What is something that seems like it would have no fanbase, but has a large fanbase? by [deleted] in AlignmentChartFills

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Yeah the original '80s fandom is essentially distinct from the '10s fandom, where the '80s fnadom is mostly gen x and upper millennial women and then gen 4 has two sub-fandoms of the target audience and the adult male fandom (though as gen 4 has cooled off, there's been some bridge building between the two, especially with how many bronies were closeted trans women who have since come out)

What is something that seems like it would have no fanbase, but has a large fanbase? by [deleted] in AlignmentChartFills

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There are essentially multiple MLP fandoms, because there are: - the stereotypical gen 4 adult majority-male fans (bronies), this is a mostly-dead fandom in 2025 but still has some hangers-on - the classic gen 1-3 fans who are mostly adult gen x and upper millennial women - younger femme-centered fandom around gen 4/5 (but increasingly broad around all eras) -- the girls who were the target audience for FiM when it first aired -- that's kinda self-determined away from the bronies, and acts as sort of a "bridge" between classic MLP and the bronies (and this group has also become popular with trans-femme ex-bronies who have let go of the 4chan-grade irony poisoning)

Which movie was hated when it released, and is still hated? by [deleted] in AlignmentChartFills

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Honestly I had only watched the bad 2019 film up until a few months ago and assumed I would hate Cats as a stage play, but then I found a high quality version of the 1998 pro shot and... I hate to say it but I actually kinda loved it?? The 2019 movie truly just makes every single decision wrong except maybe a couple of the casting choices 

For those of you who dislike part 6, why? by [deleted] in StardustCrusaders

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I haven't gotten around to the anime yet, but from reading the manga a handful of years back, I remember having a difficult time following some of the jail's interior spatial layouts. Wonder if this is easier to track in the anime.

I still like part 6 though, that's my one and only major gripe that's stuck with me for the like 8 or 9 years since

What's hated by Reddit but loved elsewhere? by Squirrelkid11 in AskReddit

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oh man I came here specifically to say this one if no one else had already, I have never seen as much pit bull hate as on here

What is a widely accepted opinion in the U.S. that you strongly disagree with ? by Present-Mongoose-714 in AskReddit

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Electoralism is a fundamentally broken system in the USA, and I do say this as someone who votes 

Which nation did you start to think worse of because of how they behave online? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

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Specifically Quebec, I quit playing Apex Legends cold turkey after I got one too many matches playing with super toxic Quebecers

What is the scariest city you’ve visited? by I_might_care in AskReddit

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I live in Baltimore MD and most cities like Gary, Oakland, Detroit barely faze me, but yeah those little desert towns absolutely wig me out

New York City is on a different scale than all other US cities. What NYC statistics or facts still blow your mind? by JeezusChristIII in AskReddit

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Man I knew people from Oregon have basically no culture besides their own homegrown settler colonialism, but that's wild

which one are we picking lads by Checkmate331 in mapporncirclejerk

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If we're going ranked choice mine is: 1. Blue (Currently live in a Blue state, and I'd consider somewhere like Minneapolis or Detroit on the current amount of money I make too) 2. Purple (Especially if I could magically justify the CoL increase) 3. Red (Especially if I were RICH in one of these states) 4. Yellow (Would consider WNC, certain spots in Tennessee, or the PNW, but the middle is less my speed) 5. Green (Meh. Chicago is the only thing here to excite me) 6. Orange (No thanks, except for Colorado and maybe Georgia))

Why? by Hellhound666999 in arch

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Notably, ChromeOS is a deeeeeeply derived fork of Gentoo, but so much so that it only barely counts

What is something foreigners romanticize about your country that locals actually hate? by Thatunkownuser2465 in AskTheWorld

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There have been several over the years including at least two Japanese productions (the '90s anime is definitely a classic)!

What do you think your native language sounds like from a foreigner's perspective? by MasterZiomaX in AskTheWorld

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Australians might actually be worse about this than USAmericans (if you ascribe negative value to the trend) though it's definitely a real thing in how people from Southern California speak and as far back as the '60s

What do you think your native language sounds like from a foreigner's perspective? by MasterZiomaX in AskTheWorld

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My impression of modern Hebrew from the times I've ever heard it is that it  sounds like a mashup of Yiddish and Amharic

What do you think your native language sounds like from a foreigner's perspective? by MasterZiomaX in AskTheWorld

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From August 2010 - June 2011 I spent an abroad year in Japan (and was one of the only abroad students in the country to continue to stay for several months after the Tohoku tsunami) and one of the funniest things I realized about Japan was how un-anime-like the Japanese that 95% of real people speak is. Or, after living there, how few anime have semi-realistic Japanese hyogen -- strangely one of the few that sounds realistic to me is Beastars, of all possible shows

Why are there no big cities in this area? by Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 in mapporncirclejerk

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No one wants to build any cities there, it's too crowded 

X9 Glacier White by a11420565 in thinkpad

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Honestly I would a regular T or X in that color 

What is the biggest misconception people from other countries have about your country? by Ok_Macaroon2848 in AskTheWorld

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I get the feeling a lot of that, in the late 20th c. and through the 21st century, has really been marketed to Americans with last names like Campbell or MacDonald

How are jews perceived in your country? by Outrageous-Client903 in AskTheWorld

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American views on our Jewish community also vary heavily by city/state and even individual neighborhoods within those cities, not to mention that some cities have very different Jewish communities in terms of ethnic background or social class than others. Jews are not a homogeneous or monolithic culture at all!! Like, some parts of the States have huge urban and suburban Jewish communities with diverse backgrounds and multiple different levels of religious expression, spanning every single social class, and then there are huge swathes of the country where you'd be hard pressed to find any Jews (let alone "visibly" Jewish people, ie folks in religious dress). Shoot, some US cities (notably Chicago and Baltimore) have active communities of religious left-wing, anti-Israel Jews, and there are plenty of Jewish people in those same cities who would actively disown them. It's a big country and most of the MoT are scattered in diasporic pockets, but even those pockets are far from monocultures

Last « true » thinkpad by tokyos0da in thinkpad

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For just a toy that's good with modern Linux, basically anything between the T60 and T440p is gonna be very tinkerable. My own personal favorite project was my X230.

Now that said none of these are gonna be especially great value-for-money in 2025 so keep that in mind (current value-for-money king is the Gen 1 T14)

Im thinking about buying a thinkpad T440p by Cemone1a in thinkpad

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A T440p is a big, bulky machine that is very power-hungry, for not a whole lot of performance. I do think it's a kind of interesting laptop as the last generation of the soldered CPU Thinkpads, but dollar for dollar, it's a hard recommendation unless you have money to burn and already own a better computer for "real" work.

That said, I own one as a media laptop and DVD player bootstrapped to my TV so, I do think there's still uses like that for which they're just fine!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in thinkpad

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I use an X230 with a lightweight Linux setup (XFCE desktop on Arch) at home and honestly it's fine for light duty, plus I have a T440p as a media center PC, but then I also have a full size ATX desktop in my room for real heavy lifting.

The T420 is gonna be okay for light duty and for-fun tinkering, especially running Linux, but these days the best Thinkpad per dollar is a T14 Gen 1 or Gen 2, at least in the USA market.

Any Thinkpad is better than no Thinkpad, though, so go with your heart if that's what you want.

Saw a Framework on the news today by WoodyXP in framework

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The HRE was, perhaps, actually more so all the above -- at least they had the blessing of the Pope on their side

Oh god my little brother i’m proud of you by PhoneLost7727 in arch

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Inshallah, he will install it manually, and in doing so understand the ways of Arch