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Cake day: February 12th, 2024

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  • I just think it’s funny how being kind to front line workers, because they aren’t the people being assholes, is one of the most common memes on social media. Now though, because people are caught up in the hype, they’ve completely forgotten their own ideals and lash out at those they have previously declared to be their friends.

    This is the kind of behaviour that leads to religion, because having an actual hard coded set of rules gives the victim the ability to point to something physical to say “hey, we’re supposed to be your friends jackasses” when these sorts of things happen.



  • I think your argument relates closely to something I’ve noticed happening over and over with more than just game developers. Far too often I see people expressing frustration that the Internet doesn’t give them more accurate information about the real world. Way too many people, apparently including many of the richest and most powerful people alive, have come to see the Internet as a magical machine that will do anything they want it to do… if only people would use it differently! Like, they legitimately seem to expect the entire population to post their entire lives online, unfiltered, so they can be used as automatons by people they’ve never even met.