Stern
@Stern@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 days ago:
Who wants to hear my, “Why reddit got image hosting of its own when it did” conspiracy theory? No one? Too bad, posting it anyhow.
Few years ago reddit had a subreddit called fatpeoplehate. It existed to, you guessed it, hate fat people. “Fattie” became an insult du juor. One day they find out an imgur employee is fat, and start in on being shitters. This apparently was the straw that broke the camels back because they finally got banned.
My theory is simple: reddit didn’t ban fatpeoplehate because they went too far. They banned it because imgur threatened to block them and being the image site, this would fuck reddit up. Imagine being a social media site with no pictures. Impossible.
Reddit, not too long after that, adds image hosting. Could it be a coincidence? Sure. Do I think its one? Not really.
Fun addendum, a study was done post-ban and reddit actually became less toxic after the ban. Crazy how denying shitty folks a platform actually makes your site better, whoda thunk?
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 6 days ago:
thegamer.com/wuchang-fallen-feathers-review-bomb-…
Could be from stuff akin to this. This is the second bombing of Luchang, first was post-launch due to UE5 spec demands
- Comment on Ghostface Killah Confirms Unreleased Music with MF DOOM Exists 6 days ago:
Not shocked, I think most notables prob have a vault of “Yeah this ain’t quite it”. Prince had a literal vault iirc
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 6 days ago:
Good for stuff like Chinese review bombing.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
What oddly specific training. Is there a training regimen for a “Evangelion everyone got turned into Tang” situation too? What about the “Just got spider powers and a Canon event may be coming”?
- Comment on Is Social Media Censorship Unaliving Language? 2 weeks ago:
We’re talking about this particular context though, where it’s clear they’re doing it ironically due to the discussion.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Why buy new when I have a backlog, the PS1/2 catalog emulated, and can wait 6+ months for a sale
- Comment on Deep dish thought 2 weeks ago:
pizza face down on pizza is a calzone or a sandwich, situationally.
- Comment on Is Social Media Censorship Unaliving Language? 3 weeks ago:
Asks the person using the word “unaliving”.
Do you think they’re seriously using it? C’mon bud.
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- Comment on Magic Rocks 3 weeks ago:
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 4 weeks ago:
I own Transformers Devastation on Steam, which was delisted. You can still install it. Achievements got weird for it but still more or less worked. You can’t buy stuff from the market for it including emotes or cards, but can trade or buy some of it with points.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
homey wanted a trial run of titties but didn’t wanna commit
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 month ago:
if you build a perpetual motion machine and it eats the postman from seinfeld… you still made a perpetual motipn machine
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 1 month ago:
“They think they have it figured out, why are they so sad?”
Well Jimmy, when you realize religious fanatics would rather shoot homeless people then feed them, its a bit of a downer!
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States
Also the X-men aren’t human. Kinda makes the court system feel like the baddies tho
- Comment on It just hits different now 1 month ago:
Sometimes thats the case and sometimes it was just prepped wrong (e.g. boiling instead of cooking in a oven) or has gotten legit better.
- Comment on I would still download a car if I could. 🚗 1 month ago:
The technicality argument always rubbed me the wrong way. Like the guys who are into jailbait and say they aren’t pedophiles because pedophilia is for under ten year olds and they want to fuck teenagers. Brother you still want to fuck underage folks.
Same generally with piracy. Saying it’s not theft because there’s no physical deprivation of goods just sounds deluded. It’s still taking stuff without paying for it. Who are you trying to fool? Are you hoping someone is gonna read that nonsense and say, “Oh shit hes right guess we gotta get rid of copyright law now”? And would you want them to in the day and age of AI stealing everything?
I’m not even really trying to scold folks who pirate, I do it too, I just don’t bother to grandstand about it. BFD I’m pirating 30 year old video games. Y’all think if I bought a 200 dollar used one on Ebay the original studio sees a dime of it? C’mon now.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 month ago:
By definition it cannot.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 months ago:
bring back the 168 hour workweek
- Comment on no way right 2 months ago:
Arguable for his time under Ares, but the freedom fighter and terrorist line gets blurry when fighting a regime and he’s fought two, Greek and Norse.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 2 months ago:
You can’t logic someone out of something they didn’t logic themselves into, and they definitely got emotionally attached to antivax before they found “statistics” to back shit up.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 2 months ago:
Shoulda used the magnets for hall effect sticks rather then clacking joycons on the thing
- Comment on You can now search for Steam games by adjustable difficulty, mouse-only options and other accessibility tags 2 months ago:
Adjustable difficulty is accessibility? Maybe what I’m thinking isn’t what it is. Anyone know if it means stuff like easy/medium/hard or the more granular stuff like “Turn off QTE’s”?
Either way nice to see Steam making this stuff available and easy for devs.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 months ago:
On Steam I have categories for played, unplayed, playing, and never touching again. Works well, but that backlog is brutal.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 2 months ago:
Ket is magic
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 2 months ago:
Hades did straight numbers, not a shocker they’d go for another. Couldn’t see Transistor or Bastion getting sequels, (Or Pyre but… lol Pyre.) and more importantly, I’d rather they tell new stories.
- Comment on ‘King of the Hill’ Revival First Details: Hank and Peggy Are Retired, Bobby’s a Dallas Chef, Dale Was Briefly Arlen’s Mayor and More 2 months ago:
The newer Beavis and Butthead’s were alright but not amazing. Of course it was also decades since I watched the originals, so maybe I changed too. To that end I don’t expect new KotH to blow my socks off.
- Comment on ‘King of the Hill’ Revival First Details: Hank and Peggy Are Retired, Bobby’s a Dallas Chef, Dale Was Briefly Arlen’s Mayor and More 2 months ago:
Beavis and Butthead had flash forwards in their recent series where they were adults and also ones where they were elderly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
One has to imagine a future where one of sevetal things happen. Two possibilities come to mind.
- The government somehow bans beef, chicken, turkey, etc. This, I can’t stress this enough, will not happen. The backlash would be massive and leaders would be out on their ass swiftly and the decree reversed.
- Climate change and animal flus render meat so expensive that it escapes affordability for the average man More catastrophic, but also more likely. IMO average folks go largely vegan at that point, meat becomes a special occasion thing for them.