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badposting is a comm where you post badly

This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.

Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?

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  2. This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
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Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo

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Fellas, hear me out: VLC Media Player (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 days ago by tombruzzo@hexbear.net to c/badposting@hexbear.net
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VLC media player is always there for you. Windows Video can't open a .mov file? VLC. Want to watch a ripped DVD? VLC. Music, images, file conversions, streaming, audio, subtitles? VLC.

And you can get it on every device you need.

Get a new computer and want to run with the defaults for a bit? That's fine, but who do you always go back to? VLC doesn't care if you run with another program for a while. Not in the sense that it doesn't care about you, but more it knows you need space to try something new sometimes, and it's always ready for you to come back.

VLC also never asks anything of you. No dontations, no signups, maybe it needs an update every now and then, that's all.

VLC is just always there. It thinks it's in the background, but I notice its hard work. VLC is like the Garrus of media players. It was always there for you, and when you get your heart broken by another program, it's still there. Because it was always there for you.

In so many words, what I'm trying to say is; I want to ***** that traffic cone **** my *****.

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Heard you. VLC is legendary software. I've been using the same media player for 20 years. No enshittification. Use it to watch movies on my computer, to listen to music on my phone. Hell, I'll use it to trim a video if I'm feeling lazy. I'll probably be using it for another 20 years.

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I want to install that traffic cone software my computer

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

This is the light path interpretation of the phrase

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

No thank lib, I will never move on from the CCCP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Community_Codec_Pack

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do not smooch the traffic cone

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

fellas, hear meow: thurston

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

I am with mpv madeline-smug

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For the while (a few years), VLC had a hard dependency on an old version of FFmpeg (4, the current version is 7), which made it rather annoying to use alongside more modern video software like Blender or OBS. It appears this has finally been fixed though.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I'm too mpv-pilled for vlc these days 😔

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At first I was like this is not a bad post.

But then I was like, this is still not a bad post!

But then I was like, this is a bad post.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gotta keep you hooked until the end for the Bad Post Proof.

And, the idea of wanting to fuck a media player program isn't bad enough for you?

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

I'm not one to yuck your yum. But you achieved bad post status just in the nick of time.

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Real ones use mpv+uosc with a decent conf. Or smplayer

[–] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

my mpv setup is tailor made for youtube. mpv is an mvp lol

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah it rules

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i dunno i llike mpc more i think

[–] abc@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

???????

MPC HC is the only good one fuck VLC

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this the "a car won't mind if you have another car" pasta?

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm actually not familiar with that one. I more based this on an article I read on why so many women like Garrus from Mass Effect

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

I haven't read this specifically but I've seen these sorts of boomer-ass jokes around the place