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Clbull

@ Clbull @lemmy.world

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  • Look at it this way, I paid £3,290 per year in tuition fees to attend university back when I went. The price of tuition has since nearly trebled to over £9k.

    If I paid £9k per year for online courses and was denied the student experience of actually attending a university campus (as many teenagers who went to uni during COVID had to), I'd be fucking livid!

  • What reason do I express for changing jobs during my interview?

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  • Again, depends on why. If there's documented evidence that you were fired for say... refusing to ignore safety laws.

  • What redditisms do you hope don't come to lemmy?

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  • Novelty/troll accounts. I've seen a lot of them pop up on Reddit over the years. The most infamous one I remember was one called Gradual_ (yes, the n-word) that would type out ordinary replies that would gradually switch to ebonics.

  • What reason do I express for changing jobs during my interview?

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  • Reasons that are fine to mention: Last job was temporary, I was made redundant.

    Reasons that aren't fine to mention: I quit due to overwhelming stress, I was fired for capability/gross misconduct reasons (unless it was an unfair dismissal which you successfully challenged in court and have the documentation to back it up.)

  • A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content

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  • Ever since Spez took over, Reddit have been incredibly heavy-handed when it comes to enforcing their rules against inciting or glorifying violence, even if such a comment is directed towards people that are objectively hated, like nazis, pedophiles and child murderers. To that I'm not even remotely surprised that you got banned.

    Even posting that Nazis deserve to be punched in the face can get you a permanent ban from Reddit... You know... the people who over 80 years ago were responsible for gassing 6 million Jews, 6 million Russian POWs and thousands of homosexuals and political dissidents.

  • Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

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  • Spez has gone so far beyond being a mere cuck. He's a goddamn cuckasauras.

  • What's your go-to long form Youtuber?

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  • Hoog, fern, Thinker and Moon do rather similar styles of documentary content.

    rSlash and Mainly Fact are the best "Reddit stories" channels that actually provide their own commentary rather than reading out Reddit posts verbatim with text-to-speech tools, or passing off blatantly fake AI slop hallucinated by ChatGPT as genuine.

    Ahoy mainly does documentaries about weapons and how they're depicted in video games, but he's also done some retro gaming stuff too.

    Rav is one of the few League of Legends content creators I actually like. He doesn't just lazily regurgitate stream VODs as video guides with clickbaity thumbnails like a lot of creators do. Yes, he uses text-to-speech commentary to narrate his games but his scripts are actually fucking hilarious.

  • What's your go-to long form Youtuber?

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  • Where do we really stand on supporting reddit migration? We want to get people off corporate social media right?

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  • Lemmy is undeniably smaller but it feels a lot more free, like I'm not walking on eggshells when posting here.

    On Reddit I have to mince my words on a lot of subs and be careful about using certain words, lest I want Automoderator to effectively shadowban me. Reddit is ruled by tyrannical power mod assholes who likely got slammed into lockers and beaten for their lunch money in high school, and are now using their role as an internet janitor to exert a repressed power fantasy. And don't get me started on the Tintin-looking supreme cuck who owns Reddit Inc either.

    Put it this way, Lemmy is a place where you can post about Luigi Mangione, or about the people involved in Elon Musk's DOGE operation without risking a ban.

  • What was your earliest experiences with the Internet like?

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  • Kinda limited, in the sense that I didn't have my own computer until about 2006 and just had a "family" PC before then, which my brother and dad used.

    One of my earliest memories from the late 90's (I would have been about 8 years old) was making a website on MaxPages, which was one of those build-your-own-website services. Mine listed video game cheats and passcodes. I didn't have much time to add to my page as my computer skills were limited and I didn't get much time on the computer, so I got bad reviews just for not having much content. Some asshole on one of their public chatrooms hacked my account and defaced my site a few weeks later. I think his name was Ray.

    For reasons I'd rather not go into, I had a more limited exposure to Flash games and didn't really get involved with Newgrounds until my late teens. Cartoon Network (at least the US/Canada site) used to have a great selection of Flash games though.

    By my teens I was playing RuneScape actively (2005 - 2007), then World of Warcraft (2007 - 2012.)

  • Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House

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  • Knowing Trump, I wouldn't be surprised if he went full Nayib Bukele and sent in troops to influence the vote.

    And as much as I like Bukele, he presided over unique circumstances where his country was effectively being ruled by MS-13 and his actions were warranted in the case of being elected leader of a country ruled by drug overlords. The USA is going through no such crisis.

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • Tildes (a closed garden Reddit alternative) frequently love to reminisce about the days of small forum communities. Maybe we need to bring them back.

  • Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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  • Nah, they'd learn Toki Pona, because it's an amazing interlanguage.

  • Slinky

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  • She expelled her dad from the party for not toning down his rhetoric.

  • Slinky

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  • Not Marine Le Pen, her far more racist dad.

  • Dell kills the XPS brand

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  • "Dude, you're getting a Dell Max Pro Premium" doesn't quite have the same ring to it....

  • Dell kills the XPS brand

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  • I still remember when XPS was the premiere gaming brand Dell released to compete with the likes of Alienware, only for them to buy Alienware and relegate XPS to a higher budget multimedia catalog.

    The names outstayed their welcome, but I cannot applaud them copying Apple's homework.

  • No RTO

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  • Boss makes a dollar

    I make a dime

    That's why I'm jerkin

    On company time.

  • What HATED or highly disliked movie you ACTUALLY really enjoyed?

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  • Wouldn't say really enjoyed, but Cats didn't deserve the hate it got. I saw it with my (then) girlfriend about five years ago when Frozen 2 was sold out and we had the choice of seeing this, Star Wars Episode IX, or Jumanji: The Next Level instead. We chose Cats.

    I'm gonna ignore the elephant in the room that's the atrocious CGI, and say that Tom Hooper didn't do a terrible job besides that. Most of the movie adaptations of each song were at least on-par with the musical. 'Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats', 'Bustopher Jones' and 'Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat' were the three that stood out as the movie's best songs.

    Only three songs were far worse than the musical, and they were big ones...

    The Old Gumbie Cat was awful. Rebel Wilson absolutely butchered Jennyanydots by portraying her as a fat lazy glutton, complete with awful voice, awful ad-lib jokes thrown around the song and a part where she literally starts munching on CGI humanoid cockroaches marching around the dinner table. I mean... as much as I hate James Corden, he at least played the role of Bustopher Jones (a literal aristocratic fat-cat) really well, and unlike Wilson, his ad-libs were actually funny. I'd keep him in the cast, 100%.

    The Rum Tum Tugger is another bad one. Jason Derulo's vocal performance was really weak, but I don't have much else to say about it.

    Magical Mr Mistoffelees was the worst though. Hooper legitimately took the most iconic song from Cats and massacred it by portraying the titular musician who ultimately saves Old Deuteronomy as a nervous wreck. This is one that the Rum Tum Tugger should have sang, like in the original West End/Broadway musical. I got what he was trying to do with this decision but it just didn't work.

    If I were in Tom Hooper's shoes, there are four things I'd change:

    1. Redo the CGI
    2. Replace Rebel Wilson with Lea Michele. She is probably one of the best actresses who could play Jennyanydots.
    3. Replace Jason Derulo with Brendon Urie. Imagine Panic! At The Disco's frontman singing the Rum Tum Tugger and Magical Mr Mistoffelees. 'Nuff said...
    4. Redo the three bad songs listed above to make them more like the musical.