Not to mention that if someone dosent want those types in their server, all they have to do is moderate it, unlike other social medias where blocking is significantly less affective.
I don’t know what it is about Discord specifically that makes it that once people log on, they think they immediately become drooling defenseless infants that can’t do anything to help their current situation.
I don’t know what it is about Discord specifically that makes it that once people log on, they think they immediately become drooling defenseless infants that can’t do anything to help their current situation.
They think they can't say no to trannyjannies (and to an extent they can't in some instances but that's the same rot afflicting most of the Internet in current era)
They think they can't say no to trannyjannies (and to an extent they can't in some instances but that's the same rot afflicting most of the Internet in current era)
The idea that the moment these people come across a discord mod, they kneel in immediate defeat and are forced to delete the entire app in fear is fucking hilarious.
Anyway on topic of the thread, everything. Just everything. Nowadays, unless it’s really fucking normie, there is no hobby you can have that won’t make some people immediately associate you with the worst of it. It’s the consequences of “He did WHAT?” YouTubers getting so popular and being some people’s entry ways into communities. I can’t even give examples of shit I like cause I’m not in the mood of dealing with that kind of person replying to me.
In a nutshell, the internet has brain broken a lot of people and the best advice I have is to unfortunately compartmentalize your hobbies so you can admit to them in some situations and mask in some. Realistically, you should just be able to be yourself and be a whole person but that’s problematic nowadays.
The idea that the moment these people come across a discord mod, they kneel in immediate defeat and are forced to delete the entire app in fear is fucking hilarious.
IIRC outside that factor there's also some security shit about the chatlogs not truly being encrypted or something similar. That one's a bit more understandable but there's also the issue where it's basically replaced skype in usage amongst everyone from the worst of the Jannytrannies to the normiest of normies on top of the bloat overuse of it for everything else.
This is, was, and always will be a meme. "Being your whole self" is just giving lolcow milk to people to use against you later, whether that's HR at work, fake friends to mog you with later, or as dirt/blackmail for online psychopaths to use against you. Being your whole self should be reserved for your closest friends or maybe only your lover. Otherwise you meet people at the level of retard that they're at.
I would not go on Kiwi Farms and tell my life story, and you shouldn't either.
OT: Everything online is ruined and I no longer enjoy anything. Socializing is a chore. Which sucks because I like talking to people, but the people are retarded. Kiwi Farms is nice because it filters trannies, gooners, and the worst autists (stronger autists will usually not get filtered but then have a thread made on them later).
This is, was, and always will be a meme. "Being your whole self" is just giving lolcow milk to people to use against you later, whether that's HR at work, fake friends to mog you with later, or as dirt/blackmail for online psychopaths to use against you. Being your whole self should be reserved for your closest friends or maybe only your lover. Otherwise you meet people at the level of retard that they're at.
I would not go on Kiwi Farms and tell my life story, and you shouldn't either.
2024 join date hates the concept of not being performative and thinks being a person is just "giving lolcow milk"
Do you fucking know what a lolcow is? It's someone being unintentionally funny sometimes in a way that can be milked for laughs. That's it. It's not a black mark to completely unperson you like video essaysits have started framing it. Being yourself and refusing to put on on the nigger parroting puppet mask isn't the same as telling your whole life story. Motherfucker imagine being afraid to bring some form of amusement to your friends in this depressing ass fucking world, hollow sectoid ass shit.
The Dwarf Fortress developer that the creators Tarn and Zack hired, the only other human to see the source code, who goes by Putnam online... is a tranny
Can't even build a mountain fortress nowadays without trannies butting in
I have the feeling that troon dwarves will be added in the next 5 years
Do you fucking know what a lolcow is? It's someone being unintentionally funny sometimes in a way that can be milked for laughs. That's it. It's not a black mark to completely unperson you like video essaysist have started framing it. Being yourself and refusing to put on on the nigger parroting puppet mask isn't the same as telling your whole life story. Motherfucker imagine being afraid to bring some form of amusement to your friends in this depressing ass fucking world, hollow sectoid ass shit.
I disagree coming from a point of pragmatism, not cynicism. I've been in fandoms and I've refused to budge on e.g. the trans issue, the immigration issue, etc. and I consider myself pretty centrist in that "we should take care of our own problems" kind of way. Hobby spaces are filled with nasty petty tyrants who once they understood they couldn't phase me, went after my friends and decided to punish them for my beliefs. Some of which were also IRL friends I grew up with who picked petty online politics to cut me off completely from real life.
