Glide
@Glide@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I remember when trolling meant something! It used to be about making people mad, evolving emotion, and getting them embroiled in embarrassing positions they can’t take back! Now it’s just saying wrong thing and being politely corrected!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As a huge Cassette Beasts fan, agreed. They didn’t attempt to imitate the (superior imo)explosive bomb design, with the tail as the fuse and the black fur turning to jagged red to imitate an explosion.
Pomeranian’s exist. What a twist.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, knowing the platform was rooted in tankie ideology, it was never going to be good. It just took many of us way too long to see it.
At this point it’s how I kill time on the can. That’s tbh all it deserves.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Piefed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I am not.
A meme is, by definition, something that is being copied, spread and reused. In order for this to be an “original meme,” it needs to be the origin of a new meme format, which will then be copied and iterated on, usually by re-using the language or re-using the physical format.
You just posted your shitty opinion in speech bubbles and called it a meme, because you don’t know what a meme is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’re not old too old; OP just doesn’t know what a meme is.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Same. Posted fairly blissfully ignorant for a couple months, until I shared my experiences teaching Taiwanese and Chinese university exchange students in the same room. Obviously, I got banned.
That’s about the point I became aware I was hanging out in a nazi bar just because the atmosphere was nice and the beers were cheap.
- Comment on where? 1 month ago:
My man, I can’t grow up on Kevin Smith films and miss the opportunity to sit between him and Jason Mewes. Are we kidding?
- Comment on My glasses 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s a little sad when our collective culture has convinced us that any woman being unapologetically horny online must be a bot.
I’ve definitely seen humans “behave like this.” Spend 15 seconds on any short-form social media, and it’s thirst post after thirst trap post, ad infinitum. We have had posters here in Lemmy that pretty perpetually post boomer-humor style content that aimlessly sexualizes women. But a woman goes “fuck it, I want to do that,” and it must be a bot, because that’s the culture we’ve built.
Women aren’t really different from men. Men act up being horny all the time. Women are like that too; we just look down on them when they do. It’s about time we stop claiming to be beyond petty sexism while continuing to seperate the genders so unabashedly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
people just as left-wing as they are
People so “left” they wrap right back around to merit-based authoritarianism.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 months ago:
Well, he did leave you another option.
- Comment on Acciracy 2 months ago:
Imagine spending your time being intentionally obtuse about the colloquial understanding of “America” and then calling other people “lame ass trolls.” C’mon man. Be better.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 2 months ago:
I dislike people normalizing hate speech through this kind of space, but I largely agree. If people want to follow a curator that will make sure they aren’t emotionally blindsided by a female protagonist showing affection towards another woman, for example, that’s a choice they can make. We wouldn’t want the chuds to get their feelings hurt, afterall.
But in all seriousness, that’s kind of their choice. Obviously, any comments that suggest violence against people who make/play/are represented in that kind of game needs to get shut down immediately, but you’re allowed to not like LGBTQ+ representation. It’s not illegal to clutch your pearls at the sight of non-heteronormative sexuality. It’s just reprehensible.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 2 months ago:
I occasionally go through the lists posted by chud curators for small indie titles that would have escaped my notice. I don’t have time to scrutinize every title on Steam, but these guys seemingly have infinite time to ensure every unheard of title with a case of LGBTQ+ representation gets criticism from them. Ironically, they’re fantastic for finding small, progressive passion projects I would have otherwise missed.
- Comment on Kellogg ---> Epstein 2 months ago:
While I appreciate the personal anecdote, what was the cost paid by your insurer? Being covered by private insurance is great for you, but what happens to the people without the means?
