It started off being pretty cool to me, and then the discourse around it just got worse and worse to the point it turned me off completely. An example was this big struggle session over Deltarune fans using the site to draw sprites and the sprites showing up in every city/town, and people immediately jumped to being unbelievably transphobic because of course they did. The fact that people were being this shitty about a site where you draw pixels on a map (while also ignoring any actual red flags about the site) was a sign that I should disconnect and just never think about this site again. I also just lost interest and switched to using beads to make pixel art as a hobby

Did some digging on that figure, and it gets worse lol. Here’s the chart for context

Seems to have been originally posted on . I checked the given source for the chart and it’s an article on the 10 dictators who killed the most people on a top 10s website that hasn’t been updated in 10 years. The article itself has a lot of gems too. It ends with

The moral of the story is: Let’s stop allowing evil political dictators to take office. And if we do have someone bad in office we can find better ways to get them out than murdering them, wars, and aggressive confrontations.

Like c’mon

Saw this picture of a 5 year old kid getting detained by ICE and fuck man it just ruined my day. I can’t even begin to express how I feel about every ghoul in this country.

I know the mood on this site is bleak rn but I will say I’m thankful I don’t have to see this slop story about Somali-run daycares all that much on here because it seems to have invaded everywhere else online

yeah I’m skeptical because the sample size is the same 16 people for every person who takes the quiz so it shouldn’t be hard at all to find 16 voters with especially contradictory/surprising views. Maybe they could have had some survey of ~2000 people like this and each iteration of the quiz would consist of some random sample from this?

I was definitely in the pipeline, being the prime demographic for this type of stuff as a socially awkward teenager in the suburbs and I ended up in some pretty awful online circles. There’s a lot of different factors that all combined to get me out. One thing was the fact that I’m not white so I had to have this conversation with myself where I realized “Why the hell am I as a non-white person defending white people so hard?” Also, once I realized that these channels and sites were part of an entire industry that profits off of making people like me mad about things that don’t really happen in real life, dismissing this whole thing as slop became a lot easier.

I like to joke that being an Undertale fan as a teen saved me from completely going down the pipeline but honestly it’s kinda true. I think deep down, I was uncomfortable with the cruelty and the layers and layers of irony that people like Leafy covered their content in - I realized that punching down actually didn’t make me feel that good and that browsing KiwiFarms always left me feeling really gross about what I had just spent the last hour of my life doing - and the games taught me that it’s ok to be genuine and kind. I didn’t really internalize those messages until a few years later, but having them in my mind helped.

Also I stopped being 16 and learned how the world actually works

idk what “another deepseek moment” means

I think it means a moment where China reveals some AI/tech advancement that makes all the US tech companies completely shit themselves, like how DeepSeek crashed the US stock market

my electable lesser-of-two-evils king

He’s a lib political blogger. Maybe best known for writing an article titled “When Must We Kill Them?” about conservatives but that’s probably one of his only good takes, because his other takes go a bit something like this and I imagine you can find more stuff like this if you want to scroll through his account.

Side note: How I first heard about him was actually meeting him at a (non-political) event where he was wearing a shirt that said “READ MY BLOG” all over the front of it and the url to his substack on the back. I had no idea he was a figure of any note until I heard a bunch of other people at this event talking about him.

I’m all ears

Looking through the replies just to see this ghoul get dunked on, but the “dunking” consists of Americans whining about how he’s “destroying the country” and “letting foreigners in”

Consulting the made up Chuck Schumer in my head and asking what he would do

The marketplace of ideas, everyone

My hypothesis is that this is because they co-opted a lot of the civil rights movement to elevate some vague sense of “nonviolent protest” to the pinnacle of political action. Obviously this applies to more things, but calling your representative is just the peak of lib action.

Everything I say is going to be entirely vibes-based, but I feel like what the education system here taught about civil rights was a lot of “Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and MLK led nonviolent protests and did that one speech and the nonviolent protests were so effective in the marketplace of ideas that we ended racism (oh and btw MLK was a moderate who would agree with Republicans today ).” Now libs basically think any action where you make a lot of noise without any material consequences is the best way to create change because everyone’s a rational actor who will always choose the good ideas as long as you put the idea out there and “look!! it worked in the 60s!!” Couple this with the belief that we actually live in a democracy where the government will “listen to the people” and you’ll get people calling their representatives and sending strongly worded letters

Thanks! I’ve only dressed up a few times before for conventions and other cosplay events but people have gone up to me and complimented me on my cosplay and it’s a very nice feeling

Dressing up as Ralsei (specifically the mafia Ralsei that’s in my profile pic)

If you had shown me a few years ago a story about a corporation that makes its money by making the Evil Machine That Destroys The World That Also Sucks At Its Job and capitalizing on the loneliness and suffering of people who feel they have nowhere else to go, I would have thought its message was a little too in-your-face. Everything about this sucks.

the anti-Tenna

(incoming rambling)

I’ve been talking with my friends recently about how oppressively negative a lot of things feel and this is definitely one of the major factors. It really does feel like the default attitude on the Internet is “cynical asshole who’s negative about everything = smart” and “caring about anything is stupid lol.” I used to take this sort of attitude towards things until I realized that I was bad at describing what I genuinely like because I was so caught up in this act of looking like the smart rational cynic and worrying about people looking at me weird because I liked a certain thing. I let all the cringe culture and the “if you like (insert thing) you’re a cringe virgin” memes get to me (I was a teenager ok). I think some people would benefit from asking themselves “What do I love?” and answering earnestly because maybe it’ll make people reflect on how much time they spend tearing down other things and people vs. how much time they spend being genuine and not hateful

I don’t know what kind of face Asmongold is going for here but it pisses me off