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BucolicVisage said:
imagine finding your father’s reddit account and and seeing this :lunacy:

the children of millenials are going to be the most fucked up generation ever to exist
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I wonder if people in the Millennial generation have trouble compartmentalizing themselves. This naked rage at being denied total freedom is sometimes a normal thing to feel as a parent, but for most parents it's stuck in the back of their heads, recognized as a part of their Id that has to be integrated with the rest of the personality, -the love, the pride, the sense of duty, etc. For this guy, it seems to be front and center- the dominant component. For his kids' sake, I hope he either bails on the family before pulling a John List on them, or sees a therapist who can help him release the pressure valve in some way.
 
HomerSimpson said:
Imagine simping for a videogame character that also suck.
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Didn't you guys do that for Joel in LOU2?

If you want to fap to Saints Row characters, there's more than enough porn of every female in it.
 
Thorgrim Grudgebearer said:

r/teenagers - [NSFW] Ladies and gents, I just made out with a girl.

2,313 votes and 297 comments so far on Reddit
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Welp, that's peak reddit I suppose
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Fun fact about r/teenagers:
A year or so ago, before they were completely cucked by admins and no longer allowed anything but emoji-posts, /r/drama's moderators thought it'd be funny to ban everyone who had /r/teenagers in their comment history for being underage.
The result was a flood of modmails from men in their 30's-40's asking why they'd been banned.
That place is basically /r/grooming and I expect that entire exchange was between sweaty middle-aged horndogs.
 
RabidWombat said:
Didn't you guys do that for Joel in LOU2?

If you want to fap to Saints Row characters, there's more than enough porn of every female in it.
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Joel was atleast a decent character untill they butchered him by Neil Druckmans muscle waifu and shitty writing.

Edit: And dont fucking @ me about that sex scene. I dont need to know a someone on reddit actually got off to that scene and wrote a text about why Abby needed this scene and devs should do this to remove the big bust women sexy appeal from gamers.
 
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Basement Dwelling Dork said:
Joel was atleast a decent character untill they butchered him by Neil Druckmans muscle waifu and shitty writing.
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The voice actress was getting death threats over that. I call that simping, and it's faggotry no matter how good the character was. It's no different from little old ladies calling in death threats to my local station because a character got killed on a soap opera.
 
RabidWombat said:
The voice actress was getting death threats over that. I call that simping, and it's faggotry no matter how good the character was. It's no different from little old ladies calling in death threats to my local station because a character got killed on a soap opera.
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oh shit I didn't know about that.
 
BugMe said:
Ended up on reddit for the first time in a long time due to this thread. Every time I check it out it gets worse and worse. Are 1/3 of comments just bots?
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Wu-Terf Clan said:
They are actually. The site started with bots and fake users(Source). Even now, at least half of the posts on the frontpage are bots (Source)
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I'd put it more at about 80%, pretty much like twitter. Probably higher than twitter in fact, since reddit provides convenient public APIs, official SDKs and openly encourages bots. Twitter just sort of "tolerates" them publicly while quietly encouraging them in private.

Boss Bass said:
Why bot comments, when you can bot votes?
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Why not both?

Reddit is a propaganda platform disguised as an advertising platform disguised as an internet forum. Both propaganda and advertising are more effective when there's an impression of widespread support for (and agreement with) the message -- the appearance of consensus. "Everyone else agrees, so why don't you?" and "Everybody's buying Widget Blue(tm), so don't you want one too?"

The more "organic" it seems, the more convincing it is and the less likely it is that people will detect the manipulation. Bots make it a lot easier to generate organic-looking reddit-style conversations with a lot less human labor. As we've seen with examples just in this thread, GPT2 is more than enough to produce convincing interactions in reddit's format -- a comment, a few replies, a few replies to those replies, and so on to about 4 or 5 levels deep. Throw twenty or so instances of it at a post and you've got yourself some nice "organic" conversations with a couple hundred comments, generated within a matter of minutes.

You don't want them to get posted all at once, so they need to be posted at intervals. You ideally need thousands of accounts posting these "organic" conversations, but because reddit has pretty forgiving API rate limits you can run a veritable army of bots from a single IP and just farm out the comments to them for posting over the next few hours. And since they're all aware of each other, they can of course go upvote all of their brethren's comments for that extra bit of fresh-squeezed organic juice.

Meanwhile those GPT2 instances can just keep cranking out new organic conversations for an endless stream of threads across whatever subs you want to target. GPT3 is far more convincing (it enabled all that naughty underaged text pr0n in that AI dungeon thing after all), but reddit users are fucking idiots and GPT2 does a fine job. And unlike GPT3 which requires a big-ass cluster, GPT2 can run on a desktop GPU.

So, instead of renting your own fifty cent army at great expense you can just stack up some modestly-spec'ed PCs to run the GPT2 models and let your digital army of bots run on a pile of raspberry Pis. An outlay of about $10k or so up front (or zero if you use AWS and can afford about $1k a month) and you too can drive the reddit propaganda engine, reaching millions of people around the world with fresh, easily pliable minds made of clay waiting to be told what to believe, who to cancel, what to buy and what to consume.
 
Well, it’s official.

Reddit says we can’t listen to the already previous released Kanye West album, DONDA.

Because of.... reasons?

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This last one seals the deal. Looks like we might have to pack it up. It’s over (:_(

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All this talk about how the internet used to be this crazy and wild place where people would say outrages things is making me wonder why has it all changed? What made people shift so much from shit posting, to every person with a shallow understanding of politics feeling the need to share their thoughts all the time.

I’m not saying politics was never discussed on the internet before, but nowadays people take themselves and their opinions too seriously.
 
emptyblu said:
All this talk about how the internet used to be this crazy and wild place where people would say outrages things is making me wonder why has it all changed? What made people shift so much from shit posting, to every person with a shallow understanding of politics feeling the need to share their thoughts all the time.

I’m not saying politics was never discussed on the internet before, but nowadays people take themselves and their opinions too seriously.
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Suddenly, people found out they can gain money and power by being disingenuous on the internet. Shitposting is great, but wouldn't you rather force your ideals by rigging the system on everyone else? It's for a good cause after all!
 
emptyblu said:
All this talk about how the internet used to be this crazy and wild place where people would say outrages things is making me wonder why has it all changed? What made people shift so much from shit posting, to every person with a shallow understanding of politics feeling the need to share their thoughts all the time.

I’m not saying politics was never discussed on the internet before, but nowadays people take themselves and their opinions too seriously.
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it's because losers who have nothing to live for now think they're important, and then they gather other losers to do the same thing. and then the cwc wiki was created to document these people
 
emptyblu said:
What made people shift so much from shit posting, to every person with a shallow understanding of politics feeling the need to share their thoughts all the time.

I’m not saying politics was never discussed on the internet before, but nowadays people take themselves and their opinions too seriously.
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Entitlement and shallowness has become championed for the sake of having an identity, or anyone having integrity. The Internet just boosted it in a way where it’s the safe way to be trendy without doing much of anything.
 
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