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Farted by Losperman, November 01, 2005, 01:26:35 AM

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VCRClock

please note that because of how smf works, "manually delete" means that I had to go to "show all posts by user," and for every post (~300) that was the beginning of a thread (almost all of them):
- can't delete from "show all posts" page; have to go to actual thread
- can't delete from post itself; have to delete the thread
- button to do that is all the way at the bottom of page 1

which means that this time, I at least glossed over the first page of every thread I deleted

I might add that I wasn't required to do this months ago when I unceremoniously deleted the post/topic history of ribsclock, famously clockcrew's most prolific poster, and all of your favorite posts in his threads

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 30, 2020, 10:24:54 AM
If you were manually doing it anyway, you could've moved the second post and everything after it into its own thread.

you might imagine how it would have been annoying to do this 300 times and "make decisions" about whether doing it for a "VOTE 5 ON MY SPAM MOVIE" thread was worth it

actual casualties were mostly those threads, a bunch of literal spam threads with no replies, old grid threads from when we had a democracy and people coding, old "this movie/game just came out" (2 one line replies) shit. oh, and robclock telling it like it is upon the announcement of google fiber in 2012:



despite that nugget, there wasn't a lot of juicy stuff, with the exception of one dramapost I'm sure nobody remembers but I'm glad to have deleted on weenie roast's behalf, and a couple of threads made about the syrian electronic army compromising the site in 2012/3 or whenever that was. content that depended on flash or images was invariably broken links.

yeah it's shitty, but remember, that's a few hundred posts out of thousands of others that still exist from that time. but you're not reading those, either.

u dont like??? u compalin??? i delete u post, but i dont tell which one
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

VCRClock

if losperman comes back and asks me to delete his post history i guess i'll have to delete all of ccbt :shrug:
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

RobClock

My hatred of google has only intensified exponentially since then. It's hard being so damn right all the time.




Ps grey I didn't respond to your pm yet because I'm at work, I'll check it when I get home xoxo

GreyClock

Quote from: VCRClock on July 30, 2020, 11:36:51 AM
please note that because of how smf works, "manually delete" means that I had to go to "show all posts by user," and for every post (~300) that was the beginning of a thread (almost all of them):
- can't delete from "show all posts" page; have to go to actual thread
- can't delete from post itself; have to delete the thread
- button to do that is all the way at the bottom of page 1

which means that this time, I at least glossed over the first page of every thread I deleted

I might add that I wasn't required to do this months ago when I unceremoniously deleted the post/topic history of ribsclock, famously clockcrew's most prolific poster, and all of your favorite posts in his threads

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 30, 2020, 10:24:54 AM
If you were manually doing it anyway, you could've moved the second post and everything after it into its own thread.

you might imagine how it would have been annoying to do this 300 times and "make decisions" about whether doing it for a "VOTE 5 ON MY SPAM MOVIE" thread was worth it

actual casualties were mostly those threads, a bunch of literal spam threads with no replies, old grid threads from when we had a democracy and people coding, old "this movie/game just came out" (2 one line replies) shit. oh, and robclock telling it like it is upon the announcement of google fiber in 2012:



despite that nugget, there wasn't a lot of juicy stuff, with the exception of one dramapost I'm sure nobody remembers but I'm glad to have deleted on weenie roast's behalf, and a couple of threads made about the syrian electronic army compromising the site in 2012/3 or whenever that was. content that depended on flash or images was invariably broken links.

yeah it's shitty, but remember, that's a few hundred posts out of thousands of others that still exist from that time. but you're not reading those, either.

u dont like??? u compalin??? i delete u post, but i dont tell which one
Are these people running for office? The NSA has back-ups of all our posts anyway.

Slurpee

I'm with you on google being evil but we almost got google fiber in my area and I would have killed for there to have been a real competitor to comcast's regional monopoly

too bad "AT&T" owns all of the telephone poles, somehow

actually, this has nothing to do with anything, but it's kind of wild that the AT&T that's in this clip
Quote from: Slurpee on July 15, 2020, 12:02:13 PM
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is not the AT&T that we have now
that AT&T was the remnants of the old "Ma Bell" national monopoly after it was broken up from an anti-trust lawsuit in the 80's, and by the 90's its power had diminished so far that it was basically just a long distance carrier competing with Sprint and MCI (lol remember long distance carriers?)
this show, FTL Newsfeed, produced in the 90's, actually was sponsored by AT&T, but it was the piddly long distance carrier AT&T, and the idea that it'd still be around in 2145 was kind of a joke, like KFC in Demolition Man

