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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

the undertale fanbase is way worse than the ff7 fanbase, though i also hold that undertale is a better game than ff7

luckily we have the rick and morty fanbase to act as a measure, and then neither of the other seems so bad~

eh, such a sidetrack, sorry

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

im pretty sure Fox & Friends has the worst fanbase

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
The alt-right online behaves like a lot like a "fandom" the more I think about it.

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

PUBG fanbase is almost as bad as the League of Legends fanbase

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

The alt-right online behaves like a lot like a "fandom" the more I think about it.

they do worship their content creators obsessively, only to turn on them with the hatred of a thousand suns the moment they go off-brand

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

it's not 2001, ff7 doesnt have a fandom anymore

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


all authoritarian ideologies are about aesthetics so of course they behave like fans. they only consume the media they consume on the absolute shallowest level possible. if they were capable of substantive analysis and criticism they wouldn’t be fascists

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

the bitcoin of weed posted:

it's not 2001, ff7 doesnt have a fandom anymore

one of my college aquaintances named their kid Aerith. Another named their kid Locke.

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

zegermans posted:

one of my college aquaintances named their kid Aerith. Another named their kid Locke.
I know of a kid in my town who's at least 20 now who is named Raistlin.

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


pookel posted:

I know of a kid in my town who's at least 20 now who is named Raistlin.

He either started calling himself "Rusty" in middle school or got beat up a lot.

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011



a friend in one of my discords linked this screenshot of a DM he got on discord

I'm not 100% sure what's going on here but my guess is someone is trying to get mass reports on various political discords (or individual users) by trying to associate them with the charlottesville terrorist attack with the goal of getting them shut down

weird poo poo

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
undertale is "god = dog backwards" the game

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

hackbunny posted:

It's so ham handed. The Japanese troll games that outright punish you for playing, have illogical puzzles, change the rules of the game for every room you enter etc. have more integrity and are a better commentary on gamer obsession than tryhard games like Braid or Undertale

like I said, it's one of the worse executed ideas in the game
the bits it does well, it does very, very, very well, but that is not one of them

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
the game as a whole being a meditation on how obsessive fandom results in utterly destroying the thing you claim to love is absolutely fantastic though, and is made significantly more hilarious by how hard it took off

see also: literally every schism within the alt-right, because no, seriously, MY interpretation of the power fantasy must be more canon, and therefore better, than yours

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

zegermans posted:

one of my college aquaintances named their kid Aerith. Another named their kid Locke.

Jesus Christ.

Its Aeris, damnit.

Cyberpunkey Monkey
Jun 23, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo

Feldegast42 posted:

Jaesus Chrith.

and i must meme
Jan 15, 2017

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

the undertale fanbase is way worse than the ff7 fanbase, though i also hold that undertale is a better game than ff7

luckily we have the rick and morty fanbase to act as a measure, and then neither of the other seems so bad~

eh, such a sidetrack, sorry

i remember reading something about a bunch of final fantasy fans in the early 2000s who lived together which basically turned into a cult

i don't think undertale fans ever did anything that bad

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.
This kind of echoes Adam Curtis' profile of Vladislav Surkov and far right nationalism as avant garde art.

https://twitter.com/TheOpposition/status/951458990826885121

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/jonny_is_good/s...agenumber%3D237

https://twitter.com/AP/status/95148...agenumber%3D237

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kGCBObh0zg

Jose has issued a correction as of 00:59 on Jan 13, 2018

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet

Dmitri-9 posted:

This kind of echoes Adam Curtis' profile of Vladislav Surkov and far right nationalism as avant garde art.

https://twitter.com/TheOpposition/status/951458990826885121
That's a similar thing in black political spaces, what people call hoteps, where everyone calls themselves scholars because they read books. They regurgitate other people's research, post a billion youtubes, and have debates. Its really no different than this. Its outsider reporting and interesting that it exists at opposites end of politics.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/Tormny_Pickeals...agenumber%3D238

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Gringostar posted:

for "centrists" the preferred nomenclature is "collaborator"

Incredibly outlandish descriptors combined with an okay emoji tells me they're more likely to be a chud

EugeneDebsWasCool
Nov 10, 2017
Buglord

pookel posted:

I know of a kid in my town who's at least 20 now who is named Raistlin.