Every day is a struggle not to [FEDPOST] because of the amount I hate hobby outlets being turned completely political.
It's comforting to know that there are still people out there like you that are really humans and not NPCs.
IIRC outside that factor there's also some security shit about the chatlogs not truly being encrypted or something similar. That one's a bit more understandable but there's also the issue where it's basically replaced skype in usage amongst everyone from the worst of the Jannytrannies to the normiest of normies on top of the bloat overuse of it for everything else.
Me personally I just haven’t had to deal with all of that since I use it only really for talking to friends with a few servers that I’m staying in after vetting them thoroughly. I think I’m only in three public servers, all either in the double or single digits when it comes to members. Not that I’d be opposed to being in more, I just haven’t needed more.
There is no real alternative, which has made this weird situation where people of both sides who feel like helpless infants who can’t moderate their own spaces are “forced” next to eachother and exposed to their horrors, making this tribalistic attitude where you’re bad and working for the other team if you use it. And now people of both teams have to use this irony posting where they indirectly apologize for using it like “I know it’s full of evil chuds/SJWs! I-I would delete it if I could, I promise!”. I don’t know how a fucking messaging app entered the culture wars but I’m not for it at all.
The Dwarf Fortress developer that the creators Tarn and Zack hired, the only other human to see the source code, who goes by Putnam online... is a tranny
Can't even build a mountain fortress nowadays without trannies butting in
I have the feeling that troon dwarves will be added in the next 5 years
Am I making this up, but didn’t they add “queer” dwarves who just end up killing them selves because they can’t deal with the empty reality of their own existence in an accidentally based way?
Discord was going to call their subreddits "guilds", but in a random marketing masterstroke they called them "servers" instead. People were incredibly enamored with the ability to say they have their own "server", something that was previously reserved only for people who actually could run a server.
Discord was going to call their subreddits "guilds", but in a random marketing masterstroke they called them "servers" instead. People were incredibly enamored with the ability to say they have their own "server", something that was previously reserved only for people who actually could run a server.
it's not a subreddit because it's literally just a group feature of a chat client. Calling it a server is more or less for ease of understanding it in a manner of functionality similar to shit like tf2 community servers anyone can make minus the actual server feature. Guild's might've worked a little better if they stuck to their initial goal of being "more convenient skype" instead of the "all in one thing with subscription tiers and a cash shop for little halos around your profile and colorful corpo allegria blob art replacing the little grey wumpus geometry guy"
I'm not too keen to get into a purely semantical argument, but Discord communities are definitely much more analogous to subreddits than to IM group chats, in just about every way of looking at it. Organizationally they are very similar to subreddits, being themed and independent subsections of the parent website with only loose admin oversight; also, by scale, since Discord "servers" have hundreds and thousands of users split into channels, whereas group chats generally have at most dozens before they are unusable.
The Fushigi Children’s Toy Killed Contact Juggling
or How One Greedy Faggot Killed an Entire Hobby
What is the Fushigi?
The Fushigi was a 2010 children’s toy, a clear acrylic ball with a chrome sphere inside. Advertisements demonstrated how the amazing Fushigi would let you do “incredible tricks like magic, anyone can do it!”. It depicted trained performers showing tricks from the now largely dead (but maybe coming back?) performance art Contact Juggling.
What is Contact Juggling?
Well, it is essentially what they are doing in the Fushigi infomercials: With practice, one can manipulate the ball and make it appear to “float” around the performer’s hands, arms and body.
Okay, who cares about some gay ball?
Here’s where the story gets interesting. I know several of you reading right now remember the ad, and were probably curious about it. Or maybe a friend had it and you were puzzled what the fuck this ball was for. Or more infamously, YOU got one on some random Christmas day.
Many of us know that the Fushigi was a bullshit scam shitty bullshit toy.
However, I came across a fascinating youtube comment from some old guy who was an actual contact juggling performer that adds some interesting perspective.
Key points:
Why was the Fushigi shit? That’s all it was, a ball for juggling. The problem was, it was too small and too light. Real juggling balls are larger and heavier. Also, it had the chrome sphere. Why? Because this was a toy, and real juggling balls can start fires in the sunlight, the chrome ball was a safety thing. But the chrome sphere was never centered properly, so you could see it wobble around and ruin the illusion.
The thing is, contact juggling is very difficult, it takes many, many hours of practice. And for many people it was just a thankless, fun hobby. Watchers would be amazed and then shocked when handed the heavy ball and there were no strings or gimmicks etc.
