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Normally, I don’t contact the corporations unless if it’s Nintendo since I’m too shy, but I am fed up with Apple’s confusing features. Taking out “slide to unlock” and replacing it with “press home to unlock” is very insecure. Worse yet, I can’t even enable it as an option. So I contacted Apple, talking to them about both themes and unlocking the phone (the former being something I wanted to contact Apple for a long time for). I mean it. I’m not going to enter the passcode nor will I press the home button to unlock my phone. And I’m sick of the basic theme we had since iOS 7.
 
^so you will keep a phone locked and only answer what you can from that screen? uhh sound like a waste of money.
 
Sheila said:
^so you will keep a phone locked and only answer what you can from that screen? uhh sound like a waste of money.
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I still do either one. It’s the only way into my phone. What I’m saying is that I’m not happy with Apple’s crazy decisions. Here’s what I don’t like:

1. iPhone X has no home button or option to read battery percentage. That’s why I chose the iPhone 8. Some features like that are a dealbreaker.
2. Apple TV App doesn’t allow you to choose to start from the beginning or select chapters in movies.
3. The removal of the slide-to-unlock feature.
4. That stupid theme from iOS 7 and up.
5. Removing the 3D globe from Apple Maps (I love seeing how different it looks at each solstice).
 
Yeah I don't like their minimalistic theme approaches either. I still have an iPhone SE (basically a small 6S) and the only thing I hate is the tiny keyboard really. Apple any day over dumb Android phones though.
 
Seeing the “They’re Gone” thread getting deleted shows how serious the staff doesn’t allow discussion of others’ bans. I know they don’t allow discussions of other members’ bans, but I didn’t realize they were that strict. Or maybe they aren’t strict, they just don’t want confidential information shared.

And if you ask me why they care if we discuss others’ bans when other sites don’t, it’s because every site has different morals imposed. Bell Tree allows bumping old threads, registration to all people, and self-moderation of trading threads, yet most forums don’t allow that. At the same time, larger avatars are limited to the staff, trades of duped or hacked items is forbidden here, you are required to make eight posts to start a blog, and starting a group requires payment. It’s kinda like how each state has their own laws.
 
Yeah I think we all knew the thread was gonna be deleted and while this time it was no shaming what I saw it was basically revealed anyway. But yeah I guess staff doesn't want it to turn trash talk thread all over.
 
I have an idea for the infraction system.

If you receive an infraction and read the message, a sound file will automatically play, which is Resetti’s theme from the GameCube Version and New Leaf.
 
So I tried some interesting calculations on the ratio between Celsius and Fahrenheit. The formula we know is ?F = (9/5)?C + 32, but there are points when the ratio between the two is a whole number.

- There is no ratio when the Fahrenheit temperature is 9/5 or 1.8 times as much as the Celsius temperature.
- They are at the same at -40?.
- Fahrenheit is twice as high at 320? (160?C).
- Fahrenheit is three times as high at 80? (26.7?C).
- Fahrenheit is four times as high at 58.2? (14.5?C).
- Fahrenheit is five times as high at 50? (10?C).

From this point on, the ratio between Celsius to Fahrenheit is only at a positive integer is when it gets closer to the freezing point of water (32?). The higher the ratio, the closer the value. Even if Fahrenheit is a billion times as high as Celsius, the weather would still be very cold (especially if the humidity is high or if we get high winds).
 
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^Gaaaah! MATH!!

Anyways, have this, peeps!:
The Russian and Polish ones amuse me a bit!:p
 
I beat Metroid: Samus Returns for the 2nd time, 2 hours shorter than my last game! I feel accomplished.:cool:
 
After seeing the last two South Park episodes, I learned how bad crony capitalism really is. While I think more government interference with business is a threat to business, it’s just as bad (to the free market economy) to let the corporations have all the power. Crony capitalism isn’t true capitalism at all. In fact, it’s more like feudalism.

I’m also thinking that South Park won’t be on the air much longer. Its current contract extends up to Season 23, they’re currently at Season 22, and they’re asking Comedy Central to not renew the series for another season. At least it can last to the 20th anniversary of their movie, and get past 300 episodes, but can you imagine only one year left of a TV series?
 
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^I wish SatAM lasted that long. Alas, it lasted only 2 seasons. Welp.
 
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Psydye said:
^I wish SatAM lasted that long. Alas, is lasted only 2 seasons. Welp.
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In my opinion, it’s great if a show can get new episodes for 10 years without hiatus, but once it’s 20 years old, it’s time to put an end to it.

Pok?mon may be an exception, but I’m talking stuff like Simpsons, SpongeBob, and even lesser-known shows like Chowder. I don’t like seeing shows end after two or three years on the air, but 20 years is too long.
 
Alolan_Apples said:
In my opinion, it’s great if a show can get new episodes for 10 years without hiatus, but once it’s 20 years old, it’s time to put an end to it.

Pok?mon may be an exception, but I’m talking stuff like Simpsons, SpongeBob, and even lesser-known shows like Chowder. I don’t like seeing shows end after two or three years on the air, but 20 years is too long.
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I personally think that Family Guy should've ended a long time ago. It stopped being funny after about 12 seasons; well actually I think it started to lose its charm as early as Season 7.
But now they're on their 17th season or something, and I watched the first episode of the newest season and honestly I wanted to gag because the humor was so crude and ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that at this point FOX is just trying to make money off of it. I know the writers are getting tired of it.
 
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