"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[FILTH Tourist]

Josh's rant about Microsoft and Minecraft in the mast MATI was really good, but he forgot another shady thing Microsoft did. When they bought Mojang they made it so you needed to link your Mojang Account to your Microsoft one and if you didn't by the deadline then you lose access to your copy of MC and need to rebuy it.

 

[Retink Retunk]

Either it's a publicity stunt, something like a car crash or they ended up murdered. I do remember there was some shit flying around years ago about the family being in and out of court due to custody battles and some abuse allegations between Tay and her father. Wouldn't be surprised if that was all a stunt as well though. Here's a few articles about it all

DailyDot article | Archive
Sportskeeda article | Archive
Nextshark article | Archive
Dailymail article | Archive
Papermag article | Archive

From what I've heard they were about to win a lawsuit against the father and ended up suiciding.

Yeah, that's exactly what I said- Especially since the ONLY evidence of these two "deaths" is an Instagram post (lol), coming from the sketchyest family on the internet, who have a history of conspiring to put their (then) 10yo kid in the middle of a social media shitstorm.

If ANYONE is gonna fake the death of their own teenage daughter, for social media clout, THIS is the family who'd do it...

What makes it seem like a stunt is the part where they're just like "Oh yea, her bro is dead too bee-tee-dubs. So sad, many such cases."

 

[Johnny Salami]

I remember the New Orleans mayor leaving before the Hurricane hit knowing it would be bad but still getting reelected. They really are still part of the plantation.

The year after Katrina 100% of the murders in Houston TX were from “Evacuees” from New Orleans.

cool it with the anti-semetic remarks

Andy Ngo had a civil lawsuit against some antifa goons. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1689090799039021056

https://archive.ph/QtSeg

He lost the case because he tried in Oregon (lol) and the jury was terrified of getting visit from antifa which the defendant's lawyers claims he was part of and "would remember their faces".

https://archive.ph/xPbhg

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These were the defendants btw, truly the most innocent looking souls:
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Tim Pool called the jurors cowards. Funny stuff

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

I remember the New Orleans mayor leaving before the Hurricane hit

everyone left. they evacuated the entire city

 

[DavidS877]

On the topic of the decline and lost technology. I'm not so sure. I keep seeing videos claiming that CRT TVs/monitors are lost tech and those that remain are highly prized collectors items. I think it's less lost tech, and more it's not profitable for electronics companies to make them any more

There are companies that still repair CRTs and I think even make new ones. Maybe just one company left. But they're not repairing your Sony for gaming but the displays in aerospace and military applications. Replacing some of those displays with modern tech might be technically simple but the engineering and certification/approval costs makes it cheaper to repair.

 

[Bummer]

One of my favorite things out of Katrina was this clip.so poor and so black.

 

[The President of Nintendo]

On the topic of the decline and lost technology. I'm not so sure. I keep seeing videos claiming that CRT TVs/monitors are lost tech and those that remain are highly prized collectors items. I think it's less lost tech, and more it's not profitable for electronics companies to make them any more.

They aren't really collectors items, but certain higher end consumer models can fetch a fair price. The biggest issue is a lot of them are starting to have image issues like bad convergence or geometry issues and can be really hard to fix if you don't know what you are doing. There is a subset of the retro gaming community that is absolutely fanatical about CRTs and will insist that if you aren't playing on a CRT you aren't a "true gamer" but it's the same type of autistic faggotry that has wormed its way into the community as a whole. People take their children's electronic video toys seriously I guess. Another interesting tidbit, a lot of retro gaming hardware and media is getting to the age where they are simply deteriorating due to the slow march of time. If you have old cartridges with save batteries there is a good chance they are dead and your old SNES probably has capacitors that have gone bad and need replaced. It's a shame, really, but inevitable. Of course now that technology has progressed its easier than ever to holy fuck I am autistic I'm just going to stop here lol.

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Why is Null collaborating with Harvey Weinstein?

