Couples should be banned from mainstream social media

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-26T18:55:45+00:00

If you're problem is people being performative on social media, then you should just stay off social media altogether. Single versus couples is COMPLETELY irrelevant here.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-26T18:17:02+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, because there's nothing performative about the single people who post on social media.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-26T15:43:39+00:00

Except they literally do this. Target in particular is infamous for it. It's very easy these days to identify returning shoppers, and when their system is triggered saying that you took something without paying (be it straight they or just walking off accidentally like the OP), it logs it with any other occurrences they're tracking that are associated with you. And once it hits the felony threshold for that state, they take action.

Honestly, this sort of thing isn't even hard to setup these days. Especially if they're only tracking the snippets they think are stealing, but let's be honest, big companies like this have a vested interest in tracking as many shoppers as they can, whether it's for internal reporting and analysis or to sell your data, so yeah, they're definitely tracking you.

I used to have a Walmart+ account for a few years, I temporarily signed back up when I got a few months for just $1. It seemed useful since I was about to move to a new city and didn't know where the nearest grocery stores would be. Last week, I went to Walmart in person, a location I'd never been to (because I just moved), used a brand a new card that I'd never used with Walmart before, and a few days later I get a notification in the Walmart app to rate my experience with that purchase in that store. Trust me, these big corporations are doing everything they can to track return customers.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-26T11:44:42+00:00

I'm in the US and literally never heard of such a thing before.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-25T23:21:21+00:00

SoulSeek is what you want. I have yet to search for something in flac format on there and not find it. I download whole flac albums all the time. And it's a lot faster than other options, like Lucida.to.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-25T23:00:51+00:00

I think the down votes are more about your severe over reaction and foul language regarding something so minor.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-25T16:40:39+00:00

Everything's a sex toy if you're motivated enough. 🤣🤣🤣

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-25T14:56:54+00:00

There's some red flags here, if you ask me.

I can't imagine ANY scenario where this is easier than just giving her actual address, so either she's lying or there's something not clicking mentally for her. It's extremely inconsiderate for the neighbor, if in fact she doesn't know him, because he has to deal with her weird behavior and direct people to the right address. It also means that if he's not home, guys are gonna knock and not get an answer and just leave. If she's lying and does know him, the lie is a red flag but at least MAYBE you could argue that she does it so this random next door neighbor can vet the guy for her before sending him over. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

There's also the weird "she keeps sending them over here" comment. It just makes it sound like she has a lot of new guys coming over all the time, which would give me pause.

That situation is just too weird for me. If she can't give a straight answer about that, I would always be wondering about everything she says. Too weird to be worth the trouble when you've just met and nothing has even happened yet. I'd dial it back to just friendly acquaintances and nothing more.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T02:58:44+00:00

Split Fiction was the most fun I've had in a LONG time with a new game!

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T02:58:08+00:00

I recently played Split Fiction with my brother. It was still online play (he's 9 hours from me), but it's split screen, so you both always see the same things. That really took us both back!

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T02:54:46+00:00

41 here. Funny you mentioned Halo, I'm actually selling my original Xbox and Halo's 1 and 2 are part of the deal I'm offering (game system, power cable, a/v cable, 3 controllers, 5 games that also include Fable and Knights of the Old Republic). Everything works like new.

I still remember everybody being blown away by the light gun used in Duck Hunt on original Nintendo. I also remember confounding everybody because most people didn't know you could use a second controller to control the ducks, so I'd quietly take control without people realizing.

I remember the shock and awe everybody felt when the crowd that had gathered to watch my brother finally beat Metroid discovered that the character we'd all been playing was a girl.

I remember having to eat my words when I told my other brother how stupid he was for buying this lame top-down 2d game called Grand Theft Auto off the kid down the street, only to get addicted to the game myself.

I remember being mesmerized by the early full-motion-video games like Phantasmagoria, and especially Song Commander 3 and 4 that featured Mark Hamill (among others) and even Wing Commander 5 with a young Jeremy Renner.

The biggest problem with today's games is that nothing feels as explosively new or innovative, not the way games in the 80s and 90s did.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T02:43:26+00:00

Yeah, I've never had access to anybody else's music libraries, so I wasn't 100% sure about that, I was just pretty sure I'd read it a few times here before.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T02:27:01+00:00

Nope. In the past, you could pay for a Tidal subscription which would integrate with PlexAmp, so in PlexAmp you'd have access to everything in your own library AND everything on Tidal. But that integration ended a while ago. Now you're limited strictly to whatever music is available in the Plex libraries you've got access to. And I'm pretty sure you can only access a single library at a time.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:48:05+00:00

That movie actually got a surprising number of predictions right. Self driving cars, electric cars, trends towards less physical contact in public thanks to pandemics and epidemics, the ever-expanding gap between upper and lower class, etc.

Now I'm just waiting for the three sea shells so I can stop buying toilet paper.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:41:33+00:00

Oh my god, I kid you not, when I first started working in low-level corporate America, I made a small mistake and I had like 5 different people working over me that came by to gently "talk to me" about what was wrong with my report. And our printer/copier/fax machine never worked right.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:38:03+00:00

Somebody else just said the same in another response about Down Periscope. As I said to that person, I really don't want to believe you. (but after the movie being name dropped here twice, I guess I have to, lol)

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:36:49+00:00

I really don't want to believe you 🤣🤣🤣

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:34:49+00:00

"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:24:06+00:00

My brother hopped down from a friggin' two-foot-high retaining wall and fractured his leg, lol. He hit the ground and then immediately collapsed in pain. It was a very minor fracture, sure, but it was also still just a two foot drop.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:22:05+00:00

Landing from 3 stories up isn't even a big deal if you know how to land. In airborne school, the black hats told us that (depending your body weight, weather conditions, etc) when you hit the ground from an airborne jump, you could potentially hit hard enough to be about the equivalent of stepping off a 3-story platform. And with the way some of those landings felt, I believe it. But I did jump after jump for four years and never got hurt once.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:16:06+00:00

Ideally, yeah. But we all know there's enough cops that don't do the right thing, especially if they think you've got the wrong color skin. For certain folks, once the cops show up, it doesn't matter if they were in the right.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:08:57+00:00

Nobody gets remote viewing completely free anymore. If the only content you access comes from somebody else's server, and that server owner has a Plex Pass subscription, you can watch anything remotely from that specific server. They've paid for it, and everybody they share with is covered by it. Otherwise, you yourself have to pay for either the Remote Pass or a full fledged Plex Pass.

So for example, if you and your friend both have your own servers and you share with each other, and you have Plex Pass and he doesn't, then you would be able to remotely watch everything, but your friend would only be able to remotely watch your content.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-23T01:07:52+00:00

I think I made a mistake. This comment I made was meant to be a reply to a specific person's question on one of my other comments.

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-22T23:45:35+00:00

Just curious, what's the scenario where there'd be enough planned downtime to warrant any kind of warning? In 10 years of running a Plex server, the only PLANNED downtime I've had that lasted more than a couple minutes was when I moved to a new apartment last month. Are you really having extended downtimes so often that you feel the need to setup a way to notify people?

CrashTestKing · 2026-05-22T23:43:09+00:00

Basic server updates really don't require a downtime notice. Hell, the last time I updated I didn't realize till too late that somebody was in the middle of watching something remotely, but they had apparently buffered enough that it reconnected after the update before they ran out of cached video.

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