It will take hold of you, and you will regret it’s absence
- a stupid idiot who thought they could explain why arbitrary age limits are a poor heuristic for experience to a /r/politics user
god typing that out really sells the stupid idiot part huh
to a /r/politics user
All the way back in 2017 I legitimately thought every user on that sub was actual bots
It just felt so different from the rest of reddit (whose users should also be wiped off the planet)
It’s heavily modded and censored and was one of the first targeted by their former CIA community misinformation manager
I guess it could be really dumb paid shills instead of bots. idk
There are also bots, Reddit is full of them to help their IPO. But you don’t need to pay shills, libs will shill of their own accord if you just create an echo chamber. That’s what the modding does.
Same thing in worldnews, which used to show cracks of left sympathy until they began banning anyone critical of capitalism.
I have whatever the opposite of this is.
I spent several years and waaaay too many hours of my life typing out responses to bad faith redditors who didn’t deserve the effort.
same, but for me it used to be defending dark souls 2. i think i’ve really traded down in that regard
I mean, that’s good and important work! DS2 is unfairly maligned, and actually quite good in many respects! Is it jankier than any other FromSoft game? Yes, absolutely. Did they make some strange and inexplicable choices that I disagree with? Also yes. But the vibes of that game, the level design, the fashion! Incredible, absolutely S tier. Majula is easily the best “hub” of any of the FromSoft games I’ve played, and Heide’s Tower of Flame might be my favorite area ever, beating out both Leyndell and Fountainhead Palace in terms of shear beauty.
I also like that DS2 doesn’t expect or want you to have a comprehensive knowledge of the plot. You can just wander a melancholy, dying world and you’re not trying to save it or something, it’s been made pretty clear from the very beginning that you’re not on some grand quest, really. You’re not following the instructions of a weird immortal giant snake or trying desperately to stand before the elden ring or being handheld through the plot by an immortal child. (I do really like Kuro, I don’t mean to make it sound like his involvement with the plot is a negative, it isn’t.) You’re just wandering through a beautiful, sad world, and eventually you’ll end up finding the souls you need, because it’s impossible not to.
Oh, and the gender changing coffin rules. So weird, but I love it!
Yeah, at the end of the day my love for DS2 stems from it doing its own thing, for better or for worse. It’s just weird and quirky and kinda shit in some places but overall the most charming FromSoft work I’ve played
why arbitrary age limits are a poor heurisitc for experience
Okay, I know this isn’t what you meant, but please explain what this was about because all I can think of is how this sounds like
CW: pedo
how pedophiles argue for lowering the age of consent
oof did not even think about that
it was about how you have to be 35 at minimum to be president of the US because the founding fathers said so
This may be a bit of a hot take but I don’t think age limits are that bad. I can see the argument that on average, a 25yo doesn’t have the experience with people, with changing political landscapes, foreign policy etc that would be necessary for the job.
I know that a 25 yo child of poor parents from a poor community will have more life experience than a legion of failsons put together, but that’d be a little idealistic as a response. Any <40 that gets a shot at being the usian president will be some silver spoon shithead who made all the right friends.
All that said I’ll freely admit the criterion is useless as shit. Usians will have a second election between someone with a rotting corpse syndrome and whatever donald’s got. If they hold debates, it’ll be a contest of whichever side prepares the better coctail of uppers. Clearly, usians have extremely low standards and a youth president would be the least of their problems.
If you think reddit is bad, I’ve seen horrific shit being said in insta posts
but no i want to berate liberals for being wrong
I like typing up my response, hate their response where they misunderstand/ignore everything I say.
Can’t argue with ‘em because I keep getting banned, and reddit even has even banned my IP address from certain subreddits now.
I want to dunk on the loser landlords in my state’s subreddit so badly. I want to go to r/millennials, r/nursing, r/teachers, r/antiwork, r/everything and say: “IT’S THE BOURGEOISIE, NOT NECESSARILY THE BOOMERS!”—over and over again because it seems like people are increasingly miserable there and looking for answers. But they can’t find any because if you talk about the bourgeoisie or question the Ukraine War or say that Biden is a Nazi or imply that mental health might have some sort of connection to the material world, it’s a ban for you. If I breathe a word about any of this shit using my last remaining reddit profile, which I use to advertise my books, that’s also going to get banned. Sometimes redditors will get so pissed off that they’ll cyberstalk me and leave shitty reviews of my books, too.
Got a nasty taste of this recently, not with a redditor but essentially the same beast
Thank God I have creative outlets and people around me who foster them, without that I can imagine a much more mentally unwell version of myself emerging. There really is something weirdly addictive about that hot-blooded feeling it gives you, even worse if you’ve ever actually won one of these inane “debates”
I stopped doing that a while ago and my life drastically improved
I find that the best thing you can do is not even engage with Reddit or its users. The only time I use Reddit is for niche technology issues I’m troubleshooting, even then I don’t comment or anything, I just find the 7 year old thread and fix my issue.
Arguing is reactionary
no it isn’t
