58008

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure who came up with it first or why humans are wired this way, but the magic combination of anger, outrage, and the vicarious bullying satisfaction of seeing someone dunked on and made to look stupid/humiliated, is all grist for the mill that is the attention economy. The longer you watch, the better it is for the YouTubes and Twitters of the world. And nothing glues people to their screens quite like their own masochism. It’s like when you have a sore tooth and can’t help but prod it with your tongue. Makes no sense, but it’s what we do. The fact that this stuff is so effective is why the algorithms force it down our throats and why cunts like Ben Shapiro have made careers off of it. Society is being torn apart at the seams by this shit. That pent-up hateful energy gets co-opted by state actors and bot farms, and then we get Brexit and two terms of Donald fucking Trump.

  I’ve been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that (and by extension, the creators of those videos), and my life and mental health has improved immeasurably as a result. I have literally no idea how to convince anyone else to do the same. It would probably be easier to get people to exercise and eat healthily (something I don’t fucking do either). People get as much of this content as they can consume for free and at any time and any place, thanks to the inherent portability of cellphones. If you’re into this shit, there is no time of day or room in your house where you won’t have it calling to you like a pocket version of the wee devil that sits on a cartoon character’s shoulder whispering evil commands into its ear. And in this scenario, there is no angel on the other shoulder, because that would cause people to maybe spend a bit less time on these platforms, which is no bueno to Silicon Valley sociopaths.

  Debates are almost entirely pointless. Very few people in the audience are actually open to being swayed. It’s just verbal UFC, and the winner isn’t the one with the best ideas, but the one with the best tongue jiu-jitsu.

  As for Plato et al., I think having something to fill one’s attention in those days was probably a good way to stop people from fucking their livestock. So debates were necessary to prevent sheepman monstrosities from polluting the gene pool with their woolly nutsacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is he like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't make this shit up⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking hell… 🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The actors, along with people like artists and musicians, tend to be exempted from gamer rage when a game sucks or launches in a sucky state. Was that not the case with MindsEye?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He should not have been shot. The shooter was, like virtually all such people, a narcissistic main character sociopath who only cared about his own fame and notoriety, and was likely spending too much time in the damp and mushroomy corners of the internet instead of developing an actual personality in the real world. He’s less an anti-fascist soldier and more a Travis Bickle wannabe wanker.

  But Charlie Kirk was a humongous piece of shit and I am glad he’s dead. One fewer humongous pieces of shit to have to listen to. I would never advocate the murder of a man like him, and like I said, I think the shooter was a colossal cunt who unleashed way more danger and harm to marginalised groups than Kirk was capable of provoking on his own. But thank fuck he’s gone. Silver linings n’all that 🤷‍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me when my keys tumbled out of my breast pocket into a fire I was poking and I instinctively snatched them back out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn’t been there (which they were) they’d undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That’s a hell of a way to lose a parent.

  The fact that he died while in the middle of talking about trans mass shooters being a huge problem certainly makes it feel like cosmic karma at work. I struggle to give a shit about the man himself being shot dead. But I do worry about political violence… it’s a very rare occasion when murdering someone sitting in a chair talking is a good idea. Not a single person in his right-wing sphere of repugnance is going to do any self-reflection and change their ways, they’ll just become even more rabidly anti-everything left of Hitler. Shit like this doesn’t go unanswered too often. Violence is a contagion with no cure except time, and the clock gets set back another decade every time someone retaliates. I’m sure we could chain all of these assassinations together into a causal sequence. But even if they’re all independent events, the narrative-makers will be hard at work making it sound like a grand battle of the ages, so the result is the same either way.

  Source: History, memory…

  P.S. Any bets that the shooter was a MAGA nut? Seems to be the trend 👀

• How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just ate a little bag of popcorn without getting any bits stuck in my teeth/throat. ask me anything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you forget to microwave it first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an ancient astronaut working the levers on his Stormtrooper speeder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bmw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so terminally carless and unautomobile pilled that I have literally no clue what this is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That pretty much sums it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have it on good authority that love is

  spoiler

  baby don’t hurt me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would make little sense for them to release a final version of this game, given that they’ve made Saudi prince money from a perpetual alpha and in-game assets you have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for. They’d never tie-off the areola on this big fat milker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a legendary family story from my childhood in the early '80s where my dad rented a direct-to-video Snow White sequel for me and my brothers (aged 1 - 10), but it turned out he had absentmindedly picked up a porno parody, shoved it in the VCR and immediately left the room to attend to other things. He didn’t realise until we were a good 10 minutes in and were laughing hysterically at the willies and boobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it even partially alleviates loneliness, and if it encourages the person to become more open and confident when communicating with humans, then it’s a great thing.

