>>2839
That's one of the videos that failed to contain the information in a concise way, actually. Using your same search I can see a reddit result that conveyed the information in seconds.
(This isn't actually the info I wanted though, it turns out it was Ctrl + B... I think? Did I really already forget it)

>>2841
Yeah, I agree. People used to joke about thread necros and "PM'd you the fix!" stuff, but it really can't compare to today. Sadly some company, fandom, learned that wikis could be a source of profit. There's also that awful fextralife place that embeds twitch streams in addition to the usual ads.

>>2842
Last year I returned to an old hobby. Which has obviously changed a bunch since the last time I messed with that stuff 15 years ago. I was happy to see the usual forum was still around and active. But I was frustrated by the fact that a small group of users have started some kind of slander campaign against it. To the point where they actively hide information from everyone and lock it away within their discord channels and whatever the hell else they use. They claim the forum is not a good source for the information despite the fact that all the active developers use it.

I discovered that they purposely post wrong information on it and the usual wiki. Engage in a campaign to delete pages off the wiki. Send false DMCA and other requests to have code/projects they didn't write taken down from websites hosting them. They've also made the open repo hosting projects related to this stuff mostly useless since they're attempting to promote their own.

I tried to avoid them as best I could but I needed a small file that was only hosted on their discord channel. I bit the bullet and made an account using a throwaway email. I joined their discord. I discovered the file I wanted was locked away within a channel only approved users can access. There was a process for applying for access that included an interview with a mod. Before I got a chance to do that I was locked out of the account because discord demanded that I hand over a valid cell phone number (which I don't have) to continue using it. This is like a lot of stuff now where they bait you. They'll let you make accounts and lurk for a few minutes then they'll demand cell phone+photo ID for "security purposes" or to verify you aren't a bot (even though half the users are bots).

Anyway, I ended up writing my own version from scratch in like 5 minutes. I shared it on the open forum. This caused a shit stir and they dogpiled in an attempt to get my account banned and have the file taken down. They're attempting to claim copyright for something I released for free. When that didn't work they claimed it was illegal for me to post it because I didn't license it under whatever license they use. Despite the fact that it's original work that isn't pulling in code from anywhere else.

I've gone through similar issues with most things I contribute to since about 2017 or so. It wasn't like tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2842
>Yeah, I agree. People used to joke about thread necros and "PM'd you the fix!" stuff, but it really can't compare to today.

It wasn't as bad as people said because there were always multiple options to get at or discuss that information. Unlike now.

The most frustrating part of old forums for me were the moderators that insisted on locking topics for no reason or the admins that used the add-ons that auto-locked a thread after it aged. I always thought it was stupid they wanted you to make new threads for the same subject instead of simply bumping an existing one already filled with the information. This was mostly done to inflate stats in the name of ad money. But I'll spare you the essay on how old school google adsense worked back then.

While lurking 100+ page threads could be frustrating at least the information was presented in a format where you could see the discussion develop over time. Reddit isn't good for that type of thing. It could be. But the upvoting system drives the most useless stuff to the top and buries the useful stuff behind a lot of crap. Then there is the issue mentioned before where people constantly nuke old accounts and the information posted along with them. At least on old forums it was usually impossible to delete your posts because the admin didn't want the information being lost.

The main issue is the fact that no one runs their own websites anymore. Everything is now hosted behind log-in walls on major platforms that lock out anyone that isn't willing to hand over their real ID. Then there is the whole secret club thing where people lock stuff away on purpose simply because they want to lord over the users with their mod powers. Oh and the whole ad money thing I've mentioned before. Which drives self-censorship as people are terrified of losing income streams they really didn't deserve in the first place.

I will live to see the day where the internet becomes totally useless. It already mostly is if you aren't willing to play ball with the 2FA stuff. They're already talking about replacing passwords with DNA samples in the MSM for "security". Even though most of this crap is more unsecure than it has ever been before. The only reason people don't ddos and hack into stuff like the old days are the bug bounties and pay offs from big tech companies. Which Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2843
Ouch, that's rough. There's a lot of reasons to hate discord and I guess you pretty much summed up my main gripes. Game modding has really suffered with mods, information and tools being scattered about.
I kind of wonder how feasible it would be if someone hosted information and stuff scraped from discords. Not personal information or accounts or meme channels or anything, just raw information so people can actually access it again. Hell, just scrape it for URLs linking to mega or google drive and stuff.

