not sure. I knew about the switching part but that might have coem along later

This is a really old conspiracy theory. Its easier to believe in a hyper competent conspiracy headed by people you don’t like (read: Jewish) than it is to believe that the world is sometimes random and often cruel. Plus, you get to feel smart and cool when you realize something the sheeple didnt realize! What a badass you are!

And thats before nazis and grifters who no other talents make use of this process (enabled by a fuckton of capital, provided by those who will literally burn down the world and half of the people in it to keep their privileges) to hollow out the center.

I always thought it would be funny to do that except then I feel like I would have made enemies of everyone.

I suppose? I quite like the way World of Darkness did it. There wasn’t as much gradation, but the average human was 2/5, and if you were kind of good at something, or you took a community college course, or something, you could justify a 3. The qualifications in the book were a scale the average person in real life was familiar with and probably even had few of (so my EMT license was a 2 in medicine, my Eagle scout was a 1 in survival, and so forth).

It really made you feel unique, rather than promote this “NPC” shit.

D’oh!

Marge, you’re as smart as Yoda and as pretty Princess Leah."

Maggie makes three?

Im impressed. This is an establishment democrat almost doing something that almost qualifies as useful. He’s almost so close!

I have powers!.. Political Powers!

“I am Ganesh, your god!”

Dad, those peanuts are for the elephant!

I dont know the name, but this is from Apu and Manjula’s wedding. Thank god this isnt the still with the Ganesha mask

I mostly interact with FB through Caprine, to talk to like 4 or 5 people who are still on it. Other than that I sometimes ask my sister to check for things on Market place but thats it.

There are a lot of classics I like. DM of the Rings. I got really into Megatokyo for a while. I see that guy at conventions and say hello, even though I fell off when I was still a teenager. I remember Loserz being good, before he moved it behind a paywall along with his porn. These days I like Gatordays, Red Dot, and Poorly Drawn Lines.

A lot of the porn subs on Lemmy are less trafficked. If you are belong to any of them, try sorting by “subscribed” and “hot” or “new.” Also subscribe to more of them.

Horny people have rights… for now

All of these things are correct, but I would like to posit there was a specific era when it actually became intolerable, and that was about 2013 or so. It was a gradual process, but you noticed more and more “normal threads” getting hijacked and brigaded. Baw threads, or threads where people would post tumblr core sad images (mostly about missing ‘her’) got hijacked by incels (who said something like, “shes fucking chad bro” although the incel vocabulary had yet to be calcified.) You laugh you lose (YLYL) threads got brigaded by people “banana posting” or flooding the thread with images of a specific meme of a banana opening his peel like a trench coat and “exposing” himself to a pair of apples. It was boomer shit, but their alleged point was that YLYL was cringe.

Now, were Baw and YLYL cringe? Maybe. But they were also like, “normal” threads. Normal users would come and post normal content. YLYL threads (and their cousins, Epic threads) were how board culture was preserved, posting collages of greentext posts of particularly noteworthy threads or stories or interactions. The point wasn’t to point out cringe. It was to radicalize young male users who self identified as unlucky in love, to degrade board discourse so no one wanted to even post in “culture” threads, and to either radicalize the young and impressionable who might be receptive to Nazi messaging, and to push away those that were not. 4chan always tolerated Nazis, and there is an old proverb against it.

Moot used to get a ton of hate from the Nazis, because he actually tried to police them. I don’t know if they targeted him or just got lucky, but they had been trying to get rid of him of a while. He left after users found his girlfriend was cheating on him, and posted the photos on 4chan. months later, trump descends a golden escalator…

I miss /tg/. it held out longest from the /pol/ siege. Like nazis would still be there, but it was still a place where you could talk about games and be reasonably sure people wouldn’t talk about nazi shit. I lurked until maybe the first Trump election, whereas I had given up on the rest of the boards long before.

I have this dream that one day I’ll like, sit next to him on an airplane and have a chance to ask him.

I really had a lot of fun making characters for our party in FATE but the DM had never run anything other than PF1e so we lost interest after one adventure :(

I have some normies who asked me to to break down what NFTs were and how they worked. These same people might not understand how “AI” works, (they do not), but they understand that it produces pictures and writings.

Generative AI has applications for all the paperwork I have to do. Honestly if they focused on that, they could make my shit more efficient. A lot of the reports I file are very similar month in and month out, with lots of specific, technical language (Patient care). When I was an EMT, many of our reports were for IFTs, and those were literally copy pasted (especially when maybe 90 to 100 percent of a Basic’s call volume was taking people to and from dialysis.)

What do you guys normally play? Ive had PF1e groups that treat the whole thing like an engine builder, and I would not let them close to WoD. I have had groups full of filmmakers and writers and actors, that came up with factions and lore and maps for 5e and really wanted to run WoD.