Oh boy yes, but mostly early internet memes, when 4chan was the bleeding edge of internet "culture". Shit like advice animals were spammed to hell and back until they got enough natural momentum.

Do you really not understand that this is meant to be an easy tool to disable them, so that someone could do anything (or nothing) else to them safely?

I think more devs making and hosting tools like this need to get into the type of layered defensive hosting infrastructure that pirate sites use. Hard to get a c&d if they can't track you down.

God I hated questions like this in school. There's always something specific the teacher is looking for, but nothing to point you towards it.

Holy shit #5. "And now my love, it is time for you to don the coital basket"

Overly online A(u)DHD person "Get mental health care instead of latching onto an online personality stereotype" challenge! Level: impossible.

(All meant in good fun. Everyone has a different path to better. I seriously do recommend therapy if you can find a good therapist though. I maybe could have worked through the shit they're helping me with on my own, but I've made more progress towards who I want to be in a few months than I have in years.)

Toxic gasses really undersells the danger. Most common rechargeable batteries (when compromised/exploding) release a gas that can melt your eyeballs and lungs, but doesn't do so immediately. Seen some terrifying cases of people thinking that since nothing burned down when the thing exploded, and the smoke/gases didn't make them cough or gag then they're fine.

A week or two later they go to the hospital for severe respiratory issues and find out the inside of their lungs is just fucking sloughing off.

Flock isn't directly the government, which complicates things, and as far as government use small solar panels like that have been powering highway-side speed sensors and weather stations for ages.

That's still rule of thumb on Windows. Push the updates into the install media in advance and save the trouble later. Guess since Linux updates tend to be easier they just stopped?

Sounds like you've had a streak of shit therapists. Also, it's supposed to be entirely confidential unless you give them reason to believe you are an immediate danger to yourself or others.

They also adjusted the color to make it all more flesh colored.

Damn. Zach's older stuff really makes me wonder what kind of shit he went through. At the very least my money is on "parents should have divorced".

I could be wrong, but he didn't look old enough in the old SMBC Theater stuff to have experienced this level of bad relationship shit first hand.

You can't be serious, or you must not support Windows much.

I don't think much of my workplace's Windows desktop "engineer" but even they've put together (and keep updated) an image that can get from blank drive to fully installed, updated, baseline programs for our company installed, all settings tweaked to get rid of 90% of the dumb Windows bloat (have to leave the shit the execs like in place) in 30 minutes unattended.

The server builds my team oversees are 10 minutes setups, if that.

Like, I've been desktop support, and installing and configuring the department specific programs could be such annoying shit that you'd end up saving more time reimaging when something fucked up than to try and fix it, but the initial OS install was rarely the issue. Maybe for the first few days with entirely new hardware while we figured out the right drivers, but that was it.

Linux is leagues better than Windows, but some of this shit I keep seeing in these Linux communities is batshit. You personally not being familiar with Windows isn't a reason it sucks, any more than people saying Linux is complicated is a reason for them to hate Linux.

It could be done in 15 minutes with Windows as well, if you actually knew what you were doing. Hell, I'll give you 40 minutes if you know what you're doing and don't have proper tools already setup.

Windows is a shitshow, but your personal lack of familiarity isn't evidence of that, lol.

I'm pretty sure there's a specific Bomberman console release you can emulate with 8 players.

You could also emulate Smash Bros Ultimate, as it has 8 player support. Might be boring to just play a Switch game many people have though. Maybe look into mods for it?

And you can always use co-optimus to search for stuff. Just set At least 8 players, couch co-op in the filters: https://www.co-optimus.com/system/4/pc.html

I'm well aware. I'm not talking about those situations. I'm talking ~20 comments deep on a thread that has seen no other action for multiple days. And I'm not talking about it just getting one downvote between when I reply from people happening to find it.

And even then, I just check. I'm not harassing people, I'm not jumping to immediately blocking. I'm just looking to see if it is something weird going on. If there is, I block.

And I haven't done any of this since last year. No need.

What? Ok?

This isn't a comment on a sub thread of a sub thread of an otherwise long dead thread jumping from no downvotes to -3 in like a single day (between the time I made my comment and the time I'm responding to the reply). I'm not actively watching this stuff and I think you've misunderstood what I'm talking about.

Now if you're going to check my profile page over the next few days to a week? Then I might notice the downvotes and look, but I honestly haven't noticed anything like that or checked votes against my comments since the event I mentioned in my last comment with that powermod, which was sometime last year.

Downvotes on a comment like mine, offering a semi-reasonable explanation for disliked behavior, are entirely expected. Hell, downvotes an any comment expressing an opinion.

The only time I check is to try and catch if I'm being targeted by someone mass down voting me or using alts to do so. Only when I'm seeing weird stuff like every one of my comments for a while getting at least one downvote, or seeing my comments deep in a one on one conversation on an otherwise dead thread getting multiple downvotes (no one's going to even see those except me and who I'm talking to).

Unfortunately, this has been a "you're only paranoid if they aren't out to get you" situation. Most give up after a day or two and I just block and move on, but it was a bit common for a few months.

I caught one of the "respected" members of my instance pulling that shit, a person who moderates multiple comms, downvoting me using their alts over multiple instances.

They accused me of doxxing them (they were actually around that time). Now I have a bunch of bans in my modlog saying that I used a slur, when I was quoting the name of an ancient meme and I edited the word out long before they did the bans.

Bill would be one of the first to go through. No hesitation.

Do you consider feces an animal?