Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4715:BA6C:C2E:9797:9264:1ACB-20191024151937

Me neither. It was extremely slow and when you pay for the minute...yeah, not the best choice. No idea, don't think anyone had a Blackberry here. It was more Nokia and some pretty popular flip phone model that a decent number of people (girls) suddenly had. I visit more website now than back then. But I guess that's party because Amazon.jp, Yahoo Auctions etc but also because no websites really hold my interest and I'm still always hoping to find something worthwhile on some. Absolutely. With the adversity, they are pushing everyone else out, so it naturally happens that everyone becomes pretty much the same. Well, I certainly have lost my communities. The most regular place I visit and what I would somewhat consider a community are 1-2 channels on IRC. Apart from that, it's just not interesting or too loose. Still, it is sad what has become of everything. Not to mention all the drama for the ad revenue. It feels like internet gaming websites are more reliant than print magazines ever were. Sure, they did get paid off back then too but not as much...or rather, they didn't change their reviews as much, if at all. Here in Germany we definitely had some magazines that were known for strict scores or also just some journalists who were known for it. Also, what's important as well, the quality of writing in online articles is way worse than it was in print magazines. It's sad that the web basically killed them but I guess nothing could really be done. Technically, there still exist some but it's mostly meh (really crappy staff, sucking up to the publishers more than ever etc). Maybe, no idea how people develop an agenda. Sure, driving a narrative creates clicks too but who knows what else is in play there. Yeah, no idea why that hasn't received more pushback or cries from people? They do it the first or second time an embargo is in place and then they just accept it...and they also pre-order en masse anyway. Companies get away with way too much because consumers are too dumb and just allow it. I feel like consumers have never been dumber to be honest. No idea whether it's due to manipulation, current trends or whatever. Needless to say, it's bad for the people that do care.

Until it gets caught in customs and they examine your super lewed VNs :P My previous forwarding service did it too well, maybe I'm just spoiled now. No, I buy the goods after all, they would just need to ship. But yeah, unfortunately they won't act as a forwarding service to me. *sigh* Now I need to continue to look for a cheap and competent (not the one writing random values on the papers) one.