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Belphegor posted:

It depresses me how many people make a living being 'content creators' on YouTube etc.


what depresses me more is that increasingly over the last years i can only find approved or seo'd content on youtube. like i used to be able to type in *.gp3 and sort by recently uploaded and have a hundred thousand windows into the domestic lives of people all over the world. random strings would always bring up something, the same is true of any search engine i suppose, but i feel nostalgic and robbed.

edit: sad snipe

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#1522
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id like to make a living as a discontent creator
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Gssh posted:

i used to be able to type in *.gp3 and sort by recently uploaded and have a hundred thousand windows into the domestic lives of people all over the world.


you can still find random windows. for example, search for "img ####" (any random 4-digit number)

oftentimes you'll find years-old completely unique scenes with double-digit views, or fewer. like a few months ago i was literally the first person on the internet to watch some kid lose at a karate tournament

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is this the thread where we share tips about our jobs at NSA?
#1525
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no, thats the NSA job thread, this is where we post about watching screen
#1526
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take it to the downvoting thread buddy!
#1527
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youve made a highly unstable enemy today, sovnarkoman
#1528
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come out and downvote me to my face, coward
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Constantignoble posted:

i was literally the first person on the internet to watch some kid lose at a karate tournament



hmm, so the glass is half-empty for you?

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Constantignoble posted:

you can still find random windows. for example, search for "img ####" (any random 4-digit number)

oftentimes you'll find years-old completely unique scenes with double-digit views, or fewer. like a few months ago i was literally the first person on the internet to watch some kid lose at a karate tournament



went through a phase where i did this and found 1) a guy's video diary about becoming a paraplegic with his family around him constantly crying and 2) an aid worker in haiti who was completely unequipped to do anything for the people there and was also crying

might try chasing that high again

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Gssh posted:

Constantignoble posted:

i was literally the first person on the internet to watch some kid lose at a karate tournament

hmm, so the glass is half-empty for you?



well the video seemed to be focused more on him than his opponent, but yeah that too

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Constantignoble posted:

Gssh posted:

Constantignoble posted:

i was literally the first person on the internet to watch some kid lose at a karate tournament

hmm, so the glass is half-empty for you?

well the video seemed to be focused more on him than his opponent, but yeah that too


whenever i film my son at the wrestling tournament i always make sure to include a bit of a Tarantino flair when framing his opponent

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Constantignoble posted:



good fun. wish it snowed where i live, so i could partake in being dragged by a car

#1535
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you can actually replicate the experience with a freshly hayed field. when i was 13 or so my rural cousin took me out after harvest, we chained a GT snowracer (a sled with an elevated seat over two skis on a metal frame, with a third smaller ski up front on a steering wheel. they're faster than a toboggan and you can almost sort of steer) up to the quad and we went tearing around in a hilly field. at one point i got sick air and as i was soaring through the sky discovered that the heat of dragging the plastic skis over hay stubble had melted them away from the frame, they had been just held on with my body weight, airborne they fell away from me and landing became impossible. i crashed hard and according to witnesses was flung about 4 feet into the air, then bounced right off my head a couple times like a prairie boy skipping stone. now i post about marxism-leninism online. kids: wear a helmet.
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Gssh posted:

what depresses me more is that increasingly over the last years i can only find approved or seo'd content on youtube. like i used to be able to type in *.gp3 and sort by recently uploaded and have a hundred thousand windows into the domestic lives of people all over the world. random strings would always bring up something, the same is true of any search engine i suppose, but i feel nostalgic and robbed.

edit: sad snipe



when youtube was first created they used to have a section called "Uploaded a Minute Ago" or something like that. a lot of it was just porn that hadn't been filtered out yet but it was really cool seeing random videos of people walking their dog through the park or some dude trying on pants that didn't fit

Edit: It was called Most Recent.

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rewatching Hunger. highly recommend

e: i dont really read this thread but people were posting about a 'standup' special i never heard of for pages and having really divergent opinions on it so im gonna watch it after, thx rhizzone

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i removed this post because it was stupid

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recently watched the 2017 tv series Taboo. didnt think id enjoy it but gave it a shot because of tom hardy and ended up being pleasantly surprised. wish they hadnt announced another season, i think the story is complete as it stands. anyway, for a fictional historical drama i reckon it was Good.
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JohnBeige posted:

e: i dont really read this thread but people were posting about a 'standup' special i never heard of for pages and having really divergent opinions on it so im gonna watch it after, thx rhizzone


Naneete? IUt sucks https://theoutline.com/post/5962/the-nanette-problem-hannah-gadsby-netflix-review?zd=3&zi=grehgi2g

By telling us we need to challenge our anger, sublimate it into love and understanding lest we destroy the world, Gadsby is not challenging her audience, she’s challenging her fellow queers to be more respectful, more civil, to display our pain in ways that cis, straight people can appreciate, in ways that get us called groundbreaking by those who have broken no ground, and have no interest in listening to us when we speak in ways that are unreadable. Gadsby hasn’t changed comedy, she’s just let cis and straight people in on the joke. And there’s nothing radical about that.

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Do i have an opinion on thing? He'll yeah i do. Its a hot take blog, written by someone else. Read that but in my voice.
#1542
Dont Mess With Sucess
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"hot take" In this context means that you don't want to practice dialectics but rather want bathe in that class comfort called Netfix
#1543
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I don't think a Jewish man critiquing Nanette by saying Gadsby is dismissing comedy despite its value to Jewish men is particularly dialectical, but okay.
#1544
UNUSUALY COOL
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What is Nanette
#1545
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A thing i regret ever mentioning in this forsaken place.
#1546
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the comedy special is fail but so is that internet article. there , a synthesis.

anyway im "watching" the words of chris bramall's "Sources of Chinese Economic Growrth 1978-1996" increase and decrease in size as i adjust the font on my kindle paper white to a comfortably legible size. very fascinating stuff. but im sure your little tv shows are equally enlighteneing. . .
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Comedy is at its best when it makes me say ‘Ha ha’
By Ruzbihan
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elias posted:

the comedy special is fail but so is that internet article. there , a synthesis.

anyway im "watching" the words of chris bramall's "Sources of Chinese Economic Growrth 1978-1996" increase and decrease in size as i adjust the font on my kindle paper white to a comfortably legible size. very fascinating stuff. but im sure your little tv shows are equally enlighteneing. . .



I vouch that elias is actually reading this book and sharing a lot of wise thoughts about it with people around him.

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here is some comedian
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Petrol posted:

A thing i regret ever mentioning in this forsaken place.


memento mori

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Saw hereditary now that decent rips are floating around. Cant remember the last time i saw something so genuinely horrifying. The ending was really dumb though and a huge let down.
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Petrol posted:

Saw hereditary now that decent rips are floating around. Cant remember the last time i saw something so genuinely horrifying. The ending was really dumb though and a huge let down.



Yeah demonolatry horror in movies should be pretty much over for a few years imo, way too many trapdoors in scripts from people who smoked weed and used Google on the Ars Goetia when otherwise they’d have to write a final act

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the great british bake off. i need more cooking competition shows where everyone is just kinda nice/supportive
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any good books on the connection between child abuse and capitalism? Been thinking about this a lot since the most recent wave of revelations about systemic sex abuse in the catholic church.
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this isn't the headline for a confession about the corruption of U.S. media, but for a humble-brag published by the writer in Fox News