but then one of the old subsidiaries, SBC (no relation), purchased the company and all of its assets in 2005 (thanks dubya) and rebranded itself with the purchased assets because the AT&T brand had more history and public recognition

same trick "Atari" pulled. the Atari we have now used to be Infogrames, a French holding company that produced the shitty Matrix sequels tie-in game and that's about it, but they changed their name because they want you to think they made Pitfall, and for some reason everybody forgets this happened

except unlike Infogrames, which basically ransacked its own brand identity for quick cheap cash-ins and has been floundering for years, SBC basically rebuilt the monster it took its name from

Slurpee

carrot top dial 1-800-call-att

Slurpee

mr. t dial 1-800-collect aurgh aurgh aurgh

Slurpee

carl winslow and uncle jessie dial 10-10-321 aroo! aroo! aroo!

Clocktopus

[u2]vfs0wz8nEPU[/u2]

VCRClock

SBC also stands for Southwest Bell Corp, so maybe rebuilding the monster and still calling themselves the Bell System was a bit on the nose
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

VCRClock

as for Infogrames, I never liked them because they weren't in the business of either info or grames and I felt it was a misnomer
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

RobClock

Infogrames was a decent publisher via their GT Interactive branch :shrug:

also Pitfall! was developed by someone at Activision you fool

PhantomCatClock

You already had to manually open 300 threads. Ask me to do it, next time.

PhantomCatClock

In fact I will compare the current database to the backup and manually add all the deleted posts that weren't from that user go on go on pm me the username if you aren't a frengus

PhantomCatClock

DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU ARE VCR. EVERYBODY WHO IS NOT VCR MAY READ THIS POST.


hey guys i know it looks intense here, like i'm arguing with my true pal, but please understand (1) i did not call him a frengus, the ball is in his court, (2) as a hobbyist conflict prevention specialist, i know when to deescalate and when to bluff. this is a bluff and i hold veece in the highest respect. he is a big strong man and he can take it. there is no discord here.



FROM THIS POINT ON, EVERYBODY MAY READ THIS POST

weenie

Slurpee

Quote from: RobClock on July 30, 2020, 05:35:05 PM
also Pitfall! was developed by someone at Activision you fool
this is a devastating blow to my ego
I must go pray

VCRClock

man i read this and

https://protonmail.com/blog/apple-app-store-antitrust/

i was gonna make a topic about it, but it was just me feeling real shitty about how if you don't like what [apple/google] are doing wrong you don't have a choice, and how apple et al are gonna be chinese censors' yes men forever because they can't exist otherwise, and then i started thinking about electronics manufacturing and I couldn't shut up

i like computers why does the tech industry have to fucking suck
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

PhantomCatClock

imagine if the FSF guy wrote that instead of the cringe he does write

PhantomCatClock

wasn't ios's big thing originally that it was os x with different graphics libraries



is ios really so insecure that we can't allow people to install whatever they want on the phone instead of having to go through the app store? i thought everything was sandboxed

VCRClock

pretending totalitarian governments don't exist for a minute, I don't see the value in apple's "walled garden"

nintendo is a classic walled gardener, but somehow I understand the history of "we want to approve every game that happens on our consoles so that we don't (usually) have shitty 3rd party games making our whole console look like a bad investment, because after all, prepackaged games are the only thing it does" or "we'll mostly leave guns and blood to the other guys so conservative parents will buy our shit"

i deleted a lot of sentences trying to say this, but... apple's original security advantage was that nobody gave enough of a shit to write a good virus for macOS, and then OS X came along. today's iPhone market share is clearly enough for the unscrupulous to be targeting iPhone users, but these days it's usually social engineering doing the heavy lifting anyway. I imagine the iOS walled garden is much more about keeping janky-looking apps from broke amateurs from making the iPhone look like less of a luxury product (a la nintendo), and has the added bonus of making it so broke amateurs can't race their widget-counting app against Apple's. and if you can make money renting the mall and promising not to let Spencers Gifts in it, hey, why not?

nintendo gets a :| from me, but apple gets the :( because their product isn't a toy, it's a computer/communications device it's important etc. etc. etc. goin to bed
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew