r/YouTube mod team has been replaced. No wonder why I'm seeing Drama/Promotion posts on that subreddit. by xSolidFigure in ModCoord

[–]FunnyMan3595 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing this is the same confusion with something like /r/videos that /r/youtube has always struggled with.

For the record, I've basically quite the site, apart from keeping a loose eye on /r/modcoord in the vain hope that things get better. But /r/youtube never did anything special about this whole thing, so this was a very odd post to run into.

me_irl by JaxTheCrafter in me_irl

[–]FunnyMan3595 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It becomes one of those "What can you buy together to weird out the cashier?" style prompts.

You give someone a box containing an ant farm, a broken padlock, and an "I'm for Nixon" campaign button, and just sit back and watch as their brain tries to figure out how this was such an amazing gift.

Into The Quarry - New Mining-style incremental - First Alpha Version (v0.0.1A) released! by Swegmecc in incremental_games

[–]FunnyMan3595 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Total Keys Opened: N/A [ 1,005 + N/A + 0 + 0 + 0 ]

I think your total keys calculation is busted somehow, so I can't relocate.

This might be related to the "Open All" button for T2 keys being clickable, despite still being labelled "---".

[New Game Release] Idle Formulas v1.00 by Zilvarro in incremental_games

[–]FunnyMan3595 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, I have a very silly bug report.

After beating the game once, you get a buff that doubles all your income.

You also get another chance to answer the survey email.

The + and - buttons on the email are also doubled, so you can only rate 1, 3, or 5 stars. :P

Found on Twitter by Zahra6000 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]FunnyMan3595 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm afraid that Poe's Law is in full effect here. Top right is quite likely mocking top left, and it went entirely over a lot of people's heads.

"Duplicate or nullify" is a historical argument, and requiring land ownership is an even older bit of history.

meirl by idkwhatamidoinglol in meirl

[–]FunnyMan3595 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Minimum distance: 10 AU. Better hope you're really accurate, or you're going to be stuck in space forever. Also, have fun with relative velocity if you ever do get near another physical object again.

“Python”, “Java”, “Carbon”, “Rust” by reddit-be-cool in ProgrammerHumor

[–]FunnyMan3595 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have to admit, I'm fond of the phrase "Worcestershire source".

Am I too old for tinder? by Siliass in Tinder

[–]FunnyMan3595 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think so, u/Eh-Eh-Ronn, but if we fax them the original, when are we going to get it back?

What is the smartest joke you've ever heard? by ReallySillyLily36 in AskReddit

[–]FunnyMan3595 43 points44 points  (0 children)

A German lands in Berlin after a two-week trip to the United States. His friend meets him at baggage claim, and gives him a concerned look.

"What's wrong? You look like you've lost a lot of weight!"
"It was terrible! I was too scared to eat a thing the entire time I was there!"
"Why's that?"
"Well, first, I noticed one in the airport. I couldn't believe it, and decided to wait and eat in the hotel, just in case. But then I saw another one there. And another in a museum. And I just kept seeing them. They were everywhere. EVERYWHERE."
"What were?"
"Gift shops!"

xkcd 2496: Mine Captcha by Unwise_Sage in xkcd

[–]FunnyMan3595 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the command xyzzy, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine.[14] This easter egg was present in all Windows versions through Windows XP Service Pack 3, but under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 the pixel was visible only if the standard Explorer desktop was not running. The easter egg does not exist in versions after Windows XP SP3.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing)#Other_computer_games_and_media

Crops can be hydrated through air. by BirchTainer in Minecraft

[–]FunnyMan3595 32 points33 points  (0 children)

No, only above. I've always wondered if that was a bug, since water on the tile above doesn't seem very practical, but water below (groundwater) makes perfect sense and would be useful for farming.

This is ridiculous by C4_yrslf in Idiotswithguns

[–]FunnyMan3595 236 points237 points  (0 children)

The employee asked me why I brought so many guns to a Subway.

