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TheSpookiestUser

@ TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world

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3 yr. ago

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1y ago

We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 1y ago
Garliclike

1y ago

Social Experiment [Rule]

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 1y ago

Blueberry

1y ago

When you do an online campaign

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 1y ago

Whenever anyone has been quiet for too long, I try to nudge them with "hey, if you've been speaking we can't hear you" - it's happened to me too many times already

2y ago

Ask Ouija is just a very slow distributed LLM

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

2y ago

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

Because Reddit is in the unique position where a small amount of users can affect a vast swathe of their platform - moderators.

Most mods don't care, by volume. The ones that do are often also the ones that are more active, more engaged, and more entwined with communities outside Reddit.

During the protest last year, polls come back favorably pretty much everywhere to shut down - but after the shutdown actually happened, a tidal wave of lurkers who never vote and never comment came out of the woodwork to complain and call it all stupid. Public opinion of all users is likely against practically any protest that could happen.

I don't like it, but that's how it is. The best realistic outcome is that a large contingent of content creators and more informed users leave the site - but how many of those are left that haven't already vamoosed and are still willing to leave under some unknown worse circumstance?

2y ago

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

Not in any way the average user cares much about.

The causal social media user cares for two things:

A constant uninterrupted stream of content
Dopamine in the form of upvotes/likes/what have you

If these two things aren't interupted, 90% of users won't care.

2y ago

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

Let's be honest with ourselves - no, it won't be wildly unpopular. This change affects very few people and the people still using Reddit at this point likely won't care much, and I have doubt any future change would cause much outrage either.

Because think about this - who is actively complaining and gnashing their teeth about the continued downward spiral and still scrolling, posting, moderating there at this point? I'd love to believe more people would jump ship - but if it ever happened it would take a far larger-scope fuckup than anything we've seen so far.

2y ago

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

There is a point where more users may bring more downsides than upsides - but we haven't reached that point yet. There are still many many niche communities that have no equivalent here and starting them would never take off with the current number of people.

2y ago

If seeing someone 4 days consecutively is seeing them 4 days in a row, does that mean seeing someone every Monday of a month is seeing them 4 days in a column?

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

2y ago

Pls don't do that

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

People that don't check what community a post came from on their home feed and just upvote it if they like it.

Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It's very easy to miss sometimes

2y ago

Why can blocked users still see and comment on my fucking posts?

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

Isn't the way it works now also a debate winner? The blocked user can reply to you and you won't even know, so you can't refute whatever they've said (and if you've blocked them there's decent odds it isn't good).

2y ago

Time Machine

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

This is what happens when you step on the wrong bug a couple million years ago

2y ago

Tired of subtlety rule

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

In my DnD group, my goblin wizard still holds the honor of being the only party member the DM has used Power Word Kill on.

I'm honored.

2y ago

"White Dudes for Harris" X suspension sparks fury: "Election interference"

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

we have to go back to our roots

2y ago

There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

I often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We're well overdue.

2y ago

Beach Day [admiralwonderboat]

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

Bring a book or some headphones and knock out a podcast. Or drink, whatever works

2y ago

What games did you have a good time with that you just never finished?

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TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world 2y ago

Baldur's Gate 3.

I played through one single player save and two multiplayer ones with different groups, enjoyed it all - but only got a little ways into Act 3 on any one save. A combination of middling performance with my older rig and just having sank so much time in I burnt out a little.