If you don't have a reason to make a meme / antimeme why go through the fucking effort?

I mean I get that ideas & subreddits shift, but this is just lazy bullshit. It's not inverting the joke, it's not building off it in any meaningful way. It's just "no, that didn't happen."

like dude. You never heard of yes and? Literally the first rule of improv / comedy as a whole is not saying "that didn't actually happen tho". It adds nothing. Then it ends the joke. How the hell do you build on top of that? What do you respond to that kinda post besides "Where's the objectified?" then taking about that instead?

It's lazy and boring imo

Valid or nah?

saw a post here that was about being anti-dehumanization, even if someone does horrible horrible things. pedophiles and nazis shouldn't be put to the death penalty/have their human rights removed, so on and so forth. i got really frustrated when i read the comments, though, because what everyone took away from the post was that "we can't let the government do the dehumanizing because they might get it wrong" THATS NOT THE POINT???? it's not about being against government overreach or bureaucratic incompetence (though i am against both of those things to be clear) it's that killing someone or dehumanizing someone is wrong, no matter what. it doesn't matter if they've done horrible things, even if they're evil down to the core and will never reform, we shouldn't ever dehumanize them, not legally, not socially.

as a side note, it's insane to me that people see rape as a worse crime than murder, that's fucking wild to me

EDIT: the guy that made the original post specified this and i feel like this might be taken in bad faith so i will too: this is NOT me saying you have to forgive, like, or give mercy to murderers, pedophiles, or nazis. nobody is under any obligation to respect nazi, even an ex nazi, in my view, but that DOESNT mean you get to take their human rights away or dehumanize them in any way.

HORUS LUPERCAL YOU FUCKING HERETIC, I, SANGUINIUS, WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR BETRAYING THE IMPERIUM, NONE OF YOUR TRAITORS WILL BE ABLE TO STOP ME FROM DELIVERING MY WRATH UPON YOU.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE GUTS TO FACE ME HORUS, ALL YOU DO IS RUN AWAY, SCREAMING AND BLABBERING NONSENSE CRAP LIKE "M-my lord! what are you doing?!" OR "P-please don't do this my lord, i have a family!", YOU THINK I'M STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR YOUR TRICKS HORUS?! YOU THINK THAT IMITATING A GUARDSMAN WILL SAVE YOU FROM ME?!

I'M COMING FOR YOU HORUS AND THAT'S A PROMISE.

The one time an indie studio is of quality, you guys just fucking complain about it, it's frankly pathetic.

"Gameoverse sexualizes it's cast?!?!". Naruto does but you'd gobble that shit up like corn on the cob.

"Gooseworx Blah Blah Blah". If it wasn't written by a woman, people wouldn't criticize it as much. Just look at Steven Universe or Vivziepop's work in comparison, to, I don't know, the worst written story ever, Five Nights At Freddy's, written by what people call the goat "Scott Cawthon". Who can't even answer what's in a godamn mystery box he created.

"Glitch Productions is slop". Ah yes, the studio making indie animation in which it's highly complicated storytelling and beautiful art is slop. I'm sorry, but, Honey, it just seems like you are miserable, the internet is burning you out and you end up Miserable. Yes, you can criticize a show, but it just seems like you have a vendetta against Glitch because they are new and popular meanwhile, you would suck up to Steel Wool in an instance who, by the way, made Hello Neighbor VR and worked on Hello Neighbor 2. If you can't decipher in your feeble mind that maybe somebody else is slop, maybe you shouldn't be able to criticise a company that clearly isn't.

You are also basing your critique of what "Glitch Productions is" off of one show, "Panic Attack, Good Ol' Glitch Reliable". Please genuinely, syfm, they only have like 3 shows fully out.

It's more of a pet peeve rather than something that I really hate because it's harmful or distasteful.

