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HiddenDekuScrub 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is my first thought every time I hear about something being "rebooted" or "remade".

I feel like I am just done. Western media currently exists to force feed a compliant audience as many token checkboxes as possible.

You know, it's funny how a lot of the alphabet crowd used to point at anime being "so open minded" 20 years ago if there was a gay character. But I don't feel like I have to be on a paranoid lookout for the inevitable appearance of a token gay character. That force fed crap doesn't exist.

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HiddenDekuScrub 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah, nerd culture is over.

The stuff I grew up loving has been replaced by a checklist of faggotry.

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HiddenDekuScrub 4 points ago +4 / -0

I didn't think it was possible to be any more done with Disney.

I think as soon as I heard Tim Allen was missing, I had a bad feeling about it. Seems this explains things.

Walk away. Just walk away.

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HiddenDekuScrub 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is just a flashy "no cheating" screen, aside from the terms everybody agrees to but never reads.

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HiddenDekuScrub 1 point ago +1 / -0

The letter was a joke anyway. Basically they kept going sideways to blame Trump.

J.K. Rowling needs to get over her TDS. She might even regain a few customers.

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HiddenDekuScrub 2 points ago +2 / -0

And I don't think .win is trying to be that. That said, I think Parler has made a pretty good run so far. We'll see how it does.

Parler does need to tackle hashtag bombing though.

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HiddenDekuScrub 2 points ago +2 / -0

You're also supposed to keep it apolitical.

That said, might not be a bad idea to know what to do with a radio if everything goes to heck. Just advanced warning, it's kinda hard to find anyone to talk to unless you're part of some kind of group.

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HiddenDekuScrub 3 points ago +3 / -0

Step one: Download ShareX

Step two: Take a screenshot of the tweet and post it anyway

Step three: Laugh

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HiddenDekuScrub 3 points ago +4 / -1

And you know something funny?

10+ years ago, the boys vs. girls thing for games? Was FUN! As in like two rival teams duking it out. Like I'd get some absolutely insane kill playing Quake and have guys just cheering me on. I always felt like they liked seeing girls who genuinely enjoyed this stuff.

Now it just kinda feels like you're ruining their playground just by the virtue of showing up. Because that girl might be some feminist troll....

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HiddenDekuScrub 2 points ago +2 / -0

For the most part, I agree with you, but here's the funny thing... nobody picks on me at work (at a telecom for that matter) for not bothering with facebook or twitter. I do have a rarely-used twitter account, but I think all I've ever done on it was post like 2-3 splatoon pictures. Yeah, that's it.

In a weird way, I think it's more that there's some kind of fear among the populace that they will be left out.

That said, I do run into a fair number of customers who could care less about facebook and twitter so long as facetime and SMS/iMessage work.

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HiddenDekuScrub 1 point ago +1 / -0

As someone who works in telecom I don't think it's changed that much. I just think a lot of the idiocy has moved from desktop machines to handheld devices.

As an example,10 years ago, it seemed like smartphones were rare, but every customer seemingly had a computer. Granted, many of those computers were aging and falling apart and clearly badly maintained.

Nowadays they just have badly maintained smartphones that they treat as badly as the desktop machines they threw away when they thought they didn't need them anymore. (Now excuse me before I get tempted to rant about people with iPhones who don't keep a computer around for hard resets when the dang thing crashes....)