angrytoadnoises @ angrytoadnoises @lemmygrad.ml

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Nothing gets me more 'oh great commie forefathers we have failed you' than seeing old soviet propaganda about uplifting and empowering women. I geniuenly believe we still need that to this day and absolutely loathe the placification of feminism under liberal ideologies

If you join an official public server, there's an extremely high chance you'll join with cheater bots that spawn endless, aimbotting snipers. It's less of a problem on community servers as they're actively moderated by players, but official servers have to rely on vote kicking a fresh cheater bot every few minutes.

This is all done by some script kiddy group who apparently want to highlight Valve's deprecated support. Basically ruin the game until Valve fixes the game. There's also some measure of farming ingame item drops to sell for money, I think.

Honestly, I don't believe save TF2 will get anywhere. Valve is clearly uninterested in supporting the game, and who could fault them? It's an old game, and games don't need to be supported just because people play them.

The real problem Valve is playing with is that TF2 is still monetized. They should not be selling microtransactions for a game this broken. If they weren't selling microtransactions, they would be entirely in their right to kill all official support and leave the game to community servers.

My main concern is that Valve will calculate this over the bad PR they're receiving, and rather than do anything to curb the bot problem, simply kill their support for TF2. I would be okay with this. I think most people wanting to #SaveTF2 won't be.

character creator, shove a RobCo Reflectron in the newborns face so they can generate their preferred potato look

yes, for sure. I think we all do.

I think it requires a reframing of the mind. The 'smart-dumb' scale is an oversimplification of human intellect. It was never entirely accurate. Ignoring intellectual disabilities, every human is equally as capable as being as smart as any other human. We're the same kind of animal.

The true factor in intellect is your curiosity. Some people are naturally curious of different subjects and will learn more about those subjects. Some people are incurious about most subjects and won't learn much at all. Most of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were just sufficiently curious in whatever field they're qualified in. None of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were born smart.

Foster your curiosity. If you know what excites you, you're already half way to intelligence.

I don't think it's going to happen over any single event. I think Federated platforms will remain small scale but very active, and that's all they have to do as mainstream social medias spring up, monetize, and collapse, over and over and over again.

Then one day in the future, the latest generation of cool kids will just realize that it's way cooler to be on the Federated platforms than it is to be on the mainstream sites.

Hook my number up and I'll be the voice assistant. I promise I'll be extremely private and secure.

In all seriousness just posting to boost, good luck on this project. It seems really promising and wish I could contribute.

If his message rings true but it's the presentation that gives off r/atheist vibes, then I just see this as extremely valid and genuine frustrations that are made harder to express because we lived through the fedora atheist movement.

The fedora atheist movement was bad and ruined a lot of things, but a really important thing it tarnished was the emotional capacity to be mad at religious-fueled insensitivity. It badly diminished the language we use to talk about this issue, making it inherently inflammatory when it never needed to be.

This doesn't outweigh the actual prejudice towards religious people that fedora atheists caused, but I think it ended up being a bum deal all around. Basically OP's a victim of this sort of thought-terminating culture war stuff as well.

tbf marxist critique on kids shows is really common. breadtube for all of its revolutionary might loved talking about kids shows so much that it's pretty much all it ended up doing.

i kinda get it. i mean kids programming is going to hand deliver whatever the dominant ideology is straight to the minds of impressionable kids. there's something to analyze there. don't know how productive it is but it's fun, at least.

that amount of money is simply not able to be accrued quickly, ethically, legally, and safely. a loan is the only thing that comes to my mind other than crime time. you could try visiting mutual aid communities and crowdfunding. you'll get something from your comrades, at least, but probably not 24k

asking the real questions

i don't have an answer but im here for the question

If you're part of the global south, there's a decent chance NATO opposes you or someone you're closely affiliated with. Is your suggestion to those countries for them to just not be part of the global south?

Because that's incredibly hard to do.

NATO is a purely defensive alliance, not a battering ram.

You can definitely see how this isn't true, right? It'd be incredibly problematic to be opposed by NATO and to have NATO creep up to your borders. Superpowers flipped their shit over stuff like this in the cold war all the time. It's not any different today.

in a few hundred years historians will look back at this time of the internet and feel extremely frustrated that we had perfect record keeping systems that would retain all this knowledge and culture forever but we for some reason let companies blackhole it

Sweet, time to finish some of the horrible projects 14 year old me started

You're not wrong there. Engaging in pedophile behavior is probably better described as just being a pedophile. I just made that comment because I thought it was a pretty common thing to come across online. The guy who is a pedo, but also happens to be into bestiality, or guro, or some range of noncon, or every single other hentai genre under the sun. Leaves a strong impression.

'Not specifically a pedophile' is what I should have written. fox put it better in another comment:

I think they’re saying he’s been so desensitized that literally anything goes, instead of specifically being a pedo.

We have this whole culture around consuming simulated CSA material and we aren't supposed to talk about it because 'its just a drawing bro'

I am genuinely repulsed by the prevalence of Loli in anime. Every anime show someone tries to get me into has a little girl character. Even if she's not overly sexualised it skeeves me out.

Vaush is creepy. I don't think he's a specific pedophile, just so porn-addled and coomerbrained that his filter for acceptable discourse has been ground down to nothing. Anyone who keeps a porn folder probably falls into the same category.

Basically, someone I wouldn't trust my kids around either way.

Ah yes, in-game currency is fiction. That's why it costs real money, and publishers mandate developers lock down the game as much as possible to ensure no one circumvents the 'fiction.' The mind boggling profits they bring must also be fictional.

Fuck, I hate GaaS.