"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[Anti Snigger]

I've thought about how I'm going to handle the internet with my kids a fair bit. I don't think cutting them off from it is an option, because I know as a teen my instinct was to rebel against my parents, and I wouldn't want them to be isolated from their peers. I think the best thing I can hope for is to give them the skills and love to not to need validation from social media, to build enough mutual trust and respect to where if they do make a mistake, they know that they can talk to me and get help.
My main goal as a parent will be to ensure that my kids know that my number one priority is keeping them safe, and that they can always read me in if they get in over their head. They might get in trouble, I might be disappointed, but they will always know they can rely on me.

 

[Sneeds]

I had to watch the Stellar Blade voices video again on a bigger screen and I just started laughing my ass off. The Puerto Rican guy had the less cringe video imo. Also he sounds like a gay white guy lmao.

 

[the gouts]

Wealthy white Louisiana residents win right to form their own city and split from poorer black neighborhoods in landmark court ruling after a 10-year battle - Critics of the new city say the plan is 'racist' and will create a 'white enclave'
Yeah, you're gonna have to work extra hard to unravel this, my fellow White Person. Be sure to make time in between unraveling everything else about the country.

twelve percent of the city's population is black, half of the city's school population is black, and baton rouge had seen an influx of migrants 200,000 strong after hurricane katrina. it sounds like a variety of factors come into play here and an equally various number of intentions on the part of both sides.

I've thought about how I'm going to handle the internet with my kids a fair bit.

a desktop computer would be a good start. have it be in a singular point in the household where you could visually monitor their activity should the need be, as they wouldn't be able to take the entire set up into their bedroom to hide something. they'll also learn some tech literacy skills, which is surprisingly on the downturn as of recent, because most kids have these retard-proof super accessible tablets they can just talk into and be delivered their content instead of at least having to use the keyboard to type something out in a search bar.

 

[LiminalHeaven]

I don't get to see beautiful women in real life so you better not take my right to see them in video games!!!!! On game pass I am playing Diablo IV. The people on this game look like ones you would see in the line at the DMV. The demons and hell spawn are accurate for where I live so I want fantasy. If I wanted ugly subhuman people that look like demons and a park with dead trees and post apocalyptic look I would just go outside. Also pitbulls barking at me with piggoblins trying to keep them from breaking the leash to attack me.

I am a peaceful but angry INCEL. GIVE ME MY SIMULATED WOMEN!!!!

 

[FamicomGorby]

Rate me late if someone explained it in a superchat but Null asked about DSP's "Level 1 Podcast" on the last MATI.

For years on Phil's streams he would spend like an hour to two hours ranting about gaming stuff and his schedule as a "prestream" segment. In addition he has always let his stream run about fifteen to thirty minutes where he doesn't say anything and just has shitty remixes people have made out of stuff he's said playing. Basically imagine listening to this for fifteen minutes while DSP lurks in the chat to ban detractors.

After Keemstar made fun of Phil and said that he was "stuck on level one", Phil rebranded the prestream segment that he always did as "The Level 1 Podcast". He's used a variety of intros for it, made by his fans and one that was made by a troll, but is just him renaming something that he was already doing. As to why he picked that name, DSP's major cope is he's happy to be "on level one" and that he has a loving fat wife, who refuses to do coop streams with him now, and is a proud cat dad. So he's essentially trying to just take what Keem said and own it in the most retarded and laziest way possible.

 

[LiminalHeaven]

With AI you can create the perfect woman for you. Here is the perfect woman for an ASS man.

Spoiler: NSFW and really weird

 

[CrispyLegs]

“I forgot the hamster but that’s ok” no it’s not Josh it’s simply unacceptable

 

[Wodanaz]

This entire segment was fucking legendary. An unvarnished truth telling voice amidst the dark seas of ignorance and apathy. I had to clip it out.

twelve percent of the city's population is black

Wow that's an interesting statistic. Let's apply it to a map of homicides.

