What really pisses you off? please no posts about nexus lol

[TheOzoneHole]

I live near multiple large cities with national level sports teams so college sports aren't really as big a deal where I'm from but seriously? We've really reached the point where this is necessary?!  I get it, shit happens but still this just feels excessive.

Spoiler

 

 

And this...those underwear are just flat out terrifying. If I was with her and she dropped her pants and I saw that I'd be nope-ing out of there faster than the speed of cracking walnuts.

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[GrimReaper]

Was watching the newest video from Jim Sterling about Blizzard and it's fucking frustrating. The guy comes so close to the core issue yet makes a 180° turn at the very end and goes completely off the rails. Honestly, I don't know why I even watch his videos anymore, he seems more interested in performing a self-indulging act on a stage he has built over the years instead of honest criticism of games and the games industry at large. Anyways, he criticizes Blizzard for what they did to Blitzchung and the following apology if you can call it that on Blizzcon. He goes on to advocate for Free Speech, yet when the Blizzard boss said they have to draw a line somewhere lest their games would become a platform for everyone and everything, he then claims that this would be a slippery slope and that hate speech - i.e. speech that isn't free because it's mean words - already exists so that you could operate on that foundation. And that's just baffling, who gets to decide what is hate speech and what isn't? It's an arbitrary boundary that can be changed at will. It has to be, since language is constantly evolving. In fact, you could say that China has their very own definition of hate speech, namely anything that involves criticizing the government. 'Oh but that wouldn't be hate speech as per my definition!'

 

Yeah, but you don't get to make the rules, do you? Do you really want to install an infrastructure that's ripe for abuse and that you only want as long as it represents your current moral values? You have no problem calling Blizzard Activition a piece of shit (which it is, by the way) and calling for Activision's CEO to be fired into the sea. Are you really such a brainlet that you can't see how that could easily be interpreted as hate speech? To quote Noam Chomsky: "If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you're not in favor of freedom of speech."

[megamantaray]

8 hours ago, Darkpig said:

This is when you got to pull out the "Ok Boomer" card. That isn't offensive yet so go with it.

 

For those that don't know: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer

Pretty sure the boomers are calling it an offensive "generational" slur thing now, there's certainly enough articles about it already.

29 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Was watching the newest video from Jim Sterling about Blizzard and it's fucking frustrating. The guy comes so close to the core issue yet makes a 180° turn at the very end and goes completely off the rails. Honestly, I don't know why I even watch his videos anymore, he seems more interesting in performing a self-indulging act on a stage he has built over the years instead of honest criticism of games and the games industry at large. Anyways, he criticizes Blizzard for what they did to Blitzchung and the following apology if you can call it that on Blizzcon. He goes on to advocate for Free Speech, yet when the Blizzard boss said they have to draw a line somewhere lest their games would become a platform for everyone and everything, he then claims that this would be a slippery slope and that hate speech - i.e. speech that isn't free because it's mean words - already exists so that you could operate on that foundation. And that's just baffling, who gets to decide what is hate speech and what isn't? It's an arbitrary boundary that can be changed at will. It has to be, since language is constantly evolving. In fact, you could say that China has their very own definition of hate speech, namely anything that involves criticizing the government. 'Oh but that wouldn't be hate speech as per my definition!'

 

Yeah, but you don't get to make the rules, do you? Do you really want to install an infrastructure that's ripe for abuse and that you only want as long as it represents your current moral values? You have no problem calling Blizzard Activition a piece of shit (which it is, by the way) and calling for Activision's CEO to be fired into the sea. Are you really such a brainlet that you can't see how that could easily be interpreted as hate speech? To quote Noam Chomsky: "If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you're not in favor of freedom of speech."

Has Jim ever been consistent in any capacity? I can't recall any videos he made where he didn't actively argue against his own views shortly after because the hot potato switched hands. Like with Video Game Violence and Steam deciding not to censor offensive games.

>Video games don't cause violence! Everyone should do and play what they like, even if it's a troll game.

>But god Steam why don't you DECIDE FOR US what we can and can't play!! UGH~

I don't recall exactly because it's been a while and frankly I saw it as part of one of Rags videos on the subject.

Pretty sure he's always been like this it's just more obvious now.

