It will take hold of you, and you will regret it’s absence

- a stupid idiot who thought they could explain why arbitrary age limits are a poor heuristic for experience to a /r/politics user

god typing that out really sells the stupid idiot part huh

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    to a /r/politics user

    All the way back in 2017 I legitimately thought every user on that sub was actual bots

    It just felt so different from the rest of reddit (whose users should also be wiped off the planet)

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          There are also bots, Reddit is full of them to help their IPO. But you don’t need to pay shills, libs will shill of their own accord if you just create an echo chamber. That’s what the modding does.

          Same thing in worldnews, which used to show cracks of left sympathy until they began banning anyone critical of capitalism.

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        I really don’t actually believe those are real people on that subreddit. That’s why I never cared about it. You can’t convince me it’s anything other than bots talking to each other.

        The rest of reddit though, xi-plz

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    I spent several years and waaaay too many hours of my life typing out responses to bad faith redditors who didn’t deserve the effort.

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        I mean, that’s good and important work! DS2 is unfairly maligned, and actually quite good in many respects! Is it jankier than any other FromSoft game? Yes, absolutely. Did they make some strange and inexplicable choices that I disagree with? Also yes. But the vibes of that game, the level design, the fashion! Incredible, absolutely S tier. Majula is easily the best “hub” of any of the FromSoft games I’ve played, and Heide’s Tower of Flame might be my favorite area ever, beating out both Leyndell and Fountainhead Palace in terms of shear beauty.

        I also like that DS2 doesn’t expect or want you to have a comprehensive knowledge of the plot. You can just wander a melancholy, dying world and you’re not trying to save it or something, it’s been made pretty clear from the very beginning that you’re not on some grand quest, really. You’re not following the instructions of a weird immortal giant snake or trying desperately to stand before the elden ring or being handheld through the plot by an immortal child. (I do really like Kuro, I don’t mean to make it sound like his involvement with the plot is a negative, it isn’t.) You’re just wandering through a beautiful, sad world, and eventually you’ll end up finding the souls you need, because it’s impossible not to.

        Oh, and the gender changing coffin rules. So weird, but I love it!

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          Yeah, at the end of the day my love for DS2 stems from it doing its own thing, for better or for worse. It’s just weird and quirky and kinda shit in some places but overall the most charming FromSoft work I’ve played

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        Hell yeah! Fellow DS2 simp! Seriously, the atmosphere alone makes it better than DS3 to me. The music, the weapons, the sheer variety of armor sets. Even the kinda ugly textures fed into the dream-like atmosphere.

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          A lot of the textures are terrible, enemy placement in SotFS is weird, gameplay is floaty, and adaptability was a terrible idea. I’ll replay it in a heartbeat before i boot up DS3 again lol. It tried to do a lot of new stuff where DS3 cowarded out and ran back to DS1

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    I remember when I used to be addicted to arguing in youtube comments. This was the youtube comments before they added threads so you would have to scroll through the entire comments to find a reply.

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      A great rule for arguing on the internet, along with remembering that you’re really making your point for lurkers reading along instead of the person responding to you.

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      just make sure you copy paste something, don’t waste more time than your opponent. if it’s relevant copypasta that’s bonus points but not a requirement

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    why arbitrary age limits are a poor heurisitc for experience

    Okay, I know this isn’t what you meant, but please explain what this was about because all I can think of is how this sounds like

    CW: pedo

    how pedophiles argue for lowering the age of consent

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      oof did not even think about that blob-no-thoughts

      it was about how you have to be 35 at minimum to be president of the US because the founding fathers said so

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    i have wasted so much of my life arguing with people on the internet

    it’s not worth it. just make fun of them and move on.

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    Got a nasty taste of this recently, not with a redditor but essentially the same beast

    Thank God I have creative outlets and people around me who foster them, without that I can imagine a much more mentally unwell version of myself emerging. There really is something weirdly addictive about that hot-blooded feeling it gives you, even worse if you’ve ever actually won one of these inane “debates”