southsamurai

Did you comment in the wrong place?

Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.

I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I'm not certain.

In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn't, well, it may help to know that it's out of place thematically.

Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond

Never fall prey to the bait!

Well, when it comes to video games, despite being foundational, Mario Bros. At the time, it was mids, but there were a lot less truly great games, and less abysmal ones so it looked better than it was. The series got better, but that first one was kinda meh. It's all timing jumps, which is fine as far it as it goes, but there were both better and worse options on that console.

Away from video game, Life is about as meh as it gets. No real strategy, no depth. But it's a good time killer and you can play it with a table full of people drinking and not get bogged down or into arguments because of the game (unlike monopoly lol).

Whats bad is that list misses so much stuff that's worse than a mosh pit.

Like, have you ever see a venue after the crowd decides to have an impromptu orgy? Takes days to get the jizz out of the rafters

Wait, so it's fake?

Damn, that's so gay

Or something lol. Dude had to be whacked out

Yeah, even he's said that it was not a great choice lol.

I kinda get what he was going for though. It failed utterly, but as a scene meant to ground characters in their humanity and link them so deeply that the power of it could carry them through and into adulthood, the symbology is right.

The problem was their ages. Not because kids that age are never sexual, they can be. It was that the combination of the shock to the reader and the details of the scene pushed the idea into unrealistic territory that made it read unhinged rather than like an improvised magic ritual of sorts.

Like, c'mon man, you don't actually need to describe as much as you did. The concept of a young girl making that decision as her size first experience is already at the very edge of credibility, trying to make it seem beautiful and otherworldly just breaks the ragged remains of suspension of disbelief. Like, no Steve, no. Not even in that situation would that happen, it just isn't realistic even in that world. Fade to black, have it happen off screen, and be done with it if you really insist on that being the magic activity.

The fact that he didn't consider anything less skeevy is another issue, but damn, there were a dozen things that would have carried the symbolism just as much, or more. Why not become "blood brothers"? Everyone slice a hand and shake on it, you dig? You know, something that group of kids would actually think of in that situation. On a literary symbolism level it's better.

For one thing, the magic connection would be tied into all of them, not just hinging on one character. For another, blood exchanges as a form of power are damn near universal across the world's history and cultures.

I like King. The dude has a strange and engaging imagination. But that scene is the worst one he's ever written, on multiple levels.

Sailors are gay, obviously

Completely fake, no anon ever gets into college.

Completely gay, watching another dude jerk it without offering at least a dutch rudder

Stay strong homie!

I dunno, but I'd say all the other slim shadys were just imitating

Look, it's only gay if you like it. You can get railed every night at the club in the bathroom, but if you don't like it, it isn't gay.