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It doesn't really matter if you evade or defend, as long as your choice isn't a guaranteed KO.

So by my count we're to 4 definitely's and 6 probably's and the rest are not information to determine but still probably.

Theory: Everyone still around on SPUF is secretly a furry. (OK, sometimes not so secretly). EDIT: For clarification, like the good type that realizes the fandom is shit but has been drawn in against involuntarily anyway, or the type that isn't aware of the fandom but is "just really into werewolf pictures, come on guys that's something different."

Do not be misled by the temptations of the sultry elves.

Is this some warframe thing? It seems like usually when people talk about something here and I don't know what the hell is going on it's some warframe thing.

It's kind of fascinating how August Derleth both completely saved HP Lovecraft's works and simultaneously completely ruined them. On the one hand, he made sure that Lovecraft's work was published, especially after Lovecraft's death (and helped out some other great weird fiction authors like Clark Ashton Smith and William Hope Hodgson). Without his constant efforts in publishing, many of Lovecraft's works almost certainly would have been lost, and Lovecraft himself would probably would have been about as well known as Seabury Quinn is today. On the other hand, Derleth wrote a copious amount of what can only be called "bad Lovecraft fanfiction." Tons of shameless cameos from various stories, stories ending with invincible heroes prevailing over what had previously been completely incomprehensible horrors (one of his more famous stories ends with the heroes literally nuking Cthulhu, for instance). Generally his stories end up reading like Call of Cthulhu RPG sessions, long before Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu was even a thing (or even before tabletop RPG sessions were even a thing). Horrors are not treated so much as affronts to the natural order of the universe, but monsters with really intimidating stat sheets (but which, since they have stats, can be killed and which the players will try to kill). Back to the first hand, it's certain that because of this that such rpgs wouldn't exist in the "Cthulhu Mythos" had it not been for Derleth, and without them it is unlikely that there would have been any obsessive Lovecraft geeks to criticize Derleth in the first place. And in the same way, his changes to the stories show that he was striving for innovation and his own voice (as can also be seen by the fact that his stories tend not to mimic Lovecraft's prose). There were many other imitators of Lovecraft in the Weird Stories days, and compared to them Derleth was definitely the best writer and the most willing to actually construct a story. This means that Derleth's work is probably most responsible for other authors such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman or Junji Ito (though you could make a case that Robert Bloch played a role in that too). Many of these later authors have approached the topic in a much less fannish way than Derleth, but one which wouldn't have been possible without Derleth. But back to the second hand, Derleth's rpgification of Lovecraft's work also directly lead to the mass proliferation of the "Lovecraft lite" atmosphere seen all over the place (particularly in games published by Fantasy Flights). It's reduced Lovecraft down to "some guy that wrote in the prohibition era that wrote about tentacle monsters that you can kill with the right guns," and as such most people have no sense of what Lovecraft actually wrote. But then again, some of these works (like some Chaosium supplements or the Nyarko anime) manage to tie things into real aspects of Lovecraft's work, while simultaneously making great use of ideas first developed by Derleth....

It's hard for me to even care about the Halloween update. The only thing that we really get that we wouldn't have at any time of year is the Halloween maps, and if Valve hadn't removed community servers there would be places running those year round. I mean, yeah I guess you can do Merassmisions, but I always found those boring and glitchy, and the rewards for them basically meaningless.

We are now in the time frame when Scream Fortress could conceivably drop. There were a couple of years where it landed on October 29th, so it certainly could be some time. Or maybe it will go later still this year? In any case, vote now.

In the more general theme of this thread, if you want some random and bizarre Japan youtube videos, here's a few: This one is some dumb personality test and really not that weird (other then the Payday thumbnail) but it's funny to me because Eilene is essentially narrating it: And after browsing through like 100 japanese videos (on a fresh browser) to get the above videos, what is the top recommendation that youtube gives me? Conclusion: Youtube algorithm can't distinguish Poles from Weebs.

So I tried it out on that Temple OS video and got some interesting results. Rather than showing you were we end up after 100 videos, let's walk through the journey to get there. First there are a few videos about screensavers on computers. Then we get to long nature videos. These start being specifically about Norway, leading to more general Norway travel videos, and travel videos generally. This somehow leads into clickbait cooking videos, which turn into general "do it yourself" videos. Eventually we hit a DIY on how to "give your squishies a makeover." I'm still not entirely sure what squishies are, but we get about 30 more videos on them. (Looking at a fresh browser's version of youtube, apparently these videos are trending so maybe youtube just gives up after a while and puts you on trending.) Somehow videos suddenly and unexpectedly switch to Mario Party videos. As expected we then jump around various Nintendo games. I was kind of excited when it went to Snipperclips, which then briefly went to Jaltoid's let's play of it. I was hoping that would get us into the animation section of youtube, but no we actually go to Tomadachi life, then back to Mario Party. At video 97 we get a mario top ten video from a certain youtuber, which leads to #100 being this: This is the same Nathaniel Bandy motherfucker that showed up from the Deus Ex video. Just out of curiosity I keep going. It's 25 more of his videos, then autoplay breaks. I click the up next link manually, but unfortunately that causes youtube to start a new autoplay session and as such videos started repeating, making it truly impossible to leave the Bandiverse. I think that somehow this guy lucked into the right video properties to be an autoplay blackhole. Maybe he's the next Pewdiepie.

