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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    We don't deserve Eurovision

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    I wonder if you could make a search algorithm (addon because lets be honest here) that filters responses for website functionality as part of the "goodness" of the result.

    Basically the closer you get to something like Wikipedia or Craigslist the higher rank it gets.

    I do understand why it doesn't already exist, googles search platform is built on selling ads to the sites it indexes, but it seems like a way to nudge the internet into a better direction.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    apparently polands choice was rigged or something
    all my polish people saying not to vote for them cause of something

    Bless your heart.
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I wonder if you could make a search algorithm (addon because lets be honest here) that filters responses for website functionality as part of the "goodness" of the result.

    Basically the closer you get to something like Wikipedia or Craigslist the higher rank it gets.

    I do understand why it doesn't already exist, googles search platform is built on selling ads to the sites it indexes, but it seems like a way to nudge the internet into a better direction.

    I mean I feel like youre describing PageRank

    Not glibly like

    Thats the algo (In a link-heavy environment where you use "closeness" as a metric)

    Tumin on
  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I wonder if you could make a search algorithm (addon because lets be honest here) that filters responses for website functionality as part of the "goodness" of the result.

    Basically the closer you get to something like Wikipedia or Craigslist the higher rank it gets.

    I do understand why it doesn't already exist, googles search platform is built on selling ads to the sites it indexes, but it seems like a way to nudge the internet into a better direction.

    I mean I feel like youre describing PageRank

    Not glibly like

    Thats the algo (In a link-heavy environment where you use "closeness" as a metric)

    Right but one that looks at the amount of ads per page and pop-ups etc and docks points for that bullshit.

    I just want to one time be able to look at a recipe site and not want to burn down the whole internet.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    We should probably punish people who link to ad riddled websites in town squares

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    the barf where the heaves won't stop and theres nothing left and you've blown every blood vessel in both eyes

    in the quiet moments between the contractions you're planning terrorist actions against cruise ships to reduce natural norovirus reservoirs

    I had food poisoning two years ago that was like this, but also for my ass.

    I had to get driven to the ER and get hooked up to an IV for two hours.

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    I also had massive charlie horse cramps from dehydration where I thought I was going to break my legs

    I’m pretty sure I screamed at one point

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    There is no way that wasn't written as satire to begin with.

    No one is that oblivious.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    jungleroomx wrote: »
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    Can’t monetize it. It’s destined to fail. But what if there was an app…

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  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    There is no way that wasn't written as satire to begin with.

    No one is that oblivious.

    Oh 100% dudes taking the piss out of techbros

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Havelock2.0 wrote: »
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    the barf where the heaves won't stop and theres nothing left and you've blown every blood vessel in both eyes

    in the quiet moments between the contractions you're planning terrorist actions against cruise ships to reduce natural norovirus reservoirs

    I had food poisoning two years ago that was like this, but also for my ass.

    I had to get driven to the ER and get hooked up to an IV for two hours.
    That happened to me one too! With my last energy I texted my doctor friend "I'm sure it's fine" and then he came to my apartment and found me laying in the bathroom unable to move. Thanks Texas Ren Faire!!!!

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    The kind of podcasts that are just one hour long sessions of friends on a couch bullshitting is anathema to me. It’s too much “bros drinking beers at a bar” for my liking. Like, it has to be a targeted, moderated or self-moderated discussion that is edited well and fits within a good time slot. I have a friend that is the exact opposite, and ONLY listens to those kind of podcasts, because she likes the parasocial relationship with the couch sitters and the “hangout” feeling.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    I've tried a few different styles of podcast and the only one I can listen to at length is TTRPG real play podcasts. I get bored of everything else.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    navgoose wrote: »
    We would probably do something dumb like send over Nickleback. A clear violation of several sections of the Geneva Convention.

    Thankfully, they’re Canadian.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    “Hey, babe, I can’t come over tonight, me and the boys are doing an acoustic bro-cast,”

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Dom and Jonty's Ladscast recorded in the brewdog podcasting booth

    japan on
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    credeiki wrote: »
    DK is using LLMs appropriately ofc, this is why humanity created generative ai

    stealing a generative network from facebook without agreeing to their TOS and using it write interactive gay porn simulations is not only the best use of AI, but also a moral imperative

    Donkey Kong on
    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
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    jungleroomx on
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I'm a little disappointed at Sheet Music Boss' cover of Setting Sail, Coming Home from Bastion

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YsgTnPZVE

    The points where there is a melody and counter-melody, they've chosen to cover one of the melodies and some of the instrumentation, and it makes it sound incomplete

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g60bPpXEq9Q

    It's a shame because in-story it's supposed to be a combination of two earlier songs, one a funeral dirge and the other a war song, combining them into something with new meaning. Cutting out either melody while just flipping back and forth between them loses that synthesis. And SMB acknowledge they were a blend of two songs, so it's not like they weren't aware.