[Darkpig]

16 minutes ago, megamantaray said:

Pretty sure the boomers are calling it an offensive "generational" slur thing now, there's certainly enough articles about it already.

Like I said nobody is offended yet. Emphasis on nobody.

 

Edit: Okay rookie mistake. I was talking the article writers not boomers in general. Salty bunch they are.

[GrimReaper]

4 minutes ago, megamantaray said:

 

Has Jim ever been consistent in any capacity? I can't recall any videos he made where he didn't actively argue against his own views shortly after because the hot potato switched hands. Like with Video Game Violence and Steam deciding not to censor offensive games.

>Video games don't cause violence! Everyone should do and play what they like, even if it's a troll game.

>But god Steam why don't you DECIDE FOR US what we can and can't play!! UGH~

I don't recall exactly because it's been a while and frankly I saw it as part of one of Rags videos on the subject.

Pretty sure he's always been like this it's just more obvious now.

His argument was at first that Steam should do proper quality control because there were games released that didn't come with an executable and weren't playable, to name one of the worst offenders. Later on he switched to a more moral guardian perspective because 'troll games' like, dunno, shooting spree simulators are offensive and hurtful hate speech and don't help the bad reputation video games have. This obviously is a can of worms because you can make that sort of argument about any sort of content. I'd argue that a lot of people that have been the victims of violent crimes don't particularly understand how one can derive enjoyment out of playing games like GTA. This is in my eyes owed to the inability to use abstraction when it comes to video games. Shooting people is very fun in video games but not so much in real life, yet people go all like 'WTF what has to be wrong with you that you can enjoy that?'

 

The same applies to every other thing games offer you to do, from being a rapist or mass murderer just for the fun of it. It can sometimes be very rewarding to play an absolute edge lord in video games but it can also be fun to play a living saint. But it's a broader problem, imo, because many people will say that playing games doesn't make you violent yet playing games will make you sexist. Either games have a severe impact on your psyche or they don't, you can't switch stances just because you consider topic A to be a non-issue but topic B to be 'problematic'. If you accept games like Hitman, you have to accept (not like!) games like RapeLay or Hatred as well. You can find them distasteful, but that's not what tolerance is about. Tolerance is about tolerating things you don't particularly like, maybe even despise, not cherishing stuff you like.

[megamantaray]

Unrelated to the topic of Jim Sterling and boomers because I have nothing to add, too tired to make any kind of coherent... thought into text..

 

It's 3am, nearly 4am and I can't sleep again. Fucking fuck fuck. :L

[GrimReaper]

2 hours ago, Alkpaz said:

https://freebeacon.com/issues/poll-majority-of-americans-want-first-amendment-rewritten/

 

"More than 60 percent of Americans agree on restricting speech in some way, while a slim majority, 51 percent, want to see the First Amendment rewritten to "reflect the cultural norms of today." The Campaign for Free Speech, which conducted the survey, said the results "indicate free speech is under more threat than previously believed.""

 

To echo a Boomer YT'er: at no point in history was this Amendment ever questioned, not during or after the Civil War, or after 2 World Wars. Yet, this is the reality in which we live in today. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/free-speech-social-media-violence.html

>Violent crimes and terrorist attacks were invented by the infamous hacker known as 4chan

This is literally an 'ok boomer' moment and I don't even like this meme. It's funny that the question of the poll, i.e. should free speech be limited is only possible in a free speech environment. You don't have these sorts of polls in societies that regulate speech heavily. Even if you agree with the cultural norms of today, there's no guarantee you'll like the cultural norms of tomorrow. It's an easy tactic to paint your opponents as hate mongers, happened with gamergate (though it's a lot more complicated than that) and anybody who dares criticize games media today gets associated right away with that movement, this even happened to Jim Sterling back when he dared call games journalism an extended arm of the publishers' advertisment campaigns.

 

>want to have your speech regulated

>speech gets regulated

>ok maybe this went a bit too far

>oops can't voice your concerns anymore, have a fun trip to your local re-education center

>surprised_pickachu_face.jpg

[2dk2c.2]

12 hours ago, RitualClarity said:

https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-spdif-connection/

 

Most of the time you use the Orange cable or the HDMI if the device has video output. 

