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I hate that the internet is collapsing under the weight of paid subscriptions and tsunamis of adverts
How long until the internet that we already pay for becomes unusable?
I don’t blame watcher for this decision but I hate that it’s coming down to their poor audience to fund them and not the billion dollar corporation they were posting on.
#all these adverts and payments and yet somehow creators can’t afford to live#something needs to change#anti capitalism#watcher
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(Gonna preface this by saying the admins are doing a great job and this event will be a learning curve for them but they aren’t perfect)
If I’m being honest, I think presenting the team scores as percentages is the worst way they could do it especially with how vague the rules for gaining points are.
The rules being more vague would be fine if all the teams saw exactly how many points they were getting for every task they completed. Just having a number that starts at zero and increases with kills and completed tasks and decreases with deaths would be so much better because the players could figure out how the scoring works via trial and error. With the percentages, it’s nearly impossible to tell because completing a contract quest can give you between .5 and 5% increase depending on a bunch of other unknown factors the players have no control over.
I doubt they would change it but I genuinely think keeping track of the team’s scores through a percentage is the worst and most inconsistent method that they could use with how vague the rules around gaining points are.
Either they need to clarify how gaining points works - especially the contract quests - or get rid of the percentage system and add a numerical system or something that can tell the players exactly how many points they have.
A compromise they could do would be to keep the percentage counter and ADD a numerical counter for the given team so each team can know how many points they have in addition to how they fair against the other teams via percentage.
Either way, something needs to change cuz rn it’s just frustrating watching the streamers playing a game without knowing the rules. (The rules are way to vague I know they gave us rules but they are no way near specific enough to be useful)
#qsmp#crimson speaks#discourse#qsmp crit#competitions like this are definately the admins weakened#if they clarified the points system from the beginning#I think it would be a lot more fun for a lot of people#cuz rn it looks like someone can log on at the last minute#complete all the contract quests#and sweep the score#it’s happened twice in a row#something needs to change#either the way points are calculated needs to be clarified#or the contract quests need to be changed so it’s more balanced
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i want to expand my life
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Need advice to change majors again
What should I try this time??
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Now that the season is over and everyone is released from the constraints of the bake off tent, things need to be discussed.
The final highlighted an epidemic within bake off that has honestly been growing ever since it moved out of the BBC.
Which is that bakers are never given enough time to complete the tasks set for each challenge.
Challenges get ridiculous and more difficult year after year as if they are trying to one-up the year before (which is not what bake off is about).
The judges have become very subjective in their judgments. It is very biased and not at all fair and cohesive.
The hosting has felt very stagnant and the hosts (mainly Matt Lucas) fail to deliver on their entire purpose which is to uplift the spirits of the bakers. The hosts help set the entire tone of the show for the bakers themselves apart from when their bakes are being judged by Paul and Prue. Their “comedy” and their dialogue has really fallen flat and so instead of being lighthearted, they contribute to making the atmosphere even more stressed and tense.
This is not a professional baking competition. This is not Masterchef 2.0. This should be a celebration of home bakers. And its veering further and further from that core purpose.
Everything essential to home baking which is flavor and flavor only is being overshadowed by all of these other criteria. They are being judged on creating dishes that they have never made before and will never replicate in a million years at home.
What value is this serving?
You are not teaching them any valuable skills to take home and use with their families - simple things they can make in a short period of time that will taste delicious.
Instructions for the technical never include essential information and the judges just expect them to know all of these niche details- completely forgetting that they are all AMATEUR BAKERS who bake at HOME and who have busy lives.
Baking is their hobby, it is a love language, it is not their career.
It is increasingly evident that Bake Off is setting up their contestants to fail and purposefully creating situations that bring out the bakers’ stress and anxiety.
I don’t watch bake off to see people fall apart over cake. I find no enjoyment in watching them struggle.
Bake Off has remained special to me because of the atmosphere between the bakers. The baker community.
I love it for the fact that the bakers are never competing against each other truly and help each other out at any given moment. The warm cozy vibes.
That spirit is not found in any other baking show. Period. It is unique and so precious.
But that spirit is being overshadowed by the rotten framework of this new Bake Off.
