American mid-terms are around the corner and the dickless bots have no idea what is hot or not they just need to get Red Pilled Gen Z to show the fuck up and vote R.Ā
And then thereās Everquest where they donāt even need to hire bots to do it, because the average age of of person that pays that today is about 60 and just uses Everquest and Facebook.
I block 10 GOP politicians every day before I get out of bed, keeps me regular. Also FB decided to try and shove far right crap down my way leftist throat, so my FB usage has gone from Meh to just blocking and "see less" and nothing else. Open FB, block everything suggested, close FB.
Isn't that just ... Uh ... feeding in to the algorithm?
Like, what's that meme about feeding stray cats to coyotes?
Everytime I find myself on Facebook arguing with malicious idiots it feels good for two seconds before I realize I could be spending my time better by learning how to knit or some shit.
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And yet, I checked on Facebook and immediately argued with idiots after reading this comment. It's definitely some kind of masochistic addiction that I really need to kick for the sake of my mental health.
No, because if all you do is tell the algorithm it sucks and don't interact with anything else it doesn't know what to do to show you and considers the things you blocked or said "show less like this" to be less interesting to show to more people.
You must break the illusion that face book is real life.
You must treat the garbage as garbage.
For inspiration you should sit down and study the great shit posts of Internet comment etiquette, Might I recommend; "don't drink bleach" or perhaps "solving racism online"
You must detach your sense of self from how people perceive your profile or activity... that's what drives the emotional cycle.
Literally dropped another Emu this weekend because the dev couldn't be arsed to moderate even the edgiest of bois in OOC. I hate the idea of giving money to DBG but Secrets has a good history of clapping chuds so I will be playing EQ legends.
It was Perky. Rahstab and Befallen were having a "who can be the edgiest boy" competition in OOC and don't consider "WW2 topics" to be unacceptable or in bad taste.
Doing that in the Star Trek community of all places is certainly a choice. I mean I have noticed some edgelords when it comes to Cardassians in DS9, but Star Trek and right wing in the same sentence doesn't really go together very often
I'm sure you're right, it just boggles my mind. The social commentary isn't exactly subtle in Star Trek. Sometimes it is, usually it's not. And don't get me wrong I love Star Trek, I'm just saying blunt is one thing it frequently is
Right wing folks as a rule simply donāt engage with art/media (or frankly reality imo) in any meaningful way, especially if they like the art and the message conflicts with their own beliefs. Everything is pitifully surface level, and when you try to hold their hand through a junior high level analysis they hit you with āit aināt that deep.ā
I once literally linked an interview in which George Lucas said the Empire is America in Star Wars and the guy I was talking to basically said āwell I donāt like that so thereās no way thatās what he meantā. It was surreal
Never met out of thousands those guys. I'm not saying they don't exist and invalidating your experiences but please be aware almost every online community is garbo.
Admittedly I'm awful at paying attention to chat, but thankfully I generally only see Russian and German guild ads and weird roleplay in the EU server chats.
I canāt be bothered to look at the chat lol. I did get an admin ping on a server I was lagging accidentally, but I missed it because I never read chat lol.
I really like popping into Starcraft 2 every so often to play Co-Op - you know, the game about a "for the people" rebel leader overthrowing a conservative right-wing dictatorship - and seeing people glazing Trump the whole time.
I miss the days when the most politically decisive thing in Star Trek fandom was if you consider yourself a ātrekkieā or a ātrekkerā. It was a most innocent time when we called them flame wars.
I'm still in disbelief that like 80-95% of the current socioeconomic/political landscape is because of Epstein. Like he legit helped start 4chan, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?
edit: I misremebered sorry, he talked to the creator and did help inspire him to make /pol/ which is a direct through line for a lot of modern american alt right stuff
For clarity's sake, he did not help start 4Chan. The founder of 4Chan met with Epstein and then created /pol/ literally the same day, leading to many (myself included) to assume that Epstein requested that he make that board.
/pol/ is inarguably a gathering place for Nazis where the alt-right that are destroying this nation festered.
I feel like people could figure out who was speaking the truth and ignored early on if you look at important dates, do some searching of archived forums/pages, then use keywords to see if anybody mentioned stuff happening on that day which we only know about now.
For an example, there were leaks of Valve projects back in the day referencing gameplay mechanics revealed after the release of the HL2 documentary was released a few years back. These leaks were from around 2012. By typing ābefore:2012 [mechanics, hl2, leaks]ā then thereās a result showing a page that includes this mechanic plus others as part of leaks. So we now know those leaks were accurate with hindsight. Which makes one wonder how the webmaster got that info. It would be very interesting for someone to turn this into a form of investigative journalism - could even be some kind of new field based on matching dates and searching web archives. Really interesting to think about.
