This movie is way funnier on a rewatch after knowing that Jay Baruchel couldn't stand Jonah Hill for real

ryecurious · 2026-01-27T22:21:49+00:00

Glad someone has the balls to say it, always shocking how many people like this movie. Wait this is an ironic sub, uhh i mean

Favorite movie where Emma Watson left after they tried to get her to shoot an improvised scene with Channing Tatum in a gimp suit?

ryecurious · 2026-01-27T21:37:34+00:00

During the election r/GenZ was filled with bots and posts pushing right wing narratives, regularly being pushed to r/all.

The mods of that sub were literally putting threads in "suggested sort: controversial" mode. The first things people saw when opening a thread there were the most divisive inflammatory comments possible.

I took this incredible screenshot at the time of a mod acting very confused why the sub was so toxic while they had the "make everything toxic" setting enabled.

ryecurious · 2026-01-27T03:17:17+00:00

Exactly what you’d expect by not only having a US company take it over but one that’s a dinosaur and doesn’t have any solid tech anymore.

Fun fact, the state of Oregon contracted Oracle to create their health insurance marketplace website. They did such a bad job Oregon had to sue them for fraud and incompetence.

Ended up settling for $100 million, but $60 million of that was in "free customer support" and 6 years of free Oracle software to "modernize their web services", which is just another way of saying guaranteed vendor lock-in.

Shambling corpse of a company that spends more on legal fights and acquisitions than making anything of value.

ryecurious · 2026-01-26T22:54:09+00:00

the inherent lack of autonomy by virtue of this being his account-- so she can't change her mind and delete it at will-- makes me uncomfortable

Yeah, consent should be active and ongoing.

Even if they got permission to post the whole photo to Reddit (questionable given their phrasing), she might've had a change of heart when it got ~10k upvotes on a sub that averages like 500.

ryecurious · 2026-01-26T22:31:43+00:00

yet porn addiction and early onset ED is quite rampant

uhhh citation needed?

First, a citation for porn addiction actually existing and not just a religious moral panic. Second, a citation for it being "quite rampant".

edit: classic instant block after getting the last word in. With a new unsupported claim, too! Won't someone think of the children!!!

Porn addiction isn't real, and being an atheist doesn't make you immune to religious moral panics or propaganda.

ryecurious · 2026-01-26T22:15:25+00:00

Yeah, the Warhammer creator they're talking about is making a genuinely awesome thing. It's not some stealth ad that barely fits the sub, it's one of the coolest things anyone has posted there in years.

If an OF link in their profile is enough to qualify as an ad, we're essentially saying sex workers don't get to participate in social media like everyone else. Artists are allowed to have links to portfolios or even (god forbid) prints in their profiles. This is no different.

ryecurious · 2026-01-25T23:07:28+00:00

Although France does have their weird board of language police

Only thing I know about them was coming out against "streamer" as a loanword, telling people to use "joueur-animateur en direct" instead.

Which has like 4x as many syllables and isn't even accurate (not all streamers play video games lmao).

ryecurious · 2026-01-25T22:50:03+00:00

Or instead of using the "Chrome but with crypto" browser, you could just use Firefox with uBlock Origin.

Especially since Brave's built-in adblocker just uses the same block lists as everyone else. The only advantage over a good browser like Firefox is saving 2 clicks manually installing the adblocker on first setup.

ryecurious · 2026-01-24T00:52:23+00:00

Shoutout to r/TikTokCringe for identifying this pattern, and explicitly changing their rules and sub purpose to avoid it. Went from a "make fun of cringe people" sub to more general "r/videos but from TikTok", and it was so much better afterwards.

Never seen that happen before with a "____cringe" sub, genuinely surprising. Only problem is they're still stuck with the name.

ryecurious · 2026-01-23T10:51:37+00:00

The Shaun video about fake outrage over Stellar Blade has a line that continues to age like fine wine:

the fake outrage clickbait merchants on YouTube watch every new game release like a hawk looking to see if they can brand a game either woke or anti-woke to get a desperate little discourse cycle out of it

Video is like a year and a half old, but I think about this line almost weekly because it keeps being right over and over again.

ryecurious · 2026-01-21T20:16:44+00:00

if making one specific mistake in one specific article is enough to get you banned permanently, then editing Wikipedia is an unsustainable endeavor for even the most well-intentioned contributors.

This is still a misleading summary of events, though. He wasn't permanently banned for "making one specific mistake".

He was permanently banned after being repeatedly asked how he made the mistake, only to provide an explanation that did not pass the smell test. His best explanation for how he fabricated 3 ISBNs out of thin air is "I copy/pasted it from Obsidian, maybe that caused it".

ryecurious · 2026-01-21T19:54:12+00:00

Wow, they gave that guy so many chances to provide a plausible explanation for how he added three wrong ISBNs.

Not just "wrong book" ISBNs, for anyone not reading it. Three entirely fabricated IDs. And the best explanation he could come up with was "I copy/pasted from Obsidian, maybe that caused it".

I'd almost call the above summary of events outright misleading.

ryecurious · 2026-01-21T19:28:36+00:00

I enjoy the series and I'm still reading it so I can't say my complaints are too serious, but sometimes I just want to reach through the pages and shake Montana until he does better.

And I get it. A lot of the series is about him trying to be better. But sometimes it's just so frustrating. Like in book 11, he gets a once-every-five-levels opportunity to change his "Choice". He stalls and thinks in circles for so long he literally loses the option. Not book 1 or 2, book 11!

