Yeah it’s one of those where it would be very easy to handwave as crank woo-woo shit until you actually seriously engage with what’s being said

I read the first part the other day and it really stuck with me. Excellent essay

Getting into a moba without enthusiastic consent is something I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy

:c

Pls play deadlock with me, people q.q

The deadlock reddit skews far too non-g*mer (very queer and community-focused for a pvp game). It’s unmatched in terms of shitposts and fanart which idk I really like. I say this as a dota unc who has been on that competitive mmr grind many many times.

Genuinely asking: Have you ever had a serious, good-faith discussion with anyone left-of-liberal? There’s plenty of diversity (and disagreement) there, but any such person will frequently use the term “liberal” to mean something specific and well-defined (as opposed to the right who will use it as a substitute for idk anyone who isn’t enthusiastically bigoted)

Call me a lib but their videos have been really useful conversation starters that have led to me making serious breakthroughs in the radicalizing of people I talk to irl. Of course MPU stay away from the scary words and are big on VOOOTing, but they go quite hard on the journalism and letting working-class people speak their mind. That’s the part you can really pick up and run with when radicalizing well-meaning lib friends and family irl.

I can’t find anything about this. emrsms.com leads to some invalid website, and google brings up nothing for loyalty programs or anything like that. Are you sure this is not a scam or fake, comrade?

Hah I was just listening to KF4 music yesterday! I’m not really a dungeon synth guy but Dark Reality just hits me right in the soul somehow.

I always do that. I started when i was like 7 and never stopped it rules tbh

This makes me think of some discussions I’ve seen on hete before about how hypocrisy (or rather the illuminating thereof) is a useless rhetorical cudgel insofar as the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. I guess it’s better to just focus on admonishing the bad thing itself rather than musddying the water with debatebro-like gotchas 🤔

Thats a nice font!

Every time you take a break I miss your posts, Harry. Especially the more environmental ones

What they wanted to do wasn’t “be alone in their bedroom”, it was “partake in the common social activity their peers are engaged in” (i.e hanging out online together). The part where they snuck away to my (or whatever) place happened rarely. A lot of the time they were just idk bored I suppose.

You could argue that hanging out online is worthless and a waste of time or whatever and in that case we’re both hypocrites for chatting away here.

I think it’s a reductive and bordering on some flavor of dehumanizing (kids are people with internality too) to look at the resentment people can feel towards their parents for this kind of thing (some even into adulthood mind you since it’s part of a larger parenting pattern) and go “ah well kids get upset over silly things they are too naive and stupid to be thankful for all the time”

Sorry if I’m putting words in your mouth, it is not my intent at all, and I’m trying not to characterize you stance as some boomer “pain builds character” thing because I don’t believe that’s where you’re coming from. It’s just that these lines of reasoning can stray dangerously close to that which doesn’t sit well with me.

I’m sorry if you felt that I misunderstood your point. It was not my intention to do a bad-faith reading, my apologies if I inadvertently did.

I think I was more trying to express my gut reaction to what I perceived as a similar line of reasoning to what I grew up hearing from parents (mine were cool but others around me) of “you can play video games for an hour on weekends as a treat but otherwise you have to be outside and play sports whether you want to or not”. These types of arguments never went over well with any of my friends, and usually just resulted in resentment and them finding ways to sneak away and be on the computer at my house or whatever.

I hope that clarifies my feelings I was trying to express!

I agree with you somewhat, but i gotta say most of my peers who grew up pre smartphones/tablets being ubiquitous (late 2000s) with parents that were strict around screen time etc. “for their own good” didn’t really end up being thankful for the great habits that reinforced. Most just became resentful that they were excluded from partaking in their favorite activities with their friends (i.e. hanging out with irl friends in runescape or whatever you did in 2009)

https://youtu.be/wN6t8xwpYZ8?is=C9QfkEqIWkzVBaBS

Please watch this. It’s the most bloomer (literally) thing I’ve seen in months and I don’t even live in a country where these issues really exist

At the risk of being naive, is any of that true? Those things are so comically evil it’s something not even (to my knowledge) the IDF does

Can you elaborate? Sounds interesting