LagrangePoint

joined 1 year ago
[–] LagrangePoint 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You guys are all the worst, I would never want to work with any of you. Do everyone a favor and grow up.

[–] LagrangePoint 10 points 2 months ago

Nice post, Kyle Judd from Kentucky.

[–] LagrangePoint -5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So is this for real, or is this just so you guys can have an inbox you can easily ignore?

Has anyone here actually talked to the admin team and gotten a response back?

Every day I look at the modlog and see the same names doing the same bullshit.

[–] LagrangePoint -1 points 6 months ago

Because some people are so illiterate they can't understand context clues even in written form where you have FOREVER to think about it and they NEED that stupid letter S at the end in order to go "ooooooooh ok thank god someone told me it was a joke, I was unable to think for myself and recognize it on my own."

Don't use your "neurodivergence" as an excuse to rationalize why you shouldn't think about things, it's actually sickening to see people falling into that belief.

[–] LagrangePoint 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for reading my post and replying individually to a lot of the things I wrote.

I still think the trans thing sticks out like a weird red flag to me. Literally never before has Youtube ever suggested anything trans related to me. Then for a day and a half after I was working on that spreadsheet, it showed up at the top of the suggested videos. Since then, I have never seen it again. So in short: years of nothing, nothing, nothing, TWO DAYS OF TRANS VIDEO SUGGESTIONS, and then since, nothing, nothing, nothing.

It is bizarre and very fucky. Even after reading a lot of people telling me that it is just The Algo^TM^ at work, that incident seems so razor specific to activity I was simply doing on my computer at the same time Youtube was open rather than anything that could be related to my personal interests.

[–] LagrangePoint 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Am I really being paranoid?

Some context I'll add to my main post in an edit: the only Youtube suggestions I get are music-related, since I use adblock+Youtube as my personal Spotify. It's why I have Youtube open frequently despite knowing that it is not a great platform and it is also why any suggestions in my feed that are explicitly not music-related stick out like a sore thumb.

 

I know the prevailing sentiment for a long time in the privacy community has been "DAE Youtube bad?" though I have always thought that it is kinda overblown. Besides, I am using Firefox which is supposed to isolate tabs so they can't speak to each other, so I felt a small amount safer using Youtube.

You can take my post with a grain of salt since all I have are anecdotes, but can anyone else confirm encountering creepiness similar to my experiences:

-Typing anything in another window that is not my browser, sometimes these words seem like they get picked up by the Youtube suggestion algo and then boom, I get suggested videos based off of those keywords. Recent example, I was copypasting the words "trans" and "talking" over and over for some nerd spreadsheet I am making (read: not transgender purposes) and what do you know, transgender videos about "How to change your voice" start popping up in my feed. Please know I have zero interest in transgender politics/culture/anything, it is not something I have ever searched for or engaged in online. Possible that Youtube is reading my clipboard? Reading my keystrokes?

-Listening to an album via VLC, while Youtube is open in my browser. Suddenly, more tracks from that album start showing up in my suggested feed. Possible Youtube is reading the titles of other apps current open on my machine? (VLC changes its active title to the name of whatever file is currently open)

-Have a Discord channel open in another tab, people there start posting things I am uninterested in and don't click on, but lo and behold, videos related to those things start appearing my feed. Tbh, I am the most jaded about Discord's privacy security because there is probably a direct communications pipeline between the Discord and Youtube where they link accounts to each other, even creating shadow accounts similar to how Facebook does. So while not surprising... still at least a little bit creepy, yes?

edit: let me add a small bit of context. I use Youtube all the time as my personal version of Spotify. Adblock+Youtube still works for me and is very nice. So all of my Youtube video suggestions are always music related. If anything weird shows up in that feed (you know, not music-related stuff) it sticks out to me immediately.

edit2: thanks for the replies, even if you are disagreeing with me. I promise you I am not the person downvoting everyone lol.

[–] LagrangePoint 2 points 8 months ago

You actually sound stupid if somehow you read "underpowered" and then immediately jump to the conclusion of:

Why can’t I attack this clearly heavily armored enemy with a small calibre weapon and killed them instantly?

