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Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

poo poo, I thought you meant like, kitchen corners in random spots

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Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

got any sevens posted:

i dont know how to save a pic from ig, so i take screenshots
why dont all phone apps have a picture saving option from the click-hold menu :argh:

Question is, why didn't you already have the original picture

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

OK Soda still did it better

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

yeah the twitter yellers don't actually play videogames so that doesn't matter to em

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

quote:

“… Baby One More Time,” the Max Martin song that made Britney Spears’s career, was declined by TLC. Spears’s team later passed on “Umbrella,” which made Rihanna a star.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Moridin920 posted:

Instead of leaving you should stay and do a full zen Office Space mentality where you do as much work as you are comfortable with and shrug when the bosses get panicky that more isn't getting done.

Or feel like a schmuck once you realize your half-assed performance is actually perfectly satisfactory and nobody expected you to break your back for no reason :shepicide:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

labor has no value unless it's pasting code from stackoverflow

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Entorwellian posted:

Where are they buying toilet paper where its $200 per roll?
See, that's what's gonna happen if you raise the minimum wage!

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Shame Boy posted:

Sure, I'd understand getting 10% of what they would have paid labor, but all of it?
They really do prefer the same amount of money going to someone who deserves it more by virtue of being higher on the ladder. It's one of those things you can technically comprehend on an intellectual level but your body just rejects

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

zxqv8 posted:

Apparently one's ability to succeed in the world is -in their minds- entirely separate from any external influence, so if we're failing it's just totally our fault.

This is how poo poo like The Secret propagates. It's hard to think of the world as this giant mess of interlocking parts, easier to imagine a cosmic slot machine that dispenses rewards based on adherence to the ideology imprinted on you as a child

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Shame Boy posted:

For some reason I remembered MAN CRATES this weekend and went to see if they still exist because the "send people dumb poo poo in a box" craze seems to be dying, but sure enough:

https://www.mancrates.com/

Ship your man a box full of insecurities today!


It's just all the background poo poo in one box.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEX7OvJzZiY

e: lmao had to find a different upload because they get removed for hate speech :centrism:

Ruffian Price has issued a correction as of 07:37 on Jul 16, 2019

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Ebola Roulette posted:

If you officially withdrew you should try to dispute the debt that's bullshit.
They might be doing the savings coupon thing where you just need to be persistent enough to drop all the charges and they're just counting on some people failing to follow through. Student debt whales, if you will

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

Just imagine if everyone did this!
Even if you simplify the problem to a thought experiment with 200 people on an island, they'll claim that every single one can become a manager if they just apply themselves. The existence of a hidden underclass is just a given.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8wx5zc1Xy4

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

this is just the celebrity lottery for the new generation, what we're not seeing is the hundreds of thousands of failed accounts that tried the same gimmick, but weren't anointed by the Algorithm

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Download the good videos and put them on a Plex server or directly on the device, rotate the content weekly. Once VoCo/media synthesis gets good enough you can start putting "be gay do chores" messages in the streamer's mouth at random intervals

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Moridin920 posted:

I mean fundamentally it sounds like the idea is that parents need to interact with their children and not expect a gadget to raise them instead.
It's like that Regnerus study that tried to prove gay adoption hurts kids but all that came out statistically significant was the kid receiving daily attention. Good luck being a stay-at-home parent in this day and age tho

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Moridin920 posted:

Maybe all the teens are depressed because the world is clearly hurtling towards ecological disaster and no adults in charge seem to be doing gently caress all about it.
honestly seeing woke zoomers on social media brings me hope for the future, they certainly seem smarter and more self-aware than I was their age

these are the kids that narrowly missed being raised by elsa spiderman dental tickling videos though, who knows what'll come out of that

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

When billionaires litter, they do it on a grand scale

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

It's all the colors the original Xbox could produce.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

You can have an ad-free experience by not agreeing to the Terms of Service. It's just bait for people who skip through the setup process, you can use the TV normally without it

I wonder how it feels being the UX person figuring out psychological tricks to make people using your interfaces miserable. Doesn't get more Evil Employer than that

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

well it's essentially Brooker being mad at his career

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

spankmeister posted:

I got an LG oled with "smart" features because I'm not some kind of poor weirdo.
Pisses me off that they're not making smaller versions of that glorious panel. At this point I'd pay more for a smaller TV

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Stevie Lee posted:

tv that pauses your netflix to show ads
Thank God Netflix already does that on its own.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016



:smith:

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Not a Children posted:

gold-fringed flag equivalent for Airbnbs
gently caress. For a while I thought it was a ploy to circumvent ICE's kidnapping schemes

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Chomp8645 posted:

Alternate universe where gamers rose up???
No, it's the same group a year after the Famous Screenshot. Nothing happens and we continue the death march

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Koishi Komeiji posted:

"oh that really good job we told you about just got filled but we're actually a temp agency and we have some great minimum wage temp call center jobs!"
I don't get the reasoning here. Surely chasing after people who are not going to sign up is just a waste of time for everybody involved? Or are they counting on some kind of return coupon psychology, making you regret all the time you've spent filling forms so you might as well downgrade your life to not have that effort go to waste?

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

This isn't neural nets though, just good old CGI. Photorealism in static images hasn't been a problem for decades, it's motion that still suffers from uncanny valley. Check out any of the "scanned face in a void" animated SIGGRAPH demos from the past few years and focus on the blinking.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

D.Ork Bimboolean posted:

Their not even that clever really
Nah, they know exactly what they're doing. You follow your employer's commands to the letter, but in a way that has the opposite effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule

They WANT you to see through the bullshit.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

See, when I put the gun to your head and demanded all your money, you should have said no. You were free to do so!

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I always found it bizarre insane when Palin went on about death panels somehow being a function of universal healthcare.

I mean, isn't that just exactly how it is in the US now?
it's always projection ♫♪

like, the same people will tell you socialism inevitably leads to this poo poo:

frogge posted:

Yeah I think it's a weird Rube-Goldberg device of bureaucracy with like one person handling accounts and like five people making sure no one is giving any support to the insured customer and a whole lot of middle management above them trying to justify their paychecks to the people above them by getting as much blood as they can from the stones below them.

and we can't have that! accept our brand instead

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Owlbear Camus posted:

It is kind of neat how it seems to do flawless real time keying without a chroma matte.

Does it? All the player figures are pre-keyed and put above the realtime photo, it doesn't have to do any processing on it

This being capitalism.png, I wouldn't expect it to have any tech Flash dress-up dolls didn't have

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

I assume "we" means "the public" here, of course they had cars

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Richard M. Stallman could power that whole thing for weeks.

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Sjs00 posted:

Just go to Goodwill and buy a box of kids books. There aren't any ads in those
I remember Pratchett getting pissed when he found out his German publisher has been inserting native ads in his books, literally pausing the action to put some scene of our fantasy heroes enjoying a real-life product. Fuckin ahead of the curve there

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Really it's nice to have the scat thing in the open, children entertainers with seemingly spotless records usually turn out far worse. Thank God it's just poo poo.

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Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Bombadilillo posted:

And every single messed up kid wants to grow up to be a game streamer or a youtube star.
That's just the old fame & fortune dream, but with new media :shrug: this problem goes way deeper

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