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Well no it's more that one's considered a no-no in any situation while the other is only considered that in only some situations because someone decided getting gassed is worse than being burned alive somehow?

Why is it that they design these humanoid robots with screen heads and then not display anything on them? Also why is it that none of the AI voices they give to robots sound like robots? Instead of sounding like they're from Cybertron they just sound like a guy or some customer service lady.

It's usually less about how it kills and more about how effectively and/or indiscriminately it does. Case in point, restrictions on landmines and cluster munitions (even if major powers didn't sign the agreements). Chemical weapons are just much more effective at killing.

A similar case can be made about thermobaric weapons. There's no restrictions about those despite the damage they do to the human body, which is… bad, to say the least. The international law just doesn't see them much more different to conventional high explosives. There's efforts by the ICRC to get them banned, but even if they do, the biggest users are unlikely to sign it, like TOS-1 rocket launchers and ODAB-1500 bombs being used in Ukraine almost every day.

Lots of words have started to lose all of their meaning recently and it's very concerning. Words and terms like "Nazi", "fascist", "incel", "pedo", "gaslight", "leftist", "right-wing", "woke", "SJWs", "alt-right" "racist" "bigot" etc. have been thrown around like candy so much, it doesn't have much of an impact now, which is dangerous as people who genuinely fit with certain terms with the original definition can easily slip through now that these overused terms don't hold much power. Gonna sound like and oldie, but I kinda miss the times where "literally" and "irony" are the only notable misused words.

One of the YouTubers I follow daily has been struggling with cancer for some time and he just announced he got bad news from an MRI scan. It's a very sad situation.

I've NEVER understood how the internet definition of 'irony' ever made any sense. Even people here use that version regularly, meanwhile I could never because it just feels completely incorrect and obnoxious.
sidenote; 'based' sounds dumb and childish, yet LITERALLY everyone everywhere uses it

i just dislike the way people generally speak in practically corner of the world nowadays, even when they aren't really using any slang or having any specific attitudes or discussing certain topics

*in practically every corner

People online are behaving way too childish. Even this site and I.

After what sharty did to ChibiReviews with help of Shonen Twitter Zoomers, I want to say this about sharty:

Burn IT down to ashes.

Exactly. These games are often underrated and niche because they're different. If they were made to align with more mainstream taste, they would lose the appeal of what made them enjoyable in the first place.

Anyways, I am so sick of people using alarmist and weaponized language on the internet. Take the snoopy drama for instance

Jesus fucking christ, just say he endorsed trump on a gimmick account. That's it. There's no need for this "fascistic push" nonsense as if SnoopyWeekly decided to take over an apartment complex.

Some of guys talk too hostile-ish to some people and instead of writing more stuff to make those "special need" type of people to understand, you just go too hostile sometimes.

I see beanmouth issue as Cartoon Network issue rather than Western animation issue.
Disney and Nickelodeon do use the art style, but not as much as they used to.
Cartoon Network needs to stop using it.

I LOATHE the image bots/mass uploaders (mainly Jaimie Hamilton and Reddit Moments). They seem to be above the rules and yet contribute nothing to make up for it.
Sometimes I try uploading something and it turns out that it's a duplicate, which is a good feature because I don't want to upload duplicates, and it seems that's a sentiment shared across this site. But the bots always end up uploading visual duplicates because I'm pretty sure the anti-duplicate code only checks the source link, and it's infuriating because they're breaking a rule that everyone else has to follow.
Everything they upload is from Reddit too, which is my personal largest gripe. While there's nothing wrong with uploading from Reddit, the bots are a particular issue because more than 50% of the time the images are Reposts, meaning the provided link isn't even the original source. And as someone who was inspired by cases of bad tagging and sourcing on this very website to become someone who wants to source everything, it's just really dissapointing for inaccurate sources to be spread.
However, perhaps the biggest issue (and one that came from Pyroniusburn in this very thread, perhaps even informing my entire opinion on it) is the fact that they are highly anti-thetical to a meme research website, and mostly redundant for a documentation website. As Pyroniusburn mentioned, subreddits can't really evolve since they focus entirely on one kind of thing. Sure, they may generate some trends or injokes (which are, in fact, memes and memetic mutation) such as that Red Drought over in r/SurrealMemes, and those can spread to the general Online public. But having subreddit-specific entries be constantly filled with stuff overplays their importance in the creation of memes (seriously, why is there an /r/freefolk entry still getting images, for a subreddit that discusses Game of Throne spoilers, when we already have a Game of Thrones entry?!?!).
This also leads into the problem with there being an entry for every TikTok trend because there's no way to determine if those will start a new long-lasting meme or not, but that's a topic for a different post.

EDIT: I forgot to talk about if they really are important. I'm not sure about the Reddit Moments bot, but Jaimie Hamilton actually does write things under the Editorial Collections, so it's not nothing (the other staff mass-uploaders also likely contribute to the Editorials; also not nothing). However, Jaimie seems to pull entirely from Reddit for the memes they put on a pedestal, which still makes me sad.

I also forgot how I'd want these issues addressed.
I would like Reddit Moments shutdown, and at least a greater mix of websites to pull from for the Editorials that pay the bills (Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, 4chan if you must).

