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[pisskop]

I think its a result of your recent viewing habits.

I watch a couple of dedicated game streamers (and only those couple), music, somewhitehouse/financial/news streams, a couple of horror movie reviewers, some channels that teach through humor or parody, and the occassional recommended video from YT that ranges from 'watch stuff get crushed by a hydraulic press' to, well, the stuff that randos on forums like this push.  occassionally I watch a video about something completely out of my range like anime or w.e.

Im subscribed to a lot more academic channels than I currently watch as well, as well as several defunct channels

I get a couple of the videos shown above, but I dont usually click on them.

[BlackFlyme]

Going through some very old photos. Cats will be cats.

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[Laterigrade]

This is how you look like if you believe that a 40 trillion ton supply of ore, that would last us a bandaid 200 years, and leave us with 3,6 billion tons of "intermediate-level waste" and "high-level waste".... (that we need to manage for longer than the pyramids have existed, try to extrapolate payroll calculations over a period long as human history, just for shits and giggles) - that this narrow value optimisation could constitute the end all be all solution to the all encompassing META CRISIS.

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Wow so witty so brave, you look so smart.

People will do anything for clout. People drinking bleach, 1l of vodka, live parasites... All for internet clout. Here today, gone tomorrow

Reminds me, a friend of mine drank bleach to get out of a test, and it didn’t even work.

[MCreeper]

Some silliness and not from Princess: the Hopeful, an out-of-hand joke on putting Madoka in World of Darkness:

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So there is a city of notionally living humans inside a sphere smack dab in the middle of... underworld, and it existed there for untold ages, being the last of an ancient civilization that was fucking ripped out of the world together with space it occupied. How does it lasts here, pray tell? Magic! And to sustain that 'Magic!' it's magical girls, and sometimes not just them, go out to Earth and act like girlified dementors (someone must have drew that. "Go on, kiss me "). So, if they can leave more or less freely, why stay in this hellhole? For the glory of the Kingdom, rational bastard!
Although, the funniest thing for me was that I imagined it a lot more dead and hostile based on previous mentions, but here it is, going on like nobody's business, with it's weird customs and overgrown bureaucracy, which are said to be the most dangerous thing about it (a danger indeed!  ), and delusional dreams of retaking the world. And foolish magical girl tourists visiting without prior arrangement are imprisoned, sure, but very politely and in luxury, such as it is. But no going back and forth willy-nilly, can't have that. Although, getting prior arrangement out of someone who poindently does not make himself available may be no less of a quest than escaping out of there in one piece.

Dark magical girls of storms, which were described as the least generally "bad" of three kinds, on the other hand, turned out to be most horrifying. Berserking battling rams with somewhat self-destructive powers that usually keep enough wits about themselves to fight in the right direction, okay. Idle musings, that if monsters they fight are spawned by humans, it might be best to kill all humans instead, alarming. And then there are goalenu, a hivemind of Storm Queen's dead champions (recent ones, too!) inhabiting effigies of clay and human body parts, which are assembled by storm cultists and, it seems to be, require replacement at regular. So the gals just go out one day and dismember some people to conjure a (blatantly overpowered) Thing that, as themselves, does not care very much about what to kill. All for the greater good, supposedly!  To add some more creepyness, gals can also add similiar body parts to their bodies, gaining some mystical benefit in addition.

And mirror girls just end up unintentionally sabotaging the good fight, as well as many other things, by being massive egotistical jerks. 

Got to say, for all the hilarity of the idea, I have even more trouble mentally putting the two together after reading through the book than before. WoD, as far as I can tell from Bloodlines and mentions on this forum, is pretty down to earth kind of foul. Yet those here megucas are, at least initially, a step away from being all-good AND "all-high", and their primary enemies are, as usual, otherworldly beasts of distilled malice. And said beasts tend to gradually corrupt people into more of themselves, as well as be spawned by acts of severe villainy, giving it all a hint of "It wasn't me, I was posessed by demon!"


