cubby
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Post by cubby on Sept 26, 2021 11:05:18 GMT
Sounds like you need to pick one of those things. Too many options leads to being spread too thin and not getting any of them done well.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 26, 2021 11:14:13 GMT
Yeah, I've been through this. Wanted to learn guitar (twice), getting in to astronomy, learn a foreign language, signed up with the OU for some stuff...... Thing is, if you're going to commit to something like that, it is time consuming. And if you're just doing it for some kind of self-defined sense of achievement to aspire to....it just becomes another job, you know what I mean? I get the nebulous "I should be doing something with my time/life" but at the same time, there's value in just having your own time to yourself and the peace that comes with that. So every time now I fell like "am I wasting my life away playing games/watching tv/whatever" I remind myself that in setting myself random goals that I have to aspire to so I'm doing something worthwhile, I'm just being my own critic. Nobody else cares. Sitting down and stare in the the middle distance with your dogs, chopsen. Being *busy* isn't something to aspire to. I fully support this approach. Do whatever makes you happy. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 12:16:26 GMT
That is good advice. To be fair during the day I think I can adhere to that. The trouble happens as I'm trying to sleep at night and the voice starts asking me what have I actually achieved that day.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 26, 2021 13:41:52 GMT
I should probably spend less time on the internets, but that's about it. Whether I would do anything more productive with that time is another matter.
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Post by Matt A on Sept 26, 2021 13:44:49 GMT
I used to pick pretentious books that you should read like Kafka instead of trash thrillers that I enjoy more.
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nazo
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Post by nazo on Sept 26, 2021 16:10:05 GMT
I've decided not to upgrade my PS4 Pro to limit the amount of time I waste on games. The fact that PS5 is massive, ugly as fuck and unobtainable makes this an easier decision. I completely agree with the notion that time spent having fun is not wasted but in recent years I've found myself enjoying games less and less.
I'm lucky that I really enjoy learning things, and I'm really getting a kick out of learning bass. If it felt like work there's no way I'd get anywhere, what's the point in spending your free time doing stuff you don't enjoy?
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Post by Sharzam on Sept 27, 2021 17:39:21 GMT
The last couple weeks found myself going to EG and feeling sad their is no forum. Didnt really post much over the last few years but was interesting just seeing what people have been getting up to.
So yeah came here.. sorry.
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Tomo
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Post by Tomo on Sept 27, 2021 17:48:31 GMT
The last couple weeks found myself going to EG and feeling sad their is no forum. Didnt really post much over the last few years but was interesting just seeing what people have been getting up to. So yeah came here.. sorry. Sharz, you are forever welcome here you crazy bastard. Welcome back. |
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 27, 2021 18:31:26 GMT
How do you get stars under your profile then? Some of you fuckers have a couple (I suspect shenanigans with Gremmi) but I’m on one.
It’s just a god damn popularity contest with you kids
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 18:33:46 GMT
It's just post count. Some have had there's artificially enhanced instead of putting the work in like a real man.
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nexus6
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 27, 2021 18:43:07 GMT
I see. Thought it was how many likes you’ve had or something.
Quality over quantity thank you very much!
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Dgzter
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Post by Dgzter on Sept 27, 2021 18:44:38 GMT
I just presumed Gremmi and Nick had a private thread where they were sharing their most hilarious middle-aged men anecdotes with one another  |
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Post by 😎 on Sept 27, 2021 18:54:12 GMT
 This is 100% manual effort, I don’t know what you mean |
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Post by Sarfrin on Sept 27, 2021 19:03:34 GMT
Could you not just keep those pictures on an encrypted USB or something?
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Solid-SCB-
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 27, 2021 19:04:07 GMT
One of you lazy cunts could have lifted all of our post counts from EG individually and applied them here. But nooooo, you were too busy going mad with power and stopping people from saying cunt.
Cunts.
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hedben
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Post by hedben on Sept 27, 2021 19:10:00 GMT
Post counts are on the profile page which hasn't been deleted, there's still time dammit
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Gruf
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Post by Gruf on Sept 28, 2021 12:45:36 GMT
When did they go to a subscription model, well "Support us we are dying" model anyway
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Post by erekose on Sept 28, 2021 13:00:12 GMT
Wow, EG axe their forums because of costs and THEN have the cheek to introduce a paid sub?!
