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[Bender]

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Does this beat the Soylent bottle post on Reddit, or no?

That has to be satire, please tell me it's satire.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

That has to be satire, please tell me it's satire.

It isn’t. I have seen this man multiple times while looking for content for the r/polyamory thread, which has plenty more poly cringe if you’re interested.

 

[AnOminous]

Lisa Simpson just makes it that more obnoxious.

It makes it even worse that you're using an 8 year old girl to defend your disgusting bestiality cult.

https://www.reddit.com/user/ryu289

New candidate for the most pathetic user of reddit. Gamergate, Comicsgate, Trump, and Christianity all live in his head rent... free

He's also a furfag.
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/ryu289/ https://archive.vn/XXTHZ
And the autism central known as spacebattles.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/ryu289.415816/ https://archive.vn/ILbpz

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

I lost a high karma burner to shadowbanning simply for joining a mask skepticism group. I was just observing.


A psychic couldn't predict what kind of wrongthink will get you disappeared or ignored these days.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

I lost a high karma burner to shadowbanning simply for joining a mask skepticism group. I was just observing.


A psychic couldn't predict what kind of wrongthink will get you disappeared or ignored these days.

Reddit's rules on shadow bans are kept secret because they're authoritarian dicks who want to seem friendly. Users have pieced together the clues, and some of the things that get users shadow banned truly make no sense.

Subreddit jannies have creepily invasive mechanisms for censorship. Just joining, or even making a single comment, in a "bad" subreddit will get you automatically banned in various of subreddits, and there is nothing you can do about it. Even if you replied to something in a sub to condemn it, jannies still add you to a list of "bad people". They take guilt by association to extremes.

 

[God Emperor]

Spoiler: Long Meandering Reddit Rant

I've been on Reddit for over a decade now, and it's just... too depressing to keep trying to post there.

It was once a pretty great website, mostly filled with academics, nerds, and tech enthusiasts who overwhelmingly just discussed news articles (fairly nonpartisan too, I might add).

I'm not some hardcore alt-right conservative, I don't belong to any controversial subreddits, I don't shitpost or break any of the rules of the website - back in the day, I would have been considered left-wing by the majority of the members of the site.

Nonetheless, I've recently been permanently banned from the few places I've been posting in for years, I've been stalked and harassed by moderators who have threatened to reveal my personal information, and a full third of my comments have been removed in the last month without any explanation or warning.

One of the moderators of a regional subreddit I frequented was also a moderator of various other subreddits, including ones dedicated to living with mental illness... when I mentioned that there was a blind corner in our neighbourhood, where you can't really see oncoming traffic or pedestrians and you just have to go slowly and hope for the best, she accused me of deliberately trying to kill people with my vehicle and replied to every post I made from that point on with personal attacks and downvotes.

With enough complaining, I got the other moderators to start deleting her replies, but every comment I made from that point on would immediately have a half dozen downvotes no matter their content.

She remains the moderator of that subreddit.

I'm an older person, and while I can't speak to every topic with authority, there are some to which I am genuinely an expert owing to my profession, education, and experience; even when discussing these issues, even when I am polite and include citations and references for all of my points, I am often downvoted, ridiculed, and even censored.

I went years without ever encountering these kinds of issues, but they've become more and more common over time, and now it's simply not worth trying to fight for the scraps of real dialogue hidden in the mountains of crap, it's downright exhausting.

Anyways, the long and the short of it is that the site sucks now.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

Spoiler: Long Meandering Reddit Rant

I've been on Reddit for over a decade now, and it's just... too depressing to keep trying to post there.

It was once a pretty great website, mostly filled with academics, nerds, and tech enthusiasts who overwhelmingly just discussed news articles (fairly nonpartisan too, I might add).

I'm not some hardcore alt-right conservative, I don't belong to any controversial subreddits, I don't shitpost or break any of the rules of the website - back in the day, I would have been considered left-wing by the majority of the members of the site.

