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SkittyOnWailord posted...

This. I'm not sure if the higher ups at Youtube are trolling, or really don't know what they're doing at all. But they're apparently still making money, so .

Oh they know what they're doing. They just stopped caring about making a good product and instead focused all of their attention on making a product that peddles advertisement revenue for their shareholders.

Google doesn't want you to search for things you want to find anymore, it wants you to be served content it thinks you will spend money on.

furb posted...

Your recommended videos will be nothing but blue bears for the next week too

Shorts of alt right conspiracy theorists talking about how blue bears have gone woke, probably

See what used to happen is you would look up a thing and youtube would find for you as many videos as it could specificallly related to that specific thing, specifically. So you could type in "blue teddy bears in a swimming pool dancing" and you'd find as many videos of blue teddy bears in a swimming pool dancing as youtube could find. Lots of homegrown content to really make sure you could find the video you were looking for. Maybe different angles, different iterations, different uploads. Just lots of things of the thing you wanted.

At some point youtube decided this was terrible and bad and not what we all wanted, so now we have this new kind of search. You look up "blue teddy bears in a swimming pool dancing" and your results are 2 videos related to your search (as long as they are less than a week old), some ads about where you can buy teddy bears (and also Huel), a katy perry video featuring some bunny rabbits (not blue ones) and a bunch of completely unrelated results of things that you looked at yesterday. If there were any user-shot videos of the clip you wanted then I'm sorry, but fuck you. If it wasn't uploaded by Teddy Bears Inc you won't get it.

This is SO great, I love this. Thank you youtube.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

they won't though. people using PEDs in the first place want an unfair advantage, so why would they compete in an environment where everyone has equal access? the goal will still be to cheat in the normal events, not fairly compete in the enhanced events

Not entirely/always true

Many athletes just want the cards on the table, and not the current situation where you hsve to yske PEDs just to be competitive in the first place. So many sports are unduly affected by country because of doping regulations. China and Russia get away with everything

Witcher 3 did it right. Crafting involved doing special quests to learn special armor blueprints, and the cost to upgrade these was significant. They also looked great. Most importantly though, the ingredients were intuitive to understand. Break down an iron piece of junk to make iron ingots. Turn that into an iron sword. Etc. Pity that game made collectable loot so pointless

I hate when crafting is impossible to understand because all the ingredients are complete nonsense. Basically every JPRG.

I also hate when the modifiers it gives you are boring and almost not even worth the effort to craft it. Like +3% critical damage. Also every jrpg.

I have, only when it was a complete masterpiece and I got it on like 90% off sale though

• Squat: 804lbs
• Bench: 557lbs
• Deadlift: 939lbs

Man weighs 209lbs at 5ft9.

For reference, this out totalled every other weight class at the meet and the deadlift alone would be a very respectable lift for a 400lbs strongman. He holds records in several weight classes.

Gotta be the greatest of all time now, surely.

The scale is anything from pressing a button to play a track to live mixing every sound you hear in a completely improvised way.

Just like how "what the fuck do guitar players even do" has the same scale.

This fact had been fucking me up for 15 years

Like you can now just take a bunch of super low effort bathroom selfies and then plug them into an AI image generator app and it will make it look like you're a classically good looking person out doing a bunch of outdoorsy interesting shit, and not like the cheetoh dust basement dweller you are.

I hadn't thought of this use case but just saw it advertised. Seems like a net loss for everyone imo.

Jon is correct as usual but I wouldn't be surprised if the ever increasingly binary internet sees this as an alt right take

I remember he used to be a pretty big name in the guitar hero community, didnt he have millions of views on some of his videos?

Like first it was just a few comments here and there. You could have chalked it up to second wave feminist not understanding the kids or something. But then she went down the slope.

And now her twitter is literally just that topic. Only that. Nothing else to talk about at all. And it's all day. She's just tweeting all day about it.

How does this happen to a person? Like do you need to give someone a billion dollars and then they go off the fucking deep end?

Agreed tbh

This is the best hot ones ever and it's not even close

"The economy is amazing"

Literally never been the result of any incumbent president, no matter how much you want to think it is

There is no greater shame in sports than showboating costing you.

I was one of those nerds. I associated call of duty with frat bros and filthy casuals and basically hated the games by association

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Hah. But also not hah :(

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I remember on /r/relationshipadvice the persistent phenomena was the people on that subreddit having this complete unwillingness to suggest someone should ever try and work through any relationship issue at all. It made me think that every person giving sage advice on that subreddit was just a 20 year old with less than a year in long term relationship experience.

