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5d ago
inDAE get better web results by searching the exact phrase someone said, in quotes?
Quoting exact words works fine when the person said something specific, but you got lucky twice and now you're acting like it's a rule. Half the time the exact phrase people use is useless because Google just pulls up whatever page happens to have those words, not the page with the right answer. "Sweating like a glass of tea" hit because old forum guys talk like old forum guys, so the words match the old threads. Try quoting what a normal person says today and you'll get nothing but junk and ads. The real skill is knowing which words are worth quoting and which ones are just noise.
6d ago
inRant: someone on here said my thrift store tape rips look too clean and it bugged me for a week
Have you ever watched a tape on an actual CRT recently? Because I swear the tracking noise only bugs people who grew up on flat screens. I hooked my VCR up to my old Trinitron and the head switching line at the bottom literally sits in the overscan, you cannot even see it. So all these "clean" rips are cropping to the full frame, which no TV in 1989 ever showed. Leaving the noise in is more real in one way but also kind of too real, like showing the edge of the set. I keep the blue screen and dead air though, that part is the truth of what is on the tape.
20d ago
Vent: Thought I knew my own neighborhood, then a dead end ate 40 minutes
Wasted a whole Saturday once finding out my old pizza place turned into a vape shop.