Jesus Christ that’s a name I haven’t thought about in nearly twenty years myself. Welp, time to disappear down a Dragonlance wiki rabbit hole.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

what is even the functional difference in 10 or even 20 iq points (even if iq were real and accurate)? I can’t think of any profession where you would be significantly impaired if you had say a 90 instead of 100

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

theflyingexecutive posted:

what is even the functional difference in 10 or even 20 iq points (even if iq were real and accurate)? I can’t think of any profession where you would be significantly impaired if you had say a 90 instead of 100

100 is supposed to be the absolute average anyway. IQ is graded on a bell curve, so whether you have a 90 IQ or a 150 IQ only means something relative to everyone else that takes the test. Taking the alt-right claims at face value, the average African would be literally retarded, but that's not how IQ works.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Ruzihm posted:

can someone make a rap rock/metal political compass? RATM in bottom left, backwordz in bottom right+ 2 others. Limp bizkit in upper right maybe?

https://twitter.com/bornmiserable/status/950216532088430592

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

zegermans posted:

one of my college aquaintances named their kid Aerith. Another named their kid Locke.

I also have a former friend from college who named his daughter Aeris.

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
im gonna name my child wrasslin

Dairy Days
Dec 26, 2007

SpaceGoku posted:



a friend in one of my discords linked this screenshot of a DM he got on discord

I'm not 100% sure what's going on here but my guess is someone is trying to get mass reports on various political discords (or individual users) by trying to associate them with the charlottesville terrorist attack with the goal of getting them shut down

weird poo poo

trumps fine thread posters have been running around invading +loving up goon discords lately

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

100 is supposed to be the absolute average anyway. IQ is graded on a bell curve, so whether you have a 90 IQ or a 150 IQ only means something relative to everyone else that takes the test. Taking the alt-right claims at face value, the average African would be literally retarded, but that's not how IQ works.

I know, based on IQ ~90% of people have IQs between 85-115, but what would the actual functional difference between the platonic 85 and 115 that would be more relevant than like jeopardy performance or mental mouth speed? especially especially now that everyone can access more information in 5 seconds than people 30 years ago could access in three decades of study

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Dairy Days posted:

trumps fine thread posters have been running around invading +loving up goon discords lately


theres a trump is good thread? lol

is it like a nerdier freep?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

unfortunately this is fake

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

100 is supposed to be the absolute average anyway. IQ is graded on a bell curve, so whether you have a 90 IQ or a 150 IQ only means something relative to everyone else that takes the test. Taking the alt-right claims at face value, the average African would be literally retarded, but that's not how IQ works.

there is a guy who makes his living going around and getting people off death row by explaining that thanks to IQ inflation such and such person is now teeeechnically retarded and so cannot be put to death

bless that man, turning a hideously stupid system against itself

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/951980313223208960

Dairy Days
Dec 26, 2007

cumshitter posted:

theres a trump is good thread? lol

is it like a nerdier freep?
the original threads on sa are all gassed i think and half them have been permabanned from sa. they all hang out in some trumps good discord and run around to normal goon discords, you can tell when they show up cause the discord will be flooded with 1000s of copies of hitler screeds, anime porn, and pepes
its like a nerdier version of /pol/

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
yeah I'm pretty sure Limp Bizkit would be on the upper left

upper right would be POD or some bullshit like that

brb making the chart

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

holy gently caress

she makes the blacks rule guy and ashley todd look like geniuses for at least having the sense to not horrifically disfigure themselves for life

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
pouring acid over myself to own the libs

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Mr. Fish
Sep 13, 2017

INLAND EMPIRE — This is a team with a lot of past, but little present. And almost no future.

Oh Paul, you're such a kidder! We all know you're too afraid of brown people to ever leave your apartment.

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