E.g. "OP, your partner isn't listening to your basic needs and is gaslighting you. This is just the start of something far more toxic, and if I was in your shoes I would have ended this yesterday. You need to protect your own space and needs and not put up with borderline abusive behaviour"

Karen chill the fuck out, she was just asking whether it's a big deal if he's leaving the toilet seat down

Snowden is always a wild discussion to see on CE because some of the comments will be "this man is the greatest hero in human history" and others will be like "he's a piece of shit traitor and russian shill", and rarely anything in between

Southernfatman posted...

Thanks for that. I'm still relatively new to the whole thing. I think timing them has helped me more in a disciplinary way. Before I'd just mess around on my phone or computer and the times would vary wildly between sets. I'm still not perfect with it, but I'm so much better about not wasting time and keeping things more consistent than I was before.

Huge time saver as well. The difference between 90 second rests and 3 minute rests may be 20 minutes saved every workout.

Southernfatman posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/ddf485d9.png

First thing I thought of, lmao

Hard Agree when it comes to most restaurants/bars.

No, downloading an app and going through a 6-step ordering process and adding my bank details is not easier than asking the bartender for a beer, ffs.

Ooh may have found it - look up expertise bias, or "the curse of knowledge".

thisworld posted...

I believe it's confirmation bias at play. Let me explain.

People don't have limitless mental capacity. When we make judgment, it's mentally tiring to evaluate every single thing every single time. So we set up some short of mental shortcut to help us evaluate things. But this shortcut by nature is prone to error & bias. We call this cognitive bias. For example, the mentioned Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias where we overestimate our own abilities.

Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias where we favor information that reinforces our belief. Because of this the exact same story can be interpreted differently by people.

A = We need <$1,000 for gaming rig (cheap club)
B = We need >$3,000 for gaming rig (expensive club)

B says "I have $4,000 gaming rig. I can play game X at 4K / Ultra / 120fps"
1. B (expensive club) mentally focus on 'game X at 4K / Ultra / 120fps'. From B's point of view that $4,000 rig is perfect.
2. On the other hand A (cheap club) mentally focus on '$4,000 to play game X' instead. They know they can play X on cheaper rig. From A's point of view that $4,000 rig is a waste of money.
As you can use, the exact same story about B's gaming rig can be perceived differently by B and A because they favor different piece of information (that aligns with their initial belief). That leads to...

Good post. It does seem like a sort of confirmation bias.

fakefire posted...

I just filter out what I can based on my own needs. But it is def annoying when you are researching an Amazon product or something and you basically have a PhD on the subject by the end of it because of all the mixed reviews on everything. I think you were the one who may have said something similar some time ago

I'm completely incapable of just buying a thing I like. I need to research it as much as possible to find out if it's the thing I want or if I need a slightly different version. Sometimes this works out well, a lot of the time it just creates a lot of unnecessary stress.

I've spent a stupid amount of time looking at this topic and here's your answer:

Time you rest is completely arbitrary. You should rest for however long you need to recover between sets. This will depend on the exercise and the goal. Smaller muscles for hypertrophy movements require less rest. Bigger muscles and compound lifts and particular for strength - more rest.

If you're doing some lateral raises or wrist curls or something, you may only need 30 seconds of rest.

If you are doing squats, you'll need a few minutes.

If your primary goal is maximal strength, e.g. you're a powerlifter and you're doing squats, you may need upwards of 6 to 10 minutes between sets.

In summary, go again when you are ready to complete the work you've set out. If you feel completely prepared to hit those 10 lat pulldowns again and you're just randomly waiting for the timer to hit 0, maybe just go already.

A caveat I will say is that keeping your rests consistent gives you a better idea of your current conditioning. If you are setting out 2 minutes to rest between each set of squats but every time the timer runs out you are still out of breath, you know your conditioning sucks and you need to work on that.

Love: classical music
Hate: the world of classical music, audiences, critics, the format, the pomposity, the seriousness with which people take it, the obsession with everything having to be perfect.

This article on a "controversy" really sums it up for me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Philharmonic_concert_of_April_6,_1962

Basically what happened is that a slightly eccentric painist (glenn gould) decided to play a piece of music unconventionally. He deviated from the score, took liberties with the notes and played it in a way that was unorthodox in tempo/phrasing/colour etc.

This was such a HUGE controversy that it became a legendary moment in classical music history. The conductor deliberately distanced himself in a speech before the performance. The audience booed during the performance. People walked out. Critics panned the pianist in every press article. It's still being examined to this day in historical review.

Just a reminder, no one died. There wasn't a fire. He didn't pull a GG Allin and eat feces on stage. He didn't punch an audience member. Literally the only thing that happened is he...played a piece a little unusually.

This is everything I hate about classical music. There's such an elaborate level of purity around it all. And don't get me started on how serious people are about having absolute silence at all times during a performance and between movements. That is a relatively modern invention and I've never understood it.

cjsdowg posted...

