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pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
Lol @ you guys for not liking tierzoo. He has some of the most well done content on YouTube.

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Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
(walks through hail of gunfire)
I like TierZoo, though that tweet was pretty terrible.

WIFEY WATCHDOG
Jun 25, 2012

Yeah, well I don't trust this guy. I think he regifted, he degifted, and now he's using an upstairs invite as a springboard to a Super Bowl sex romp.
Just read a semi interesting reply about Japanese farming culture in Florida and the first few replies turned it into a meme about Starcraft.

metasynthetic
Dec 2, 2005

in one moment, Earth

in the next, Heaven

Megamarm
You can find -some- good, or at least informative comments in some of the more topical subreddits, but every thread that's not in a properly-moderated subreddit like Science or AskHistorians inevitably reaches a point where a top level comment is completely worthless. I call this the inflection point and it's your signal to stop reading. 75% of the time on the popular subs it's the first one.

AWarmBody
Jul 26, 2014

Better than a cold one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8yiwjk/tifu_by_trying_that_one_thing_with_a_gun_that/

TIFU by trying that one thing with a gun that they do in the movies.

quote:

tl;dr: Tried to catch a bullet moving in the air, moved the pistol slide through a chuck of flesh instead.

Pre-edit before the comments start coming in: Guns aren't toys. I'm a grown rear end man that should know better. I received combat arms training while in the military. I'm not suicidal. There are no children in my home, and my roommate would never enter my bedroom without asking first. Unicorns are hard to ride, but even harder to catch since they don't exist. The pistol is legally owned, and I am in compliance with all state and federal laws. Mainly because "Don't be a dumbass" isn't on the books in my state. And, FFS, *GUNS AREN'T TOYS,* tales, *DID YOU FORGET YOUR TRAINING?!*


What is this poo poo

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

metasynthetic posted:

You can find -some- good, or at least informative comments in some of the more topical subreddits, but every thread that's not in a properly-moderated subreddit like Science or AskHistorians inevitably reaches a point where a top level comment is completely worthless. I call this the inflection point and it's your signal to stop reading. 75% of the time on the popular subs it's the first one.

Reddit is valuable only when I have a specific or technical question that someone else has likely already asked and had answered, a la Stack Exchange.

And porn of course!

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Question mega threads are the worst. I get trying to clean up subreddits but loving poo poo trying to find information in those threads are loving terrible.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Locking this thread. Read the 10 year old sticky, the answers are all in the broken links.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
E: never mind, I fixed that specific thing you were looking for. Time to disappear forever

| relevant xkcd
|| lolol
||| rofl
||| lololol
|||| lololol
|||| [comment chain continues]
| different xkcd comic link
| perfect
|| yeah if you're a damned sjw

Sentient Data fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jul 13, 2018

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Peep this heckin pupper nommin heckin treets

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib

MarcusSA posted:

Question mega threads are the worst. I get trying to clean up subreddits but loving poo poo trying to find information in those threads are loving terrible.

Oh god yes, it's like 1 answer followed by 20 responses and then you can't tell where the next answer begins because the layout sucks so much rear end.

screech on the beach
Mar 9, 2004
The whole place is even loving worse now since that Thanos thing. Threads and threads of nerds tripping over themselves to post I dont feel so good or some other reference. Burn it down.

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


screech on the beach posted:

The whole place is even loving worse now since that Thanos thing. Threads and threads of nerds tripping over themselves to post I dont feel so good or some other reference. Burn it down.

Just don't watch garbage nerd movies and you won't see the references.

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

Better yet, don't read reddit

Shats Basoon
Jun 13, 2013

Sentient Data posted:

E: never mind, I fixed that specific thing you were looking for. Time to disappear forever

| relevant xkcd
|| lolol
||| rofl
||| lololol
|||| lololol
|||| [comment chain continues]
| different xkcd comic link
| perfect
|| yeah if you're a damned sjw

Is this where we board the gold train?

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



everyone I know irl who uses reddit is a huge cornball

ham_sanitizer
Jul 12, 2014

professional swine bather

Verisimilidude posted:

everyone I know irl who uses reddit is a huge cornball

gbs but from 2004
Oct 24, 2004

wow u rude pig

"i STarTed this TOIlEt Of A tHreaD aNd HAve sOmEHOW aVoidEd A red teXt"

Sentient Data posted:

Peep this heckin pupper nommin heckin treets

Danger noodle floof hooman

china bot
Sep 7, 2014

you listen HERE pal
SAY GOODBYE TO TELEPHONE SEX
Plaster Town Cop

Verisimilidude posted:

everyone I know irl who uses reddit is a huge cornball

no soy loco por los Cornballs

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Bold Robot posted:

This is really loving bad.

yeah though id be lying if i said i didnt learn at least a little about turtles. but people already like nature stuff anyway so there's probably no sense in nerding it up by running it through a video game filter. gamer "culture" is kinda obnoxious as is

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

Milo and POTUS posted:

yeah though id be lying if i said i didnt learn at least a little about turtles. but people already like nature stuff anyway so there's probably no sense in nerding it up by running it through a video game filter. gamer "culture" is kinda obnoxious as is

that "Are Humans OP?" vid used to pop on my recommended list all the time, and I would just laugh and think, "no fuckin way am I watching that" lol

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Julius CSAR posted:

that "Are Humans OP?" vid used to pop on my recommended list all the time, and I would just laugh and think, "no fuckin way am I watching that" lol

hahaha holy poo poo yeah i wouldnt watch that either.

