cool
go fuck yourself
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/yTS8iy2YJHM
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
we've been over this 100 times but ilx is just really old and mellow now which is why it's boring. ILH is still cool though
― k3vin k., Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
it was good-boring for like 5 years, been finding it actively bad of late
― flopson, Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
what is ilhI love healthcare?
― calstars, Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
hosers
― estela, Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
Flopson what’s bad about it? Is it me?
― Evan, Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
xxp
"i love hoops" is a recognized health insurance provider on the obamacare market, hello my name is mark obama and im here to take your obamabucks
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
on i love hoops we discuss the inevitable market-led death spiral of the golden state warriors frontcourt
― Clay, Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
― Evan, Friday, November 23, 2018 9:53 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's not you, Evan. i don't want to be too specific. just not in that sociopathic mood i guess
― flopson, Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
flopson you’re a good poster
― omar little, Saturday, 24 November 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
hi flopson
― buzza, Saturday, 24 November 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
I feel that ilx could be improved.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link
write a memo
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 24 November 2018 05:53 (five years ago) link
I was kidding about me! But was curious otherwise
― Evan, Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
Excelsior, zing, pvmic, solitary posts are all dead, feels like all the posting is niche, very little communal mirth
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
i agree. i think is because the internet in general doesn't feel fun anymore
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
fucking 21st century blows.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:23 (five years ago) link
some good stuff on the dogs thread lately
eoy coming up on ILM
it's all good
and as stated ∞ times the surrounding web is now so horrible that ilx is a relative blessing
― niels, Saturday, 24 November 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
I feel too sad to click on the dogs thread after my dog had a stroke last week and had a bit of a relapse last night, during his slow recovery.
Can't complain too much about ILX, the rest of the internet is much worse.
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
sad to hear that calzino, hope he/she gets well soon
― niels, Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:04 (five years ago) link
ahh shit happens, he's already a year over the average age for a lab.
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
sounds a bit cold, but y'know he's had a good innings.
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
sounds like a good boy
― niels, Saturday, 24 November 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
even the postman was on the verge of tearing up when I told him earlier, he deffo has a bigger fan-club in the area than I do!
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
an historical conclusion: all my threads are good and everyone is bad for ignoring most of them
― mark s, Saturday, 24 November 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
flopson - raise the discourse and name names!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 November 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, November 24, 2018 1:20 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think ilx is fine but I was talking about this at work with someone, I've been realizing this just how boring and shitty the internet is, like it's hard to find anything that interests me
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 November 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
Most of the stuff I read comes from ilx
I tell myself I'm going to stop visiting ILX at least a couple times a week, and usually it's because I want to scale back my internet use across the board. This isn't specific to ILX; it's the same with a few other sites. I don't think it's habit that keeps me here so much as that I need some kind of distraction to get through a work day.
― jmm, Saturday, 24 November 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
I mean what an I supposed to do....work?
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 November 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
the problem is the element of discovery or mystery is gone as all content has basically migrated to a handful of platforms. it's just boring. even often like specific thread revives, i can tell what link or tweet will have been the impetus because i'd just seen it minutes before
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
that's a good point, the whole sphere is shrinking/speeding up
― sleeve, Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
at the same time that also results in clustering of niche interests/personas which is like a weird combination of homogenization and specialization
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
i miss when the internet was like 'www.jimschoepke.com' with a hit counter, his list of favorite movies, a bunch of gif links to the web rings he was in, and what cons he was attending
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
internet discussion is terrible, it feels like there's no point in discussing anything. well, just politics, but fucking everything is political these days. i still love music and want to tell people about the cool stuff i've heard, but the framework just isn't there anymore. i just need to find locals to randomly text about stuff smith records, or get my uncle's cell phone number and text him about it. there's nothing on the internet that feels like it can be used to build on.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
― global tetrahedron
i feel like the "long tail" is vanishing, i have a lot of niche interests and have no idea where to talk about them
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
a hit counter, his list of favorite movies, a bunch of gif links
I remember that web. It was about as exciting as a toddler's pull toy that bobs its head and waddles as it moves.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
more fun to explore tho, and actually easier to find some stuff on, as i've recently opined on one of the lamenting-the-old-internet type threads
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
someday maybe we'll lament the demise of places like ilx
actually, there are already several dozen threads on ilx, lamenting the demise of ilx
but you know what i mean
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
you're right. the internet is just going to become more homogeneous. like wal mart, but more treacherous because the whole thing is organized along partisan lines and it's very easy to say the wrong thing.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
there's nothing on the internet that feels like it can be used to build on.― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, November 24, 2018 12:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, November 24, 2018 12:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i find this sadly true but maybe i am just thinking about it the wrong way. in theory, the internet provides an amazing platform for creativity as anyone can get an audience. but there is something bleak about the structure in place to reach that audience and the way the content gets organized
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
It's all fragments, now more than ever.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
these have been going since at least 2003
― Bing The Mighty Seat (sic), Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
Taking sides: nu-ilm vs old-ilm
― mark s, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
damn i was 13 then. glad i wasn't posting yet.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
it was always already bad, as were the places we all arrived from
― mark s, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
I have the same conversations most time I'm with irl friends, why would the Internet be any different really?
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
ILX is just a (very) dry pub to me, mostly
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 November 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link