America Also Bad!

Seems like they usually leave out the "also" because apparently two things can't be bad at the same time. Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where only one thing is bad? I expect it'd be simpler, at least.

I freaking hate this game, when can we play something else :(

YES. Hero sib ^.^ 🎵

They like to make a show like everyone on Earth is just like they are so how dare we exist differently but it's clearly just them being hateful. Idunno how bigots manage to still think they're clever and totally not insecure whilst making self-contradictory statements and raging over nonsense and trivia for hours at a time, often in spaces where they're not even welcome.

What a bunch of pricks.

I hesitate to blame them all. In GN's video, some of the clips show LMG people seeming (to me? Somehow I don't see anyone else pointing this out???) anxious to terrified of Linus. In one of the WAN Show clips there's this meek, near-mumbled kind of "Uhm... Linus sir maybe if you'd, um... just tested it properly that could've been maybe better I guess? <.< v.v;" sort of thing, and the person who grabbed the wrong card barely squeaked out a response at all, but Linus just never seems to give a damn about anything except making the quickest possible bucks.

I don't know what's keeping everyone else there but I think at least some of those people are just trying to get by without incurring some kind of wrath as Linus himself repeatedly makes (or causes) a mess then arrogantly doubles, triples, quadruples down on it (or has someone else do so, or maybe other arrogant pricks are involved?) up to a point of "Okay, I messed up and I'll own that now everyone forget about it" after which business-as-usual resumes until the next mess. It seems like no one else has time to learn from any mistakes (or "mistakes") and those who do (presumably a hierarchy-related privilege) are unwilling or incapable.

Now, they may in fact be a bunch of pricks. I just feel like some of those people (such as the one suggesting that testing the water block correctly might made sense (before potentially killing a startup unfairly)) try to help but have no power to inhibit Linus's pompous profit-driven pissheadery.

Okay, that's fucked going after the researchers. On the other paw, if we get catpeople out of this I may still forgive them :3

(Of course that demand is BS, though. Bleh!)

Hi, woke garbage here. Very trans. Enby too. Just sitting here existing at you. Existing so hard, it probably hurts you just knowing about it. I hope it does, 'cause you're a prick and you deserve it ^.^

Hmmm, good point. On one hand, this amusing stuff could be bringing people back to Reddit and boosting the level of engagement just through people showing up to take part in shows of, well, refusing to take part.

On the other paw, though, if these things last then people may eventually get bored and stop showing up. Are enough people that vapid that they'll come by day after day just to say "wellthatsucks" and post a pic of John Oliver? Hopefully not.

If they are, then... sigh

Hay, I got rid of that one! Made my own. ... Yeah it's a little janky like everything else I make but it's mine and I'll bite you if you make fun of it >:O

Might bite anyway, honestly. Especially if- Y'know what, maybe nocritter wants to hear about that :P

Is somecritter transing in here?!?!!!! ✨🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧ WHEEEEEEE 🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧✨

Edit: all' those pretty trans flags show up correctly on kbin v.v

option to choose pronouns fills them with blind, seething rage

Yeah I was there when BATTLETECH (still dunno why its name has to be so LOUD :P ) launched. Every hatefool was raging about it, apropos of anything or nothing. Try to talk about any part of it and it's "OH YOU MEAN FUCKING PRONOUNWARRIOR?!?!" and a bunch of incoherent senseless bile. There's a sizeable group of people who deeply love being offended, and it's not us (queerfolk/LGBTQIA+/QUILTBAG/GSM/whatever). Like, I'm neck-deep in queer over here and every time I play a game with a pronoun selector at the beginning I promptly forget about it but oohhhh nooo, not these bellends. They somehow think a button at the beginning of the game that matters like three times ever has entirely DESTROYED videogames with LIES and FALLACIES 🙄

They'd be a joke and an insignificant oddity if they didn't deliberately make messes of everything else (say, going to MWLL/other games, ranting about "pronounwarrior," pretty sure some critters got teamkilled over it...) for no good reason.

being a man, woman, or black person isn't political

Being a woman isn't political... until I do it? Kinda seems like there's no actually valid (sound? I forget the terminology) argument for how our existence is a problem, nor for how supporting or acknowledging our existence is a problem.

I don't actually quite understand what you're on about but it kinda seems like you're arguing that allowing people to play characters that don't match your preferences exactly is some kind of forced political thing and that's kinda horsecrap, y'know?