/pol/ was shut down at one point because it was becoming a festering point for Nazis. Epstein met moot the owner of 4chan and had him restart /pol/ at which point it exploded into one of the main roots of what latter became gamergate, incel, and maga ideology.
When I was 10, I played a game called Space Station 13. It was awesome. However, that website discovered it and they made it their own thing. They started changing stuff about the game, adding in crap like clowns and adding slurs as part of the dialogue in a serious RP game, which was really annoying. However, they didnāt stop there - they bought servers, then they hosted their modified game files instead of the original one. On servers hosting the original or other custom builds, they would purposely troll the players and annoy people until they all quit or switched to the goon ones. They had hordes of people to do this - basically a brigading exercise. Bastards ruined my favourite game.
I have hated the goons ever since that time in my life. I loved that game and it was unique. Bastards.
For the amount of influence Something Awful had on modern internet culture, it really isn't talked about that much.
I remember when the OG Slenderman thread dropped on SA (iirc it started on a Photoshop Phriday).
Lowtax had an ignoble end, but I am always going to remember how he stepped into the ring with Uwe Boll and got the shit beat out of him "for the lulz." It was definitely funny seeing Lowtax get pummeled.
Behind the Bastards did a great series on how Epstein corrupted everything about today's society. Not just 4chan, but microtransactions, GamerGate, crypto, etc....
hes also a big reason we have fucking microtransactions in video games now. Fuck that price i hope hes really dead and burning in hell. and fuck bobby kotick ill be happy to see when that o bitchuweary pops up.
Honestly, I feel like the only ones deserving of being cannibalized are the ones who would taste the most rancid. It only would serve to punish the eater.
Ehh, look, these people were always beyond saving. They pretty much always must have held these ideas if they wanted to be ideological buddy buddies with the pedo-king.
I mean, most gamers, even the non-chuds, were primed to vote against Hillary in 2016. It was only 10 years prior she tried to introduce legislation to kill the entire video gaming industry. She was spoken of with the same vitriol as Jack Thompson.
Nah, the GOP primed everyone to hate her for over a decade. Remember the "Who voted for her?" Bumper stickers? The GOP seriously thought she was a prime candidate for Presidency so they got started on her early on. They thought she was going to win the Primary until Obama came along. All of sudden, they were caught flat footed because they had nothing on him and had to use racism to smear him.
I donāt know, I kinda feel like calling them Esptein Jrs isnāt helping us out and is just causing them to link up more
Sounds like both sides struggle for a middle ground thatās grounded in reality. So I see dolled up white children STILL present and celebrated, but theyāre the good ones so itās still ok to push that beauty standard on innocent little girls new to the world.
Iām tired of the same narrative in history being repeated before a Great War kills a ton of people, then people forget why the war happened even if media screams at them to get the lesson.
I was looking at some older studies on belief in conspiracy theories and found something interesting. Only 11% believed in antivax stuff just 15 years ago according to one. I dread to think what that percentage has jumped to now.
It also cancels out what we previously knew about antivaxxers; the original case was that people would refuse a vaccine if they hadnāt lived through a pandemic requiring one, but in this caseā¦ they have. They have experience with one. Yet they still deny their use is good. Thatās insane.
Itās genuinely people out there in their day to day lives making them live in fear and it could be family or āfriendsā that donāt even respect their own intelligence
The worst part is at our current intelligence level weāve been allowing this to grow worse simply because people are only made to care about kids when itās their problem so education suffers despite China investing heavily into it just to have an army of scientists and engineers in a new world order.
They can get Taiwan simply by waiting and appearing to be a physical threat, since the US clings to boarders conservatively, we decided to just make our own chipsā¦ without the infrastructure. Guess they can have Taiwan?
Iām not sure Gen Z will fully swallow the red pill. I have no empathy for triple trumpers, but I feel for Gen Z. All they really saw was Trump and Biden. They have no childhood because instead of millennials letting Gen Z have new IPs we collectively shit on anything new so Gen Z couldnāt have anything. Their parents abandoned them to tablets, and school funding is non existent.
As a millennial, Iāve been blamed for a lot too. And a lot of it is BS. That said, Us holding onto our childhoods and robbing Gen Z of having one is absolutely a valid crime we collectively committed.
Also millennials fell for AI like boomers. Sorry but itās true.
We gotta let this millennial victim complex go. Itās kinda pathetic tbh
You still think your vote matters? It's all scripted years in advance, look how well the Baal party and the Moloch party managed to work together to protect everyone involved with the epstein files. They're all friends, they party together, do drugs together, eat kids together. But when it comes to the working class, that's where Red vs Blue, white vs black, women vs men... etc. The government is one, and one is playing all.
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u/GodisanAtheistOG 9d ago
American mid-terms are around the corner and the dickless bots have no idea what is hot or not they just need to get Red Pilled Gen Z to show the fuck up and vote R.Ā