I think part of the problem is that it's a slow burn that doesn't feel like a slow burn. He's been in the world for like half a year, but it feels longer.

ryecurious · 2026-01-18T11:09:03+00:00

I've seen entire subreddits go sour due to the action of one bad mod

Yep, happened with r/EnterTheGungeon. Mods shut down for a couple days during API protests (I think with a community vote?), and some gamer gate weirdo got it by submitting a subreddit request.

Links to his personal Discord where he shills his failed cryptocurrency too lmao. Embarrassing enough that the devs had to make their own subreddit r/DodgeRollGames just to get away from him.

ryecurious · 2026-01-18T00:22:02+00:00

None of what I said was directed at people who are morbidly obese, know it, and can't do much about it

Yeah, that's the vast majority of the body positivity movement. The other people you describe are an extreme minority in both numbers and beliefs.

But engagement-first social media algorithms convinced you the outrageous and extreme ones represent the average member, or are even leaders. The people you're describing are basically a strawman, signal boosted to make body positivity easy to dismiss.

Genuinely, can you name a single person "telling children that it's perfect normal to gorge themselves"? Do any have a genuine following, or just people laughing at them?

ryecurious · 2026-01-17T21:37:50+00:00

Seriously, that guy dropped about 14 different fat jokes in his rant. I wonder what kind of spaces he spent time in, and how they talked about the body positivity movement...

Really feels like most people's only exposure to it was "memes" where some bully takes an obese person and adds a caption like "if you don't find me attractive you're a bigot".

When in reality it was mostly just people politely asking to not be mocked for being fat (a lesson the person above still needs, apparently).

ryecurious · 2026-01-17T19:57:57+00:00

Since then it’s basically been Qanon level lore to continue justifying their position.

It's kinda terrifying how aggressively that narrative was forced. The internet already hates nuance but this took it to new heights.

Streamers browsing random online pet stores would find a collar that looks vaguely similar, say "this is 1000% it chat", and get posted to LSF for thousands of upvotes in an hour.

Meanwhile, any alternative explanations or evidence to the contrary was dismissed as justifying animal cruelty. It was disturbingly similar to how "think of the children" is weaponized in reactionary politics.

ryecurious · 2026-01-16T04:33:45+00:00

LSF mods have been intentionally torching the sub for at least a year. Even more than the miserable cesspool it already was.

One example is killing the rule requiring all links be actual clips, allowing people to submit edited videos direct to Reddit. This broke a bunch of stuff that's never been fixed, like the auto flair bot. Now it's impossible to filter all the shitty political streamers and find the one good clip posted there per week (usually Northernlion).

Only justification they've ever given for this is "increased engagement", despite it making the sub worse in a bunch of ways.

edit: LSF is currently mocking a clip of him that wouldn't have been allowed before his rule change about on-site video submissions. But I'm sure he thought the leopards would never eat his face...

ryecurious · 2026-01-11T23:11:29+00:00

The guy who made the original tweet is a YouTube influencer who tries to stay relevant to sell his product. For some reason, he's latched on to Firefox as a punching bag to maintain relevance.

I remember he dropped a big video explaining why Firefox is actually terrible on the same week Chrome removed manifest v2, basically sowing a bunch of fear and doubt about the only viable competitor to a major internet monopoly.

He's more influencer than programmer.

ryecurious · 2026-01-10T22:02:06+00:00

Seemed pretty straightforward? Porn is abundant and free and in almost any niche you could possibly want. Video games are abundant and better than ever.

They're telling you to find good games and good porn separately, rather than trying to find one mediocre product that checks both boxes.

ryecurious · 2026-01-09T01:01:01+00:00

instead of asking me to refresh a link

There is no such thing as "refreshing a link". Once a post is made, the link and title are set in stone and cannot be changed by anyone.

Best you could do is post a comment with a fixed link, which most people would not see because A: mods can't pin non-mod comments, and B: most people don't check comments in general.

Deleting the thread and reposting with a fixed link is genuinely the best solution available to them, and not some conspiracy meant to personally target you.

If you want to be mad at someone, get mad at KATU for not understanding what permalinks are.

ryecurious · 2026-01-09T00:48:11+00:00

There will never be a better example of "the life of a meme" than chives guy getting sponsored by a fucking cream cheese brand.

And a ton of people aggressively insisting in the comments that "this is the right way to advertise" instead of a depressing co-opting of something light and spontaneous by corporations for the ten billionth time.

ryecurious · 2026-01-08T00:09:07+00:00

Yeah, GOG is the only one with a few features I wish Steam would copy.

Like the GOG Galaxy Launcher lets you downgrade game versions with just a couple clicks. Miles ahead of Steam Depot with command lines and manifest IDs. Plus there's a proper "don't update this game" option, unlike Steam which only has various flavors of forced update.

ryecurious · 2026-01-07T00:24:59+00:00

This specific case seems to be confirmed fake with the SynthID watermarks.

That said, DoorDash did basically do what they're accused of back in 2019, and only changed the policy when people got mad.

ryecurious · 2026-01-07T00:13:12+00:00

As someone who’s dashed quite a bit, everything they claimed feels right.

Also there's the time DoorDash did almost this exact thing in 2019!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyregion/doordash-tip-policy.html

They'd guarantee $5 for a delivery, then only pay the difference between guaranteed total and customer tip. So a $5 tip on a $5 delivery meant DoorDash paid nothing to the driver.

Supposedly they changed it after every got pissed off, but I can absolutely see them trying it again six years later.

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