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remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

mostlybats-partiallyrats

How fucking old are you people?

googledocsdyke

normal amount

creekfiend

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

omegaversereloaded

i cant believe that there's still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit's hard

omegaversereloaded

guys who mainly play 2k and fortnite will still be like oh youre not a real gamer for having 1000 hours in stardew. mother fucker you're larping as a basketball player

fluorescentnova

spicymochi

tiny feline friends

sistersorrow

Broke: vampires are real, and they act just like in the stories

Woke: vampires are real, but the stories are inaccurate

Bespoke: vampires are real, the stories are inaccurate, and vampires made up those stories to keep humans ignorant

Baroque: vampires are real, and the stories are inaccurate, but vampires reacted to things like Dracula and Masquerade the same way the mafia reacted to The Godfather and now actively try to play out the tropes

batmanisagatewaydrug

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

i-am-cybersmith

The thing is, Astrology USED to work. We know that it used to work because there were many written records of people using it to answer extremely important questions.

As it has aged, however, the Universe became less magical.

This is a consequence of the Dirac Large Numbers Theorem.

The laws of the universe are not fixed with regard to time.

In General, we've seen things become LESS magical, through various mechanisms.

Astrology became increasingly less reliable due to the Precession of the Equinoxes.

The powers of the follwers of Pythia (later the Sisterhood of Karn) were dimished by Rassilon's Anchoring of the Thread at the temple of Atropos.

The mystical ElectroWeak force split into the more mundane electromagnetism and weak nuclear interactions as temperatures dropped below the unification threshold; diminishing all thaumatic rituals and spells connected to ElectroWeak power.

It's notable that we can't say for certain that this process is irreversible. already, we may have passed "peak rationality". The world may be returning to an age of wonder and superstition; indeed, generative AI makes strict materialist epistemology far less practical.

If the Old Gods return, we may find ourselves glad that we preserved the secret knowledge of Astrology, even if only as a curiosity. The stars might not be finished with us yet.

ironmyrmidon

Great, human pet guy is going to explain the nature of reality to us

batmanisagatewaydrug

god. I really can't have one normal day on here.

galahadwilder

It took me until Karn to realize he was roleplaying Doctor Who

sandersstudies

I only hate certain types of fic the same way I hate mosquitos and ticks. Like get these nasty little buggers away from me but also I respect their place in the ecosystem.

sandersstudies

Me, spraying bug spray: blocked.

sandersstudies

Listen and sometimes? To enjoy running through a beautiful field of grass and flowers (ao3) you have to tolerate the fact that bugs (fics you don’t like) are there and maybe you will even encounter one, but you can use bugspray (filtered tags) to reduce the likelihood of that. Because the alternative is not getting to experience the beautiful field of grass and flowers.

ahotknife

popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something

realvoided

Not to be rude but you think our current pop culture ISNT sexualized enough? All we have is sexual content and it’s not even quality. Just because it’s not the exact aesthetic of eroticism that you prefer doesn’t mean that something is “lost”, it’s just done differently

ahotknife

there’s a difference between eroticism and sexualization ☝️🤓 we have too much sexualization and not enough eroticism. eroticism is suggestive, not overtly sexual. i know you don’t realize this but you’re actually kind of agreeing with me. we have too much low quality over sexualized content with no meat or context or purpose. everybody needs to put their clothes back on and start staring at each other from across crowded rooms NOW! 🫵

darling-shrike

That article sums it up perfectly tbh

The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.

aromantic-diaries

On one side we have "but aro/ace people can still date/have sex" being told to people who don't want any of that and on the other side we have "but how can you be aro/ace if you've dated/had sex before" to people who are either actually romance/sex favorable or they've tried it but ended up not liking it

lyra-weis

What if?

Jinu's salvation

littlestpersimmon

I live in complete poverty and disability. Trying to make art to sell as prints as I am not getting commissions the way I used to. I am disabled and diabetic, immunocompromised from recent surgery, and I live in a traditional filipino house partially destroyed by storms and termites. I work 3 jobs, but they are all very unstable. Please please please, if you've ever derived joy from my art or insight from my posts or book recs, if you could pick up a print, send a tip, or subscribe to my patreon where I have 400+ exclusive drawings / early access, it would help keep me alive, in the most literal sense. I have been given a second chance at life, and I would like to keep living. Thank you so much