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  • What Youtubers did you drop, And what caused you to do so?

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  • I never saw Weissman's supposed glory days, but I did hear people talk about him and checked him out and found him insufferable.

    I also dropped Babish, I just got tired of the slop content and the overall drop in quality.

    I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.

  • What Youtubers did you drop, And what caused you to do so?

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  • I used to watch a lot of fishing/outdoors channels.

    during covid all but one of the outdoor channels I watched either did straight up covid denial, or went full mask off on their right wing extremism in general and with crazy conspiracy theories about covid, so I dropped them.

    I also dropped bigclive around the same time, because he thought people getting sick from vaping was, iirc, some kind of government hoax or something, while also engaging in the whole "covids just the cold, stop being silly" type of denialism, Which really sucked cause I used to love his content.. but I havent watched since.

  • Do you think I should get a PC or a PS5 for my birthday?

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  • PC. the wealth of cheap games that are available on PC alone makes it the more viable option.. Especially if you hit steam on sale, or use isthereanydeal.com

    especially if you aim for 1080p instead of 4k for gaming. 4k gaming comes with such a ridiculous and absurb price premium that you could probably build 2-3 1080p gaming rigs for the same price... or buy shittons of games.

  • What was the best generation of consoles in your opinion?

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  • Best generation of consoles?

    Im gonna have to say the 4th and 5th generations, together.

    4th gen had Super Nintendo, and it is my opinion that gaming would not be what it is today if the SNES did not appear. It was such a revolutionary leap forward, Not so much technically, but just in how games were made and played. You had RPGs that could be played for a hundred hours, with beautiful lush graphics. You had stuff that seem pulled straight from the future, like F-Zero and Star Fox, and you just had a lot of brilliant games in between.

    And 5th gen had the Playstation, Which basically took everything that the SNES did, and iterated it to the next level. The only place where the PSX failed being a straight SNES upgrade was on load times, due to the abandoning of carts for CDs.

    You have to give an honorable mention, of course, to the NES for revitalizing the home games industry after Atari's collapse, where maybe none of what we have today would exist as we know it if it wasnt for the NES.

    I think anything from the PS3 later started getting too obsessed with computing power and graphics, to the significant detriment of game quality, story, and playability. of course there were still games from there after, but they felt more rare than at any time before it.

  • If you could be reborn forever, would you want to?

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  • Hell no.

    I dont even want to continue with this miserable life, why the fuck would I want to keep doing it over and over again.

  • What historical concert do you wish you could attend?

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  • Live Aid, Wembly London, 1985.

    Mostly just to watch Queen.

  • What sucks about having no internet and what is great about it?

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  • Yep. And you are more likely to retain that knowledge getting it that way, vs getting your answer from a quick internet search.

    There have been studies that have shown that getting answers quickly from search engines/internet has caused a marked reduction in our ability to remember things, because our brain knows its right there in our pocket/on our computer to find again so it doesnt even bother to try to retain it.

    But if you make a concerted effort of going to the library, browsing, reading 20 other really interesting things along the way, your chances of retaining and recalling it skyrocket

  • Any advice y’all got for someone like me going to college?

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  • I read a while ago someone who said Frats are for people who think they'll make social connections for future business.

    While people who actually make connections for future business is joining business related clubs and extracuriculars.

  • Why did your last relationship fail?

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  • Oh dear, to avoid revealing anything identifiable, and not write a novel, I'll keep this shortish.. but to answer the question..

    My last relationship, she pursued me aggressively, then once she got me to agree to relationship with her, ended up screwing around with 3 other people behind my back not long after. slipped up her story with one of them, which made all 3 aware and her house of cards fell, and she had the audacity to come to me expecting there theres and head pats telling her it was all right from me, while telling me about all 3 and everything she did with them.. I gave her a nice tirade about what I thought about her audacity, and her, and told her to never even think my name again, much less contact me in any fashion.

    The relationship before that, another woman that kinda aggressively pursued me, got me to spend a lot of money for her, would emotionally manipulate me, and eventually started to physically hit me. When I finally stood up for myself in the smallest way, she lost her absolute shit at me, which resulted in me finally saying enough is enough and ending the relationship.

    The "relationship" before that, that I'm just mentioning for a laugh over how ridiculous it was.. another woman that approached me and asked me if I wanted to try dating her, I'd casually known her for a short while as a friend of a friend kind of thing, so I said sure..30 minutes later she was in another room with her dress hiked up bouncing on someone elses lap on a couch. Obviously this wasnt a real relationship, so its not like I had any hangups from this one, but its certainly a what the fuck moment.

    So yeah, I've never really had what you'd call a healthy relationship, and honestly at this point in my life I genuinely thinking I'm giving up on women in general, as far as relationships go.

  • Lindsey Graham Was Allegedly This Trans Sex Worker’s Client. Now, She’s Speaking Out

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  • As much as I'd love to believe this, I'm gonna need concrete proof before I hitch my horse.

  • TIL that Los Angeles is expanding a program paying people not to drive. If you agree to keep you car parked at home for 5 weeks and explore other ways to get around, you can earn up to $600

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  • but then how will we kick people when their down?!

  • TIL that Los Angeles is expanding a program paying people not to drive. If you agree to keep you car parked at home for 5 weeks and explore other ways to get around, you can earn up to $600

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  • tl:dr for those that are interested.

    Car Companies bought public transit (buses and street cars mostly), and scrapped it, to force more sales of their cars as people could no longer get around easily without public transit.

  • Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it

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  • always the EU.

    They've certainly improved things for people globally with their rulings.

  • Shifting left, Democrats see universal healthcare, taxing the rich as 'essential', Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

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  • Don't worry, theres still plenty of time for the democratic party/DNC to fuck everything up in favor of the republicans-from-40-years-ago democrats.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • AI is changing everything. Its not a lie, its absolute truth.

    The problem is the changes are fuckawful terrible for everyone and everything.

  • Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.

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  • None of that is far left you numpty.

    The only thing remotely leftist in what you said is capitalism bad. Which we have ample evidence for how and why unregulated/deregulated capitalism is bad for anyone that doesnt own a personal yacht

  • Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it

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  • There has got to be a lawsuit against this shit.

    There was a massive lawsuit for simply including IE in the install as default, and this is 100 times worse than that.

  • Have you ever used a water treatment system in your home?

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  • Packaging the best fucking cookies in sewing kit containers has to be the smartest business decision ever.

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  • I'd give anything to be a sugar baby to someone who'd regularly supply me with Royal Dansk.

  • Packaging the best fucking cookies in sewing kit containers has to be the smartest business decision ever.

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  • You gotta have Royal Dansk.

    They are the good ones.

    The knockoff ones are always shitty.