Off topic, but it paints a grisly picture of humanity that all vampires have higher standards for consent than many humans.
Vampires are from Jersey
Submitted 2 months ago by bees@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hansolo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Seriously.
One vampire Dev pops “by clicking agree, you consent to vampires entering your home.” Into line 57842368 of the Instagram/FB TOS and suddenly it’s a feeding frenzy…
…How does one seek a script to Black Mirror?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dystopian technofeudalist vampire is now one of my favorite new tropes. Thank you.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A “standard” implies it’s a societal norm they’re participating in, rather than a supernatural compulsion they’re restricted by.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s a good point. Perhaps they’re instead restricted by a social code of honor and limited empathy. Like they could come in against your will, but most won’t because it’s a shameful violation of vampire ethics, and they would feel bad about it.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m beginning to realise that even stones may have higher standards for consent than humans.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For the sake of us all, I hope you’re wrong, but history being what it has been, I’m having trouble coming up with a counterargument.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s because vampires are fictional.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re right, of course, but you should still see the comment about Bryan Johnson elsewhere in this thread, if you haven’t already.
VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How does the lore work? Does the vampire need to hear the right thing or does the person need to mean the right thing?
makyo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The whole thing is vampire propaganda to make the general population feel more safe
VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Big Blood is playing us for fools
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If I were making the rules, intent would be what mattered.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
Otherwise vampires would be getting invited in because some word means “enter” or whatever in a different language.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Californians: “idk, he just kept asking and I kept saying, like, the beach? The coast? The seaside? Eventually he just stormed off in a huff, but, yeah, no, super weird guy. I still don’t know what he wanted.”
Context: as long as I’ve been on the west coast, I’ve literally never heard anyone call it the shore.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lived in FL for 28 years and the last time I heard it called the shore was in Ocean City, MD
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yea we call our side the Eastern Shore.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Lmao, I was having the same thought. “Shore” wouldn’t have crossed my mind unless I’m talking about Gulf Shores. And that’s a beach town in my mind. Hell, I grew up close enough to Jersey and have lived near the Gulf of Mexico for over 20 years; “shore” just isn’t in my vocab like that
klemptor@startrek.website 2 months ago
Doesn’t matter if you let them in. Nothing stopping them from setting your house on fire and making you come out.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Vampires stopped existing when a wild hermit man once declared that the entire outside was their home.
Zron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, the Harry Dresden Assassination technique
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except it doesn’t work that way. It’s not about wordplay, but the esoteric power of being explicitly invited.
Stitch0815@feddit.org 2 months ago
But it does work that way because vamipres are made up and so are the rules
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Counterpoint: Buffy (the series, not the movie, not the comic) is the only true vampire canon, and everything else is fanfic, and older stuff is from future time travelers writing fanfic.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Vampires are from Staten Island and Noo Yawk Citttttaaaaaay.
Maalus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tucson Arizonia
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No they’re just regular human bartenders there.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No Jackie Daytona is a normal human from Tucson Arizoniia you fool.
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 months ago
A lot of us in NOLA, too! And Denver for some reason…
owl@infosec.pub 2 months ago
me: coast?
vampire: Mhm -_- How would you pronouce the first three letters of “yesterday” ^may i come in^peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well the first letter is pronounced like the word why. The next one, is like the second name of rapper easy e. Now that third letter, thats a real fun pronunciation. How familiar are you with the 18th president of the USA?
owl@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Not very, but his name was “Ulysses S. Grant” wasn’t it ^may^ ^I^ ^come^ ^in?^
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If vampires are sticking to a code of ethics and honour to enter your house than this wouldn’t work
You are answering a question with an answer … not making a verbal contract
You are making a statement … not giving permission
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
haha! yeah!
like who doesn’t know what a sure is ᵐᵃʸ ᴵ ᶜᵒᵐᵉ ᶦⁿ?
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Are you a cop? Because I don’t answer questions without legal representation…
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The beach. Bitch.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coast
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coast on inside? Don’t mind if i do!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure the magic preventing a vampire from entering without permission would not be overcome so easily.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Its not magic if its real.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
“A Beatles song, XXXterday.”
Yes No
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Three characters you say.
No!terday
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
/c/wellthatsucks
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
a sphincter says what?
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Wet sand
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m from Jersey (New). I go down the shore, and while down the shore I go to the beach. This is how it’s always been and always will be (until the shore comes up to me because we’ve destroyed the environment)!
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Maryland here. The shore isn’t the ocean or beach. It’s the shore.
Godric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sinners was so fucking good
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
how is the answer to this yes?
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shore can sound like “sure”
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Unexpected Bergerac.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Beach.
There’s no need to call me names, buddy
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would watch a sitcom about the most unlucky vampire who still manages to survive somehow.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What we do in the shadows