S3C 2020-01-01 01:44:07

hehe, of course I got autoplay working again, the ultimate question is, how much iterations of badly written instructions to myself will it take for me to do it with ease

Cyberdevil 2020-01-01 09:30:08

The sensitive sentence started good! But thin-skinned hmm, how that go... I'm all about justice, and warriors, and social justice, but SJW... that term seems to have been put to mis-use in recent years. SJWs seem to be fighting for a politically correct world that benefits the minorities over the masses, avenging earlier acts of injustice with turn-around terrorization. Being the reason there's place at all for groups with slogans like 'white lives matter too'. I'm at one with the cause of equality and fairness for all, but I dislike this trend... I see it as the reason things went as awry as they did with Tumblr, and YouTube, and why there even has to be a policy regarding the preservation of political tweets on Twitter, while at the same time you'll get banned for life if you say Bruce Jenner, no matter the context. At first impression it seems as if society as a whole is getting thin-skinned too, but I don't think that's it. Sensitivity's good. Being in tune with yourself and your emotions and feeling empathy for those who have it worse off is what separates us from the beasts and gives us a way to appreciate, but there's just something else at work here, some kind of minority warfare. Jealousy? Greed? What's the fuel? Is it simply good convictions turned bad? It's all twisted somehow. There seems to be so much more sensitivity yet all the same so much less understanding.

Anyway as for that large body of unpublished work I hope you have backups! :O And that some of it does reach our ears eventually. It's the same here. I share a lot of these sentiments and hey, there is hope even here, on this always as contemplative; decade-promoting post! :D May the shift to all good things eventually make it even over there on your side of the world and all. Happy New Beginnings!

Great grooves as always too. Also autoplay commitment. Question: is there a way to autoloop too?

Cyberdevil 2020-01-03 07:49:23

I don't believe I agree with the 'rarely if ever are formed with good intention', these days it seems like a lot of people within mainstream groups are bullied by their minority counterparts to the point it almost becomes a necessity. They group together in response. They get aggressive back, sometimes. I suppose it largely depends on where you live and who you interact with, and thus those born into an upper class/race-related superiority probably don't always come in contact with aggressive minorities at all. Ironically the ones to blame for the injustice and oppression these groups lash out against are probably not the ones falling victim to their conflict, but more so innocent bystanders. But sure, I agree there really are real social issues that shouldn't be trivialized, it's just that certain minority groups are making it easy to. You don't really see the victim as a victim when they start becoming the culprit. It's a bit like terrorism, with how a vocal minority so easily casts a shadow on the entire race/nation to which they belong, and we get all these negative and false stereotypes that further fuel our disagreances...

Oh interesting. Might need to check my facts, all I know is SOMEONE was instantly deplatformed for saying the wrong thing. Joe Rogan podcasts I been listening to... maybe only relevant for high profile users. Or it really was merited.

On the flipside it seems sensitivity might be necessary to fully enjoy life, too, if only you have more positive things to be sensitive about?

I signed up for a lifetime plan at pcloud.com myself recently, enough space for pretty much everything important. :) Short of video and all that jazz, which I hope doesn't become a problem if YT start purging unprofitable accounts (I've used them to just backup all my non-personal stuff - stored as private). Google cloud's somewhat limited no? Or paid subscription? Was using mega.nz for a while (50GB x multiple accounts) but it's so much easier if you don't have to worry about files disappearing if you don't login every 6 months or so, and everything in the same place. Plus they seem a bit easier to trust. If you ever consider getting something on pcloud feel free to send a message - affiliate links available (of course you could always create an affiliate account yourself too). They had some real good offers back on Black Friday, 75-80% everything.

Do you maybe have your HDs on some some kind of vibrating surface? I have *knock on wood* pretty much never had one break down on me, maybe 2-3 of ca 20-30 so far. Maybe the climate's better. Not so warm/humid.

Interesting.

Cyberdevil 2020-01-03 07:57:53

Btw I don't mean to imply you yourself are born into an upper class/race-related superiority! Just struck me that these groups are really blowing off steam on the wrong people. Hope people all calm down a bit and this doesn't really turn into a social divide anyhow. it's always the minority causing trouble, used to be the mainstream minority, now the minority minority hmm.

Cyberdevil 2020-01-03 17:45:54

Mmm, that's true. Even the groups I see groups so desperately react too are most likely also vocal minorities. Fair point.

