ok so ive been seeing japanese pillow cakes all over. they look like little knit pillows but theyre actually.. cake..?
they look really nice but i havent eaten them.. do they taste as good as they look??

Are you talking about the Japanese souffle cheesecake? Or do you mean a different pillow cake I'm not aware of?

I think they make a lot of things look like cake now

Wow >>1, that eggnog recipe really gets you wasted! Santa bless you!
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Think that the sun is hot?
MYTH BUSTED. If it gives off heat, then why does it give off cold in the winter?

Think your computer is making too much noise because you are running a game?
MYTH BUSTED. It is actually the fans that make the noise.

Actually >>2, my GPU squeals when I'm playing the Sims 3 and don't intentionally tell the GPU to do a frame lock.
That's not even the fans, that's just the hardware having a panic attack over rendering a trillion frames per second because the VSync is broken.

I've been thinking about this for a while. I kind of want to make a video-based social media, not unlike Youtube. Youtube's increasing shittiness reminded me I wanted to do this again. I especially don't like how Youtube's become less and less social. I miss the days of groups and Youtube Live
I want to take cues from SomethingAwful. The site would be free to browse, albeit with ads, but for a one-time fee, you can set up an account and have access to a lot more than just browsing.
The question is: Should I bother? Would any of you even try to use it, or do you think it'll die out with no one using it or even checking it out?
Feedback and ideas also welcome.

Y'know, it might help if I explain my business model further:
For website features, I'm pretty much just taking everything from YouTube as it was in 2010. This means groups, playlists, captions, Streams, etcetera. Heavy emphasis on the SOCIAL aspect of SOCIAL MEDIA. I'm also going to be introducing a better system for audio-only uploads, in case you're interested in that kind of thing, but it is not my main focus.

I have an idea that will probably get me into a shit ton of hot water. If you do not log in for 8 years, your account gets "archived." You will no longer be allowed to log in, and after a period of time, your username becomes eligible for registration again. However, if you gave me any avenue to contact you, you will be contacted yearly to be reminded your account exists and that logging in will reset this timer. (If you are paying for a subscription, this count down will be put on pause until you stop paying.)
Your comments, videos, etcetera will remain on the site, provided you do not request deletion. You'll be provided a special login post-archive to access it, so that you can delete whatever you do not want to keep online.

Additional monetization will probably be required to keep paying server bills. I don't want investor money, and I do not plan to make the ads obnoxious.
Pre-roll ads are a maybe, but there'd be only one allowed. I REFUSE to do any more than that. Beyond that, margin/takeover ads are also a maybe, but they will not be allowed to take over the interior content. I refuse to do anything like Bitview, where every page is liable to a full-screen popup, and frankly the margin ads are a stretch.

I think that in terms of functionality, it’s pretty weak for a paid social platform.
It would have to be a fully capable service where you can post videos, audio files, images, and text, without turning into a microblogging site...or at least without likes or retweets.
It should also only show your friends, not your followers.
Followers should stay private, because that’s important to avoid becoming like modern social media.

However if you only want to make a video platform, my only suggestion would be to allow users to post comments without an account, but keep those comments clearly separated from the others.

It’s also important to maintain compatibility with older operating systems, so I would choose a layout based on tables.
But you can use whatever you want (as long as it’s not bloated JavaScrapt like react).

Personally, I had imagined a social platform where, instead of having a profile, you have a personal board that you can moderate, and the "TL" is just a general board.
Basically, the idea was to make a better version of Twitter (at least for me), but in the end I don’t think it’s really a good idea.

Anyway, I’ll be there to try your site.
The real problem is finding users who are willing to sign up for your platform, especially if it’s a paid service.

Okay, I see what you're saying. However, doing all of that moves away from what I want to achieve. Damn... Especially the "allow users to post without an account" deal. Part of the point of the paid account system is to ensure that money's on the line if they break the rules. The other part is that a video sharing platform is the most expensive type of social media, so I'd need to cover server and moderation costs SOMEHOW.
Bitview is profitable from what I know. However, the ads are absolutely obnoxious, and I'd rather not subject anyone else to that. I guess I could make a subscription model where you get benefits such as no ads, but I also want to avoid subscriptions if I can help it. Besides, I'm not sure what else I could offer with such a subscription model.

Nnh, this is so difficult. Maybe I'll launch it as free and then figure out how to make it actually viable as a model.
(Your idea reminds me of both Proboards and the Wiki talk page model. I'd say go for it as an experiment, honestly.)

