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Honestly couldn't put which mod to which #, its long enough ago I can't even remember which ones he used to gripe at, I didn't care at the time.

Guessing wildly I'd put Varegg and Orangehound in there though.

Internetz are srs business after all.

uziq wrote:

and i still provided more life and entertainment to this forum than any varegg or roc18 mongoloid.

I don't know what you and I guess that mod in the thread had against Roc18. I vaguely remember him not being too bright but he was another regular who got banned by the mods until submission. Roc18 used to be Masterstyle and then *Master. The mods banned him twice for being edgy I guess and when he came back the third time he was different.

The higher your post count, karma and popularity went, the higher likelihood you would end up perm banned by a Scandinavian at some point. It was tall poppy syndrome put into action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_popp … ern_Europe

The loophole seems to have been closed when Tazz did the big update.

Final thoughts about this: Do you remember a few weeks ago you mentioned that it sucked that people invented hell to mess up the idea of life after death for people? The mod issue on this forum reminds me of that. The forums back during college years (08-12ish) were a blast. Very grateful to have had a chance to experience that. It sucks that some mods ruined it by banning all of the fun people until there was basically no one left.

Mods or not it's 2021. It's a miracle there's still people here.

internet forums are peak web 1.0 and still far better than anything web 2.0 has spat out.

social networks, media platforms, surveillance capitalism: you-as-the-product, big data, ads ads ads ... no thanks.

i want the internet to return to lame-ass gamer handles and avatars.

Early social networks were good. MySpace and Facebook when it was just for college students. Back then you could post underage drinking photos with your friends etc. That whole experiment went bad quick though. I remember in 2005 the police took us to the school auditorium and then went and brought up students MySpace and showed it to the rest of the school and warned the kids "EvErYoNe CaN sEe YoUr PoSt".

Okay good advice for a talking pig person but underage drinking photos aren't going to be a serious problem unless the police get on MySpace and start searching up kids themselves. Let the kids enjoy their youth somewhat.

Facebook today sucks in the fact that it is just an extension of your outward personality. I mean I have coworkers, family etc. on Facebook. So my feed is just pictures of cool things I have done or accomplishments rather than anything I actually find interesting or uniquely me. Reddit and here are more representative of who I am than my Facebook with my name and picture.

Facebook is doubly bad today since so much content is produced in order to generate views and clicks. FB isn't so much even pictures of family and friends as much as it is ads in the form of memes, videos, links, etc. that people make just for social media ads.

One good thing FB is for is dating and keeping people on the back burner. So I guess that is a win. Facebook dating has been more kind to me than Tinder ever was.

Now everyone thinks they can make a fortune as an influencer.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Now everyone thinks they can make a fortune as an influencer.

I would if I could. It's a fairly rational choice. Would you rather waitress at waffle house or get paid a $90,000 to talk to nerds while in an inflatable pool in your bedroom?

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2021-05-24 08:12:58)

i don't think cam girls are influencers ...

no different to the girls who get paid to go to giant nerd conventions in revealing outfits or whatever. nerds part with their cash and act goofy around girls. they don't even need to be hot. breasts and sci fi outfits are normally good enough. with twitch they don't even have to travel to comic cons or whatever.

Game achievements are a particularly lamentable development. Just encourages more policing of player accounts and additions of bundled spyware.

Stats games I don't miss, and are one of the reasons I stopped playing WoT, where also so much can be totally up to chance. People had mods installed that would let them judge their team and the enemy team based on color coded performances and make decisions and be toxic accordingly. Peak stats r lyfe.

Space Marine had achievements (that usually weren't cared about), but wasn't much in the stats department. People took screenshots of leaderboards just so they could have some record. A happy medium, I think.