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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

How do they even work

Ignore means you don't see their posts, block means additionally that they can't see yours

I don't really see any reason why you'd bother to ignore but not block someone. I do have people who are ignored but not blocked though cause this stupid site only has a link to ignore on someone's message. Why do I need to type their username in to block them, too much work

Questionmarktarius posted...

get a phone holster

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/6/AAEhCpAAC7Sg.jpg

What do you think I am, a boomer?

Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...

The funny thing about small phones is that everyone on the Internet says that the OEMs should make them, but the buying public prefers larger devices.

I don't fully buy this though, it's kind of a catch 22. If there just aren't many smaller phone options then people won't buy them. The small ones don't seem to get as much marketing attention either so people may not even be aware they exist. And when there's a product imbalance it's not like it's really 1:1 all other things being equal besides size. So it turns into a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy at some point. It's not like people want to go without a phone at all, so there isn't going to be some big sales backlash, now you just have to take what you can get. I've actually reached a point where I'm just gonna try a new battery with my old phone cause that's the best way to get mine around my desired size without spending a lot.

Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...

I say go big or go home.

Part of the reason why I prefer larger devices is because they simply have the real estate for larger batteries, displays, and cameras. If I'm going to be spending flagship money, then I want the flagship experience.

But how much do you really need any of this? Even the way you talk about it is like a luxury good. I'm not trying to say what you can or can't enjoy with your money, that's fine, but these trends are eating at the broader consumer base too. Maybe I'm just in a very small minority and people don't really want what I want out of a phone

It hasn't even been around long enough for people to know if that's true. And what if you prefer Android? Apple is a big reason for a lot of the trends I dislike, good for them having an alternative, but I don't care for them

Kloe_Rinz posted...

the budget tier is the iphone se.

See this just illustrates the problem, if $400 passes for the budget tier, it's not really budget anymore. I used to get smartphones for under $100 and they worked okay enough for me. Though again I'm not super fancy, I don't care about having wireless charging or waterproofing, etc.

If people want their big phones that's fine, but even the budget ones are huge now, and I feel like the budget tier is slowly disappearing overall. I just want my exact phone body from like 2014 but with the performance boosts that come with time.

I just don't get phones I guess. Like they're this thing you basically need now but you're also supposed to buy a new one every year or two but they're priced like a desktop PC replacement but they're missing a lot of the functionality of a PC. I like smartphones enough but you probably don't really need much more than like GPS, but as long as those extraneous apps are available of course I'll use them. Even though they're slowly destroying the social fabric of humanity. Man we really fucked up deciding that everyone should own an always online pocket computer

I'm not gonna read every detail of whatever this slap fight is about but holy shit this board is insane. I'm not sure if there's a single happy person here.

I can't blame anyone though, I'm not happy and I'm not above a stupid slap fight, but when you aren't involved in one and see it from afar it's like damn wtf

The-Apostle posted...

The Office was boring af for me, but I don't like mockumentary style shows, so that's not saying much.

I know lol I was making a joke that people who like The Office are boring. I mean it was fine (I fell off watching myself though), but it ended almost ten years ago now and people are still obsessed with it

(Says a guy who regularly uses Simpsons quotes from the 90s, but hey, at least the Simpsons were on another level of humor)

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

its ok

I wouldnt get it at all though if I didnt have it for free via Xfinity

I have this too but it's got ads. That's okay I guess if you watch TV (especially live sports where there's nothing you can do) but I fucking can't watch a movie with ads

There's pretty much no reason to sign up for it unless you're a white person on tinder (aka it has The Office)

It's a tired defense anyway, especially when it comes to someone who's known for vastly underdelivering on real results. "Bro are you against scientific achievement???"

And cops can push back on assignments like this. They need to, if the institutional powers are going to keep twiddling their thumbs about things like this. Yes it's uncomfortable to push back, but I don't see how it can be more uncomfortable than confronting a possibly lethal situation.

The problem is, I think most of the time the cops assigned to these things relish the opportunity. It's not like they just pluck some guys off desk duty for it, this is what they train for. And that's why any way you try to look at it, it gets hard to absolve individuals "just following orders", and this is why you get people wanting to tear down the whole system because it's an accountability failure at every level.

chelsea_wtf posted...

assigned cop at birth

Is this what acab stands for

Yeah there's a lot of (admittedly anecdotal) evidence that cops sign up exactly because of stuff like this. They don't "have" to do it, they "get" to. How many times when a cop kills someone does it turn out their Facebook was littered with Nazi/violence fetishism stuff

Nemu posted...

Yeah, Elon specifically has this false persona of genius tech dudebro when he's actually just some nobody who has formed a cult of personality.
Reusable mass produced rockets at a fraction of the cost --> Normal rockets at normal price
Hyperloop mass fast transit --> Fucking cars in underground tunnels
Extremely efficient underground tunnel digging at a 10th of the cost --> Normal tunnels at normal cost
Super advanced self driving vehicles on the road by 2017 --> Barely functional assisted driving in 2022
Various vehicles that were going to revolutionize driving --> None have actually come out
Some solar town concept --> Vaporware
Could be missing like ten others.

In the Thai cave rescue, when they had a very complicated dive like 80% planned out he was like oh hey I'm gonna build a personal submarine before you can pull this off lmao

He also said he could fix Flint's water

I do think it's wrong that the higher ups don't get much punishment for this. Like whoever invented a lot of the structures that formulate militarized policing probably deserves dozens of life sentences. But also, if you sign up to be a cop and you're like yeah busting into people's houses and being ready to shoot is fine, you also deserve any punishment that comes to you

g980 posted...

im not much of a elon fanboy but this is how every major company runs

The difference though is that Elon has shown himself to be a consistent con man, who throws out these pie in the sky ideas that he'll never deliver on, because people still love to give him funding and stroke his ego about being a genius.

Think you missed part of the point here, might want to look up Theranos

Lokarin posted...

I prefer rational explanations

Don't rash the fash (I don't think this is a thing people say)

But seriously, they want you to rationalize things, but it's not a good thing. More people need to just see things for what they really are. If you constantly rationalize things, then they'll just continue to see how far they can push the limit. I don't know why there is this tautology that because someone has authority/power, they therefore are surely acting in good faith. Actually I don't think that anyone anywhere on the political spectrum believes that, but they cherry pick instances where they do.

Do you still watch all those centrist YouTubers? Cause I feel like this is what happens when you try to find a rational explanation for everything instead of coming to the obvious conclusion that cops are fucking heinous pigs

LeoRavus posted...

Elon watches too many movies and I've seen this one. No one needs this. How will a brain chip help a paralyzed person walk again anyway? It's gonna fix the physical damage that caused the paralysis? "Damn my spinal cord is severed. Drill holes in my brain man, that'll do it".

Bro just trust me bro he's a genius

COVxy posted...

I mean, the point is to bypass the spine.

Okay, so are there going to be some kind of muscle implants too?

They've already done tons of research into this, and successfully have bypassed the spine (to an extent) without some invasive implant to the most vital and vulnerable part of the body. It seems like the real challenge is getting people to walk without some cumbersome mechanical harness, not sticking a chip in their head.

As for the increasing intelligence, that's some dystopian shit

Like I'm not an expert on paralysis but isn't it in most cases caused by severed connections of the spine? Techbros just think you can put a computer in everything and then watch it do magic

Nemu posted...

I'm sure there have been pointlessly cruel experiments on animals and animals that have been mistreated even when it's not necessary to the study

Given Elon Musk's reputation, this would likely fall under pointless cruel injury. Just because someone has a lot of money and a platform and promises some fanciful thing doesn't mean they can actually do it

Antifar posted...

which Musk claims will one day make humans hyper-intelligent and let paralyzed people walk again

Ah yes, we're gonna solve a spinal cord injury with a brain chip. People are still getting conned this easily huh

There are different types of being "fit" than being jacked. A lot of those guys, even if they are fit, aren't necessarily healthy given how much bad broscience surrounds that culture. I feel like endurance, cycling, hiking, rock climbing, etc. tend to skew more left.

I doubt there is a huge trend in reality though, people of different fitness levels come from all over the spectrum. The right wing skew in places like YouTube is because conservative men tend to have more fragile masculinity, and things like being physically strong are given a lot of value. Even if you're a left wing lifter, lifting isn't really part of your political identity

See, I thought the dungeons were a highlight of the older Zelda games, but exactly because they were so constrained and linear (relative to BotW). A dungeon was kind of a distillation of that concept. Though there's also an element of the reward being something that will give you more ability to explore, so that desire for openness was not lacking. But again, that's why BotW works, and I think that's why the dungeons being as they were was a necessary sacrifice.

