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Pictures of your kid should not be publicly displayed on the internet until they're 30 and have accomplished something worthy of widespread attention, until then you're just showing off your ability to come in a vagina and not have a retard pop out, which doesn't impress anybody but your parents. Do you ever think about how your kids are unable to give informed consent about this public photo documentation of their lives and, upon turning 18, may seriously resent you for it? I know that if my parents posted "just had his first poo!" with a picture of 4-year-old me standing next to an excrement-filled toilet, and it was out in the digital ether linked to my legal name forever, I'd probably be furious. Not saying you'd do something that crude, but you ARE putting them into a giant facial recognition database that might land them jail time when they get into graffiti at age 19 and are picked up by speed cameras linked to a global law enforcement AI.

I can understand why some people use Facebook to "keep up with old friends that I don't see anymore" and totally get it. Personally, I found that the interactions I had on there weren't what I considered meaningful relationship maintenance, and being perfectly okay with (the universal truths of?) transience and impermanence, I am content to let people go from my lives who I don't interact with regularly anymore. Perhaps that's an obsolete mindset I'm carrying over from a time before Facebook, and I'm actually being a callous dickhead by not keeping up with someone I shared crayons with in elementary school. @delete, looking back I can see how your subtle irony totally went over my head. I completely recognize that messageboards are basically a prior incarnation of what would later become Twitter & Facebook (hence my mentioning it as the last line in my original post), but there's definitely something very different about an IDM messageboard filled with music nerds & art heads, in that I feel quite confident that what I post here will not be read by my grandma.

holy shit that's on point

For this I'll always love Matt Besser/Crossballs for coining the term "meatspace" (as in, the opposite of cyberspace).

Oh, well I'm sure they'll take the top 15 sellers, up the resolution, add some anti-aliasing, then give you the privilege of purchasing it a second time.

Ah well that's good that they're all backwards compatible then. I sit corrected.

They come across as elitist pricks in the same sense that a gourmet chef calling Hot Pockets "putrid garbage" comes across that way. The thing that must really suck is if you bought a whole bunch of digital games on Xbox 360 Arcade or PS3's equivalent, and they're just not available on the next-generation counterparts. You either have to keep that console forever and hope if it breaks you can still get it repaired, or just be like "okay I guess I'm never playing those games again" when you upgrade. I wonder if there's people who've ripped the files from the consoles and we'll be able to emulate those titles in a few years... It'd be a tragedy if Rez HD is lost forever with the 360s obsolescence. Point being, if you bought a game on Steam in 2008 you can still play it in 2016 if you want, and it'll actually be improved in numerous ways.

As someone who switched exclusively to PC gaming about 6 years ago I'm totally down for that future. Fucking stupid when stuff is still console exclusive these days when a version with configurable graphical fidelity, much better controls, user mods, and future proofing/backwards compatibility by default could come out on PC.

Silent Hills exists again? I thought it was cancelled and Konami was suffering a slow death. *reads article* Yeah...

Yo, that exact same shit happens to me. A lot of people I know just always have a TV on in the background, fall asleep to it, etc. The moment I walk in the room I'm just like "hey guys how's it go--omg glowing box with loud noises and flashing colors" and just stare at it, drooling, like an infant. That's not to say I don't watch TV shows or anything, because I do, I just don't passively leave mediocre programming on in the background to drown out whatever I don't want to think about. I'm not forcing anyone to use a phone... talking to me is voluntary and always has been. I never said that I was mad at them either, just that if they're thinking "hey I'd like to talk to autopilot, but not enough to talk to him via anything other than this webpage I already have open" then it must not be anything worthy of either of our time. Most of the Facebook addicts are browsing it on their phone as well, so if spending 2 seconds to move their fingers and click the SMS app button that everyone has is such a bother they'd rather not talk to me instead, than that's someone I probably shouldn't have in my life. It's not like I'm forcing anyone to go out and buy phones to get in touch with me, so your argument's pretty ridiculous.

Very similar to reactions I got. Eventually I decided that if they wouldn't go through the (truly) minimal effort to call or text me, or send me a message on Skype, then surely they were not worth my time associating with. I definitely felt the ostracization, but then eventually became grateful for what was basically a new level of quality control in my acquaintances. The question is, is seeing what movie recently seen or lunch recently had of someone you really haven't truly had a meaningful interaction with for years actually a friendship or anything resembling a relationship we need to maintain? This wasn't even a thing 10 years ago. You used to just be like "oh hey whatever happened to that guy we used to know? he moved to another country and probably has a whole new group of friends now" and things were somehow just fine that way.