    It's probably a limitation of piano music with two hands, but it's still a shame.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Partner surprised me by visiting my workplace for lunch! We had sandwiches out in the sun, it was very nice.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    Partner surprised me by visiting my workplace for lunch! We had sandwiches out in the sun, it was very nice.

    d’awww ♥️

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    I have always been confused by the hate Nickelback gets. I don't particularly like their music, but, it's like, pretty unremarkable rock radio stuff. Like, are people mad that they got successful while also being mundane? Or what? Like, there are definitely worse bands out there, but Nickelback's main claim to fame is how many people are, like, super offended they exist.

  • tinwhiskerstinwhiskers Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    The kind of podcasts that are just one hour long sessions of friends on a couch bullshitting is anathema to me. It’s too much “bros drinking beers at a bar” for my liking. Like, it has to be a targeted, moderated or self-moderated discussion that is edited well and fits within a good time slot. I have a friend that is the exact opposite, and ONLY listens to those kind of podcasts, because she likes the parasocial relationship with the couch sitters and the “hangout” feeling.

    When they get lousy with weird call backs and in jokes its just insufferable. I went and saw MBMBAM live after having never been more than a casual listener and having really not listed at all for months and it was just a bunch of people yelling memes I'd never heard of at each other.

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  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Started watching Silo

    I read the book years ago but only recall the broad strokes so this should be interesting

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Nova_C wrote: »
    I have always been confused by the hate Nickelback gets. I don't particularly like their music, but, it's like, pretty unremarkable rock radio stuff. Like, are people mad that they got successful while also being mundane? Or what? Like, there are definitely worse bands out there, but Nickelback's main claim to fame is how many people are, like, super offended they exist.

    I think its the cognitive dissonance of their popularity, bland music, and apparent lack of fans. The last bit is of course untrue, since you can't be popular and have no fans, but its a little unusual for a band to have tons of fans and for that set of people to be totally disjoint from communities that talk about music online (which it seems to be for Nickelback. Or at least nobody in these circles will admit to being a fan)

    Imagine Dragons is another similar example

    Donkey Kong on
    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Scheduled a physical. I feel like my body is dog shit. So that’s something to not look forward to.

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Imagine Dragons has incredible lyrics tho. Imagine you're writing a song and you's just like fuck it stream of consciousness lets go

    first things first imma tell you all the words inside my head

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    I have always been confused by the hate Nickelback gets. I don't particularly like their music, but, it's like, pretty unremarkable rock radio stuff. Like, are people mad that they got successful while also being mundane? Or what? Like, there are definitely worse bands out there, but Nickelback's main claim to fame is how many people are, like, super offended they exist.

    I think its the cognitive dissonance of their popularity, bland music, and apparent lack of fans. The last bit is of course untrue, since you can't be popular and have no fans, but its a little unusual for a band to have tons of fans and for that set of people to be totally disjoint from communities that talk about music online (which it seems to be for Nickelback. Or at least nobody in these circles will admit to being a fan)

    Imagine Dragons is another similar example

    Really?

    I could swear I've read people gushing about Imagine Dragons in this very forum.

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    And, like, I've only heard a handful of their songs, but Believer is a straight banger. I can't think of any Nickelback songs I've heard I would actually seek out to listen to again.

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    I would say if I'm hearing about Imagine Dragons 99.9% of the times someone is roasting the band

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    We're all judgmental fucks, basically.

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Ive never judged anything in my life

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    I have always been confused by the hate Nickelback gets. I don't particularly like their music, but, it's like, pretty unremarkable rock radio stuff. Like, are people mad that they got successful while also being mundane? Or what? Like, there are definitely worse bands out there, but Nickelback's main claim to fame is how many people are, like, super offended they exist.

    I think its the cognitive dissonance of their popularity, bland music, and apparent lack of fans. The last bit is of course untrue, since you can't be popular and have no fans, but its a little unusual for a band to have tons of fans and for that set of people to be totally disjoint from communities that talk about music online (which it seems to be for Nickelback. Or at least nobody in these circles will admit to being a fan)

    Imagine Dragons is another similar example

    Really?

    I could swear I've read people gushing about Imagine Dragons in this very forum.
    give us their names

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    I have always been confused by the hate Nickelback gets. I don't particularly like their music, but, it's like, pretty unremarkable rock radio stuff. Like, are people mad that they got successful while also being mundane? Or what? Like, there are definitely worse bands out there, but Nickelback's main claim to fame is how many people are, like, super offended they exist.

    I think its the cognitive dissonance of their popularity, bland music, and apparent lack of fans. The last bit is of course untrue, since you can't be popular and have no fans, but its a little unusual for a band to have tons of fans and for that set of people to be totally disjoint from communities that talk about music online (which it seems to be for Nickelback. Or at least nobody in these circles will admit to being a fan)

    Imagine Dragons is another similar example

    Really?

    I could swear I've read people gushing about Imagine Dragons in this very forum.
    give us their names

    Never!

  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I got to play Jedi Survivor for like 3 consecutive hours tonight. Fuckin brilliant

    PSN: Honkalot
  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Too bad BD-1 said what he said on Twitter but I’m still enjoying the game

    PSN: Honkalot
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Imagine Dragons is like grunge Coldplay

    the people who like Nickelback just tend to be people who do not frequent the same spaces as many of us

    any bar five miles outside the city is playing a Nickelback unironically

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Nickelback and Imagine Dragons aren’t real, they were made up for truck commercials

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