I understand, I would have said it was a good idea if alt tubes didn't already exist.
Because, seeing the current state of the internet, I don't know if many people would be willing to pay to use it.
It's already really hard to make an active, free site, so a paid one... I don't know...
Currently, most alternative sites that actually work, beyond the major platforms (Reddit, Twitter, etc.), are mainly revivals of existing ones.

And right now, the state of this part of the web is like this:
- Revival projects (vidlii, bitvid, spacehey, etc.)
- Personal Sites (Neocities/Nekoweb, etc.)
- Imageboards (the only type of board that is still alive today)
- Textboards (never been very prominent outside Japan)
- Forums (almost dead, but fortunately some still persist)
- Alternative search engines (wiby, marginalia, etc.), which I find quite bad for discovering new sites...

Some new platforms are also emerging that seem really active (pikidiary and zdiskuss, which I discovered recently).
This may indicate that we are finally reaching a point where people are looking for new, original sites rather than just revivals of existing ones!

Or maybe not, LOL.

Anyway, you have to consider the current state of the web if you want to make a website that works and is appealing.
Because above all, you're doing it to build a community and have fun!
That's why in this context I don't think many people would be interested in a paid video social media.
On the other hand, it's a very good idea to start with.

But you're right, the advertising model we have today is bad and really annoying.
And my suggestion to allow anyone to post comments is definitely a shitty idea.
Actually, I wanted to find a way to let people enjoy it enough to make them want to create a paid account.

However, I still think that allowing people to post images, audio, and flash files in addition to videos is a good idea

Apologies for the silence. I've been working on the layout for the last few days. Something that's always gone wrong is the design of the site itself, so my hope is that by creating a complete static layout first before I start programming the backend, I won't be worrying about making a frontend the entire time. Time will tell if this strategy works.

Part of the activity problem is definitely just how difficult it is to actually keep yourself in hte habit of checking multiple sites, especially when sites these days are specifically designed to be addicting and draw away as much attention as humanly possible. That's why I wanted to create an aggregate site that let you link multiple accounts together and freely browse several sites simultaneously, at your leisure. Do you think that would help, or do you think that's not going to help much?

>I wanted to find a way to let people enjoy it enough to make them want to create a paid account
I've considered a few options.
The easiest is just... "Don't bother?" People can still enjoy most of the features without paying money, it's just that you are a passive observer without a paid account.
Another option is restricted free accounts. These accounts can't upload anything(but a PFP,) but CAN interact. They'll probably be forced on a trust system where their initial couple hundred interactions need to be approved first before they become public. This still could be abused though.
A different vein in the restricted free accounts is free accounts that allow you to create playlists and subscribe, but nothing else. This is the hardest one to abuse, but I'm not sure that this would be enough.

I'll be honest, launching it as free and making it paid wasn't exactly a hard option for me to pick. An earlier incarnation of the idea was exactly like this. I also planned to just give everyone of world2ch and a couple of other places free accounts anyways.

>The state of the web
I wonder why image boards are the only ones that survived outside of Japan.
My planned site doesn't really fit into any of these. It's closest to a revival site, but it's a revival in concept only. I'm just trying to take a bunch of discarded features from classic YouTube, and use that as my starting point, while mixing in new features(the aforementioned audio. I'll also consider image posts but I think that I might make an art site instead for that.) I wonder how that will affect my site. Maybe I'll end up with something that is just unique enough to draw new people, just like the two sites you had mentioned.

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Shii, aka Avery Morrow and probably the most infamous w2ch user, has finally lost his shit and decided to shoot up his alma mater, Brown University.
Little is known about the incident, the motive is unclear but it is believed to be about the poor sales from his most recent book on Japanese Religion.

https://apnews.com/live/brown-university-shooting-updates

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You're brown.

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lol! It's funny because in this context "brown" could either be referring to one's skin tone in a derogatory manner, or it could be in reference to the aforementioned Brown University! Only a truly cunning linguist could have devised such a masterful double entendre.

c: thawgable

>thawg: verb: to smash something into smaller (often more edible) pieces, with or without the use of thawging devices such as hammers or small children.

this post is definitely thawgable.

It's something that was frozen and can now be unfrozen (like food)?

"goyng": a gang of stupid people?????????? i dont know lol

"Quiyuth", the son of Shoggoth

Kind of hard since there aren't captcha with each post, only on threads