Nonetheless, I've recently been permanently banned from the few places I've been posting in for years, I've been stalked and harassed by moderators who have threatened to reveal my personal information, and a full third of my comments have been removed in the last month without any explanation or warning.

One of the moderators of a regional subreddit I frequented was also a moderator of various other subreddits, including ones dedicated to living with mental illness... when I mentioned that there was a blind corner in our neighbourhood, where you can't really see oncoming traffic or pedestrians and you just have to go slowly and hope for the best, she accused me of deliberately trying to kill people with my vehicle and replied to every post I made from that point on with personal attacks and downvotes.

With enough complaining, I got the other moderators to start deleting her replies, but every comment I made from that point on would immediately have a half dozen downvotes no matter their content.

She remains the moderator of that subreddit.

I'm an older person, and while I can't speak to every topic with authority, there are some to which I am genuinely an expert owing to my profession, education, and experience; even when discussing these issues, even when I am polite and include citations and references for all of my points, I am often downvoted, ridiculed, and even censored.

I went years without ever encountering these kinds of issues, but they've become more and more common over time, and now it's simply not worth trying to fight for the scraps of real dialogue hidden in the mountains of crap, it's downright exhausting.

Anyways, the long and the short of it is that the site sucks now.

Thanks for sharing. Some of that is fucking disturbing.

Reddit became a completely dogshit site years ago. It's mainstream and corporate, and pretty much attracts the worst types of people. It was once pure and uncensored, now it's a cesspool of echo chambers & the censorship board of reddit has enabled the site's balance to tip far into utter irredeemable retarded faggotry.

The majority of users now are either children, or adults with the minds of children (NEETs, furries, troons, etc.) so everything caters to them. The repost culture is cancerous. But, they also have their own agenda: Just look at who they really ban.

 

[God Emperor]

The repost culture is cancerous. But, they also have their own agenda: Just look at who they really ban.

Every message board since the beginning of the internet has had reposts, I don't begrudge them a little of that, but it is getting WAY out of hand there.

Oftentimes, the entire front page will be screen captures of tweets, instagram, or imgur posts that have been poorly cropped or posted before.

The other day the top post, of the entire fucking site, was a cropped picture of a tweet, of an image, of an apparent budget McDonalds made for their employees; 19.5k upvotes, over 2k comments, and not a single person noticed that the link the original poster provided lead no where and there was no evidence at all that McDonalds had ever even made the damn thing.

No one, not a single comment I could find, even questioned it.

I used to really enjoy r/TodayILearned, I read it every night before going to sleep and shared it with my wife, it was our little ritual - now it's the same 100 or so posts, perpetually being reposted, over and over again.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

Every message board since the beginning of the internet has had reposts, I don't begrudge them a little of that, but it is getting WAY out of hand there.

Oftentimes, the entire front page will be screen captures of tweets, instagram, or imgur posts that have been poorly cropped or posted before.

Yeeeep. That's what I mean by a repost culture. It's not a website that has some reposts in it, it's a website dedicated to posting the same thing every week. I actually don't know how people can stay hardcore regulars on this site, when the same things will stay reposted for at least a month. And as you say, they don't verify for shit, it's just dogpiling into echo chambers.

Reddit, and its sister site, Imgur, have a lot of people who just skim the top posts of the day, then repost them every week, for several months, until no one will upvote them because the memes are not fucking funny at all anymore. You can actually not visit the site for a couple months, and somehow find the same shit at the top when you return. If that doesn't happen, it's the same formula of very specific kinds of reposts from other websites. ("haha relatable" etc.)

I guess it has to do with the majority fanbase being a cesspool. You can post a very nice, polite, accurate, succinct response giving info on a subject you are an expert in, and then get shit on and downvoted.

 

[ditto]

I used to really enjoy r/TodayILearned, I read it every night before going to sleep and shared it with my wife, it was our little ritual - now it's the same 100 or so posts, perpetually being reposted, over and over again.

