Let's Jam this Bog with Roasts

[Slime]

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[Rman]

i agree with kyle magocs i guess, one time on youtube i made one funny comment on a video and it got so many likes i couldnt help but feel a little uncomfortable

[Air Rick]

the steam has made my camera wet

[Rabid Dinosaur]

Originally Posted by Lohr

The film was eventually retitled as Holiday in Spain and re-released, sans odors. However, as The Daily Telegraph described it, "the film acquired a baffling, almost surreal quality, since there was no reason why, for example, a loaf of bread should be lifted from the oven and thrust into the camera for what seemed to be an unconscionably long time."

hahahaha

[Trooper]

Originally Posted by Eric Ryan

the steam has made my camera wet

--BEST BILLBOARD THEY'D EVER SEEN

[Tuna Hematoma]

I'M BRIAN FELLOWS

[Shaun]

one of the fans in my computer died.

so now my computer overheats and shuts itself off if I have more than two programs open.

fuck fuck fuckity fuck

[Tuna Hematoma]

get a regular desk fan and blow it at your computer... unless you gave laptop, then just throw it out.

[Slime]

Originally Posted by Shaun

one of the fans in my computer died.

so now my computer overheats and shuts itself off if I have more than two programs open.

fuck fuck fuckity fuck

a fan costs like $2 on newegg and is the easiest thing to replace on desktop. i dont know about laptops

just take the current fan out look at what it says the size is and order a replacement

[Shaun]

yeah, thanks. I took the side panel off for now. I had no idea how the motherboard was getting! Almost hot enough to burn.

[Slime]

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[Shaun]

oh damn, really? thanks

[Slime]

did you get a replacement fan?

its just unplugging the wire coming from your current fan and plugging in the new fan. and then screwing the fan into your case

edit: also check that your cpu fan isnt clogged with dust while the case is open. if you want to check temps you can use this:
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
"The majority of today's desktop processors should not exceed temperatures of 95C and most will run between 70-90C."


i take my pc outside and dust it w/ dust-off like every 3 months and so much dust comes out. even going 1 year here without cleaning would be a ridiculous amount of dust

[Slime]

i would have never seen Moon if it wasnt for 3dmm.com. source code was good too. i wonder if his next movie will be good. but now hes directing a world of warcraft movie for 2015...

[Samurai Clinton]

Doesn't this explain why I advocate use of lead-acid batteries simply because lithium-ion ones are overpriced?

[Roadkill Dave]

it sure does, fuck lithium-ion batteries nigga

[Pirate Balloon]

Originally Posted by Lord Blazer

Modern culture, specifically in humor or I guess 'humor' is no longer based around like, a setup and subversion of expectations,

But rather it's just kind of based on this weird in-joke sort of mindset? There's no other way to really explain it. There's no humor in Good Guy Greg. Internet humor and popularity has become so neutered that literally all it takes to be considered funny now is just to make something that someone else recognizes.

I mean, this sort of humor has existed forever. Recently you can point at things like Family Guy or go back and people just quoting TV shows or go back even further and you end up with classic fairy tales and folklore.

Except the speed at which we can relay these little snippets of culture has become negligible if not nonexistant, so there's never any change to any of this. Look at the difference between a German Cinderella vs French Cinderella vs Russian Cinderella and you'll see all these cultural insertions from different countries, but each tale comes from the same origin, because these had time to develop and spread.

But then, I take a photo of my friend steve and slap some macro text on it and call him Scumbag Steve and submit it to Reddit right now, you'll see it in Russia and France and Germany and the US and the UK and Norway and Canada and Brazil and South Africa simultaneously. And they will share it with other people and within minutes it will have touched every technologically-forward country on earth. And someone will attempt to insert their own variation on this cultural product, and it'll be about scumbag steve voting libertarian or something like that.

But because it moves so quickly, there's never any time for variations to develop and actually become something. You can look at variations of a fairy tale and see what's changed between them but observe the common threads between them.

I'll step away from talking about the cultural constructs for a moment and switch to the societal construct. The internet circa ten years ago was largely devoted to discussion boards, much like 3dmm here, or even 4chan or Fark or Digg. The structure was different, but the idea was still the same in that it was based around discussion.

