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Helkar · Feb 21, 2025

...I believe it is now time to unban that one newfriend who got shot for rather rudely demanding to make separate threads for each corpo so that his beautiful walled garden didn't have any peasants posting about other corpos or indies.
He quite literally got everything he asked for.
RIP to the king, your sacrifice will not be forgotten(sorry i can't remember your username tho).

Hff201 · Feb 21, 2025

Helkar said:
...I believe it is now time to unban that one newfriend who got shot for rather rudely demanding to make separate threads for each corpo so that his beautiful walled garden didn't have any peasants posting about other corpos or indies.
He quite literally got everything he asked for.
RIP to the king, your sacrifice will not be forgotten(sorry i can't remember your username tho).

Unban him, let him obnoxiously run a victory lap, then ban him again.

Superduper Samurai · Feb 21, 2025

Helkar said:
...I believe it is now time to unban that one newfriend who got shot for rather rudely demanding to make separate threads for each corpo so that his beautiful walled garden didn't have any peasants posting about other corpos or indies.
He quite literally got everything he asked for.
RIP to the king, your sacrifice will not be forgotten(sorry i can't remember your username tho).

Wasnt that guy heckled more because he wanted easier PL info and didnt want to do his reps

NeneLOVE · Feb 21, 2025

Here he is, jesus this post makes me cringe.

https://thevirtualasylum.com/threads/should-we-have-a-new-general-thread-for-indie-low-ccv-vtubers.209/post-475235

Brosnan Pierce Brosnan · Feb 21, 2025

NeneLOVE said:
Here he is, jesus this post makes me cringe.

https://thevirtualasylum.com/threads/should-we-have-a-new-general-thread-for-indie-low-ccv-vtubers.209/post-475235

Twas a story so cool it changed the site forever

Brosnan Pierce Brosnan · Feb 21, 2025

I have declared war on the old deaf retarded Cali metalhead at work by blasting The Stooges, Nirvanas Bleach and Mudhoney. This is how you protect yourself men. Old ladies can't handle the big muff

Migoed Helmet · Feb 21, 2025

PSA for E-book readers:

Amazon is removing the ability to directly download your Kindle books to your computer on the 26th. With everything forced to stay on the cloud, you won't be able to strip your books of DRM using Calibre anymore, and it may come with even worse shit down the line since you won't have control over your library anymore. If you have a Kindle or Amazon e-books you may want to take some time and get your stuff backed up and DRM free before they lock you out.

agility_ · Feb 21, 2025

The fascinating bit of this story is that technology has actually began making it easier to just fucking find a printed paper book and share that thing around, than say, send a file over the internet. As with everything DRM this won't stop the people they want to stop, and will make it for everyone else as nettlesome and vexatious as it can get.

I Wanna Die · Feb 22, 2025

God's Strongest Dragoon said:
I'm going to be real with you guys. Every time I see a retarded person, it just makes me laugh. I don't mean it in a negative view of retards, it's just something about them that brings me great joy and that's even before they open their mouths and say something retarded like "bwekfast". Not to mention these intellectually challenged individuals are often far more happy than any of us will ever be. None of us will ever again feel as much joy as a retard going to Baskin Robbins. It is no wonder why some believed in medieval times that the mentally handicapped were closer to God.

Dudes rock

Brosnan Pierce Brosnan · Feb 22, 2025

Am I freebasing crack cocaine over here

Hff201 · Feb 22, 2025

Migoed Helmet said:
PSA for E-book readers:

Amazon is removing the ability to directly download your Kindle books to your computer on the 26th. With everything forced to stay on the cloud, you won't be able to strip your books of DRM using Calibre anymore, and it may come with even worse shit down the line since you won't have control over your library anymore. If you have a Kindle or Amazon e-books you may want to take some time and get your stuff backed up and DRM free before they lock you out.

We Live In A Society where your fucking books will stop working if a corporation says so. It should terrify people how easily everyone's been boiling-frog'd into this situation, but nobody will learn anything because muh shelf space muh convenience.

Topo Chico · Feb 22, 2025

Migoed Helmet said:
PSA for E-book readers:

Amazon is removing the ability to directly download your Kindle books to your computer on the 26th. With everything forced to stay on the cloud, you won't be able to strip your books of DRM using Calibre anymore, and it may come with even worse shit down the line since you won't have control over your library anymore. If you have a Kindle or Amazon e-books you may want to take some time and get your stuff backed up and DRM free before they lock you out.

annas archive, irc chats, fuckin zlib's mangled lich corpse, and I'm sure more. Amazon is GAY. Direct DL w/ backup or bust.

