Rick and Morty
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Poringo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rick and Morty was the show for me in the beginning even when the dumbasses showed up, but it lost its appeal after the scandal. Just doesn’t feel the same.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I saw a clear separation between me and the idiot part of the demographic who enjoys the show at the Pickle Rick episode.
It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t even a good story or episode. It was just the writers deciding to come up with the most blatantly random thing for the sole sake of randomness.
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hate that I’m writing this because I’m gonna sound like the *"to be fair * copy pasta but, the fact that it’s so lame and stupid is kind of the whole point of the bit.
He gives his big “I’m pickle Riiiiick!” presentation like it’s supposed to be some big huge awesome thing, and it’s presented like a punchline that you’re supposed to laugh at and find funny… Then it’s a hard cut to Morty’s disappointed, slightly concerned face for a solid 10 seconds. Morty is you, the viewer, painfully unimpressed by what is presented as, well, “the funniest shit ever”.
Remember in an earlier episode when Rick makes a reference to the non-existent Redgren Grumblholdt, and the kids laugh because they think it’s supposed to be funny and just want to fit in? Those are the people that the “funniest shit ever” meme is about. People that are fed an intentionally bad joke, don’t understand the irony behind the bad joke, but sees that everyone else is laughing at the bad joke, so they pretend the joke is funny. Two people laughing at the same thing for entirely different reasons.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It was so dumb that it was funny to me
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The whole show is about how Rick is a selfish prick. That episode was also about Rick being a selfish prick and trying to weasel out family therapy by turning himself into a pickle.
That’s it. That was the entire reason for Pickle Rick. But the idiots who idolize Rick for some reason cranked it up to full retard.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I liked the bit at the end where the therapist calls him out.
hushable@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember being hyped about it since I was a huge fan of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, even told some friends to keep an eye on it. I recall watching the premiere of the first episode and even telling more friends about it.
Then the entire thing became super popular before Season 1 was over and then… well you know what happened. I continued watching after Roiland was gone and the show popularity declined, but I am absolutely staying as far away as possible from that fandom
hoch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Roblox. I played it as a kid around 2007 when it was just a small Lego-like building game with your friends. It’s been really weird seeing it become some predatory, monetized app game that kids play on their iPad now.
For reference, I’m almost 30 and haven’t played it since I was like 14. My friend’s kid was playing Roblox on his tablet and asked if I “heard of this new app game called Roblox” and it hurt my soul.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the devs have pursued every bad idea and settled on ‘child labor and exposing kids to fucked up shit seems profitable’ so yeeeeeahh… the game industry looks at them and hangs their head in shame
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 months ago
To be clear, the “game industry” has no shame so this is inaccurate. In fact, there are a few companies trying to recreate their success.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Unfortunate that it’s more popular than ever before.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 months ago
I remember when my nephew first asked it I played knew about Roblox. I was so excited to build some stuff with him, until he showed me this crappy superhero fighting simulator. I can't complain too much, since it's basically the new-age version of crappy flash games, but it was still a disappointment.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I mean, was Roblox more about building in the past? To me, or at least when I played it back as a 10 yr old or so, Roblox was always about playing the diverse amount of games. If you wanted to build stuff, that was for Minecraft. I was always playing party games, anime clones, survival games, etc.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Still have friends I met there back in 2014 that are my closest and still talk to, pre-enshittification was peak Roblox era and are my most cherished memories
Aeri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s stupid but I started playing Roblox in 2008 and I still check in on it from time to time, there are a couple of half decent games out there if you know where to look because it’s pretty much just a game engine.
Between the s*** or the facilitate the worst of mobile gaming practices and playhouse to an innumerable number of pedophile rings is super f***** up. They basically trick children into developing video games and pay them scraps of what they’re worth. Limited edition Hats play host to what is basically a gambling or stock market system. I think one of the worst Parts is that pretty much any transaction the company takes an enormous cut of.
