SteveKirk
1mo ago
The Mazda trucking forum went down at one point and I instantly lost the ability to service my truck. You don't realize how important these communities were until they're gone.
It isn't just futa hentai, there's also a disturbing trend with non-sexual yuri (lesbian) stuff.
It attracts boys and failsons who are struggling to be men, feeds them "cute girls doing cute things with other cute girls", barrages them with anti-male propaganda, and sorts them into toxic groomer communities.
Do you remember that famous Tumblr post that went "for all my lovely trans-girls who need to hear this: you do not have the Male Gaze, you cannot Sexually Objectify women, your love is Pure, you are not Gross for looking at women because you are not a man"? Millions of poor boys who fell into the manga/anime tumblr-sphere grew blasted by a firehose of that shit, usually backed up by groomer teachers.
Tumbler's long past its peak now, but the scene has mostly moved to discord, where kid-games-for-autist servers have softcore porn and roleplay channels, and being "queer" gives predators total immunity to rules.
Those communities were actually a lot worse than the porn ones, because A) they didn't exclude minors, B) they enabled predators who pulled the "heckin wholesome trans-girl egg-hatcher uwu" act, and C) got a ton of institutional support from e.g. school librarians trying to bait kids into reading "queer affirming comics' (you can see endless examples of this on librarian reddit)
Source: I knew people in Yuri manga translation, and saw the browser history of a few boys who were getting their first porn from /r/egg_irl reddit predators they met on minecraft discords.
And I know far less about it, but I'm confident there's an equivalent "boys love" pipeline for girls. They're all the same types of awkward weeb girls who read that stuff back when I was in school, but now with support from teachers who groom them into "oh you must be a boy if you like reading about boys so much. Let's get you a haircut and some jeans but don't tell your parents tee hee"
TL;DR if you have a kid who spends too much time on the PC and has started reading weird tranny-adjacent stuff, literally just check his discord account. It's an invasion of privacy, I know, but a potentially lifesaving one. And of course if you see anything furry, it's too late.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Seeing a clarification like this in the comments feed makes me dread scrolling down to see the context of why it was necessary. Good job.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
I'd be interested to see what an imageboard style cw thread would look like. >># links preserve structure without all the excess quoting needed to distinguish individual conversations within forum topics.
Have you come up with an argument for why this should not be done to you instead, since freedom of speech is "worthless at best"?
Why shouldn't anyone who finds you "harmful" or simply irritating get everyone like you kicked off the Internet or arrested? What principle do you have against it?
Btw, can you link the community you moderate, so we can see what your policies look like in practice?
Manipulative and disrespectful. If you're clearly biased and trying to push your audience in one direction, it's more honest to be open about it than try to herd them like cattle.
This is a common habit for "breadtuber' types, seeing their viewers as passive vessels for propaganda.
Noticed you have a similar video about how the "solution" to cancel culture is to "turn the temperature down" so the frog boils slower and social stigma can be used against people more effectively.
You even just assumed that bullying an artist for drawing skinny characters was wrong... just because it wasn't the most effective way to force her to stop, not for any other reason. You smuggle extreme leftist bias into every sentence, and I find the Voxsplaining act viscerally repulsive.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
I gave up keeping chickens years ago, but that might actually work for the slugs and some of the caterpillars. On the other hand a lot of my other brassicas are 3ft tall and still have eggs planted on the young center leaves.
It's a lot of manual work picking through them, especially the very dense test patch (8" spacing vs my usual 18")
was also maybe in some ways a reaction to the realization that economic leftism had little chance of succeeding in America's prosperous society
This was far more of a factor than any shock about Stalin. Remember, they switched to supporting mao and the Khmer Rouge right after, so it's not like a few famines and executions upset them.
The whole point of third world maoist new leftism was that the working class of Western countries had betrayed the revolution and were now class enemies just like the capitalists. The French like Sartre and Fanon* made this explicit, the weathermen and the rest of the "days of rage" gang followed, and ultimately we got "Settlers: the myth of the white proletariat" calling for the extermination of oppressor races.
This is also the answer to the question "why do they love Haitians so much", which I've been meaning to post cites for.
Leftists sneering at people for noticing this while they literally have "read Settlers!!!" in their twitter bios is one reason I've moved from thinking debate is possible and healthy to a completely exterminationist stance.
* "Sartre began to argue that the European working classes were too apolitical to carry out the revolution predicated by Marx, and influenced by Frantz Fanon started to argue it was the impoverished masses of the Third World, the "real damned of the earth", who would carry out the revolution"
Been meaning to try writing about this, but it always comes out as old man yelling at clouds.
When I was a kid there was a ton of autistic joy in civ micromanagement, building recycling tanks in every city, telling which pop to work which forest tile to minimize overlap with other cities, you know the stuff.
My enjoyment of that has really soured as I've gotten older and peeked behind the curtain of optimization and gameplay loops to see what pointless busywork it all was.
Like early civ games gave you all these tools to play with, and every late-game turn ten year old you would spend hours clicking through dozens of bases to build them the new nanotech hospital you just researched.
But playing "optimally" actually meant not building any of that stuff, and tiling the map with an ICS grid of size 3 cities running free market economies for per-tile bonuses.
So optimal play is tedious and unexciting, and my casual play was just a baby hitting shiny buttons on a busyboard.
Dwarf fortress is an even better example because it throws the player into a mass of absurdly complex systems that often don't even work.
