With your brain being so big, what are you doing pissing your time away on an insignificant little website like this? It's not like someone would go on the internet and just lie like that.....
What is fundamentally different between your entertainment and theirs, when they too push forward the whole "RESIST" mentality? I understand the importance of media, don't mistake me, but don't pretend like THAT is the forefront of winning this, because it's just as delusional as any other consoomer take that puts consumerist goods above all else.
Because let's not mince words here: I don't think you're active in your local community. I think you're active online, and that's not bad, but I doubt you even know your neighbours. If you're not making inroads on a local level first and foremost, what's even the point? All of media was against the Vietnam War, and it did nothing to stop that war. What do you think your media is going to do today?
YEAH! FIGHT THE POWER! You slay with those Tiktok dances to resist [insert current cause].
Jesus, you actually think you're "fighting" by making some entertainment? Like that's good. Legitimately, it is. But you're not "fighting", any more than linux shilling is "fighting". But lying down and accepting slop, whether it's Windows or corporate media, won't do a god damned thing to help you out.
There is nothing stopping you from doing both. Yet here you are actively defending the idea of actively not doing one because you'd rather be lazy and defeatist.
people pretending to be members but only sowing division are very, very real.
I agree. So it's funny to me that you're more interested in sowing division because people rightfully care about their privacy rather than continuing to make your media files. But you'd rather unironically defend slop.
You're so interested in starting this fight all because you got a chip on your shoulder about an operating system. Please point to the doll where linux touched you.
Oh, my bad. You're not just woefully retarded. You're an unironic statist that is actually willing to play defence for mass surveillance. I thought there might have been a chance for you.
Wow, that's some top tier glowing.
The irony of wanting to "fight back" (all from the comfort of your armchair) and then doing literally fucking nothing to even try and secure yourself.
You've got an awful lot of mockery there for not a lot of action. So please Mr Glow, why don't you show us how it's done?
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There's no "think" about it. These companies are putting measures in place to make spying as easy as possible. We get and agree that they're not actively spying on (most) people. But that's the problem: They're not interested in actively spying. They're interested in inactively spying. On being able to store pages and pages and pages of information on the off-chance you do meaningfully step out of line.
Room 641A has been public knowledge for nearly 2 decades. Nearly twenty years. These companies are complicit in spying. There's no "think" about it. It's objective fact. Yet for some reason, there's people out there that believe for no reason at all, despite the decades upon decades of evidence of corporate and state co-operation and effort at mass surveillance of the public, and despite public backlash have faced NO meaningful reform, punishment or reigning in, would somehow and arbitrarily decide to suddenly become "good".
The biggest lie people tell themselves is that the same entities that have experimented on the public and knowingly engaged in outright atrocities would arbitrarily reform themselves for no reason at all. All because confronting the idea of such an entity still engaging in such behaviour is too uncomfortable.
There's no "think" here. People know this shit. It's happening. The only ones that "think" it's not happening are the ones that mock people who know it happens.
They're still victims in my opinion, they just forfeit their redemption in most cases. And I only say most because I think that everyone can ultimately be forgiven, it can just take a lot to earn such forgiveness, even if I myself couldn't do that forgiving.
But it's important to remember this is why these freaks NEED to be stopped. It's not just to save the victims. It's to prevent more of them from becoming abusers.
Any game or service that requires a number I refuse to use when possible. I don't care if I "miss out", I still respect myself enough to want my privacy.
I remember the days where you were told to NEVER give ANY identifying information about yourself online. The days where your online safety wasn't about mean words being said on some forum you voluntarily went to, but about ensuring your information wasn't being taken by some creep.
Now everyone posts every fucking detail of their life and it's honest to god saddening. It's not even about the "people are tracking me crap", even though that is true (what the fuck do you think marketing is other than tracking information?), it's about the sheer vanity of it all.
And what's worse is that people share this information about themselves in order to be treated differently, and it doesn't even matter if it's negative or positive treatment. Anonymity is the greatest equaliser there could possibly be, and every time you reveal even innocuous information about yourself, you're expecting that information to result in different treatment. A common example of this is people that start something like "As an [insert demographic here]", a simple yet effective line to try and get people to hold more value as to what you say than what you're actually saying holding the value.
