The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Is YouTube running slow for you? This might be why.

I’ve been noticing lately that YouTube loads slower than it used to… this article shines some light on possibly why.

In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla’s Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube’s Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome. This in turn makes the site around five times slower on competing browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozila Firefox. He went on to say that:

I use Waterfox and have no interest in migrating over to Chrome… do no evil my :assy:

Fallout Miami

A modding team working on their project: Fallout Miami has released this really swank trailer.

This is looking to be quite a big amount of content. I’m not too far into Fallout 4 yet apart from wandering around like a buffoon and enjoying the scenery, but I always welcome mods like these to prolong my experience, as seen during my adventures in Skyrim. :v:

Who needs the library when you have Amazon?

Everything about this statement is wrong to the point of making me puke in my mouth.

Wrong enough apparently that Forbes removed their entire article. Considering I read posts from both the left and the right, and most of them hated the idea it must have been enough for them to 86 the damn article. :zorak:

I did things

I finally had a day off where I didn’t endure any kind of pain or accidental self harm! I even managed to get a nice breakfast, a little bit of cleaning done, and even made a video of a recent Left 4 Dead gaming session plus a title card for tomorrow. I also played around some more in Source Filmmaker; mainly playing with assets. I originally wanted to have a short cold open for the video, but the Francis model kept crashing SFM making the project pointless… though I did have fun with particles.

Videos releases will continue to be semi random as I’m still in the process of grabbing footage; I just happened to have enough to release something. :trollface:

For a friend

I made another surprise for my co-worker male Bayonetta friend:

I’ve found (long before the Bayonetta incident at work) that he looks quite similar to John Egbert (or even Jake English) from the webcomic series Homestuck. I changed the shirt logo to show a Twitch logo as he does Twitch streaming. I think I’ll bring this in tomorrow morning in my latest attempt to scar him for life. :v:

The Blue Whale Challenge is a great Red Herring for banning video games

I read an article today about two children in Saudi Arabia committing suicide due to a game called “The Blue Whale Challenge”, and as a result their government banned 47 different games including The Witcher 3, Bayonetta 2, Okami, Life is Strange, etc etc. This sounds like quite the over-reaction more so than one might realize considering the game itself is social media based, the challenge has become infamous enough to have been given its own Wikipedia article. Basically the Blue Whale Challenge is a list of 50 challenges that a person has to complete with proof of doing so, and each challenge or task is given to someone calling themselves a “administrator” or “whale”. These challenges start off innocently enough (if you call following stupid instructions from a random person on the internet innocent) such as drawing a picture or waking up at 4:20am, but then it gets darker when they start telling you to carve sentences and words into your arm or leg, poke yourself with a needle, among other acts of self harm all the way up to telling the person to off themselves. The whole process is designed to break the person down, to manipulate them into doing whatever they want, and sadly it seems quite a few children have fallen victim to these sick assholes.

Now, how does this relate to the 47 games that have been banned as a result of these two suicides? Nothing really, a good portion of the games on the list aren’t even multiplayer… and why is Okami on the list? That’s like one of the most calming games I’ve ever played. O_o I’m actually surprised that out of all of the games on the list Dishonored isn’t included, it still would be just as stupid to ban but it DOES have things pertaining to whales. 😛 At least there would be some form of an attempt to tie things together.

This reaction makes about as much sense as banning commemorative dinner plates because people masturbate. Why go after video games over an act that took place on social media? Wouldn’t it make more sense to, I don’t know… ban social media instead? That’s still an extreme measure and that’s clearly not the best answer either, but it would at least relate more to the offending act itself. In some ways this reminds me of our government in the states trying to relate violent video games because of gun violence, which went up in smoke. Our government is not as religious however, at least not yet. They’re working on it…