The subtext of your post is an insinuation that it isn’t as bad as others make it out to be, but it sounds like it wasn’t bad for you because you have good private insurance, and the means to obtain and manage that insurance. Not everyone is in that situation, and those who don’t have access to good private insurance, or simply make a mistake in managing their insurance, shouldn’t be forced to pay absurd fees out of debt/pocket.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 months ago:
The only way to get around this would be to verify your age, which Discord says can be accomplished in one of two ways. The first is to “submit a form of identification” to Discord vendors (i.e. scan your physical ID), or to use “facial age estimation.” Discord says that the latter process happens fully on-device, as “video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.” For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”
Between the features that are limiting being almost entirely things I don’t want anyway (random friend invites are literally just fucking scams and ads to begin with), and the entire process being completed on-device… What is this, some slow news day? Everyone is losing their minds about this being some insane overstep like Discord is asking for a blood dample, or even a photo of your driver’s license.
Don’t get me wrong, fuck this age verification nonsense, but it’s pretty clear this is some very specific government regulatory appeasement where Discord is attempting to avoid culpability for holding data at basically every joint possible. They already have the useful, farmable data, like geolocation, age/gender demographics and interests. They don’t want our government ID. They only want a “yes” or “no” from their app.
Must be a slow news day. Everyone’s blowing this up in headlines for cheap clicks.
- Comment on Bunch of lads 3 months ago:
Not bothering to cover up your crimes isn’t the flex you seen to think it is.
- Comment on Anon discusses cinema. 3 months ago:
You know, I don’t think this is what OP meant, but yeah, King Fury is qualityslop.
- Comment on Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence 3 months ago:
But autopen was a problem.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 3 months ago:
I fuckinf hate stroads.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #6 3 months ago:
- Comment on What are your favorite RPG maker games? 3 months ago:
Pretty confident “Look Outside” is an RPG maker game. I cannot recommend it enough. It is an immaculately written game, and oozes passion and personality.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #4 3 months ago:
Now these are some shitposts.
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 3 months ago:
The first purchasable version of Minecraft I remember didn’t even have a working health bar.
Notch sold the game to Microsoft long before it was ever a complete game. Why program something when you can sell players on an idea and then sell that idea to Microsoft?
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 3 months ago:
Because I basically only participate in Lemmy in the bathroom and don’t always take time to think through things like which part of the acronym is “America,” lmao. But, appreciated.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 3 months ago:
among friends and acquaintances from Asia (incl. Taiwan & China), WtP has been a symbol of resistance against Xi Jin Ping and authoritarianism in China.
You answered your own question. Don’t let them get under your skin. But to further validate you:
The comparison is about appearances to Xi, specifically. No one is saying the people of China look like Winnie the Pooh, and no one is using Winnie the Pooh in propaganda designed to oppress the people of China.
Tankie’s scream “racism” at Winnie the Pooh, exactly the same way MAGA’s scream "racism’ at DEI. They do not know, nor care, what the word actually means, and are using it to further their agenda by taking a position they can fallacious argue is morally superior. It is fake pearl clutching and moral grandstanding to justify nationalist fascism.
They’re literally Chinese MAGA. Unfortunately, MACA doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “tankie.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Look at these gullible fucking idiots finding beauty in life. What absolute buffoons.”
I mean, c’mon man. Who fuck cares. It makes people smile and hurts no one. Not everyone needs to miserable as you.
- Comment on ‘I’m just a girl in Canada trying to get everyone their vibrators’: Why a Toronto sex toy store got a letter from the U.S. Department of War 4 months ago:
There seems to be a collective in this community that mistake “shitpost” for “there are no rules about posting.”
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 4 months ago:
Same.
The writing wastes a LOT of time. Yes, I get it, that’s the vibe they want to set, but the vibe was set like 5 minutes ago, and all you’ve done since is print synonyms for “drunk asshole.”
It’s also paraded as pro-communist media, and it really isn’t at all. People are so capitalist-brained, that any game which places communist and capitalism on equal footing, pointing out the faults in both and mocking them relentlessly, is somehow “pro-communist.” For fucks sake, ::: ending spoilers Title the antagonist is genuinely a deluded, propaganda-gorged communist. :::
Honestly, I wanted and expected a lot more out of it.