Anyway I'm gonna go exist at that bigot up there now. Byeee ö/

Interesting that the "AI" posts alternate between "Oh, AI will lead us into the shining, glorious future!" and "Wow, the new thing that people call 'AI' can't reliably add 2+2, makes up lies that even supposed professionals fall for when asked for real info, and just generally mimics only the form of human communication with no idea whatsoever about the content, often resulting in hilarious claims, images, et cetera that a dog could recognize as wrong!"

With bosses in charge... ugh. I assume soon if not already someone will be scheduled for heart surgery because WebMDGPT decided their cough was due to irritable bowel syndrome, which it will claim is a form of cancer because that's the sort of crap these things do.

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" somehow applies to Jar-Jar but everybody's impressed with the chatbot that knows literally nothing.

Right? "Vast wealth built on various forms of harm is good actually because sometimes rich people fund neat things that I like!" Yeah sure, tell that to somebody who just lost their house to one of the many climate-related disasters lately.

I'm actually disgusted that "But look, a shiny! The rich are good actually! Some stupid 'environment' isn't shiny cool like a videogame!" has over fifty upvotes to my one downvote. I can't even scrape together enough sarcasm at the moment to bite at them with. Just... gross. Depressing. Ugh.

I hope they're wrong. They're wrong, right? ... :-\

Also, how is a Republican running as a Democrat? Is it just me thinking there's a glaring flaw in the US's political mechanics? Y'know, just the one. Nothing else wrong there. ...Other than seemingly literally everything, with exactly zero hope of any meaningful change no matter what goes wrong nor how wrong it goes. sigh

Always happy to help!

No I'm not <.<

Could you do (time)?

I will never be able to pick a time :-\

It'd be easier to discuss in person

NOOOOPE

(Being assertive)

Not a chance :'D
This stuff is all bad for me 😅

This image is sooper cyoot and so are yoo :P :3

My guess is that his reasoning goes like this: "I'm a cartoon-evil piece of shit. Is there anything I can do to make things worse for real people? Cancer roads? Hey, that's great!"

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I'm gonna vom :P

As a Gentoo user currently vacationing in Arch-land I'm not sure whether to feel insulted or affirmed. Imean, it is but some might say that to disparage it or its users 😅

Gross, gross, grrooossssss!

Very weird. I keep doing things and not being quite sure who's doing them. Having trouble not feeling super alone and isolated but also having trouble feeling like I'm me so it's kinda better in a weird way? Very strange. ... Kinda just wanted to tell somecritter about that, I guess 🤷‍♀

I hope it's okay if I pretend to bee a beehawer for a sec &lt;.&lt; I figure I kinda am in spirit, so maybe it's okay? Though lately Idunno if I'm me so who knows. wobbles awkwardly

(Referring to other replies, sarcastically) I friggin' love having people explain how it's totally cool to do to people all' the things they (or people like them, in relevant contexts) say not to! Like when five freaking people people show up, none citing so much as a blog post or having met a trans person once, explaining that it's totally cool to deadname someone as long as it doesn't bother the person doing the deadnaming.

I'm just a little tired of this "it's fine and you're the real problem for whining about it" (not quoting anyone currently present... I think) kind of attitude. Maybe I'd be singing a different tune if my convenience got to override everyone else's comfort and even wellbeing.

Edit: At least I don't feel so compelled to join Beehaw any more. Certainly not the uniformly careful bunch I'd, unreasonably I suppose, imagined. Silver linings!

One must have no mind at all to take that place seriously at this point. No consistency, no fairness, no honesty, no integrity. One never knows what to expect nor from where to expect it.

Hell, they don't seem to know what they're doing. Their admins fight over who does what to whom and apparently they close subs then threaten themselves demanding that they reopen them. This didn't have to be a big mess but it was forced to be one anyway and there's no sense in trusting it to get any better.

Oh, I read that headline and growled out loud. Yet another reason not to trust those places nor expect anything good out of them. Maybe they'll call the cops, maybe they'll just call Facebook. Maybe they didn't mean to, maybe it doesn't matter. sigh

Good they announced that they'd be making an announcement. An unannounced announcement could surprise someone!

Ah, the Democratic People's Republic of Reddit. I hear they really love spez there.

"Funny" that people think "Reddit is mistreating the mods, who do free work for them making the place bearable! Let's jump ship and go to [whatever we call this federated-not-Reddit-thingle]!" and then come here and mistreat mods and make the place unbearable.

