I wouldn’t hide if I posted on a QC forum. Long running sitcom comic is something I could explain without the last decade plus of context. Posting on a forum for a gamer webcomic I also don’t read does not offer such easy roads. Not made easier by the fact I also don’t really play video games
I just say 'the forums', y'ain't gotta explain they aren't a freestanding entity. (I have --because I can't help but out myself-- but mostly in the context of, "Have you heard of PAX?" It's a *handwave* general interest thing!) And I come by nerd hyperfocus naturally, so my best beloveds aren't judging me to my face, at least.
Oh I’m definitely being pretty tongue in cheek. My online and offline life don’t actually cross pollinate conversationally so I doubt it would even come up.
Though I think it’s my nerdy friends who’d give me hell about it. My friends who are like carpenters and waitstaff etc would just think that I was talking about a really cheap arcade.
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(I have no idea what your reference is sorry if I ruined a joke)
(Star Trek reference. Captain Shaw, from the latest season of ST Picard, describes himself as such. Comes across as a bit of an asshole at first, but he admits to that too, and we find out later he's got his reasons.)
I deleted my account mainly out of security concerns, wasn't sure what was linked to what and didn't want to risk bots getting to other accounts of mine through twitter once the security starts failing. I've been tempted to make a new account I'm sure is unlinked just to follow a few folks until it finishes burning down but I'm too lazy.
I barely ever posted to twitter and just used it to follow people, so when I decided to nuke my account I just deleted all my tweets, likes, retweets, followers and follows and changed my password.
Account is still there, but it's a completely hollow shell.
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I think I’ve mentioned before that my old job had a regular booth at PAX, and generally a large chunk of us worked the show every year. And still, when I mentioned Penny Arcade the webcomic, not a single person at work was aware it bore any connection to PAX the convention.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
I wouldn’t hide if I posted on a QC forum. Long running sitcom comic is something I could explain without the last decade plus of context. Posting on a forum for a gamer webcomic I also don’t read does not offer such easy roads. Not made easier by the fact I also don’t really play video games
I just say 'the forums', y'ain't gotta explain they aren't a freestanding entity. (I have --because I can't help but out myself-- but mostly in the context of, "Have you heard of PAX?" It's a *handwave* general interest thing!) And I come by nerd hyperfocus naturally, so my best beloveds aren't judging me to my face, at least.
My wife is aware of "the forums," she has a vague understanding of "those people you bother with your bullshit," that seems to be enough for her
I wouldn’t hide if I posted on a QC forum. Long running sitcom comic is something I could explain without the last decade plus of context. Posting on a forum for a gamer webcomic I also don’t read does not offer such easy roads. Not made easier by the fact I also don’t really play video games
I just say 'the forums', y'ain't gotta explain they aren't a freestanding entity. (I have --because I can't help but out myself-- but mostly in the context of, "Have you heard of PAX?" It's a *handwave* general interest thing!) And I come by nerd hyperfocus naturally, so my best beloveds aren't judging me to my face, at least.
My wife is aware of "the forums," she has a vague understanding of "those people you bother with your bullshit," that seems to be enough for her
Sounds about right.
(jk we love your bullshit insider stories)
I wouldn’t hide if I posted on a QC forum. Long running sitcom comic is something I could explain without the last decade plus of context. Posting on a forum for a gamer webcomic I also don’t read does not offer such easy roads. Not made easier by the fact I also don’t really play video games
I just say 'the forums', y'ain't gotta explain they aren't a freestanding entity. (I have --because I can't help but out myself-- but mostly in the context of, "Have you heard of PAX?" It's a *handwave* general interest thing!) And I come by nerd hyperfocus naturally, so my best beloveds aren't judging me to my face, at least.
My wife is aware of "the forums," she has a vague understanding of "those people you bother with your bullshit," that seems to be enough for her
That's more or less where my wife is at, too. Except she's more impressed when I use some parenting technique I learned her.
One of my wife's best friends is in a long-term relationship with one of my best friends, and he's someone I met here, and yet this is nonetheless "That place where you get all worked up about AI or Final Fantasy or whatever"
Which is honestly just proof that she's way smarter than me
The only reason I've had to talk elsewhere online about these forums recently was on the Ranged Touch podcast channels' Discord, because of their Homestuck podcast and talking about the differences between SE++ forum culture and Something Awful forum culture in the context of pre-Tumblr culture around MS Paint Adventures (seeing as Andrew Hussie used both forums and both forums influenced that webcomic)
Otherwise yeah I just call this place "those old-school forums I still use for some reason" or "The Forums" for short
The thing is that UK feminist circles are transphobic in a way that US feminists rejected in the Third Wave, which is why there is such a massive difference between the two, and why TERFs don't have the degree of institutional support in the US that they have in the UK, to the point that the US branch of the Guardian has publicly distanced themselves from their parent over the position.
Which is why you're seeing them pivot to freedom of speech arguments, which have always been the refuge of scoundrels, and have always played well with the Chait set, because it's something they've been so open minded about that their brains fell out a long time ago.