I need to think of something to do since resting to 3 mins is such a waste of time. But longer rest bigger grains

On the flipside, if you have a finite amount of time to workout then longer rest = less volume = less gains

I started timing my rest breaks since i know that if I start fucking around on the internet a 90 second rest can easily become a 5 minute rest, and my workout becomes 40 minutes longer completely unnecessarily.

sfcalimari posted...

We'd spend more like $1500 but it would be worth it because it would last at least two console cycles with minor upgrades, and play ALL the games.

*if you are a games enthusiast

This is one game that doesn't need a remake at all.

PurpleOutsider posted...

That must be why the second movie ends with this conversation:

* Trautman: You don't belong here, why don't you come back with me?
* Rambo: Back to what? My friends died here, and a piece of me did too.
* Trautman: The war, the whole conflict may have been wrong, but damn it, don't hate your country for it.
* Rambo: Hate? I'd die for it.
* Trautman: Then what is it you want?
* Rambo: I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That's what I want!
* Trautman: How will you live, John?
* Rambo: Day by day.
It's almost like he still has PTSD and knows the country doesn't give a shit. He doesn't even go back to the US until the end of the fourth movie because of it.

This is all surface level platitude. Yeah, noble soldier says noble stuff. "I hates war, war is hell. Now let's go kill some guys". The actual substance of the movies (excluding first blood) are about how fucking badass stallone is and how impossible he is to kill and how many bad guys he can kill in one movie, that's what rambo is.

People don't watch rambo 2 to get a sense of the horrors of war. They watch it to see Stallone be a human machine gun.

xGhostchantx posted...

I too dislike when friends share their interests with me.

annoying isnt it

In fact even though I love Band of Brothers, it has to be one of the most pro-war bits of media ever told. It somehow makes the gruesomeness of war seem impossibly noble. You want to be a member of easy company, you want to be Spiers, you want to be an officer like Winters, you want to take the Eagles Nest, etc. It really makes the entire thing seem very thrilling.

Baron_Ox posted...

its Hollywood's work culture propaganda, for me.

like, have you noticed how much media is centered around the work place, where characters still hang out with their coworkers after hours, date them, have them as best friends, etc.

And the fixation on working as hard as possible for as long as possible to "make it", sacrificing everything for work, where the main character's entire life revolves around a job

"How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country"

I rewatched Band of Brothers not long ago. Pretty much a perfect series. And then I watched some clips on youtube of some of the best parts.

Ever since then, I've been getting served a lot of "hero" content on youtube, and it strikes me how much people are desperate to show being a soldier as a really noble and heroic profession.

I understand in the context of WW2 that it was a necessity and people were just doing what they had to do. But this attitude extends to basically every military conflict since then. Like it's a very simple "you're a good guy, you're going to fight the bad guys, the mission is to protect freedom" message, every time. But that's not most wars or most battles.

Military recruitment ads are the creepiest thing I've ever seen. They literally mimmick hollywood movies and make joining the military seem like this epic CoD campaign where you're just off to kill bad guys and do cool shit.

Even Rambo, a movie that was originally just about how much war can fuck a person up mentally, ended up bastardising the character in every subsequent movie as the perfect noble unkillable soldier.

The older I get the more cynical I become of stuff like this. It's like there's a giant machine and its entire purpose is to make war seem like a good idea.

Your first time playing the game and the game drops some ultimate armour/weapons right on your lap for your first playthrough. Usually some tacky RGB reskin of the game's ultimate gear.

Even if you ignore it, it's already sort of spoiled it for you.

Vampire_Chicken posted...

"Enthusiasts with large disposable incomes".

I'm wondering if there's an actual name to the phenomena, like "dunning-kruger effect" or similar

no?

BlackOmnimon posted...

this topic is an example of how easily pleased shonenbros are, this animation quality is standard for many 1 or 2 cour anime

You just compared a one-off 13 episode show to a weekly, 1000+ episode show.

Darkinsanity1 posted...

That's the thing, these high action episodes only happen once in awhile, so they can save their effort and budget for episodes like the clip above. The ones in between aren't crazy, though still pretty high actuality on average compared to the past.

I dunno man, I watched the wano arc and there were moments like this in SO many episodes, it started to get a bit dizzying. I used to think this was only possible with like, high budget 10-episode series, or movies.

I'm a bit scared for the animation staff. There's just no way they're pumping out this quality on a weekly basis without being chained to their fucking desks with guns to their heads.

...5 years? jesus

fsurb28 posted...

You can leave, theres no such thing as democracy in Russia, sounds like your cup of tea.

"This tv is not a very good TV, and I don't really like this show"
"Oh yeah? Well how about you never watch any kind of visual entertainment ever again?"

Yeah excellent point mate, well done

Flashback to the jon stewart bit on this.

"If it's true, then that is a concern"