[–] LagrangePoint 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Players: "Why not just make all of the underpowered weapons actually useful in high difficulty?"

Arrowhead: "Go fuck yourselves, lmao rekt"

[–] LagrangePoint 12 points 8 months ago

To be honest, it's not particularly great. But it sucks less than Reddit, so....

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submitted 1 year ago by LagrangePoint to c/haruhi
 

Second Haruhi novel release in the last 13 years. We truly are spoiled.

Also, there is a concert event that will reunite the original voice cast, which is cool if you live in Japan, I guess.

[–] LagrangePoint 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You walked right into a Haruhi community and created a post called "I hate Haruhi" but it's well-written, is clearly not a ragebait piece, and you gave us all a light challenge at the end by calling everyone Harusimps lol. Nice job.

Your sentiment toward Haruhi doesn't seem unusual. Time and time again I see this feeling of "but I hate Haruhi" echoed in message board threads from confused people trying to find the appeal in the show.

But apparently it’s criminal to join the subreddit of an anime to discuss our thoughts unless they’re positive opinions.

I miss what Reddit used to be. I know now that we're never going to get that back. Hopefully we can have a better start over here.

[–] LagrangePoint 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure, caterpillar sleeping bag Haruhi is prime Haruhi.

In Melancholy, there is an episode where Haruhi drags the SOS Brigade into town to go searching on foot for any paranormal activity. The group meets in a local cafe and draws straws to see who gets paired together. This scene happens twice in the episode and Haruhi keeps getting more and more visually annoyed that she doesn't get paired with Kyon. By the end of the day, she's so irritated she calls off their discovery expedition and stomps away with her arms pointed out at right angles. I don't know why but that was the moment I felt like I understood the appeal of her character. She's bossy and she throws tantrums. But I think those just make her good moments even more poignant.

Also, I'm not trying to throw shade at S;G here (I love both of these shows and have them rated as 10s), but Okabe also has the benefit of having a complete story told in his show. We get to see his character fully transform from the beginning to the end. The viewers get to 'live inside his head' more fully, so to speak, since S;G is told from his perspective whereas Haruhi is told from Kyon's, and as a result, we never get that direct closeness with her thoughts.

I know that she’s apparently better as the story goes on in the Light Novels

You're better off not reading them until Tanigawa actually finishes the series. We're gonna hit 20 years since Haruhi's debut pretty soon and it's still not technically finished. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I thought the anime was far superior to the source anyway. KyoAni pretty much just took all of Tanigawa's ideas, adapted them as precisely as he wrote them, but took the time and care to make them all much deeper. Not to mention that supposedly Haruhi's band performance was written in the book as "some R&B" song instead of the glorious rock goodness we got in the show.

 

Contains spoilers for the full Haruhi series, season, season 2 and the movie. Though I guess if you are browsing a Haruhi community in the year 2023, you have seen it all already.

Spoilers begin below:

Haruhi has godlike powers and manifests her wishes into reality

Or does she?

I forget which LN it was in. Tanigawa briefly teased the concept that Haruhi wasn't the one with godlike powers, but it was actually Kyon. It wasn't a big tease. It was mentioned in an offhanded way in part of a paragraph and then never brought up again. However, it was a thought I had had before reading that, and seeing that Tanigawa even thought of it too (although maybe he only considered it as a throwaway line) sort of makes me feel like there is some substance there.

My understanding of this theory is that Kyon's desires manifest everything in the world, though because he is in such heavy denial that aliens, espers and time travelers exist, he can only envisage this sort of thing happening if someone else is manifesting it, that someone else of course being Ms Suzumiya.

As a semi-related side note: have any of you read the Michael Crichton novel The Sphere? Or seen the late 90s movie based on it? The idea of people wielding Haruhi-esque godlike powers and manifesting subconscious desires into reality is a major part of the plot in that story. Crichton (at least in the book version) also does a good job of writing about the psychology of how and why such a thing could happen. Actually, the first time I watched Haruhi and Koizumi explained her godlike powers, my thoughts immediately went to this book first.

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