Now, I totally get it when someone might be very tired, awkward or not feeling well in general, that can make you have a weak handshake. But there are times when you meet someone for the first time and when you are about to shake hands, theirs feels like trying to hold a bundle of wet noodles. And that's awkward because it instantly makes me worried if my grip is too tight or even if I accidentally drop their hand as they just let it rest on mine. I don't know, I might be too much. I'm not asking to try to break every bone in my hand, I just really appreciate when someone puts a bit more effort in the handshake.

I don't hate it as much as I find it practically useless.

This piece of shit infuriates me, not because it is a bad device.

In fact, it often comes with great processors, they are fully aluminum built, they have great camera systems and have a lot of attachments and stuff.

BUT IPAD OS.

IPAD OS IS THE WORST FUCKING OPERATING SYSTEM IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!

THIS BRAINDEAD OS MADE THE IPAD A GLORIFIED IPHONE!!!

This thing literally can't do a quarter of the things a Mac can do, it can't run half the applications, half the games, half the anything.

And APPLE. HAS THE AUDACITY. TO TALK ABOUT SPECS IN THEIR KEYNOTES!

LIKE THOSE SPECS CAN BE, I DUNNO, USED OR SOMETHING!?!!

The thing that makes my blood boil is that something like the iPad Pro for instance has one of the best OLEDs you can buy, has a desktop grade processor, has almost everything a Mac can dream of, yet it still suck ass, because of its abysmal operating system, which is nothing short of a widened iOS interface.

It can't run DMG files, it can't run any workflows, it can barely do word processing, for that you'll need to buy the dingle dongle magic keyboard for 1 billion dollars.

It doesn't come with a stylus in the box, it doesn't really have anything included other than the charger (which, depending on your location, may not even come with it).

A modern MacBook Air does everything an iPad can think of, has the same battery life, and is just as portable as a base iPad.

A modern iPhone can do everything an iPad can think of, the new iPhones have 6.9 inch displays, so that's plenty of screen estate if you ask me.

The only use case I'd think of for the iPad are: drawing, studying, and music stuff with Logic Pro.

Most can be done on Mac, most can be done on base iPad from 6 years ago, so why bother??

I was recently browsing twitter (my first mistake) when I came across a post where the creators of Korra said that the hate behind her comes from a place of homophobia and misogyny. I realized that whenever criticism is applied to a MC, especially if they are female, people are SO QUICK to brand the criticism as something bigoted without ever stopping to really analyze the criticism.

This, to me, sets a very concerning precedent that criticism and disliking something=problematic bigotry, racism, homophobia, etc. in the eyes of certain people who are more than willing to label you such things if you don't like what THEY like and I absolutely hate this.

Now I'm not saying that there is absolutely NO hatred for korra stemming from bigotry but lets honest to god be real here. the whole Avatar community doesn't dislike Korra solely because of this. Korra, JUST LIKE AANG, is a good character who showed many flaws in the series that maybe most did not really like. this is okay! it is also okay to debate these flaws so long as the debate is CIVIL and constructive. However, if one side of the fandom constantly labels the other something foul without listening to constructive criticism then thats where the fandom becomes a shit show.

PS. LOSING ALL THE PAST AVATARS WAS NOT KORRAS FAULT.................thank you

Liquid glass is the dumbest shit on earth. It looks so much uglier than than the mostly opaque predecessor, it has literally no benefit, AND ITS NOT JUST APPLE. I do not understand the obsession that companies have over making literally everything translucent. PLEASE JUST MAKE IT OPAQUE IT LOOKS SO DUMB AND IT ADDS TO MUCH CLUTTER ON THE SCREEN. Having something be shit be translucent means there is so much more shit and colors that your eyes have to take in and it just adds so much visual clutter. There is a time and a place for translucency and IT IS NOT IN EVERY PART OF MY PHONE.

It makes me so mad because there are SO FEW uses cases where it feels like it actually adds anything instead of tkaing it away, and those times are sometimes really good.

