A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies…

I’m nervous about how long it’ll be until those stop working

Going from 256GB -> 1TB is $400. That’s insanity. A 1TB NVME drive is less than $100 these days.

Halo 3 Game Fuel needs to be S tier but other than that idc

Any recommendations for a Zigbee hub to use with HomeAssistant? I’m planning to make the switch now that Hue is doing this

This was definitely going to be my answer too

Film photography. Started with a camera I got for free, and $20 worth of film. Quickly spiraled into many cameras that I bought or inherited, and so much money on film and development

Problem is I like c/piracy. I don’t pirate much, but I do everything I can to avoid ads, and i self-host a lot of stuff, so there’s a lot of overlap between my interest and the content there.

I’m one of those Linux Die-hards (well, I use Pop! so I guess I can’t be that die-hard) so I actually enjoy the privacy/FOSS discussions, but totally see how it would be annoying.

But yeah I’ve slowly been moving back to Reddit in-browser because of the spam and the lack of communities here. I won’t be caught dead using their app though. If they disable mobile web I’ll either stop using Reddit again or find a way around it.

Finally, an emoji that’s worth being that big

The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.

That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.

My mind is blown

Ori And The Blind Forest is definitely up there

I think this is the best answer here. The theatrical Palace scene had such a good tone, they totally ruined it when they added Jedi Rocks.

I like my car, but hate the urban design that makes me have to drive it so much

This is my biggest pet peeve. One data point can’t be exponentially more than one other data point without context.

If people still want to sound “smart” because they used a fancy math word, you can say “orders of magnitude more experienced.”

The smell of Greek Yogurt

For me it was TLOU pt 1. I was so excited for it to come to PC, but it ended up being completely unplayable, and I wasn’t really a huge fan of the third-person cover-shooter gameplay. I played about 3 hours (and 4 hours of waiting on the menu) during the first week, and haven’t touched it since.

Another bump for Proton. My wife and I share an account with a few different addresses each going to their own folder. (One for me, one for her, one for shopping, one for spam, etc) Their VPN is great too and includes ad/tracker blocking.

10 minute burner emails are such a godsend.