There needs to be a fundamental restructuring of Bake Off before it loses everything that makes it special.
#gbbo#bake off#gbbo 2022#gbbo commentary#something needs to change#this is ridiculous#not giving the bakers enough time or enough information#expecting more out of the bakers every single year#stop trying to one up the previous year#this isn't masterchef#this isn't a heavy duty competition between professionals#this is a warm calm competition between regular people who bake on a sunday morning because they want to#to these bakers food is a love language#not a competition and not a career#stop purposefully stressing these bakers out#stop your subjective judging that is biased and unfair af#it has to be said this wasn't a very good final in terms of execution#and that is the fault of the parameters of the challenges#none of the showstoppers looked showstopping#when bakers are still massively struggling during the final episode there is something wrong with the competition itself#also the hosting needs to be adjusted to be of value to the bakers and to actually be funny#lower the perceived stakes#bring back the educational value#bring back Mary Berry Mel and Sue
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I have watched coryxkenshin latest video of him calling out YouTube for being racist and playing favoritism and its truly disheartening. It's 2022 and still black people are being treated unfairly on these social media platforms. Cory has always follow the guidelines. His channel is family friendly and even if he has curses or something that is deem inappropriate in his videos, he always blurs it out yet YouTube does this to him.
The fact that it had to take one of his non black friend's(markiplier) video for his own video to be lift off of age restriction says alot. It does feel targeted and racist when everyone uploads the same content but your video is the only one who gets hit with the restriction.
When will there be a platform where black content creators can feel safe and not have to worry about unfairly treatment.
I have nothing but respect for Cory because it takes alot of courage to come out and call out a big corporation such as YouTube for their unfairly treatment.
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literally feel like im rotting
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We haven't even seen a jump over k point. What is the jury doing?
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some interesting quotes from lieke when asked about alexia. very critical about players' intense schedules.
“it’s horrible. we played together for 5 years and she’s an amazing player. she’s important for her national team, but also for women’s football.
''it’s telling about the intensity of this season. sometimes that gets underestimated. it’s been a very tough season. we get 5 days off during winter break and 2 weeks off in the summer. if you’re lucky, you get off one day a week during the season. we travel a lot, play two games a week, train every day. you just go on and on and you have to keep performing. there needs to be more room for rest, the body needs that too. look at all the injuries we had at barca in the past season. at a certain point your body just stops. and that’s very rough and very, very sad for alexia.”
and added this on her own injury struggles:
“I always wanna continue, but sometimes your body just can’t. i always try to be honest about that towards the medical staff. but sometimes they need to slow down players as well and tell them it’s been enough.”
#lieke martens#alexia putellas#she's 100% right tbh#for barca especially their schedules have been insane#and most of their players play almost every game#something needs to change
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i need to get a fic out soon i didnt realize getting those out constituted so much of my social interactions
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Tokitae died yesterday.
She was still singing the songs that she was taught in L Pod, as a small child of 4 years old, until she died at 57. Orca sing songs to communicate with other orca. She was calling for her mother until she died .
Her mother is still alive.
Miami Seaquarium would have suffered reputations damage if she had been released and managed to thrive outside of their care, contrary to what they told people would happen.
Her release was imminent, after years of work put in by people that wanted to see her reunited with her pod.
Miami Seaquarium has life insurance on all their marine mammals.
RIP Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut. You deserved so, so much better, but we all failed you, in the worst possible way.
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Not to late night lonely-post, but... I've been craving intimacy like crazy lately. There were a bunch of couples at the event last night making out and shit and ngl I was definitely a little envious. Like man... I wanna make out with someone again. I want to share moments like that with someone again.
Realistically I can't just wait for things to change - I need to actually try or I really will end up alone. I think I just worry that I'm not a very good partner. I desperately crave affection but don't feel worthy of it.
It's fucked up but it's something I'm working on. I'm thankful for the experiences I've had. I wish I had done a lot of things differently.
#i post something like this every month it seems#I'm sure you're all sick of it#I'm sorry#there's things i wish could work out#but... i don't know what to do anymore#something needs to change#i can't keep sitting in this loop#just a tall lonely dork trying to figure it all out i guess
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An ongoing problem has been going on where I live for some time now, and I believe that the matter needs to be addressed. I’m not entirely certain if this has been going on in other places as well, but it is bothersome to me that people seem to think that the music program is somehow beneath sports programs in schools these days.
