Did you comment in the wrong place?

Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.

I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I’m not certain.

In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn’t, well, it may help to know that it’s out of place thematically.

Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond

Never fall prey to the bait!

Well, when it comes to video games, despite being foundational, Mario Bros. At the time, it was mids, but there were a lot less truly great games, and less abysmal ones so it looked better than it was. The series got better, but that first one was kinda meh. It’s all timing jumps, which is fine as far it as it goes, but there were both better and worse options on that console.

Away from video game, Life is about as meh as it gets. No real strategy, no depth. But it’s a good time killer and you can play it with a table full of people drinking and not get bogged down or into arguments because of the game (unlike monopoly lol).

Whats bad is that list misses so much stuff that’s worse than a mosh pit.

Like, have you ever see a venue after the crowd decides to have an impromptu orgy? Takes days to get the jizz out of the rafters

Wait, so it’s fake?

Damn, that’s so gay

Or something lol. Dude had to be whacked out

Yeah, even he’s said that it was not a great choice lol.

I kinda get what he was going for though. It failed utterly, but as a scene meant to ground characters in their humanity and link them so deeply that the power of it could carry them through and into adulthood, the symbology is right.

The problem was their ages. Not because kids that age are never sexual, they can be. It was that the combination of the shock to the reader and the details of the scene pushed the idea into unrealistic territory that made it read unhinged rather than like an improvised magic ritual of sorts.

Like, c’mon man, you don’t actually need to describe as much as you did. The concept of a young girl making that decision as her size first experience is already at the very edge of credibility, trying to make it seem beautiful and otherworldly just breaks the ragged remains of suspension of disbelief. Like, no Steve, no. Not even in that situation would that happen, it just isn’t realistic even in that world. Fade to black, have it happen off screen, and be done with it if you really insist on that being the magic activity.

The fact that he didn’t consider anything less skeevy is another issue, but damn, there were a dozen things that would have carried the symbolism just as much, or more. Why not become “blood brothers”? Everyone slice a hand and shake on it, you dig? You know, something that group of kids would actually think of in that situation. On a literary symbolism level it’s better.

For one thing, the magic connection would be tied into all of them, not just hinging on one character. For another, blood exchanges as a form of power are damn near universal across the world’s history and cultures.

I like King. The dude has a strange and engaging imagination. But that scene is the worst one he’s ever written, on multiple levels.

Sailors are gay, obviously

Completely fake, no anon ever gets into college.

Completely gay, watching another dude jerk it without offering at least a dutch rudder

Stay strong homie!

I dunno, but I’d say all the other slim shadys were just imitating

Look, it’s only gay if you like it. You can get railed every night at the club in the bathroom, but if you don’t like it, it isn’t gay.

I hope to fuck not.

I run into that shit with cripple.

Fuck them, I’m the one on the fucking cane, I call myself what the fuck I want, and I will gladly fight about it.

But, yeah, the edge lords will fuck things up

Please, no.

He is such a douche bag, and a lot of his fan base is too.

Isn’t it obvious?

A rolled up newspaper.

What you do with it is up to you. Or up them, I guess.

I dunno, after having family get it done, I’m not scared of it, but I’m also not going to get it done until I’m a bit older, and only if it gets covered by Medicaid or something.

Even then, I’d still need glasses what with presbyopia, but at least I could do without for normal vision and only need reading glasses.

Assuming it went well.

But, everyone I know that’s had it ends up needing glasses around the 15 year mark. I wouldn’t even be 70 at that point, and I have no fucking desire to go back to glasses at that age.

So I doubt I’ll ever get it done.

Jfc, I can’t even calculate.

Music, if we say 10 bucks a CD, at least 10k. Probably closer to 20k, and maybe more because I haven’t actually counted in years because I didn’t see the point in trying to keep up. However, I just went and looked at the folder on my nas and it has 1k+ albums on it, and that’s way less than is on my main drive on my media PC. So even the 20k estimate is a lot lower than what’s actually there. Likely closer to the $50k mark if my memory is right. I tend to grab whole albums rather than individual tracks only, and I’m prone to grabbing an entire discography when I discover a new band. My music collection is around 2tb total, I know that without looking.

Movies, even at the same price, it would be around the 8k mark somewhere, though they aren’t all in one place, so I cant be certain. There’s a little over 1k files on the nas, but that’s only the ones that everyone wanted available on there.

Books, I’m fucked. Call it 5 bucks for a cheap paperback, and I’m close to 10k, if not over. Hard to be sure because I do have duplicates in multiple formats. I’ve whittled down to only “borrowing” epub files and converting on my own if someone borrows an ebook from me and wants a different format, but I’ve never gone through and deleted mobis and whatnot. But it’s around 3k files on my boox reader, plus more on my nas drive that I really only keep because I like having access to some reference materials but don’t use them often enough to justify keeping them on devices. So 15k there, at that price.

I just checked because I was curious. Almost 18k files of ebooks. That, however, does include classics that I only read occasionally, copies in multiple formats, stuff that isn’t for me (kid, wife, etc), and probably some stuff that I read once and never will again, but didn’t delete. So, over 50,000 bucks at 5 bucks each.

Comics, that’s easier because a scanned version doesn’t really have a monetary value at all, and most of my collection is of OOP stuff. So, depending on how you look at what a price should be, it’s $0, maybe 600 bucks at $1 each, or you’d have to track cover prices on all of it, and I ain’t doing that lol.

Tbh, I can’t think of the last time I pirated a game. I just don’t game that much on my desktop any more, and I know I haven’t in the 10 odd years I’ve had that specific hard drive.

If I tried to factor in stuff that was higher priced at some point (and CDs used to be pretty expensive), numbers would go up.

Shit. Even if I wiped out the stuff I have physical copies of, it would still be in the 100k range I think.

Shit, I down voted you for whining about down votes.

Ebay, or through local forums, message boards, etc. Still a small enough town that if you post a flyer at the grocery store, you’ll get calls.