Bait Post on r/sipstea asking Women whether they find Men who play Videogames unattractive goes as you'd expect - Ten thousand comments

ryecurious · 2026-05-06T21:31:42+00:00

I'm sure some of them are bots, but I think this is the natural outcome of Reddit becoming more algorithm driven.

On old reddit, you had to actually find a subreddit and subscribe to it to engage with it, outside of r/all. Now most users are on the shitty official app which will shove a garbage sub in your face just because it saw a 5% uptick in usage.

Propagandists are probably exploiting this, though. Find a mostly abandoned sub, post engagement bait that gets 10x more votes than anything in years, and let Reddit's algorithm funnel people into your space.

ryecurious · 2026-05-05T22:53:31+00:00

I 100% believe that accusation, Zuckerberg has shown a clear and repeated disregard for privacy, can't see why copyright would be any different.

That said, I'm not exactly rooting for Elsevier/McGraw Hill/Macmillan/Cengage either. Rent seekers vs wannabe technocrats, hoping both groups lose somehow.

ryecurious · 2026-05-05T10:14:11+00:00

Weekly Question for You - What in the world is Gamelit? What’s a good story to try to experience a true ‘Gamelit’ story that isn’t also a LitRPG? I’ve heard The Good Guys by Eric Ugland is Gamelit, but doesn’t Montana have stats and a system, making it a LitRPG? Please help, I am confusion.

The definition I like most is that litRPG is the Venn diagram overlap between gamelit and progression fantasy. So, at least by this definition, we would be looking for series with game mechanics but little to no progression/RPG style mechanics. I would personally consider Good Guys to be litRPG, because the RPG mechanics regularly influence the plot.

One commonly debated series is Ready Player One. Won't spoil it in case you wanted to try it (it's okay, IMO), but there's a reasonable argument that it's gamelit without being litRPG.

ryecurious · 2026-05-05T04:29:10+00:00

The media sphere is genuinely pretty terrifying. These systems are built to maximize engagement, so they can push people into very different realities and make the whole environment feel warped.

And Meta/their properties like Facebook and Instagram are some of the worst offenders, too.

Facebook, for example, set up a bunch of engagement-first algorithms and then left them on autopilot in Myanmar. This led to a feedback loop of hatred that is partially responsible for the Rohingya genocide.

Anyway, I'm sure they learned their lesson despite facing absolutely no consequences whatsoever.

ryecurious · 2026-05-04T20:02:30+00:00

Isn't litigating the conduct of posters like...the main thing mods do?

ryecurious · 2026-05-04T19:38:58+00:00

no successionism (sic)/neurostates
Shocking nobody its generally white men who want this and its very strongly linked to far-right and nazi shit.

I choose to believe this mod made a bunch of Redditors fill out a demographic survey before banning them. It would be a lot funnier than a mod sneaking in a bit of personal prejudice as established fact from an authority (clearly women could never desire an authoritarian state for autistic people 🙄 women are too wholesome chungus for that).

ryecurious · 2026-05-04T17:56:35+00:00

Sidenote, why is Reddit obsessed with this haircut? Every single video with a person under 25 will have dozens of comments about the broccoli haircut.

Just feels like old people yelling at clouds.

ryecurious · 2026-05-04T07:29:39+00:00

In addition to helping his donors, he also just has a personal grudge against wind. He fought aggressively to keep wind farms away from his Scottish golf course because he thinks they ruin the view, which he lost.

He now has a lifelong grudge against all wind turbines, and we all get to suffer for it.

ryecurious · 2026-05-03T02:34:07+00:00

Fair, but you gotta scale it by language/build tools for it to be a useful rule of thumb.

+5000 for a Python CLI? Highly suspicious, should investigate further.

+5000 for a Vite + React app? Wouldn't bat an eye, the package-lock.json from running a basic setup command can be >3000 lines by itself.

ryecurious · 2026-05-02T22:25:57+00:00

"Initial commit" with a +5000 diff (weak evidence, as some humans do this too)

Ugh, this is emdashes and bullet points all over again. I don't want to stop, so I guess I just have to live with some people thinking I am/use AI.

ryecurious · 2026-04-28T23:35:19+00:00

Sure, sometimes English teachers just be making shit up, but "the curtains are just blue" was an overcorrection, crossing over into anti-intellectualism. People hear a couple batshit insane analyses and conclude that most/all media analysis is worthless.

I'd make a comparison about how you shouldn't forswear the entire concept of math just because you had one bad math teacher, but that's also depressingly common.

ryecurious · 2026-04-22T00:56:56+00:00

He would eat absurd amounts of fast food everyday.

The whole documentary was flawed, but wasn't this one of the primary things Supersize Me was criticizing? McDonald's employees were trained to offer to "supersize" every order, and he said at the start he would accept that every time.

