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I liked the first episode of Collision. I knew we were in for something special when an Elton John song opened up the show. The matches felt less about “get your high spots in” and more about letting the matches breathe.

Wardlow losing was really unexpected. Matthews/Andrade was amazing. Happy to see Miro back. Soho/Storm/Blue/Nightingale was fantastic, CMFTR/BC Gold was great, and Punk’s opening promo was a reminder that few are better on the mix than he is.

How this translates to AEW’s health overall is tough to say. Personally, with Punk’s promo, I’m hoping we get an AEW Civil War at some point. Those were some huge shots fired and the guy is so good at working literally everyone. It’s amazing he and Christian haven’t crossed paths

I imagine folks wouldn’t have a problem with this if the ads weren’t already so aggressive. Numerous ads before and during the content break it up too much. And if the content is extremely short form, it completely ruins the experience.

The number of ads and their length should be proportional to the length of the video. And any creator doing built-in ads should also not be able to inject a bunch of other ads. Burying content is an easy way to get avoided.

Print media had limits for advertisements, heck, in magazines they were premium real estate for the finest graphic designers to put together incredible imagery to get your attention. This level of care (not necessarily images or what have you) has yet to translate to the web.

All-timer has to go to Chrono Trigger. Absolutely incredible soundtrack from start to finish.

Undertale. The messages that game give you. Goddamn. That game also came to me at a point in my life where I needed it. The soundtrack saved me from contemplating a terrible decision. It saved my life. Wonderful game and an incredible experience.

Ooh wonderful, thanks for sharing!

“It’s merely coincidence. But starting Wednesday, our servers will be more robust and you can browse the site using our official app.” - Spez, while sniffing a decanter of human shit

Ironic in a way that AITA is still up

I’m hoping that a great deal of mods out there will continue to stay dark if nothing changes. And I expect nothing from Reddit’s admin team to change. Just let the site devalue for the rest of the month to bots posting the same garbage over and over.

Agreed. The Netflix one is out of my control as I don’t pay for it. So this discussion may be inevitable.

Will I stay at the quieter, cooler and more positive communities rather than be addicted to the endless scrollfests of cringe and toxicity? You bet I’m staying here :)

Besides, even if they step back, odds are good that they’d just make other, less pleasing changes anyway.

My family is paying nearly $30/month for Netflix now, on top of paying for cable TV, Max, and Amazon. I currently pay for Hulu and Disney+ and share it with the family, but I really hope password crackdowns are not the norm.

If they are, I’m gonna have a good talk with them about other options. Just throwing money away because “Well what if I want to watch something on that platform one night and I don’t have it” is precisely how these vampires want people to feel - the fear of lack of access.

Very likely, yes. This whole thing is being done without a lot of thought other than appealing to a specific demographic of voters.

I was able to get into BlueSky thanks to a random person giving me an invite. The userbase is about 100,000 but I’d say maybe 10-15% are actually participating in the community.

It has a very chaotic, early Twitter feel to it. There’s a perpetual reply chain called “The Hellthread”, which has replies numbering in the thousands daily where folks are chatting, sharing memes, selfies, what have you. The userbase seems to be mostly hard-leftists, shitposters, and the LGBT community (some of the most popular users embody all three of those).

Honestly? I like it. The users there are very chaotic in poking fun at the world around them, but are incredibly supportive and positive to each other. Of the alternatives to Twitter I’ve tried, BlueSky (jack’s shittiness aside) is the service that reminds me the most of why I liked Twitter before it went to hell with bots and misinformation campaigns.

The day I joined Beehaw is the day I deleted my 13 year old Reddit account. I’m already feeling the effects of spending less time scrolling and reading through comments, and more time actually talking to people.

It feels good :)

I’m with you. Once i saw someone on Mastodon bemoan that wearing masks is no longer a firm requirement for just about everywhere, I knew I’d stumbled into somehwere bad, where people found commonality in the pandemic mentally breaking them.

That is not me diminishing the impact of the pandemic at all. We’re going to feel the effects of that for a long, long time, in a myriad of ways! I’m just pointing out that it’s not only in terms of physical or economic health. Some folks are, mentally speaking, extremely different from who they used to be. And in some pockets of the internet, those folks are stuck in 2020.

I also like to be happy and be positive when necessary. Not everything we watch or play or consume is perfect and great and wonderful, but at the same time, it’s not steaming hot garbage either. Going back to this decentralized community at least allows us the chance to be heard in saying “Yeah, the new Pokemon games? They have both upsides and downsides to them, it’s not entirely hot trash!” and not be shunned into oblivion.

Yeah, after years of being in that swirling bowl of timewasting, contrarian opinionating, and all that bad faith nonsense, I agree. I actually agree. Man, this is like the Digimon fan forums back in the ProBoards days, haha!

Off the top of my head, no. Any tracks in particular I should listen to?

Good! These bills are ridiculous, dehumanizing distractions from the policy failures that lawmakers don’t want to fix. Everyone needs to use a bathroom, and they should be able to use one that either matches their gender, or uses one that allows any gender.

Any discussions to the contrary are rooted in bad-faith whataboutisms that aren’t real. Everyone needs to use bathrooms and should be allowed to use them. It’s a fantastic waste of time to revisit this.

This posts explains it best if you’re in a bathroom reading mood, but basically it’s an instance where the main rule is “be nice to each other”.

https://beehaw.org/post/107014

Another thing I appreciate here is the lack of ragebait. It’s more common in video sharing platforms (which Reddit keeps stumbling over itself trying to become) where you have people deliberately making awful food recipes or doing something completely nonsensical for the sole purpose of clicks and engagement.

Social media in its current state is focused on pissing people off. Twitter and Reddit making decisions to kneecap themselves for the sake of lofty ideals is the best thing that’s happened to the Internet in recent memory.