 

Simply. your device needs to have the actual connector for the device to work. AS in any case.  Adapters are not advised when not absolutely needed.  (Note your example doesn't seem to have the other optical. I believe the orange is analog.. check the manual to be sure.

 

 

Nobody says you can use "Toslink" except one old man on youtube, but he's a terrible cameraman.

But he has a motherboard very similar to mine.

 

 

 

The submissive lady cursing while hooking up is my idea of humor in the face of death.

 

 

It seems any soundbar has a rca/hdmi output for the sub, and that orange connector you speak of (analog-sub) could be used directly for the sub, but I'd worry about latency and weird controls once it was all hooked up.

No, the simplest would be the optical Toslink, which no one ever uses and which may have issues with the PC-Clock.

I explained all this better in my blog.

https://orphanrocks.blogspot.com/2019/11/wifi-madness.html (towards the bottom).

I don't have coax, don't really want it, but you bring up a good point (I seriously need a photo of the soundbar's ports)

Bah. The video in the ad at loverslab explains how I feel.

Kind of how I feel when microsoft forces stuff on you and then changes their mind, forcing something else.

[rant missing]>coax,optical,

 

 

My second monitor uses the only HDMI output my videocard has, so...using the HDMI output would render my poor monitor useless.

unless

Nobody anywhere asks "why can't we use display-port-audio for the soundbar?" because that's heresy or something.

 

I'll order a toslink optical, and if that doesn't work

I'll order an HDMI splitter, and if that doesn't work

I'll order a 3.5mm patchcord (for the monitor's headphone-jack), and if that sounds wimpy-wimpy,

I'll use "Bluetooth".

The choices I just typed seem to coincide with the anticipated quality of the audio (if my PC-clock passes muster)

 

 

[RitualClarity]

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Nobody says you can use "Toslink" except one old man on youtube, but he's a terrible cameraman.

But he has a motherboard very similar to mine.

You are absolutely correct.  I don't know of one single person that uses that connection even if they have the equipment to do so. I HAVEN'T USED IT when I could.

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It seems any soundbar has a rca/hdmi output for the sub, and that orange connector you speak of (analog-sub) could be used directly for the sub, but I'd worry about latency and weird controls once it was all hooked up.

I am more worried about latency with digital as opposed to analog.  I haven't used that connector but... I know people that have. I don't recall any issues with using it for them. (not sure about the weird control concern, sorry)

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No, the simplest would be the optical Toslink, which no one ever uses and which may have issues with the PC-Clock.

You are correct on both accounts.  You don't want to experience that issue personally. It isn't pretty. I heard some recordings and it is horrible. also

 

I believe it is a dead format/connector not really relevant and left over like old Firewire ports or USB 2.0. To serve those with older equiptment. That is my thoughts at least.

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don't have coax, don't really want it, but you bring up a good point (I seriously need a photo of the soundbar's ports)

Again, on target. Yes. I'd post in a support thread or something with the connections you have available and discuss the best solution. You might find some audiophiles and such with way more experience than myself.  We do have some seriously nerdy people here.

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Kind of how I feel when microsoft forces stuff on you and then changes their mind, forcing something else.

[rant missing]>coax,optical,

I feel your pain on both parts.

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My second monitor uses the only HDMI output my videocard has, so...using the HDMI output would render my poor monitor useless.

unless

Nobody anywhere asks "why can't we use display-port-audio for the soundbar?" because that's heresy or something.

If possible upgrade/replace your current graphics card for something with two HDMIs. However, those are getting harder to get on a decent /highend card. Most of them are Display port.

 

Also, never thought of it but I have no idea why display ports cant do audio on a monitor. Never thought of it.
Wait.. I have Display port connected to a 2k monitor..

yes, I can play sound through it. It is an Acer Predator 27 in gsync montior. I chose the Nvidia sound output. It works. It sucks.. but it works.

[Reginald_001]

I was all excited about watching the Mandalorian. And it's pretty cool.

But only 38 minutes? W.t.h.

[RitualClarity]

8 minutes ago, Reginald_001 said:

I was all excited about watching the Mandalorian. And it's pretty cool.

But only 38 minutes? W.t.h.

All talk.. he came up short.

Left all of us .. wanting. 

(Ladies.. you know what i am talking about )

LOL

[Reginald_001]

12 minutes ago, RitualClarity said:

All talk.. he came up short.