? There are a lot of states doing some pretty fucked up shit and I'm doubtful if even the democrats get elected in those states they'd repeal the legislation
Liberals don't stand for anything so they'll take the easy way out of rolling over
I'd call a political party making laws institutional support but that's just me
In the UK, the nominal center-left is openly and blatantly transphobic, and there is a core thread of transphobia in UK feminism. That's not the case in the US, in large part because US feminism rejected the idea of a common female experience in the Third Wave with its embrace of intersectionality, which is why TERFs are persona non grata in US feminist circles. Yes, transgender people are under attack from a right wing political position that is looking for an "other" they can villify, but the UK position is that transphobia is the nominal position on both sides of the aisle. And I think it's telling that TERFs in the US make freedom of speech appeals (that is, they argue that they're obliged to get a seat at the table because anything else would be "censorship") in defense of their position, and not the biological essentialism you see in the UK.
That isn’t what US TERFs are doing though, US TERFs are joining the right wing in screaming about medical transition for kids, up to and including to an alarming extreme that doesn’t match actual practices in order to terrify ignorant cisgender folk who still think trans people are weird.
Like this has been Jesse Singal’s whole vector of attack
I share stuff I read and/or post here ("else-forum") with people on a few geeky Discords, and at least one friend I hang out with on IRC (yeah we're fuckin' old).
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I’d check how many tweets on have made, but you know I tried to log in to Twitter today to find out but it is such a broken service more I can’t log in to it anymore.
I'm pretty open about postin' with my pals but it's also because my friend groups have crossed back and forth several times with forumers and those beyond
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My girlfriend is aware of this place in the sense that we went on a very long road trip through more boring parts of the country in the heat of the AI Art Thread Wars.
Based on that she said maybe I should stick to twitter.
One of my wife's best friends is in a long-term relationship with one of my best friends, and he's someone I met here, and yet this is nonetheless "That place where you get all worked up about AI or Final Fantasy or whatever"
Which is honestly just proof that she's way smarter than me
and yet somehow still the best social media option I have available to me. Ask them how scrolling through facebook is going.
So is twitter still doge, or have you all dropped it like an anime you all claimed you liked until I watched it and then "oh man preacher I can't believe watched ass samurai like some kind of deviant."
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
So is twitter still doge, or have you all dropped it like an anime you all claimed you liked until I watched it and then "oh man preacher I can't believe watched ass samurai like some kind of deviant."
do you think anyone there can figure out how to change it again this quickly
So is twitter still doge, or have you all dropped it like an anime you all claimed you liked until I watched it and then "oh man preacher I can't believe watched ass samurai like some kind of deviant."
do you think anyone there can figure out how to change it again this quickly
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
For all the stupid shit this motherfucker is doing with twitter always remember: It is still bleeding money left and right and he is categorically incapable of making decisions that will stem that loss, let alone start making it profitable again.
(I have no idea what your reference is sorry if I ruined a joke)
(Star Trek reference. Captain Shaw, from the latest season of ST Picard, describes himself as such. Comes across as a bit of an asshole at first, but he admits to that too, and we find out later he's got his reasons.)
Captain Shaw is such a great character.
Dude has had bullshit after bullshit thing heaped on his plate day in and day out, and the guy just sighs, gets on with the work, and then drinks
So Eve6 got their account nuked for impersonation over the weekend. They made a new one, but there was some concerns it was really the same person.
So here's a tweet of them performing their big hit
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Oh I’m definitely being pretty tongue in cheek. My online and offline life don’t actually cross pollinate conversationally so I doubt it would even come up.
Though I think it’s my nerdy friends who’d give me hell about it. My friends who are like carpenters and waitstaff etc would just think that I was talking about a really cheap arcade.
I made an account on a date a million years ago because the girl said she'd message me there. Date ended poorly, so I never logged in.
So I have a sorta unwilling account that has never been used.
(Star Trek reference. Captain Shaw, from the latest season of ST Picard, describes himself as such. Comes across as a bit of an asshole at first, but he admits to that too, and we find out later he's got his reasons.)
At least you had the best possible reason for signing up.
Account is still there, but it's a completely hollow shell.
Going with unseen levels of "*shits pants* all according to keikaku"
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My wife is aware of "the forums," she has a vague understanding of "those people you bother with your bullshit," that seems to be enough for her
Sounds about right.
(jk we love your bullshit insider stories)
That's more or less where my wife is at, too. Except she's more impressed when I use some parenting technique I learned her.
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Which is honestly just proof that she's way smarter than me
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Well, that's so we don't know when The Sorrow of the Hound is finished.
Otherwise yeah I just call this place "those old-school forums I still use for some reason" or "The Forums" for short
That isn’t what US TERFs are doing though, US TERFs are joining the right wing in screaming about medical transition for kids, up to and including to an alarming extreme that doesn’t match actual practices in order to terrify ignorant cisgender folk who still think trans people are weird.
Like this has been Jesse Singal’s whole vector of attack
lies and calumny
Satans..... hints.....
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Based on that she said maybe I should stick to twitter.
*koff*
They're very aware of this place. They know all about it I show them it all the time when we're together dating in uh italy with each other irl
and yet somehow still the best social media option I have available to me. Ask them how scrolling through facebook is going.
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do you think anyone there can figure out how to change it again this quickly
True facts
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2017 bruh. Welcome to the elimination of self flagellation side.
I mean I do miss the self blood letting, it made me feel good.
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Dude has had bullshit after bullshit thing heaped on his plate day in and day out, and the guy just sighs, gets on with the work, and then drinks
The most relatable captain
So here's a tweet of them performing their big hit