No.1546
>>1545>larger sound sources appear louder even though the actual loudness is the sameno... I said, I used to listen at the lowest volume on my phone, and now I no longer do (because it's now too quiet).
No.1547
>>1546did you do some formal test to determine whether your hearing really degraded?
there are several possible reasons why you increased the volume
No.1611
>>1549These days I think it's just a generational shift. There was a "otaku culture" meta thread up when I checked it a couple weeks ago and the people bemoaning the death of everything we hold dear were clearly in their teens and were extremely wrong on everything and named the usual culture war enemies so it was quite a surreal sight.
I'm sure 4/jp/ is enjoyable to the people there, though. And it will be enjoyable to the people there in 2030.
No.1612
>>1611I wonder how many habits have been grandfathered into /jp/ though, like how archive enthusiasts hypothesized that the zenith of an active /jp/sie was 2-3 before they reclined into lurking or got an identity on IRC
No.1622
>>1611You're probably right, but the whole thing just felt very artificial to me. The shift didn't happen gradually; it was like they thought that /jp/ was too slow and old-timey for their liking, so they just kicked out some of the older topics and replaced them with things that are more appealing to a younger and bigger audience and left it at that.
I have never browsed /vr/, but I have heard that the exact same thing happened there as well.
A+ moderation.
No.1636
The windows 10 task bar is really bothering me lately. First it tells me the whether but now it even comes up with 'sunset coming' 'breaking news' and 'easter' notifications, it's invasive, distracting and annoying. I did not ask for it to do this.
No.1637
>>1622>they just kicked out some of the older topics and replaced them with things that are more appealing to a younger and bigger audienceI think the only motivation for that would be the containment garbage board status that /jp/ has. Vtubers were a /v/ thing until mods forced it to be a /jp/ thing.
It's true that hiro ran 4chan as a business, but his attention to doing things like that was lost after he discovered he could make far more money streaming. I still can't quite wrap my head around that one. What the heck are people hearing that's so entertaining or informative?
No.1640
Now the task bar is telling me it's Humid. I don't care! Leave me alone!
No.1649
Right click on an empty space in the taskbar and turn those things off.
No.1650
>>1611>There was a "otaku culture" meta thread up when I checked it a couple weeks ago and the people bemoaning the death of everything we hold dear were clearly in their teens and were extremely wrong on everything and named the usual culture war enemies so it was quite a surreal sight.What were they saying?
No.1658
>>1657That doesn't help me get rid of the problem I was referring tooooooooooooooooooooo
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No.1659
>>1658That's just the search bar being annoying. I don't think you can disable that aside from getting rid of the search bar altogether.
Just so you know, the search bar doesn't actually go away if you remove it from the taskbar. If you open the Start menu, and start typing it'll bring up the search bar.
No.1660
>>1650I don't really want to go into detail since the mention of the things was itself the problem.
>>1658A year ago I had to do some search bar fix to disable that thing blacking out and generating errors. You can find people talking about it back in 2020 and 2021.
You might want to use some third party tool to block the search bar's access to the internet, like
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 which is what I use. I disabled this stuff and used windows update blocker so I wouldn't have any more big errors in windows when it updates and breaks something.
Your problem might be unrelated, though.
No.1661
>>1658>>1660Why not use a better start menu and search like Openshell, StartisBack etc?
No.1662
>>1658Oh wow, it's even worse than I thought.
No.1665
>>1664Probably not. I heard somewhere that it costs $200,000 to make an episode of anime and that's a whole episode including all costs. A two minute clip like that might not even coast $1000.
It's interesting how many comments are in English to that as well, all but one from where I scrolled down to anyway(but that was not far).
No.1666
>>1665I think the Japanese more comment on the premier itself, just look at the chat replay to see how thoroughly outnumbered english posts are. Also, I think google biases language if you sort by top comments. Looking at Newest First makes it a bit more even or in favor of JP comments.
