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Off Topic / why the forget are people using discord for file hosting and support???

« on: January 13, 2023, 10:10:46 AM »

a few weeks ago i was looking for a new flight sim chair. ended up being too expensive for my budget at the moment but i decided to browse around the site for a bit. noticed a giant notice bar up on top stating that since it was the holiday season order tracking would be a bit hectic and they had a discord server for real time updates. thought it was strange and stupid but had no effect on me at the moment.

a bit after that i was trying to get some local splitscreen for halo mcc set up on my computer so i could play with my friend on the new workshop maps. stuff wasn't working right so i asked some questions in various discussion groups online and long story short i ended up being sent a link to a message in a discord server, one that i wasn't in. told the guy that and he just said oh join the server linked up on top sorry. i eventually fixed my problem so i left the server. a few weeks later i tried again and stuff didn't work for a different reason this time so i had to rejoin again just to figure out what the hell was going on (master server went down twice that day and there wasn't much communication to users about it).
actually similar stuff like that has happened to me for multiple games that now either i or my friends are in servers for:

 -halo custom edition
 -nucleuscoop
 -some sonic riders online matching system
 -old cod games multiplayer software
 -loving touhou 9 stuff for online play

all just for support. and i feel like i can't leave them because all this old stuff is held together by strings and craft glue by third party programmers and i know something will happen again and i don't want to hunt down a server link.

and like a week ago i tried downloading some blockland add-on from 2017 only to be greeted with a dead discord url as its host.

like what the forget? stop off-sourcing your support and downloads to discord. not everyone has it, not everyone wants it, its developed by incompetent child enthusiasts, and it isn't going to last forever. the only advantage are real time convos, and that's only if there's someone online who can help. most of the time you'll send a message out into the void with no response or you're just sending a message to a channel that'll get drowned with a bunch of other questions before yours can even get looked at. it's as bad as when you had to sign up for a bunch of independent forums just to get some answers. i wonder how many of those are shut down forever. honestly just using reddit has been better for me than joining any random person's server has ever been. so glad i haven't had to join a server just to get some yt-dlp troubleshooting help.

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General Discussion / blockland would be more alive if it garnered a middle aged european playerbase

« on: January 09, 2023, 07:27:52 AM »

every time i start up an old shooter (hl2 deathmatch, cs source, red orchestra) the only active servers and groups i find are made up of german and slavic men in their 40s with the odd mediterranean in the mix. if only blockland attracted this mystic population a few years back, we could still have annoyingly intricate city rps active in the server list

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Off Topic / what is everyone's job/career here

« on: May 25, 2022, 07:51:40 AM »

now that us remaining few are (at least legally) adults, i'm wondering what your jobs are now. like how many of us are doing professional work and how many are working part time/in school/forever stuck as a walmart greeter. would like to think every 14 year old embarrassing themselves on this forum eventually became successful oligarchs but we all can't be winners i guess.

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Off Topic / New camera lens advice

« on: March 17, 2022, 01:27:01 PM »

i'm back with another loving thread like this. i need wider a lens for my X-T30. right now i have a xf35mm f/1.4 r lens and it's served me well but its field of view is too damn tight. i like its compactness but the lack of any meaningful zoom is also a pain at times. i've been looking at this but i think that may be overkill for what i do (nature photography and still objects). anyone got any suggestions? i wish the photography megathread was still around.

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Off Topic / recomend me an electronic keyboard

« on: January 08, 2022, 09:08:09 AM »

my old one has been broken for over a year now and i want to get back into it. i don't really know which are good so right now i'm looking at random 88 key casios and casiotones. want 88 keys but still want something compact. if anyone here even knows anything about these things

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Off Topic / Anyone have good outdoor knife recomendations

« on: December 04, 2021, 04:53:00 AM »

I'm finishing up ordering my hiking/backpacking/camping gear and I have yet to find a good knife at a reasonable price, but I also don't really know what to look for minus a thicker handle. Anyone have any suggestions? Would rather have a flip-open knife, but a fixed one can work too. Also if anyone has a good heavy duty EDC/industrial work knife suggestion I could also use that.

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Off Topic / what the hell was badspot's old avatar

« on: August 03, 2021, 08:33:39 AM »

i seriously can't remember it it's like a hole in my head. when the hell did he switch to the dredd one anyways, that's all i can picture him using anymore. also anyone remember his asian family photos

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Off Topic / account is a decade old today

« on: July 09, 2021, 11:52:56 AM »

i only wasted time here regularly half of that decade, the rest to think back on those memories a quarter of my loving life what a waste

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Off Topic / costco ran out of toilet paper 😱

« on: March 04, 2020, 12:02:57 AM »

bananas were also gone too
coronavirus has gone too far
discuss

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Off Topic / anyone here like modest mouse?

« on: May 30, 2019, 02:21:45 AM »

i'm stuck here at 3:30 am wanting to drink so i decided to waste more of my time on the forums. just wondering if anyone else here was a fan. i'm mostly into the pre GNFPWLBN albums though, but i do enjoy several tracks they've put out after that.

i'm not really expecting a response to this tbh and especially sine i posted it so late. plus i'm probably just gonna forget about this when i get up in the morning so "so long, farewell, goodbye"

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Off Topic / Need help finding a video that was posted here a few years back.

« on: December 15, 2018, 06:03:31 AM »

Pretty sure it was Blockland related. It was basically just the 90s Power Rangers intro with a few Blockland in-game avatars overlaid on top, but there was a bit more to it that I can't remember right now. I tried searching for it but couldn't find anything but it has been almost 24 hours since I slept so maybe I missed it.

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Off Topic / wtf i love saudi arabia now

« on: August 10, 2017, 06:32:38 PM »

(click)

Saudi Arabia is on the right side of history

Inshallah

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Environment Files / Sagittarius A* (and other space skyboxes (((soon)))))

« on: July 14, 2016, 10:42:33 PM »

I wanted to try to make a skybox so I made this. This was taken in SpaceEngine v974
skyboxes will be slpit into two groups, auto exposed (distant objects are darker the closer the main object is) and non-auto exposed (object distance has no affect on light.)

N-AE

AE


More coming soon, probably next next week. Tell me if the corners are too easily visible.

Download N-AE
Download AE

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Off Topic / give me people to follow on twitter

« on: May 17, 2016, 09:46:02 AM »

I'm bored and need people to follow
no political stuff please

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April Fools 2016 / Badspot is Dead

« on: April 01, 2016, 02:14:04 PM »

(taken from the article)

Hey guys, it's me Rotondo. I just heard news that Badspot was killed a short while ago. He was walking to the store to get his nutellla when a stranger shot him. I don't know what this will mean for the future of Blockland or his company, but all we can do right now is wait.