I have an item that’s worth 350,000 “Robux” that I bought for pennies like 10 years ago. I don’t have any way of cashing that out for real money but that’s still hundreds of real life dollars and also roblox would take a 30% cut if I sold it anyway.
Part of me wishes that I had actually learned to build properly in that game, for some reason i always struggled to wrap my head around scripting and actually building anything that looks decent for myself. I suppose from a certain perspective it’s not too late but what would be the f****** point roblox is trashed now.
Oh yeah the chat filter is a nightmare, roblox uses a chat service called Community sift if I remember correctly and it’s pretty much just makes it so that it’s impossible to communicate because they can’t be ours to moderate their stupid platform anymore anyway.
Also they are weirdly sexist, they enabled the publishing of user generated content and they allow some honestly pretty crazy alarming muscle bound and homoerotic masculine body shapes but any even remotely feminine shape no matter how tame and innocent is required to have these big ugly weird looking color blocks on them that look like underwear and honestly are way worse than having nothing there at all in terms of how it looks.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here’s a controversial one: Target shooting.
It used to be a skill you honed, going to the range to become better every time. Participate in competitions, meet people. It was a great hobby.
And then the idiots who unironically wear Punisher logos and try to cosplay as some military/special forces/action movie hero at the range ruined it.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to enjoy going to the range. Apparently the one I frequented in my youth was all army guard/reserves and prior service, because when I moved and sought out a new place it was a fucking clown show. Simple shit like ‘keep your weapon pointed up and downrange’ is too fucking hard for these gravy seal shitbags.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Welcome to “gun people who hate gun people”
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
How will that end ?
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I feel sorry for you - I live in one of those socialist hellhole countries where owning a gun requires annual testing that you can actually hit a target (50/100 on a B8 target for beginners, not exactly tough) and pass a psych test. Going to the range is lovely here, and competitions are usually paired with a nice meal afterwards for people to socialise.
I watch US videos, and most of them just seem insane. One notable exception is the JaredAF channel, that guy can really properly target shoot.
yeather@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Switzerlahd? When I lived in Denmark the laws were about that tough, though still surprisingly simple after I gained citizenship.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For a moment I thought you meant shooting up a Target store.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
That isn’t what it means? … Shit, I should clean this mess up.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Same, man. I like it, from the meditation-like state when you take it serious to the gun goes bang part when you are just messing around. But some of the people, man… Where do I start.
I think I should go again regardless, if everyone with wane opinions leaves, that would be surrendering.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
if so then name your thing
Sort of I guess: em dashes.
Not to talk about, but to use when writing.
Now they are apparently the hallmark of AI-generated crap.vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Same. I learned this was a thing just the other day.
I don’t use them often but do find them nicer for parenthetical remarks sometimes.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Me too—sometimes
Daedskin@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’ve never been called out as AI for using them; but if I ever am, I have the strategy of knowing the alt code for them (0151). I even know the shortcut in word to insert one — pressing alt-X with your cursor at the end of “2014”. I also have a vscode macro set up that is just an emdash, just in case I’m in a situation where there’s not a way I know to insert one.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I just got into them and I’ll be damned if I’ll let some toaster ruin a perfectly beautiful bit of punctuation
Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The internet
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
immediately where my mind went.
From “haha, raspberriesareyummy will marrynhis computer one day” to most everyone around me constantly staring at their whatsapp, tiktok or “talking” with siri/alexa.
Fuck this shit :(
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I’m so sorry that they called you that
theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh god I heard that constantly as a kid. Gah. Now they’re all married to Facebook and don’t know how to use it. Oh well.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been online since 1995. I weep for what we lost. The web should have stayed a nerd domain. We’d have been better off as a society.
58008@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nazi ideology, OP OP. There was a nice little thing we had once, until you cunts took it up like a hoard of malignant nihilist pussies 😒Now we can’t even bring up the Third Reich’s many incredible qualities in conversation without someone rolling their eyes! n-chan numpties ruin every fandom.
