the latest in an ongoing series
of hugely entertaining farces on the other side of the rock
"so much for facebook’s commitment to free speech,” a mail online spokesperson said. hilarious.
honestly, you'd think scomo would be relieved that at least one social media giant isn't sharing the damning details of his government's cover-up of a rape in parliament house.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:51, Reply)
there's a very simple solution - don't use fakebook
don't support a political party - don't vote for them
don't support a business - shop elsewhere
idgi
why are these folk relying on a profiteering proxy to consume their news anyway?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:00,
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Australia is imposing regulation on online news providers (such as Google and Facebook), who are throwing their toys out of the pram.
I don't use FB, never have, but I get how and why people become dependant on it.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with what Australia is doing, FB and Google's news feeds tend to link to the original source rather than stealing the news per se.
I think the bigger problem is with targetted fake news and radicalising bubble algorithms, and I'm not sure that this Australian law even addresses that.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:18,
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traditional media was alway beholden to their advertisers though
bar pbs - how are online advertising conduits any different? market forces an all that
see also: ticket touts
and the recent spotify discussion below
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:48,
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not sure I agree with what facebook are doing
blocking emergency services seems a bit foot, aim, fire
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:51, Reply)
Pardon my ignorance but does anybody ever contact emergency services via Facebook?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 15:10,
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In an actual emergency?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 17:09,
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Natural selection is an awesome thing.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 19:51,
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there's no mystery here
just warring businesses, and those who are drawn into the conflict.
old media is horrified by its collapse following the hegemony of online social and news media.
the so-called 'rivers of gold' have dried up and worse, new media upstarts are super-branding their content and effectively stealing their own meagre advertising revenue.
even worse, the political will of moguls like murdoch, exerted through their editorial content, is being corrupted by aggregators that care nothing for their poisonous rhetoric.
so old media - ok, murdoch - says to his lackey, the prime minister, scott morrison, 'make the bastards pay for any of my content they allow their audience to share or otherwise consume.'
facebook and google think, fuck you old media. we're not paying for your shit and it's no skin off our nose if your backwater nation loses access to our services.
scomo digs his heels in, cos he doesn't like murdoch's grip on his shaven testes, and facebook delivers on its threat.
because the legislation is as vague as it is ridiculous, facebook cannot initially define what content falls into the category of chargeable media and wipes the bally lot. including, unfortunately, a whole bunch of government, charity and social service pages.
the wider media have field day with this pr wobble, and lash out, somewhat cautiously in some cases.
facebook are hastily restoring the good stuff, but there's no way they'll accede to murdoch's demands.
i'm actually looking forward to google turning off search in aus altogether.
we'll all have to use bing and scomo will be booted out as soon as an election can be called.
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 1:39, Reply)
woah - cool - can't wait for season two
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 1:43,
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I'm no fan of Rupert, I have a feeling the world would have been a nicer place if the fucker died young
but all this waffle about new media and super-branding, whatever that is, hides the fact that the journalists who are creating the content aren't getting the money for people reading it, google and facebook are. More than half the people who see news stories in their google results wont click on the link but will simply read the headline and the description on google. So the advertisers spend their money where the eyeballs are, google, and the places that pay journalists don't get any money. Google takes almost 6 of every 10 advertising dollars spent in Australia, and they paid 1.5% tax last financial year on revenues. Google and facebook didn't used to do this as their revenue model, they've just exploited their free access to other peoples content to keep all the advertising revenue, and investigative journalism is fucking dying around the world. It's little different to the early days of the internet where people stole whole sites and stuck them in an iframe on their own sites and pretended it was their content, until that was legislated against.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:10,
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“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make. And could just as easily make differently – David Graeber 1961-2020”
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:15,
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I disagree with the last part. If change was easy we'd see a lot more of it.
It's hard enough changing one fucker's mind, let alone this horde of stupid assholes with heads full of nonsense that seem to be proliferating around the world
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:23,
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it takes just five seconds...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQn7c62zHM
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:26,
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ah, northamptonshire's finest
Yes, perhaps there is a way....
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:32,
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you knows it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCpUZVyXgg
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:36,
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i totally made up super-branding ;)
i'm sure you couldn't care less, but it means setting your own brand in any superposition to the brand of the thing you're presenting.
like your iframe example, where the original content's banner is not shown.
