I didn’t think about rate limiting. I can do about three or four a minute by hand, so rate limiting it to one per minute would be pretty good just in terms of saving me the manual effort even if it takes a few days.

I could also symlink the file into a second folder so I can make a new database as it goes, without affecting my original data or taking up more hard drive space.

There’s more going on in my head, but I think I’ve got pretty good idea worked out of what to do when I get home from work. Thanks everyone. I’ll post an update with my scripts and some test results later this evening maybe. I think it’ll be an interesting experiment.

@harasha456
“To test the durability of the floors? To find your credit card under the sofa?”

people with working brains migrating to the internet and jerry springer.

Daytime TV in 1994: Game shows, cartoons, occasional tabloid program, talk shows, reruns of popular sitcoms/dramas

Daytime TV in 2024: Courtroom shows, lie detector/DNA test talk shows, cheaters caught on camera, TMZ, quack doctors and fake medicine

What happened???

I learn that the Boost Guardian is one of the hardest fights in the series because they buffed it at the last minute and didn’t have time to test it.

@wumbl3
Looks fine to me. (Tested the thumbnail in post previews and searching for the WEBM’s ID.)

Quick, perform a Captcha test!

I love it. Any time Congress need that improves lives is proposed it has to be means-tested AF.

Universal Basic Income is one of the few programs that every time it’s been tested it ends with a result of “It works. It just fucking works” and yet we have to test it again and again to see if it really does work.

How is this relevant to the making it illegal to be homeless? The average cost of jailing someone can be anywhere from $30-150 a day. So anywhere from $900-4,500 a month.

It’s literally cheaper to just give people $1000 a month than spend 4x as much making their life harder, but oh no we can’t just give money away! That’d be socialism!

I tested something. Kirby’s Down B can’t be effect by Peachs Final Smash. Damage included.

I feel like any test of longterm physical endurance will end will all elderly contestants either unconscious or outright dead.

@byte[]
Oh, yes - very much so. I think that those old versions of Safari are doing something stupid. I suspect it has something to do with the window losing focus - like, if you go to a different tab the session expires or something like that. But I haven’t done any hard testing of it. I just found that if I’d had a window open for more than 2 minutes “sometimes something goes wrong”, even if I didn’t leave the window.

I couldn’t find anyway to correct it - even wiping the iPad to factory defaults and reinstalling didn’t fix it. It got so bad I just recycled it as a picture frame and bought a new one.

I mean the subreddit, to be clear.

I mainly do mlp PMVs for fun. And I recently posted one made up entirely out of animations from RandomTripleS, who mostly creates short animated Equestria Girls loops.
I think we can all agree that he creates show-accurate high quality art.

So, I recently posted this (or rather this teaser) to the following subreddits:

After a week, the results were … interesting.

r/clopclop (126k members) and r/cartoonporn (633k members) performed about as well as I can expect - 14k views & 100 upvotes on clopclop and 18k views & 15 upvotes on cartoonporn.

r/pmvhaven (7.6k members) is mostly meatspace porn, so it honestly isn’t a good fit for my content. But it’s a PMV and I use pmvhaven to host HQ versions of my videos, so why not test the waters?

7,900 views and zero upvotes later (it’s actually in the negative) I got my answer.
But the funny thing is: more than 100% of the group members have watched my video and then remembered their macholinity and recoiled in disgust. Gotcha, you perverts! 😁
For comparison: barely 11% of r/clopclop watched what was made specifically for them.

r/rule34 has a whopping 3,300,000 members. So technically, I could expect a proportionally similar result to r/cartoonporn, couldn’t I?
5k views and negative zero votes say otherwise.

Now, there could be many reasons for why my PMV in particular wouldn’t perform well. Most obvious: They hate PMVs generally or the music I chose in particular. MLP and EQG is hated outside of brony circles. General disdain for lazy compilation video makers.
Whatever the misgivings: I would expect them to be distributed somewhat evenly, but r/rule34 really stands out.

I really don’t understand what makes them tick …

Anyway, I hope that was an interesting read for you.
Cheers!

@Background Pony #E1B6
wait wtf this is a brony booru

@Meanlucario
It’s actually relatively easy to find loopholes in many tests like those. Most people see those tests not as an encouragement but rather as a paperwork procedure that gets in the way.

It’s really funny to me, sometimes the more people try to not be racists or sexists, the more they end up looking way more racist and sexist they pretend. Turns out putting an hyper focus in a trait makes it look like you are really bothered by said trait and it feels unnatural to you.

That’s why I’d rather evaluate games without checking out many professional evaluations, though I’m actually very open to audience reviews, after all they’re the ones who actually paid for said games so whatever they say carries some sense of risk and reward.

