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  • edited August 2016
    Neito said:

    Blech. DigiBrony.

    I had heard he wasn't popular around your neck of the reddit woods. Among the randos, at least partially because he posted a negative review of Erased(and, having looked back at the thread, it's certainly...devisive) and didn't like SAO(Can't blame him, SAO wasn't great, but if people are into that sort of thing, fair enough), and among mods, because he kept posting self-promotional shit without contributing much else. So can't blame you there. Didn't know he was a brony, either - but hey, whatever tickles him I guess.

    Still, I didn't link it because it's him, I linked it because he's pretty much correct.

    Post edited by Churba on
  • Greg said:

    Power chord tuning is my new favorite tuning. The one I'm using right now is F2#A2D3F3#C4#F4# where I play melody on A and D, and strum the top three strings when appropriate (and making the 6th string F# just makes it easier to go back to the key). By using power chord tuning instead of conventional open tuning its much easier to control the emotion of the chord because you can manipulate the third more easily.

    I feel like a goddamned genius even though this has probably been done a thousand times before that I don't know about.

    With my history of snapping strings while tuning, I feel like tightening the 6th string on my guitar up to F# would definitely make it snap. Even C# on the 5th string would make me nervous.
    Sixth string is the thickest. First string is the thinnest. TBH I was surprised nothing snapped too, I just had enough extra of those strings I thought it'd be worth a shot.
  • Greg said:

    Greg said:

    Power chord tuning is my new favorite tuning. The one I'm using right now is F2#A2D3F3#C4#F4# where I play melody on A and D, and strum the top three strings when appropriate (and making the 6th string F# just makes it easier to go back to the key). By using power chord tuning instead of conventional open tuning its much easier to control the emotion of the chord because you can manipulate the third more easily.

    I feel like a goddamned genius even though this has probably been done a thousand times before that I don't know about.

    With my history of snapping strings while tuning, I feel like tightening the 6th string on my guitar up to F# would definitely make it snap. Even C# on the 5th string would make me nervous.
    Sixth string is the thickest. First string is the thinnest. TBH I was surprised nothing snapped too, I just had enough extra of those strings I thought it'd be worth a shot.
    Ah. In my head I always go 1-6 is thick to thin. I forget that the official designation is the opposite. In any case, risky stuff.
  • edited August 2016
    Churba said:

    Neito said:

    Blech. DigiBrony.

    I had heard he wasn't popular around your neck of the reddit woods. Among the randos, at least partially because he posted a negative review of Erased(and, having looked back at the thread, it's certainly...devisive) and didn't like SAO(Can't blame him, SAO wasn't great, but if people are into that sort of thing, fair enough), and among mods, because he kept posting self-promotional shit without contributing much else. So can't blame you there. Didn't know he was a brony, either - but hey, whatever tickles him I guess.

    Still, I didn't link it because it's him, I linked it because he's pretty much correct.

    My dislike for him is entirely based around the fact that he won't stop bitching about being banned from /r/anime, yet will not change the behavior that caused him to be banned. (Excessive self-promotion)
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  • To be fair, most reddits consider basically anything to be "excessive self-promotion" and thus cause a weird economy where fans of a thing themselves obsessively promote it instead of any official account.

    I don't post on reddit.
  • Rym said:

    To be fair, most reddits consider basically anything to be "excessive self-promotion" and thus cause a weird economy where fans of a thing themselves obsessively promote it instead of any official account.

    I don't post on reddit.

    We stick to the rule the admins use: 10% of posts being self-promotion.

    That said, 90% of my interaction with Reddit is either passive or moderation.
  • Neito said:

    Rym said:

    To be fair, most reddits consider basically anything to be "excessive self-promotion" and thus cause a weird economy where fans of a thing themselves obsessively promote it instead of any official account.

    I don't post on reddit.

    We stick to the rule the admins use: 10% of posts being self-promotion.

    That said, 90% of my interaction with Reddit is either passive or moderation.
    I'm a little more flexible with GOI's subreddit - stuff like tutorials and guides, learning shit, that's fine. Let's plays, open, but secretly on a case by case basis - if it's garbage, they quietly get the 10% rule. But, GOI's sub is small enough that I can get away with being case-by-case as the only mod that really handles much, not that there's much to handle.

    Rym's right, though - I've seen plenty of subs get SUPER touchy about that shit. Like, banning people for showing up in threads ABOUT their content, that they didn't even start.
  • Churba said:

    Neito said:

    Rym said:

    To be fair, most reddits consider basically anything to be "excessive self-promotion" and thus cause a weird economy where fans of a thing themselves obsessively promote it instead of any official account.

    I don't post on reddit.

    We stick to the rule the admins use: 10% of posts being self-promotion.

    That said, 90% of my interaction with Reddit is either passive or moderation.
    I'm a little more flexible with GOI's subreddit - stuff like tutorials and guides, learning shit, that's fine. Let's plays, open, but secretly on a case by case basis - if it's garbage, they quietly get the 10% rule. But, GOI's sub is small enough that I can get away with being case-by-case as the only mod that really handles much, not that there's much to handle.