>>2845
I wrote a script to scrape information from such channels a few years ago. The problem is they lock most of it up behind private channels now to prevent this.

Game modding is by far the best example. But it applies to a lot of different things now that used to be openly hosted on forums. For example, the last time I wanted to watch combo videos for a 10 year old game to improve my own skills they were locked up in some discord server that required;
>Valid cell phone number
>Approval of moderation
>some stupid process to prove you weren't some random troll they dealt with years ago that called them mean names
>some other things I forget
All that for a stupid combo video that would have been hosted on the wiki years ago.

When I attempted to update the relevant wiki my account was locked because they assumed I was the troll that thrashed them ages ago. I wasn't. I was just some random dude that hasn't gone to a tournament in a few years because the people running them became insufferable to be around. I can't even watch the streams anymore because the commentators spend more time talking about identity politics and making LGBT jokes than they do talking about the matches.

ARGH I CAN'T FIND MY SACHIKO IN FRANCE IMAGE

>>2045
Sextoko is in Paris?

>>2045
Sachiko is a terrible Frenchman

It was 41 degrees C last week around my area.

>>2772
May God have mercy upon your soul.

it's cold...

all the hot guys hsould marry all the cold guys

Poor French Canadians, La Ronde is so bad they need traveling carnivals to get thrills

>>2787
The worst rated six flags...
you don't think much of it as a kid until you go out of province

good old carnie coasters

>>2727
Youmuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!! Haiiiii so cuteeee

>>2729
NO! I WILL FIGHT YOU

https://www.youtube.com/@LionWhispererTV/videos
crazy this guy is still alive

>>2775
bet he smells funny

giant cat hugs....

gonna get into a play fight with a lion

>>2778
If you raised a lion and play fought with it and it killed or injured you, do you think it would be sad? Or simply intrigued like a cat playing with a mouse.

outside constantly looks like this movie

>>2760
Hehe, nice

Have you guys heard about the Midnight Channel?

mm, air sure is scratchy tonight

If you start thinking sand is food, you should go to sleep ASAP.

I strongly disagree with a crepe being eaten with something other than sweet-tasting things like fruit or ice cream or nutella. It just doesn't feel right

>>2740
Playing a conjurer and encountering another in TES is also like pokemon

>>2738
Well he's not really a combatant, he's just spying.

>>2743
A real patriot.

>>2744
THE TRVEST OF ROMANS

Kill the languages that loaned them to us so we don't need to pay them back anymore.

There's a name for this idea of a restored English: "Anglish"
Old English covers a period of about 700 years give or take, while Middle English saw radical changes throughout just three or four centuries. Noun and adjective cases, grammatical gender, verb conjugations, they all went away very quickly at the same time that Norman vocabulary was introduced in droves. And I mean droves, it was a huuuuge amount of words. There is a wealth of vocab that people are not familiar with anymore, nor their phonology or mechanisms of derivation. What's a geleafa? What morphemes is adlig made of, and how do you inflect it?
That's the grammar part, but at a social level Greco-Roman vocabulary is entrenched as the language of high civilization while English speakers often see their Anglo-Saxon lexicon as being either down-to-earth or pointlessly archaic depending on whether it has survived. You can see it being referred to as "earthy" here and there.
In practice, I think it'd look like current English but with some different sounds since there is no way you're going to bring back all the old grammar. A lot of proposed words you see out there are simply compounds of two words that are already in use, a replacement rather than truly bringing back stuff. IMO, it wouldn't be much of a revival, really.

>>2706
Nothing like English. English as we know it today is this weird hybrid between Anglo-Saxon and French, and so much of our vocabulary comes from the latter in one form or another that removing it would knock out half our vocabulary.

