logo Sign In

Random Thoughts — Page 754

Author
Time

Trident said:

Reading this forum backwards is sort of an experience. All the banned dudes come back to life. All the comments unwind instead of build up. All the arguments die off. And nothing makes any goddam sense.

But I still do it.

All the time.

I guess I’m just a sucker for a never-ending bunch of prequels?

I don’t know

The forum reads the same way forwards.

The blue elephant in the room.

Author
Time

I am getting dangerously close to the 10,000 posts mark. I might have to take a step back and reevaluate my life choices when I hit that.

Author
Time

Started using Brave as my phone’s web browser. Chrome had been frequently crashing on my on Reddit, so I switched to Firefox, which generally makes websites look like crap on mobile, but allowed me to use ublock to ditch ads, which I got used to.

Learned about Brave today, which looks and behaves mostly like Chrome but doesn’t crash on me, and has a built in ad blocker. No problems so far. I think I’m sold. Adios, Chrome & Firefox.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Does it have a Windows browser, and does it perform just as well? I’m kind of sick of Firefox’s bloat.

EDIT: Read up more on its ad scheme. Sounds dirty.

Author
Time

Not as dirty as me after a few whiskeys.

Author
Time

Wait you weren’t the other guy that was there? Oh boy…

Author
Time

Handman said:

Does it have a Windows browser, and does it perform just as well? I’m kind of sick of Firefox’s bloat.

EDIT: Read up more on its ad scheme. Sounds dirty.

All that is opt-in for now, not a thing on mobile at all yet, and it seems like an attempt to compromise between “no ads” and “sites need to make money to stay alive.” We’ll see what happens with their cryptocurrency thing and how paying both the user seeing the ads and the site owner using the ads actually works. Plus I like the idea of ads seen when you opt-in being vetted by the browser creators, and using the data from the user’s browser itself instead of from third party data mining companies to target the ads seen by the user.

Really it boils down to who you want having control over ads you see - tons of random third party services chosen by the websites you visit that track your shit, or just the company that makes the browser you use, who already track your shit, and only on sites that have partnered with them to share the revenue.

Of course, it’s entirely possible I’m not fully understanding some aspects of the way they intend this all to work, or that they could be obfuscating some things. But for now, I’m only using it on mobile, where all ads are still blocked and you can’t opt in to seeing Brave approved ads at all.

Author
Time

This here image is taken from Evil Dead II. I’ve watched this movie God knows how many times since 2002, but I was never able to tell what the hell I was looking at here. Last night, it finally clicked; it’s a goddamn cattle skull with deadite eyes.

Author
Time

Is that in the shed after the blood covers the light? I honestly can’t recall that shot.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Solve this!

“Get over violence, madness and death? What else is there?”

Also known as Mr. Liquid Jungle.

Author
Time

Don’t blame the pizza, blame the oven!