By association with it's less gruesome parts I looped back to remembering Higanbana no saku yoru ni and it's pitch-black humor. There is something very funny and satisfying about a gang of man-eating in-hell-imprisoning devils on several occasions eating people from sheer disgust at their behavior.

EDIT: Odd of them to say "Please note that as of 24 April 2022, parts of this Wiki are Very Very Out Of Date. Prospective players are instead highly recommended to check out the books themselves, either from the link below, or from the DIscord server". Last I checked, no one on this server even remembered the original subject anymore.

[McTraveller]

I love these "financial advice" articles that show up on some financial sites. Like "My Dad left me $200k in an IRA, but I'm in the 35% tax bracket, how should I manage my withdrawals?"

This is hilarious because as a single filer you need an AGI over $231k/year to be in the 35% tax bracket (and more than a whopping $462k/year if married filing jointly).  So if that's a single filer you're already in like the 96th percentile for income, and you're worrying about tax implications of getting a $200k windfall.

[Loud Whispers]

stupid idea: someone who is viciously empathetic and supportive

"I DON'T WANT YOU HERE! GO BACK HOME! Where it's warm, safe and comfortable. You've worked too hard today and need to focus on yourself."

"DID I HURT YOUR FEELINGS SNOWFLAKE? I'm really sorry, that was careless of me. How can I make it right?"

"DO YOU THINK YOU'RE SO SPECIAL HUH?" [presents box of chocolates with card addressed "because you're special to me"]

[King Zultan]

Sounds like someone that'd kill you with kindness.

[Magmacube_tr]

I hear people complain about invasive adds knowing what they said or whatever. Do you guys have it?

I personally don't. I get adds targeted towards woman like pads and womans clothes (I am a man), some deodorant adds (I never use deodorants.), and other random garbage that is in no way associated with me.

I am imagining that whatever profiling algorithm there is has a very fucked up profile of me and is constantly stumpted by the inexplicability of my actions on the internet.

"What does this person like? Blankets? Condoms? Bread? Cookies? Are they a man or a woman? Is this thing even human?!"

[Strif3]

*Laughs in NoScript, VPN and uBlock Origin*
Most data isn't gathered from user accounts. The real data gathering happens at the internet traffic level. But whoops, you can't get anything off of my browser, and i have no consistent IP address. Anything gathered on me is worthless, because it can't be associated with an identity. And wherever i can, i sign up using temporary email addresses. Basically, any of the few ads i do see, (mostly on YouTube, because those fucking cockroaches just won't stay blocked properly) are based solely on my current IP address and basically untargeted. Like i get ads for the most random stuff too, like fucking detergents, in Norwegian.

[Frumple]

Youtube's been remarkably unobtrusive for me just with firefox + ghostery and enhancer for youtube's adblock.

... though considering a number of folks with a similar setup have reported otherwise, I'm rather strongly starting to suspect it's because I have high contrast going. Accessibility options being on breaks quite a few websites to one extent or another. Very, very few designers seem to bother to see if their website fully functions with one going.

Usually it's kinda' low-key irritating because it's a regular reminder folks really don't give much of a damn about people that actually need the things and aren't just using it for convenience (I'm mostly just using it as an alternate color scheme that's on a system hotkey), but sometimes it works out in your favor, heh.

[King Zultan]

The way I avoid the ads on youtube is to just download the video then watch it.

[Loud Whispers]

Adblock plus / Freetube / Downloading all good methods

[dragdeler]

Somebody told.me a really nice trick, duckduckgo let's you watch youtube on their site, embedded like you posted it on social media... Can be hard to find any video it doesn't respond the best to links, so you need to search for the titles... But for low commitment trash it's perfect: need to browse a bunch of stuff in order to find a 5 second bit, like game footage (something notoriously adriddled, because there is degrees to how bad it can get) without losing 45 seconds for every interaction with the YT UI.

[scriver]

War Thunder leaks. Again.

[Loud Whispers]

War Thunder leaks. Again.

Least powerful gamers vs most powerful military industrial complex