The picture is on my phone. Twelve boys have set up two televisions and Xboxes in a 10x12 room. Halo: Combat Evolved is paused.
Whenever I see old LAN Party photos like that, all I can think about is how awful those rooms must have smelt like, and the electricity bill.
I'm sad that so many nostalgia posts on the internet are based around consuming.
closely followed by the period right before it you didn't experience, but everyone around you is nostalgiajacking to...
What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why?
One thing I don't miss about Reddit is how dependence on automod made it literally unusable for new accounts
On Reddit if you have a new account that wasn't five years old and had over 9,000 upvotes you'd be de-facto banned from 90% of all subreddits by AutoModerator removing everything you posted. Even then if you didn't use proper bracketing or whatever you'd get removed as well.
Part of me thinks this was intentional to get people attached to their accounts that conveniently had their life stories, writing styles, beliefs, likes and dislikes all in one place.
a CGI cartoon character people put in those "when the autistic kid does x" memes from the mid 2010's
I am not a language model training on reddit would be more accurate than chatGPT.
ChatGPT and most other AI apps are trained on Reddit and have been since they've been publicly released. I remember TalkToTransformer in 2019 would say Redditisms like "fellow redditor" or talk about being in a sub to every other prompt.
Wasn't exclusivity for AI access the reason for the API change in the first place?
For anyone wondering, the group is the "Blood Tribe" led by Christopher Pohlhaus.