Left all of us .. wanting. 

(Ladies.. you know what i am talking about )

LOL

And I even stand corrected. 35.5 minutes, with 2.5 minutes of end-credits... blurp.

[FauxFurry]

10 hours ago, megamantaray said:

 

Has Jim ever been consistent in any capacity?

He was back when he worked for Destructoid and was a contributor at GamesRadar. That's why he was able to build up the reputation that he is working so hard to undermine right now.

[TheOzoneHole]

I heard rumors a long time ago that Jim's wife is heavily SJW, which is why he has never really spoken up against it.  Again, gotta stress that those were totally unsubstantiated rumors and it was a long time ago.

 

And I know I'll get hate for this, but look at how Total Biscuit changed; especially after he moved to the U.S.  He got really uptight and seemed to totally lose his sense of humor.  

[Captain Cobra]

Spent 6 hours trying to figure out how to get weapons to consume more than one unit of ammo in Fallout 4 before giving up.

[2dk2c.2]

14 hours ago, RitualClarity said:

 

 

If possible upgrade/replace your current graphics card for something with two HDMIs. However, those are getting harder to get on a decent /highend card. Most of them are Display port.

 

Also, never thought of it but I have no idea why display ports cant do audio on a monitor. Never thought of it.
Wait.. I have Display port connected to a 2k monitor..

yes, I can play sound through it. It is an Acer Predator 27 in gsync montior. I chose the Nvidia sound output. It works. It sucks.. but it works.

I can't quote you accurately, I do not know how to multiquote.

 

So let me just rant OT that I love your messages, no one else is apparently interested in PC-Audio.

And I respect your opinions, but I cannot upgrade an upgrade, it would be impossibly expensive for me.

 

So...

 

I found a displayport-to-4k-hdmi.

If whatever I buy as a soundbar has an HDMI-input, I'm covered.

That takes care of my videocard.

 

And because a toslink cable is affordable, I might get one of those as well, for the *soundcard* (sound-*chip*) in my PC.

I'll finally have directional sound, which is all I wanted. Bass will be nice as well.

I still worry about the optical-spdif-toslink size as I showed in my picture, too big to be a mini-toslink (I think), too small to be a normal toslink, but I'll ignore all that and assume there are only two Optical S/PDIF toslink-sizes.

But to feed my paranoia and because there's no one else to ask,

my shopping list will include a dp-hdmi adapter,

toslink

toslink-to-mini-toslink.

That plus 400 for a soundbar

 

 

[Downloader]

1 hour ago, 2dk2c.2 said:

I can't quote you accurately, I do not know how to multiquote.

That confused the hell out of me but I worked it out, click the + signs for each quote you want then it adds them to a popup bottom right of screen for me, click that and it pastes all the multi quotes you selected, not sure if it works over page ranges though.  

[RitualClarity]

8 hours ago, 2dk2c.2 said:

I can't quote you accurately, I do not know how to multiquote.

 

If you are talking about specific quotes from a paragraph ... 1) generally you don't have to do that. It is more for readability and help limit confusion both can be resolved if a person isn't like some .. and jump the gun and start to assume something that isn't true and put words in the writers mouth.  and 2) not part of the normal function of sites like this.

 

However, If you are interested and didn't know how to do this (I am assuming. it could be just like the poster above me said) then you just highlight the text you want to copy. Open a quote section from the too bar (the " symbol) and paste. Then do your comment below (generally) and rinse and repeat.  Again I am assuming this is what you were commenting on. I am likely very wrong.   but I am not going to assume or put words in your mouth lol

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That confused the hell out of me but I worked it out, click the + signs for each quote you want then it adds them to a popup bottom right of screen for me, click that and it pastes all the multi quotes you selected, not sure if it works over page ranges though.  

Yes you  can quote from different pages of a thread as well as entirely different sections of the site. 

[worik]

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[megamantaray]

Getting banned from the steam community forums because I told someone off about Leeson's tutorial to revert the awful Library UI being a virus.

Guy's been spreading misinformation and clearly ignorant bullshit for 3 days and belittling everyone but no no no, the second I mention Leeson having 27 links to manually download files DIRECTLY FROM STEAM I get banned. I mean I guess I did call the guy a lazy parrot, gosh darn it.