You're not declaring the thing as your own, but the audience will make that connection themselves.
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 3:28, Reply)
well, google didn't turn up a single definition other than "a really good brand" so it must be a pretty niche term
I got a nice personal thank you letter from the guardian legal once by giving them screenshots and links of facebook ads that were showing guardian articles but linking to their own stuff when you clicked on them. facebook, off course, somehow finds it difficult to police scam artists that by coincidence happen to paying facebook for ads. I mean, they have an algorithm that can tell if a women is pregnant before she knows herself, but finding out if advertising is linking to content that isn't their own website has their tech guys baffled, I tells ya
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 3:51,
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i mean i made it up just now
it's new. like a baby.
use it in an email today /ac
also, i was on the executive of the canberra times for a couple of turns. i gotta say i don't got much sympathy for the paper industry after that stint.
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 4:04, Reply)
ahh, I took the wink emoji to mean sarcasm
seem like a good one, and it's not being used. I'll try and use it today as well to see if we can get the ball rolling on it. End Super-Branding Now!
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 4:09,
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We start using it in emails and any recipient who's baffled and googles it will end up on this page, just saying ...
(, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 17:34, Reply)
Anyone who uses Arsebook to determine their current view of the world and themselves mainly .....
Should get to fuck. Aussies v Facebook. Gets popcorn out and goes to sleep. They deserve each other
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 23:27,
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^
They're all cunts really. Let them eat each other.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 7:19,
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right, both of you are now barred from any london pub
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 8:10,
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Right now is a bad example
Everyone's banned from pubs.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 19 Feb 2021, 9:35,
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ahh, you're beginning to comprehend our reach and power
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 11:53,
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Far Away
A lonely wizard, toiling deep within his mountaintop laboratory, tries to make a friend.
Music and animation by Professor Soap.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 20:11, Reply)
Dr Ruth appears rather pleased to find a rock hard cock...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 20:15,
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Ear weirdness
Maybe GC
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:37,
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very interesting!!
I did hear a very strong beat when he played 2000Hz and 2005Hz
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:32, Reply)
MINDLOCK
I made this!
New tv show about an escape artist who is sent to the one prison he cannot escape. His mind...
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:10, Reply)
Very [AS]
Like a cross between Dreamcorp and Decker.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:23,
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Godzilla Vs Kong Vs Wayne
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:34,
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High praise from you!
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:53,
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Excellent
so a penis is perfectly feasible too then, this being B3ta?
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 14:37, Reply)
Why it is hard to land on Mars
i'm holding my breath.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:16, Reply)
Cat TV
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:02,
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Wow that's a must avoid.
Has there ever been a good computer game to movie adaptation? Has there ever been a good computer game story?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 17:35,
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Max Payne 2 had a good story.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:07,
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Cronenberg's 'eXistenZ' maybe?
Not sure if it counts though.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:27,
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There's certainly a lot of crappy VG movies, although some of the anime ones aren't too bad if you're a fan of the games.
I watched a lot of these a few years ago, looking for films to show at a chiptune festival (many of them are absolutely awful, but some are good fun, like The Wizard).
That reminds me, I haven't seen Takashi Miike's Phoenix Wright film...off to bittorrent!
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:53,
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:29,
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Detective Pikachu is a cinematic masterpiece
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:30,
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game to movie - the first Lara Croft movie though not great wasn't bad
Good game story - On a strictly don't expect anything great just go along for the ride then Uncharted 4 : A Thief's End (from the point of view of someone younger)
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:57, Reply)
Halo 1 and 2 Anniversary by Blur Studio is a masterpiece, still looks fantastic for something 7 years old
series went to shit with 4
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 23:07, Reply)
Good stories in video games? Tons, off the top of my head:
Bioshock (all 3, especially Infinite), Red Dead 2, The Last of Us (1 and 2), Witcher 3, Dishonored ('kin love this game and its world), Sleeping Dogs, LA Noire, Silent Hill 2.. I could go on.
Movies? Mario Bros?
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 4:03, Reply)
what about the plumber who some fucking gorilla stole his girlfriend?
it's an everyman story, could happen to any of us
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 9:31,
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Rapid evolution in response to invasive species
An invasive species takes over from your primary food source. What’s a bird to do?
E V O L V E !
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 16:24,
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Evolution? in the US?
