Posts made by WTFE

@Coin said in Emotional separation from fictional content:

lulzwhut at hating hashtags.

Like, I get it, a lot of people are supremely annoying with their (ab)use of hashtags, but what hashtags actually are are just an easy coded/visual was to recognize tags, which have been around for. fucking. ever.

Hashtags was just coders finding a symbol that wasn't widely used and applying it for a purpose, much the same way we use @ here to activate the code that calls up usernames, and how if you preface an active username with @ you get a link to their profile, and they get notified.

I'm just like, lulzwhut, hating hashtags. You can be grumpy about people who abuse them or tag stupid shit, but the hashtag is functional within the structure of how the internet and social media work.

Now, if you hate the internet or social media, well, have I got bad news for yoooooooooooooooooooou...

Tagging is fine conceptually, but hashtags in particular are inextricably linked to social media dog piles of stupidity for me, not to mention the absolute worse, most toxic forms of slacktivism. It's impossible for me to separate my hatred of the slacktivists who popularized #foo from the # by now; not after seeing so much stupid flow across my screen--despite my best efforts to avoid it!--for so many years.

I was wondering when someone would catch on.

Fucking brilliant. Spread the single dumbest thing to have come out of the Internet even farther. Bravo!

Anybody who reads an unmoderated comments section (and about 95% of the moderated ones) gets what they deserve.

Don't read the comments. It's a basic rule of the modern Internet.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Does that mean you're going to shut up about "microaggressions" then?

I seriously don't know what that word means anymore.

It means the same thing it has always meant: "microaggression (n): unimportance inflated into importance by people too sheltered to deserve continued life"

My Maomorabilia collection has expanded:

@Derp said in RL things I love:

Drachenfutter

It literally means 'Dragon Food'.

Dragon fodder, actually. I learned the hard way as a child not to refer to humans eating as "futtern".

@Meg said in RL Anger:

@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:

why is his mental health any less valuable then the couples.

If you truly don't understand why speaking up (even without DIRECTLY SPEAKING TO THE MAN) because their mental health in /this exact situation/ is /yes more FRAGILE not VALUABLE/ then-- I sincerely can't add anything else to this conversation.

Does that mean you're going to shut up about "microaggressions" then?

(Hint: probably not.)

@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:

This should shock no one but my resting facial expression leads people to think I am angry and upset when I am emotionally neutral or bored.

It's true. Here's his resting face:

@SG said in RL Anger:

Is vaping anything like using a hooka?

No. Hookas still use smoke, after all, bringing all the extra bullshit from the smoke along with it: fine particulate carbon, tar, CO, etc. Vaping is far less harmful than anything involving combustion byproducts.

@EUBanana said in Difficulty of single-player computer games:

Video games really, though to varying degrees, I know quite a few who play them quite rarely and probably wouldn't self describe as "gamers".

Meet the male person who hates video games, then. How do you do?

Oh, full disclosure: I tried vaping. Me being who I am, I got caffeine vape sticks, not nicotine. It wasn't unpleasant. It wasn't especially pleasant either. I won't be repeating the experience.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

This isn't a smokers vs vapers debate. There's no sense arguing that smoking is bad. We know that. We also, or rather I also, don't care. I like it, I'm gonna keep doing it.

And, despite being a non-smoker, and despite thinking that most tobacco (specifically cigarettes and cheap cigars) smells like ass, I actually support you in this ... provided you're not where I must be (like the workplace). You're in the same realm as people who wear shitty perfume as far as I'm concerned: it's a personal choice, just please make it away from me. (And I'll burn my incense far away from you in return…;) I think some of my fellow non-smokers are total and complete fucking assholes. (Like some of my fellow atheists, only somehow more off-putting. Yes, more off-putting than capital-A Atheists. I have no idea how they accomplish this!)

The point is this: Smoking is bad. Vaping is also bad. Doesn't matter if it's the same bad, slightly less bad, or more bad. It's still fuckin' bad. The smoker's behaviour has been, as you want to say, beaten into them. Persons that vape need to adopt a similar behaviour. That is the entirety of the discussion.

I'll be alongside you swinging fists at asshole vapers, trust me. All I addressed was Gany's claim that vaping was "just as bad" as smoking for those around them. I'm pretty sure the science isn't in on that at all and what little there is says it's not as bad on the surroundings as smoking is. That's the entirety of what I said that started this whole kerfuffle.

@Tinuviel They don't offer those at your university?

@Tinuviel That is another question too. I used to be a gamer (non-video) in the latter sense. Now I'm more a gamer (non-video) in the former sense.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@WTFE There was an article I read somewhere (I'll see if I can find it when I have time) that said the heating element might be unstable enough for copper particles to leech into the fluid it's heating, and thus will be breathed in (potentially causing problems) and breathed out (also potentially causing problems.) The 'phenomenon' of vaping is too new and the studies too poorly funded for us to know anything for certain right now.

So as of right now we're working in the dark on vaping whereas the hazards of smoking have been well-documented since the '50s.

The main point, though, is that smokers generally will move, or seclude themselves, or whatever. Not out of shame, but out of decades of developed decency.

Decades of having decency beaten into them, ITYM. Keep in mind that I lived through the transition from "almost everybody smokes" to "smoking is done between consenting adults in the privacy of their own home". Smokers not all that long ago were complete and utter fuckwits who needed the legal beatdown they got.

Persons who vape seem, from my own limited experience and with one or two exceptions, to want people to know they vape. And to demonstrate "ooh how cool" it is.

So like smokers in the '60s and '70s?

@EUBanana said in Difficulty of single-player computer games:

@Rook Jeez. I don't think I know any man who isn't a gamer, at least in some degree!

Define "gamer" here? If you mean video games, I'm emphatically not a gamer. We could get together over a beer and then you'd know a man who isn't a gamer.

If you mean the broader sense of RPGs/wargames/board games/card games/etc. then I'm definitely a gamer.

Well I was specifically addressing "likely just as damaging to others" (emphasis mine) part of your claim. I have no doubt that vaping is bad for the vaper; I just think it's likely less bad than smoking (based on admittedly limited knowledge). But for others, I'm pretty sure almost positive it's a whole lot less bad.

Smokers have had a basic sense of courtesy beaten into them by years and years and years of being pushed away from civilized society. Vapers and people who wear obnoxious amounts of perfume are next.

@Sparks said in RL Anger:

Anyway, vaping's probably a lot better than normal cigarettes, you're not wrong. But it's not harmless, either ...

Well, I don't claim it's harmless. I was just dubious of "it's just as bad as cigarettes" since by all accounts this is emphatically not true.