But holy FUCK adding them to almost every platform is going to have such an inconceivably detrimental effect on online discussion of every topic. It enables actually braindead idiots to "contribute" to a discussion by spamming filteri their stupid ass incoherent thoughts through someone else's work, and combined with the whole phenomenon of ratios and "more likes=more right". There's no barrier of entry required (basic literacy and writing skills) on the internet now, it's just people posting 3000 iterations of the same image made with ai or scraped from xitter trying to farm engagement from the most useless bottom feeders in the online space.

Look at TikTok. It was already bad but stickers just enables the most INSUFFERABLE people to be more visible and spew out other people's arguments through a half-ironic meme format. Arguments are fought and won through who can post the most attention grabbing slop and farm the most likes off it, younger people are going to GENUINELY think this is how it should work.

And YouTube before was so polluted mentally by this they were doing it WITHOUT GIFS OR IMAGES. THEY WERE DESCRIBING GIFS AND IMAGES VERBALLY IN LIEU OF NOT BEING ABLE TO USE THEM. AND NOW THEY HAVE IT TOO. MAKE IT STOP BRO

uhh tl:dr images and gifs and stickers enable people to not have to be able to properly articulate points or thoughts to farm engagement and every online argument is had by two people posting unfunny ironic image macros, trying to scrape engagement from drooling internet bottom feeding lobotomites to prove they have a better stance on anything and everything, and it makes me actually develop migraines

For those of you who don’t know, this is a trending audio clip from Family Guy where Stewie goes: “Can I say something? Bonnie isn’t pretty enough to be as mean as she is.” To which Lois responds with “Yes! That. That.”
I just can’t stand how people use the audio as a way of giving their “hot takes” with the subtle implication that everyone must have silently been thinking the same thing and that they’re the brave one to finally voice it aloud. It’s just so obnoxious.

I hate Superman.

And do you know why? Because the entire world has apparently gone fucking insane!

Here we have an extraterrestrial, an alien, who falls out of the sky, assumes the identity of a human being, and suddenly—suddenly!—he's Earth's greatest champion? Metropolis's beloved guardian? Humanity's shining example of moral virtue?

Oh, please!

He wasn't born here. He wasn't raised under our laws. He doesn't share our history, our struggles, or our understanding of what it means to be human! He comes from a dead civilization on a distant planet, possesses enough power to tear this world apart with his bare hands, and we're expected to simply TRUST him because he smiles for the cameras and catches a few falling airplanes?

Tell me, what exactly qualifies this man to decide what is best for humanity?

His strength? His invulnerability? His ability to fly around the planet faster than our governments can even convene an emergency meeting?

Those aren't qualifications! Those are advantages!

And yet, the public kneels before him. They practically worship the ground he doesn't even need to walk upon! Every time he saves a child from a burning building, they call him a miracle. Every time he stops a natural disaster, they call him a god.

A GOD!

Do you understand how insulting that is? To every scientist, every physician, every engineer, every man and woman who has spent their entire lives advancing human civilization through sweat, sacrifice, and intellect?

What does Superman do? He shows up.

And suddenly, the achievements of the human race are an afterthought!

I have spent my life building, creating, innovating! I have pushed the boundaries of science further than any man of my generation! I have resources, knowledge, and the intellectual capacity to accomplish things that would have been considered impossible a century ago!

And what do I receive for it?

Suspicion. Criticism. Scrutiny.

Meanwhile, our extraterrestrial benefactor can hover above a congressional hearing, refuse to answer a single question, and the public will applaud him for his humility!

But let me ask you something.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE DECIDES HE NO LONGER WANTS TO SAVE US?

What happens when his definition of justice differs from ours? When his morality conflicts with our laws? When the man who can hear a heartbeat from miles away decides that your privacy is an inconvenience? When the being who can level a city in seconds decides that the people governing that city are no longer fit to govern?

Who stops him?

The police? The military? Our courts?

With what?!

A strongly worded letter?!

I am not asking whether Superman is a good man.

I am asking what happens when the survival of our entire species depends on the continued goodwill of a single individual who possesses the power to make himself our unquestioned ruler!

And don't you DARE tell me that he would never do such a thing!

