Sideways-related, but I was just commenting on Erich von Stroheim’s classic Greed film. It was originally like 9hrs, but only 2hrs were rescued, at thought presumed to exist for many decades.

Later, in the early aughts (2000’s), a bunch of images and clips were found, leading to the creation of a restored 4hr version.

Comment and links here:
https://piefed.social/post/1983335#comment_10963552

Ah whoops, I think I remember that now. Thank you.

Thanks for answering!

I don’t have much problem with “anarchists,” altho the term can mean a lot of things, and some of the typical core ideas are pie-in-the-sky to me. I certainly don’t think of tankies as leftist, either, so it’s troublesome that anyone would want to align with Hexbear.

Regardless, bad actors and toxic users will always get the gas face* from me. I’ll keep my eye on that stuff, thank you!

* semi-obscure rap phrase from ~1990 I suppose, i.e. a jaundiced look

Oof. One of my community’s moderators and an FV buddy is also an admin on db0. Absolutely no trace of tankie-ness detected there, as yet.

So far I just haven’t needed to block any particular instance. I just have zero participation with .ML and Hexbear /c’s, and that seems to work just fine. I don’t see any trace of them in my curated feed. I also want to make sure that if their users happen to post / comment in my community project (and they have in the past), I want to be sure I can see them doing that.

dbzer0, and quokk.au

What’s your issue with those instances, he asked quizzically.

The whole premise is just wildly fucked, from any angle imaginable.

Let me say this, though-- doofuses cosplaying what they clearly AREN’T has never impressed me as a basic concept.

I admit I’m a complete degenerate at this point.
I mainly eat food for two, and only two reasons-- garlic and chili heat.

I still get interested looks sometimes from the opposite sex, but then they catch a whiff, lol. They haven’t seen my bloodwork, though.

OMG, but that rush upon eating spicy food…

I upscale comics content pretty regularly, but it’s almost never webcomics, but graphic novel content where I haven’t found anything better-quality online. But yeah-- “Waifu2” and others can indeed fail pretty hard depending on your source. I’m still kinda experimenting with all that, and probably need to break out GIMP more often.

I have no problem with people calling out “Beep” for the chronic thing he does, but just in case someone is actually curious about the OP, I wanted to add that yes, it’s a real and useful option sometimes when your source is tiny and/or full of graphics artifacts.