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If you're going to make a stupid pull with options that shouldn't be on it, at least include an all three and none option.

Sarcasthma posted...

I got the only 3 more videos and you wont be able to view any more videos message, so I caved and disabled my blockers.

I did add a Chrome extension that automatically clicks the skip ad button, though.

Assuming the countdown "hits 0", which may not even happen, all that youtube does it put some overlay on top of the video, that's...wait for it...blockable by ublock origin.

pvegeta posted...

There is already a youtube adblocker extension available, which I am using. look up "Adblock for Youtube"

Honestly this is a bad approach. You're better off sticking to one trustworthy blocker (ublock origin is currently probably the best one out there), instead of installing random less known crap. Otherwise you're going to end up with an extension that the developer sells it off to some unscrupulous individual that pushes an update that turns it into malware. This in particular is a common problem with Chrome. And highlights why the less is more mantra is important with browser extensions.

MagicalPrincess posted...

Of course not unless I had a death wish. Everyone has a right of what to put in their body or not put in their body.

Ikr, how dare the government not allow me to infect myself (and everyone else) with smallpox or polio. Ban all vaccines! Make plagues great again! God wants everyone to suffer, who are we to defy his will?

Yellow posted...

I don't understand, this new model doesn't even make Unity that much money, it's just terrible PR

I mean this is the company with a CEO that had to backpedal after saying devs that don't prioritize monetization in the development of their games are fucking idiots.

I'll be curious how much they backpedal, because they've permanently fucked their reputation at this point regardless of what they do.

Lokarin posted...

Ancient. I do have the floppy disks but I don't have a 3.5" reader

Assuming there's anything still on them. I came across some old floppies a few years ago with some random junk on them that I tried to transfer while I still had access to a floppy drive and about 90% of them had already lost everything that was on them.

Yellow posted...

Why would they say install instead of purchase? Reeks of genius CEO activity, coming at problems from a new angle.

Personally it feels like they're targeting F2P with this.

Installs would include F2P games with microtransactions, where as purchases I imagine wouldn't unless you made some sort of sub-clause to rope them in. Not to mention the majority of F2P player base doesn't ever do any purchases, so using installs could produce a significantly larger revenue stream.

Lokarin posted...

I'd love to play that again, I hope it gets on steam..,

Considering that the Team Ico games were first party games, the only way that gets on steam is if you're manually adding an emulator to steam. And as far as the remake goes, it's likely years before any of the PS4 emulators (which apparently are actually a thing now) have it at a playable state.

And Ueda's next game, whenever it gets released (based on past history maybe in 15 years?) looks to be an Epic Store exclusive if it gets a PC release, since Epic Games is fully funding it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

My vote would be for one of the games that have no ending, and which just keep getting harder as you go until they become impossible. Those would technically be infinitely long.

If they progress to a point where it's technically impossible to continue, that would qualify as an ending, and as such they aren't infinitely long. Sure, you can replay the game at that point, but that's not really different at that point from replaying a game with a more defined ending.

Entity13 posted...

Get the kids off the Internet as a general whole, but let them have certain public resources online such as a library or listening to books on Audible, or instructional videos on various arts or crafts. Likewise, take the Internet and phone privileges away from numerous old people with the same limitations as children.

The only "realistic" way that's going to work is to implement some sort of dystopian nationwide registration/monitoring system. At which point we'd probably still have censorship and would essentially have turned into the garbage that China has.

Cruciferous posted...

Learn what a lettuce is and come back.

Cruciferous posted...

I'm a huge fan of arugula myself.

Arugula isn't a lettuce. You should of used the term leaf vegetables/greens if you wanted to include stuff like arugula.

Only if it's served with a nice glass of aromatic water mix.

https://twitter.com/PronouncedHare/status/1687364403379789824

Are you dining out more, less or about the same

Good job of fucking up the poll so much that you failed to even include the highlighted as an option that you can choose in the poll itself. And that's ignoring the fact that the final poll option has nothing to do with the poll question.

darkknight109 posted...
If we push things into the 90s, I'd put Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Tetris Attack as my three.

Doom's from '93.

wpot posted...

On the other hand it's SO obviously dumb that you have to wonder if he's tanking the company for some reason that isn't clear to us.

Hanlon's razor/Occam's razor. Don't over-complicate things when the answer is simple. Musk is a narcissistic idiot.

Edit: Everyone benefits from their own existence.

Do they? How does a life that has experienced nothing but suffering from the day their born to the day they die and never had a moment of enjoyment in their life to the point that they wish they were never born till the day they die benefit from their own existence?

GEKGanon posted...