[winny257]

21 hours ago, worik said:

?

alte Lebensweisheit 

[KoolHndLuke]

27 minutes ago, Alkpaz said:

censorship

Yeah......the entire web seems to be going down this road. I'm downloading and keeping alot of stuff because it may not be available later. Time to invest in some memory expansion.

[Reginald_001]

3 hours ago, Alkpaz said:

Steam moderators are quick to ban lately. I got a warning just for saying #okayboomer which is like a freaking "trend" right now. They are becoming oversensitive jerks lately. 10yrs ago it used to be moderated like this site is, but things have definitely shifted over at Valve, it is kinda concerning. 

 

As for the topic this happened a few days ago: 

 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3abgv/paypal-pulls-out-of-pornhub-payments

 

Basically, they nuked 100K porn actors income. So expect less porn, and possibly censorship of anything porn related in the coming years if this trend continues. 

The Porn industry is pulling out the big guns on all fronts. They are openly attacking NoFap and are under attack from a diverse group of people (investors, businesses, religious institutes, etc..etc..).

 

Having learned about the truly dark sides of pornography (deaths, depression, suicides, rape, abuse, human trafficking, the list goes on and on) I personally would not mourn if less porn became available. Considering the fact that 90% of all 12 years old have seen more naked people in sexual behavior then their grandparents have in their entire life, is disconcerting to say the least.

 

I am, however, against censorship of any kind. And as long as Pornography is legal, these kinds of actions (e.g. boycotting the porn industry) are likely illegal and abuse of power. So if the porn industry would put their efforts (and money) in the right place they could overcome these kinds of boycot challenges, pushing the discussion to the political stage where it belongs.

 

So again, my personal opinion is, there should be less porn, and it should be far more difficult to get your hands on.

But my opinion on the subject matter is: This is not OK (from either the Steam moderators) and paypal.

 

As to what pisses me off, the porn industry openly attacking a group of recovering addicts:

 

 

[megamantaray]

Elizabeth Banks who wrote, produced, starred and directed the new Charlie's Angels movie says it flopped because men don't go to see women-led action movies.
I wonder when they'll get tired of using that excuse. The original trilogy did great, I wonder why this new one wasn't as welcome and did pretty bad.
I'm sure it can't be that it's trash. It can't be that people hate reboots. It can't be that it's got a hammy shitty political message or anything like that.

There can be no other reason. Men hate women, men hate women in movies. Surely there has never EVER been a movie before with a female lead that's been successful.

Let alone three of them, with three protagonists. In the same franchise, nearly a decade ago.

Edit: Oh hey, Full Throttle is actually from 2003 so it's 16 years old. Nice.

[MrEsturk]

7 hours ago, megamantaray said:

Elizabeth Banks who wrote, produced, starred and directed the new Charlie's Angels movie says it flopped because men don't go to see women-led action movies.
I wonder when they'll get tired of using that excuse. The original trilogy did great, I wonder why this new one wasn't as welcome and did pretty bad.
I'm sure it can't be that it's trash. It can't be that people hate reboots. It can't be that it's got a hammy shitty political message or anything like that.

There can be no other reason. Men hate women, men hate women in movies. Surely there has never EVER been a movie before with a female lead that's been successful.

Let alone three of them, with three protagonists. In the same franchise, nearly a decade ago.

Edit: Oh hey, Full Throttle is actually from 2003 so it's 16 years old. Nice.

Eh, honestly it is a little fun watching her squirm and throw out every excuse in the book on why it wasn't her fault she did a poor job creating something no one asked for in the first place. Sadly while the rest of the world sees right through her BS the out of touch dolts running Hollywood probably will believe her excuses. Not only continuing to throw money away by giving Banks more directing work but also being hesitant to greenlight female led films the public would actually be interested in watching just because the failure of these subpar, woke femsploitation projects are "proof" men don't want to see films with female leads. Elizabeth Banks told them so...

 

EDIT: It is also amusing that the lack of interest from female film viewers is willfully never brought up after these dumpster fires under perform. The narrative doesn't work if you acknowledge that had your film had a strong female fan base it would have done well without needing strong male support.

 

EDIT2: Apparently more women went to see the recent Rambo movie on its opening weekend than this Charlies Angels reboot. That's got to sting....