Just look at that smug face!

Maybe @Useful_Mistake can add to the lore but in short:
There is a woman in Georgia named Pamela Swain who sincerely believes that the forum is owned and used exclusively by a cabal of celebrities and politicians (most notably: Harvey Weinstein, Tony Robins, Michael Fassbender and Donald Trump jr.) for the purpose of silencing or sexually exploiting her.
One time to prove this theory she forged court documents trying to extort user information from Null. Null verified the documents with the court and a rather funny conversation between him and Pamela ensued.

 

[Judge Dredd]

There are companies that still repair CRTs and I think even make new omes. Maybe just one company left. But they're not repairing your Sony for gaming but the displays in aerospace and military applications. Replacing some of those displays with modern tech might be technically simple but the engineering and certification/approval costs makes it cheaper to repair.

I didn't know that. But the part I've bolded kind of goes to the heart of the matter. There's a small market for retro electronics like restoring old arcade machines or rebuilding old computers. So much so that there are still new third party controllers for N64 that use modern sticks and high end switches. But I don't understand why, in an age where you can get new parts for a 1931 Ford truck and 3D print dragon dildos on demand, there isn't a market for new Yamaha sound chips or replacement CRTs.

 

[William Tyndale]

Maybe @Useful_Mistake can add to the lore but in short:
There is a woman in Georgia named Pamela Swain who sincerely believes that the forum is owned and used exclusively by a cabal of celebrities and politicians (most notably: Harvey Weinstein, Tony Robins, Michael Fassbender and Donald Trump jr.) for the purpose of silencing or sexually exploiting her.
One time to prove this theory she forged court documents trying to extort user information from Null. Null verified the documents with the court and a rather funny conversation between him and Pamela ensued.

I remember that conversation. It was very early in my journey to finding out about this weird guy named josh who held similar beliefs about society as me. He was ranting about pedos in maybe the 2nd MATI I ever listened to and my wife said “Are you listening to a guy who just talks about pedophilia?” Me: “It’s complicated.”

 

[Wodanaz]

"What has happened is that, Microsoft channeling the Antichrist into specific demonic sigils written on to silicon, is able to learn from other computers and repositories that they have kept up, the millions of repositories on github, is able to learn code really convincingly..."

totally not aliens btw

 

[DavidS877]

I didn't know that. But the part I've bolded kind of goes to the heart of the matter. There's a small market for retro electronics like restoring old arcade machines or rebuilding old computers. So much so that there are still new third party controllers for N64 that use modern sticks and high end switches. But I don't understand why, in an age where you can get new parts for a 1931 Ford truck and 3D print dragon dildos on demand, there isn't a market for new Yamaha sound chips or replacement CRTs.

I don't know the exact prices but the aerospace displays probably start at $10,000US I suspect there just aren't enough hard-core nerds to buy enough units to get that price down.

Take an 8k high-refresh OLED with a good scaler and you probably could make it pretty authentic looking.

Same for chips, doing a run of OPL would probably cost a fortune. Synthesising it in a FPGA and a carrier board would probably get you to 99.9%

 

[Terrifik]

crosspost from musk thread 2

yes, sorry you have to do line nth time again.

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Writer Strike Thread Happy 100 days!

 

[Temperance]

Does anyone remember the JS userscript based multichat platform independent thing someone suggested?

Might be Dissenter, but I'm not 100% positive.
https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/gab-dissenter-extension/
/threads/whats-gabs-end-goal-with-cloning-brave.57907/post-4920784

I remember what you're talking about... but it's stuck on the tip of my tongue. Think it was discussed when you were developing Sneedchat, but I can't find that discussion.

Spoiler: Probably a red herring

For some reason, a weeb term comes to mind (and I'm not even a weeb, I promise...): "tsukkomis"
Apparently some Asian webnovel & comic websites have a "tsukkomi" feature where users can leave comments/annotations directly on the website content, and these tsukkomis can be seen by other users. I think there were some experimental browser extensions based on this idea, but obviously meant to work on ALL websites. Can't remember though.

edit: On reading your post again, you might be talking about something else entirely, lol. If you meant something to help make a unified livestream chat across multiple platforms, then this won't help you. My bad!

 

[Berrakh]

I thought of this in another thread but it sure is crazy how guys like Matt Walsh will argue that women are drawn to money and status (framed as a bad thing, unlike the things men are selfishly drawn to)… and then suggest lowering the age of consent.

Who has more money and status? A guy like Matt Walsh or a 15 year old boy?

 

[Xertsene]

I saw some people post the Morgoth video, but I didn't see anyone post this. I think Josh mentioned a Ted Talk and I think it could be this video.

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Writer Strike Thread Happy 100 days!

is it just me or does absolutely nobody give a shit about the strike this time around? last time there was howling, but now it seems I hear more about UPS strikes than this shit

 

[Pee Cola]

a lot of retro gaming hardware and media is getting to the age where they are simply deteriorating due to the slow march of time. If you have old cartridges with save batteries there is a good chance they are dead and your old SNES probably has capacitors that have gone bad and need replaced.

If you're lucky. With some old computers, you get leaky batteries AND leaky caps, taking out large chunks of the circuit board with it.

I don't understand why, in an age where you can get new parts for a 1931 Ford truck and 3D print dragon dildos on demand, there isn't a market for new Yamaha sound chips or replacement CRTs.

There is, but the market is very small. Not a big deal for someone who can make a few dozen replacement parts from off-the-shelf components e.g. custom chips for old computers made from CPLDs or small FPGAs, 3D printed battery covers etc. However it's a much bigger deal if it involves building new tooling from scratch and finding a factory to make it.

Spoiler: autism that would make thepresidentofnintendo blush

One obvious example is cassette deck mechanisms. Cassettes were everywhere in the '80s and '90s, but as they started falling out of favour in the early part of this century, the number of cassette deck manufacturers shrank until only one was left... and this one made cheap low-end mechanisms that are robust, but the sound quality isn't great and there are very few things that can be done to improve its performance.

Fast forward (no pun intended) to the early '20s, and cassettes are making a minor comeback, even the best new decks sound pretty average and current year cassette enjoyers are moaning about how shit cassettes sound and how decent quality players from the '70s-'90s now cost a fortune.

Unless someone like Sony or Matsushita are convinced they can sell at least 10 million new premium priced cassette decks, they're not going to bother dusting off their old blueprints and spending millions on filling a Chinese factory with brand new tooling.

Then there are the other parts of a cassette deck that people took for granted in the '80s but are now unobtainium, such as Dolby NR - the tech still exists and Dolby Labs still holds the patents on it, but they refuse to license it and there aren't any Dolby NR chips available. And you thought setting up new tooling for a mechanical device was expensive... try setting up a new IC fab...

 

[Homer Simpson]

is it just me or does absolutely nobody give a shit about the strike this time around? last time there was howling, but now it seems I hear more about UPS strikes than this shit

It's cause the writers strike is pointless. Most "AI" scripts are gabage and they already make decent wages. They just choose to live in LA where a ddcent wage doesn't cut it. 1 script for a 90 minute show can net them over $70k. The actors joining them was the worst decission. I dunno which studio, probably disney, stated that they can use your image/likeness in perpetuity with "AI" and face swap tech.

This is an "AI" horror script lol.

 

[BiggestKai]

This is an "AI" horror script lol.

At times it feels like scripts like these were regenerated over and over again until something fairly amusing comes up.

Plus maybe I'm being optimisitic but my assumption with AI art is that they'd always use AI to come up with a working prototype and then the details and tweaking would still be left to professionals, it would just automate away a lot of time consuming processes and get you closer to a the desired output instead of just magically farting out your hopes and dreams which is what a lot of people seem to assume, and a lot of halfassed users of AI seem to do now hoping no one will notice.