In 2012, the internet saw the rise of Reddit and 9Gag and Imgur and so on and so on. Rather than actually having a discussion, you discuss things more or less just by clicking an arrow that points one way or the other. Suddenly, you've done two very harmful things to the way culture works.
One, you've given a person a quantitative measurement of how good their post was. Rather than just having a discussion about a funny cat video or a cool photo of a tree, the motivation is there to hoard little up arrows.
Two, you've removed any investment the user on the other end has to appreciate or discuss the content in question. You've reduced it to simply clicking an up or down arrow, or if you go to Imgur, you can do it all with one hand on your arrow keys and never move your arm.
What this does is incentivize people to just submit easy content. Rather than making a cool photoshop, why not post a funny screengrab from a popular TV show? Why not slap some macro text on a photo that already exists? Why go through all the trouble of creating culture when I can just recycle something else and get more recognition from it?

This isn't entirely restricted to Reddit and co, of course. I tend to use Something Awful as my counterexample but 3dmm works just as fine. We have plenty of little memes and bits that we reuse but there's never any instant approval for it. Parody threads are plenty common and it's not really creating anything new or doing anything different than a new scumbag steve post. The difference is that we don't have a like system of any sort. If you make a good parody thread or a bad parody thread, you'll usually get the same reaction unless it actually makes sense and a discussion breaks out (healthy/wealthy threads are a recent example)

Instead, people make funny posts and parody threads (typically) because they think it's actually funny. There's an actual bit of humor to it.

If 3dmm had a like/dislike system, you'd see nothing but low effort parody threads and the ilk. Photos of Will Maltby with macro text slapped on them that get hundreds (dozens) of upvotes because "THATS WILL MALTBY AND I RECOGNIZE HIM"

I've just kind of been typing for a while and I really feel like I should get around to writing up a real essay about Reddit and the end of culture

but uh I dunno

I just hate to see what we've done to culture and how we perceive culture and what it means to create culture. I draw the comparison to the Rick James episode of Chapelle's Show. That episode was funny. But then people said "I'm Rick James, bitch" over and over again and it stopped being funny. It isn't this time-tested bit of humor. It isn't 'why did the chicken cross the road.' It was something funny that got mangled and destroyed and forgotten in the name of being in on the joke.

i'll read the rest of this later but i appreciate the effort that went into this post

[Dominator Dan]

that's a cool post, it's the sort of thing i've been thinking about a lot lately too

[Samurai Clinton]

Originally Posted by Dominator Dan

that's a cool post, it's the sort of thing i've been thinking about a lot lately too

Thats great to know!

Because non-rechargeable batteries started to be regarded as vermin to my budget back in my breakdancing days, in which batteries (especially rechargeable ones) were an integral part of powering audio equipent; and audio equipment has been HINTED AROUND as being INTEGRAL equipment for breakdancing. To further sum things up, the audience I tried to appeal to was nothing more than vermin to my social life.

Isn't it just a paradox that people who are vermin to me are simply vermin to others anyhow? Its sad that vermin makes the marjority of so-called friends for some.

[Slime]

glad we have you instead of christo and omnirom

[Trooper]

Originally Posted by Bustop

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[Samurai Clinton]

Originally Posted by Lohr

glad we have you instead of christo and omnirom

Of course, Lohr. Besides, Christo and Omnirom were vermin.

I run a tight ship with my hobbies, and all I ever do is be honest, and apologize when I acknowledge bad consequences.

[Dominator Dan]

Originally Posted by Samurai Clinton

Thats great to know!

Because non-rechargeable batteries started to be regarded as vermin to my budget back in my breakdancing days, in which batteries (especially rechargeable ones) were an integral part of powering audio equipent; and audio equipment has been HINTED AROUND as being INTEGRAL equipment for breakdancing. To further sum things up, the audience I tried to appeal to was nothing more than vermin to my social life.

Isn't it just a paradox that people who are vermin to me are simply vermin to others anyhow? Its sad that vermin makes the marjority of so-called friends for some.

the audience you tried to appeal to that turned out to be nothing but vermin to your social life, wouldn't you say that fits the description of this community too? if so, have you considered leaving the board?

also, my "cool post" comment was referring to Kyle Magocs' post on internet culture, not yours

[Nixon]

Originally Posted by Trooper

Figured I should let you guys in on this sweet PM-based deal.

I got that too

[Old Rivers]

Originally Posted by Trooper

Figured I should let you guys in on this sweet PM-based deal.

he sent me one but is blocking me from responding.