AmbientParadox
Mar 2, 2005
I watch a lot of nature documentaries. I like tierzoo because I can see it as a viable way to get kids interested in nature. Its a novel approach to the genre. At least its based on information unlike that idiot Cody guy who stings himself with bullet ants then films himself writhing in pain for 10 minutes.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Pondex posted:

Tierzoo guy is peak reddit. An entire youtube-channel dedicated to talking about nature as if it's an MMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a-OAQE_hMQ

I can't wrap my head around who would consider this entertaining.

Gamera. Gamera is best turtle.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

AmbientParadox posted:

I watch a lot of nature documentaries. I like tierzoo because I can see it as a viable way to get kids interested in nature. Its a novel approach to the genre. At least its based on information unlike that idiot Cody guy who stings himself with bullet ants then films himself writhing in pain for 10 minutes.

Yeah. It's kinda dorky but it shouldn't even register on your list of things to dislike about reddit or the internet in general. There's real things to criticize

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

super sweet best pal posted:

Gamera. Gamera is best turtle.

God I love gamera

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL
Really, it only takes 5 people to make it so you're opinion, by defualt, wont show up to everyone else. This creates a silencing system to dissenting opinions, on a website the preeches free speech.

Example:

"Nazi's are bad" [-4]

"Nazi's are good" [4]

Guess which opinion is automatically going to be validated?

That's right, the brave Redditor who says there are only two genders.

celewign
Jul 11, 2015

just get us in the playoffs
I thought Reddit was extremely liberal

Pondex
Jul 8, 2014

So, a redditor develops a concience and shuts down one of the biggest GG-cesspools, r/Kotakuinaction.

He is then de-modded and the forum is reinstated by reddit in less than a day. Something something free speech I guess.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/reddit-kotaku-in-action-founder-regrets-gamergate-forum.html

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦

Pondex posted:

So, a redditor develops a concience and shuts down one of the biggest GG-cesspools, r/Kotakuinaction.

He is then de-modded and the forum is reinstated by reddit in less than a day. Something something free speech I guess.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/reddit-kotaku-in-action-founder-regrets-gamergate-forum.html

Your free speech is now the intellectual property of Reddit, nerds. You don't get any kind of ideological control over the poo poo you made

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


celewign posted:

I thought Reddit was extremely liberal

haha if reddit is your idea of liberal I'd hate to see what your home town is like.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
It's Liberal, not liberal

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


I wouldn't say it's liberal so much as filled with teenagers who are (understandably) nervous about their ability to make a decent living 5-10 years from now when they move out. The ones that do succeed won't lean liberal anymore.

They are definitely not compassionate/empathetic people for the most part.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Teenage boys as a group have never really been known for empathy, that tends to develop when they get out of high school and are forced to have adult conversations in real life.

Unfortunately reddit is an echo chamber, and in this new internet era its easy to get socially trapped with people with very narrow world views and very little real life experience. They either quit reddit when they realise how immature people posting on there are, or get worse.

Source! Screecheth the redditor.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

learnincurve posted:

I bet he makes a lot of money from it though.

So what?

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

the accumulation of material wealth is an unfulfilling goal

Beef Stew
Dec 27, 2009

AmbientParadox posted:

I watch a lot of nature documentaries. I like tierzoo because I can see it as a viable way to get kids interested in nature. It’s a novel approach to the genre. At least it’s based on information unlike that idiot Cody guy who stings himself with bullet ants then films himself writhing in pain for 10 minutes.

That guy actually does alot of really cool videos where he just talks about and films cool and weird animals in tide pools and jungles and stuff. His sting videos are incredibly stupid though.

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


celewign posted:

I thought Reddit was extremely liberal

reddit is generally anti-trump but that's as far as it goes. anything making GBS threads on the GOP is met with "well, both sides" and "what happened to :decorum:"

i will say that /r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM is a pretty funny sub

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

goethe.cx posted:

reddit is generally anti-trump

lol what

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goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014



i don't mean the site management, to be clear. there are several big anti-trump subs that regularly hit /r/all, and if you venture into the comments in mainstream subs, they're generally making fun of trump if the subject comes up. i don't want to go so far as to equate that with "liberal" but places like the_donald are not the norm

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