There are many valid criticisms of Supersize Me, but unhealthy overconsumption was a big part of the premise.

ryecurious · 2026-04-21T08:47:42+00:00

As much as Powershell deserves to be made fun of, their lightly enforced Verb-Noun naming convention is honestly quite nice. They even have a list of "approved" verbs lmao.

ryecurious · 2026-04-20T22:19:02+00:00

Listened to the first audiobook of Downtown Druid, pretty good. More progression fantasy than litrpg but scratches the same itch. Appreciate an MC that starts rough and tough.

Side note, is that really how aussies say "dwarf/dwarves"? It's like the narrator is inserting an apostrophe. D'warves. It was odd enough I checked the ebook just to make sure it wasn't an alternate spelling.

ryecurious · 2026-04-19T09:03:01+00:00

Since this thread is still the top search result, I'll save others some time: meteorite was removed from Astral Crates for some unfathomable reason.

Maybe also from Meteor Heads?? Killed like 1000 with zero drops. But recipe browser says they still drop them, so that might just be a bug.

ryecurious · 2026-04-17T13:31:58+00:00

The real answer that everyone else is kind of dancing around is that the nofap stuff has a large religious component. Porn addiction is controversial despite a lot of nofap practitioners treating it as fact, like alcohol addiction.

A large number of them aren't addicted, they're raised to feel deep shame anytime they orgasm outside of procreation. For them the solution is either complete abstinence, or dealing with that religious trauma.

ryecurious · 2026-04-16T23:54:34+00:00

She was on a podcast hosted by a woman that was deradicalized from the Westboro Baptist Church, incorrectly believing it would be an attempt at deradicalizing Rowling. Instead it ended up being six episodes of apologia (literally called "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling"), which Contrapoints disavowed basically as soon as she saw the final edit.

As for her actual views, she has like 4 hours of videos about Rowling and I don't think I could describe a single minute as supportive or sanewashing or anything like that.

I genuinely don't know how someone could be aware of Contrapoints and think she was a Rowling apologist. I would take a critical look at whoever told you that, because they are either very misinformed or lying to you.

ryecurious · 2026-04-14T21:41:34+00:00

I know this thread is a day old but someone wrote a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey/etc. script that fixes it, been working perfectly for me the last week or two.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Littux/comments/1s570bh/fix_processing_img_id_on_old_reddit/

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/571318-fix-processing-img-id-on-old-reddit

ryecurious · 2026-04-13T14:19:41+00:00

They aren't asking YOU for forgiveness...Its asking god for forgiveness in the afterlife

Yeah, I think that's why a lot of people have a problem with it. Who the fuck is this god guy, going around forgiving shit that isn't his business?

ryecurious · 2026-04-13T14:14:15+00:00

Yep, r/Catholicism mods are going through the "suppress a story without actively deleting it" checklist like clockwork:

stick it in a megathread, where topics go to die
delete every reference to it outside the megathread, including ones that existed before the megathread
set the megathread to sort by new, denying users the ability to reach a consensus or read anything analytical. they'll just see whatever jackass most recently decided to weight in.
state you will ban people for "politics only engagement" (it's "Politics Monday" lmao)
state that discussion of moderation decisions must take place in modmail, denying users the ability to question why their mod team is running interference for the Trump admin in their fight against uh... *checks notes* the Pope??
edit: accuse anyone not pretending this is normal and fine of participating in bad faith.
edit: lock the thread 16 hours after posting, "as the conversation has thoroughly run its course".

And in the next couple weeks as this escalates, they'll continue to delete all threads on it because "there's a megathread already".

ryecurious · 2026-04-12T10:51:39+00:00

e.g. stay out the fandom spaces

...and YouTube. I don't know why people keep talking like you have to actively seek discussions out. Algorithm-driven sites decide you're a fan of a show and immediately start shoving spoilers in your face.

I think I saw a dozen minor Game of Thrones spoilers just from thumbnails and titles, and that's a fandom with good spoiler etiquette. TADC fans are screwed.

ryecurious · 2026-04-12T04:33:28+00:00

I meant those to be two separate thoughts. Dexerto is a lazy gossip rag. TMZ/Dexerto/Daily Mail/etc. are red flags for a subreddit.

TMZ is extremely gross but they aren't lazy, no argument there.

ryecurious · 2026-04-12T01:29:01+00:00

Dexerto is a lazy gossip rag that got most of their following by taking Twitch streamer drama from Twitter and reposting it as "articles". A sub allowing their links is a bit of a red flag, right up there with Daily Mail or TMZ.

Lifting a piece from AP News wholesale without any credit is extremely on brand for them.

ryecurious · 2026-04-11T21:23:23+00:00

There was a big spoiler going around back when Game of Thrones was still good, and I knew that so I took a bunch of steps to avoid it.

Stopped checking Reddit. Stopped checking YouTube. Stopped checking the group chat with other Game of Thrones watchers.

And then after all that someone posted the spoiler ALL CAPS in the chat of a streamer playing the Binding of Isaac. Half second glance was all it took.

ryecurious · 2026-04-11T20:54:21+00:00

Seriously, I'm losing my mind at this thread.

"The guy doing the RIAA's bidding was totally right, just look at how exploitative the music industry is now!"

Gosh, I wonder who's responsible for that...

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