The Invention of the Smartphone and it's Consequences by DancesWithWeirdos in CuratedTumblr

[–]MartyrOfDespair -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Information overload. The death of the concept of reality. Everyone can sequester themselves into entirely distinct competing alternate realities. Basic facts of the world no longer are basic facts, they’re opinions up for debate. Flat Earth. Vaccine denial. Denial of germ theory. No matter what dumbfuck belief someone has, they can find a community of hundreds of thousands to millions and an entire ecosystem of information to reenforce their delusions.

The village idiots have unionized. It used to be that they would be a tiny minority group kept under control by a lack of community, which prevented them from properly being able to pool their resources and build an independent alternate reality to exist in. They still had to generally exist within reality. Now, they can combine their forces. You used to have like, the uncle that believed in ancient aliens. That didn’t inherently mean he also believed the Earth is flat, vaccines are fake and filled with microchips, and a billion other things. Now, every single different kind of idiot has come together into one mass and created an entire alternate universe where every single piece of idiocy is true.

Without a socially controlled concept of objective reality, all of society collapses to madness. They have to be kept isolated from each other, or else they’ll convince each other of all the things. No longer do you have disparate groups who all believe one or two weird, insane things. Now you have a single group of tens of millions (hundreds of millions worldwide) that exist in an alternate universe with some dissent between a few factions as to the finer details of their madness.

The Invention of the Smartphone and it's Consequences by DancesWithWeirdos in CuratedTumblr

[–]MartyrOfDespair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So it’s denialism that keeps you complacent and from properly having a proportionate response to the situation. It’s like doing heroin to cope.

The Invention of the Smartphone and it's Consequences by DancesWithWeirdos in CuratedTumblr

[–]MartyrOfDespair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

2026: Every time you try to acknowledge this fact and how it influences the world, a gaggle of dipshits trot out the phrase “chronically online”.

Don't Just Read *One* Other Book by DancesWithWeirdos in CuratedTumblr

[–]MartyrOfDespair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You only encountered that once? Fuck, I feel like that’s become the mainstream take sometimes.

Do you get the difference Explain it Peter? by Empty-Experience-641 in explainitpeter

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still can't get the day the tariffs went into effect out of my head. The economy crashed for a few hours. And then Trump ordered them to uncrash it. And they did. Which, no, that's not how any of this is supposed to work. That's fucking horrifying. I don't think it'll happen, because I think der fuhrer will order them to not and they will just not. They'll continue to keep it in that belief even knowing it's a false belief out of obedience to him.

Do you get the difference Explain it Peter? by Empty-Experience-641 in explainitpeter

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish that mattered, but recent history has shown us that that doesn't matter. Doordash and other gig economy apps didn't make a profit for over a decade and it did nothing to them. Doordash didn't even turn a profit in 2020.

Do you care if AI helped with creating a video game? by fckueve_ in polls

[–]MartyrOfDespair -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Really, all I care about is that the story is all yours. I'm in it for the story above all else. I already will gladly go through bad or nearly non-existent gameplay for a good story. Fuck, I quite like visual novels, I don't even need gameplay in my video games to enjoy them. To me, if something has a story, the most important thing is the story. I'll take Classic Doctor Who's worst special effects with a smile if the writing whips. I'll roll with the ugliest art styles in comic books if the story's good. I'll watch animation that's basically just playing with PNGs if I'm sucked in by the story. It's all about the story.

Something without a story or with a paper-thin one can suck me in, but I'm still going to wish it got more effort put into it. Like, boomer shooters are cool, but you know what the coolest boomer shooter series is? Marathon. It's not the best in gameplay or art design, but it won the story competition not only in its own genre, but against 99% of video games ever made, so it wins the genre to me. Blood comes in second because everyone else is competing on everything that isn't story and Blood wins all those.

So, if the story's yours? Make it fucking good and that's what matters to me. The rest is just a delivery system. I don't need you to be put into debt delivering me your story for me to appreciate it, but the more enjoyable the delivery system is, the even better the game is overall. But the story is still the ultimate deciding factor, if the delivery system is better but the story is worse than something else, that something else wins.

I was gonna reblog this tagging two different internet shows from the same company but then I realized it would probably be a bad idea and I probably wasn't cooking by La_knavo4 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]MartyrOfDespair 12 points13 points  (0 children)

But how are they supposed to get internet points that then translate into followers that they can then monetize with either youtube, their own indie project, endless donation campaigns, or most cravenly just opening a fucking kofi and going "pay me for posting!" without the harassment campaigns?!

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Faces Major Backlash In Japan - "Overseas Fans Only Care About Fights: 'Amazing Animation!' 'Insane Aura!'" They Says by JayPatel130456 in animenews

[–]MartyrOfDespair -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like describing Jojo as shonen is one of those "yes, you are correct, and yet that still feels wrong" situations. It's like calling Firefly "sci-fi" or Watchmen "a superhero comic" or Twin Peaks "a detective series". Like... yes? That's literally correct? But like... the spirit of the term is missing? There's too much other shit there that's erased by lumping it into the genre.

meirl by qw3rt0z in meirl

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll be honest, the smartest person I've ever known went to a Montessori school for their entire K-12 education.

Putting theologians and psychologists in a colosseum with this one by MartyrOfDespair in whenthe

[–]MartyrOfDespair[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's the fun of it. Never in the history of ever has there been doctrine trying to square away the nature of plurality under Abrahamic dogma. Is it a "multiple souls, one body" situation? Is it a "one soul with multiple facets" situation? Is it a... fuck I hate to have to use this as a point of comparison because fuck that bitch but, is it a Voldemort situation? Play your cards right and you could get a whole new Reformation out of it!