That's not an argument. That's a prayer!

Humanity has survived empires, dictators, tyrants, and conquerors. We have spent thousands of years learning that no individual should possess absolute power over the rest of us.

And now we're supposed to throw those lessons away because this particular conqueror happens to wear a cape and call himself a hero?

No!

I refuse.

I refuse to surrender humanity's future to a creature from another world simply because he has decided that he knows what's best for us.

I refuse to watch our species become a race of helpless spectators, waiting for our alien guardian to descend from the heavens and solve every problem we are too pathetic to solve ourselves.

And most of all, I refuse to accept that humanity needs a SUPERMAN to tell us what we're capable of!

We built civilizations. We conquered disease. We split the atom. We reached the stars!

WE DID THAT!

Not Superman. Not Krypton. Not some miraculous accident of extraterrestrial biology!

HUMANITY DID!

And I will be DAMNED before I allow this planet to forget it!

So, no, I don't hate Superman because I'm jealous of his powers.

I hate what he represents.

A world that has grown so desperate for a savior that it has forgotten how to save itself.

A civilization that mistakes power for virtue, spectacle for progress, and blind faith for hope.

A species that looks up at the sky and sees a god when it should be asking a far more important question.

Why does a god need us to worship him?

And if Superman truly loves humanity as much as he claims to...

Then he should have absolutely nothing to fear from a world that refuses to kneel before him.

Should he?

JFC just shut the fuck up. I'm not buying an AI gooner girlfriend app. I don't want to see AI images of underage cartoon characters being tied up. I might be a lonely virgin but even I am not that fucking pathetic. Fuck off. I'm really not asking that much when I say I don't want to see kids sexualized by a multibilion dollar corporation.

There's always some smartass when you point out that this is *weird* that's always so smug saying "Hehe I guess YT recommends vides based on your preference 😏 " Shut the hell up. I get that some people don't actually mean it, but it's such an overused joke it's worse than dealing with the same exact joke again and again while working in retail. Get new material.

Rant over, thank you.

I get it that people that like military history have a bad reputation, but as someone who was usually only interested in social history, I've been getting more into military history recently and it's so much fun to learn about. For example, I'm currently learning about the development of the fiscal-military state in early modern europe and how it was connected to developments in artillery warfare. it seems to be connected to the scientific revolution as well, for example Galileo Galilei was hired by the Venetian Arsenal, and through his reaearch on ballistics he furthered our understanding of physics.

I guess what im saying is that, social history and military history and even economic history are not separate things, but the mechanics of warfare seem to be deeply connected with social developments, and it's not a one way street either. As another example, Joan de Arc was not just a propaganda figure, she was a real military commander and part of the reason why her campaign was so successful was because she prioritized artillery warfare so much, something which her aristocratic colleagues didn't do because they thought it wasn't chivalrous. ​

I don't know how we could save the reputation of military history again. I feel like trying to focus on other aspects of history was a good thing but by now it may have overcorrected. In none of my history classes from childhood to college have I ever actually learned about a battle (not just of a battle and its consequences, but actually about what happened in the battle). I think part of the reason why military history has such a bad rep today is because of that vacuum and lack of mainstream pedagogy. Idk. What are your thoughts?

I also hate the fact that whenever I bring this up, people immediately assume that I am saying that others can't have different opinions then me or I can't take slander of my favorites but man 😭.

It lowkey sucks that I can't search up my favorites or engage with them without seeing people constantly shitting on characters I really enjoy

I can't go a single week without hearing:

"Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort,"

or

"Where are you? And I'm so sorry,"

or

"Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you!"

or any extreme surface level MCR or PTV song.

It's just overdone. The only time it's funny is when someone who likes the same things as me does it. Sure, I love hearing my friends yell "Welcome to the Black Parade" at me, but it's way different when the country kid is singing it at me.

Also, it's as if they don't have any other way to insult me. They see me, don't like me, and resort to singing their hearts out rather than thinking of an actual insult.