/ss
festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lmao about the /ss
Devconsole@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Underrated comment
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I hate how 4chan losers have somehow become the face of nihilism.
GiveOver@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it’s an ethos
moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I spent a lot of time on computers (shocker, right?) and that was seen as nerdy and weird when I was at school. Even after I got my first real job, I remember my girlfriend dismissing things I’d say because “nobody cares about your stupid internet”. Predictable rest of comment is predictable.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good God, this one hits home for me. “He’s always in his room on his cuhpyooter.” “He’s a hacker, he’s a nerd.” Ummm, no. I’m just pretending to be a girl and swapping tit pics with other dudes who are pretending to be girls and playing video games. Y’all living in the stone age with your magazines and your Nintendo. I’m in my room with every Nintendo game ever made and a new pair of tits to look at anytime I want.
Now half of those people are fumbling around and giving scammers 200 dollars, constantly glued to their little 30 dollar smart phones and “playing on Facebook”. And of course, they be calling me to ask how to find an app they got from the play store. “It used to just go on the screen I swear.”
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The Epic of Gilgamesh
SandmanXC@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Blud thinks it’s c. 2100–1200 BCE
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I remember that damn ad on TV back in in 2009. It was for SakuraCon, a annual Anime convention in Seattle.
I went there once with a group of friends. Made anime look uncool very fast.
Uruanna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see more people aware of it today, but was there a burst in pop culture with idiots that then died down? The people who talk about it today seem pretty genuine and get good reception.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, it got really popular when the Bible dropped in the 2nd century BCE. The Noah flood story was basically a copy-and-paste of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Bible nerds were annoying af.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Serial Experiments Lain. I managed to acquire a bootleg Japanese VHS of the show (sans subtitles) in '99 or '00 and fell in love. I bought the English dub as soon as I could find it. I was totally obsessed, even going as far as carrying a messenger bag like Lain had, and making a custom Windows XP theme based on Navi. I even bought a Palm Pocket to mimic the smartphones shown in the show.
Lain shaped my passion for IT, and I feel it changed my life in profound ways.
I’m confused by the sudden popularity. It went under the radar for so long. Now all of the merch goes for insane amounts of money.
4grams@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No shit, that’s back?
I loved it when I watched it in my youth. The theme song still pops up on my playlist once in a while. I didn’t one-watch it like 5-10 years ago but it didn’t connect like it did when I was young. Still, lots of fond memories from it and how much it inspired me.
I’ve been wondering when it would come around again.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Shit man i bought that on dvd centuries ago
Auth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I watched the first ep of that a week ago. Its a beautiful show, but to me its kind of ruined because instead of experiencing it as something new and experimental i experience it as an already established pop culture. I’ll still watch it but i probably wont lainmaxx like most of the nerds who watched it in their formative years.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Computer games. Anything that can be monetized will turn into shit.
ddplf@szmer.info 2 months ago
Ah yes, computer games, try I almost forgot it ever existed!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit
the_wiz@feddit.org 2 months ago
$thing is Warhammer 40k
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
anime
it’s become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 months ago
Computers
redsunrise@programming.dev 2 months ago
Minecraft. Started playing in 2011 and have played off and on every year since then. It’s now really popular again, but I distinctly remember around 2017-18 it became suddenly uncool to play. When I would be in a VC with friends while playing it, they would ride my ass for it. The ~10 year nostalgia/hype cycle is coming full circle lol
Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Roguelikes. I’m not saying some of the modern roguelites aren’t fantastic, there are many that are. But the genre boom has all but pushed traditional roguelikes (NetHack, ADoM, Angband, Brogue, etc) out of the conversation.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Sounds like Rick and morty
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Ratatat. I got into them through an Albino Blacksheep video, and they were my secret favourite band for a bit.
Then they got popular, and people that I didn’t really jell with started casually raving about them, and I found it difficult to enjoy the music because of those people.
Years later, I grew up. Music is for everyone, and everyone forms their own relationship with it that shouldnt impact the enjoyment of the music itself.