I was in English class and my teacher was trying to recruit some people who would be willing to help run the concessions stand for a high school basketball game, and when she came to me, asking if I would be able to, I told her that I probably would be at the game, but that I wouldn’t be able to help with concessions because I would be playing in the pep band during that time, to which she replied with something along the lines of, “Oh, yeah! That’s kinda the whole point of what you guys do, isn’t it?”
First off, I would like to point out that the answer to this question is no. That is not all that the band does for the school. We are not just a commodity to be used as incentive to come to all of the basketball, football, or any other sports related events. The “whole point” of what we do is not to just bring entertainment to the parents of sports kids while they sit on their butts in the stands, watching a bunch of teenagers throw a couple of balls back and forth.
Our purpose is to make music. Sure, we do play to support our fellow students and classmates in their games, but we also do it for ourselves. Music is supposed to be for everyone, to bring people together, to fill their hearts and souls by bringing them a piece of beauty. And when a person makes music? They are practically bearing their souls to the world, saying “Here I am. Listen to what I am feeling. This is what I have to say.” It is a work of art to be appreciated for what it is, and shouldn’t be forced out of anyone, and definitely not for people who are unappreciative of the effort that goes into it.
Our band is not just there to cater to the whims of the school board, who seem to think that running us dry by making us play at all home games, three times a week is an acceptable thing to do. I am sick and tired of everyone in our school looking at the people in the band and questioning us about why we would even think about doing something as lame as playing an instrument, while expecting us to be there to support them in their sports games while never doing the same for us at our own concerts and competitions.
The whole music program in general should have more support, not just the band. Our band and choir go to competitions and get excellent placements in nearly everything we do, but we hardly get recognition for any of it. We do Christmas and spring concerts that pretty much only close friends, parents and old grandmas go to. And yet even though we’re pushed around and albeit under-appreciated, we still continue to stay. Why? Because we care about each other, and about what we do. Most of us have been making music since before we even hit puberty. We have been in the band together long enough to learn how to be in tune with each other to the point of knowing exactly when someone in our group so much as needs to take a breath during a song. That is something that you don’t see most anywhere else, and I certainly haven’t been able to see it in some of the other programs that go on in this school.
Our band is like our family. And as a band family, we genuinely enjoy making music together and working to become better musicians both as a group and individually. However, it is due to the ignorance and bias of the school board that we are sometimes deprived of such opportunities. When I was in seventh grade, my band director had scheduled a field trip for our band weeks in advance, where we would get to spend an entire day under the guidance of an actual orchestra director along with the bands of seven other schools where we would be able to better our skills as musicians. But at the very last minute, our school board forced our band director to cancel the event that our entire music department had been looking forward to for weeks, so that we could play at the basketball team’s senior night, which in and of itself goes to show just how much the people in charge of our school care about the music program.
Not to mention the fact that the very same year, our band director was fired because she wasn’t having the band come to play at all of the sports games. At the time, the band had only consisted of eight people. Eight people who were exhausted because they were being expected to spend hours playing for the sports teams games instead of doing anything that was actually for themselves.
Issues such as these have been addressed to the school board by the parents of the kids in the music program, over and over again and have continued to be ignored.
It is degrading and downright offensive that people seem to think that our band’s only purpose is to cater to the whims of the school board and various sports programs. It breaks my heart that when we go to play at sports games, the only people who bother to compliment us on our efforts and abilities are people who are there to support the opposing team, instead of the people in our own community. It is disappointing how little recognition we get, and I sincerely hope that one day we will be able to have this issue resolved.
Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
#injustice#something needs to change#school#school board#music program#high school#school band#music#not fair#ignorance
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i think we should deprecate capitalism asap and also money and just trade goods for goods like we used to
#'i do not dream of labor' etc etc#i do not want to work for a living i want to just exist and live my best life#i want to be able to 'afford' everything i need to survive or just have it all for FREE#i think i would be so productive#this world is hostile to the disabled and poor im sick of living in it#something needs to change
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