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I have a dedicated gaming group that meets every Sunday. We have been playing regularly for over a year now. It's small, just 5 of us including the current DM. We all rotate DM position per campaign so that we can all have a chance to be players.
One of our players is a very poor sport, both as...
@SmokeDetector suspicious... after some consideration, it's weird to spam "Listerine". Ignoring about product placement, it's an answer albeit with bad formatting...
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@SensibleAlexander I have a card on my personal trello board to remind me to poke people who I need to poke about it every month (as in, I haven't forgotten it), but unfortunately, I have no updates yet
New mad idea. We could build a client side hat user script to add custom hats support all year long. Probably the only problem is that all the hats would be available from the start - it would be just for decoration purpose...
@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard probably indian. "Fresher" in the UK is a first year student, in india its someone newly looking for work for the first time ;p
@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard "here comes Shadow the recolor, the one character that tried to destroy the world for revenge only to later join up forces with the ones that killed his friend Maria".
Nope, still lame. Only thing worst than Shadow backstory in Sonic universe is Sonic 06 plot
lol, just noticed the strawpoll site changed their logic to use long id strings with letters too, for long time they had only a number and anyone could see all the polls by just changing that number. Too bad, I saw some cool polls like that. :D
Afaik if SE wants it can go after this company civilly. Every DMCA request filed without consideration of fair use is a charge of perjury, afaik. (Not a lawyer)
with the giant flaming IANAL disclaimer from what I've read you can be charged for perjury for every single DMCA claim you make without manually considering fair use
but they have a very unique immune system that is utilized in testing effectiveness of treatments and vaccines. Horseshoe crab blood is one of the most expensive substances on earth
They have a copper containing hemoglobin analogue named hemocyanin for oxygen transport and have something in their blood that kills bacteria effectively which can be manufactured into a compound that is unparalleled at detecting bacterial toxins. So it can be used as a sort of ultra sensitive remaining bacteria test
oh, those are rare cases when a close as dupe vote expired, then same dupe vote was cast again, usually years later, and still didn't "catch"... don't think it's a problem, no need to waste mod time on that IMO. @Dukeling
@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard I might be wrong, but I think the duplicate comment only gets duplicated when one happened before the lower/uppercase comment change and another happened after, and possibly if there was a title change.
@Magisch DMCA 101 for dummies: asking for removal of youtube reviews of MLP episodes but doing nothing to have content like Smile Hd (quick sugestion: do not search for that) removed.
@Magisch "adaptation" ... no, not at all. To make it simple: one of the most famous song in the series is called "Smile song" - it dates to season 1. Someone had the "brillant" idea to do a gore animation (afaik using stolen flash puppets from the show) and call it "Smile HD"
now, suppose you are a kid browsing youtube and you want to listen to the original song. You search "Mlp smile song" and the third result is labeled "Smile HD".
@JourneymanGeek I know, what makes me sad is that they can find the way to "moderate" a question on Anime.SE but not to stop content that violates copyrights and Youtube TOS
using youtube's fully automated "content id" system. They can automatically flag and monetize your video for themselves using a pattern database where they don't have to do anything themselves. For SE someone needs to send an actual DMCA request
Youtube lets you take down and/or appropriate revenue from any content before you ever have to file a DMCA request
Companies do this unashamedly - Nintendo for instance has a "creators program" where you can sign up to pay 40% of all your channel revenue in exchange to be allowed to post reviews or videos featuring nintendo content
otherwise they'll take 100% of your earnings for everything featuring, talking about, containing, pertaining to or discussing any of their games and properties.
Apparently I forgot the YouTube video I post is really NSFW. I didn't think it's so explicit after watching it again after 7 years later. @RO: delete it if you will
Nintendo's stance on customer content is we own it all and we will make the most profit from it
Basicly they don't recognize transformative work or fair use and haven't been sued for it since nobody has the multi-million dollars it takes to sue a multibillion dollar company into submission through the appeals charade
There was, at some point, an answer where someone did some comprehensive testing to figure out what the exact triggers were, and posted an answer here about it. Where did that go? — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog2 days ago
@Catija I'm sitting here rationalizing the fact that I'm putting that off until the weekend by the fact that my neighbors seem to be doing the same. Normalization at its best!
@TimPost I was tempted to leave it up until the city comes to pick them up but I don't know when that will be and the maids are coming tomorrow... so I'd rather they be able to clean up all of the needles... and we took the day off of work today because the kiddo's school's closed
@TimPost Well, it's not actually too expensive and they only come once every two weeks. Plus, we always pre-clean before they come... because we're weird.
@TimPost No. Just the light stuff... they won't clear out my fridge of the science experiments... they don't even change the sheets. Mostly vacuuming, dusting, mopping, and washing down the surfaces/basins in the bathroom/kitchen. They rotate doing a "deep clean" through the four "types" of rooms every visit... so they do the basic stuff everywhere and the deep clean stuff every 8 weeks.
They keep the spiderwebs out of the corners and the bunnies out from under the bed.
@quartata when that message comes in it does a post to '/review/suggested-edit-count' and then updates an element called with a class .suggested-edits-count that I can't find.
Actually, it's pretty common. Anyway, it's probably being voted as too broad because it's asking about all downvoted questions ever... and each question will have an explanation for why it's still around... without specific examples, there's a plethora of possibilities.
@JakeSymons Nope. I mean, on Meta, as you said yourself, it's different... you don't even limit your question to a main site or a meta site... on meta, highly downvoted questions are usually useful as reference, particularly in the case of a feature request... lots of downvotes means it's unpopular... and that's good information. The answers will explain why.
And sometimes, particularly on SO, it's more a matter of people not seeing them to delete them rather than that there's some intentional reason for it.
I don't think it's a good question to ask, regardless.
Something being a crappy question doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't have good answers... we even give badges for getting highly upvoted answers on a very heavily downvoted question...
I have a dedicated gaming group that meets every Sunday. We have been playing regularly for over a year now. It's small, just 5 of us including the current DM. We all rotate DM position per campaign so that we can all have a chance to be players.
One of our players is a very poor sport, both as...
How can I quit a community if I accidentally get into a wrong one? It is rather annoying to see something useless in my account page.
