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I notice that I don't pay attention to videos as much any more. It's just stuff playing in the background while I game or edit an image or browse piefed or something. So if it "hangs" for a couple seconds while ublock fights the ads, it doesn't really bother me.
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a problem entirely fabricated by YT
I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it's more like a problem fabricated by... capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.
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brand recognition. IOW, when you are at the grocery store, you think of Coke in general rather than any specific ads.
Agreed. More specifically, I think brand association plays a part. Even if you never drink cola of any type, the ads make you think "Coke is the kind of drink for people who (whatever)". Then when you see your friend drinking one you say "Oh you drink coke? I guess you're the kind of person who (whatever the ad campaign says)." It's really insiduous.
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Some of those old books had ads for cigarettes in them! Mostly the cheaper paperbacks. For some reason it wasn't as annoying, it was more of a historical artifact, an indication of the context in which the book was originally read.
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I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.
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ikr whenever I visit my elderly aunt, she has cable TV on. I timed it once and there's like 10 minutes of ads for every 20 minutes of content.
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literally nothing to do but read books
I remember those days. They weren’t that bad.
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That's probably why he called his horse Brew-cephalis.
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Beat me to it. I was gonna be like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_guy_called_Alex_who_Turned_an_Island_into_a_Peninsula
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How could you not say: “I want to walk you like an animal” ?
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The window’s open and I can hear the birds singing outside. Yes, I recommend it.
kek Chad McTruth is thanking me bc I'm his only fan.
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Everybody talking about the anus book, while I’m really fascinated by the book about juggalos.
Nights and Days in a Dark Carnival is Craven Rock’s manically-researched delve into the world of the Juggalos, the clown-painted fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse. After years of obsession with the culture, Rock travels as an undercover journalist to the Gathering of the Juggalos summer festival and takes a drug-addled, drunken, and sleazy descent into the Juggalos’ world, along the way trying to figure out ¬first-hand what attracts people to this ever-growing subculture. Collected from hazy recollections, questionable memories, and awkward interviews, Nights and Days in a Dark Carnival is a wild ride that looks deeper into the phenomenon than anything that’s come before. Rock participates in the debauchery, while also examining the intricately-linked elements of class, faith, violence, and internal marketing embedded within the culture and exploring what it all says about American culture as a whole.
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Y'all are both awesome. One of my regrets in life is I didn't spend more time studying statistics.
Making-Of / Behind the Meme.
The cat in question belongs to a housemate. In the evenings, when we have all retired to our rooms, the cat roams the lower floor alone. Sometimes I hear the cat yowl and at first I thought she was lonely but when I went down to comfort her she gave me a look like wtf and walked away like I had no idea what was going on. I didn’t understand until one eve when I was getting a snack in the kitchen I heard that same yowl and peeked in at her.
The cat was standing over her favorite toy which is a feather on a long string tied to a stick. During the night-times the cat would drag it around, eventually taking it to her catnip-laced scratchpad presumably for some kind of drunken cat toy orgy. But now she had just pulled it out from where it was stuck in the couch and was yowling triumphant yet remorseful. I sensed in the cat’s cry an awareness of the transience of life, a feeling of regret for the unavoidable sin of a predator defeating its prey, a warning to all beings of the dangers of engaging in the mortal hunt. It reminded me of the scene from Enter the Dragon when Bruce Lee’s character reluctantly finished off O’Hara in a fight to the death.
“Fluffy-Cat,” I said out loud, “you are a real warrior poet. A martial arts philosopher.” Deeply moved, I gave my best green-belt-in-karate bow, and carefully backed away.
Hey, fam! Check out !fedigrow@lemmy.zip if you haven't already, we talk about this kinda thing a lot there. About a week ago I wrote down some thoughts on how to grow a community so that you're not the only poster, it's not exactly what you're asking, but maybe it'll be helpful:
::: spoiler click here for a bunch of ideas on what to do if you're the only poster on a community
First, find regular events to post about. For example on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world I post about the weekly Monsterdon watch party. On !juggalos@lemmy.world, philipontacos posts about the (mostly) weekly JCW and Shaggy Show posts on youtube. (edit: similarly, you can use a scheduler to make regular posts ahead of time, on piefed or the lemmy scheduler. For example I looked up a bunch of Tintin panels and picked out my favorites, and scheduled a weekly post on !eurographicnovels@piefed.social with a different panel every Tuesday. When I see it posted, I make a comment saying why it was one of my favorites.)