The modern inhabitants of England experience the benefits of their long-ago ancestors being invaded by Romans first, and Normans later.

The modern inhabitants of Japan experience the benefits of their ancestors having reformed their national identity following a stunning loss during attempted imperial aggression and expansion.

The modern inhabitants of Germany experience the benefits of their ancestors having lost two wars of aggression twice.

The modern inhabitants of South Korea experience the benefits of their ancestors having suffered a war that tore their country in two.

The argument that people experience benefits from past tragedies is reliant on knowing how history would unfold if the tragedy hadn't happened in the first place. As there is no way to know how history would unfold if the tragedies never happened in the first place, your argument has no merit because you cannot prove that there is a benefit that was derived from the tragedy that wouldn't exist if the tragedy had never occurred in the first place.

On that note, while WWII might of been a catalyst for your grandparents meeting/having a child, you have no way to prove that they wouldn't have met/led to your existence for other reasons if WWII never happened.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

its been clear for a while that he is intentionally killing the website

Not really. More simply it's just that he's actually that stupid/deluded. The only reason he's been a success to this point is that his other businesses have a layer of management that specifically keeps Musk from directly managing the company and is able to keep Musk's stupider impulses at bay. Twitter doesn't have that.

VampireCoyote posted...

The fuck is the issue

Because I'd literally rather die than step into a movie theater.

Lobomoon posted...

All the cool dudes are on Threads, brah, Why you not on Threads, brah?

Because it requires Instagram, and back in the day I was IP banned from Instagram because I tried to create an account. (seriously, what a clusterfuck pile of shit)

captpackrat posted...

Why use Threads when there's literally thousands of better instances of Mastodon?

Same reason most people don't use Linux. Mastodon focuses on ideological values over usability that precludes it from ever becoming a viable option for mass adoption.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is sort of indicative of what I mentioned in the other topic on this subject.

There are tons of Twitter alternatives out there... but while people who are terminally online may know about most of them and have opinions of which one is better and why, the average person living in the real world (which are still making up the vast majority of users for social media sites, even if their reading/posting habits are more casual) has never heard of any of them. So there's never going to be a concerted push to switch platforms no matter how terrible Twitter might become or how much people come to hate it. At least not until one of the alternatives manages to establish itself as a clear alternative that is both popular and massive.

I'd argue the bigger issue was more that there wasn't a viable alternative to migrate to at the point that the initial Twitter outrage peaked last year. Mastodon gained an initial upsurge in usage, but it was never going to be and never will be a viable replacement to Twitter. And none of the other potentially legitimate alternatives were mature enough at that point to be able to capitalize on Musk's idiocy.

That being said, as long as Musk is around it's not a matter of if Twitter will fail but when. Musk is a terrible leader and the only reason that his other companies succeeded is due to them having a team that limited Musk's ability to directly manage the company...something Twitter doesn't have. It may not currently be obvious to the average user, but Musk is systematically destroying everything that made Twitter valued in the first place in the quest of short gain profit.

The mismanagement of MySpace/Digg/LiveJournal/Photobucket/Tumblr led to their failure, and Twitter's following the same path. Long term Reddit might be as well.

Ozmose posted...

You do realize the south was overwhelmingly run by Democrats during the Civil War, right?

And Democrats were the conservative party during that period.

This is pretty much literally nothing but things I hate put together into one unholy pile of shit...so yeah, not even if you held a gun to my head.

SinisterSlay posted... t

Also 6000 people have died in Ukraine since this sub thing started. But no one cares about that in the media obviously.

Or the ship that was smuggling 750 migrants that sank off Greece, creating one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, being mostly ignored over the sub.

But considering that the company flouted various safety regulations, even something as basic as a tracking beacon that would of actually helped tell rescuers where they should be searching... And one of the people that was going to go on the expedition actually backed out due to the safety concerns. The sub was a game of Russian roulette, and it was only a matter of time before they hit the loaded chamber.

Yellow posted...

I feel like the point of this topic is lost since everyone will say 5:30 AM in their timezone

Not necessarily. Buenos Aires currently has a sunrise at ~8am and Longyearbyen has a sunrise at ~1:15am. For a place someone is more likely to be from Orlando is ~6:30am.

Screams diving goggle jokes to me.

captpackrat posted...

Mac nuts will pay stupid amounts of money for equipment. Like a $5000 monitor which doesn't even come with a stand (that's $1000 more).

I personally dislike Apple, but if you're complaining about the price, you're not the target market. The $5k monitor isn't a monitor the average consumer should be buying in the first place and is actually quality and price competitive in the market that it's targeting.

MightBeOverSoon posted...