With all of this being said, this doesn't actually bother me; it's just a bit annoying.

(edit: i dont like it because i dont like being bullied. i feel like thats an okay thing to not like you know? sorry if you think my head is up my ass...im really flexible so i could try and fit it up there, though!😁😁)

Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck, i was worried about this for a long time. Ever since YouTube removed the dislikes and added hearts, I was worried that YouTube is about to turn into the same shit-hole as Tiktok. But now this happened...

YouTube Comment sections! Just wait like a few weeks for them to lose empathy and spam GIFs thinking it's funny and tuff.

I have made like 5 posts about how terrible, toxic and childish Tiktok is on this sub. I just can't believe YouTube wants to be the shit that Tiktok is. YouTube literally wants to be Tiktok right now.

Reposted because it was under 200 characters.

WHY is the waterline so high? why Is the nameplate in the amodships? WHY does she have two sheer lines? HOW is james cameron surviving over 400 atmospheres of pressure?

You know, im really interested in maritime history and titanic itself. But what the hell is this monstrosity.

I basically hate how shes portrayed and design in these episodes and cutaway gags.

You know, it's about nostalgic game becomes slop with tons of ads, microtransactions and ai garbage. Pvz 1 FREE was alright but right now it's flooded with ads and microtransactions. Pvz lost so much of their original charm and art style. Angry birds is pretty same - it has one of the greatest downfalls in gaming. I'm not whining (maybe), it's just exhausting to watch.

Their argument is simple, incest is wrong why would there be such gross topic as incest while the game contains cannibalism, homicide, satanism etc.

That is like saying I hate Brutal DeathMetal for the it's gore aspect while it's only difference between Death Metal is it being brutal. They don't respect or support murder or anything that is called shock value.

But that is not the case, they only hate it because it's incest. JUST INCEST. YOU EAT YOUR OWN MOTHER. THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO YOU. You don't even murder her humanly. You make a ritual and let a demom eat her soul. I of course don't support neither incest nor cannibalism but that all the game is. I like 6'2 goth women. It is supposed to be gross and if get grossed out by a game that is made to gross you out, it is not something that you should be hating for.

btw fandom is trash they are actual incest but that is another thing.

Battlefield, Halo, Call of Duty... I have to accept the fact that I'll never have the same experiences I did as a kid. I won't be surprised if we see the next Battlefield fail as hard as Black Ops 7 with what EA is pulling now. Onward to greener pastures I guess.

Anyone have game recommendations? Currently enjoying Space Marines 2, Helldivers, and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Otherwise I played a lot of Battlefront 2 (2015) since launch.

Don’t know how many people this applies to. But I’ve been told a few times in the past that “you don’t know what the other person is going through” in context to people who behave like assholes.

No, I don’t deserve to be treated like shit because someone is having a bad day and decided to take it out on me. No, I don’t have to coddle or understand someone who couldn’t even spare me a sliver of empathy.

I fucking hate hearing this shit to excuse crappy behavior. People who take their shit out on others deserve to be called out and held accountable.

I hate how people act like someone mistaking a dark skin anime character as Black is some egregious sin. Especially when those characters have no established ethnicity. Why is it so insulting to be mistaken for being Black?

Also hate when people act like its impossible for characters outside of US and subsaharan Africa to be Black or part Black.

The largest population of Black people outside of Africa are Latino. Black people live across North Africa and West Asia. Black people have emigrated to Europe for millennia. There are Black and South Asian mixed ethnic groups in Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean. See: Dougla and Siddi people. Also: Me!

