Imagine how shocked I was to discover that our friend BraveSirZaphod casually revealed themselves to be a maniac who butchers teenage runaways in his basement. No, I don't care to explain it.
Edit: oh of course you're the same fucking dude. Get a real hobby.
Indeed, the reason they added the option was because of how many people were just putting their custom thumbnail as the middle frame of their video, which was jarring every time it happened.
As far as production value and drawing in the audience, I really don't care. I would much rather just not see obnoxious shit no matter who it benefits. But that's what happens when one website has an effective monopoly, people have to scratch out any advantage they can within the closed system because there just aren't enough viewers to go around. At this point, what viewers click on is basically irrelevant anyway because we've crossed over the feedback loop point: because it used to drive engagement on its own, a pog face thumbnail is necessary because not having one gets your channel sent to Algorithmic Deprioritization Purgatory even faster than criticizing youtube on social media does.
Care to explain what the fuck you're talking about?
Words of wisdom from the guy who thinks Ukraine defending itself from an invasion is "murder"
"Oh shit that was embarrassing, better pretend to be smugly aloof and then 'abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past'."
Literally every time. Do you people get a phrasebook or something?
Yeah I assume it's some kind of rate limiting, but Catbox has had this issue and others since before the pandemic. I don't think it's built on a strong foundation, which sucks because a donation-driven non-corporate image hosting service is an objective good, but the single most important thing about any service is being able to use it in the first place.
What, like there's some kind of ethical standard of consumerism that people are failing to live up to? Take the corporate dick out of your throat and take your L with dignity instead of grasping at straws to be Right and "win" an online argument. Why even try? You really think you're gonna be the guy who changes people's hearts and minds and has them say "yes, it's actually the changing whims of the market that drive corporations to produce waste, they definitely don't forcibly create their own market through manipulation and abuse"? Are you really trying to be the Rosa Parks of convincing people that there is ever even one case where a corporation isn't automatically to blame for the existence of their own fucking product? You think consumers should just "not buy", yet you don't say that companies should just ignore the market and release new products less frequently? "Oh well that's not realistic because they're just not gonna do that" you're going to say, willfully uncomprehending that you're reinforcing my point and pretending you just got a gotcha. Get real.
the fediverse has this reputation of being unfriendly which push (sic) newcomers away
What I was doing was being generous. I'm not going to shed any tears if people who spend all day on Facebook and Instagram think the fediverse is too hard to figure out and too unfriendly. Barriers to entry are a good thing when you have barbarians at the gate. That mostly means the drooling masses from corporate social media who ruin everything they touch, but it also means le epic wholesome keanu chungus morons from reddit and beard-stroking corporatist pontificators from slashdot and hacker news. The dweeb I was responding to is from the latter camp, and I really don't feel any obligation to help make the fediverse into a place where people like him can expect a positive reception for pinching off loafs like his opinion.
Ultimately, if you don't want to buy a new phone, don't.
Could you have made a more vacuous comment? Obviously people shouldn't buy every new toy that comes out, that doesn't change the fact that 90% of the blame—and 90% is a hard floor—belongs to the people who waste the Earth's resources pinching it off in the first place and then waste even more in protectionism and generally making sure there are as few viable alternatives as possible.
Yeah, an Italian F-35: the plane wouldn't be able to take off even if the pilot was there instead of being an hour and 40 minutes late at a café
Catbox refuses to load if you're on a VPN and is therefore worthless
What's more, DVD-RW drives for a desktop PC can be had for under $10 and USB-powered ones aren't much more. If anyone out there in TV land still relies on DVDs, you should get yourself a drive and rip your local library's DVDs to your computer. Handbrake is your friend and you can get a DVD down to a video stream with a much smaller file size than the disc image, but you can also still get blank DVDs at any major retailer and make your own copies with all the menus and special features. DVD still works, but it's 30-year-old technology and paying other people to watch the movies on that format is getting ridiculous, you owe it to yourself to keep DVD expenses to the drive and blank discs from here on out.
Disclaimer for the people who will whine about it: Yes, this copyright infringement. Don't snitch on yourself and you'll be fine. I personally recommend and fully endorse violation of copyright law in this way. I advocate that you commit this criminal activity in full knowledge that this makes me an accessory to crime, and I advocate that you commit this crime and others. I do so with the full approval of the MPA and RIAA, whom I unequivocally represent and speak for in absolutely all matters, and they assume all civil and criminal liability for everything I just said.