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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      If this wasn’t Scott Adams I’d have assumed this was fetish content. Now I don’t know what to think.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        explaining these things to normal humans is how you turn them into humans with years of psychic damage, and I support that mission wholeheartedly

        an attempt at a summary:

        the dilbert guy, who believes he can hypnotize women into having sex with him, now also believes he knows a magic incantation to teach hypnosis to a chatbot, and heavily implies the chatbot was able to hypnotize him in turn (presumably into having sex with it)

        • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
          10·
          5 months ago

          who believes he can hypnotize women into having sex with him

          Wait I missed this, he believes what?

          Now this is doubly funny.

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            10·
            5 months ago

            Content warning for this post, you will get psychic damage.

            It is worse, he believes he can hypnotize people over the internet into having orgasms. Here is a link to a screenshot, not sure if I’m able to find a archive link. I think he deleted his blog.

            E: a tumblr has archive links but it seems he managed to delete the first post.

            • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
              13·
              5 months ago

              Hey, haven’t seen a proof of god’s non-existence today yet, thanks!

              extreme psychic damage trap

              Submissives, I want you to start planning your New Year’s Eve now. Make sure you have some time alone, or some time with a partner who fully accepts your wonderful nature. But most of all, I want you wet, or hard, and especially obedient, starting now. And I want you to know how much I enjoy putting you in this state of mind. It starts now, but will get more intense by Thursday night. Expect to be a quivering, throbbing, wet mess by then.

              How did that make you feel?

              Queasy.

              This is quite literally “creep discovers dirty-talking, thinks it’s a superpower even though he’s terrible at it”.

              EDIT: From Part 3:

              So today I am only talking to the perhaps 20% of you who were turned off by this series.

              Bwahahahaha! That’s some funny shit mate, I’ve seen many bollocks number straight from between them buttocks, but this is fuckin’ choice.

              If you see a train entering a tunnel, think of it as nothing but transportation.

              Hey mate, I think… I think that’s what most normal people do? I sometimes imagine an action hero standing on top and fighting a villain before the tunnel slams them in the heads but that’s just me. What do you think about, Scott? Don’t answer that. please

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        It told him he was very smart and correct so he had an hypnogasm yes.

        (For the people not in the know and who want some more psychic damage, look up Scott and his ‘I can hypnotise you into having orgasms’ blog posts, the man is utterly nuts, and it is really scary how many people seriously follow him).

        • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
          8·
          5 months ago

          Looks like he confused “tantrum” with “tantric”

          No shame, happens to guys all the time

    • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      I saw people making fun of this on (the normally absurdly overly credulous) /r/singularity of all places. I guess even hopeful techno-rapture believers have limits to their suspension of disbelief.

    • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      At risk of being NSFW, this is an amazing self-own, pardon the pun. Hypnosis via text only works on folks who are fairly suggestible and also very enthusiastic about being hypnotized, because the brain doesn’t “power down” as much machinery as with the more traditional lie-back-on-the-couch setup. The eyes have to stay open, the text-processing center is constantly engaged, and re-reading doesn’t deepen properly because the subject has to have the initiative to scroll or turn the page.

      Adams had to have wanted to be hypnotized by a chatbot. And that’s okay! I won’t kinkshame. But this level of engagement has to be voluntary and desired by the subject, which is counter to Adams’ whole approach of hypnosis as mind control.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Yep, was thinking something similar. Dude just posted a public sscce about the effect addressed in the llmentalist article