General Discussion Thread

[the-pi-guy]

My YouTube app bugged out for a video watching, where the UI didn't cover up the video. 

It was absolutely glorious. 

[Legend]

My YouTube app bugged out for a video watching, where the UI didn't cover up the video.

It was absolutely glorious.

huh? your app doesn't do full screen?

[the-pi-guy]

huh? your app doesn't do full screen?

I mean for the YouTube shorts, that have to keep the comment, share, etc buttons all over. 

[Legend]

I mean for the YouTube shorts, that have to keep the comment, share, etc buttons all over.

I have literally never watched a youtube short 

[the-pi-guy]

This is more of a me problem.  

But when I'm on mobile, I use Chrome's tab groups, just because it's really easy to swap between tabs. 

But I feel like it makes the intended use of tab groups much worse. I frequently close the entire tab groups. The default behavior is to save the tab group. I had like a hundred tab groups saved in the cloud that were all worthless. 

[Legend]

I just use firefox on mobile. Normal tabs, no problem.

Only minor issue is that incognito tabs all randomly close from time to time.

[Legend]

I need to get to nintendo land!

Running up the tab in Super Nintendo World. pic.twitter.com/fj3BmtGVYj

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) May 22, 2025

[nnodley]

So we just got upgraded to Fiber network. 5Gb down and up. Shieeeet

[Legend]

So we just got upgraded to Fiber network. 5Gb down and up. Shieeeet

Wow!

I need to upgrade my ethernet cables. I only get 1GB.


Of course for downloading video games the servers never work that fast.

[nnodley]

Wow!

I need to upgrade my ethernet cables. I only get 1GB.


Of course for downloading video games the servers never work that fast.

yeah i have an old ethernet cable from when we first got google wifi extenders like a decade ago. So they definitely aren't capable of those speeds when wired.

[the-pi-guy]

A reddit post is making me think of how confusing a lot of the time travel jargon is.

"Alternate timeline" is probably most often used in a multiverse setting, where there are multiple different versions of everything. And multiverses often are effectively treated as alternate timelines that diverged because of different reasons.

I think they are distinct concepts, but there are plenty of instances where the writer says one but means the other.

[Legend]

A reddit post is making me think of how confusing a lot of the time travel jargon is.

"Alternate timeline" is probably most often used in a multiverse setting, where there are multiple different versions of everything. And multiverses often are effectively treated as alternate timelines that diverged because of different reasons.

I think they are distinct concepts, but there are plenty of instances where the writer says one but means the other.

Alternate timeline, from my movie watching perspective, is where a small change makes big changes. Diverges and stays diverging

Multiverse is where everything follows the same script but it has superficial changes. Stays parallel.


I've never noticed a situation where one is referenced while it feels more like the other, but I do avoid marvel type content. Anything specific you were thinking of?

[the-pi-guy]

Alternate timeline, from my movie watching perspective, is where a small change makes big changes. Diverges and stays diverging

Maybe my verbiage is off too. Different kinds of multiverses ideas make it messy without more context.


Do you interpret alternate timelines as multiple existing at the same time or is it a singular thing? 

In Community, there is an episode where they roll dice to make a decision, and they say they're splitting the timeline into 6. Except these timelines all exist at the same time - there's at least one episode later where they cross paths. It explicitly calls them timelines. 

Back to the Future though, doesn't have these timelines existing at the same time. Marty going back in the past actually changes the future. Changing it back, requires changing the past again by making different decisions.  


One of them is a single universe with alternative timelines as part of the story, the other one has multiple distinct universes that branched off of one based of different decisions being made. 

There's an animated Justice League movie that has infinite universes that similarly split off based off different decisions. If you decide to wear a tie, there's another universe that splits off where you didn't.  

[Legend]

Time travel in movies comes in so many forms. It never has the best rules haha.

I guess the community one might have elements of multiple universes, if they are interacting with eachother.

[the-pi-guy]

I asked Copilot for some more examples. Parallels (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

From the description here too, it sounds like they're conflating the two as well. They're talking about multiple universes, yet they refer to them as timelines.

I think that could be rather confusing.

Multiverse is where everything follows the same script but it has superficial changes. Stays parallel.

I was also thinking about how this feels funny to me. 

A lot of the time, they make a big deal about how infinite universes exist and all possibilities exist - and yet most of the time they stick with the stories where there are only really superficial changes.