Yes, they were sold on the band through mass advertizing channels. Yes, I discovered them through a more organic means. But that’s how fans are born, and yes some of them aren’t there for the music, but they are there to have a good time and maybe those songs hold special memories for them later in life when they were hanging around with friends.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s literally an episode of Doug where Doug’s standard outfit inexplicably becomes super popular. So watch 90s Nick to learn what to do.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Battle Royale (2000)
Enekk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am an avid collector and drinker of Chinese teas, particularly oolongs and puerh. I had been drinking them for years when suddenly the absolute asshole Dr. Oz went on TV claiming that puerh tea was some magical cure for anything and everything that you might have.
Normally, I get excited for new people to share tea with, but this fad caused prices to rise across the board and caused the market to get flooded with awful quality tea. These people were drinking some of the worst quality (fishy, shou/cooked puerh) teas and were more obsessed with how to mask the flavors with milk and sugar than actually slowing down and enjoying the tea.
The fad faded and people went back to putting matcha in their morning milkshakes. Even so, I still run into people that reflexively associate incredible tea with Dr. Oz and the disgusting teas he foisted upon his audience. Sad.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Star Wars
This happened to all the ols school Star Wars fans. Disney created the “idiot fans”
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe not as big as Anon is talking about, but Bob Vylan.
SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Tabletop RPG. It used to be a niche of the internet in the early days, with people posting here and there their scenarios, campaign, ideas etc. It was hard to find and so pleasurable when you found something.
Nowadays it’s trusted by … Wizard if the coast ? Online only platforms and what have you.
I loved #scenariotheque, but now it’s almost a ghost website (pardon the french).
I know if sounds like old man yell at clouds, but damn do I miss the early days.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Not to that extent, but crypto. I think its an amazing and really interesting technology. But now it’s tainted by scammers and when people hear the term, they get defensive because they are ready for you to scam them
deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Anon thinks it’s 1939
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
While not to the same degree as a lot of folks, Fallout got into it some time around New Vegas because it was featured on game fly. Anyways delved headfirst into it and fell in love with the classic games. The post Fallout 4 boom gives me a headache sometimes I just want to talk with old bastards and my fellow autists about Fallout without some profligate butting in cause they watch the TV show.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I stayed up to date on ai and machine learning, including language models. I remember hear that one learned math from language and wondering where things will go. I watched ai safety videos before they felt relevant. Then I heard Openai, which had a good rep at the time, is releasing their new model online, called ChatGPT. Having played with DungeonAI and NovelAI before I was gonna fiddle with this as well.
Then headlines broke, it became a phenomenon. Even then I figured this would be this week’s Thing before getting bored, as was common with these ai.
Down the line I remembered hearing ChatGPT on a gas station ad for some travel app. That was when I realized this is permanent. People who aren’t even online are likely hearing about this. Suddenly my niche hobby and hopeful dreams of the future became an actual enshittified crisis.
I don’t think I need to explain how everyone using language models now is just god awful for everyone. And the attention hasn’t gotten us closer to answering long standing questions of ethics, economic change, what is intelligence or consciousness. We’ve just got a bunch of the lowest common denominator shouting their answers now.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Man, I like some pretty retarded shit man, but I’ve never been bullied for it, man
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yeah sorry Anon, go fuck yourself and your nazi skull flag. That shit’s the Totenkopf, what, did the new generation of chuds ruin Nazi for you? Poor fuckin’ baby.
SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Maybe a “Death in June” band shirt. Which makes things … well… I dunno. Probably not better.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
oof dark
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Thanks for the important context. I’d assumed it was a pirate flag until I read your comment and then looked it up. Fuck this particular anon.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
gotta call out the nazis at every turn otherwise the place will turn into a nazi bar.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
that’s 4chan for you. it’s be less disturbed by the amount of nazis on 4chan and mor by the amount of lemmings that agree with anon on any given subject
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ah yes the death’s head valley