funkless_eck

@funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it depends on the contractuals. It may have been licensed for broadcast and Steams proprietary store may not count as a broadcasting platform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not neccessarily a defense of the system, but I’d say this is for playing music on the shop screens before you buy the games, and other promotional material.

  For example Borderlands GOTY uses a rock song with lyrics that’s not part of the game’s OST.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have some experience in licensing music in the UK. it’s simple and cheap and it means the artists get paid (well the record labels, but that’s another problem)

  You paid a tiny amount of the profits you made after filling in the form which is pretty much just name and address and the tracks you used. It was something like £20 to play 5-10 songs for a three week run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah. poor guy. He was a brickie, played the French horn in the Sally Army Band, four kids, wife. Into lifting, whisky, big mustache. Real working class hero type.

  Anyway, thanks for your regards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paid for by...boobs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the average only fans account doesn’t make it to $1000 in its lifetime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  my uncle died of “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MemeID: 421856901⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not if you write score like I do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith X⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No it isn’t. See my other reply, she was the one who original broke the story of her masters thesis being rejected because she mentioned her boyfriend, publically on her tiktok profile which shows her face.

  I still question the motives behind the original author.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith X⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I decided to look into it a bit. It seems like the original Faith ran into trouble for dedicating her Masters thesis to her boyfriend.

  I cannot find the OP amongst that particular story which was reported on a lot of low-effort quasi-journalistic outlets (think Buzzfeed but less well known).

  Might it be the case these are copycat meme creators who are creating these memes to capitalize on a trend/news event and are impersonating the original author for - at best a laugh, at worse for an ulterior motive?

  I don’t think it’s “weird” to question these motives. I think its perfectly reasonable to suggest that this anonymous screenshot should be subject to critical thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith X⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a meme that I personally would have suspicions about it’s origin considering it paints a black academic woman in a bad light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's in a name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and then there’s another part which is a different way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother took intro to counselling, diagnosed himself as suffering with Special Boy disease, everyone else in the family with Evil Syndrome and went off the deep end into a full public mental breakdown, from which our relationship has never recovered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the dog didn’t actually tell him to

  Google actually told him to with text receipts in writing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨many have been saying this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  growing up in the 80s and 90s in the uk, I never heard the end of how the (slur for Pakistani people, applied to all people from South Asian countries) are ruining everything, then the Kosovans/Bosnians, Romani people… I saw less black/African racism but I didn’t see none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  boofed fent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or attempting to invade Russia

  Agincourt

  Flodden Field

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  4chan greentext

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  check out New Threat which remixes the game, or the Archeology Mod which restores cut content and the original intent of the translators - including lines that were wrong in the original and then fixed in remake (it has a setting specifically keep “This guy are sick” if you were worried).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know you wanna⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  before silica was commercially available people used to use rice (in salt shakers, to dry electronics…)

  rice contains naturally occurring silica.

  also, silica is the same composition as quartz and opals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you’ll have to take my word for it I guess.

  I volunteer for an organization that promotes fiction penned by women and minority communities, we have a guy on the board who used to be a software engineer in the 70s–90s before he retired, he doesn’t know the first thing about social media. Struggles to remember the name of Facebook which is the only one he’s used.

  My father in law wrote software for both JPL and government oceanography equipment, and is a big fan of Musk’s SpaceX work and vehemently against his political stuff, saying “he needs to dump that political stuff and get back to work!” frequently.

  In my experience, people are complicated and immune to a lot of online pigeonholing, no matter how insistent online voices (mine included) are about that - there is a break between online discourse and real life day to day humdrum quotidian lived experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no need to make it personal to me, I’m just telling you about a guy I know.

  I think its very reasonable in America that one wouldn’t be exposed to specific anti-Musk language if one didn’t engage with social media or news.

  I think this is a case of

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  random people on the street flip him off, and some people have thrown stuff at him. He thinks they’re weirdos and it’s kinda funny. 🤷‍♂️

  also I’m not going to tell the bosses husband people think he’s a nazi. I’m going to take my pay and enjoy my weekends and vacations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is not an endorsement of Musk or of Tesla or of cybertruck drivers - but this is a Very Online take. My boss’ husband drives a cybertruck, he doesn’t know what tiktok is, he doesn’t know what a meme is nor does he understand them when he sees them (he asks who it’s a photo of), the only news he consumes is in regards to logistics and supply chain and a little bit of the stock market.

  I imagine he has as much understanding of why people hate elon musk as to I do as to why people love Sidney Crosby and hate Alexander Ovechkin - two people I had never heard of or know nothing about before googling “hockey players people love and hate.”

  I won’t even remember their names in 5 minutes. I imagine a fair amount of cybertruck owners are like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  holy shit I used this exact method this week at work to extract a paid-for database for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  12 keys (A, Bb, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#) major and minor. 36 if you count melodic minor and harmonic minor separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  really you should pick an instrument that you are excited about and we can’t know that.

  I loved playing piano as a kid, and when I became a teen I wanted to play bass, then in my 20s I wanted to learn clarinet so I’d have a well-rounded experience with different instruments.

  The best way to learn is classes, the best way to practice is scales. Anyone who has the fortitude to play the 24 scales every day and maybe a few modes before an hour of practice will become better than most people, faster.

  Being able to see I-V-vi-IV in F and being able to instinctively play it only comes from hours of drilling scales.

  when Im in a music-heavy space, I have some music dice that I roll and make it into a chord progression and play that. I also try and memorize a new song a week til I can play it without looking at the music and without a backing track (but, crucially, with a click track or metronome)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is it!?!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  brit and I did hate peanut butter as a kid.

  however I will also say that Reeces is peanut butter flavored confectionary, it is not strictly peanut butter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  real answer: they are maintained by an agency that replaces damaged ones. although people have refused stars no one has had one removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I NOT do in front of rich people?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  I think it’s just this meme you’re remembering