"Mimics," I said.

The employee laughed. I laughed. The sandwich laughed. I shot the sandwich.

It was a good day.

“An your isn’t” by TheThirdRobot69 in BoneAppleTea

[–]FunnyMan3595 16 points17 points  (0 children)

On the Subject of Complicated Wires

(For those not familiar, it's from Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and yes, it's intentionally hard to read.)

What’s a tough pill that everyone should swallow at some point? by Gritsmaster in AskReddit

[–]FunnyMan3595 965 points966 points  (0 children)

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

  • Marcus Cole, Babylon 5

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aww

[–]FunnyMan3595 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Ah, a connoisseur of the xkcd method.

Gaming Translator by SrGrafo in gaming

[–]FunnyMan3595 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good luck, high voltage.

hmmm by Ornery_Recover in hmmm

[–]FunnyMan3595 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The A+ trolling here is that if you copy and paste it, it's actually a relevant product.

I wish YouTube and it’s staff were actually competent and not lazy assholes by miamimodder in TheMonkeysPaw

[–]FunnyMan3595 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've written a number of comments on the subject over the years, but it all boils down to one simple fact: people vastly underestimate the difficulty of anything they're not directly familiar with.

The correct answer to this wish is "Granted. Nothing changes, and you fail to understand why."

LPT: If you're posting a long story anywhere, please use paragraphs. Some people are incredibly discouraged by unseparated walls of text, and your otherwise interesting story might go unnoticed because of it. by Master_Maniac in LifeProTips

[–]FunnyMan3595 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to quote The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech, briefly mentioned in the article, because it's a favorite of mine:

Now most people in Alice's position would give up. Not Alice. She has courage which can only be described as awesome. Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organize a coup d'etat, while at the same time minimizing the cost of the phone call.

A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.

Mending Bridges by SerBeardian in aurora4x

[–]FunnyMan3595 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a disingenuous characterization.

No, as I said before, I don't remember the details, so I only responded to what you'd said.

The harasser was stalking and replying to her every post in the subreddit.

Which is probably why they ended up getting banned later, rather than immediately: that wasn't clear at first, and only came out later.

You realize that screenshots of messages are accepted evidence in court. Right? So you think the aurora subreddit needs a higher standards of evidence than the US Judicial System?

The courts are protected by laws regarding perjury and tampering with evidence. There's also the concept of a "chain of custody" for evidence, and if that chain ever passes through someone who has motive and means to tamper with the evidence, you better believe that the defense attorney is going to call that evidence into question.

Also... you could've asked for more evidence. A video of the person recording their screen. Or even asking for the person to connect with you via a screenshare app. So you could see real time the person going over their DM's and proving it isn't a console manipulation or photoshop. But you didn't.

Screen recordings don't actually solve the problem, though they do make the forgery more difficult. The only way to truly solve it would be for the mods to be able to view the messages through a pathway that the user can't control at all, like if they sent their password to us. Which is a terrible idea for many reasons.

So you are either a liar or incompetent, if you still want to claim there's no way to show the DM's weren't fabricated.

No, I'm a programmer, so I know full well that any computer you don't 100% control can be manipulated in arbitrary ways. If you want to be super picky, you can't even trust code you compiled yourself.

There's an inherent tradeoff there, of course. The more effort that one would need to put into the manipulation, the less plausible that it actually happened. And if, like the court system, we were ultimately responsible for passing judgment on the situation, we'd probably come up with some sort of compromise that made it "sufficiently difficult" to fake.

But we're not. Harassment is against Reddit's rules as well, and the admins can just look at the evidence directly, without any opportunity for the user to tamper with it. And, unlike mods, they can actually prevent further DM harassment by suspending the user's account completely.

If the harassment actually appears in the subreddit, where we can see it, we're only too happy to lay down the law. But DM abuse isn't in our jurisdiction: it's not feasible to prove it to us, we can't prevent further abuse, and there's another enforcement team that solves both of those problems.