These are not necessarily unpopular in terms of subscribers, but nieche in terms of topics:

• acollierastro: theoretical physicist with a unique style. What got me hooked are her videos debunking or responding to popular scientific misconceptions.
• Ben Eater: teaches computer related subjects like electronics, networking, low level programming, architecture etc. in a fun way. He has a series where he builds a computer from scratch with cables and circuit boards.
• Living Ironically in Europe: if 2balkans4you was a youtube channel, although he has some serious content as well
• Masaman: mostly talks about genetics, he hasn’t made any new videos in a while.
• Max Derrat: he seems to have deep knowledge about occult stuff and its history which he uses to analyse video games and other media.
• Ostura Official TV: progressive metal band from Lebanon.

Is this really world news, tho?

I saw some memes with Good Omens templates and decided to give the show a watch.

Season 1 was pretty good, the kind of comedy that made me smile occasionally, which is fine.

On the other hand season 2 was mostly boring, 2 episode’s worth of story was stretched out to 6, and the ending ruined the friendship between the main characters, which was the cornerstone of the whole concept.

I was a huge fan of the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy. Just before the third game came out I replayed the previous two games again. I managed to get the secret ending of the second game. It’s un understatement that it blew my mind and that the third continued from there instead of the regular ending.

That’s a fair point, where I live we have a point system for entry and you get the majority of your points through your grades. You also get points if you’re economically disadvantaged and some other factors like certain disabilities, if I remember correctly.

It seems from the outside that a systematic change would indeed be a good idea, not something that would just help the poor but address the root cause of why people become poor in the first place.

I’m from a country with free university education and we also have student loans available.

Here’s something that works for us: forget about private universities, invest in federal or state owned collages so that they can compete with the private ones.

Do a scholarship program where students can get free entry into these universities if their grades are high enough in high school, or make it dependent on an entry exam. Those that don’t get in have a paid option that’s still partially funded by the state or federal government.

Student loans will still be useful, not for tuition but for families who can’t afford to send their kids to study in the cities where the universities are located.

Communities I usually block if I see them more than once:

• cities/towns (outside of mine)
• porn
• US politics
• sports teams
• tankies and neonazis
• meme communities that flood my feed
• meme communities of other countries
• most Reddit repost communities
• communities that focus mostly on negativity (making fun of people, ranting, artificial drama, “haha these people are stupid” etc.)
• countries that only post in a language I don’t understand
• communities with too many stereotypical Reddit users where I can already predict what 80% of the comments will be (commenting the same 10 jokes, only allowing the same opinions, referencing old Reddit posts etc.)

Not sure if they IP ban you because it’s not reliable. Most internet providers don’t give you a static IP, you get a new one every time you connect to the internet.

I’ve been IP banned before from some Counter Strike (1.6) servers back in the day because they though I was cheating (I just learned the AK’s recoil pattern), all I had to do was restart the router to play again.

I recently visited a forum for the first time and I wanted to comment but I couldn’t because I was IP banned. Probably because someone trolled there with the IP that I ended up receiving.

Me and my friends got banned from an online game because we logged in from school computers and sent each other resources. They thought they were one person’s alt accounts, which was forbidden. This was before wifi became commonplace so I guess they assumed everyone used their own internet.

I suspect that your IP is just one data point that they use to try to identify you if they do this sort of thing. Your browser (or their app) provides tons of information like screen resolution, device id, extension list, plugged in device list etc. These can identify you quite accurately.

Really? People pay for short, unencrypted messages that can barely handle accented characters, let alone media, when there are free alternatives that are much better in the vast majority of scenarios?

Or is free sms a common thing in people’s phone plans?

This is really strange but a few weeks ago I was looking for something to watch and I came across the thumbnail for the Golden Girls.

That thumbnail gave me a huge nostalgia trip and I can’t explain why. The show was never aired in my home country so I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen it as a kid. I watched some clips from it and I felt nothing.

But the moment I look at that thumbnail of the main cast sitting together I feel like I’m at my parents house in my old room as a 6 year old.

I don’t know what li invites are but for your first request you could try tinder. /s

I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread

How? I’ve read this many times, but I never understood it. Do people just hand them out on the street or is it customary to give bibles as a gift?

TES: Morrowind

You mean like OpenMW or a full remake?

I’m not some kind of activist set out to undermine your movement, I asked a question. This is an online forum where anyone can comment, if you feel like it’s wasting your time then don’t answer.

when was the last time you sent an email to an elected official?

Last time? A few months ago when a chinese company wanted to build a chemical distribution center in my district.

I don’t know what you mean by “allegiance”, you were talking about ethics and that authors don’t get what they deserve. Your problem was not compensation itself but that some people that you don’t think deserve it get a bigger cut than you’re comfortable with.

It logically follows that in this frame of mind the ethical thing to do is to cut out the middle man and compensate the original author for their work directly.

I don’t know what kind of box you put me into based on one sentence but not everyone is out to get you who doesn’t 100% agree with you. This is why civil discussion is not possible online anymore.

I’ve been meaning to watch it for years, thanks for reminding me. I watched half of it when I was a kid but didn’t really understand it yet.

Can I ask where you’re from that it’s a requirement in school? Or was it only in your school?

So you pirate it and donate the normal price to the author directly, right?

I usually don’t pirate, if something is overpriced then I’ll wait until it’s on sale. I have a set budget every month that I pay for entertainment, if something like a new video game is more expensive I’ll just wait a month.

I’m especially against pirating products of asshole companies like Adobe. That’s because even if you don’t pay for them you’re still popularizing their products, helping it stay an industry standard. I’m not in a profession where they’re a necessity so I use their competitors like Affinity, which is good enough for my purposes, and I’m ok with supporting them.

I sometimes watch movies or series on non-legal streaming sites if they’re not available elsewhere, but that’s about it.

Before buying your fitst home:

• bring someone with more experience than you to have a look at it, maybe even a professional
• scout out the area (on foot) during the day, evening and night
• visit local businesses like cafés, restaurants, bakeries etc.
• look at statistics like crime and air quality
• have a talk with the neighbors, get a sense of the community if you can, otherwise just observe while taking walks
• if applicable, call the home owner’s representative (or whatever the equivalent is where you live), ask them about the home, neighborhood, community, expenses, plans for the future etc.
• have a set budget of how much you want to spend on it before you move in, don’t overstep that amount

What? You mean Hitler should have stayed in power and drones were not invented by Führer Himmler but are future tech?

Damn, maybe Germany would have lost the war, I wonder what kind of world would that be…