Certainly not. Jesus must have given them bigger beaks.
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Tusk knows where you live, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:40,
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Trump has probably claimed credit for this.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:56,
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Make Beaks Great Again
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:57,
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This is the beginning of an evolutionary arms race
The kites will evolve into grotesque toucans with guns while the snails are going to get huge with bullet proof shells
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 20:18,
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they'll eventually evolve into frenchman
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:11,
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Jimjar's Cryptopica 002 (prize cryptic crossword)
I made this!
Here's this month's topical puzzle for the handful of b3tans who like this sort of thing. Move on, everyone else.
Solution to last month's (with explanations) is here - twitter.com/Jimjar/status/1356184755641982977/photo/1
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 13:21, Reply)
Hologram cakes? not really, but shiny looking sugar should be interesting
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:34, Reply)
Set your alarms! Mars rover lands tonight.
Perseverance should be landing at 20:55 GMT. Landing in what is believed to be an old lake bed.
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Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 10:35,
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I have 5p on a spectacular crash!
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ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:29,
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If it crashes and there's no camera there to see it
is it still a spectacle?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:53,
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I'm looking forward to this
especially the bit where it accidentally breaks through the surface and wakes up an army of ice warriors
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LP, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:43,
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I'm thinking it will be those tripod things
That run around accompanied by a Jeff Lynne soundtrack. (hopefully)
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:54,
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Paul Heaton's first failed project
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 9:25,
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All together now!
youtu.be/NkXAmx33pj0
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 10:17,
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Ten quid says the landing works perfectly
but the locals take exception to our invading Mars with Laser-armed Nuclear-powered Robot Tanks and take their vengeance against us.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 14:38,
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I am very excited and not a little nervous about this
thanks for the link
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 18 Feb 2021, 18:25,
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.
No one would have believed
In the early years of the 21st century
That humans were watching affairs
Of the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed that Mars was being scrutinized
As someone with a microscope studies creatures
That swarm and multiply in a drop of water
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
And yet, across the gulf of space
Minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded their satellite with nervous eyes
And slowly and surely, they drew their plans for landing
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Greenbat, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:14,
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We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, the cosmic rays shine on us and we're dead, right?
So we gotta make a new life where they'll never touch us. You know where? Uuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnndergraaaaaaaaaaaaand!
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:23,
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And if you get stuck underground
Elon Musk will launch a probe to go to Mars and call you a pedo
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Greenbat, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:35,
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Elon Musk to call, will launch a peado to Mars and go probe you
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 23:51,
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potentially best bit will be the whoops of success all being muted by their masks
woum-houmf!
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 20:35, Reply)
I'm a bit tearful at how well that went
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:02,
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Lunar lander has got better than ever.
Still seems a bit slower than the 380zA version.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:12,
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Jupiter Lander on the c64 was the Kerbal Space Program of its day.
Kind of.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:28,
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rage 2 free on egs tomorrow
if you like that sort of thing
like wot i do
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 10:29, Reply)
Rage games seem to get a lot of criticism
But I enjoyed the first one. It wasn't very open world but the missions were fun.
I'm guessing the second is the same but more so?
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:01, Reply)
yep
rage ended with such a miserable whimper, and it's never really recovered from the panning it richly deserved. for all that, the first act, the gunplay and frenzy were well worth the discounted admission.
i'm quite looking forward to another, prettier helping.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:46, Reply)
I didn't think it really deserved the stick tbh
but then I had it cheap and wasn't expecting much at all.
My bugbear is while I love huge open worlds and story rich games, a lot seem to mistake quantity for quality (100 hours of dull samey missions) or think a sad cut-scene somehow elevates the story to the levels of TV/movies (it doesn't). Sometimes there's nothing wrong with just blasting stuff with a shotgun, which id are great at.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 12:40, Reply)
I loved the Mad Max game, are Rage or Rage 2 the same gameplay?
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HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 16:10,
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rage 1 not so much
but i gather rage 2 isn't that dissimilar to mm; they're both open world, grungy shooters. apparently, mm is more about the cars, while rage 2 is more about the guns.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 19:42, Reply)
Is this like Streets of Rage?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 17:46,
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I don't have a good enough graphics card to play any games like this.
I play old ones occasionally instead.
An exciting text adventure game for me.