Body dysmorphic disorder

there is a healthy way to approach your appearance, and its lands somewhere between being vain and being a slob

I consider being a slob far worse than being vain, and I find it hard to land myself in between, so I choose vanity.

This thread has nothing to do with BDD and is as helpful as telling a suicidal person to suck it up.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Should that be 5.5 million or should I not bother with my retirement planning?

Huh. Should of been 5.5 billion. I blame being sick. Should only be around 1 billion before it becomes inhospitable for life, though.

The world's already ended. This is just some post-death fever dream.

rjsilverthorn posted...

7-8 billion years give or take...long after all the various things that live on it have ended.

The Sun's red giant stage is more around 5.5 years out. And Earth is in the borderline range where it may or may not get engulfed by the Sun.

Zareth posted...

Sounds like whale cope to me

So you don't have a valid counter argument and need to resort to an attempt at a personal attack? Personally never spent anything on a gacha and likely never will. Doesn't mean there isn't value there if you have the funds to justify your expenditure (if you have self control issues, you probably shouldn't be gambling in any way period) and gain enough enjoyment out of the experience to offset the cost.

Zareth posted...

Just keep reminding yourself that the game will probably be dead in 5 years and all that money will be wasted

So if you spend money on anything that isn't permanent (plays/movies/concerts/food - outside some cheap slurry that provides the necessary nutrients to live/weddings/birthday celebrations/amusement parks/etc) it's wasted money that you should regret having spent it on?

pionear posted...

^I don't think it would be illegal if it's proves the Company behind it (which is owned my PRC IIRC) is using the Data collected for Spying.

Kinda like some other companies from there that's not allow to have Gov't contracts (Drones, Software, etc)

Irrelevant. The way the law's currently crafted it oversteps the boundaries of state rights and likely infringes on first amendment rights. The government's ability to dictate government contracts has nothing to do with this. As people use TikTok to express themselves, the issue of the government banning it is the argument that they are essentially controlling how people are able to express themselves.

The most likely end result of this law is Montanans having to pay more in taxes to foot the multi-million dollar lawsuit after the state fails to defend itself from lawsuits on its legality.

Dikitain posted...

It isn't a cop-out, it is simply that someone is going to challenge it and it is going to be ruled unconstitutional. I am not going to complain about a law that obviously has no chance of sticking around long enough to matter.

The poll question is: "Think it's a Good Idea? (Poll Question)" The third option is answering an entirely different question "Do you think the law will last (yes/no)". It's a cop-out in that it allows you sidestep around the original question. It also highlights pionear's habit of constructing poor poll choices (something that he is by no means alone in being guilty of).

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Would "making bacon" not be the slaughtering of the pig and butchering the meat?

Not really. Rather "making bacon" would be the curing of the meat. You are correct in your implication that the poll is incorrectly worded, as it's asking about cooking bacon not making it.

Over a third of PoTD's poll voting population apparently think it's a good idea to pass a law that is both illegal (first amendment says hi) and unenforceable. And the third poll option is a cop out.

I haven't consistently had any meaningful amount of caffeine for at least ~20 years. Don't feel worse without it, but I can't really say I feel any better either. *shrug*

MightBeOverSoon posted...

Congrats homie

Sugar was going to be maybe my next topic. It's a much harder vice to kick because they put it in everything.

They want you to be fat.

Honestly salt has the same problem as sugar. Both have valid purposes in cooking unlike caffeine, which would make them harder to qualify what a vice is, but the modern food industry has people trained to complain if the meals aren't overloaded with both of them. It's annoying how many high quality restaurants I've ate at and thought this food would be so much better if the salt wasn't dominating the other flavors (I swear I'm one of the few people that exist that doesn't like the flavor of salt...not particularly fond of overly sweet flavors either).

Apparently it's been confirmed by a youtube employee as an experiment that is currently only activating with a subset of its users, and consists of a popup asking you to disable your adblocker/subscribe to youtube premium if it detects one.

And if they legitimately want to push this forward there would be ways to implement it so that you would not be able to workaround it with noscript/ublock origin. Whether they'd go that far is another story.

Ozmose posted...

So apparently you can get modded for posting will documented statistics now. You either feed the narrative around here or get silenced. This place is a disgrace.

You can argue whether it's justified or not, but you weren't modded for posting statistics, you were modded for the context of your post that was around your statistics. And that you even push such an argument shows that you're probably posting in bad faith.

Also, based on your original post, that means you're for the woman winning the lawsuit then? Since what you're trying to argue was essentially one of her two points.

RIP southern hemisphere.

adjl posted...

It's a nice flavour, but I'm not a huge fan of the texture

?

Goat cheese comes in multiple styles/textures.