TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 56 minutes ago:
Road rage 5000 initiate
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 1 day ago:
“Would?” This is what’s happening.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 2 days ago:
I mean, at least the chat bots are always nonviolent and are restricted from encouraging people to do any harm. Doesn’t mean these people can’t (un)reason around it. People read the Bible and think it’s telling them to bomb clinics and hate their neighbors somehow.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
Oof. I weep for people who actually talk and think like that lol all good
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
lol tough room
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
Not if you study the blade. Like me.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 5 days ago:
Oh, sorry, you misread. I said “other angle.”
Because…yeah. I want it plastered all over. He looks so fucking stupid and is so goddamn inept that I’d like to be able to display the richest man in the world’s undeniable Nazi salutes. Because…we should. Don’t you agree?
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 5 days ago:
Yeah but I just meant that when he turns around, the second one looks less doofy and contorted. I thought someone behind him would’ve been filming on their phones, I’m just surprised there were no phone videos from anyone over there. I wanted to see someone’s from that other angle. It’s weird there was only one video of it, I figured those assclowns would be relishing in having such a “le epic” moment recorded.
You can just tell that he was thinking “I’m gonna do it! It’s gonna be such a master troll!” So he overthought the first one and it’s almost so lacquered in false confidence while the second one he just kinda doesn’t overcommit, if that makes sense.
I fully agree, it was 100% a Nazi salute. Both of them. I just wanted to see another angle on that second one.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 6 days ago:
Because there were people in the crowd behind him
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 6 days ago:
I meant from the other angle, facing the camera
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 6 days ago:
Why are there no videos of the second Nazi salute he did when he did the two Nazi salutes? He turns his back after the first Nazi salute and Nazi salutes the flag behind him and I want a better video of that Nazi salute the Nazi did.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
How was the second one “so bad?” It had incredible narrative, more in depth gameplay, challenging and coherent themes, depth of storytelling, it took risks that a lot of people didn’t like, but you can’t say they were done poorly. They were just challenging for people. And that’s good. The same stories told with the same character arcs following the same hero’s journey is boring. TLOU2 challenged you with the characters making choices you wouldn’t, it challenged you with co placated character arcs that saw well-loved characters turn into the villains, while the villain of the story became the one to end the cycle of violence…it was incredible. That worldbuilding, the design, the voice acting, the mocap acting, the more varied fighting styles, the expansive world…I mean, shit, I really do want to know what you thought actually classified as “bad” about that game. It pissed people off. But that does not make it a bad game by any stretch of the imagination.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
Wait a second:
it’s hard for apple to manufacture devices in a country with robust labor rights.
Robust labor rights? The US?
We have child labor making a comeback here. It’s not that far fetched to imagine children working in hypothetical US factories if things keep going the way they’re going.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Has seriously no one mentioned The Last of Us? That’s crazy.
I think the second should be included.
As well as red dead redemption 2.
The storytelling is just top tier. Better than literally almost all media made today.
- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 1 week ago:
lol what does that even mean? Four people downvoted it
- Comment on YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress 1 week ago:
The kochs have been the actual boogeymen of American politics for a long time. They’re basically what the right always fear soros is, but for racist, imperialist, corporatist shit. They basically responsible for citizens united.
- Comment on 53% of Israeli public opposes aid entering Gaza, new poll shows 1 week ago:
…no. They already got that. It was called the holocaust. They just seem to have forgotten the lessons they should have learned.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 week ago:
Because no matter the business, the game is capitalism. Who has the cutthroat, borderline personality to “make the tough calls” (read: weigh the cost benefit analysis of screwing the next group of people).
It doesn’t matter what the business is. Because it’s just about cost and benefit to these people. If they can cut costs, they will. If the benefits are lacking in that people will be outraged enough to stop buying, or the lawsuits will cost more than the profit increase percentage (factored into the actual viability of the claims and the affected group’s buying power for legal representation), then they don’t do it.
Nowhere does “but is it right” factor in. It’s only “will people find out, and if they do can we weather the storm.”
Capitalism should die.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 week ago:
Or babel. Anything but Duolingo at this point seems like the best bet
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 2 weeks ago:
lol oh okay so you just have no idea what you’re talking about.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Why’s that? I enjoyed cyberpunk. I mean, of course it was released with a fuck ton of problems, but that’s not on the studio, it’s on the money people behind the studio forcing them to release and start making their money back.
- Comment on Lady Gaga bomb plot: Thwarted plan lifts veil on the gamification of hate and gendered nature of online radicalization 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about punching up or down. It’s about generalizations. It helps literally no one, and the group it helps the least is feminists. Have you noticed the huge uptick in the toxic “alpha male” influence in younger generations? It is a direct response to the absolute bungling of a good message: feminism.
When conversations become global or even national or regional, the dumbest take is what is easiest to spread. “All men are trash” is the idiot’s version of the much more nuanced point, “women have historically been held down and overlooked in our patriarchal society, and have suffered at the hands of men-at-large in an outsized and much more devastating way than men have ever suffered at women’s hands or at those of men-at-large.”
The most simplistic answer can always be explained with a more nuanced explanation, but the problem is it needs to be explained. When people say “men are garbage,” the more nuanced and complicated message behind the overly simplistic and eye-catching hyperbole isn’t what’s spreading. It’s the dumbed down version of the message. And when the dumbed down version is hurtful or unfair, you’re not getting people to agree with you.
So if what you care about is women, you’re doing a terrible job. Because spreading “men are garbage” is directly responsible for the popularity of people like Andrew Tate. Young boys don’t know the context, but they see messages like “men are garbage” repeated by seemingly respectable adults. What’s their response? To think, “hmm, I should look into the historical context of women suffering at the hands of the patriarchy!” No, they are immediately upset and defensive, and when that idiotic message seems like it’s systemic, they will flock to spaces where assholes are telling them, “No, women are worthless garbage who should be making you sandwiches, king!”
So unless you love Andrew Tate and his ilk, I’d stfu on that stupid shit, if I were you.
- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 2 weeks ago:
Well, “family accounts” it’s young daughters/children are a magnet for creeps. I’d wager it’s something like 70/30, creeps to genuinely interested watchers. And the grossest part is a lot of families lean into this, whether intentionally or just responding to the analytics when they post a family “beach trip” or “kids having fun playing in the hose like the good old days!” Yeah. It’s fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 2 weeks ago:
“Plagiarism exists, so therefore a plagiarism machine can’t be wrong!”
lol gtfoh
- Comment on Lady Gaga bomb plot: Thwarted plan lifts veil on the gamification of hate and gendered nature of online radicalization 2 weeks ago:
All people with blue eyes are trash. All curly haired people are trash. All women are trash. All brown skinned people are trash.
See how fucking stupid that statement is? I thought those of us with a brain learned that generalizing is fucking stupid. The others are bigots. Because generalizing an entire group of people with one common trait is what bigots do.
- Comment on Loving Doom The Dark Ages, only one issue I've had so far. 2 weeks ago:
Mudvayne’s practice tapes
Wow. That’s the first and only mudvayne reference I may have ever heard. Even when they had that one song I can’t even remember playing on the radio. Crazy ref my guy
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
She is exactly admitting members barely pay attention. It’s a pretty widely known issue in the screenwriting community. Netflix in particular wants more “second screen scripts.” Meaning they need shows that constantly remind you of what’s happening, have tons of expository dialogue—constantly—and that leans hard into the shallow end of story.
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t punish us for the crimes of our corrupt pissant officials. I don’t want to drink from the East river
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 3 weeks ago:
Please fucking don’t.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 3 weeks ago:
Besides the internet?