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I need to investigate the new SAFE repayment plans or whatever they are, see if they can knock me down a touch. Despite an ever-increasing income as I've moved along, inflation/cost of living has nearly been out-pacing me, definitely don't have the free budget to pay as much off as they'd like. At least now there's a small glimmer of hope, if I work for this non-profit for 10 years, it can get wiped....

This appears to be some form of.. bagpipe electronica?

We used to mock photoshops for being fake. Now, they'd be hailed for at least putting some effort into their fakery.

Clearly dems are just sitting on their asses doing nothing while the greatest party on earth is working extra hard towards getting back to having all of America's best interests in mind. /s Probably will get away with it just by saying "we need more of a majority so this won't happen again." Which would be kinda hilarious if even that just turns into such a schism that there is, effectively, a three party system.

I mean... aside from the growing paywall, is it really all that different than all of us that refuse to let this place go? Once you've got an internet home to squat in, most are reluctant to pack up and find a new one, and sometimes just never really connect with anywhere else as "home page."

ASMB 2.0

For fans of old school flash games, the Submachine series has just had a remastered re-release, whole compilation made with new game engine, runs as a more contiguous series. Everything is so much smoother, still the hand drawn art, tweaked puzzles, some new stuff. Just a really solid collection of games I've always appreciated for their style and design. Any kid that liked puzzle games and browsed the free flash sites probably caught wind of this being a big name in the genre. Just one of those indie games I've always enjoyed supporting.

A new reason I really hate the informative sidebar on the right of larger threads: The reply box gets squished into an ugly mess.

It's honestly remarkable how much filler they chose to blend into even the last handful of episodes of the series. Seeing a lot of "Mixed canon/filler" through most of the remainder (and two more filler arcs). Not even a moment of consideration for "hey, this is basically the big climax, maybe we shouldn't shit all over it."

Been seeing a new banana bread flavor lately, and it's not too bad, for pop tarts. I've been saying they needed a banana flavor for years. Now they just need to make a strawberry-banana combo. With choco frosting.

Are we definitely committed to the not-quite-yellow color of the top links and unread message circles and such? It's such a clashy color that doesn't mesh with anything... I mean, I sorta get/respect the nod to old ASMB styles that looked like ass, but... Appreciate putting posts on the grey background, tho. I like dark themes, but pure (or nearly) black background for everything was kinda its own strain.

Feature I've found that I'm not a huge fan of: Looks like if there's 2+ weeks between posts in a thread, the site will literally add a "2 weeks later.." insert between posts. Again, just more unnecessary empty space.

I forgot all about these guys. Definitely not my jam, but respect for the commitment.

The worst part, as buddy pointed out, is that somewhere in those 30 minutes you still come to the conclusion that it must be some kind of gag, but it's just not a funny one. We're so used to [as] also being terrible that we just accept that sometimes the "so bad it's good" is really just bad.

Oh, and gifs.. we used to have a button for that in the post editor.. didn't we? I guess it's gone now? It kinda wasn't working for me for a while anyway, I suppose.

Absolutely makes sense. On the plus side, small sample size, but I swear twitter/youtube embeds load a lot faster now. Also, not sure if it might just be a thing I have turned off, but reputation points appear to have disappeared from under user icons? Seems like something I'd turn off.. but I swear I was seeing it prior to update.

It has merit, the provided information is kinda nice to have. I just despise empty wasted space in UI. Speaking of, the header on Current Events is kinda somehow excessively huge now. But that's probably still more of the skin issue. And I can sorta get if there's always gonna be something wonky with that somewhere on the site.

Poking around finding changes. It seems for maybe larger threads (I think?), the site adds some extra sidebar with stuff like "top posters" and "posted images" etc. At a glance, nifty extra thread info. But also means the entire rest of the page has a quarter of the screen taken up by blank space. Definitely something we could probably do without, if there's any way to disable that.

"We made a shit show that got shit ratings, can't ask for more than that. Great success"

Why do you need to sign out on one to switch to the other? I can be logged in on laptop and phone at the same time..

They even minimized it during regular "credits" time to show a R&M ad, while the show was still running (since I presume it's an hour long program?). I'm still not entirely convinced that "Very Scary People" isn't exactly something [as] would come up with to make up stupid fake serial killer stories for spooky month. Aaaand, we're back. R&M up as scheduled. Just a full 30 minutes of the wrong program that doesn't even fit the time slot (I assume).

Why tf is there a shitty serial killer documentary on [as]? Are there supposed to be April Fools' fart sounds or something? Gave this a few minutes waiting for a Too Many Cooks situation, something stupid to happen, anything absurd, before looking this up and it's just an actual regular Discovery ID show? With a name like "Very Scary People" I was at least expecting a dumb parody of the genre.

Definitely agree on the Amarao assessment. There was honestly zero reason to include him except to rehash original gags. Idk.. I can at least give it credit that, in the end, it did feel like it held to the maturation motif, as all three characters did grow out of their childhood ennui or whatever. Granted, really didn't give any characters room to breathe and really feel worthwhile. Kinda just "presented as still being kids, Haruko happens, inciting character growth." No real depth to it.

Looks like they're maybe dropping the Friday marathons for normal scheduling.