Pet peeves: The return (Part 8)

Real peeves here:
Drowned Arathi not being classified as undead but as humaniond while using a zombie model.

2004 Torch being the only torch that has a illumination effect when mogged onto a weapon

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I am in England. Hello.

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It feels like its been an eternity since I saw that forum face.

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The app sometimes auto plays them for me on startup. It’s mostly cute cat videos and quick art tips for the first couple for me so I don’t mind

:rat: :rat: :rat:

How was the weather?

sorry to hear that :pensive: :fist:

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What

What

The amount of abuse from Google and company that people are putting up with is staggering

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to be entirely honest i am very happy to be back. stepping into 20 degree weather after two weeks of high 30’s is very welcome

as above. not as hot as it usually is, but still too hot for my liking

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looks at you
I think i just did.

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I’ve wrote a complaint about it to youtube
But you know where those go…

:wastebasket:

Glad to hear
but why did you feel it’s necessary to park those 30 degrees in Germany for tomorrow and Thursday? What did I do to you??

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Google doesn’t care about our opinions. For every person who votes with their feet, there will be ten youngsters who regard corporations turning the Internet into cable TV as completely normal because it’s the only Internet they’ve ever known.

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I’m real sad for the little ones. Old internet was far from perfect but at least it wasn’t so commercialised.

Did you hear about youtube now having AI summaries for chat? That thing obviously doesn’t understand contextless memes at all so now it just hallucinates wildly

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delenda est.

idk i just felt like someone else needed to share the pain

I did my time sweating in the heat already…
You could at least also drop off some food… :I

The cyberpunk we deserve.

(sigh)

I have seen modem Internet, ICQ and IRC, Web 1.0 personal pages, the twilight of Usenet and the golden age of web forums, and more email providers than you could shake a stick at. All gone now, this spirit of enthusiasm and freedom, and the celebration of ourselves as the owners and shapers of our corners of the Internet. Before the dark times. Before FAANG.

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About 10 years ago I thought every kid getting a chromebook in school was a good thing. Now, I am forced to reckon with the short sightedness it all.

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the road to hell is paved with good intentions or whatever the saying is

or with draenei skulls

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The Google that had good intentions (and “Don’t be evil” as its motto) is long gone.

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I was referring mainly to Elenthas and his desire to see all children be adopted into the google ecosystem.

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He has become AIlenthas.

Editing this peeve in:
Earthen being unlocked after the time gated segment War Within main quest.