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I thoroughly enjoyed. If you have even a passing interest in the Harry Potter universe you’ll like it. Exploring the world, Hogwarts, and the gameplay/combat/flying is very fun. I enjoyed the story too, but it wasn’t anything revolutionary.

Veneers are extremely uncommon in the US. That’s what they’ve saying. You said it seemed like everyone here had them.

I mean, it was caught on video by someone that was there, saw him starting to do it, and recorded it. They don’t need a confession.

That looks like it might be a metal bristle brush. It might actually be painful/uncomfortable for them. I’d recommend trying a softer hair brush if you haven’t already.

A better title might be “Karen goes to Germany”.

Except that Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma, so there’s no use in doing any of that here.

Why do you think it’s bits? I haven’t noticed any bot activity.

Not a terrible list. But there are much better sources out there for audio reviews and opinions.

Crinacle.com
Head-fi.org
Soundguys.com
Soundstagehifi.com
Stereophile.com
Whathifi.com

I’m sure there’s a few others.

The alternate ending is better. Though it still doesn’t fix what they did to Barney in the last episode. Multiple seasons worth of development, just thrown out. Almost pissed me off more than the original ending.

That doesn’t make any sense. He’s lost 10’s of billions on Twitter. Nor do banks operate in that way This is just who he is.

I’m gone for good. I’ve been looking for good alternatives for a long while. I really don’t agree with what reddit has done, but I’m glad they did it. Because it created the desire for so many to seek change. Reddit has been a cesspool for a long while.

I completely understand the sentiment while simultaneously completely disagreeing. The idea of the fediverse, and seeing it play out explicitly with the various multiple posts and other things is kind of sexy to me in a technological and aspirational sense. I dig how janky this whole thing can sometimes be. It’s part of the appeal for me. As it matures and becomes more streamlined over time all of that will surely change and get cleaner and easier to use. Which will be awesome to see. But I greatly appreciate what it is now for the time that it will be. Being in close to the ground floor of this is really fun. I loved Usenet back in the day. I remember and loved reddit at the very very beginning. I love and appreciate this shit for what it is while it still is this. This has legs. And people will be nostalgic for this time later on. Love it now too while enjoying watching it grow.

A better way of phrasing it would be that reddit is saying the protest isn’t having much of an effect. Which is clearly not the case. Or that the protest is working in the sense that it’s dramatically disrupting reddit. The stated goals of getting them to change their policies seems unlikely to come to fruition though.

The most mindboggling thing about all of this to me is if Reddit had just improved their own app to be up to par with the multitude of 3rd party apps out there, none of this would have been an issue. They could’ve migrated everyone over to the official app easily with just a better experience. If a single person can wrangle an app together that outperforms the official one in a month, Reddit has no excuses. Personally, I’m delighted all of this has happened, as it’s allowed for multiple viable alternatives to be populated. Which I’ve been wanting for a very very long time.

I’m done with reddit entirely. I started over 16 years ago. It was getting steadily worse year over year ever since the Digg migration. It has long since been relentlessly toxic and negative. I’ve been wanting a viable alternative for a long while. I’m very grateful for what spez has done as it’s created multiple viable alternatives and I’m fucking loving it. Between here and Tildes, it’s very close to what super old school reddit was like, and I’ve missed that a lot. I have no reason to go back. And with the changes both to the apps and now the user population, it’ll only be worse still. Regardless, I couldn’t be happier about this. This is far better. And the internet is better for it.

This was about 20 years ago. It was a midwinter night in Massachusetts and it was cold as heck out. I was working as a cook and was closing up with my fiancee. We had just finished cleaning and were taking a moment to rest before leaving. We were sitting on the carpeted floor outside the kitchen in the large dining room. The chefs office was to our left with the heavy door open and their was a tiled hallway also to the left out of sight that led to the dining room. One of the parts of our closing down was to walk the building, check the bathrooms, and make sure everyone had left for the night before locking the doors and shutting everything down. I had just finished doing that before we sat down. As we talked we started hearing the clack clack of footsteps on the tile in the hallway. The kind of sound dress shoes make. And they were coming closer. They sounded like they had come out of the bathroom and were walking towards the dining room. Which was confusing, because I’d just checked. They kept coming. So we called out “Hello?”. Twice.
But there was no answer, and the footsteps continued. We perked up waiting for whoever it was to enter the carpeted dining room so we could see who it was. We heard the footsteps continue on closer until they were just outside the dining room. At which point they would have been visible, but on carpet. So there were no longer any footsteps, but there was also nobody there. That hallway entrance was about 20 feet away. We were startled and confused. We just sat there not sure what had just happened. A number of seconds passed (or about the time it would have taken someone walking at that pace to cross those 20 feet) and then suddenly there was a large gust of wind and the heavy door to the chefs office that was directly to our left slammed shut. We weren’t sitting any longer. We got up went out the back door, shutting the last lights off as we left and locked up and got the hell out of there. I don’t really believe in ghosts. Sometimes I’ve thought that what people call ghosts are just different realities or moments in time converging on each other. I don’t know what that was. But it was something. And it scared the shit out of us.

I’m not really interested in what’s going on at reddit anymore. Frankly, I hope a lot of them stay. Reddit has been awful and crazy toxic for a very long time. I’m grateful that spez has fucked up so bad that it’s finally motivated enough people to create and seek out viable alternatives. I’ve been looking for a very long time and am so damn glad enough other people are also that the Fediverse is now viable and Tildes has enough users. This is a great fucking week in the history of the Internet.