What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?
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Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it's pretty fucking wild.
At first I thought you would talk about Magic the Gathering. My confusion increased with every sentence.
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Ohh people are aren't going to like this
AI coding, "vibe coding"
AI coding, “vibe coding”
We call it 'slopping'
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.
Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it's true.
BUT:
a) what's the alternative? Not having these shows at all?
b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there's an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there's a very large part of the population who'd go out of their way to act against everyone's best interest. -
You normally cook salami?
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Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
I tried so hard but it just didn’t click with me.
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Sonic The Hedgehog
Specifically, Tamers’ “Sonic The Hedgehog Gets Stuck In A Hole Because He’s Fat”
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I wish it had better a final act than two almost identical armies fighting in a desert. Reminded me of FPS games the late 2000s.
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I was an early adopter of No Man's Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
What is no man's sky
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I was an early adopter of No Man's Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
Dude, next time use a healthy badger and you'll only have to deal with blowback from NMS.
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Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.
Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it's true.
BUT:
a) what's the alternative? Not having these shows at all?
b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there's an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there's a very large part of the population who'd go out of their way to act against everyone's best interest.I used to be one of those people, that good and bad movies were black and white. I was stupid for thinking so.
Movies can be good for different moods and audiences. Sometimes I want to watch a heart wrenching drama, Oscar style, and I can get up after it and think wow that moved me. That is a good movie.
Sometimes I'm feeling in a funk and I don't know what to watch, o I want to watch giant robots punch aliens with minimal plot. That movie is also good, just for a different mood.
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Speaking as a Texan, I associate the worst of truck driving with “being an ass.” It’s not always true, but man, if someone’s gonna cut me off just to be a jerk, it’s usually a lifted abomination.
This though:
This is fine.
No, it’s magnificent.
That small red truck is a truck of a man who truly is masculine. Doesn't give a shit what other people think, needs it to carry supplies, and didn't want to waste any money.
Giant lifted trucks are the opposite of masculine. They're for showing off, desperately trying to get people to notice them, they arely if ever haul anything (if they even can anymore with the lift), and they wasted huge amounts of money.
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Crazy watching you get downvoted for driving a pickup.
Most of the people on these forums live in major cities and don't do any real work with their lives, so it's understandable.
I guess I was mistaken for holding them to a higher standard.
Uh, nope. Lived in rural America. Most truck drivers are pavement processes who haul something maybe a handful of times a year. The vast majority.
There was not a shift from 30 years ago everyone driving tiny cars and hatchbacks to now where everyone became blue collar and needed a truck for work suddenly. It's corporate marketing. Corporations can get around fuel standards by making trucks instead of cars, so they convinced everyone that having a truck was somehow necessary, and the good people of the USA gladly ate it up making the f150 the most popular vehicle on the roads followed by the other truck models.
Also, "most people
on these forumslive in major cities". Ftfy. It wasn't until I left my town in Iowa did I realize how many people there are. The entire population of thestate of Iowa lives in my one city. -
Uh, nope. Lived in rural America. Most truck drivers are pavement processes who haul something maybe a handful of times a year. The vast majority.
There was not a shift from 30 years ago everyone driving tiny cars and hatchbacks to now where everyone became blue collar and needed a truck for work suddenly. It's corporate marketing. Corporations can get around fuel standards by making trucks instead of cars, so they convinced everyone that having a truck was somehow necessary, and the good people of the USA gladly ate it up making the f150 the most popular vehicle on the roads followed by the other truck models.
Also, "most people
on these forumslive in major cities". Ftfy. It wasn't until I left my town in Iowa did I realize how many people there are. The entire population of thestate of Iowa lives in my one city.Yeah, you're clueless.
Pickup trucks are useful for more than just work.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Rings of Power
While it is not perfect, a lot of criticism of the show is insane or plain dishonest. It became a playing ground for shit stirring and easy rage bait.
