Eight Bit Alien wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:23 pm
I think anyone who was confused about that stopped posting a while ago
I think you're right about that - and I'd like to think it's obvious to most people... but it's worth repeating based on things I've seen going around the internet lately. Israel (with the help of plenty of news outlets) has been trying to blur those lines, and a lot of people are buying it. That's sadly propagating both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - even in unexpected places.
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 2:06 pm
by THE KILL
Most thumbnails for youtube vids that are about someone building a diorama or painting a mini show a hand holding a brush close to the finished object. I know it's hard to believe, but I totally understand that you used a fucking brush to paint this piece of shit, I don't need to be shown. The thing is finished anyway, so it doesn't make sense to hold a brush next to it.
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:08 pm
by FVBTVS
the offhand nature of letterbox review quippage that seems quite popular
gas, napalm and Prius treads
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:18 am
by Hunter
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:22 am
by Geeheeb
I thought that wasn't real - but since you posted it maybe it could be - and it is...
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:57 am
by featherboa
when you go on reddit it's all this algorithm shit and if you click on it it's screen shots of text messages and it's like four clicks and 4 new browser tabs to read 3 sentences at a time how are people living like this
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:30 am
by Whee of the Dead
FVBTVS wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:08 pm
the offhand nature of letterbox review quippage that seems quite popular
the fifty million 'bring up a dumb scene in a brain dead movie = cinema' reviews.
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:19 am
by FVBTVS
Moved to my second ever apartment in the city, left out of my backdoor and crossed paths with my upstairs neighbor (duplex style house) we introduced each other, he asked if we should exchange numbers because we are neighbors and I agreed thinking it was innocent. Thus ensued months of harassment. He assumed that I wanted to do drugs with him (I smoke weed but nothing else and not with strangers) he’d continue to blow me up through text, constant phone calls in the middle of the night, and near the end of the situation he was wiggling my door knobs on my doors to try to get into my home in the middle of the night. Sometimes I swore he was standing in front of my door listening in for short periods of time before going up to his door. He ended up getting evicted because he didn’t pay his rent for over a year. Not sure why he sent the last messages but I felt like it was a ploy to get me to come out of my house. Be safe ladies.
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 1:59 pm
by Necrometer
featherboa wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:57 am
when you go on reddit it's all this algorithm shit and if you click on it it's screen shots of text messages and it's like four clicks and 4 new browser tabs to read 3 sentences at a time how are people living like this
it’s actual hell
you gotta use old.reddit.com (and you can make it default to that in yer settings)
can also do ol.reddit.com or od.reddit.com (but not ld.reddit.com!)
no clue what’s going on in the app - don’t use it
they used to have a super clean interface you could access by adding /.compact at the end of the URL, but they killed that sometime in the last year or so
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:17 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
If ur logged in u can go to settings and click "request desktop site" it improves everything and makes the search work properly
It doesn't fix the main problem which is that all the users are fucking FA[edit: a word!]TS
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:36 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
Look what i found in the wild!
(Picture of a 2009 mario game that sold 200 million copies)
I drew this for trans awareness month!
(Doom guy drawn in crayon on notebook paper)
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:38 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
My boyfriend had sex and I wasn't there. Is that cheating? (Serious replies only)
irrationally angry about how legitimately awesome I find guy's tie-dye work
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 2:20 pm
by Necrometer
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:15 pm
by Necrometer
I'm too weak to avoid facebook entirely
so that's anger #1
anger #2 - why doesn't FB have a feedback form that lets me simply tell them the things I actively hate & don't want to see in my horseshit feed. for example: cars, nu metal, deceptive AI garbage (e.g. fake poster for a movie sequel, a TRAVEL account/group posting stuff that doesn't exist), dachshunds, comic book / movie fandom horseshit, the modern anselmosphere, DAVE GROHL
their algorithm sucks so fucking bad - all it has successfully figured out is that I like thinking about Megadeth and looking at thist traps, but I am pretty sure that's true of everyone
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:22 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
If you only see stuff you like, you will get bored and leave. If you experience mostly shit, you will stay longer hoping for that squirt of dopamine you remember from the first stage of the habit. It's designed exactly like a casino. It turns us into hardworking, foraging squirrels.
Exactly like the description of the "first matrix" which wasn't effective.
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:08 pm
by Brutus Frank
Necrometer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:15 pm
I'm too weak to avoid facebook entirely
so that's anger #1
anger #2 - why doesn't FB have a feedback form that lets me simply tell them the things I actively hate & don't want to see in my horseshit feed. for example: cars, nu metal, deceptive AI garbage (e.g. fake poster for a movie sequel, a TRAVEL account/group posting stuff that doesn't exist), dachshunds, comic book / movie fandom horseshit, the modern anselmosphere, DAVE GROHL
their algorithm sucks so fucking bad - all it has successfully figured out is that I like thinking about Megadeth and looking at thist traps, but I am pretty sure that's true of everyone
Imagine being someone who doesn't understanding hateclicks can motivate them, despite having a PhD.
Oh, wait, here we go, here's not understanding that you don't understand kayfabe applies to you explained in simple terms
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:43 pm
by FVBTVS
he doesnt see your posts
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:13 pm
by FVBTVS
its not really ever the content of simfoccs attempts at thinking or his sub literate pseudo intellectualism because who among us right? there but for the grace of god go i
its just that faggy sneering redditor intonation that i'll never quite get over. i feel like mister burns going through seven layers of high tech prestige security to find a broken screen door hanging off the hinges of my nuclear power plant
why would anyone want to sound like that
Re: things that make you irrationally angry
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:41 pm
by cxwx
FVBTVS wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:13 pm
its not really ever the content of simfoccs attempts at thinking or his sub literate pseudo intellectualism because who among us right? there but for the grace of god go i
its just that faggy sneering redditor intonation that i'll never quite get over. i feel like mister burns going through seven layers of high tech prestige security to find a broken screen door hanging off the hinges of my nuclear power plant
Eight Bit Alien wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:22 pmIf you only see stuff you like, you will get bored and leave. If you experience mostly shit, you will stay longer hoping for that squirt of dopamine you remember from the first stage of the habit. It's designed exactly like a casino. It turns us into hardworking, foraging squirrels.
Exactly like the description of the "first matrix" which wasn't effective.
that all tracks
I presume you've heard about how snack food is not engineered to be thoroughly satisfying, rather it's engineered to make you keep eating more of it. if there's just enough shitty aftertaste, you go back for more?
I love a well-curated reddit/twitter experience, but you're totally right that it doesn't tap into that same need to feel super engaged (squirl brain)
I've never been able to articulate this idea in an air-tight way, but I think another strong instance of motivating toxicity is around gossip. like... we talk shit about each other because it feels good to feel superior. but there are costs when that gets back to the subject of the gossip, right? so I think there's this market that gives you the toxic thrills without the interpersonal blowback: tabloids. I think the british royal family might serve the same purpose, even before media existed: it's a group of rich layabouts that everyone can gossip about, potentially displacing the in-group blowups that would otherwise take place. it certainly seems like that's their function in the post-tabloid world
(RIP princess diana, ofc, who paid the ultimate price of all that toxicity )
)