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  • It’s amazing how far this guy got as a complete hack. The way people turned on him wasn’t triggered by some dark secret being revealed. Everybody just had their own moment of thinking “wait a second, is this person actually a huge dipshit? Oh my god he is.” I never saw conversations about it or any kind of viral anti NDT sentiment spreading around. It’s just a conclusion everyone reached by themselves. It’s like he had some kind of spell on everyone and ran out of mana around 2015 or so.


  • When people say this it’s an extension of telling people you’re “not interested in politics” as a more polite alternative to “you’re a windbag and not nearly as smart as you think you are, so I’d rather stick to things it’s fun to talk to you about.” Nobody complains about games like New Vegas and Deus Ex because they’re written by people with enough education and skill to pull it off. That’s why it’s always the same games being used as examples. That level of writing is nowhere close to the norm.



  • clearleaf@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    4 months ago

    Inconveniencing rich assholes: The new MAGA?

    How inconveniencing rich assholes is used to distract you from the real problem

    “Inconveniencing rich assholes” is an oversimplification. Here’s why you shouldn’t even try to understand, and should just forget all about it.





  • It’s a cool idea and I was using it every day for a while. I love the gemtext format and I even made some “gempub” ebooks for fun. I have a site on flounder.online with some crap on it. Two things brought it all down for me.

    The first is the hard TLS requirement. I’ve read all the rationales about this and still don’t see the point. I get the principle behind it but it’s not worth requiring that much infrastructure. It sucks all the fun and accessibility out of it. Which is my other issue.

    We all know a platform can’t be TOO accessible without becoming like twitter. But if accessibility is too low you’ll end up with nothing but upper class tech workers moaning about the bougie problems that they created for themselves. The only capsules that had anything decent on them had HTTP proxies. It didn’t feel like a platform worth contributing to for someone like me.

    I’ve heard about the Spartan protocol which is similar but has no TLS requirement. I’ve been planning on getting into that but all I’ve done is read about it.









  • Yesterday I saw five posts in a row that were either about wanting to commit murder in the future or celebrating past murders. Which is fine but gets cringe in excess especially from people who will never do anything. Then there was this post that looked like it was about something else but then he tied it back into murder again with comedic timing.