Even me saying "I remember the days where....." is helping lend weight to my words because somehow me being there could mean my words are more important, but it doesn't actually make that much difference.
Every entity that wants more information from you is seeking to treat you differently. To exploit you in some manner, for good or for bad (eg "This person is so trustworthy, listen to them (but only because they're saying what I want)" or "This person isn't trustworthy, don't listen to them (because they're saying things I don't want them to say)". There is no exception, and it's the bread and butter of collectivists and all those similar that place identity as sole importance above all else.
Problem is that they themselves are victims. That's the worst part about the grooming. It's a self-perpetuating cycle where victims become abusers that make more victims that become abusers.
And them being victims doesn't negate or counteract being abusers. Which is why I would feel sorry, but I don't. Because they're still abusers at the end of the day.
Interesting points. Now let's see infanticide statistics.
It's also why so many of these freaks don't get the surgery. Deep down they know it's a fetish and they need to keep it up to help maintain that fetish.
I would feel sorry for them if grooming wasn't a part of it all.
People need to mock the fuck out of this. Take on pronouns like "milord/milady", and actually follow through to ensure it's enforced to show that this is utter fucking stupidity. Fuck it, go one further and go with "Massa" or some shit. Make them play by their rules and do so with a grin. Everyone can know it's a load of shit, but they need to play by the rules they put forward. Anything less will ensure this creep continues.
You don't get a response by letting the frog continue to boil. And while accelerationism is often top tier stupidity, it does hold validity when utilised to show why something is bad before it goes further and further and further. Don't let the slope slip, let it avalanche so people can't just adjust to changing rules.
>digging up a month old post
Damn that's pathetic, even if it's an elaborate "troll". Here's that crumb off attention you were after, you're not getting another.
Just call it what it is and always has been: Blaxploitation. It's tokenism all over again with a new coat of paint to make it socially acceptable again. Is there really all that much different between Blackula and Muh Historical Black Samurai? All it's doing is trying to pander to minorities and faux "cultured" whites.
And the new spin is no different between the "Colored People" vs "People of Color" crap. It's the same fucking thing, but retards will never learn I guess.
I'll even be nice about that, and say that an actor doesn't need to be a fan of a role that they're going for. Doesn't always need to be like that for an actor to do a good job (though I think it certainly helps).
What is the much clearer issue is the fact that the role wasn't just about a successful and interesting character, it's that it was a vehicle, a carrier, to further her ideology first and foremost.
An actor doesn't necessarily need to be an enthusiast about what they're acting (though it certainly helps), but if they're using the roles they get as a means to an end? That shit is cancer no matter what their cause might be.
It's less that they're banned and more that they just moved on. Capaldi was a really good Doctor, but that only goes so far with companions like Clara and "Bill". They were already losing ground back then and viewing numbers readily back that up. Then they went with Chibnall and anyone who stuck around after the first season* of Whittaker was gone by the end of her second. They stopped watching. They moved on. Because it was clear that the show didn't respect them as fans, so why should they keep watching something that they weren't enjoying?
*Reminder that Whittaker's first season includes: Her pilot episode which was okay at best, an anti-knife PSA mid-episode, racism but now it's time racism, Muh Trump, and a pregnant man. All in that order. As the first 5 episodes. And they wonder why people turned it off? Why they stopped watching? It's clear they don't want fans to watch the show. So we stopped watching.
Fans made their opinion known, it was ignored, so the fans ignored the show in return. It's that simple.
I can get the catharsis of it, I guess. It's just so damn cringey to post, share and expect praise for it online. Like yeah, go out and break something. I get it. It feels good to break shit. But you're not special for it, and having a breakdown over it isn't healthy, and double so trying to gain "muh validation" for doing so.
I swear, so many people want to be adults and yet none of them can escape the very immature pursuit of validation.
They don't know what any words mean beyond "this is positive/negative". That's why they use so many terms in a pejorative sense with no understanding of the greater meaning, associations, or connotations such words have and how they might better describe themselves. A really good example of this is Fascist, one which I believe stems from academic socialists in many years gone by that felt threatened by the initial rise of fascism since it was explicitly born from socialists that were fed up with the ineffectual nature of socialism. AKA Fascism isn't an enemy of socialism, it's a competitor to socialism and that's the threat that socialists are worried about.