Tolkien's English. He deliberately chose Germanic words over French/Latin words, for example graveyard instead of cemetery. The intention was to give the reader a feeling of an archaic world.

>>2731
Yeah, Tolkien's one of the best examples out there, being himself a linguist and taking a lot from Beowulf (or at least, that's what I've read).

flying helps you not get eaten (like me)

Is that an actual modern poster? Didn't think anyone knew of demotivationals anymore.

>>2722
I think it's just a plain unironic 'motivational', which is weird to see after years of exposure to memes making fun of them.

>>2723
Demotivationals were only making fun of motivational posters for like five minutes before they became a way to shoehorn a random, unfunny comment into any image. Literally the [white rectangle caption on top] of the 00s.

>>2662
Nice livery.

>>2672
that's a boeing

>>2673
orz

oh, the thing you stick on a car for a logo

Demon slayer planes

>>2691
Cult and faith are the same.

>>2700
That seems to hinge on the old presentism vs eternalism debate. But certainly the claim that Christ was resurrected counts as a physical claim.

>>2702
It is a physical claim but the belief in Christ’s resurrection isn’t an unfounded one or one taken without any evidence. There are technically eyewitness accounts of it.

Cult and faith being different words may just be might be English being English that has both French and Germanic roots. No, it isnt actually (they're both French!) after doing quick research but it's worth noting its not inherently derogatory¹ and the difference is a modern thing


1: The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.
the cult of Apollo
the cult of Mary

Cult and faith are different things, and both come from Latin.
Fidem, fides, fido, fidelis, they're all about trust, loyalty, and the like. Specifically, trust without evidence, but covering far more than just religion. On the other hand, cultus seems to have been used by the Romans to mean cult-ivation, the practices used to actively worship a deity. By extension, a group of people and their religious activities. Down here, one of our biggest ministries is called the:
>Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto
Which is translated as:
>Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship
And article 2 of the constitution is about upholding the "culto católico apostólico romano", Catholicism.

Having faith on something beyond the physical makes perfect sense.

>>2691
>Unfortunately the video is the first, of three videos. From what I understand in them, the response would be that there are indeed "cult"-ish elements in Christianity. James Lindsey makes the case that "gnostic cults" parasitize other systems and use said system's own language to disguise itself. An example given most often is Jewish Kabbalist, it's hard for the average Jew to consider Kabbalists as being "gnostics". But from someone on the outside it is plainly clear that it is "gnostic". It be similarly easy for Protestants to easily identify and call out the "gnostics" in "The fake Vatican" while Catholics only see it as "The Vatican". Extrapolating this, it is hard for an academic in feminism to recognize and callout the problems with "sjw/woke/modern"-feminists that are behaving as "gnostic cultists". While for someone not in that discipline or academy it is easy for them to recognize that there is a "cultish" element in the latter group and it is distinct from the former.
>Jewish
>Catholics
>feminists
Anonymous, is there something you'd like to tell us about your inclinations?

So cute, and yet soon they will be so evil...

the geese will rip you to shreds

those geese are not your friends

>>2640
Chicken was and is a peasant food. They don't require much to look after and they breed readily. Also, when a hen gets to a certain age she stops laying and there are roosters to think about as well, so eating chicken was not that uncommon.

pheasant food

>>2630
I used to go to them with my Dad when I was younger. It was fun to watch the jousting and eat a giant turkey leg. Last time I went I paid way too much on a cool ornamental dagger.

>>2636
I'm not that anal about things. But there is just to much of a juxtaposition between modern people and the costumes they try to wear, weight tattoos and died hair are the obvious issues but even more than that people these days are lazy and don't look after their appearance in general.

So for example, a guy came through the gate wearing Chinese clothing and said he was studying something to do with China at uni. Most of his costume was fine, he even had a head piece and long hair but his long hair was not bound up in the head piece. No self respecting Chinaman would walk around dishevelled like that and the amount of effort he would have had to have put in to fix this was minute(and he could have shaved his neck beard while he was at it).

>>2646
that sounds very anal