Stern
@Stern@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 days ago:
On one hand yeah in that timeframe, on the other hand it’s not like his homies weren’t there. Further, subreddits came to exist in 2006, and people could make their own in 2008, so he had a year’ish of r/jailbait existing to do anything about it, and chose not to.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 days ago:
Are you on team Ananas or team Pineapple though?
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 days ago:
That one always rung a big hollow to me because of the timeframe of it. At the time he was made a mod there, invites didn’t exist. Folks could just be added to subs- it was actually a method for trolling. At the time, I could add Steve to r/SteveLovesDiddlingKids, for example, and he’d have no say in it. They changed it to an invite system after a subreddit called r/CrabBucket heavily abused it to force folks to stay.
That said, one can quite readily say that spez implicitly supported the jailbait subreddit when he left it up for several years knowingly (Including it being a subheader for reddit on google searches, and it getting nominated for subreddit of the year along with several votes for it.) and only got rid of it when Anderson Cooper did a report on CNN about it.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
Overwork people until they die/kill themselves, great idea, what could go wrong. Really, I want to see homeboy do a month of whatever his lowest employee does with that schedule and THEN say he’s still for it. Bet he’ll be real fuckin’ quiet.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
Its like the Tide pod thing. Two or three instances and suddenly its a wave of it happening.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 2 months ago:
I chose not to and made a few bucks for petwatching
- Comment on Pocketpair announced farming life sim spin-off Palworld: Palfarm 2 months ago:
Stardew Palley
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 months ago:
If that’s the case on reddit it must be pretty recent because I don’t recall it from my time there.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 months ago:
Vote visibility is off by default (IIRC) on reddit so at least there folks wouldn’t be banned just for downvoting someone.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 3 months ago:
Who wants to hear my, “Why reddit got image hosting of its own when it did” conspiracy theory? No one? Too bad, posting it anyhow.
Few years ago reddit had a subreddit called fatpeoplehate. It existed to, you guessed it, hate fat people. “Fattie” became an insult du juor. One day they find out an imgur employee is fat, and start in on being shitters. This apparently was the straw that broke the camels back because they finally got banned.
My theory is simple: reddit didn’t ban fatpeoplehate because they went too far. They banned it because imgur threatened to block them and being the image site, this would fuck reddit up. Imagine being a social media site with no pictures. Impossible.
Reddit, not too long after that, adds image hosting. Could it be a coincidence? Sure. Do I think its one? Not really.
Fun addendum, a study was done post-ban and reddit actually became less toxic after the ban. Crazy how denying shitty folks a platform actually makes your site better, whoda thunk?
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 3 months ago:
government owning the means of production?
🤔
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 months ago:
thegamer.com/wuchang-fallen-feathers-review-bomb-…
Could be from stuff akin to this. This is the second bombing of Luchang, first was post-launch due to UE5 spec demands
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 months ago:
Good for stuff like Chinese review bombing.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 3 months ago:
What oddly specific training. Is there a training regimen for a “Evangelion everyone got turned into Tang” situation too? What about the “Just got spider powers and a Canon event may be coming”?
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 3 months ago:
Why buy new when I have a backlog, the PS1/2 catalog emulated, and can wait 6+ months for a sale
- Comment on Deep dish thought 3 months ago:
pizza face down on pizza is a calzone or a sandwich, situationally.
- Comment on US raises bounty on Venezuela's Maduro to $50 mn 3 months ago:
He’s in Venezuela.
50 million pls
- Comment on Magic Rocks 4 months ago:
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 4 months ago:
We can’t rule out that VP candidate’s named Tim are the issue. Hillary had Tim Kaine and lost, Biden had Kamala and won, Kamala had Tim Walz and lost.
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 4 months ago:
I prefer to embrace the thought that no matter how chronically online he is, his meme game will always be dogshit and his nerd cred largely nonexistent.
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 4 months ago:
I own Transformers Devastation on Steam, which was delisted. You can still install it. Achievements got weird for it but still more or less worked. You can’t buy stuff from the market for it including emotes or cards, but can trade or buy some of it with points.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 months ago:
if you build a perpetual motion machine and it eats the postman from seinfeld… you still made a perpetual motipn machine
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 4 months ago:
“They think they have it figured out, why are they so sad?”
Well Jimmy, when you realize religious fanatics would rather shoot homeless people then feed them, its a bit of a downer!
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 4 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States
Also the X-men aren’t human. Kinda makes the court system feel like the baddies tho
- Comment on I would still download a car if I could. 🚗 5 months ago:
The technicality argument always rubbed me the wrong way. Like the guys who are into jailbait and say they aren’t pedophiles because pedophilia is for under ten year olds and they want to fuck teenagers. Brother you still want to fuck underage folks.
Same generally with piracy. Saying it’s not theft because there’s no physical deprivation of goods just sounds deluded. It’s still taking stuff without paying for it. Who are you trying to fool? Are you hoping someone is gonna read that nonsense and say, “Oh shit hes right guess we gotta get rid of copyright law now”? And would you want them to in the day and age of AI stealing everything?
I’m not even really trying to scold folks who pirate, I do it too, I just don’t bother to grandstand about it. BFD I’m pirating 30 year old video games. Y’all think if I bought a 200 dollar used one on Ebay the original studio sees a dime of it? C’mon now.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 5 months ago:
By definition it cannot.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 5 months ago:
Crazy how Symphony of the Night is to Metroidvanias what Chrono Trigger or FF6/7 is to RPG’s but we’re still getting Kid Dracula released by Konami in the Castlevania collections before it is.
NGL fairly salty.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 5 months ago:
Perot did pretty well on his runs iirc. But I don’t think he’s the one you were talking about.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 months ago:
Less stealth and more “I’m hopped up on goofballs and nerd rage lets goooooooo”
- Comment on no way right 5 months ago:
Arguable for his time under Ares, but the freedom fighter and terrorist line gets blurry when fighting a regime and he’s fought two, Greek and Norse.
