where is everyone

[Verbal]

no one here

[droidspawn]

You’re never there

You’re never ever ever ever there

[Verbal]

false. i am here now

[Noyka]

Was anyone actually into Cake?

[jawn galliano]

i am here and i am getting drunk because i got rejected by a woman two days prior to our first date

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Allergies have been handing me my ass for the last couple of days

[zim]

i am here and i am getting drunk because i got rejected by a woman two days prior to our first date

[jawn galliano]

the fucked up thing is this is the second instance where a communist from providence apparently found me so utterly repellent, she swore off traditional dating entirely to become a poly person. i don't know if i'm ever going to recover from this one, jesus christ

[rhino]

Tough stuff stormy, keep your head up

I was working, time and a half today

[Noyka]

Drink nk until you’re numb Stormy

[jawn galliano]

unfortunately that part doesn't come until the hangover kicks in but with a little luck and some determination i am confident i will get there in the end

[User]

the fucked up thing is this is the second instance where a communist from providence apparently found me so utterly repellent, she swore off traditional dating entirely to become a poly person. i don't know if i'm ever going to recover from this one, jesus christ

now this is confusing, and so niche that you have a duty to recover

[jawn galliano]

the reality is i am probably fated to recover so i can keep on being tortured with this hyperspecific phenomenon over and over. southern new england's very own romantic sisyphus

[User]

if you get a bad name with the communists you can always try the anarchist dating scene

[jawn galliano]

i think i would probably be better off with a liberal. i don't respect either tendency, but i can kind of understand choosing US liberalism because it's 50% of the officially-acceptable positions. there is a heavy price associated with deviating from that universe of ideas! if you are going to incur it, you should probably aim a little higher than the bedtime abolition caucus.

[Verbal]

youtube would have me believe that there are two groups in america

1. love jesus, love guns, hate abortions

2. care way too much about the environment, throw words like "racist" and "transphobe" and "sexist" around rather than articulate an argument, and aggressively pro abortion

[Paste Human]

youtube would have me believe that there are two groups in america

1. love jesus, love guns, hate abortions

2. care way too much about the environment, throw words like "racist" and "transphobe" and "sexist" around rather than articulate an argument, and aggressively pro abortion

You're referring to a minority of loudmouth idiots that dominate headlines because turning the nightly news into a reality TV show apparently sells ads.

As far as I can tell the vast majority of adults either have no strong opinion on the trivial divide and conquer issues mass media won't shut up about, or they consider what's going on and strike a nuanced outlook on things and go from there. So to state the obvious: the U.S. isn't a nation of Westboro church goers vs. purple haired transgender first graders.

I'm Paste Human, and I approve this message

[Verbal]

but youtube would have me believe this

[Noyka]

Youtube hates jesus, gays, women, the environment, and guns thats why.

[User]

i remember when youtube was cool

[User]

i do remember

i also remember the first time i really started watching videos online, seven years before youtube. in 1998 i would log on to the goldeneye 007 N64 websites through the classroom computer and watch the speed runs people would put online (3-4MB each), then when i got home i would try to perfect them. my obsession with goldeneye led to perfect dark, which led to pd64.com, which led to nintensity.com, which led me to mabb. a direct route

[zim]

the only way i watched videos online pre-youtube was mostly downloading music videos thru kazaa or whatever. i don't remember a lot of video watchery pre-youtube. oh i just remembered, around 2004-2005 you could stream videos through winamp, there was even a few porn channels

[jawn galliano]

i was downloading mad VCD rips in the pre-youtube days. i had a bootleg copy of the second star wars prequel, i can't remember if that was circulated ahead of the theatrical or home release but it was definitely early.

[zim]

i had dial up until 2005 or 2006, downloading video was rough in them days

[User]

yeah i still remember 56k speeds, they are tattooed forever in my mind. 20mins per song, give or take

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

I remember having to leave my computer on all night to download an album

I remember leaving mine on because I was sending you shit

[Paste Human]

I remember having to leave my computer on all night to download an album

Same here. On WinMX I would sometimes send a message to the uploader asking if they could do me a favor and stay online so I could get the entire album/video in one go. Even with cable internet this was still sometimes necessary back then, and took all night in some cases.

A lot of it was due to searching for long out of print albums that almost no one was sharing. Atheist's Unquestionable Presence might have been the most frustrating to find before it was finally reissued. It was so expensive on eBay that Kelly Shaefer couldn't afford to buy a replacement copy after he lost the only copy he had, which is pretty crazy if you think about it.

[zim]

did you all ever burn cds and sell them? i must have made like 100 dollars doing that at school before i got in trouble

[Mesarthim]

I am here.

also, if you ignore every idiot talking to the camera on youtube you can avoid a lot stupidity in your life.

as Paste said, these people are a minority in society, don't let them think that any of their opinions are held by the majority.

[Mesarthim]

I remember having to leave my computer on all night to download an album

I remember searching through user's lists on IRC looking for metal albums and videos. got in to quite a few bands just by downloading a single track and then committing to the rest after liking what I heard. I had dialup then but even on DSL shit would take forever to download. the worst was when you would get most of a file or album but the user signed off at some point (or your internet went out) and you'd have to wait for them to come back on to finish.

[Z's bouncy tits]

Audiogalaxy.

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Audiogalaxy.

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[User]

my first downloads were on audiogalaxy

i still remember getting morbid angel - god of emptiness there

[jawn galliano]

my first MA was rapture on napster

back then i would download one or two tracks and go out and buy the album if i liked it because dialup + lack of availability made full album downloads impractical

[Verbal]

i got the black album, justice, and puppets at various times in my local record shop. i was not aware until years later what other albums they had. i also thought for a while that the black album was called vertigo

[deckard]

hello