#forum section

[maddisandy]

look okay i haven't seen anyone say anything about it yet because it was such a small minute detail but this feels so chekov's gun to me. why would they bring up something this small if it might not be important in the future

[sergle]

hiii sergle do you have any thoughts on the 2nd try try guys thing? curious to hear your opinion!!

i'm so glad you asked bc i love giving my opinion..... first things first, this is REALLY FUCKING FUNNY, the way that Watcher fumbled the bag so badly when they made their announcement probably gave the tryguys a lot of data to work with. obviously everyone is comparing the two things, but in this instance, I actually think the streaming service thing makes more sense, and is done in a better way, with less guilt tripping and more like, Hype. so the most relevant thing, nothing about the youtube channel is going to change, no previously free content is going to be paywalled, new videos are going to keep airing. so somebody who missed the news or isn't inch rested isn't going to have a different experience at all. new shows are going to be on there, but also they're Already On There. like, a lot of episodes. stuff is going to be released earlier on there, uncensored videos, new people showing up (tryguys already has a lot of Talent), and live ticketed events that they normally charge for are gonna be included in the subscription. so like, this sounds justifiable as a thing that you'd Pay For. Watcher was going to put their whole back catalog behind a paywall, they only had a couple of shows plus One New Steven Food Show that was gonna go on their streaming thing, and they were going to stop posting to youtube except for the first episode from each new season of a thing. and the Watcher one was still priced a dollar higher. and they have a very small cast of talent. also, it was a Streaming Service, but it was still something you could only watch in a browser, not on a TV or anything. so it was just a website. the one that tryguys have is actually an app you can have on your tv. like on a roku or whatever. so I think that's another point in its favor. you can't launch a "streaming service" that you can't even watch on your tv.

overall, I think it tracks, they've been a business for a lot longer and they've started a bunch of new shows to go on there, the announcement video wasn't Whiny and Guilt Trippy, it seems like they put more thought into this. also I got a free trial to poke around, which, I do like that that's an option. timing could have been better, some people are being pussies about it in a major way, which is to be expected, and I am basically ambivalent to it, I don't plan on paying, but it seems like it's had a lot more thought put into it, and it could actually be sustainable as a platform running alongside their youtube channel. done correctly, it could be their Mythical Society. if it flops, they aren't alienating their youtube audience.

[rowanthestrange]

If I listen to tumblr and make a Doctor Who Bananas Bubble community, will I live to regret it?

[susansontag]

sometimes I see debates online over random things, or even things that are supposedly within my sphere of interest (feminism, etc) and I think ‘I just do not care about this at all’. and I actually think that’s a good thing in an online space where random inconsequential things are vying for your attention at all times. loads of debates online are surface level and pointless. you need to recognise that, choose not to engage, and just continue having discussions about things that are actually consequential and have meaning for you. there’s also never a point in ‘winning’ an online argument that is about something that doesn’t matter. finding people who are actually saying stimulating things that you can sink your teeth into (in the online context) is difficult but possible... making the admittedly huge effort to stop wasting my own time

[godcreatedtheheavensandtheearth]

i like browsing wikipedia and craigslist and geocities archives and terry davis archives and john maus stuff and nekojiru stuff and well ill think of more things later........

[gruloky]

How big is the overlap between earthbound and psychonauts fans is that still a beautiful large overlap like it used to be many years ago

[bella-clao]

Guys does anyone know what to do for the new PF topic. I’m actually struggling so hard wtf are we supposed to do for statistics.

I spent like 2 hours trying to find any amount of statistics on how it could maybe impact those who work for social media companies but I couldn’t find anything.

Resolution: The United States federal government should repeal section 230(or something like that)

[softichill]

Reading up on slenderman is interesting and all, but I'm not a fan of how this particular article on the wiki phrases everything as if it was.... real? Like look at this particular bit

The slenderman video ARGs aren't "codenamed video accounts", they're projects real people made for a fictional creature. You can talk with the creators and actors easily. Some have even done panels talking about behind-the-scenes stuff and their creative process.

I know this is a non-issue but it bothers me

[sasukeless]

how is catradora still a controversial ship on this age

[yousaytomato]

It's so magical when you're looking for info online and you find a defunct, but still accessible, forum thread from 10+ years ago

and you get to read through the niche industry-specific in-jokes and opinions of internet strangers

and 100 replies later you've seen your query answered, that answer rebutted, and then answered again.

And you feel a nostalgia for these long-gone strangers, the internet of old, and a life you'll never live.

[warlordfelwinter]

g'raha tia the man that you are.....

[argothiathedreamer]

comment sections were a mistake.

was reading a garfield comic from 1990 about Jon and a school buddy reminiscing about their school days and they mention frog dissection and a commenter below the comic goes on a rant about how frog dissection is wrong... which... yeah, but you do get that this comic was likely written in 1989 and published in 1990 about two guys who are coded to be in their 30s so said story they're telling would've taken place no less than 15 years prior setting the whole frog dissection as happening in the mid-70s right?

like what do you expect to happen here?

Is Jim Davis himself supposed to reply immediately and directly like 'Oh! I didn't know that! Here let me go back and completely rewrite/draw this one comic from 34 years ago because it's out of sync with modern understandings of morality'?

[cuntstable]

”sorry i let my beautiful babygirl named leftist infighting is play around in your notes btw” has been making me laugh for a full day. engraved in my brain now

[fideidefenswhore]

been thinking about the AB Derangement Syndrome a lot lately and i realized i actually summed my thoughts up earlier in My Sacred DMs and felt like sharing, so:

i can’t really tell if it’s an anger over her predominance in the subject or just that that’s the filter you have to see through when you’re seeking out (free) content? ive been thinking about this a lot lately and there is like this butthurt thing i think about that the two major tudor resource collations are run by AB admirers (AB Files & On the Tudor Trail……) so it’s like a resentment about having to see it through that prism i suppose, that’s really obvious in their comment sections too where there’s always perennial lurkers that are like actually AB wasn’t that great. she was mean. poor princess mary :’( & i sincerely do not care, you cannot both expect/ask someone to do the work for you and also conform to your own opinions/slants or this unrealistic expectation of ‘absence of bias’ (which is really actually reflection of your own bias as ‘neutral’) at a certain point you are asking for AI history simulator content it's beyond entitlement, it is a belief you’re the main character and everyone must cater to your whims. like it is really a thing that make you go hmmmm when mary i/coa stans are like tehe i prefer alison weir > eric ives. or frankly any other academic historian bcus, why? she affirms your confirmation biases better? i don't even really get it with the former particularly because while weir pities mary i, she very obviously does not respect her. she has repeatedly said she was unsuitable to ruling and had minimal political intelligence. so like why would they gravitate towards her...? and so it seems like it's mainly bcus alison weir depicts anne as the villain of her story with zero nuance or examination of the credibility of the source material in question, and that this better reflects their 'emotional truth'.

[j-esbian]

frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

[marcusagrippa]

the girlsss