  /cope

  ~We’re so fucking fucked.~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares a family moment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Homophobe father deserves a Nobel Prize if his proposed sexuality-based time dilation is reproducible under lab conditions.

• If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who would win Kernel level anti-cheat or middle age man with a Raspberry Pi?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome 🤣 definitely PED-like cheating though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto Games 'At Risk' From Being Pulled From Sale Ahead Of GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the only times I’ve ever been grateful that Rockstar Games - a litigious and thoroughly despicable crew of money-grubbing cunts - are being pressed in their most sensitive and tender area: their bank account.

  Now John Indiegame doesn’t need to worry about the Collective Shout campaign. The scumbags with the army of lawyers and endless rivers of money will take care of things.

  /cope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t spent a dime on GOG since this happened. Fuck them. Not only is their professed anti-censorship stance fucking laughable in light of the Devotion débâcle, their game preservation efforts are even more laughable when they literally excluded a game from possible preservation because of a hoard of thin-skinned CCP hostages.

  Even without that episode I would have stopped using GOG eventually, because they also went against their one selling point - no DRM - more than once. They sold Witcher 3 hard copies with online verification (you had to link it to your account with a serial number, you couldn’t just install it and play it from the disc offline). They included a little card in the box with an apology for this requirement, citing their need to protect their sales. Which is fair enough, but don’t pretend that this isn’t DRM. The fact that it was one of their own games shows how much hypocrisy they have when they complain about other developers doing the same thing. Being able to share the downloaded files freely makes me wonder why they bothered with any DRM, but bother they did.

  Then they sold Hitman (2016) which has literally the most egregious and hateful DRM in the history of gaming. If you don’t submit to it, your game is essentially a very expensive demo. Most content and even basic game features like saving and progress tracking is disabled unless you’re connected to the DRM server. GOG users complained and the game was delisted, but the fact remains that they fucking tried. If GOG doesn’t even believe in being anti-DRM anymore, then I see no reason to use their [apparently] CCP-curated games library.

  GOG may have started out as a plucky band of disruptors and idealists, but that dream died about 10 years ago. They’re EA cosplaying as Che Guevara. I wouldn’t even mind if they behaved like every other storefront, but it’s the pretence and the morality-washing that makes them especially despicable. I mean EA and Ubisoft aren’t feigning to be motivated by some grand political or societal good; they’re malignant capitalists who would sell their own children, and would tell you as much. GOG dons the robes of a grassroots pinko activist while dancing to the exact same corporate tune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG NSFW Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice gesture, but keep in mind that this is the same GOG that was poised to release Devotion by RedCandleGames, only to renege on it because CCP imbeciles told them to. They are brave against censorship except when it involves actual conflict with censors. As soon as that happens, it’s bootlick city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Joe Pesci, circa 1995

  Joe Bond: You hear a little girl, Moneypenny? Where’s the big tough guy who told my friend to shove his pen up his ass? *more stabbing*

  Q: Sir, please… *choke* I was just explaining… *cough* the pen’s unique bidet feature…

  Joe Bond: Bidet feature? You made me pop your eye outta your head over a fuckin’ BIDET FEATURE? You dumb motherfucker!

  Q: Sir, I apologise, but if you just… *splutter* use the pen’s other feature, the wound-cauterising laser, I might yet… *gasp* live…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is somehow more offensive to my brain than if they’d simply said “electricity is god”. The way they completely muddy the issue, making the reader not just misinformed but made to feel complacent, like there’s no correct information to be found, is way more grotesque. It shuts down the mind of the reader. It’s anti-education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the 100% complete, unbiased and unvarnished picture of the situation Green OP (Gropey?) has painted for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertisement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you suffer from erectile softness, sliding yourself into an MRI like this will cause the iron-rich blood from your whole body to be drawn into your pennis by the powerful magnet. Then you just tie a tourniquet on it at the base, and you’re good to go.

  Also works in a large centrifuge in which they train fighter pilots, if you don’t have access to a hospital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Fool Me!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 40s and I still occasionally get a dream where I’m using the toilet, and that in the dream I’m making sure I’m really awake by looking around the room reading labels on things etc. People say you can’t read text in dreams, because it looks mangled and makes no sense. Well, if you believe it makes sense within the logic of the dream - that is, whatever switch in your brain that makes you go from “not sure” to “100% confident” gets flipped - then it matters not what lorem ipsum horseshit is printed in melting calligraphy on the shampoo bottle. My brain yearns for a piss-filled mattress and it will not be dissuaded by my feeble attempts at some sort of dreamworld scientific method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s the little things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if each H~2~O molecule was coated in a hydrophobic substance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's transportation not cisportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my bank manager has a kink, keeps texting me about “transaction”??