Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Hereās a tweet of Winklevoss feeling snubbed by VP Harris (twitter.com)
and another much longer one.
Ooh, Like the internet! I got Bingo!
Bitcoin bros: more of this self-aggrandizing rage please. Itās so entertaining to read.
@sailor_sega_saturn @techtakes
NO SLURP JUICES FOR KAMALA
None of you seem to understand. Iām not locked in here with you. Youāre locked in here with multiple slurp juices on a single ape!
Ow god. This is the acasaul torture simulation!
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
Weāre a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
Weāll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think itās fun.
Weāll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? Weāre already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers arenāt shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? Weāve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group thatās already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition theyāve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we canāt is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. Youāre not special, youāre not original, youāre not the first; this is just another boss fight.
This pasta will never die.
Considering the history of legislation and the internet (and the recent KOSA thing) being treated like the internet is the last thing you would want.