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    Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm

    in Way Off-Topic

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    1 hour ago, majestic said:

    A German channel I follow recently released a video about the dark sides of YouTube, and oh boy, does that get weird. Weird, and really disturbing.

    On YouTube, once you take a wrong turn, it seems like all the supposedly friendly family community rules fall off a cliff. While videos get demonetized or deleted for what YouTube considers bad words, it looks like there are loop holes the size of Mount Everest. There's a channel called Lilly, operated by the Only Fans model LillySlim. It has 5 videos and 25k subscribers, but her most popular video has, so far, generated over 875,000 views.

    It is supposedly a brazilian waxing tutorial, except there is absolutely no waxing going on. She does have a cheap razor and uses it for hair removal, but the point of the video, which features four minutes of full frontal nudity under a shower, seems to be two-fold: it is an ad for her Only Fans and it caters to a shaving kink that seems to have an immense amount of playlists on YouTube (if you are into that, well, just search YouTube for brazilian waxing tutorial). The channel is almost two months old, so if YouTube had any issue with it, it would have been removed by now. Oh, and in case that needs to be said, the results are very much not suitable for work.

    Well, but these videos are at least gated behind age checks and there are consenting adults involved and they are just at odds with the image Google is trying to project on YouTube. There's also a channel of a (now) seventh grade girl with 15000 subscribers who posts videos about her life, gymnastics and, uhm, swim wear and leotard try on hauls. The swim wear videos have views in the hundreds and hundreds of thousands, while every other video has views more in line with her subscriber count.

    Just for the record, it is not just a fluke that happened once because a young girl posted some seemingly innocent content because she is into gymnastics and showed off her leotards. There is no way her parents are not the driving force behind those. Gee.

    I'm not really surprised, though tiktok is still worse

    It should be timestamped to the correct section I'm thinking about, but in case it should be at 8:57

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    Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy

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    6 hours ago, Katphood said:

    So Sony pretty much killed PSVR 2. PC support and all that stuff. I think that's another way of saying 'No more AAA games from Sony, just resort to whatever is out there'. Same as the PS Vita I guess. 

    How many of you chaps are 'VR friendly' ?

    I play quite a fair bit, I love it. Dirt Rally, Elite Dangerous, Half Life Alyx, Sairento, Beat Saber, Fallout, Skyrim and such. I've got me a HTC Vive Pro.

    From what I remember PSVR 2 is a pretty decent kit

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    Radeon Thread

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    9 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

    If the rest of his PC didn't fry with the PSU, then he should've considered himself pretty lucky. Though replacing a PSU is a pain in the butt to be sure...

    I have a friend who used an ancient no-name PSU for a little under ten years. She didn't really know any better and figured that since it still worked, she might as well just keep using it even through building a new PC (or rather, frankensteining various parts into an old one). I once did a look-up of the model name and the little information that came up about it suggested it had zero standard safety features and would eventually blow up and fry her whole PC, so I ended up giving her one of my old ones and she's still using it to this day. Maybe the one that she had would've kept working just fine, maybe it wouldn't have...all's well that ends well, I suppose.

    Yeah, I'm not sure if my gpu actually survived, but atleast the rest of his pc is alive. He didn't have much of a choice in what psu to get when he bought it, all the reputable ones were sold out or horribly overpriced, overspecced or fanless. 

    Radeon Thread

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    On 2/10/2024 at 1:34 AM, Zoraptor said:

    AMD's (and nVidia's) PSU recs are pretty conservative since they have no idea whether someone has a reputable 850W Corsair or a disreputable 850W ExplodeMAXX one, nor what the other specs and draws are. Corsair's a good brand and HX Platinum ought to be rock solid- most psu tier lists have it as top bracket last time I checked. While you can't preclude being unlucky it seems unlikely that the PSU is the issue.

    To put it in perspective my PSU EVGA G2 is 150W below the recommended wattage for a 7800XT Pulse and is 6+ years old, and has had no issues. Indeed, it had no issues with a Vega64 with a 750W rec either.

    My 750W EVGA psu handled my Vega 64 fine, still does fine with my 3080, but my Vega 64 popped my fathers 1000W noname PSU as soon as he booted up Euro Truck Simulator 2. He was f'n furious at me, despite me warning him 😄

    Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm

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    55 minutes ago, Gromnir said:

    based on @Bartimaeus description, am guessing we would prefer french kissing a light socket or gargling with broken glass as 'posed to enduring twelve hours on what sounds like analysis o' nothing. 

    maybe @Azdeus is a fan o' the ludovico technique?

    different strokes.

    example: ethics in america

    have mentioned previous the ethics in america series. more than ten hours and am not expecting many would enjoy the way we do. am thinking it would be interesting to do a 2024 version 'cause while ethics has remained same for many disciplines since 1989, there is a few startling differences. 

     

    HA! Good Fun! 

    Well, if you like Star Wars media, it's not torturous atleast 😄

    It was kind of fun to hear him go off on tangents on different jet engine designs and things like that, I appreciate how far he goes!

    Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm

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    I watched the entire 12 hours on a side monitor over a few days, it was kind of enjoyable, but I'm the kind of nerd that noticed Rand and Mat entering Tar Valon from the wrong direction, so. It's a shame there are a few editing errors where it hitches up and repeats a few seconds where he spliced the episodes, but I can live with it. Might give it a second watch for good measure :p

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    The Metal Thread II

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    On 2/2/2024 at 8:38 AM, xzar_monty said:

    He is very good indeed. I can't help feeling rather sad about the fact that there's a whole bunch of superb new(ish) musicians posting their stuff on YouTube, but for the most part, it doesn't really appear that they have written any good music of their own.

    I agree, but it's also the viewers fault generally speaking. Whenever many artists release something that's not a cover the views drop substantially.

    That said, he does/did play in a band aswell, but I don't know which one

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