Chow Yun Thin

The OG no-scoper.

I use Freetube which also uses the Invidious thing. The only time I use Youtube proper is for longplays of old games where the video is stretched; "Enhancer for Youtube" running a script for aspect ratio changer serves to unfuck it. Unfortunately, a recent bit of Google fuckery has forced the "Enhancer for Youtube" dev to pull the plugin for the foreseeable future. Shit, now I understand why invidious was chosen for its name. I used the Alternate Player for Twitch to block their ads, but it seems to have stopped working as of a week ago.

Yeah I'm not seeing people's avatars, even my own. I kinda wish there was an option in one's profile settings to enable/disable.

The only socially acceptable legal way to RIP AND TEAR On second thought maybe that's the real hell, being unable to remove the helmet to eat. What if he mixes it with his coffee...

Options --> Display Options --> set Use Fuzz Effect to "fuzz" I did notice that if the Voxel mod is loaded, the fuzz effect is set to shadow no matter what.

OK ngl, I do kinda want an In-n-Out Double-Double salad with grilled onions.

Boy, the weird things that pop up in my mind after I hit submit: Now I've heard of using tampons to plug up bullet entry wounds (no idea about the exit ones), but come on, even for comic effect.

looks to the right Okay, I'm sorry but my inner teen had a laugh at that last name. It's not your fault assholes assigned a very unflattering meaning to that some 20+ years after the asset was created. Also found this: Sure there were quite a few goofups as people already reported, but I trust Valve to go above and beyond in fixing it as opposed to unpersoning (ungaming?).

A few years ago Target had some commercials where the first few seconds show someone doing something and repeating as if they were in a .gif, right down to the last frame of animation followed by the first. It felt seriously jarring to see stuff in the online world try to break into the real world. I have the same reaction when people say lol or rofl out loud instead of actual laughter. There was a McDonalds ad on Twitch where an older guy speaks real softly about eating the bit of cheese product that gets stuck to the wrapper or the last slender crispy fry in the box. I admit that I do get the appeal of ASMR that the ad is catering to, but for me that headspace is late at night when I'm unwinding before bed. Not the mindset to have when watching games with lots of action, violence and swearing. I used to read the ShittyMobileGameAds and CommercialsIHate subreddits because of those misleading Evony ads, the ones about pulling pins in the right order to free a guy. Apparently, the ad pulls the wrong pins intentionally to infuriate the viewer and goad them into downloading the game. The pin-pulling game isn't even the whole thing, the actual game is some kind of base builder thing. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the company behind Evony (used to, maybe they still do) run browser ads showing CGI women's cleavage with the game name placed dead center. I'd be careful about CommercialsIHate though; any ads that are perceived as diverse or woke get especially venomous comments. I've seen pictures of a rather haunting anti-smoking ad that was put on the ceilings of elevators so that you're looking up out of an open grave. Not sure how effective it was. On a related topic: 80s/90s PSAs are pretty unsettling even today, but as a kid watching cartoons during that era? I didn't sign up for commercial Russian Roulette. Sure the cartoons might take some of the edge off, but what about afterwards, or at night in bed? I think I talked about the drug dealer snakeman before, so I'll go into two others. There was one on the Asian TV channel about what I think is gambling addiction. You see a woman's manicured hands holding a playing card, a mahjong tile and a large black domino tile. A screen of fog shows up to block everything out and when it clears, you see a polaroid picture of presumably the woman's family being clutched by skeleton hands. All this time, there's a piece of music playing that comes off as seriously alarming. I didn't understand what the voiceover woman was saying, but the images certainly crossed the language barrier. The other was about what to do during a lightning storm. It's animated in a cutout-style like South Park and starts off with an orange cat sauntering in an open field when it's hit by a lightning bolt. Cue flash followed by a gnarly closeup of the cat's face with eyes wide open in shock and 9s in place of the irises replaced by 8s. Other places to avoid are under a tree and an open boat, shown by a fisherman and fish getting skeletonized by the lightning flash. Then that cat goes back out into the open field and surprise, gets hit again and does the jumpscare bit with the 8s replaced by 7s. How many times are you gonna learn this lesson before it sticks, you dumb fucking cat? I've read of a British PSA that's thought of as psychologically scarring to everyone who's seen it, something about a spirit in a river that waits for unsuspecting people to drag down into the water. Never saw it for myself and don't want to, just remembering its entry (or any entry) in the PSA section of the Nightmare Fuel page on TVTropes sends a wave of goosebumps all over me. Then again, what was I expecting? Was it this rock? One hopes it lives up to its name. :P

Good to see Valve paying their respects to the game that put them on the map. But damn, an actual substantial update on the 25th anniversary? That's gotta be some kind of record. Heh at the Steam Deck blurb.

The forum used to have a rules list some years back. But there's always going to be some who feel like engaging in rules-lawyering pedantry, so there's no official list other than "Don't be an asshole" like everyone's been exhorting so far. Best advice I could give is to read the room carefully and if you're still not sure, there no shame in lurking. Definitely put some thought and effort into your threads and posts. Low-content stuff like memes tend to be frowned on here; at best they're used sporadically. Also, you cannot delete your own threads and posts, so think carefully before posting. Topics about politics, religion, finance and relationships tend to end in flames, both online and off, so they're not allowed here. Same goes for other controversial topics like abortion, gun control, current conflicts, GZDoom filtering, etc.. I don't think most people mind seeing recycled topics; there's bound to be quite a lot in this forum's 20+ year history. Just the same, check the threads from the past 3 months to see if one can be bumped up. I believe the chatbox shows a warning about posting in old threads. I don't know how others feel about necroposting, but I find it kind of jarring to see real old posts from old members followed by something that isn't worth bumping. The good kind of necropost is substantial and contributes to the thread meaningfully. A recent example of a faux pas: new people asking modders to do stuff for them. It's very bad form to go into any established creative community and demand stuff. Nobody likes an Ideas PersonTM. The people who make stuff here are doing so out of their own free time and volition. At the very least, take the time to get to know people and build up some rapport with the community. Contributing something like maps, sprites, code, music and such definitely helps. The four likes at the bottom right of a post are just that: likes. You can assign a special meaning for them if you want; I use the Invis sphere to mean "I hate that I agree with this". Personal stuff and other things that you want to post but don't necessarily want to discuss go in Status Updates under your profile. I never understood why some people use EE as their blog and then get pissed when others chime in. Name changes have a 365-day cooldown, so it sucks if you want to change your name before then. You can PM a mod to change it at their discretion, but I don't think any mods advertise themselves through their custom title. One hint is to look at a locked thread and see who locked it or had the last post.

Not quite, one more slug for the tougher enemies.

InstaDoom.

I don't know if lurkers are allowed to see it, but Something Awful's Comedy Goldmine speaks for itself. I still remember the two threads I saw there: one about a truly awful roommate who repeatedly shit in the bathtub and another about a garbage truck that beat a ricer in a race. There was a thread on Fark where someone posted a picture of his Firefox tabs and someone else realized one tab led to a furry art site. Since this was during the height of furry hate, that person got so, so much shit for it. Let it be a lesson to be careful what you show people online and off.