Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
That was one wild read even worse than I was expecting. Holy sexism Batman, the incel to tech pipeline is real.
I remember when a large part of the university experience was about meeting people, experiencing freedom from home for the first time before being forced into the 9-5 world, and broadening your horizon in general. But maybe thatās just the European perspective.
In any case, these people are so fucking startup-brained that it hurts to think about.
Serious question: how? Isnāt Minecraft free to play and you can just host servers yourself on your computer? I tried to search up āhow to make money off a Minecraft serverā and was (of course) met with an endless list of results of LLM slop I could not bear to read more than one paragraph of.
Yes, because Palantir is such a beacon of defending democratic values and not a techfash shithouse at all.
For years now, custom plugins have made public Minecraft servers much less āblock building gameā than ārobust engine for MMOs that every kid with a computer already has the client for,ā and even though itās mostly against Mojangās TOS, all the kinds of monetization youād expect have followed. When you hear āMinecraft server that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit,ā imagine āfreemium PC game that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in profitā and youāll get roughly the right picture. Peer pressure-driven cosmetics, technically-TOS-violating-but-who-cares lootboxes, $500 "micro"transaction packages, anything they can get away with. It puts into perspective why you hear so much about Minecraft YouTubers running their own servers.
In the Year of Our Lord 2025 how does anyone, much less a published journalist, not recognize āWestern Civilizationā as a dog whistle for white (or at least European) supremacy rather than having anything to do with representative government or universal human rights or whatever people like to pretend.
Uni is also a good place to learn to fail. A uni run startup imitation place can ensure both problems (guided by profs if needed) and teach people how to do better, without being in the pockets of VCs also better hours, and parties.
Re: minecraft - kids/people who arenāt very good at technology canāt or are unwilling to learn how to host their own servers, so thatās your potentially paying audience. Or people who want to play with a ton of other people, not just their family/friends. And you can do some interesting things with custom scripts and so on on a server, I remember briefly playing on a server which had its own custom in-game currency (earned by selling certain materials) and you could buy potions, equipment and various random perks for it (and of course there are ways to connect that to real money, although you might get banned for it).
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