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There are less places to go than there used to be. The places you can go, are homogenized, the fun things about the web amped up to 100x and processed into below 20 second chunks. So you can maximize your time consuming. Seeing more ads. Oh a guy pulling a big poo poo out of a cows rear end. Blue chew. A heartfelt cry for help that you relate more to than you would care to admit, you swipe before the video is totally done. Crusader Kings. The problem is the phones. Once I get into the drivers chair of that PC, hear the fans spin up, I know that I'm at home. But the web is not the same. Some of what I talked about earlier has spilled over into the precious web box that I'm typing this into now. I gotta subscribe to everything. My games aren't my games anymore. I never play with the same person multiple times in a lobby. Maybe we talk poo poo through text chat, threaten to kill each others families, then years later run into each other and acknowledge the other. Made you feel like a cowboy. There used to be a service, accessed easily on their website, where you could connect with an operator through text and they would call someone for you and read to the person what you wrote for them. In high school my friends and I would obviosuly call each other with this service and make the operator have phone sex with the friend. It was wonderful. Evil, in that puerile way that is meant to hurt no one, but does. We and hundreds of thousands of others like us ruined the service for people who might actually need it ( I could never really figure out what that use case would be). That's what's missing. The freedom. It's still free. But there's so much, and controlled by so few, that it feels like your connecting with fewer people than if you just sat in your computer chair alone, and stared at the screen. It's almost like it is a Black Mirror.
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Drewsky posted:There are less places to go than there used to be. The places you can go, are homogenized, the fun things about the web amped up to 100x and processed into below 20 second chunks. So you can maximize your time consuming. Seeing more ads. Oh a guy pulling a big poo poo out of a cows rear end. Blue chew. A heartfelt cry for help that you relate more to than you would care to admit, you swipe before the video is totally done. Crusader Kings. I keep telling people this
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I appreciate your deep and insightful post OP, you've given me a lot to think about.
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OP is a spider
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I think the Internet sucks and it's going to get a lot worse and maybe be unusable in the next 5 years except for those niche areas
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Mar 18, 2025 00:03
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I have nothing to do but look at online and there's nothing fun to do online anymore my life is meaningless
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Mar 18, 2025 00:08
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Please join my web ring and sign the guestbook!
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Mar 18, 2025 00:10
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you broke my grill posted:I have nothing to do but look at online and there's nothing fun to do online anymore my life is meaningless not sure if you're being mean but i do other things. i wrote this right after blowing off my driveway in my robe like tony fuckin soprano. But i still just love being on the web
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Mar 18, 2025 00:14
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I'm only being mean to myself
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you broke my grill posted:I'm only being mean to myself Ah ok love to you brother
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OP likes to share his favorite websites with RL friends, and he always says "double u double u double u dot" first.
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Mar 18, 2025 00:26
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it hasnt been the web since i was in high school and that was a long time ago
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Gonna try pissing people off by saying the internet peaked in, like, 2021.
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Animal-Mother posted:Gonna try pissing people off by saying the internet peaked in, like, 2021. Actually, if current trends hold up, the internet is gearing up for an all-time peak around 2027-2028. It's gonna be friggin' wild. Just a shame that you won't be around to see it.
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It's gonna peak because nobody's gonna be around to see it
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Call Your Grandma posted:Actually, if current trends hold up, the internet is gearing up for an all-time peak around 2027-2028. It's gonna be friggin' wild. Why?
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Hmm. I’ve been on the Web, or at least on the Internet, since 1995. There were several years where it just got better and better, and then a couple decades where it got worse and worse. Now, I think it’s Hell. Literally Hell—Satan is the webmaster—and I only pray that one day Baby Jesus kills us all.
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Mar 18, 2025 00:50
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The "web" has gone downhill so much that SomethingAwful is the only pure place left.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:The "web" has gone downhill so much that SomethingAwful is the only pure place left. Is it this, or are we just old and can't learn to navigate the new streets
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Epitope posted:Is it this, or are we just old and can't learn to navigate the new streets No that’s pretty accurate
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Mar 18, 2025 01:32
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54% of the U.S. reads at a 6th grade or lower level
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what reading level are these forums
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Drewsky posted:54% of the U.S. reads at a 6th grade or lower level Add Kurt Angle to the mix.
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5th grade
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBiyWlYous
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I'm staring into the abyss, but the abyss is no longer staring back. It's too busy trying to get me to buy endless trash.
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The abyss has been filled to overflowing with LLM generated garbage.
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If it wasn't for the web I'd probably be a well adjusted person
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Wendigee posted:I think the Internet sucks and it's going to get a lot worse and maybe be unusable in the next 5 years except for those niche areas It's already borderline unusable relative to just 5 years ago. Search engines are especially just useless trash now.
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What happens to SA if Jeffrey, god forbid, has an accident? I wonder who we've been left to.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:It's already borderline unusable relative to just 5 years ago. Search engines are especially just useless trash now. Ironically I pay for search now and it’s like 2004-2010 Google. 100x better. Today, anytime I’m accidentally redirected to Google, I want to scream.
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Google is so bad now. I hate doing anything that gives them money. It's hard to avoid doing that because their hand is in so many pies ugh ughhh
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Euphoric Ostrich posted:Ironically I pay for search now and it’s like 2004-2010 Google. 100x better. Today, anytime I’m accidentally redirected to Google, I want to scream. What search do you pay for?
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Mar 18, 2025 02:45
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lowtax was right, sa is the smartest forum on the internet because we're p much the only one left except for outboard engine enthusiasts and people who want to fix their plasma tvs
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DemihumanResources posted:we don't encourage self harm here Unless you mean being online in 2025. Then I agree with you.
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