally it was terrible but I didn't know any better. Then it was terrible and I *did* know better and stopped paying attention to it. But recently I checked and it's... quite good? Unused to a progression like that.
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Atopian posted:As they get smaller and smaller for the same price, eventually the popsicle will be the joke. I keep harping on this to the point even I think it's past the point of parody, but a candy bar is $3 now, and they're like 70% the size they were 5 years ago.
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Atopian posted:Penny arcade is weird because originally it was terrible but I didn't know any better. I went through this sequence myself but I haven't revisited it. It's good now?? Penny Arcade was great in the beginning because being a nerd or playing video games was still shameful and it was cool to read a comic about things I do and enjoy. Then the comic just seemed to be referencing things, as if just referencing a thing is a joke. It was still hitting that thing in me, that feeling of being seen and included, but it sure wasn't funny.
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credburn posted:I went through this sequence myself but I haven't revisited it. It's good now?? Well, perhaps it'd be better to say "significantly better than expected, with periodic actually good parts". At least I didn't feel I'd wasted my time reading it.
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Time_pants posted:I keep harping on this to the point even I think it's past the point of parody, but a candy bar is $3 now, and they're like 70% the size they were 5 years ago. Today I noticed the pack of f-ing store brand kitchen sponges I always get are now smaller compared to the old ones; there's absolutely no end to it, it's driving me to some sort of madness
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If this keeps up I won't have to use finger cots anymore
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Outrail posted:If this keeps up I won't have to use finger cots anymore Had to google these to find out what they were and drat, that's where all the fingers they cut off of fingerless gloves go?
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Every single time I open Youtube nowadays on desktop, it nags me with a pop-up to get Youtube TV (whatever that is), or subscribe to Premium, or one of million other things. And now there's a giant banner that takes up half of the home screen that advertises some kind of 3D printing event? I've never in my life shown any interest in 3D printing. Combined with the other half of the screen being occupied by shorts (which I've also never watched) and the pop-ups, Youtube is working hard to prevent me from seeing any video on their site.
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There are YouTube videos tagged with model numbers of appliances you may want to see how to repair. Neither YouTube search nor Google search will present you with those videos if you search the model number.
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The actual reason is almost always higher quarterly profits, correct?
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After being bypassed by the youtube adblock wars, they have finally come to me in the form of a theoretical minute and a half of ads being silently vaporised in five seconds by my addons. Slightly annoying, but it's nice to know specifically whose money I'm wasting from the title. Sometimes I try to imagine being the sort of person who'd actually watch a solid minute and a half of ads for a youtube video, but I can't do it.
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flesh dance posted:Today I noticed the pack of f-ing store brand kitchen sponges I always get are now smaller compared to the old ones; there's absolutely no end to it, it's driving me to some sort of madness They're thinner too lol like half or a third
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redshirt posted:The actual reason is almost always higher quarterly profits, correct? No. It's always higher quarterly profits
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flesh dance posted:Today I noticed the pack of f-ing store brand kitchen sponges I always get are now smaller compared to the old ones; there's absolutely no end to it, it's driving me to some sort of madness Store brand toilet paper I used to get has 2/3 as much on each roll but they wind it more loosely to keep it the same diameter.
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They probably also made the cardboard tube slightly bigger.
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:There are YouTube videos tagged with model numbers of appliances you may want to see how to repair. Did the software-narrated top 10 washing machines of 2023 videos with amazon affiliate links help you at least? How is your new BONUEGUZUEMT 4.2 cu ft high efficiency washing machine?
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:There are YouTube videos tagged with model numbers of appliances you may want to see how to repair. similarly, I subscribe to a channel with the dumb but fairly unique word "reviewz" in the title. Searching for that never ever shows me this channel I am subscribed to, I have to put in the entire channel name!
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Bloodplay it again posted:Did the software-narrated top 10 washing machines of 2023 videos with amazon affiliate links help you at least? How is your new BONUEGUZUEMT 4.2 cu ft high efficiency washing machine? God drat this post makes me itch.
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Time_pants posted:They probably also made the cardboard tube slightly bigger.
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:There are YouTube videos tagged with model numbers of appliances you may want to see how to repair. Yesterday, I was searching my company’s Google Drive for a document that included Vision Pro in its title and a search of "Vision Pro" didn’t find it. How do you gently caress up search that badly?
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Time_pants posted:They probably also made the cardboard tube slightly bigger. This honestly makes me feel a lot better
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When did video games start getting "seasons"?
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they realised a seasoned audience produces more income
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Blue Moonlight posted:Yesterday, I was searching my company’s Google Drive for a document that included Vision Pro in its title and a search of "Vision Pro" didn’t find it. I installed a program called Everything on my work PC, because usually when I'm searching, it's for xyz when a file name contains the exact string xyz, and Windows search goes "buhhhhh... what?" and then shows nothing, or irrelevant things.
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