Some people just love the taste, you know?

Kinda weird how eager some people are to brag about how much they love paying for YouTube Premium, though. Sometimes repeatedly, and as a response to every other comment. Like a paid ad, almost. Just being proud of paying for things is weird on its own but... damn, stinks like Google's paying them back well to behave like they're starving for it to come give them a cookie. Maybe it's bots. ... Nah, humans will serve their favourite companies at no charge and without any effort to make them. Bleh.

Figures I'd find a cutie like you around a dorbsy image like the OP :P

Who with any sense could respect this idea? "Oh no, those icky people are all going in there where I don't have to see them! That's somehow worse than the horrible, unbearable nightmare of having to see them in public!" People like that don't want us gone, they just want to torture us for fun. I have a reasonable amount of rule-breaking things to say about anyone like that.

... And of course it's not people actually from there. City council voted this in but these garbage want to counter it from the state level, because screwing with more-local governance from above is totes cool when they do it. Then of course they'll attack lower levels to counter anything insufficiently evil at a higher level, whatever it takes to get their way because evil must always get its way in this vile hell-world. (Not meant in any kind of religious sense, or whatever. Just... they're fuckin' evil)

This shit's exhausting.

I wonder what's going to kill the whole Fediverse tomorrow. Seems after like a week of vacation from Reddit all' the most excitable people can only agree on one thing: this place is very, very doomed unless it changes everything right now.

Maybe if every instance just redirects to Reddit (or some kind of front-end so it looks like it has a different name but all of the same people, problems, etc.) then people will be happy.

...Yes I'm getting grumpy at all' the complaining before anyone's had a chance to deal with or figure out anything, let alone sort out proper solutions and start patching things. Please, try to have some patience.

Well, that reeks.

a more specialized version of the type of programming now best known for powering chat bots

Oh fuck they put ChatGPT into a murderbot.

words

Bragging &lt;.&lt; Trying to make us all jelly.

Or jam, or marmite, or whatever bread-spread-stuff.

Wow, that's some epic struggle against the injustice system. Amazing that anycritter makes it through, let alone gets anything like justice out of it. Heroes, all.

Of course the pisshead's going to appeal: he doesn't regret what he did, nor hope to improve himself as a person. He simply resents facing consequences.

yaps loudly in agreement about how fucked it is that people pointing out a problem get blamed for being the real problem by privileged asshats!

Avoiding "bad words" and "hostility" doesn't mean a person is good or nice. Sometimes hostility is justified or at the very least has a point.

Kinda seems like the "children as property" model of "parenting" is a little flawed.

Or, y'know, complete horsecrap. Could be that too.

Wow, I'm the only person that bellend didn't reply to. I feel special 🤣 Everycritter else gets a fresh pile of horsecrap, I don't even get a downvote. Works fine for me, I guess.

See, everything's really actually tooootally fine and Linus is a totes wonderful dude who runs a happy little family worth a hundred million dollars.

Except his employees endure various forms of abuse and are visibly afraid of him at least some of the time. So much suffering is clearly a price many are willing to accept. Companies drive people to breakdowns and literal suicide and... oh well, I guess? What are people gonna do, think a little? Care a little? Post one tweet (or Xcretion or whatever the fuck) on the way to go buy the latest from a company that just killed someone, or destroyed their mental health and ability to live, or maybe "just" (said very sarcastically) groped them a bit and caused a crapload of undue stress besides? No wonder my mind's all fucked up: I look at the people around me and few of them would so much as skip a DLC to make this world any better. Everything is fucked and it's only going to get worse and I feel like I'm gonna implode if I have to see one more comfortable prick explain how his precious fucking rich white guy parasocial pal only accidentally constantly screws people over. He's really a nice guy, actually! Probably tons of fun to have a beer with! Funny on screen!

What's some peon's life, or a dozen, or a hundred or thousand or million of them compared to the complete comfort of someone who's just such a good ol' boy?

Why do I keep looking at these threads? The way people talk about this stuff on all sides is so asinine. Nearly every good point is accompanied by missing a big one or just ricocheting off the good one, flying off into space and hitting a fully automated luxury gay space commulist. Hopes, dreams, assumptions, and ignorance all just headbutting each other and getting nowhere.

Oh yeah, I wanted to know what "superintelligence" was and whether I should care. Welp.