Second, give people resources they can use. For example on !sumo@lemmy.world I periodically post a bunch of links that people can use to follow the bi-monthly tournaments. This resulted in more engagement than when I just posted a lot of content myself.
Third, just ask people to post. If anyone has commented on your posts, reply to them (or send a DM) suggesting that they make posts of their own. On !gothindustrial@lemmy.world I had to ask like 10+ people in this way, but we finally got a nice community of 3-4 regular posters and several other occasionals.
Fourth, think about the kinds of posts that will attract discussion. This will vary by community. Simple links to songs or videos rarely attract much discussion. Articles may attract more, tho you run the risk of “ragebait” or “clickbait”. Look through !asklemmy@lemmy.world to get a sense of what questions will attract discussion, and think about how this can be adapted to your community. Memes can get a lot of upvotes, but the amount of discussion they inspire depends on the type of meme.
Fifth, think about “community events” to get people involved. On !superbowl@lemmy.world, there's an annual “Owl of the Year” tournament where people vote for their favorite owl.
Sixth, advertise periodically, on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, by cross-posting, by mentioning your community elsewhere (when approriate), by getting it listed in the sidebar of related communities, etc.
Finally, only do things here that are fun. That’s just my personal rule. Every once in a while I think I should make regular discussion-provoking “question” posts on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, but I just don’t have it in me. So I only make that kind of post when I think I have a good question that I really wanna see what people answer. (edit: on the other hand, I spent several hours making a “Who is your Favorite Dracula?” meme on !vampires@lemmy.zip, because it was fun.)
Awrite, that’s just a couple things I thought of, hope it’s helpful to someone.
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Lemmy + Piefed + mbin is sometimes called the "threadiverse", so maybe Threadiquette?
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Yeah, my friend was a film major, I remember going with them to movie theaters or watching films on VCR. It wasn’t that bad. Look at what the corporations want to make us do in the name of “convenience”.
Funny you should ask that, I was just trawling around looking for memes to post on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world and came across this classic image:
It's from like 2007 but still got a lot of truth. See here for a breakdown of the various "stereotypes" of goth types by the same artist, many of which do not involve monochrome: https://www.deviantart.com/trellia/gallery/25271332/goth-stereo-types
If you check out pics from last summer's Wave Gotik Treffen, you'll notice that yeah, black is the baseline but it's not exclusive: https://piefed.social/post/883617
As for your question "why?" idk but wikipedia says:
The anchor that holds all elements of dark culture together can be viewed as the color black with all its associated symbolism. It is seen as an expression of seriousness, darkness and mysticism, but also of hopelessness and emptiness, melancholy, as well as its association with mourning and death.[2][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_culture
But a lot of tradgoths will say you don't have to dress or act any certain way to be "goth", you just gotta enjoy the music. idk tho, I'm more into industrial!
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oops sorry, I removed your username from there. for what it's worth, !gothindustrial@lemmy.world has a smaller audience than !asklemmy@lemmy.world.
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Cybergoth is one style outta many, most larger festivals have many different styles represented, so it's not all like that.
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"goth" means different things to different people. sorry, I'd write more but I'm comin down with a cold or something.
Just trying to understand how the world looks like for a goth.
ok how about this:
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You might be hard pressed to find any cybergoths in the wild,
There are still meetups at festivals like Amphi and WGT, see here for various links: https://piefed.social/search?q=cybergoths+Amphi&community=1277&language=0&search_for=posts
tho yeah, I don't think people dress cybergoth on the daily unless they're an influencer or something.
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heavily concentrated around major cities
Right, but when a goth band wants to make a video on the cheap, what do they do? Take a camera out into the forest!