The Fushigeddon
The Fushigi advertisements NEVER mentioned contact juggling, at least not in any of the original ones people remember. After the embarrassingly shit reputation the Fushigi made for itself, people thought REAL contact juggling was just a stupid trick “Oh, it’s just that magic ball thing from TV…” it also didn’t help that the advert performers were shit and made the act look even more foolish. Skilled street performers saw their traffic, attention and tips wane away.
I can only IMAGINE the absolute seething of people who practiced this shit for YEARS.
So Which Jew Ruined It?
Not quite this time. A spaghetti nigger by the name of John Cammarano, who made his name by jewing around New York City. He started off with Daddy’s Manhattan Brokerage firm which he inherited in 1988, in 1996 he sold it to another Italian (in the family lol). Yada-yada-yada, he fucks around with his money and starts investing in novelty infomercial products. One of his invested products, The Steam Buddy, a handheld clothing steamer, was promoted by the legendary pitchman: Billy Mays.
One morning, Cammarano was feeling MOLTO ANSIOSO because his latest advert with THE Billy Mays was......... a flop. However, he sees a street performer and he feels MOLTO INTERASSATO. It was someone doing contact juggling and you know exactly where this is going.
Now, if you’re of a certain generation you remember exactly this boom he was trying to cash in on. The “hobby / trick” kits and toys, cheap shitty scaled down juggling sticks and boomerangs, “pro” yo-yo’s etc. They always had the chump performers in the commercials who made the toys look amazing to children, but looked like a complete joke to people who knew what they were doing. And of course inevitably, the child gets one and realizes all the fun things from the commercial were impossible for them to do.
The Fushigi made Cammarano’s company, ZoomTV, $6,500,000.
It appears today there is a registered business, ZOOM TV PRODUCTS, LLC under the ownership of Tina Cammarano in Bradenton, Florida.
TLDR -some spaghetti nigger jew saw a street performer
-wanted to get (more) rich off of it
-marketed a shit toy that made a mockery of contact juggling
-made $6.5M
-hobby is fucking dead now, people only remember the meme christmas shitball
According to the old contact juggler’s comment, Cammarano himself went to their forums for advice on making his shitball, which he obviously ignored. LOL
yeah this is long, i needed an excuse to sharpen my pencils.
-sources
youtube comment
Cammarano's personal bio
Drone, UAV’s and radio-controlled airplanes were ruined by legislation, corporate pressure groups, and media. When I started flying RC planes it was before flight controllers where an option. I built my first long range FPV plane back when you had to partially build them yourself. There was no regulation – so long-range flights were an option. I regret not taking greater advantage of that.
Eventually I built a multi-copter – and I still fly recreationally occasionally.
The media together with big players like amazon and aerospace spent a lot of time spreading scary stories about drones. They can take pictures through your bedroom windows “scary”. Like anyone would want to. You can dream; I guess.
The FAA collected mostly fake stories of UAVs being near airliners. A handful of pilots made report after report- not sure what the motivation was. But probably they don’t want to lose their jobs to autonomous planes. Ironically, it’s easier to build an autonomous aircraft than ground vehicle.
The public “demanded” regulation – and major corporation provided the feedback. Now you are supposed to have a kind of ADSB to fly anywhere other than a designated flying field that is sponsored by a federal recognized flying club.
So now flying a 1.5lb plane in your back yard is a federal crime – thanks Bezos.
The political power of scared boomers/women/faggots is amazing. Tell them something is dangerous and they will immediately vote against it with no regard for the long-term consequences. I have seen the process of dividing and conquering occur multiple times. Just because a group makes up .02 percent of the population means their hobby can get regulated until it is no longer enjoyable or is legally risky.
We lose a lot of technical expertise every time this happens – kids end up pushing pixels around – because that is the only legal thing they can do that isn’t a huge hassle. RC planes and similar hobbies have been an entry point for the technical fields for a long time.
Am I making this up, but didn’t they add “queer” dwarves who just end up killing them selves because they can’t deal with the empty reality of their own existence in an accidentally based way?
No you're not making it up. They have faggot dwarves and they will 100% crash the birthrate to well below the replacement rate so you're dependent on immigrants to keep the fortress going. No idea if they're 41% more likely to suicide than others though.
because his latest advert with THE Billy Mays was......... a flop. However, he sees a street performer and he feels MOLTO INTERASSATO