Scratch that meta being bad thing. Just play dog aggro and you're good. (Though I guess that does require 3 cerberi at least, so it's not ultra budget. But you can make do with no legends other than that.) And I guess if you want to join the dark side, you could probably make a good city of gold deck with no legendaries.

The only reason that Valve released it today was because they saw this poll and wanted to spite us.

Tried it again with a couple more videos. The Deus Ex video gets you here: This one was literally just 10 videos until Nathaniel Bandy, and then 90 of his vidoes in a row. And they are all top 10 lists about nintendo properties. And autoplay doesn't repeat videos! Once you enter the Nathaniel Bandiverse, there is no escape. Everything else just goes to lets plays, forever. EDIT: The plague of gripes Naruto rant actually takes you on an interesting journey. You end up here: The pattern goes like this: A lot of plague of gripes rants, followed by a lot of other people ranting about anime, followed by anime ops, eventually you get to Your Name, which then transitions into Radwimps other works, which takes you through some good J-rock bands for a while. Eventually you get to that infamous USA song, which somehow gets you to Michael Jackson, then to 80's music, then to American Musicals, and finally to America's got Talent.

This seems like a good way to generate new random videos: Applying this method to "The Brain" Gmod video arrives here: There's about 50 TF2 or Gmod videos at the start (including the entire weapon stereotype series). Eventually it starts bouncing around a bunch of games, but it always comes back to Fortnite. I even had to go through three different streams of the exact same fortnite game, but one was in English, one was in French and one was in Arabic.

I'd say play shadowverse because they are way more generous with packs and as such it's possible to build two or three good decks right from the start, but at the moment the meta is shit. Rotation has turned into something where you need like 12 legendaries per deck (since the card limit for individual legendaries is 3, not 1) and while there are good legendary-light or legendary-free decks in Unlimited, there are also some degenerate combos at the moment.

Kadokawa might have killed Kemofurenz but damn if they aren't putting out good music videos

Kind of annoyed that it came back so early to be honest. Would have been fun to see the world burn.

What shows up for me depends on my browsing history. On one browser's history I get nothing but the title of the site and a blank page. On another, I get blank video slots with no titles or thumbnails. On a private browsing session (in any browser) the front page looks as normal, but the videos themselves don't load. I've tested ad blocking and script blocking, and that isn't the cause, so it has to be browser history. Something screwy is going on.

On other sites I've seen speculation that Google is worried that they've mishandled privacy information on youtube as well, and so decided to shut it down. That's just baseless speculation though. There's a million reasons why this could happen.

So... apparently youtube just completely died? I mean I guess technically the sites still there, but every video seems to be down (checking with multiple browsers just to be sure). (Makes the youtube thread particularly amusing.)

Plague of Gripes taking almost an hour: to make essentially the same points of the end of a five minute video:

What I mean is that everything is done so much more ineffeciently that the gains in technology don't mean as much as you might expect. One big example of this is the tendency to import tons of libraries of pre-existing functions (often redundant ones) rather than making something that is the most efficient for your specific application. I get why this is done; it means that we don't have to constantly keep reinventing the wheel and it makes it easier to update a process everywhere in the project at once, but a natural consequence of it is that memory is used in an extremely wasteful fashion. So for example it wasn't too long ago that 4 gigs of RAM was considered to be more than you would need, but now it's easy for a web browser to use .2 gigs per tab, especially if you've left something open for a while or have a particularly inefficient browser. Then factor in how many people have lots of unnecessary plugins and the total memory use just gets higher, until we get to the point where its perfectly feasible to use 4 gigs just on web browsing. Similarly even though we have extremely powerful processors, including the ability to do parallel operations very efficiently, programming techniques have stressed using operations efficiently less and less, so the effective speed of most programs is lower than the hardware would suggest. You especially see this in indie games. Just look at all the retro games which are trying to mimick an aesthetic from 10-20 years ago, and which often don't do much that computers/consoles of that time wouldn't be able to do, but which can't run on a computer that's more than a few years old. Or if you think that is unfair, look at AAA gaming. Other than minor graphical improvements, what really separates the games from today from the games from five years ago? I haven't seen much in the way of impressive AI or other hardware intensive features, outside of graphics. But the hardware specs continue to be more and more demanding anyway.