It’s happening.

I’ve done a handful of those online “tests” where it’s a 320kbps mp3 and flac or wav clips.

I could almost always tell the difference. The prob was that I would think the mp3 was the higher quality one. In a friends group years ago, another friend of mine had similar results.

A lot of those “tests” also are strategically designed such that the bitrate of the 320mp3 isn’t saturated enough to run into bitrate aliasing. A lot of people, myself included, sometimes lean on flac because we have heard it make a difference, and it’s so shitty that we just go to the higher quality when we want archival quality versions.

Also, if you start introducing eq or other processing for various reasons, when you start magnifying sections of lossy, or even lossless audio, you can start hearing missing data or compression artifacts.

You know, looking back, the signs I had adhd are obvious

I need to watch scary movie again. Haven’t seen that since … Probably some time in the 00s. It’s probably super problematic though.

Yeah they’re gonna need to save all the money they can because everyone I know is cancelling their subs to basically every service, from Amazon to Spotify to Crunchyroll to Netflix.

These fucking companies think they can do whatever they want and we’ll just roll over and take it and continue to give them cash every month.

Anti fascism

Er, yes 3. That’s what I meant.

you, fellating es3

As one should.

I started on 1.3, and eventually version-up’d my way to css and played probably thousands of hours around 2007ish with an ex good friend of mine. Then tf2 came out and everybody moved over to that.

But then valve decided hats and new items and weapons and REAL MONEY needed to get involved. Oh and also cs would tell release go, but by that time, cs was visibly full of hackers. I know because I went like a year with my friend playing with hacks with each other until we got bored of it, so I know the mindset and mental process. I still remember the first time loading up in dust 1 and seeing my friend see me through a wall in… Oh jeez I don’t even remember the name of the area anymore. Like upper tunnel where everybody clashes? Anyway, seeing each other through that was like looking into a mirror for the first time… But yeah, tf2. Tf2 got boring when it became a sloggy grind that never had any stable balance and it was pretty obvious valve was engineering rage as a way to keep people engaged. You know, with the kill-cams and stuff. It’s undeniable.

But then the years passed and csgo apparently got better. I had long since moved on and decided I didn’t like go from the start.

And then, cs2 comes out, and I’m gonna be honest, I REALLY like the visual style of cs2. But I remember playing in csgo after valve copied league and really focused matchmaking, which to me was a huge misstep, because cs is(was) not that type of game. And I didn’t care for csgo one bit. They took all the worst parts of 1.6 and css and put them together, and I was just done. I needed innovation.

And so, now, I just played cs2 for about a dozen hours for the first time this past week… And… Boy do I have thoughts.

I’m not going to go into them. There’s too many.

But just one main one is that I’m really sad that cs has stagnated to the point of now relying on gambling and either deathmatch or matchmaking. There are a very small handful of custom servers like climbing and surf, but MOST of that stuff is absolutely dead. Even matchmaking is dead as shit. It’s all skinvesting (dude. Fuck paid skins and that ENTIRE industry across ALL games).

I looked for a community server that was mostly default settings and just had a million maps where a handful of players (6-20) could just fart around in, but that type of actual community just doesn’t exist anymore. The game got too fragmented by valve trying to oversimplify and remove the server browser, but inadvertently made it super messy. And the fucking ui is godawful. It’s flashy and sometimes even responsive, the console and game both have some extremely good improvements. But… It’s just attracted the most sweaty tryhard seriouspants people.

It’s my home game, where I came from, my roots. But Jesus. They turned it into a Borg.

The the greatest intellectual property theft and laundering scheme in human history

Took me a second, but not more than three. I snorted.

What the fuck

There’s probably worse ways to get information of the world.

Lmaoooo

Have you SEEN their UI? You know how over the past ten years we’ve been like “aaaaanny day now they’ll fix it so it isn’t awful…” And they didn’t. And instead, we just sorta… got used to it?

Pffft… like they listen to anything anybody else says. Community relations dept. Ha!

Oh yeah, for sure, by no means was what I said in dissent in any way to what you said. More of an aside or tidbit.

The fact that they had an… established public agreement is just even more messed up when companies arbitrarily decide “nope, we’re gonna fuck you in the ass suddenly now”. Sometimes, companies even have explicit public agreements to or not do stuff. So when this type of thing happens against previous understanding for said company’s self interest and they just happen to have more money than you do to back up what may even be a court case in your favor, but it would otherwise bankrupt you, it really paints a certain picture.

It’s the Microslop way.

Generally in copyright law, it’s applied when a lay person can or does misconstrue the new product for the old one.

Like if you look at something and think it’s the other one, that is copyright infringing.

And after they lose 5% of their addicted users, all they have to do is continue to grow 5%. Oh no!

Lol nothing could go wrong

This is the part, young-but-becoming-wise friends, where the company doesn’t give a shit about you and starts to prey on children, who, for a while, become very lucrative.

The chances of discord pushing ahead anyway, even with this very public outcry, is still 50/50.

I’m not privy to the, now, decades-long evolution of competitive StarCraft. Why is Brood War more interesting to watch?