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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Why give a nazi the stage? Why raise their opinions there? The points are and have been expressed in a civil manner for at least a century.

    “If a holocaust denialist expresses their opinion in a civil manner why not give their point of view more attention”

    “If a pedophile expresses their opinion in a civil manner why not give their point of view more attention”

    “If a rapist expresses their opinion in a civil manner why not give their point of view more attention”

    “If a misogynist/misandrist expresses their opinion in a civil manner why not give their point of view attention”

    If this is seriously an issue you have a dilemma with I have nothing further to say to you.

    These kinds of points of view get enough attention as it is. No one needs to give them any more.


  • I see the whole system as kind of flawed, like. If I think some topic or post is total bullshit and frankly, wrong, I’m supposed to comment to disagree with it, driving it further up in activity. So let’s imagine a platform where everyone uses the system “how they’re supposed to” and there’s a post about blatant bullshit, supporting nazi ideology or some shit like that (exaggerated, but for a point) and it’s dressed in the clothes of a well-mannered, discussion provoking post, and it gets a billion comments all disagreeing and it gets to the most active posts just because of this. When if it was downvoted, it’d just be more ignored the more people disagree with it.

    I get the intention behind the reasoning for it, but it just doesn’t work like that, because the whole system is flawed. The most active posts would be filled with thinly veiled and not so thinly veiled, even clever, ragebait and bullshit.

    As much as I hate to see “tHe hIvEmInD” and brigaders flood posts and comments with actual, relevant conversation and takes, with this system we’re just gonna have to deal with it I guess.




  • Oh I love and loved Nethack and traditional roguelikes, kind of in the middle of a year-two spanning revisit. It’s amazing how far the genre has gone and while I love ASCII graphics, it’s great to see even that side evolve. I’m currently (after like an almost two decade break from) delving into Cataclysm and ToME and I love Cataclysm already, with ASCII, it was a bit, much, at first, but I really feel like a kid again with it. Meaning to get back to Nethack, but Cataclysm just keeps holding me back. Haven’t played the OG Rogue yet, but will definitely get to it one day.

    Thanks for the other recommendations