No doubt, I've been learning so much via his show I suppose I've stopped fully distinguishing all fact from all the other stuff. Been listening to a lot of his stuff too? Most reason one (i heard) was a lot of fun: https://youtu.be/Np0jGp6442A

...been testing his deep-breathing techniques a bit and they seem pretty interesting. Similar to what some divers practice before deep dives as to cope with the added pressure.

Ah, yes, the ideal would be sensitive thick-skin. A conflicting trait.

Ah you have multiple accounts with them for that? pcloud.com, a file-hosting solution like many, based in Switzerland, offering free accounts too but also lifetime accounts (I know it's a gamble - hopefully worth it) up to 2TB. They seem to have good encryption, a very lightweight filemanager, options to share files and all the normal stuff but also actually host your websites there, or use them as a CDN, via their public folder. No domain settings or such, but if I happen to need additional bandwidth for heavier files this might be real handy, could store entire image directories within that same user-specific public directory path..

They do have a sync client too but I haven't started with that, I don't really trust them with everything yet. Also hardware/connection limits. So far I'm just dragging over certain selections of files best kept copied somewhere, and so far it's been great! All that most important stuff safe and plenty of space remaining. :)

Maybe you move them before they've powered down entirely? When the needle's spinning it feels like they're pretty susceptible to damage. Maybe you've had some unfortunate bad quality builds, though. I'm running a lot of these. Lately mostly internal HDs via docking station though, so much easier to switch and clone.

Cyberdevil 2020-01-03 17:53:22

You're not both rich AND white though are you? ;) Just partial upper class/race-related elitism then. But either way, it'd be worse to be born at the bottom of it all. Less potential to do good without the right resources. Maybe more potential to actually rise to the challenge when you have nothing to lose, but still, no favors for the wicked. These days being overly privileged might be the new underdog circumstance when you really have to prove your worth to get places, expectations high both from those who expect great things of you and from those who expect you to abuse the power you might've been granted by birth and constantly challenge you with wrongful stereotype.

^ wasn't perfectly formulated, but what I mean is basically: we're more than our circumstances. I

Cyberdevil 2020-01-03 17:59:45

...'m dropping typos and leftover letters all over the place lately aaaaaa! Must be bedtime. In regard to file-hosting though, if you're ever pondering paid alternatives but not lifetime, then OneDrive is by far the most resourceful. A full 8TB storage with a group account, and cheaper than most others too.

In regard to free ones I believe mega.nz is still the most generous, but a lot of them are catching up. Tons of alternatives out there. I don't really like the idea of cloud-hosting overall, but with two-factor and good encryption... maybe it's alright.Nothing's really safe. Not material stuff either.

Cyberdevil 2020-01-05 09:38:49

I have tried Dropbox too, though pretty limited space there. Wouldn't really trust any service with my most private stuff unless it at least has end-to-end encryption (which pcloud does) but still... you need to trust the service to actually have a perfect system. No bugs. No leaks. That they also really provide the service they promise and don't just host a giant honeypot, or say stuff's encrypted even if it's not. I'm pretty paranoid about all cloud-related hosts in that regard, I mean it's on the cloud, far away, what out of my control should they do anything with that data...

Oh damn, did we speak about that music crash before? That sucks. :/ So would other protocols work better for this stuff in particular? Firewire, lightning, eSATA...? Seems like the connection shouldn't be at fault, more so the HD, but if the corruption occurs during transfer... you can't really plug and play with internal drives the same way either. But power failure: still a problem. Wonder if Windows 10 has some new failsafe for this type of stuff...

Nice way to phrase that ethnical blend. :D Mmm I'll fortunately probably never have a problem with airports, as long as stereotypes don't drastically change and for some reason white people get labeled the new radicals... I'd say I'm of a pretty middle class family myself, though we've always mingled with upper ones abroad. Back in Sweden now the financial situation doesn't really allow for the lifestyle we've learned. Smaller spaces, cheaper foods, albeit a lot of that home-grown gold every summer... still on the upper end of privileged I suppose. Life's relatively leisurely. Can't complain. Also still eating fresh potatoes way after Christmas. :) Twas a good harvest with those.

Hell yeah. :) Hard work and motivation's a viable cycle too, a self-fueling catalyst for circumstantial transformation.