Plus the shrines were fun, there were many more interesting puzzles than we've seen in past Zelda games. I like how someone says it was just HL2 cause it uses physics. Might as well just say that every Zelda up through SS was just OoT then

I don't understand the "just make BotW with old style dungeons lol it's that easy" take. The design of the old style dungeons is directly at odds with giving you near complete freedom, unless you want it to be like you get a special item in the dungeon and then it has no use outside of it or something.

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Well this is fine, though Hyrule Castle still wasn't really like a "traditional" dungeon at all

I think it was @argonautweakend

Bro you gotta find something more fulfilling in your life than work

Jesus that's grim

I was just going to say my friend turned into a huge racist RWNJ

To be clear, if you're saying that YT doesn't prop itself up as a platform for white supremacists, that's correct.

But just like all the other big social media platforms, they absolutely knew that they were getting engagement out of misinfo and didn't do much to stop it because it was profitable, and then started throwing on some token warnings when it was too little, too late.

FortuneCookie posted...

YouTube has problems, but knowingly platforming white supremacists is not one of them.

Lmaooooo

Basically all my life from like age 10 to whenever I could grow a beard (27 I think). One time I went to a job interview and I was asking the guy at the desk if he could page my contact, and he looked at me with extreme skepticism, and when I told him it was for an interview he was like "you look like you're 12" (I was 22)

Now I'd assume people think I'm in my 20s but that's fine. I definitely get carded way less with a beard

ViewtifulJoe posted...

for next gen when you have to pay to open the disc tray and the run button is dlc or whatever

Lol this is exactly what I mean

People were saying this kind of sky is falling shit in like 2008

"Love language" is fake

Weren't you the guy who used to brag about watching porn but not touching yourself

Please tell me you don't still do that, it's very weird

Just say that you're hoping to flip a quick buck

The Mona Lisa basically looks exactly like some dumb palette swapped ape!!!

chelsea_wtf posted...

treat social problems as if they were technical problems

TBF, aside from the blockchain part, I think this has been going on since "Web 2.0". This is why I hate being a developer now. I've realized like 90% of tech companies just solve some minor problem, or solve some old problem in a new way, and they're only "good" jobs because VC firms still love pumping money into them for some reason. Somehow Web 3.0 people have found a way to be even more useless though

Doe posted...

He literally just makes a clipshow of every difference that casts a negative light on the thing he wants to show is 'worse'.

MagnusDJL posted...

Man, it's like he always or almost always makes videos about controversial or mishandled games and only focuses on negative things or something...

Background_Guy posted...

Crowbcat just makes biased click bait videos for angry gamers

These. Shit is exhausting. Gamers just love to have shit to complain about. People have gone insane in like the last 10 years saying that the death of gaming is imminent, yet they still are super invested in it, even though it supposedly sucks ass (in reality it keeps growing bigger and bigger).

Sure there are some modern trends that suck, but people act like there were never shitty games 20-30 years ago, and never want to talk about all the good advances, like how easy it is to get access to good games at great prices.

atmasabr posted...

Sorry, neutral. The fault lies with the warrant's address, not its method.

"A person got killed by cops because the cops got some information wrong. Aw shucks! I don't know who to blame here!"

Only my entire working life to this point

wpot posted...

I work for said agency. If you're talking about it we've already won. :)

Did you get to throw any of the children in a cage yourself or are you just a lame pencil pusher

"I don't consider myself white, but white men are definitely the biggest victims in modern society"

K

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You make more topics about what you eat than anyone except maybe Helly

That's just tinder in general. Really good looking women who sound boring

Hop103 posted...

God no, some of the worst dictators in history sprang up from that ideology. Also, the leaders pushing for Marxism today are mostly part of the Twitter mob, and that's extremely dangerous. I don't want the easily offended Twitter mob running the US or any country for the matter.

Marxists are evil scary dictators, but they're also pathetic keyboard warriors who are offended by everything!!!

Yeah 3 is just ridiculously hard. Plus with the added characters there's more to juggle with figuring out the subweapons. 1 is by no means easy, but so long as you figure out the right subweapons and carry them through, it simplifies the game a lot.

I think 1 also didn't have any true vertical sections like 3, and stairs are terrible. That level where you had to climb falling blocks in 3 was a nightmare too

This is the only place you can get a lunch for under $10 anymore in Biden's America