FullOfBallooons

@FullOfBallooons@leminal.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any video games in the Warhammer universe that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dawn of War and its expansions are awesome, if you don’t mind playing a game from two decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you know what a streaming service have available if all of them need you to subscribe before showing you.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  JustWatch does a decent job of telling you if a specific movie is on any of the streaming services. For example, I just searched for the movie Tombstone and apparently it’s on Apple TV+, Hulu, and AMC’s service.

  It’s not always accurate, so take everything it says with a grain of salt, but it’s better than nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were some ways old community sites grew before stuff like search engine optimization became prevalent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually it meant finding websites with similar interests and banding together. You might form a webring, or trade banners with an affiliate site, or have community-voted top 100 lists, etc.

  In 2000 I had a website about the then-current animated series X-Men Evolution, and I remember getting emails from other people who ran X-Men Evolution fansites and we would link back to each other. Eventually enough X-Men Evolution websites sprung up that one of those Top 100 list pages* sprung up to rank all of us. Clicking on my banner would result in a vote for me. I don’t think I was ever the #1 page, but I remember being in the top 5-10.

  *if you have no idea what I’m talking about or are too young to remember these, they were EVERYWHERE in the early 2000s for many different subjects and fandoms. I don’t really miss the era of the Top 100 lists, because they could be easily gamed just like SEO (emulation sites were notorious for this). But I spent many hours of my teenage summer vacations finding a subject matter I liked, like Pokémon, and just going down the list and exploring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are phone notification LEDs still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My Zenfone 8 has a notification LED. I really appreciate it, because all I have to do is look over and see if the light is blinking to see if I got a text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the episode where he leaps into the body of the crash-landed astronaut, only to find out it was Earth all along!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can I listen to radio for hours but when I listen to music I actually like I feel exhausted after 1 or 2 albums?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you like variety. When you listen to an entire album all the way through, you’re getting a bunch of songs that are (most likely) the same genre, the same singer, possibly the same tempo, etc.

  Radio stations aren’t going to play a bunch of songs by the same artist over and over (unless it’s some sort of programming block), so you get a variety of sounds and voices. Even a radio station that sticks to a specific genre will play a bunch of artists each with their own unique style.

  Listening to an album front to back can be fun experience, but also there’s merit in a big shuffled playlist of various songs from multiple artists you like.