I'm off these sites now. Haven't had a Facebook account for about 5 years, and haven't had a Twitter account for about 6 months. Never joined Instagram in the first place. It feels like I was standing in a room full of televisions that were turned up very loud and tuned to static, and I suddenly turned them all off. I find my attention span has increased greatly, as has my ability to focus. When I see something cool like a beautiful sunset, I can just enjoy it in the moment and not have to whip out my phone and document it so I can get blue thumbs & gold stars later. My friends think I'm crazy. I think they're losing part of their humanity (and very obviously have ADHD/attention span problems) with their faces perpetually buried in smartphones browsing feeds of inane bullshit. They flippantly dismiss my decision to quit the sites as though I'm one of those hipsters we all laughed at in 2006 who would say "I don't own a television". I can totally empathize with how & why they would view me that way, but I feel like I don't flaunt it to show off a holier-than-thou attitude, it only ever comes up in conversation (IRL) when people ask to add me on Facebook and I respond that I don't have an account. One of my aunts insisted that I secretly had an account and started yelling at me when I wouldn't give her my account name (she thought I just wanted to hide it from her so she couldn't see my youthful party shenanigans). Even if I did have a secret account for my peers only, it's really obnoxious and presumptuous of her to feel entitled to a public feed of my private affairs. Yet, this is the kind of mentality constant exposure to these sites cultivates. These websites are designed to be addicting in the same way that casinos or video games are. They create feedback loops of nonstop novelty and personal validation (likes & favorites, no dislikes or hates) that keep you coming back to the sites whenever you feel the slightest hint of boredom or ennui that would've traditionally propelled you to go accomplish something of value. They also unhealthily rewire your brain to not only be way more narcissistic, but also think about what you're going to say/do on the sites when not actively browsing them. At least in my case... I speak from personal experience from when I was heavily using Twitter. I couldn't do any IRL activity without thinking of what I was going to tweet about it later. I was never in the moment because I was always in my head thinking about what I could say to get more gold stars. I noticed that it steered my inner monologue toward curt, snarky, pessimistic observations, as that's the main form of discourse on Twitter, and the style that gets you the most retweets and favorites. Perception is everything, and my world was shittier because I was viewing it through that lens. While it was strange and a little ostracizing at first to be off social media, with each passing month I feel more and more grateful for my decision, and not just because of the mental/physical/emotional comfort that washed over me soon after removing them from my life. Seeing how a poorly worded tweet can end someone's career at the hands of the professionally offended PC leftist bloggers & rabid twitter shaming mob, or how everyone who uses Facebook is willingly and/or ignorantly part of a massive surveillance database that contains full facial recognition scans, I kind of feel like I dodged a bullet for opting out of those systems before they got out of control. I felt like I saw that future coming just from how Facebook was being used in 2008 with people wanting to share every moment of their lives out of vanity with no thought given to how the voluntary eradication of privacy would effect society going forward. Being a regular member of the dance music production & DJ community, I was also told I was insane by my peers for not having a Twitter & FB page, as I would be unable to promote myself as an artist. I was told that nobody would book me if I didn't have thousands of Facebook likes. Yet, not being on those sites has not stopped labels from signing & releasing my work, not stopped people from coming to my shows, and not stopped promoters all over the continent from booking me. In fact, spending most hours of the day in a DAW working on music instead of posting Nikes & dog pictures on Instagram, or 140 character inconsequential snarky observations on Twitter, has given me an enormous edge over those I'm competing with for stage time in the DJ scene. I'm not trying to big myself up so much as give encouragement to any artists thinking of quitting these atrocious, time-wasting, cesspool websites by letting them know that the quality of your work is truly all that matters, not tweeting an unfunny joke about Bruce Jenner or activist-hashtagging Baltimore riots. I'm curious to hear what all of you think. Have any of you quit these sites or not joined them in the first place? Are any of you so inexorably addicted to these sites that it's unfathomable to not have them be a regular part of your lives? Have any of you reconciled the nature of the beasts and manage to use them in healthy moderation while not succumbing to permanently digitally documenting every waking moment & thought you have? Do any of you see this cultural shift in the direction of nonstop public shaming and eradication of privacy as disturbing or even dangerous? Let's have a public conversation about this subject on this easily-Google-able messageboard that's essentially the precursor to those sites and basically does the exact same shit with a far more archaic interface.

Just watched... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RqpItxd8M 100 stars out of 5

I think Cosmopolis is brilliant. Seen it 4 times now. 1 time on mushrooms (recommended).

Agree. While I certainly enjoyed Ex Machina, I felt that all the ideas presented in it could have been in a much better film. It was definitely pop sci-fi for general audiences, with a great visual style. I'll definitely give it the respect it deserves for being pop sci-fi full of intelligent ideas & concepts, though, not just a future-set action movie like nu-Star Trek or Oblivion or some shit like that (which a case could be made for not really being sci-fi at all by conservative definitions).

Guy, I really think you're missing the point of this thread, which is to discuss how awesome southeastern PA & southern NJ Italian food is.

This is a "wiz wit" in case you were curious:

If you're in Philly make sure to get a "wiz wit".

PA & NJ hoagies are the best damn subs on the planet.

Mix of all original dnb tunes I produced, bookended by two IDM jams: https://soundcloud.com/feral-sound-podcast/002-entanglement

Took about 6 hours. I don't bother uncovering as much of the map as possible (because I did that numerous times in my youth), this time I just wanted to experience the highlights again and grab all the best items which I suprisingly still have committed to memory. Basically as soon as I get to the inverted castle I run to the library and kill Schmoos until I get the crissaegrim, and then I can just plow through the whole inverted castle in under an hour and kill Dracula in 10 seconds. It's totally game-breaking and awesome.

Just finished a nostalgia run through Castlevania: SOTN after seeing all the Iga videos. Still one of the best games ever. Still rocking Borderlands 2 PC. 378 hours deep according to Steam. Lv 72 OP 8 Siren Lv 47 Commando Lv 52 Mechromancer Lv 15 Gunzerker Haven't really gotten into Psycho & Assassin classes. I estimate if I get all 6 classes up to 72 OP 8 with optimal legendary gear builds I'll probably be looking at about 1500 hours (that's what some of the people I play with online have logged). Then I can finally move on to "The Pre-Sequel".

I think she intentionally killed him with an OD in an attempt to thwart the ongoing development of SkyNet.

I'm just angry that they're spreading misinformation that 128 is an ideal dance music tempo when everyone knows it's 175.

I'm hoping it ends up being a subversively marketed slasher flick.