Finally, an initiative to help bring equality to the workplace injury statistics!
What's annoying is the people that then go on to say shit like "but you're denying yourself a good game" and it's just so weird because my response is almost always "and?". And they can't comprehend that you're fine with passing up on a good game.
There are so many good games out there, why do I need to spend time with this specific one? Because you were dumb enough to part ways with your money for a pozzed game that's not as terrible as other pozzed trash? Need to convince others to share in your bad spending habits? Somehow they see it as some kind of loss that you play one of your other games, and probably one that's in your backlog, than mindlessly shill for [CURRENT PRODUCT].
Hades 2 is probably fine. If I played it, I would probably enjoy it. But I lose nothing by not playing it and not supporting the media narrative surrounding it regarding "muh representation", nor supporting the idea of pushing this historical/mythical revisionism. I lose nothing by spending that time on another game that I know I'll enjoy, either by replaying or going through my backlog. I lose nothing by not playing this game and spending time doing literally anything else either.
This could be the best game I play this year, and I'd still lose nothing by not playing it. And there are people out there who cannot comprehend that.
Demotions in cases like these are essentially a message for "don't get caught next time", and not a case that they actually did the wrong thing.
You don't leave someone in a position of power if they truly did something wrong.
And there are still people who think the system can be reformed.
"Pretending" to be a retard only results in people seeing you as a retard. So trying to pull these "snippy" responses as if you're actually some troll doesn't really do much when it comes AFTER the point where you can't actually respond to what has been said, and only occurs because you're getting offended at being treated like the toddler you are.
Or in other words, you go right ahead and shut it all down because you got your feelings hurt. Because that's all you can do at this point. You have nothing left to say other than quips. You have no more attempts at gotchas. You're just going to be abrasive an pretend like people getting mildly annoyed with some asperger's sufferer is some form of "winning". Again, censors are always the same. You pull out bunk "gotchas" or stupid little appeals, and then when you make no ground you devolve into behaving like an idiot as if it was some massive troll all along.
Congratulations, you've wasted your time, I've stood my ground, and you convinced nobody. You accomplished literally nothing. Enjoy trying to get in some last word, it won't change a thing and you'll still be a bootlicker at the end of the day, begging for more and more authoritarianism to comfort to your delicate sensibilities.
Decade? Have you not been paying attention? This shit became obvious after around 2007 when the internet became mass accessible to the general public, in large part due to the vastly increased adoption of smartphones and their internet capabilities. And since then, there has been a concerted effort to sanitise the internet and make it as advertiser friendly as possible, which means that spaces need to be made as sterilised and controlled as possible.
It's not the past 10 years. It's closer to the past 20.
Yeah, that didn't answer my question. So again, if you're so grandiose and above it all, why waste your time in this very small corner of the internet? I could understand if you were trying to reach people in more mainstream parts where you could reach more people, but you're getting what? Maybe a thousand, or so eyes in this forum? Seems small scale for someone as mighty and as talented as you are.
Or maybe it's a tall tale to make yourself seem better than you are, as you piss and moan because some people think it's a good idea to decentralise. And it's funny, because I haven't really pushed Linux. It has SERIOUS flaws to user accessibility because you're right, it does require stupid levels of esoteric knowledge just to get set up all while dealing with smug assholes that deride you for not knowing it. It's annoying. I won't deny that. But you going whole hog outright defending blindly using Windows is equally fucking retarded.
Believe it or not, I'm not here to defend Linux, but defend alternatives as a whole. But at the moment, I'm seeing no difference between the self-important pretentiousness of Linux shills, and some self-important pretentious prick lauding himself for making disposable entertainment and talking himself up online. And yeah yeah, I get the whole "muh both sides" crap, but this is what I'm seeing in this instance, where you got insufferable esoteric bullshit on one side and some big brained twat unironically dick waggling like it's supposed to impress someone. Why would I actually want to pick either of these sides despite the valid points both ultimately make?
So sure, take this as a "win" if you want, or maybe take it as me being some lost cause if that's what you want too. But you're still a prick, which is weird for someone as supposedly charismatic as you claim to be. So take from this whatever you want to take, but you've not convinced me of anything other than you being a dickwaggler for internet clout on a very small forum. So congrats on that, I guess. I'm out because there's no point with someone as pretentious as you are.