I’m going to do general boosting for Forever Winter. So watch this space (go to its Steam page or smth or Fun Dog’s channel I guess)

Mo, the Bechdal test is if two or more women have a conversation not about a guy.

Of course the two women who wrote the test in the 80s also don’t describe it as a hard and fast rule. You can write women talking about a male character. But the common theme surrounding the guidelines in writing women feministly is to draw awareness of, so you avoid writing women as a secondary and supporting tool for the men. Being a general critique guideline, you can break the rule so long as the breaking of it does not reinforce the notion that the male is the central figure, and the competition between the ladies is not subservient to that. In pure romance terms, you can accommodate for the critique by juxtaposing the conversation between women about a man, by having the same man elsewhere in the story discuss the relationship with one of the two women with another man. Or have two men discuss a relationship with a woman. The spirit of the “test”/guideline as I’ve received it is to turn on its head or dismiss the notion that women’s role in media is to be the active pursuers of a romantic or sexual affair, encourage the perception that men too can pursue a relationship with a woman and have the same doubts or conflict, or to throw that all aside and abandon heterosexual norms and have two women discuss a romantic relationship with a third woman (or two men a romantic relationship with another man).

@AaronMk
I never liked that test since you can just cheat and make everyone women so every conversation could be them wanting to bone the lead and it would pass despite being the same if the lead was a guy.

Yeah it’s not exceptionally difficult. The guidelines even - designed mostly as reference points - aren’t super complicated, or are even tongue and cheek bits about film and television. Essentially a woman must exist and have an independent plot arch that doesn’t directly support a man; the “Mako Mori Test”. Or the more infamous Bechdal Test, two women on screen do not have a conversation about a man.

And there. You’re done.

@Holofan4life
Also turns out the reason Joe Hendry got eliminated first was WWE doing a quick test to see how much of a reaction the audience gave him, and seeing how positive the reception was they are currently in talks of bringing him back in for more shows

Managed to source a decent split AC system for the camper, it features selectable cooling capacity by varying the compressor speed (on the lowest setting it only draws 180w), super handy when you’re off grid with limited power.

Also recovered some old photos I thought I’d lost forever:

My first car, me (on the left) a few days after passing my test

I get that spice isn’t everyone’s thing?
But this has to be a first for a country to outright BAN a food, not for quality reasons and such, but because it’s “too spicy”

How did they go from brave adventurous Norse seafarers and raiders, to a little country of pussies, cucks, and soyboys with low sperm count that get spooked over a little bit of spice? That they feel the need to ban an entire product line for such?
Especially considering that these products have been on the shelves for YEARS and are sold globally. There were almost no issues with them save for occasional quality issues. It’s now suddenly a problem?

Decided to make a copy of my Vernusylph deck in Master Duel, with a few additional tweaks.
I’ve been testing it for an hour or-so, and it’s proven to be a lot better than I originally thought it would be, everything considered.

Photogenic Cheetah :P

@blue-case90
Give them more of an almond shape with very defined points. So you have round eyes like Pinkie’s Mom, the more tsurime-style eyes like Twilight Sparkle, and that shape far more exaggerated to get the Asian eyes of the akaname oc of mine:

Here’s kind of a mock-up of how it could look, using your most recent pic. If you make the eyes a little wider than they normally would be, you can make them not look squinty without making them too round:

@JP
In case you’re still here, if it helps, I had exactly the same confusion. I use this site nearly every other day, and was baffled what the poll was actually asking and confused it in exactly the same way you have.

But - please know that is USEFUL DATA for UI design. If you and I, people who are constantly working with filters and using this site at least half of the days in the year, didn’t even remember that feature existed, then that is useful information.

It doesn’t mean the feature’s going away - not at all. It just means that you and I have no use cases that take advantage of that feature. In our muscle memories, it’s never been used beyond possibly figuring out what it was and what it did once upon a time, and then we forgot about it because we had no use for it (unless someone happened to ask how to use it - which for me only meant I had to play with it for a few minutes to even remember what it did).

For me, that feature is a “set and forget”. Once I realized I liked the site’s default, my brain erased it from my personal perception of the interface.

And that is reflected in my vote. Just as I suspect it is in your’s :)

So … you are a good tester. You observe, and report, and when it turns out your observation was skewed you recognize that almost immediately and report that information too.

10 out of 10 would ask you to test again.

@Dustcan
Children of immigrants assimilate quickly, at least in this country. They speak English, they do crime, and they can’t pass the citizenship test to save their lives.

I remember someone saying that folks should have to take a good old “basic knowledge” test in order to be able to use the internet.

I’m split on that:

On one hand, keeping folks from sharing their voice is rarely a good thing but…

…if we could weed out the flat-earth believers and other incompetent buffoons that easily then we’d take a step in the right direction in making the internet a less idiotic place.