    Rym's right, though - I've seen plenty of subs get SUPER touchy about that shit. Like, banning people for showing up in threads ABOUT their content, that they didn't even start.
    There's two types of Reddit mods: Those that act as if this Reddit shit matters, and those that secretly wanna quit.
  • Apreche said:

    Will the river of Scott-vindicating research ever cease?

    It usually does right around the time someone gets around to reading the actual paper.

  • Churba said:

    Apreche said:

    Will the river of Scott-vindicating research ever cease?

    It usually does right around the time someone gets around to reading the actual paper.

    Ain't noone got time fo' 'dat.
  • Apreche said:

    Churba said:

    Apreche said:

    Will the river of Scott-vindicating research ever cease?

    It usually does right around the time someone gets around to reading the actual paper.

    Ain't noone got time fo' 'dat.
    Now that's just... more accurate than I care to admit.
  • You could just go so far as to read the full article about the paper, which specifies that it's comparing being angry vs being sad while making decisions. Neither one of those really describes Scott's decision making process, I've mostly just seen apathy.

    Like watch: Scott what are some of the things that are wrong with this country of ours, and how did that question make you feel?

    I'll answer for you: Here's a list yadda, yadda, and yadda, and I don't care.

    If the article is to be believed they make the guys remember something sad vs something angry, write about that thing then asked them for ideas to fix stuff. Angry people performed better.
  • I'm still trying to decide whether The Cuck is funny or just dumb. They definitely need to up the writing quality though.
  • Getting back government per diem is so nice and sometimes unexpected.
  • Ikatono said:

    I'm still trying to decide whether The Cuck is funny or just dumb. They definitely need to up the writing quality though.

    Well, if you want something real funny, a bunch of Gators thought it was 100% real.
  • I would label it under the dumb category.
  • Churba said:

    Ikatono said:

    I'm still trying to decide whether The Cuck is funny or just dumb. They definitely need to up the writing quality though.

    Well, if you want something real funny, a bunch of Gators thought it was 100% real.
    I think the reactions are the only reason I want to put it in the "funny" category, but really it's so poorly done. The only reason it works is because they're going after possibly the dumbest demographic imaginable.
  • Ikatono said:

    Churba said:

    Ikatono said:

    I'm still trying to decide whether The Cuck is funny or just dumb. They definitely need to up the writing quality though.

    Well, if you want something real funny, a bunch of Gators thought it was 100% real.
    I think the reactions are the only reason I want to put it in the "funny" category, but really it's so poorly done. The only reason it works is because they're going after possibly the dumbest demographic imaginable.
    Well, if you're going to fish for idiots, you don't set bait for intelligent people.
  • There's a (presumably) homeless person on the sidewalk outside the office, which is perfectly normal for NYC.

    They are talking on the free telephone built into the LinkNYC station, which is great. That's what it's there for.

    They have been using it for hours. They were there when I went to lunch, and I saw them still there just now when I looked out the window. That's, mildly disturbing. Homeless or not, who can make four hours of non-stop phone calls that isn't working in a call center, and why?
  • Some people like to talk. Some people like to talk a lot. If I can easily have a four hour chat with a friend face to face, I don't see it that unbelievable that someone would do similar thing on phone.
  • The final chapter of the Bleach manga was released yesterday.

    That's it. It's finally over.
  • It's old news but English users have a stupid amount of fragmentation over Instant Messaging applications.

    Slack - for dev work, kind of sloppy, tries to do this bot thing, turns into an application that stops your work communication traffic from overflowing your email

    Hangouts - feature rich, had almost everything going for it, didn't get as much traction with normal people. Could be annoying to get a video hangout going with someone who's never used it.

    Messenger - Facebook default so everyone is forced to have an account, domination through inherited user base.

    WhatsApp - Signal encrypted messaging popular with family friends, family in North America, India and Australia

    Telegram - Really slick, simple efficient IM which has many security features and feels like it's been custom coded for every OS I've use it on, however the user base is fairly low compare to others. Only a few friends doing CS use it.

    Skype - Still has surprising number of users and has easy availability to start off on in Windows. Although I don't really like it as a chat app much.

    SMS - WTF people still use this.
  • "Fighting the New Drug" is so bullshit. New? Really? I'm fairly certain porn has been around much longer than humans have been ingesting drugs.
  • Greg said:

    "Fighting the New Drug" is so bullshit. New? Really? I'm fairly certain porn has been around much longer than humans have been ingesting drugs.

    I am intimately aware of this organization.
  • edited August 2016
    Found myself in Brooklyn this weekend for a wedding. Lovely newlyweds put us up for the night. Turns out I'm sharing the hotel with flamecon. Never heard of it, ask a patron, it's a lgbq focused comic convention. While waiting for the shuttle. I did some people watching. Let me tell you, some really excellent cosplay. Very creative. Saw a whole group of ocelots from mgs3, with a bdsm military thing going on. Could say I'm feelin' it
    Post edited by Naoza on
  • Bleach did end I guess.
  • I was thinking about the NSA when this song popped into my head.
  • edited September 2016
    Wow it's been two years hasn't it?

    Welcome back.
    Post edited by GreyHuge on
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