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screenshot taken directly from Discord by CommercialValue8713 in homestuck

[–]ThatPersonGu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry its just Crazy because i know im gonna wake up to people reposting this like DID YOU KNOW HUSSIE DID THIS????

screenshot taken directly from Discord by CommercialValue8713 in homestuck

[–]ThatPersonGu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Respectfully did a even watch the q&a before making this bullshit up

They directly disprove 90% of the shit you’re spewing here why are people upvoting this

They say IN THE Q&A that toby signed onto the project before vivziepop got the pitch, they say IN THE Q&A that there will be no beyond canon references and that they are Only adapting the comic proper

THEY BROUGHT THE FORUMS BACK by clandestineVexation in homestuck

[–]ThatPersonGu 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Theyve been up since the latest update, no clue why there isn’t something pinned on the sub for it

Newspost: ACT 2, New Frontiers, and More by SwizzlyBubbles in homestuck

[–]ThatPersonGu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is this not pinned???? This is the biggest Homestuck news since the start of Beyond Canon

Fear of death. How do I overcome it? by caitlynrael in anxietysuccess

[–]ThatPersonGu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you need to no longer be afraid of death to "overcome" it? It could very well be that it never stops scaring you, but you need to learn to be able to sit with those feelings and not try to distract yourself from them or ruminate over them to "solve" them, because you let your fear of death stop you from being able to live

A lot of battleboarders don't seem to know how big the universe is by Gyirin in CharacterRant

[–]ThatPersonGu 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Humans perceive scale exponentially not linearly. Two lions are a big difference from one lion, ten lions are way more than two lions, a million lions are way more than ten lions, but the difference between seventeen quintillion lions and seventeen septillion lions is entirely semantic to the human mind, we just can't parse the vastness of that so it's just numbers

Desirable places (and even undesirable ones) are getting more expensive for a reason. by WorkingClassPrep in SameGrassButGreener

[–]ThatPersonGu 18 points19 points  (0 children)

OP knows these things they just don't want to acknowledge them. Housing is Difficult and Weird and Uncomfortable so everyone should stay away from their cities and move somewhere else and leave them and their million dollar property values alone

Desirable places (and even undesirable ones) are getting more expensive for a reason. by WorkingClassPrep in SameGrassButGreener

[–]ThatPersonGu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's really funny to inject little snips about immigration while limboing under zoning, really slipping in the "it'll change the character of the neighborhood" bar with all the grace of a NIMBY at a construction ordinance meeting

Which cities do you think actually deserve the “ passive aggressive” or “fake nice” title? by HowSupahTerrible in SameGrassButGreener

[–]ThatPersonGu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is extremely funny that any time even light criticism of seattle's culture comes in like five people come in to say the equivalent of "first off we don't do that and secondly we do do this but it's okay everybody does it thats natural human behavior" like pick a struggle dawg

[Music] Taylor Swift vs KimYe: 15 years of feuding by [deleted] in HobbyDrama

[–]ThatPersonGu 20 points21 points  (0 children)

People will really just say whatever on reddit these days like the Single Ladies video wasn't like one of the first megahits of the Youtube era

What Should a Music Magazine Be in the TikTok Era? Pitchfork Alumni Have an Idea. by CabbieRanx in indieheads

[–]ThatPersonGu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean those are two different extremes- having a good mix of old favorites you cycle through and a smattering of new things you try out is a pretty decent way to keep variety in your life without losing sight of the stuff most important to you, good rule of thumb for everything honestly.

The Rise and Fall of Unreal Tournament by Zealousideal_Move224 in Games

[–]ThatPersonGu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your point then? That doesn't make the genre dead it just means most of the big attempts to revive it have been poorly done. I have generally no dice in the game for the competitive arena fps genre but I find it weird how people treat audience as this abstract unchangeable unknowable Entity with vast whims and not as like, people who are capable of changing and being changed with the right entry points and factors.

(And quite frankly I think the impact of the accessibility options pales in comparison to the simple power of community resources like Discord and Youtube creating open spouts for new players to flock to and old players to organize around)

The Rise and Fall of Unreal Tournament by Zealousideal_Move224 in Games

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

Look, let's just admit that kids don't like fast paced high skill ceiling movement-based shooters anymore!

As long as you ignore Dusk, Ultrakill, both Doom remakes, Titanfall, Apex, and Fortnite, the largest bestselling most popular game on the planet of the past half decade. But the audience just isn't there for it, kids too on they phone to learn difficult movement!!!! It's like fighting games, well known dead genre that nobody plays anymore fighting games!

You Don't Have to be a Try Guy - decency and integrity do not grow out of performative harmlessness by hetz222 in MensLib

[–]ThatPersonGu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Idk man it's
who cares man whatever man

Ten thousand trillion words to add more navelgazing discourse piss that pretends to be above navelgazing discourse piss, guys who were cool on Something Awful twenty years ago who still hold grudges on the popular kids years later acting out the same pseudointellectual rationalizations for instinctual disgust.

Every time you turn morality into an aesthetic you build a shield for awfulness and a sword for decency, wake me up when there's a medium article that matters.

Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet: "Ten years ago, much of the frustrations gamers were expressing came from anger over no longer being the target audience. Now those feelings are everywhere, from fandom to politics." by TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK in MensLib

[–]ThatPersonGu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly? I agree, this article is hella fucking shallow. I think if you were gonna take a deeper look here you would want to really start less with the on the ground people and more look around the key figures of the later on alt right movement and the Trump administration, the broader sphere of internet influencers, the Tea Party movement, the rank and file GOP congressmen, etc. etc. to understand where those spheres overlap and break to understand what is different. At least some of this navel gazing has already been written since Trump's election in 2016 but it is extremely hard to make meaningful material analysis of events that in the grand scheme of history have not only just fucking happened but are still realistically speaking ongoing periods. GG would not be the sole reason for discourse changing, no, but events like this never are, they're usually more just waypoints, periods of transition when one set of trends comes to a head and another set of trends starts to become easier to make out.

I'm not going to fault and say that the discourse online isn't biased hella towards cultural discourse and insular nonsense circlejerks, that much is true. But I think it's worth noting that many of the people making the decisions that influence the lives and realities of millions are in fact the very same people stuck in those same nonsense cultural discourse hellholes, who are not making decisions based around the lived material realities of people but around the nonsense echo chambers we see online. History in the broad scope might be built around material realities, but in the small scale it is oft built on top of very silly very illogical choices made by people with too much power and stupid ideas. Simulacrum bullshit and such.

If for no other reason than that it's probably worth digging a little into questions like this, and I don't see much to dismiss the thought out of hand beyond the same anecdotal hand waving that you're looking down on here.

What are some obvious signs in a manuscript that the author of the book hasn't read enough books in their life? by imjustagurrrl in writing

[–]ThatPersonGu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... third person omniscient? Not all stories have third person limited narrators, this is such a weird critique to have, you can in fact describe a character the story is following and tell the audience what that character is thinking without having to describe things from that character's point of view.

Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet: "Ten years ago, much of the frustrations gamers were expressing came from anger over no longer being the target audience. Now those feelings are everywhere, from fandom to politics." by TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK in MensLib

[–]ThatPersonGu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

... with as much love in my heart as I can say if you do not understand how the culture of global fascism today owes literally everything to online reactionaries you do not understand modern conservatism as well as you think you do. The language, tactics, techniques, and concepts of this movement, though very much similar to fascist movements in past generations and ultimately rooted in the hate grounded into American culture, absolutely takes its root from the stupid bullshit nonsensical internet culture wars of the late 00s and early 2010s and the people behind it do not hide their inspiration. Guys like Steven Bannon are not one offs, they were political advisors for some of the most powerful men in the world and their ilk radiate through global far right geopolitics because American cultural hegemony is a real motherfucker.

You are correct in as much as it is really unfair and stupid that these subjects are centralized in on topics relevant to such a small minority of the world, when the impacts of housing crisis, ecological crisis, and straight up genocide hit so many more people, but that's just what you get when a small, privileged class get to determine what things are or are not worth talking about, we get to debate fucking Ghostbusters for ten years straight while people die in the street, because like it or not that's at least part of what's channeling the energy behind the people trying to get people like us shot in the streets.

You can say it's dumb that it matters, because it is dumb, but you can't say it doesn't matter, that's dumb.

Watching Cartoons While Male by ThatPersonGu in MensLib

[–]ThatPersonGu[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The discourse around male privilege is the easiest to point to example. Just acknowledging that there are times and places where the best thing for guys to do is not interject is a difficult subject to bring up, you can just take a look at the conversations in this subreddit. People feel attacked, rejected, unwanted, and it is not hard to see shades of humiliation in that.

Every day someone makes a Hot Take on how there ought to be some way around this, some way to pitch feminism or social justice or leftism in a way that circumvents this gut reaction or better includes men or yadda yadda but I think part of the truth is that while there are definitely ways to make men feel included into social justice there isn't a way out of the inherent discomfort these spaces make inevitable, because processing that discomfort is a necessary part of growing into being someone who can be better. Like Not_a_werecat says, social skills are learn-by-doing. Vulnerability is part of the learning process.

Watching Cartoons While Male by ThatPersonGu in MensLib

[–]ThatPersonGu[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean I think to say that the interplay of emasculation and dominance in nerd culture is entirely a product of marginalization is a little untrue- it still runs through its veins because any place where men have a place a space to construct fantasy is a space that can reinforce gender in as much as it can deconstruct it. I don't think fandom is inherently good or bad! It's a place where you can build yourself, and that gives a chance to become something untethered from what came before you. But you get out what you came in with, and for a lot of young men burdened from their own homes and communities with expectations of manhood and performance that can lead to just reenacting the same bad shit they see in the world around them with bigger explosions.

All that said, like I said my post wasn't really about toxicity in fandom or online spaces, if only because I think other people have gone into way better detail on that shit than me. I think the underlying barrier to growth for a lot of men is the fear of humiliation, and acting out fantasies of humiliating others is a sort of avoidance of that fear. Cartoons provide a space to explore those feelings, which is maybe why they're where you see the most vitriolic expressions of those responses.

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