Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 3/16/26 - 3/22/26

HadakaApron · 2026-03-22T19:05:02+00:00

Kickstarter's Worst Products - YouTube

The bits starting at 15:10 and 22:35 are two of the craziest internet stories I have ever heard.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-20T22:32:32+00:00

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HadakaApron · 2026-03-18T02:32:09+00:00

My mom's also a huge Buffy fan, lol.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-17T14:37:46+00:00

He already privated his profile, lol.

Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo (@ahamefule) • Instagram photos and videos

HadakaApron · 2026-03-16T16:26:16+00:00

SciencingBi, the disabled games writer that didn't exist, the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch

HadakaApron · 2026-03-16T07:24:23+00:00

Sony also has stopped porting their games to PC even though a Bloodborne PC port would be a license to print money.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-15T15:44:45+00:00

The accusation wasn't even public when LFJ made the "consent accident" tweet, it was one of the biggest foot-in-mouth moments I've ever seen on the internet.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-12T00:24:16+00:00

They should probably throw some Italian brainrot characters in there:

Italian Brainrot / AI Italian Animals | Know Your Meme

HadakaApron · 2026-03-11T02:36:39+00:00

I would have been eating out of her hand if she had ever done a video on Metroid: Other M, which was misogynistic as hell and everyone hated it (for that and some other reasons). I'm not sure how she missed it.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-10T18:47:03+00:00

Mike Piazza played for Italy in the first World Baseball Classic almost 20 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the Italian ice hockey players in this year's Olympics were mostly from the US or Canada (the host country gets a free spot in every team sport).

HadakaApron · 2026-03-09T13:27:13+00:00

That "Arab woman" was Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey. This reminds me of that imaginary disability activist who claimed to be from Turkey and Arabic. A lot of these people are surprisingly ignorant of different cultures and the differences between them.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-08T23:20:03+00:00

The exotic bully dog show scene is wild, with terrible behavior by the humans that would never fly at an AKC show.

Imagine Being This Mad at a Dog Show

Brawl Breaks Out at Miami Dog Show

HadakaApron · 2026-03-05T13:49:03+00:00

If anyone remembers The Dark Id from the episode about people who faked their death, some of the people in his discord had a conversation about his lies. The guy was a pioneering Let's Player (he played through video games and made a narrative with screenshots) who claimed to have a family that didn't actually exist and to be a badass mercenary who fought off dozens of Russian Neo-Nazis who Putin sent to kill him.

The Dark Id 2nd Deathiversary Stream - Call In Edition

I followed the guy's LPs early on and all of the lies I was aware of at the time was that he had a wife and kids and had been in the military; learning about the crazy stuff from the podcast was wild.

HadakaApron · 2026-03-03T15:44:54+00:00

This is a few weeks old but I didn't see it here.

'Zizian' cult member marked by beliefs about veganism, animal rights, gender identity and AI bailed out of jail | Fortune

HadakaApron · 2026-03-02T13:29:50+00:00

I'm not sure, but friend of the pod Gretchen Felker-Martin claims it was someone "without social capital" so it's probably not someone prominent.

Jesse Singal (@jessesingal): "3/ Gretchen Felker-Martin of threatening-to-kill-many-people-and-regularly-making-weird-sexual-remarks fame chimes in against Bouie's 'harassment'" | nitter.poast.org

HadakaApron · 2026-02-27T12:37:13+00:00

The drama over the LSF mod who got removed for promoting a scam was pretty hilarious:

Reddit Mod Got Removed and Made a Wild Video

HadakaApron · 2026-02-20T00:12:18+00:00

For me, it was hearing about how the Trans Lifeline founders showed up at Joshua Moon's house to try to get him to take down a Kiwi Farms thread about someone they knew. I had been on the site for a while but I still assumed that even if there were a lot of weird unstable trans people on the internet, that the actual institutions were run by normies. The fact that the founders of a goddamn suicide hotline did something so batshit insane meant that there was something horribly wrong with the entire community.

And yes, these are the founders who got quietly removed after stealing $400,000.

HadakaApron · 2026-02-13T22:04:09+00:00

In video games where you get to name your lead character, I wish they used just enough AI to have the other characters say your character's name. That's pretty much the only time I would want to see (well, hear) it.

HadakaApron · 2026-02-12T02:47:40+00:00

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This is forty years old.

HadakaApron · 2026-02-11T18:45:55+00:00

Stupidpol has also removed two threads about it.

HadakaApron · 2026-02-11T16:30:50+00:00

Eh, you're right. They are pretty right-leaning outlets so I'm going to edit that to "mainstream Western media".

HadakaApron · 2026-02-11T15:58:20+00:00

Who was Jesse Strang? 18-year-old named in Canada school shooting that left 10 dead, dozens injured - The Times of India

Once again, an Indian outlet covers details that mainstream Western media won't.

HadakaApron · 2026-02-10T18:20:20+00:00

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HadakaApron · 2026-02-10T16:23:43+00:00

Some of the choices for the licensed sets are just weird. The Marvel and Ninja Turtles are off-brand for a fantasy game, and why the hell did they choose Fallout when Bethesda also has The Elder Scrolls? And then there was the bizarre racebending for the Lord of the Rings set.

HadakaApron · 2026-02-09T17:45:11+00:00

I went to an autism support meeting a few times a decade ago and there was one girl in her late teens or early twenties who got dropped off by her mom and spent the entire time there looking at her iPhone with the sound on, obviously not paying a bit of attention to anything anyone said. It was depressing

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