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We'll never be free of [Twitter]'s wretched curse

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    My uncle has two, maybe three now, dogs of a particular breed called Rhodesian Ridgebacks. They are colossal dogs, bigger than German Shepherds with bulk to match. Anything left on the counters or stovetop at their place is not safe from those dogs, as they found out when one of them ingested an entire cooking pot worth of peanut oil.

    ridgebacks were bred to kill lions

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    The ridgebacks I’ve met were pure sweethearts

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    asofyeunasofyeun Registered User regular
    are you a lion

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    It depends

    Am I in bed?

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Cause I sleep hard like a lion in the heat of the day

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    asofyeun wrote: »
    are you a lion

    Ask me if your shoes go with that hat and I might have to do a fair bit of lion

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    My uncle has two, maybe three now, dogs of a particular breed called Rhodesian Ridgebacks. They are colossal dogs, bigger than German Shepherds with bulk to match. Anything left on the counters or stovetop at their place is not safe from those dogs, as they found out when one of them ingested an entire cooking pot worth of peanut oil.

    ridgebacks were bred to kill lions

    Well these two are only interested in killing rabbits and squirrels while out on their walks

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Ridgebacks have this thing where, when they first meet you, they're usually very aloof. Not scared or shy, they literally seem like they are being huge snobs and looking down their nose at this interloper who dared enter their space.

    But the second time they meet you? OH MY GOD HELLO FRIEND I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE HERE LETS PLAY

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    David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    edited January 2023
    https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562947/twitter-third-party-client-tweetbot-twitterific-ban-rules

    Verge seems to be down, but Twitter has officially banned third party clients.

    Edit: Back up.
    Twitter has updated its developer rules to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it unceremoniously blocked the apps’ access to its platform, offering almost no explanation to what was going on (via Engadget). The new rules state that you can’t use Twitter’s API or content to “create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”

    David_T on
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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »

    they funged my tokens jerry!

    all of em, funged!

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    oh man I hope the 100k was a fake bid

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited January 2023
    Peewi wrote: »
    Twitter on web now switches to "for you" every time I open it.

    Maybe it's time to delete my account.
    Couscous wrote: »
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

    It's started doing this for me, too

    Hey, guess what Twitter! I literally NEVER want to know what porn my casual acquaintances are running around favoriting! Never, not once! It does not make me want to use Twitter more, it makes me want to follow fewer people! I'm not 100% clear on why people are going to Twitter for porn, and the thing is, I don't care! Shouldn't be any of my goddamn business!

    Incredible how much worse this dork is making an already-lousy site

    Poorochondriac on
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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
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    milski wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    milski wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    A restaurant concerned about economies of scale is an institutional canteen

    Moreover I'm really not convinced that the people cooking in a lot of restaurants are necessarily better at it than I am

    Fine dining, sure, but that's not even close to "most restaurants"

    The trick isn't that the food they serve is better than the food you can cook, the trick is that the food they serve is better than the food you can cook in 20-30 minutes while getting all the sides and different mains served at once. The curse of many a would-be restaurant owner is thinking that their ability to make the best food for their family, with unlimited time, can translate to making that food for money with all the budgetary and time restrictions that entails.

    Also, I don't trust myself to move knives quickly near my fingers!

    Yeah, I'm super slow when using a knife because I'm so scared of cutting myself. Always have been, but even moreso now that I'm on anticoagulants. My wife bought me some of those gloves that are supposed to protect your hands from blades but I never think to use them.

    Most things are fine, like a cucumber or something is pretty easy to keep moving and stay stable. For me, the biggest knife fear is onions. I want onions in everything, but even chopped in half first, trying to move quick with them is a recipe for the knife to deflect off the curve, so I just buy prechopped up onions like a coward.

    It's a double-edged sword

    Do not cut your veggies with a sword

    Well now I'm fucking tempted

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    "While you studied the blade, I studied the roulade."

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Peewi wrote: »
    Twitter on web now switches to "for you" every time I open it.

    Maybe it's time to delete my account.
    Couscous wrote: »
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

    It's started doing this for me, too

    Hey, guess what Twitter! I literally NEVER want to know what porn my casual acquaintances are running around favoriting! Never, not once! It does not make me want to use Twitter more, it makes me want to follow fewer people! I'm not 100% clear on why people are going to Twitter for porn, and the thing is, I don't care! Shouldn't be any of my goddamn business!

    Incredible how much worse this dork is making an already-lousy site

    There is an option to turn off seeing stuff the people you follow Liked. I know there is an option because I turned it on a long time ago. I only see Tweets and Retweets.

    Could not tell you how it's done.

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Twitter on web now switches to "for you" every time I open it.

    Maybe it's time to delete my account.
    Couscous wrote: »
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

    It's started doing this for me, too

    Hey, guess what Twitter! I literally NEVER want to know what porn my casual acquaintances are running around favoriting! Never, not once! It does not make me want to use Twitter more, it makes me want to follow fewer people! I'm not 100% clear on why people are going to Twitter for porn, and the thing is, I don't care! Shouldn't be any of my goddamn business!

    Incredible how much worse this dork is making an already-lousy site

    There is an option to turn off seeing stuff the people you follow Liked. I know there is an option because I turned it on a long time ago. I only see Tweets and Retweets.

    Could not tell you how it's done.