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Post by dfunked on Sept 28, 2021 13:24:33 GMT
In fairness to Oli he's replied to a few comments on it. The timing is a bit shit, but you really can't argue with how much of a bastard it'd be to migrate a bespoke forum to a modern platform.
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KD
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Post by KD on Sept 28, 2021 13:26:19 GMT
When they asked about it a while back I thought it included the forum and maybe we get private messages back, I do pay £30 a year for my Giantbomb premium and dabble a bit with patreon to get some extras when I got a quiet month for podcasts etc from some others.
Don't think I need the EG one as it is but hope they continue doing what they do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 13:26:21 GMT
The size of the community was only a handful though.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 28, 2021 13:28:01 GMT
Was shutting the RPS forum also a tech issue?
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Post by erekose on Sept 28, 2021 13:28:20 GMT
In fairness to Oli he's replied to a few comments on it. The timing is a bit shit, but you really can't argue with how much of a bastard it'd be to migrate a bespoke forum to a modern platform. They could have at least started a new forum though, right? |
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Post by 😎 on Sept 28, 2021 13:33:43 GMT
Not that it matters a great deal but I’d genuinely respect EG if they came out and actually said “we nuked the forum because it was a bit embarrassing and didn’t fit our corporate overlord’s culture”
The tech change stuff seems a convenient excuse, given they’ll have to migrate the comments so data transformation is needed regardless, but I get it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 13:34:40 GMT
If it was the case we were embarrassing why would they shut their other forums down?
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Post by dfunked on Sept 28, 2021 13:37:07 GMT
erekoseYou've got Discord haven't you? Why would you want anything other than that?!
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Post by 😎 on Sept 28, 2021 13:37:54 GMT
Like I said, convenience. The stars aligned for something they’ve wanted to do for a while. I think somewhere in the discord Bertie or Oli or whoever’s staff there mentioned that they’ve talked about nuking the forum way before that for the embarrassment reasons and it was craigy’s debate skills (cheers craigy!) that saved it until now.
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Dug Briderider
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Post by Dug Briderider on Sept 28, 2021 13:38:36 GMT
So start up a new forum, apologise about the lack of migration but keep the community.
A lot of good will was lost that day by EG and to request donations next month leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 13:39:58 GMT
Like I said, convenience. The stars aligned for something they’ve wanted to do for a while. I think somewhere in the discord Bertie or Oli or whoever’s staff there mentioned that they’ve talked about nuking the forum way before that for the embarrassment reasons and it was craigy’s debate skills (cheers craigy!) that saved it until now. Yeah, he mentioned that Craigy fought to keep the forum today. |
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Post by grizzly on Sept 28, 2021 13:42:56 GMT
Was shutting the RPS forum also a tech issue? Partly yes, even though with RPS the membership was already far lower (and say what you will about Graham, I've worked with him and he does actually care about the various communities that sprung up around RPS). The pre-discourse forum (I forgot, Vbulletin?) was an absolute disaster that broke all the time and would collapse whenever you'd make a small change, and didn't even have a proper anti-spam feature. During my stint as moderator there were numerous idiotic tech issues that quite frankly should've killed the forum there and then. Instead, we got an upgrade to a far superior forum software... which broke because of the old forum database being such a goddamn mess. but I was focused fully on the Discord at that point anyway.
That being said, there is apparently quite a massive security issue by just having a forum around: It's quite a big password-email-username database at this point, and various data leaks over the past few years came from gaming websites having had their forums hacked. And if that happens, Reedpop would be responsible for not properly securing that data. So even with Discourse which I'm quite certain is decently secure, you'd still have to do constant security audits on a piece of software that's used by around 20 people. If I were in charge of RPS, I'd have made the same choice. I simply wouldn't be able to justify pouring man-hours into properly securing a database that if cracked would affect tens of thousands of people, even though the database itself is only used by about 20 people. If you'd nuke the entire database, ok: But you still have to maintain proper security on a feature of your website that is used by about 20 people, which takes a disproportionate amount of manhours.
So it's in part a tech issue and in part a security issue, and tbh the cost-benefit analysis simply doesn't work.
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