The same with r/unresolvedmysteries. Years ago there were some really interesting posters that would write up multi-post OC on various obscure mysteries. Those posters were all driven away and now it's the same old mysteries plagiarized from wikipedia posted again and again.

Edit: spelling

 

[nekrataal]

The only good subreddits I’ve been on were outdoor hobby related like r/fishing and r/hunting. I hated the animal keeping subreddits and r/dnd is extremely retarded about things like torrenting PDFs of old TSR modules. I wound up leaving back before things got worse in 2018 and only really lurked the troon subreddits for a good laugh.

 

[God Emperor]

The only good subreddits I’ve been on were outdoor hobby related like r/fishing and r/hunting. I hated the animal keeping subreddits and r/dnd is extremely retarded about things like torrenting PDFs of old TSR modules. I wound up leaving back before things got worse in 2018 and only really lurked the troon subreddits for a good laugh.

Oh don't even get me started on r/dnd... Dungeons and Dragons used to be an honest to goodness subculture, it was about drinking beer and listening to progressive rock while barbarians in loincloths saved buxom damsels from slavering monsters, now it's just post after post of drawings of someone's 'body positive' character with pink hair, who plays in a non-violent co-operative campaign with no Dungeon Master and a list of 'trigger warnings'.

They're actually removing the concept of races from the game, because the idea is now considered offensive, and in a thread on Reddit about why they haven't published the Dark Sun campaign world for 5E yet, it was agreed by all that they never should, because the theme of slavery is too 'problematic'.

In another thread, I was downvoted into oblivion for suggesting that player characters should be capable of dying randomly from making stupid mistakes (apparently, the consensus is that players are too emotionally invested in their characters, and it's cruel to allow them to die, so a Dungeon Master should break the rules and fake dice rolls to protect them at all costs).

That's no longer a fantasy adventure world, filled with challenge and danger, it's collective fanfiction writing.

Dungeons and Dragons used to be an underground punk rock 'zine, and now it's... Pinterest.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

The only good subreddits I’ve been on were outdoor hobby related like r/fishing and r/hunting. I hated the animal keeping subreddits and r/dnd is extremely retarded about things like torrenting PDFs of old TSR modules. I wound up leaving back before things got worse in 2018 and only really lurked the troon subreddits for a good laugh.

/r/magnetfishing and /r/bushcraft too.

 

[AnOminous]

In another thread, I was downvoted into oblivion for suggesting that player characters should be capable of dying randomly from making stupid mistakes (apparently, the consensus is that players are too emotionally invested in their characters, and it's cruel to allow them to die, so a Dungeon Master should break the rules and fake dice rolls to protect them at all costs).

I'll admit I used to sometimes fudge a die roll if the result was incredibly unentertaining but not because the players were a bunch of absolutely worthless pussies too weak to even play a game.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Oh don't even get me started on r/dnd... Dungeons and Dragons used to be an honest to goodness subculture, it was about drinking beer and listening to progressive rock while barbarians in loincloths saved buxom damsels from slavering monsters, now it's just post after post of drawings of someone's 'body positive' character with pink hair, who plays in a non-violent co-operative campaign with no Dungeon Master and a list of 'trigger warnings'.

They're actually removing the concept of races from the game, because the idea is now considered offensive, and in a thread on Reddit about why they haven't published the Dark Sun campaign world for 5E yet, it was agreed by all that they never should, because the theme of slavery is too 'problematic'.

In another thread, I was downvoted into oblivion for suggesting that player characters should be capable of dying randomly from making stupid mistakes (apparently, the consensus is that players are too emotionally invested in their characters, and it's cruel to allow them to die, so a Dungeon Master should break the rules and fake dice rolls to protect them at all costs).

That's no longer a fantasy adventure world, filled with challenge and danger, it's collective fanfiction writing.

Dungeons and Dragons used to be an underground punk rock 'zine, and now it's... Pinterest.