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 8:32, Reply)
Have a look at Stadia. Google run the game on their servers and stream it to your computer, so you can play top end games on almost any hardware. You can get a free pro trial for a month. With pro you get a limited choice of free games every month, but for most of the popular games you have to buy them at full price.
I'm trying it just now, and it actually works. I don't think the choice of free games at the moment is good enough for me to subscribe, and I'm too cheapskate to pay £50 for a computer game, so I'll stick to old freebies or sale games on Epic, but the Stadia technology does actually work well.
(, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 11:27, Reply)
search engine for geocities animated gifs
search engine for geocities animated gifs
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LP, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 9:17,
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Is this a search engine for geocities animated gifs?
This is good for I was actually looking for search engine for geocities animated gifs.
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 10:48,
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Yes but Aliweb had more information
Yes, I am that old.
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:52,
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I'm surprised
www.aliweb.com/ is still online, and still searchable
Although almost none of the links go anywhere useful these days.
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LP, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 12:19,
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Changing the subject slightly: ICQ?
Winamp?
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 17:38,
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lol that was the next big thing in social media and instant messaging
for about 8 months in 2003 or so, iirc.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 17:44,
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I'd joke about watching the Mars landing on Real Player but its still around on android
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 20:33, Reply)
ICQ's still around and receiving renewed interest following issues with some other messaging platforms.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:15,
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I believe we referred to it as the information superhighway in the days before like and subscribe.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 17:05, Reply)
Glue yerself to the box about 20:48 GMT
The crappy PDF has all the places you can watch the Mars landing.
Fancy countdown thing
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
More info with UK times
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56103231
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 5:01,
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I am excited
as much as I would have been if I hadn't been four when they landed on the Moon.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 18 Feb 2021, 10:59,
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Probably GC, my arthritis ached after watching this.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 1:00,
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Where's the parkour videos for the less flexible, less energetic, middle aged?
Probably featuring someone deciding that jumping up or down isn't worth it, fetching a chair or ladder to stand on to get on top of a wall, pointing out that there's a ramp you can walk down if you don't fancy using the steps, that kind of thing.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 10:17, Reply)
and dismissing parkour as "just showing off"
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 18 Feb 2021, 11:52,
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farting around like an over-energetic eight year old rather than finishing their student assignments or getting a real job
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 14:12, Reply)
Probably featuring people watching it on a screen while drinking.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 15:45,
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Damien Walters
British lad done good (stunts on a bunch of films including Kingsman) and been doing this stuff to better music for yonks...
youtu.be/LUNxF8Cm0HM
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 20:49, Reply)
1.08 looks backwards going forwards.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 21:51,
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BilliSpeaks. Woman teaches her cat to communicate.
Very interesting YouTube channel. Woman is teaching her cat to talk using buttons. Not a lot of information on what's going on, nothing in the "about" section of her channel, and no real information on the internet. Still, the videos seem to show the cat responding and using communication!
Channel is here:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCGMTesZlKa0Lokb7ZNqOJXQ
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CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Thu 18 Feb 2021, 0:02,
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Nice idea, could be faked, but I don't get that impression.
The cat gets quite insistent in some of the vids.
Some cats have different vocal sounds and behaviours, this one has buttons.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 0:51,
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I think it would be very easy to take 100's of hours of videos and then post the one that fit your imaginings
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 4:58,
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Exactly, I don't know.
The lack of information is odd, people devoting that much effort often take the time to explain what they are doing.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 5:17,
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Would you like a mouse?
KILL KILL KILL
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 15:42,
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I noticed a video by someone else trying to train his cats to communicate via buttons:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=02n6fWBFaTU&ab_channel=NeuroTransmissions
His conclusion is that there's no language learning going on. The cats are just randomly pressing buttons sometimes and humans are seeing patterns that aren't there. He also references Nim the signing chimp, where the researcher back pedalled significantly on his initial claims of language acquisition, after reviewing his data. There's a good documentary about this project.
One of the YT comments on Billi says "I believe when Billie's mom thinks she's confusing buttons repeatedly, she presses the one she thinks is right and makes a question sound." That sounds like a classic case of guiding an experiment to get the results you want.
(, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 17:31, Reply)
upscaled SD, just makes it a gigantic file without adding any quality
i might be wrong though.
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Wed 17 Feb 2021, 23:36,
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Really could do with a pepsi right now.
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