Some kinda green-bean casserole.

IDK. That’s true I guess. The whole problem is that those solutions don’t seem actionable to me, because from what I’ve been able to gather just from trying to research shit on social media; whatever local branches of those things that did exist in my area basically stopped existing/functioning in 2020.

So I am largely just left to fester here, I feel like.

IDK. I’ve kind of lived my entire life largely devoid of most human relationships; even w/ regards to my parents they kind of never wanted to be around me & either sat me down in front of the vidya games, or tried to shoo me out of the house (I grew up in a rural trailer park, so there wasn’t really anything to do, or anyone to see otherwise), while they spent time drinking, or on their own personal projects.

I currently live largely alone in a one-room apartment where I go to my factory job, do that & then come home everyday, and what social interaction I do get is almost entirely mediated by the internet.

I have my takes on what the issue is, but I know nobody really wants to hear them.

But you can imagine how hollow my existence really is.

All that “learn to love yourselg” “learn to be happy alone” “you don’t need anyone” “retreat in to a hell of your own making” toxic positivity crap pisses me off so much bc that’s not how humans work at all.

Okay, but that’s also really the only answer literally anyone, including you guys, are kind of willing to give somebody like me. That is to say, a 30yo loveless autistic goon, with a chip on his shoulder about each one of those things.

They didn’t really help filter out low-effort content and we’re mostly used as an “I disagree” button.

Okay, but I want an “I disagree” button.

Removing them meant it took a little bit of effort to dogpile someone and the site seemed much friendly after they were removed.

It doesn’t really stop that though, it just turns anonymous dislikes into a flood of mad inbox replies.

I think removing them did a lot to shift site culture for the better.

What is better about it, though?

A “Rage Comic” is a kind of stock meme-template from a good while ago. That’s what he’s referring to.

Needs to be pronounced “thar” though.

Why did the Soviet Military go along with this, anyways? Did they really gain that much/anything from all of this?

I think that there’s not necessarily a strict contradiction between the proposition that Kojima is both a Radlib & also Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Capitalist; or at the very least, there would be little contradictory in him being a “Radlib” and liking Che & Fidel, who are by far the easiest Communists to find unobjectionable if you don’t have strongly interrogated political opinions. However, does this also extend to sympathy for the DPRK, or China, for example? Admittedly high bars to clear for most people, but there are few who truly know the way, let alone walk it.

What I’m getting at is that I think his beliefs are more of a moralistic ideological soup than anything. Kojima can absolutely have based takes, and he is probably the best politically educated AAA Video Game Auteur out there. But that’s both a really specific pool of reference, and one that has a generally low bar to it.

But then again all of this is coming from me, and I’m nothing if not a mélange of half-read theory piled on to a number of personal life grievances, so. I should probably not cast judgement is what I’m getting at. :shrug-outta-hecks: