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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14923625 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84540 on: September 03, 2015, 11:31:22 am »

I just realized that if I miss a day of YouTube, it creates a backlog anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours long. And that's just the subscribers where I watch every single video (Markiplier, Game Grumps, Retsupurae and Extra Credits).
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« Reply #84541 on: September 03, 2015, 12:03:27 pm »

You can have the carolinas. Whole tri-state area, really, at least including the florida panhandle. You'll choke on 'em, so have fun :V
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84542 on: September 03, 2015, 12:21:30 pm »

I just realized that if I miss a day of YouTube, it creates a backlog anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours long. And that's just the subscribers where I watch every single video (Markiplier, Game Grumps, Retsupurae and Extra Credits).
Unless someone is holding a gun against your head, you don't actually have to watch every single video of all your subscriptions. It's entertainment for your free time, and sometimes one just doesn't have enough free time.
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« Reply #84543 on: September 03, 2015, 01:03:22 pm »

Indeed. Simply looking at their channel without watching anything seems to reset the counter...eventually.
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« Reply #84544 on: September 03, 2015, 01:10:39 pm »

I just realized that if I miss a day of YouTube, it creates a backlog anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours long. And that's just the subscribers where I watch every single video (Markiplier, Game Grumps, Retsupurae and Extra Credits).
Unless someone is holding a gun against your head, you don't actually have to watch every single video of all your subscriptions. It's entertainment for your free time, and sometimes one just doesn't have enough free time.

But... except for Extra Credits, they're all sequential. While it doesn't really matter if whether or not I watch them in order or miss a few, it bugs me if I don't.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84545 on: September 03, 2015, 01:12:32 pm »

Look at it this way, for every movie you get behind now, that's one more thing you have to do over weekends/breaks before you reach that "bored" stage. You are essentially stockpiling entertainment for those boring moments!
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« Reply #84546 on: September 03, 2015, 01:34:46 pm »

The amount of entertainment options out there increases every single day.  Meanwhile, you have a fixed amount of free time every day and that will never change.  You're falling further and further behind in your backlog and you'll never be able to do anything about it.
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« Reply #84547 on: September 03, 2015, 01:36:07 pm »

The amount of entertainment options out there increases every single day.  Meanwhile, you have a fixed amount of free time every day and that will never change.  You're falling further and further behind in your backlog and you'll never be able to do anything about it.

If  you have a long term job, yes.
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« Reply #84548 on: September 03, 2015, 01:57:37 pm »

No, pretty much regardless. New material's being made faster than a person can consume it. You could spend every hour of every day, without food, sleep, or pause, reading, watching, listening, etc., and still fall behind. A single person's just not capable of keeping up with the collective output of seven billion and growing.

Frankly, is one of the best things the internet and what computers have brought about. A person physically can not run out of interesting things to peruse. That's pretty great, t'me.
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« Reply #84549 on: September 03, 2015, 02:00:28 pm »

There's still a disbalance between time and current interest. What if there are no updated topics, but I have 1 minute to kill and can't find that short a surrealist comedy youtube sketch?

First world life is hard, guys.
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« Reply #84550 on: September 03, 2015, 02:16:32 pm »

First world life is hard, guys.
If it's so hard just beat it son.
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« Reply #84551 on: September 03, 2015, 02:17:52 pm »

just migrate to the zeroth world if you don't like the first so much
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« Reply #84552 on: September 03, 2015, 02:28:05 pm »

Frankly, is one of the best things the internet and what computers have brought about. A person physically can not run out of interesting things to peruse. That's pretty great, t'me.
I'd argue that just because the total amount of media is increasing faster than one person can consume does not necessarily mean that the total amount of interesting media is, because what a person considers to be "interesting" can be arbitrarily limited.

For example if I was only interested in sensationalist white-focused speeches by KKK members who were formerly WWII Nazi members, I could probably consume media at a much faster rate than what is being produced, and would eventually run out of new media to peruse. Or I might be interested in, specifically, "shonen anime with fairly complex characters and plot, with a strictly defined power ruleset, that is expected to last longer than 8 episodes but is currently shorter than 200 episodes". In such a case I might find it very possible that I am indeed consuming media much faster than it is being created, making "running out" a totally viable concern.

Estimation gets even more complicated when we consider that the average person is not always "in the mood" for any particular piece of media; I might enjoy reading about new developments of space travel, but that doesn't mean I'd consider them interesting when I'm really in the mood for an anime. And then is even further complicated by the fact that many forms of media require some cost to access, be that in time or money, meaning you don't necessarily have access to everything.

Just because seven billion people can create more total content than I can physically consume, does not imply that they can create more content that I both want to consume and have access to at a cost low enough to make its consumption worthwhile.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84553 on: September 03, 2015, 02:32:09 pm »

Frankly, is one of the best things the internet and what computers have brought about. A person physically can not run out of interesting things to peruse. That's pretty great, t'me.
I'd argue that just because the total amount of media is increasing faster than one person can consume does not necessarily mean that the total amount of interesting media is, because what a person considers to be "interesting" can be arbitrarily limited.

For example if I was only interested in sensationalist white-focused speeches by KKK members who were formerly WWII Nazi members, I could probably consume media at a much faster rate than what is being produced, and would eventually run out of new media to peruse. Or I might be interested in, specifically, "shonen anime with fairly complex characters and plot, with a strictly defined power ruleset, that is expected to last longer than 8 episodes but is currently shorter than 200 episodes". In such a case I might find it very possible that I am indeed consuming media much faster than it is being created, making "running out" a totally viable concern.

Estimation gets even more complicated when we consider that the average person is not always "in the mood" for any particular piece of media; I might enjoy reading about new developments of space travel, but that doesn't mean I'd consider them interesting when I'm really in the mood for an anime. And then is even further complicated by the fact that many forms of media require some cost to access, be that in time or money, meaning you don't necessarily have access to everything.

Just because seven billion people can create more total content than I can physically consume, does not imply that they can create more content that I both want to consume and have access to at a cost low enough to make its consumption worthwhile.
Yeah, this just about covers what I would have said.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84554 on: September 03, 2015, 02:42:12 pm »

Don't blame reality for you being picky :V
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