In regard to B2 storage there's one more player worth a mention: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

...not as big as the aforementioned two, but serious competition! I've considered them for home backups as well, but the thing that kept me away is having to plug in your computer every month or so lest you lose all the data. You can back up unlimited quotas but it has to be constantly connected and checked to be classed as 'regular backup'. Their B2 solution would be good for long time cold storage, thought about that too, but now that I'm with pcloud I think I have all this covered. If they're there for life it'll be way more cost-efficient than all these other alternatives, plus no extra time spent worrying about login times or different accounts. Built-in backup from Dropbox and Google Drive too if I need those. ;) Been reading up on backup alternatives so long now, feels good to finally settle for something. Was seriously considering MediaFire back in the day too, and ALMOST bought a lifetime MU account just before they were raided. Hope nothing like that ever happens again, in a way it felt like the end of an era (and though file-hosting piracy is still as prevalent as ever that stigma seems to have disappeared a bit, maybe because everyone recognizes their legal use areas too now, everyone wants cloud everything)...

Cyberdevil 2020-01-05 10:23:54

Oh btw I should've clarified, in regard to the USB issues/moving drives: I meant more in the regard that if you unplug and move the drive while it's still spinning then the needle might damage the disc itself, not so much transfer corruption. Wasn't thinking of that option. Can see it happening for a specific file being transferred when you unplug, but it shouldn't corrupt an entire drive (Windows can fix bad sectors pretty well too).

S3C 2020-01-26 17:12:51

RIP Kobe
man 2020 is turning out to be a sh*t year

queefingwaterfalls 2020-02-12 04:42:00

It's funny, after so long away from Newgrounds I've come to realize how many great memories I have attached to this place. Sadly I unpublished my old projects and locked myself out of the account, but I did the art on "Caged Beast", and I'd almost completely forgotten about it until I came across it on your profile today. I was around 14 at the time we made it.
In life I always find it easier to look back with a sense dread. All the shit I fucked up! But we always grow, even when we have doubt. That's something that gives me faith to make art.
Ultimately, don't put too much pressure on yourself to publish or not to publish. Do what you feel is right

Homdell 2020-02-12 23:05:45

yea that might be true but have you seen buster Keaton's old movies and you can't believe that happened 100 years ago? boggles the mind

Cyberdevil 2020-03-10 19:11:34

Buster Keaton was dope yo. Interesting comments popping up in this thread, and hey we had a convo going too huh...

How's life with the cornonavirus over there these days? Paranoia as high in the US s it is over here? Have flights booked to Poland and Lithuania in a week and a few but really starting to ponder if I should take any chances...

Then again so is being on the subway every day.

Cyberdevil 2020-03-11 07:24:31

Hoooly shit. Did you happen to be around them at the time? Incubation period's probably over now though I guess? Man it seems like paranoia is way heavier over there then. We haven't run into any food scarcities yet, though people are definitely stockpiling, and it feels like there isn't as much stuff on sale as there usually is...

I'm on it. Lotsa vitamins too. Kinda worried about bringing home covid to my parents though if I do try a trip, they aren't as young and recoverable...

S3C 2020-03-11 22:09:43

@Cyberdevil

EDIT: Tom Hanks has coronavirus and the NBA is suspended as a player has it, I'm officially a little concerned...

Cyberdevil 2020-03-12 07:12:14

Hmm yeah it's really spreading... death tolls still aren't anywhere near the numbers of a regular seasonal flu, but the ease with which it seems to be spreading...

Cyberdevil 2020-03-12 07:13:07

Feels like maybe the biggest problem is the limited amount of room in hospitals, respirators etc. Not good if everyone gets sick at the same time.

Cyberdevil 2020-03-14 15:29:33

You've been off work up till now? Lucky you man. Over here I notice the trains are getting emptier and emptier, and indeed toilet paper's in short supply, but not gone. It's pretty surreal shopping and seeing entire shelfs of select products just suddenly empty, when overall it's just business as usual. Good time to own a shop.

Was speaking to him just the other day btw, don't think he's so far away!

VicariousE 2020-03-14 19:21:10

RIP

Cyberdevil 2020-03-15 06:27:27

Adult diapers in lack of toilet paper? Desperate times call for desperate measures. Best stockpile some of that gluten-free stuff while you have it huh. :P