Wow that's interesting, the southeastern area that denotes the new city with less black people has less murder. Damn, I am going to have to put on my big boy hat and think big thoughts about the many and varied socio-economic factors to determine the root cause of this issue. I believe I'm going to spend so much time thinking about this, that the new city will be overrun by the same niggers who ruined the last one before I come to a conclusion, because I am a mentally ill westoid. Feels good to be on the right side of history or something.

 

[Grace Cock Soup]

•snip•

Yeah, I also went and read the article. People should generally minimize their dairy consumption, not because some gay shit about the Earth or animal rights or because (((they))) want you to. But because it's mostly fat+sugar and contains hormones that aren't good for your long term health. Milk is literally baby food so maybe there's a correlation between it and why some people act petulant when it's suggested it's time to come off the teat.
It's too bad that article buried a good health tip in a mountain of soyboy clickbait

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Why is it that back then no one had any issues with this iteration of Lara with her huge jiggly badonkadonks?

Shit she wasn't jiggly at the beginning, she was the Pyramids at Gaza brought to life. And there was huge issues and controversy; but nobody who mattered paid them any heed.

 

[Slav Power]

she was the Pyramids at Gaza brought to life

Not on the covers she wasn't, the technology back then didn't limit what you could've render on an SGI machine and print on a piece of paper.

Hey, back then, the cover was the first thing you knew about the game before you played it, unless you've gawked at the low resolution screenshot prints in video game magazines.

Also, I believe Toby Gard had full creative control on Lara's redesign for Legend and he wasn't exactly objected to making her a caricature of female body proportions. After all, back then games were developed by white nerds for white nerds, and those always had the tendency to like some extra sized melons.

The point is, sexualized female characters in video games have been around since forever, yet only now it's becoming this incredibly contentious topic with the discourse around Stellar Blade being the peak of retardation.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Hey, back then, the cover was the first thing you knew about the game before you played it, unless you've gawked at the low resolution screenshot prints in video game magazines.

From what I remember, most of the "box art" around the time (when women were involved) was already pretty 'tits out' - the big feature of Tomb Raider was that they were actually trying to render that in-game, so the low-res screenshots were why there was so much talk about it.

Either way, it didn't affect the sales; in fact, Tomb Raider would have sold for shit (as did some previous "titty" games that tried to sell on that alone) if it were not a good game.

That's the main thing people forget; marketing and design is in support of a good game, many of these high-budget games just aren't very good.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

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This entire segment was fucking legendary. An unvarnished truth telling voice amidst the dark seas of ignorance and apathy. I had to clip it out.

Wow that's an interesting statistic. Let's apply it to a map of homicides.
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Wow that's interesting, the southeastern area that denotes the new city with less black people has less murder. Damn, I am going to have to put on my big boy hat and think big thoughts about the many and varied socio-economic factors to determine the root cause of this issue. I believe I'm going to spend so much time thinking about this, that the new city will be overrun by the same niggers who ruined the last one before I come to a conclusion, because I am a mentally ill westoid. Feels good to be on the right side of history or something.

Thank God I wasn't born a gamer. I couldn't imagine living as a class that is so oppressed. My non-gamer privilege has shaped my opinions though, I'm sure I will never truly understand the struggles they face day to day.

People should generally minimize their dairy consumption, not because some gay shit about the Earth or animal rights or because (((they))) want you to. But because it's mostly fat+sugar and contains hormones that aren't good for your long term health. Milk is literally baby food so maybe there's a correlation between it and why some people act petulant when it's suggested it's time to come off the teat.
It's too bad that article buried a good health tip in a mountain of soyboy clickbait

I won't stand for this anticheese rhetoric!

 

[Peewee Herman]

I don't want people to have to give up privacy because parents can't get their shit together.

I agree with this completely why should I have to give up my freedom or privacy because some fat retard parent failed to responsibly raise a kid?