Death Stranding
The worst game I ever loved. Yes, the story and dialogue gets weird towards the end. Yes, Kojima keeps over explaining everything almost pathologically. Yes, I only played the Directors Cut, which I have been told reworked most of the game into a better state. And yes, I got PTSD from getting called after every single mission. But if you keep driving vehicles into terrain that obviously isn’t suited to be driven on, or otherwise try to bend the gameplay to your liking instead of accepting how it is supposed to be played, maybe you should play something else.
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That small red truck is a truck of a man who truly is masculine. Doesn't give a shit what other people think, needs it to carry supplies, and didn't want to waste any money.
Giant lifted trucks are the opposite of masculine. They're for showing off, desperately trying to get people to notice them, they arely if ever haul anything (if they even can anymore with the lift), and they wasted huge amounts of money.
wrote last edited by [email protected]If it were a nice person inside and they just liked the 'lifted' style though, that's one thing. I think there's something to be said for auto personalization culture, like people do with jeeps and the Slate is trying to start up. I actually knew a really short girl who drove a lifted truck and simply thought it was neat, heh.
But usually, I wince in anticipation of what flavor of 'macho' is going to step out. Like you said perfectly, it's usually not Hank Hill.
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Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.
Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it's true.
BUT:
a) what's the alternative? Not having these shows at all?
b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there's an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there's a very large part of the population who'd go out of their way to act against everyone's best interest.Yeah, Im actually a big fan of Michael Bay's Transformers. Are they good? Ehhhh. But man i have so much fun with them, and Im glad they exist.
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Sonic The Hedgehog
YES 100% Sonic was always cool.
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Yeah, you're clueless.
Pickup trucks are useful for more than just work.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Insulting me doesn't make it untrue.
Trucks are for hauling things and towing things. Again, the vast majority of truck drivers, and I'm not saying all, but the vast majority of people do not need a truck.
Most truck beds now are only a few feet long. Minivans and old school station wagons can store more in them then most modern trucks can. Why do you think Amazon and UPS use vans instead of pickups? Because they're more efficient at hauling things.
Then even if you need to haul things and you choose to disregard the whole thing about vans having more cargo space, I ask how often? How often do you actually roll up to the home Depot and grab a while pile of lumber to take home that wouldn't fit in a van? If it's not once a week or more that you fill the truck, congrats you're losing money on your truck. Truck rentals are about 20 bucks and haul my stuff just as easily back to my home, with the added benefit of them I'm not paying for gas and maintenance for this giant thing as my daily driver nor a huge car payment either.
Oh and proof of all of this? Crew cabs. The stupidest invention and absolutely proof it's just marketing. "Hey we convinced you that you need a truck even though all you really need is a rental truck every once in a while, but oh no you have this family, where do they go? Don't worry now you have five seats AND a shortened bed!". They already solved that problem. Vans and station wagons. Can haul minimum 5 people and if you needed to haul shit you just folded down the seats, could fit an entire sheet of plywood in there.
Same goes for towing. If you own a boat I might get it, or again a trailer if you're towing something regularly, then sure, you need the torque.
I would wager that 95% of truck owners do not actually need a truck.
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Owning a pickup truck is pretty awesome, and I don’t think I’ll ever buy a different type of vehicle again.
Mentioning it online gets hate, but in real life people keep coming up to me, complimenting how nice it looks, asking questions about it, and kids give me thumbs up when I drive by. All of that is just a bonus on top of the fact that I love driving it and the way it looks - and that’s all that really matters.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The rise in pickups causes everyone’s insurance rates to go up because of the increased fatality of average crash now, they blow through our global carbon budget even faster, they make roads less safe for everyone, they drain your wealth away from your kids inheritance and directly into banks and oil companies. I know you love bankers more than transmitting generational wealth to your kids. Fuck them kids. The bankers need your money more.
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Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
My daughter introduced me to that show. I enjoyed watching it with her.
Greg fucking rules.
