Dragoness Eclectic’s Comments

• May 9th, 2018 @ 8:48am

  Re:

  on China Outlaws Telling The Truth About Communist Party 'Heroes And Martyrs'

  Well actually... Son Goku is the Chinese name. Dragonball was (very loosely) based on Journey to the West, a Chinese folktale.

• May 9th, 2018 @ 8:03am

  How to lose me from your audience...

  on The Media's Paywall Obsession Will End In Disaster For Most

  1. Paywalls when I was sent to the article by a Google news link, and may never visit that particular news site again.

  2. Intrusive ads that cover the article I'm trying to read, dance around on the page, break up the article into tiny slivers trying to get me to click on some malware server by accident, and so on.

  2.a. Sites that use ad services that don't vet their ads and try to serve me malware or unwanted NSFW ads. That's ALL 3rd party ad services besides Google, btw. Sites that serve ads themselves seem to do a better job of vetting them (e.g., WOWHead.com).

  1. Sites that use Anti-Ad Blockers. Unless there is absolutely no other resource for an essential topic (e.g., quest walk-throughs for an obscure MMORPG on Wikia.com), I will leave the site as fast as if it were a one-shot news article behind a paywall. For "essential sites", I use an anti-ad-blocker killer script and hate the site admin.

  3.a. Sites that use anti-ad-blockers and present messages whining that I am a selfish, evil thief for not wanting to expose my computer to their badly-vetted ad malware. Guess what? I don't give a flying fuck--your financial mismanagement issues do not give you the right to control what my computer downloads. Insulting me on top of interfering with my browser functionality and trying to install malware on my computer? I hope you go bankrupt, asshole.

• Apr 26th, 2018 @ 12:50pm

  Re: Re: Re: the money is in the treatment

  on Judge Agrees: Perfectly Fine For Google To Deny Ad Placement For 'Honey Cures Cancer' Claims
  NIH grant research?
• Apr 26th, 2018 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re: the money is in the treatment

  on Judge Agrees: Perfectly Fine For Google To Deny Ad Placement For 'Honey Cures Cancer' Claims

  Oddly enough, I have mostly re-stocked all the lights in my house with "light bulbs that never burn out". (Light bulbs that never go out would be very annoying after bedtime). They're called LED lights, and you can buy them in any hardware store.

• Apr 26th, 2018 @ 12:44pm

  Pro Se litigation...

  on Judge Agrees: Perfectly Fine For Google To Deny Ad Placement For 'Honey Cures Cancer' Claims

  According to some lawyers, pro se is Latin for "unmedicated and litiguous"...