No.1668
>>1667Only 500k? That seems pretty cheap honestly, I'd heard that for the bigger MVs the cost goes into the millions.
No.1669
>>1667That's if she was the one that even payed for it and not a producer.
No.1670
>>1668Probably worth remembering that there's always going to be fans willing to produce for cheaper compared to someone with not much following.
No.1671
>>1668Okay after looking around a bit more maybe it was 500k USD not yen. But I don't feel like trying to trawl though archives or streams to find the actual amount. But it was apparently very expensive according to Marine.
Either way, she makes so much money this is still nothing for her.
No.1674
>>1673Superchats are only a small part of it. There's also merchandise sales, sponsorships, ad revenue, and base salary that she gets as well.
No.1675
>>1674But to counter that the company she works for would get a cut off everything she makes, that could even be quite substantial.
No.1676
Money is worthless unless you spend it on something stupid. I thought Pekora still lives with her parents and probably makes 1mil annually
No.1677
>>1676I disagree. If she lives with her parents still then she's probably going to retire in a few years and never work again(provided she wants to but it seems Kizunai Ai did that). That's the difference between stupid people making money and smart people making money.
No.1683
Watched a few engineering disaster type videos and something occurred to me: in our modern era we have various engineering disaster to look upon as references to ensure the same mistakes are not made. It really made me think about ancient architecture and survivor bias. We have all these ancient Roman sites, and such, and it's often touted how the Romans were excellent engineers, but what of their disasters? Surely it happened that when building something it collapsed. Were they really such great builders or do only the most magnanimous structures still stand? I think it's a bit interesting to think about. What structures now will still be standing in 2000 years?
No.1684
>>1683There probably where, I know there were a few Roman stadiums where the wooden seating collapsed and killed thousands of people. But the Romans were working with quite sturdy and reliable material(aside from wood) and much of their architecture was borrowed form the Greeks so they would have learned lessons there or they would be copying designs from the Greeks who had learned lessons. Much of it simply relies on using material that has a lot of mass and is quite durable like stone or marble and then designing it so the weight is distributed correctly and holds it in place and then because of the mass and durability of it not much can phase it(aside form earthquakes). The Dome of the Pantheon is fairly impressive and uses concrete though.
Modern concrete won't last long, I heard it's only rated for 100 years or something like that because of the steel bars corroding and expanding. 100 years is not long really.
No.1700
I really hate it when geography nerds complain about the Mercator projection without understanding or explaining why it is the way it is. The Mercator projection is uniquely useful compared to other "more accurate" map projections because it allows the plotting of straight lines courses where on other projections, the curvature of the Earth must be accounted for and so courses must instead be plotted on curves or otherwise. That is the genius of the Mercator projection. It is a navigational aide, as a map ought to be.
No.1722
Pretty much everything I like is also enjoyed by annoying 4chan internet contrarians, and it makes it really hard to find people to talk about this stuff to.
No.1729
>>1722Contrarians really do drain my energy.
No.1753
What's the deal with people who constantly change their username and profile picture? It's annoying trying to figure out who's who when they do that...
No.1755
>>1753Maybe that's the point.
No.1805
>>1753Steam has an option that lets you add nicknames to people.
No.1807
sometimes people wonder why engineers and designers don't run businesses.
No.1818
People who come up with extremely bad analogies are funny.
No.1827
>>1807Many of them do, I don't have an opinion on the matter.
No.1830
Saw someone saying a while ago that they had a grandfather who had learned German and they used to say that they spoke the language best when they were drunk. Not because they were drunk, but because people are often too self-conscious of the way they're speaking when learning a foreign language that they're too insecure to be able to mistakes. I thought that was a neat observation, at least for a single person.
No.1832
wearing a tie. wish nice clothes weren't so much work.
No.1834
I hate the recent trend of people calling everything that's even remotely self-aware or self-deprecating "ironic". I get that we're all sick of the 2010s, but please stop abusing words.