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PhantomCatClock

in four posts you will become more powerful than grey could possibly imagine

VCRClock

Quote from: RobClock on July 10, 2022, 01:23:11 PMI just think they're neat

absolutely would go if i lived anywhere near it

i found out there was a brick museum near where i grew up. we went, and it was a quiet little place staffed by volunteer senior citizens, some of whom had some connection to the brick industry. did the museum have bricks? an emphatic yes

hamilton wood type is another cool museum i've visited -- it's a museum that grew out of what used to be one of the biggest/last major manufacturers of wood type for printers. (and again, some people who worked for hamilton way back when became museum volunteers later!) it's in a pretty small town in wisconsin, and quiet when i visited on a random summer day, but they also (being kind of a big deal to letterpress printing enthusiasts) have these big annual events, and they host workshops and stuff, unlike the brick museum which (as far as i am aware) did not offer hands-on brickmaking education
<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

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 10, 2022, 01:25:12 PMin four posts you will become more powerful than grey could possibly imagine

One more statue knocked off a pedestal for me to ascend

PhantomCatClock

in four posts you will become more powerful than vegeta could possibly imagine

RobClock

You're just 28 hours away from stealing my distant third place for 'Most Time Online'

PhantomCatClock

I click unread recent posts more than I should and each two second check adds like fifteen minutes

RobClock

I've been handicapping myself by never using that page for well over a decade? I should be lapping you people

PhantomCatClock

well it just like


every time you load a page at all, you're "online" for a couple of minutes, then idle or whatever for a couple more, I don't remember the actual numbers

I don't even know where to check this aside from the database

PhantomCatClock

also i know it is a holy day for your people, slurpee, so happy that

VCRClock

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 11, 2022, 09:28:59 PMalso i know it is a holy day for your people, slurpee, so happy that

yes indeed, it's Free Slurpee Day, everyone. times are tight, so we've adjusted the rules a little: it's a game of skill. dispense exactly 7.11 ounces of Slurpee and it's free; otherwise you pay the full retail price of $7.11
<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

Slurpee

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 11, 2022, 09:28:59 PMalso i know it is a holy day for your people, slurpee, so happy that
thank you

and a happy feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia to you all as well

Slurpee

so spotify bought heardle and it deleted all my stats
and there's a button to recover your stats but apparently it doesn't work without accepting spotify's cookie policy, and spotify's cookie policy doesn't have a "reject" button, they just have a policy page that lists all these circuitous ways you can try to stop them depending on your browser and what country you're in

so I'm just never going to play heardle again? and spotify just made my shitlist forever for taking this away from me.
not because I even give a shit about cookies or being tracked really but I just don't like this bullshit where companies try to force compliance by making it as difficult and confusing as possible not to, and, if I could get everybody involved with making decisions like that together in a room, and nuke the room, annihilating all of them in nuclear hellfire, I wouldn't even hesitate to send my own soul to eternal damnation just to rid the planet of these scum, and in fact would make a point to press the nuke button with my naked ass or balls (depending on what kind of button it was)

Slurpee

in lighter -rdle news, crosswordle just let me use the word "effed" and that made me smile

Slurpee

you know what it is? it's the insidiousness of it
you can't have anything anymore without the corporate overlords encroaching on it

it's just this dumb little browser game where you try to identify a song, and one day you show up and there's a bunch of creeps in suits standing around going "oh, hi there, nothing to worry about, the fun distraction you killed a minute of your mornings with is just now under the purview of CompuGlobalUltraMega Corp, just close this little box right here to agree to our terms and you can go back to the game" and it's just like what are you talking about? why is this happening? go away. nobody wants you here. nobody asked for you to be here you fucking creeps

Slurpee

probably the best variation I've seen is squardle. it takes a bit to twig what the system is exactly, but I would characterize it as quietly brilliant

Slurpee

I like snagglepuss but the pink panther could probably beat his ass in most things

VCRClock

#117996
spotify is a moderate evil i kind of can't believe i pay for, but ironically part of my rationale for buying a year's subscription when i joined was that I couldn't afford to pay for albums when they dropped -- so i gifted myself the subscription to save myself from having to buy a few new albums (CD or digital) per year

of course now i take it for granted and use it to stream some albums i already own, and others that i really ought to have bought by now. i do Not feel good about this because there's so much to hate about the streaming model [1], but for now it seems like we're stuck with it -- the masses have been primed to listen to music from their smartphone instead of a separate, dedicated device[2], and Big Tech axed microSD slots on smartphones, even though that's the easiest thing in the world, so they could sell subscriptions to cloud/streaming services. why carry your whole music library with you, when you could just DOWNLOAD IT AGAIN (hope ure on wifi) any time you want to hear it, and let Spotify decide how much disk space it takes up on your phone?

ok, ok, but none of that was the point. we're talking about agree to this, agree to that, your cookies, your data, whatever. when i was a kid i'm sure i asked something like "why do they have to put 'this coffee is hot!' on the mcdonald's coffee cup?" and got told about a lawsuit. and i would have been like "oh, ok, everybody knows it's hot, but they have to print that so people don't try to sue them." maybe on the whole, the world is more complicated than it was pre-internet, and now companies feel compelled (and entitled) to shut down every avenue of legal threat they can possibly anticipate (cf. my residential lease)... but also, through the same "just sign it ok" agreements, shut down every avenue of using their product to either have fun, or accomplish something, in a way the company could be monetizing if they came up with it first. god forbid somebody else bought Heardle, or built it into something, and people started listening to music on a service that wasn't Spotify.

feel like I'm pissing into the ocean talking about this stuff. the invisible hand of the free market will never sort it out without a catastrophe happening first. vcrclock recommended best practice is to locally store your own copy of any media you might want to enjoy later

[1] e.g. wanna read this book? you can only read it if we read it to you. at our discretion we may later decide that this book does not exist, for reasons that will likely be related to money or IP law.

[2] until spotify launched their own brand new hardware interface for your car lmao aaaAAA. but also: since Big Tech giants aren't pushing handheld mp3 players anymore, available products kinda suck these days! many are also kind of stuck in a clunky UI timewarp where you've gotta menu-dive instead of type-to-search. (and even then... why would you go without being able to play songs you don't own?) rockbox is a noble FOSS effort but it's definitely an Alternative Lifestyle now
<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

Slurpee

you can't see it but I'm nodding my head. it is a nod of THOUGHTFULNESS and SOLIDARITY.

RobClock

Quote from: Slurpee on July 12, 2022, 03:21:04 PMI like snagglepuss but the pink panther could probably beat his ass in most things

Snagglepuss is a gentleman, Pink panther is a trickster. In a fair fight, I say the lion wins.

RobClock

The fact that books come out with limited exclusivity on audible is fucking infuriating I'm not paying a subscription for books and I am not committing to listen to a mush mouth author reading to me for twelve hours just put the fucking words on paper