Hff201 said:
We Live In A Society where your fucking books will stop working if a corporation says so. It should terrify people how easily everyone's been boiling-frog'd into this situation, but nobody will learn anything because muh shelf space muh convenience.

Agree. Hell even words are edited to erase their meaning. Thrifting old dictionaries/encyclopedias is surprisingly valuable. Buying physical copies of your favorite novels is also A1.

NeneLOVE · Feb 22, 2025

I am glad I was that kid who asked for science books, novels and encyclopedias for his birthday, having an actual paper book collection is gonna end up being a status symbol lol. How fucking sad and terrible, it's like we're back in the middle ages and only the rich can afford to buy and keep books.

Migoed Helmet · Feb 22, 2025

Hff201 said:
We Live In A Society where your fucking books will stop working if a corporation says so. It should terrify people how easily everyone's been boiling-frog'd into this situation, but nobody will learn anything because muh shelf space muh convenience.

Can't wait until everything we see is moderated by AI that avoids wrong-think, everything we do is monitored and logged by surveillance programs, and everything we make is inflated into nothing so some asshole somewhere can watch his number go up. Give it a few generations and our glorious overlords will have finally reclaimed the serf-nobility dynamic, took them long enough!

:depressedtako:

Hff201 · Feb 22, 2025

Topo Chico said:
Agree. Hell even words are edited to erase their meaning.

Retroactive edits are something that's been bothering me for a while, because it doesn't even get discussed in the places that usually care about this kind of thing.

I've heard of a handful of occasions over the last few years where albums on streaming services have retroactively had songs removed as a response to legal issues with samples/the artist disavowing old lyrics/featured guest artists getting cancelled etc., and the implications of that is incredibly concerning. Things being changed on rereleases is nothing new, but at least with physical media or even digital downloads it wouldn't matter much since your original copy would still be how you left it - but that's not how most people are experiencing media now.

The idea of a static piece of art that you will forever be able to appreciate for what it is won't be around for much longer. Allowing activist groups to use social pressure on digital platforms into removing "offensive" elements from their users' ebook/film/TV/music libraries is a huge vulnerability that censors can use as a loophole to get around even the US's First Amendment and shift culture in their favour. It's fucking dire.

I Wanna Die · Feb 22, 2025

Hff201 said:
We Live In A Society where your fucking books will stop working if a corporation says so. It should terrify people how easily everyone's been boiling-frog'd into this situation, but nobody will learn anything because muh shelf space muh convenience.

E-books are easy as shit to pirate though. I can't even read and I still haved a ton of pirated E-books.

NeneLOVE · Feb 22, 2025

Death of the author is an evil book burner philosophy, up there with "all art is political". All tools in the bookburner's arsenal of banning everything that you don't like.

Migoed Helmet · Feb 22, 2025

Hff201 said:
Retroactive edits are something that's been bothering me for a while, because it doesn't even get discussed in the places that usually care about this kind of thing.

I've heard of a handful of occasions over the last few years where albums on streaming services have retroactively had songs removed as a response to legal issues with samples/the artist disavowing old lyrics/featured guest artists getting cancelled etc., and the implications of that is incredibly concerning. Things being changed on rereleases is nothing new, but at least with physical media or even digital downloads it wouldn't matter much since your original copy would still be how you left it - but that's not how most people are experiencing media now.

The idea of a static piece of art that you will forever be able to appreciate for what it is won't be around for much longer. Allowing activist groups to use social pressure on digital platforms into removing "offensive" elements from their users' ebook/film/TV/music libraries is a huge vulnerability that censors can use as a loophole to get around even the US's First Amendment and shift culture in their favour. It's fucking dire.

Another fun example; Amazon changed all of the original art on the Wheel of Time e-book covers to be advertisements for their shit Netflix show. It's such predictable evil corporate nonsense, you could probably set your clock to it if you wanted to.

I Wanna Die said:
E-books are easy as shit to pirate though. I can't even read and I still haved a ton of pirated E-books.

For now. Give it a bit, they're working on that one too. :kroniibitchclap:

Helkar · Feb 22, 2025

Are there any good yarrrr digital libraries out there one could stock up in?
I've more or less quit reading a few years ago due to personal events greatly souring the taste of the hobby, but trying to get back into it now.

BlueSharkTV · Feb 22, 2025

Helkar said:
Are there any good yarrrr digital libraries out there one could stock up in?
I've more or less quit reading a few years ago due to personal events greatly souring the taste of the hobby, but trying to get back into it now.

check /T/ every so often they have book related threads, like this one.

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