I've seen people argue that races and classes having strengths, weaknesses and limitations was bad game design and that every character should be able to do anything from the start. I mean yeah, it's bad game design if you're say playing a video game where you're playing as only one character and there's a locked door, but since you picked to play as a warrior you can't do shit now, but D'n'D isn't a solo game, it's a group game and people pulled their weight where their characters had strengths and thus covered for other characters' weaknesses.
I think you nailed it square on the head by calling it "collective fanfiction writing", retards just wanna have Mary Sue characters who can break mountains with their fists while also casting powerful spells of doom and not really give a shit about the whole "mechanics" thing. Thing is, there are rules-light RPGs which facilitate that kind of roleplaying, but it seems to be the standard now.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

I've seen people argue that races and classes having strengths, weaknesses and limitations was bad game design and that every character should be able to do anything from the start. I mean yeah, it's bad game design if you're say playing a video game where you're playing as only one character and there's a locked door, but since you picked to play as a warrior you can't do shit now, but D'n'D isn't a solo game, it's a group game and people pulled their weight where their characters had strengths and thus covered for other characters' weaknesses.
I think you nailed it square on the head by calling it "collective fanfiction writing", retards just wanna have Mary Sue characters who can break mountains with their fists while also casting powerful spells of doom and not really give a shit about the whole "mechanics" thing. Thing is, there are rules-light RPGs which facilitate that kind of roleplaying, but it seems to be the standard now.

Another factor here is that: People who actually grew up with this game and other table top RPGs, who are now adults getting into their 30s, they understand how the play the game properly and what level of challenge is required for it to be fun.

These adults are in the minority now. The online culture has effectively been taken over by teenagers (or adults who are still mentally teens) who don't really get the RPG game concept and just want to have a space to act out their tumblr-tier fantasies.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Modern DnD culture is cringe, and I say that as someone looking at it from the outside.

Strengths and weaknesses is bad? Have they never played any game that involved leveling up or character classes before? This isn’t some weird obscure concept.
There’s two games on Neopets with this!

 

[Ledian]

It annoys me that these people act like they need DnD to act out their fantasy adventures. You absolutely do not, they just want to control where the game and its community goes in the future, forcibly.
They can do the RP part of RPG with their fuckbuddies at any time and shoehorn all the stupid shit they want with reckless abandon yet that is apparently not good enough for many.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

I've seen people argue that races and classes having strengths, weaknesses and limitations was bad game design and that every character should be able to do anything from the start. I mean yeah, it's bad game design if you're say playing a video game where you're playing as only one character and there's a locked door, but since you picked to play as a warrior you can't do shit now, but D'n'D isn't a solo game, it's a group game and people pulled their weight where their characters had strengths and thus covered for other characters' weaknesses.
I think you nailed it square on the head by calling it "collective fanfiction writing", retards just wanna have Mary Sue characters who can break mountains with their fists while also casting powerful spells of doom and not really give a shit about the whole "mechanics" thing. Thing is, there are rules-light RPGs which facilitate that kind of roleplaying, but it seems to be the standard now.

I can kind of get it since we're talking about DnD specifically here. DnD's balance has always been horrible, specifically between casters and fighters. Casters have been better at the fighters both in and out of combat for several of the most popular editions. Casters could use a spell to do more damage than non-caster DPS, summon creatures that could tank better than the tank, mind control or buff to be a better face than the face, and do things that are outright impossible for non-casters like bring back the dead, fly, teleport, or practical things like communicate across the continent. And one character could do all that in a day. If one character is better than the rest of the party at their niche it is totally the game's fault.

The later edition's solution of "you're all the same now!" isn't exactly better, but lets not pretend that DnD was well balanced. If one of your class's abilities is "can hit things with a sword OK" and the limitations are "can literally do nothing else" while the other's is "can bend reality at will" with the limitation of "kinda sorta sucks at very low levels" then yeah its the game's fault.

 

[gangweedfan]

I tried starting a thread on the modern RPG community but it kinda died in prospering grounds. Feel free to make another one because I know there is a ton of autism in that community like roll 20 DMs having magical realm style games.