Players larp at optimizing and copy-paste received wisdom over and over on reddit: "hammers are good against undead because blah blah." When someone does real testing and reveals that blunt weapons are bugged and useless it doesn't stop the bad advice, because those people were only engaging the game mechanics like a kid playing alone with action figures and giving them cool +5 maces of smiting.
Multiplayer games don't get away with this because you're trying to out-think a person; there's still an evolving meta in StarCraft Brood War 26 years after it came out. But most of these complicated single player games now look to me like (at best) a tool to play with your imagination under someone else's constraints, or (at worst) cookie clickers with a lot of makeup on.
That's why I've stopped playing them to make time for other hobbies. Now if you'll excuse me, there's a cloud outside that doesn't know its place.
I'm still having laughing fits from his post, so sorry if there's typos in this.
I think what he's getting at is that all furry porn is gay bathhouse sex orgies, with slightly more literal bears. It's hyper-male-sexuality in the sense of bro-y casual sex where the guys drink beer and lose their keys fisting each other.
If characters are sexual they are grotesquely so, with comically large sex organs and insatiable appetites (again often literally, because eating each other is sexualized too). Non-sexual characters literally don't exist somehow, because the scenes bounce from frat party to shower room to bdsm club to meat grinder. Even the straight porn is gay male hyper-stimulus. All the furry transsexuals you see dress as bimbos and get enormous fake breasts because his fetish is at its core a hyper-male autogynophilic fixation.
And on the other hand your typical loli book has an awkward girl who looks like a potato thinking about her feelings for 30 pages (or 60 chapters if it gets serialized). She is possibly caught in a love triangle between her kindly vampire English tutor and a dark and handsome werewolf delinquent who rescued her from bullies on his motorbike. One or both of these relationships may be socially forbidden, heightening the emotional tension. When they finally have sex there will be closeups of hand-holding and flowers in the screentone background.
The way he said it is guaranteed to upset both sides (which is why it's so hilarious), but the basic truth behind it is undeniable.
Every time I see furry artists cancelling each other because one of them drew a guy fucking a cartoon dog that was only 17 years old in one of the Nickelodeon spin-offs, I become even more grateful that foxy Maid Marien didn't groom me as a toddler.
Wouldn't even have such a problem with furries if they'd stick to their own communities and leave the rest of us to play Blue Archive in peace. But the number of furry communist they/thems who do nothing but witch-hunt for artists who drew, said, or thought something "problematic" makes the entire community too toxic to coexist with. I can't imagine how awful it is to actually be a part of it.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Working here again now after a few hours of "whoopsie you broke reddit uwu" error messages
It looks like they finally disabled old.reddit, which was the only thing keeping it usable (sidebar features, the comments feed, etc.)
(It started working again after ~6hrs. Maybe a test run to check how much user engagement would fall off, maybe just a fuck up)
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Something only just occurred to me about that. If it's a crime to make an agreement with a bank about the value of your property as collateral, how is it not a crime to straight up lie about the prospects of a startup?
A bunch of people here probably have NVGs or thermal optics of some kind. I was hunting caterpillars the other day and got curious if they're as well-camouflaged outside the visual spectrum.
Can anyone check? I would literally comb through my cabbage patches decked out like a rainbow 6 character if it helped kill these bastards.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Interesting, that's a surprise. I know a lot of eligible people who either just don't file or don't bother to take the credit (because it's tiny for single people and probably audit-bait).
Guess I have a biased sample
Thanks, I'd heard rumors that was the case, but no evidence.
They need to take lessons from Hamas and intertwine their procurement with humanitarian groups. Mossad can't make your stuff explode if it was bought by the red cross and half the pagers went to the Charity Home For Puppies and Photogenic Orphaned Children Who Don't Want Their Dicks Blown Off
SteveKirk
1mo ago
I'm compiling a list of screenshots and links on my laptop to do an effort post on this. Will need to get a password reset or something so I can log in on there (don't know my motte password, just permanently logged in on phone)
But if you want to find it first it should be the most recent post where he mentions both cats and Medicare. Think twitter search still works for that, unless they've changed it again.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Totally agree. We have so many annoying cats that, frankly, only a bigot would be against eating a few of them, dont you think?
SteveKirk
1mo ago
I've been thinking all evening of what to say to this, and I just can't. How do you even see the responses to this and come to this conclusion? How do you watch lib journalists deny the Haitians even exist, falling back to more and more desperate lies as the truth comes out, and still turn this into "lying Republicans pounce"
Yglesias literally posted a rant about how it doesn't matter if it's true because Republicans "want to destroy Medicare", so people should lie or ignore it for Harris's sake.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
It's a lot of fun sharing stuff with people. The first time Steve Sailer dropped a like made my whole day.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Do you believe Wikipedia's list is fair? That's what matters for picking a source from it. My opinion about the list doesn't mean anything if I'm wrong about it (and by extension the quality of ProPublica)
SteveKirk
1mo ago
That's why I said to pick a green outgroup source from this objective list to avoid any bias on my part.
I didn't particularly like the show (made it 4eps before dropping), but the English "community" around it is the perfect example of everything in that post.
Just looked the series up on reddit, check out /r/yuri_memes and users like /u/CuteNervousLesbian for what I mean. Literally has the "umm yikes men have the gross male gaze, unlike wholesome me wanting to fuck them with my heckin girlcock" thing. Just impossibly creepy 30+ year old men grooming kids on reddit.
English "nerd" communities have poisoned a lot of media for me. Thank God most of my actual hobbies gatekeep creeps like that.
Is the show itself to blame? Not sure where I fall on that. Depends on the intent of the authors I suppose, which I don't have much insight into.
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