Stern
@Stern@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 days 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 5 days ago:
government owning the means of production?
🤔
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 6 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
He’s in Venezuela.
50 million pls
- Comment on Magic Rocks 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 weeks 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!!! 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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. 🚗 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
By definition it cannot.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Less stealth and more “I’m hopped up on goofballs and nerd rage lets goooooooo”
- Comment on no way right 2 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.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Completely ignoring the plot in Fallout 4 as I help yet another settlement
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 2 months ago:
You can’t logic someone out of something they didn’t logic themselves into, and they definitely got emotionally attached to antivax before they found “statistics” to back shit up.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 2 months ago:
For thousands of years people have raised their kids without the benefit of the moneypit 9000, Sam Altman is apparently dumber then a caveman.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 2 months ago:
Shoulda used the magnets for hall effect sticks rather then clacking joycons on the thing
- Comment on You can now search for Steam games by adjustable difficulty, mouse-only options and other accessibility tags 2 months ago:
Adjustable difficulty is accessibility? Maybe what I’m thinking isn’t what it is. Anyone know if it means stuff like easy/medium/hard or the more granular stuff like “Turn off QTE’s”?
Either way nice to see Steam making this stuff available and easy for devs.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 months ago:
On Steam I have categories for played, unplayed, playing, and never touching again. Works well, but that backlog is brutal.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 2 months ago:
I had something and now I have Dr. Wily in a bikini. People variously don’t notice, don’t care, or are like bro wtf.
I’m ok with all these reactions.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 2 months ago:
tfw its no longer just the AI hallucinating
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 2 months ago:
thats a lot of
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