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Mexicola wrote:Well, they weren't going to be stickers, but if people want stickers I'm sure we can look into it.
Part of something a bit more substantial in reality though
Mexicola wrote:Well, they weren't going to be stickers, but if people want stickers I'm sure we can look into it.
Part of something a bit more substantial in reality though
fujee wrote:
Rodheh wrote:Tumblr has so many features/tools that provide with relative ease the ability to communicate in almost any manner you wish to, will on top of that host 90% of the media that you wish to share over it, is extremely flexible with such potential inherent in its design and it is wasted on an extreme contender for the shittiest generation of people ever to exist in the western world.
valleaux wrote:Rodheh wrote:Tumblr has so many features/tools that provide with relative ease the ability to communicate in almost any manner you wish to, will on top of that host 90% of the media that you wish to share over it, is extremely flexible with such potential inherent in its design and it is wasted on an extreme contender for the shittiest generation of people ever to exist in the western world.
Amen to that. Too bad I'm part of that generation.
Rodheh wrote:valleaux wrote:Rodheh wrote:Tumblr has so many features/tools that provide with relative ease the ability to communicate in almost any manner you wish to, will on top of that host 90% of the media that you wish to share over it, is extremely flexible with such potential inherent in its design and it is wasted on an extreme contender for the shittiest generation of people ever to exist in the western world.
Amen to that. Too bad I'm part of that generation.
I'm not quite young enough to fall in the aforementioned generation, but nevertheless I see people all the way up to ~35 y/o just wasting time being nonsensical in that same way and can't help but feel just this depressing wave of it all, nothing hits me harder internet/tech wise than Tumblr and smartphones. Like...I could go on and on but it'd be pointless. The latter lets you upload whatever and is so easy to use; nobody uploads anything and just reposts mindless shit. These phones. however...they don't offer that much more of any real importance than they did years ago but they've just gotten better and better and faster and faster. People still use them to do NOTHING. They spend their time with it on instagram, snapchat, vine...not that I want to shit on what others like but it's just insane how much time they'll spend on those things and how little they'll use the device to any of its potential. My five year old Windows phone 7 that is only 3G can tell me, just after a few seconds, exactly where I am anywhere in the world and it's like 99% accurate, unlike the old nav units people had in cars circa 2002-2008. I can take a billion pictures on the thing too, anywhere, without an actual camera and they look GOOD actually. I don't need to take it to Walgreens and have it developed. I don't need to take a memory card out and put that into something else. It processes automatically. Then I can miraculously upload one to Facebook anywhere in the world I have reception and it works. I can transfer it all off the device with the device in a bag under my bed.
That's...that's absolutely fucking incredible. That's insane. That's science fiction as nonfiction and that was five years ago, where the phone had an OLED screen that was like 940x560 in resolution and on a 3.5" screen that was remarkable and as sharp and smooth as it ever needed to be back then.
Now I've seen "excessive" redefined. I was blown when after not paying any attention to development of them I realized phones were now toting 1080p screens. Now, like a year later, there are 3K phones. 1440p. Screen size? Like 5.5" - two inches bigger with like 5x the resolution. Part of me says "wow" and part of me says "why", but it's all pointless because I see people get these things, waste them and then eventually they all manage to break them with the same crack going down the front of the screen (mine is still fine). With all the effort that has gone into these things along with the social media websites/applications that accompany them, I can't believe that it is not only taken for granted so much but actually seen as not enough so much of the time. It astounds me, especially these phones with PMP quality DACs in them - it astounds me that people complain about them while complaining on them about something that isn't really a problem. They don't enjoy anything anymore either. We've been spoiled. I know a good chunk of the reason why people don't collect music today. Think it's all just piracy or streaming sites making it too easy? Not anywhere near as much as some people think I would say. People have the money to go to a record store or on Amazon or something and buy most albums in good shape for anywhere between some small amount of change to 15 dollars/10 quid or so. It's that all this instant gratification has made something so elequent as building a collection of (whatever) pointless and archaic. It's not, but people have allowed the enjoyment of it to be taken away over time. I'm trying to distance myself from the present - not necessarily the future, just the present. It's depressing as hell. /rant, sorry for my rambling
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