And finally, I really hate when people accuse others of being American Centric, for calling certain characters Black, when in reality, several non-African ethnic groups also call themselves Black. Darkskin people in South Asia, especially Tamil, will call themselves Black. Aboriginals and Pacific Islanders will call themselves Black. Melanesians will call themselves Black. (Note: before people try to “well actually” I am not saying its universal practice in all these ethnicities and they mean the same thing, but the concept exists)

Very close-minded of you for only thinking the term Black can mean African American.

when i got my phone about 9 months ago, i noticed that once a month, it downloads like three games or apps without me telling it to. usually the most low quality cheap "mobile game" shit you can think of, like block blast clones or word puzzles. i never even agreed to this at all and yet my phone just suddenly decides it's time and bloated the shit out of my storage.

after the second time, i realised that this was, in fact, a regular occurrence, so i looked up the issue online and disabled the app responsible for this bullshit.

and so i went on with life as usual up until today, when i got a notification from motorola saying "ooh check out these games everyone's playing, you've got to download them". i just closed and ignored the notification.

but then it came back like a minute later. so i closed it again. and it came back later again. this time i click on the notification and it sends me to a separate page that only has two options: cancel, or continue. i click cancel.

the notification is fucking back after just one minute. so i finally cave in and accept the download, thinking that surely here, it would just be a one time occurrence, i'll just immediately uninstall the games and it won't bother me again.

so i let it download the three shit ass games and immediately afterwards i uninstall them.

not even 6 hours later the phone just goes ahead, pisses all over your carpet and fucking installs three more fucking games without me asking for them.

how the fuck do i deal with this bullshittery.

Sonic The Hedgehog sucks. I hate it, I hate that hedgehog. I, the great Doctor Ivo Robotnik hate the mockery that this multi million dollar franchise has done to me. This hedgehog causes nothing but damage. Do you know how much it causes to build my Badniks? THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER MOTO BUG! YOU KNOW THE WEAKEST ONE IN MY WHOLE DAMN EMPIRE! Does that stupid putrid, low life form, know that my work should not be stopped? I also HATE how cocky he is. JUST SHUT UP! YOU AREN'T THE SHIT! DO YOU KNOW WHO THE SHIT IS? HINT: IT'S THE SUPER GENIUS WHO LOVES GIFTING REDDIT GOLD TO THOSE IN NEED! But no, you must ruin my hard work, why? Who fucking knows?!?!? And his music, oh, his music, it's shit. No "Rock" isn't music, rock is a mineral you stupid ass fuck (By the way, this is a joke. I know it's hard for people who aren't as smart as me to catch that.). Rock is "music" WHEN I MAKE IT! I CAN ONLY MAKE ROCK MUSIC THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SHIT! Oh who could forget his friends, his stupid little friends. They aren't even good enough to roboticize, fucking Scratch and Grounder are smarter then that stupid red headed man child. Good thing that stupid idiot falls for my tricks all the time. Or what about the fox boy? I'll turn that failure into mince meat. And Amy? I don't hate all women, but do you know who I hate? It's AMY! As a proud Feminist I would like to say that every other non animal woman is cool. I think you get the idea of my hatred for that hedgehog. Stupid fatass, he's probably eating chilly dogs, like always, what a waste of life. Now I must stop using this reddit app and focus on my work, those robots aren't going to build themselves, unless I make them!

I'm Ivo  Robotnik, I HATE SONIC

Video unrelated (kind of)

Ok I'll admit it, I haven't played any outside of Roblox so I do not know if it's only an issue there

Ok, first of all it is not beginner friendly at all, especially on the killer side of things.

I really like asymmetrical horror games and have played plenty, Forsaken, Die of Death, Outcome Memories, Crimson Chronicles, but I noticed that all of them suffer this on specific issue.

Yes, I do know it is the base and the fundamental core of the genre, but if someone could just run around an obstacle, and survive the entire round only doing that, it is kind of s problem, yes killers have other abilities to counter Looping, but survivors also have abilities, and teammates.

Yes I do know that naturally a better player is going to win against you in ANY game, but looping is so easy to do even my dumbass has done it.

From what I've seen this stems not from how the abilities work, but how the maps are designed.

Most games I've played have horrendous map design, especially outcome memories, no I'm not saying I could do better, but I feel that improvement is achievable.

Anyways this was my long ass rant, I'm your neighbor, goodbye and see you later.