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

>wtf he doesn't have social media, he must be hiding something

its literally this. They actually think you're the crazy one because you don't upload your entire life for the world to gaze upon on various social medias. I rather be a mad hermit than what passes for "Sane" with this generation of fools.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

https://scnr.com/article/hobby-gunsmith-in-nyc-convicted-after-judge-declares-second-amendment-doesnt-exist-in-her-courtroom_bf9095fc012f11ef9c930242ac1c0002

Oh yeah. If you want something decently anger inducing this article could be a good one.

Or one of the others on this.

"You can't argue the second ammendment, this is new york"

 

[Gorton Colu]

its literally this. They actually think you're the crazy one because you don't upload your entire life for the world to gaze upon on various social medias. I rather be a mad hermit than what passes for "Sane" with this generation of fools.

I've had this happen to me before. In my experience, you defeat these attitudes with mild pompous condescension or blasé indifference.

Doesn't always work, but theyre better than the cringing excuse making I've seen before when someone is asked why they don't have social media.

 

[Rent Tin]

If you act like an autist when people ask why you don't use social media of course people are going to have an attitude that it is only weirdos that don't use it.

Whenever anyone asks me I just say "Just don't have the time nowadays" or "Just don't see much point to it" and that's usually enough to get someone to go "Huh, okay, cool" and move onto the next topic.

The average Joe is not interested in hearing about concerns regarding privacy, targeted advertising to manipulate opinions, etc. and if they are concerned about those things you'll likely be able to convince them a lot better over a beer after work. But to do this you can't come across as a condescending weirdo, and that's too hard for most privacy advocates.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Yeah, I also went and read the article. People should generally minimize their dairy consumption, not because some gay shit about the Earth or animal rights or because (((they))) want you to. But because it's mostly fat+sugar and contains hormones that aren't good for your long term health. Milk is literally baby food so maybe there's a correlation between it and why some people act petulant when it's suggested it's time to come off the teat.
It's too bad that article buried a good health tip in a mountain of soyboy clickbait

I only drink the colostrum straight from the cow's udders, and it has extended my life by hundreds of years. I should've died when the Byzantine Empire fell, but my body has been calcified against time itself.

Got milk? Bish.

If you act like an autist when people ask why you don't use social media of course people are going to have an attitude that it is only weirdos that don't use it.

Whenever anyone asks me I just say "Just don't have the time nowadays" or "Just don't see much point to it" and that's usually enough to get someone to go "Huh, okay, cool" and move onto the next topic.

The average Joe is not interested in hearing about concerns regarding privacy, targeted advertising to manipulate opinions, etc. and if they are concerned about those things you'll likely be able to convince them a lot better over a beer after work. But to do this you can't come across as a condescending weirdo, and that's too hard for most privacy advocates.

I don't think anyone has been preaching the virtues of needing to convert people into being anti-social media, because of privacy concerns, just that it is why some of us don't care to use it (me in particular). Most of us do exactly the same thing as you, and just give a vague but acceptable response to the question. The condescension in your post is particularly ironic since you seem to be bitching about it.

 

[Slav Power]

If you act like an autist when people ask why you don't use social media of course people are going to have an attitude that it is only weirdos that don't use it.

Whenever anyone asks me I just say "Just don't have the time nowadays" or "Just don't see much point to it" and that's usually enough to get someone to go "Huh, okay, cool" and move onto the next topic.

The average Joe is not interested in hearing about concerns regarding privacy, targeted advertising to manipulate opinions, etc. and if they are concerned about those things you'll likely be able to convince them a lot better over a beer after work. But to do this you can't come across as a condescending weirdo, and that's too hard for most privacy advocates.

Or just say that you're old fashioned and that you can always be contacted via SMS. I only ever made a Facebook account to message people, and now I've dropped that and tell people to either use SMS or Signal to contact me, to give a little nudge towards the alternative.