    I had a lot of shit turned off that Twitter seems to now be showing me again

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    yeah no matter how many times i tell it to stop showing me cum tributes, if i try to search for fanart of basically any anime character it keeps fucking showing up

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    True story: my boss at my last job had a huge fight with his wife because she saw him liking tons (like, huuuundreds) of porn star tweets every day. One day he came in looking frantic asking how he can turn that off so his wife can’t see tweets he likes, or if there was some kind of “private mode” he could use.

    CEO of a tech company, folks.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    And yes, my first suggestion was obviously “how about just not liking every tweet your favorite porn stars put out there?”

    It was not an acceptable solution.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    look SEX WORK IS WORK and he's DOING HIS PART to help these BUDDING TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDSETTERS gain RECOGNITION under the ALGORITHMIC METRICS OF THE WEBSITE

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    burner account also not an option because they need to know that HE Liked their tweet

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    burner account also not an option because they need to know that HE Liked their tweet

    Best part is that his Twitter handle he was doing this on is literally “nameofcompany_CEO”

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Twitter on web now switches to "for you" every time I open it.

    Maybe it's time to delete my account.
    Couscous wrote: »
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

    It's started doing this for me, too

    Hey, guess what Twitter! I literally NEVER want to know what porn my casual acquaintances are running around favoriting! Never, not once! It does not make me want to use Twitter more, it makes me want to follow fewer people! I'm not 100% clear on why people are going to Twitter for porn, and the thing is, I don't care! Shouldn't be any of my goddamn business!

    Incredible how much worse this dork is making an already-lousy site

    There is an option to turn off seeing stuff the people you follow Liked. I know there is an option because I turned it on a long time ago. I only see Tweets and Retweets.

    Could not tell you how it's done.

    Okay I just went and trawled through the settings menu and I genuinely could not even find the option. I think they've removed it.

    "You absolutely WILL know which online person you've never met has a choking fetish, fucking deal with it loser"

    I could turn off all sensitive content, I guess, but so much random shit gets flagged as "potentially sensitive" that I feel like I'd accidentally block the Associated Press or something

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I remember one time liking a stormy daniels tweet and getting like 4 porn bots that pretended to be her.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Twitter on web now switches to "for you" every time I open it.

    Maybe it's time to delete my account.
    Couscous wrote: »
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

    It's started doing this for me, too

    Hey, guess what Twitter! I literally NEVER want to know what porn my casual acquaintances are running around favoriting! Never, not once! It does not make me want to use Twitter more, it makes me want to follow fewer people! I'm not 100% clear on why people are going to Twitter for porn, and the thing is, I don't care! Shouldn't be any of my goddamn business!

    Incredible how much worse this dork is making an already-lousy site

    There is an option to turn off seeing stuff the people you follow Liked. I know there is an option because I turned it on a long time ago. I only see Tweets and Retweets.

    Could not tell you how it's done.

    Okay I just went and trawled through the settings menu and I genuinely could not even find the option. I think they've removed it.

    "You absolutely WILL know which online person you've never met has a choking fetish, fucking deal with it loser"

    I could turn off all sensitive content, I guess, but so much random shit gets flagged as "potentially sensitive" that I feel like I'd accidentally block the Associated Press or something

    Gotta pay $8 if you don't want to see dumb shit you hate, probably

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Twitter on web now switches to "for you" every time I open it.

    Maybe it's time to delete my account.
    Couscous wrote: »
    Twitter now defaulting to the "for you" instead of "following" regardless of which you pick because it hates you and everything you love

    It's started doing this for me, too

    Hey, guess what Twitter! I literally NEVER want to know what porn my casual acquaintances are running around favoriting! Never, not once! It does not make me want to use Twitter more, it makes me want to follow fewer people! I'm not 100% clear on why people are going to Twitter for porn, and the thing is, I don't care! Shouldn't be any of my goddamn business!

    Incredible how much worse this dork is making an already-lousy site

    There is an option to turn off seeing stuff the people you follow Liked. I know there is an option because I turned it on a long time ago. I only see Tweets and Retweets.

    Could not tell you how it's done.

    Okay I just went and trawled through the settings menu and I genuinely could not even find the option. I think they've removed it.

    "You absolutely WILL know which online person you've never met has a choking fetish, fucking deal with it loser"

    I could turn off all sensitive content, I guess, but so much random shit gets flagged as "potentially sensitive" that I feel like I'd accidentally block the Associated Press or something

    associated press, more like ass play probably

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    asparagus piss

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    burner account also not an option because they need to know that HE Liked their tweet

    Best part is that his Twitter handle he was doing this on is literally “nameofcompany_CEO”

    BEHOLD, the corporate dong

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Asparagus piss is the worst

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    I liked a tweet once.

    I hope someone saw that I liked it and made a mental note.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2023
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    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    I liked a tweet once.

    I hope someone saw that I liked it and made a mental note.

    pretty audacious, chico.

    Might wanna rein it in there.

    tynic on
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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I'm free with Tweet likes but for some reason stingy with Youtube likes. I should probably reverse that, since Youtube actually pays people.

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    ...I don't think I've ever liked a YouTube video

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    ...I don't think I've ever liked a YouTube video

    You wouldn't not like a meal, how can you not like a youtube you criminal!

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    I use the like button on youtube as a quick and easy way to put a video into a playlist

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Pooro I’m flattered you apparently follow me on Twatter

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited January 2023
    I usually forget about any and all reaction button things in the vein of upvotes, likes, and such.

    Madican on
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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Me too

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