The last time I did any web development it was at a company that forced us to all use MS Windows and Visual Studio Code. I haven’t done anything like that in a while and I don’t even have access to a Windows install, but I want to do a bit of REACT-style web development (mostly remembering how to do it, i.e. basic tutorials.)
I guess I could install Visual Studio Code in Linux, but I’d like to take this opportunity to start using a better IDE. What’s the best privacy-respecting IDE for REACT-style web development?
Thanks.
Y'all need to meet more people through SUMO
source: !sumo@lemmy.world
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for some reason when I saw that image I immediately started hearing vaporwave.
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!gothindustrial@lemmy.world - daily updates, like 90% music and 10% cartoons and memes.
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Oh. Uh.... I thought it was supposed to be funny in the "me_irl" way....
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If you’re good at what you do money isn’t an issue.
Hey, what about those of us who are old and mediocre (but capable!) at what we do?!?
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The number on the stove clock and the labels on the bottles in the back look weird. also the way the egg box is on the stovetop. Is it not slop?
Sting of Death (1966) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
Its plot concerns five female college students who head to the Florida Everglades for a holiday, but instead of fun in the sun, run into trouble with a mutated, bloodthirsty, and quite deadly jellyfish-man-monster.
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A 1967 review in BoxOffice says that the film is “very much in keeping with the youth-oriented horror market” of the time, well-made enough to earn a “good” rating—on its Very Good-to-Very Poor scale—and that Grefé “has generated a surprisingly strong mass market appeal pattern and, for good measure, headliner Neil Sedaka is present in the capacity of singing guest star.” BoxOffice calls Morrison, Hawkins, and Vella “professionally poised in pivotal roles” and says that Nagle “provides some interesting moments."[15][16]
On the other hand, film historian Phil Hardy has little positive to say about Sting of Death. He opines that Hawkins is a “wooden heroine” and Morrison a “hard-headed hero,” and calls the film an “unimaginative piece of low-budget Science Fiction."[17] TVGuide.com uses the similar phrase “mindless science fiction” in its brief description of the movie.[18]
Critic Fred Beldin of Allmovie.com is even more damning. He writes that Sting of Death is a “peculiar sci-fi calamity,” a movie that is “wrong-headed, absurd, and unintentionally funny” but one that will nonetheless “thrill lovers of trash cinema and confuse everyone else.” He is of the opinion that Grefé “films the dance sequences with special attention paid to his female subjects’ posteriors, suggesting an almost Russ Meyers-like appreciation of this portion” of their anatomy. Beldin also notes that the “succession of unlikely events and robotic actors” are all filmed “in blazing color."[19] In an interview, Grefé attributes the latter to the “glare off the ocean [that] really lends itself to beautiful photography” and to “cameramen back then [who] believed in putting color in” as many shots as possible.[1]
Besides writing that Sting of Death has an “overabundance of mundane dialogue and amateurish acting, film historian Bryan Senn makes special note of the Jellyfish Man costume. He quotes Hobart, the man inside the costume, as saying that “The monster suit cost about $300 to make” and took about two weeks to complete. However, Senn points out, “In fact, it looks just like what it really is—a man in a crusty, dirty wetsuit and flippers, with plastic cords hanging from his shoulders and a clear hefty bag inflated over his head."[2] Grefé seems to agree with Senn, saying in an interview, “Now if you tried to release that in the theaters, they’d stone you to death in the lobby. Back in those days, it wasn’t too bad. You could get away with a lot of stuff on the low-budget pictures.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_of_Death
Sting of Death (1966) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 20 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/610699/sting-of-death
tubi: (another copy? wtf?): https://tubitv.com/movies/100034158/sting-of-death
archive: https://archive.org/details/sting-of-death-1080p
it’s usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/sting-of-death
for trigger warnings (although there’s nothing there yet) try: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/264947
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Do not take it for granted. Make sure to defend your right to quality medical care.
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Teach My Little Sister How to Drive relies on Google Gemini and ChatGPT to power its dynamic NPC, which follows your instructions, reacts, and disobeys, but the developers are looking into ways of allowing local AI models to step in for players “with sufficiently capable PCs.”
They’re using two cloud-based models for a task that is usually handled by if-then-else statements? I think I know who programmed this NPC…