Penny Arcade - Comic - Internal

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Internal

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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FireballDragon

It's so accurate, it hurts.

Preacher

As much as "you're on *blank* but not twitter so its just as bad" I disagree especially Elon musk's nazi bar twitter. The only other place equally as terrible and full of awful things is tik tok and lord.

Johnny17

Pro tip: You don't need to ban people if your prime occupation is trolling.

Grendus

Yes, but if you're trolling you're contributing to the problem. Which you probably consider a perk, but for those who have outgrown the phase where our goal is to get a rise out of people on the internet it's a case of "I have better shit to do", even if that better shit is just binge watching something.

Djiem

Preacher wrote: »

As much as "you're on *blank* but not twitter so its just as bad" I disagree especially Elon musk's nazi bar twitter. The only other place equally as terrible and full of awful things is tik tok and lord.

And throat social.

Preacher

Grendus wrote: »

Yes, but if you're trolling you're contributing to the problem. Which you probably consider a perk, but for those who have outgrown the phase where our goal is to get a rise out of people on the internet it's a case of "I have better shit to do", even if that better shit is just binge watching something.

Yeah that's the part of getting older for most people, why even bother with trolls when you can literally do anything else.

StarDrifter

I view trolls like bacteria. There are, or at least were, healthy trolls whose pranks taught us not to believe everything on the Internet. You learn a lot when you click a link to someone's "evidence" just to see a gold wedding ring beside an unspeakable void. You learn how gullible you are. You learn that you don't need to be in that fight. You learn that people don't have your better interests in mind.

I'm not in favor of most trolling. I'm pro probiotics. There are a lot of people who would have benefitted from The Old Ways before modern fringes got ahold of them.

Anyway. That strip told a very relatable story. I quite Twitter in mid 2020 after having joined in 2009. People who I once thought were alright seemed to be addicted to strife. The whole site seemed to be addicted to awful mental hygiene.

Instagram has some benefits baked in. You can't attach a link to an Instagram post. You can't easily retweet someone's hot take. That negates much of the worst behavior. People find a way, but it's more difficult and less rewarding.

MichaelLC

I dropped Twitter and Reddit and I'm much better off.

I used both very lightly, just checking out the areas I specifically subscribed/followed were up to.

Mastodon is similar, now just a shorter list. Goddamn FB though, local businesses use that instead of their websites to announce events so I just use my search history then nope outta the feed

Anon von Zilch

I used to be on Twitter but deleted my account once it stopped being Twitter. These days I'm only on Tumblr because it turned out to be exactly my brand of stupid.

Emperor Megaman

I never created a acount on either twitter, Facebook or anything else of the sort. And it piss me off that so many things don't bother having their own website and do everything through twitter, or facebook, or insta.
I completely get that being on twitter can potentially benefit them since there is a large audience already here (potentially, because they're just as likely to go unnoticed, lost among the thousands of every other things vying for people's attention on there), but it wouldn't hurt to also have a website or something.