Those mass uploaders are a symptom of a modern day issue that goes FAR beyond KYM, maybe even the internet:
Content for the sake of content.

My tooth, gone.
My bones, grafted.

The last time I spoke on this I said I wouldn't name names or point fingers since I'd REALLY rather not be rude to anyone in this thread, but…
ALL of the last couple of uploads by this user are exclusively tagged "boss fight, boss" and nothing else. Good lord, how is this acceptable? I shouldn't even need to explain what's wrong here.

…how the fuck is that user a moderator.

Whenever I see those stuff, I just don't feel like upvoting them if they are funny. They takeover and don't give some images not uploaded by bots to shine.

Can we get NZT-48 already? Just without side effects. I need it so badly because I cannot focus on what I need to study so I just ignore it and keep it for another day. I cannot even remember what I study.
What I studied for and passed in September a pure luck and not exactly the knowledge I gained.

Are the Brand New Members still giving my pfp on discord a bad name?

Maybe. Keep it if you feel like it.
Anyways, Discord allowed many people to be cocky and arrogant. I deserved bans and blocks I earned sometimes because I was a runt there.

As much as I respect people immigrating to BlueSky, the issue would be that those guys will come back to Twitter anyways.
I would rather stay on Twitter til I get suspended than move to Bluesky immediately just to go back to Twitter.

Funny how DeviantArt, blue checkmarks and limits on sites that have AI generated content made AI generated content so sloppy and boring. Even for me.
I would rather see elders and infants try drawing a house than anything AI slop has to offer.

This isn't the first social media website where people have said that. Whether it's bluesky or not, twitter will die some day. It's good to have accounts on multiple websites for that reason alone so people can find you easier and vice-versa. Even if your account is inactive or secondary.

2D games, 2.5D games and top-scrollers in general should maximally cost $40. And Pokemon mainline games should be top-scrollers. $40 and money will be well spent.

That's something for the Unpopular Opinions thread, my guy.

This is the thread for complaining about prices, not suggesting new ones.

I felt like it's not an opinion and more of a fact so that's why I posted this here.

If there's one genre I wish I was into it's probably sims & cozy games. They often have such nice art styles

I go to youtube to look at a Can't escape from crossing fate meme video. It's 20 seconds long.

Get two ads, including a minute+ one.
God I hate youtube so much

Fuck the TOS! Use an ad blocker.

I've been able to go ad-free for so long that ads and commercials are completely alien to me. I've essentially lost any tolerance for them, and I don't think I can go back.

I do. It's just sort of fucked and tbh I'm sort of too lazy to replace it. Especially since you can bypass ads by looking at a short then hitting the back button to your video.

People who pretend to have mental health issues to get attention are the worst. Despicable, manipulative behavior.

It’s why I always make it a point to press mute on the remote for the ad. The ads are typically louder than whatever I’m trying to watch, and muting the TV is much faster than lowering the volume. Of course, my reaction time depends on my access to the remote and if I can remember where mute is. This happens so often that I could probably do it faster whenever I have it down to muscle memory.

I've never really had the biggest issue with TV ads. The main reason I chose to board the ad block train is due to just how unbelievably absurd internet ads are. Not only are they EVERYWHERE and everyWHEN, but content-wise 99% of it is a million times worse since there's practically zero filtering. At least TV ads are occasionally interesting in some way or another. YT ads? It's like a mandatory contest to see who can be dumber, filthier, and peskier.

I do. It's just sort of fucked and tbh I'm sort of too lazy to replace it. Especially since you can bypass ads by looking at a short then hitting the back button to your video.

Just download uBlock Origin and disable any other ad blocking software you have. You don't have to uninstall them, just make sure they don't run on YouTube so they don't accidentally step on each other and trigger YT's anti-ad block BS.

After YouTube stopped manically updating their anti-ad block scripts early in the year I've only had like two or three issues with uBO, all fixed literally within minutes. I really can't recommend it enough.

I know how you feel….

Yeah TV ads are fine in comparison. Gives you time to take a break before the show you were watching returns.

Internet ads simply don’t work, however. Because it’s a newer medium, corporations are still experimenting to find the sweet spot. In reality, the Internet is more like an organism which adapts, improves, and overcomes any perceived hurdles.

But life is antithetical to the sterile, materialistic mindsets many people refuse to let go of. But although the market they so adore had made them, it can also break them if their business models become obsolete.

Happy Halloween. Hope this counts for a Vent thread.

Gotta love brickflation and some of Lego's inconsistent pricing.

I'm still upset about DeviantArt's enshittification… :(

I'm upset how the entire Internet's getting Enshittified. It's like corporations think the only purpose all websites serve are to shove Ads into your face and nothing else.

Artists do most certainly have it quite rough due to AI

Man. I feel like deactivating this account, but I have more stuff I didn't post on this site.

I am like so nostalgic for early 2010s media nowadays.

When you think about it, these late night hosts like Oliver and Colbert were the original grifters, Trump literally saved their careers 8 years ago and he's about to bail them out again.

Deviantart started to enshittify since the 2000s. So many layout changes, censorship and other things nobody asked for.

best cure is to look up "early 2010s nostalgia" on youtube and see zoomers fawning over the most mediocre shit imaginable

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

so retro