TheSpookiestUser 2w ago • 71%
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TheSpookiestUser 3w ago • 40%
Because Reddit is in the unique position where a small amount of users can affect a vast swathe of their platform - moderators.
Most mods don't care, by volume. The ones that do are often also the ones that are more active, more engaged, and more entwined with communities outside Reddit.
During the protest last year, polls come back favorably pretty much everywhere to shut down - but after the shutdown actually happened, a tidal wave of lurkers who never vote and never comment came out of the woodwork to complain and call it all stupid. Public opinion of all users is likely against practically any protest that could happen.
I don't like it, but that's how it is. The best realistic outcome is that a large contingent of content creators and more informed users leave the site - but how many of those are left that haven't already vamoosed and are still willing to leave under some unknown worse circumstance?
TheSpookiestUser 3w ago • 83%
Not in any way the average user cares much about.
The causal social media user cares for two things:
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A constant uninterrupted stream of content
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Dopamine in the form of upvotes/likes/what have you
If these two things aren't interupted, 90% of users won't care.
TheSpookiestUser 3w ago • 71%
Let's be honest with ourselves - no, it won't be wildly unpopular. This change affects very few people and the people still using Reddit at this point likely won't care much, and I have doubt any future change would cause much outrage either.
Because think about this - who is actively complaining and gnashing their teeth about the continued downward spiral and still scrolling, posting, moderating there at this point? I'd love to believe more people would jump ship - but if it ever happened it would take a far larger-scope fuckup than anything we've seen so far.
TheSpookiestUser 3w ago • 100%
There is a point where more users may bring more downsides than upsides - but we haven't reached that point yet. There are still many many niche communities that have no equivalent here and starting them would never take off with the current number of people.
TheSpookiestUser 2mo ago • 100%
this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us
TheSpookiestUser 2mo ago • 100%
People that don't check what community a post came from on their home feed and just upvote it if they like it.
Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It's very easy to miss sometimes
TheSpookiestUser 2mo ago • 84%
Isn't the way it works now also a debate winner? The blocked user can reply to you and you won't even know, so you can't refute whatever they've said (and if you've blocked them there's decent odds it isn't good).
TheSpookiestUser 3mo ago • 100%
This is what happens when you step on the wrong bug a couple million years ago
TheSpookiestUser 3mo ago • 100%
In my DnD group, my goblin wizard still holds the honor of being the only party member the DM has used Power Word Kill on.
I'm honored.
TheSpookiestUser 3mo ago • 100%
we have to go back to our roots
TheSpookiestUser 3mo ago • 100%
I often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We're well overdue.
TheSpookiestUser 3mo ago • 89%
Bring a book or some headphones and knock out a podcast. Or drink, whatever works
TheSpookiestUser 4mo ago • 100%
Baldur's Gate 3.
I played through one single player save and two multiplayer ones with different groups, enjoyed it all - but only got a little ways into Act 3 on any one save. A combination of middling performance with my older rig and just having sank so much time in I burnt out a little.
Still think it's a fantastic game, but I don't know if I'll ever go back to finish it - I feel like I'd have to start a whole new save.
TheSpookiestUser 4mo ago • 100%
I will buy the explanation that the game is too old to continue to support when they stop adding new microtransactions every six months or so
TheSpookiestUser 5mo ago • 66%
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TheSpookiestUser 5mo ago • 91%
Convenience and familiarity, mostly. If you go to a McDonalds you know exactly what you'll get and you'll be able to get it pretty quick.
TheSpookiestUser 6mo ago • 100%
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TheSpookiestUser 7mo ago • 83%
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Gonna slow down with posting, but posting will continue.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040202800 Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKsWH_-neKU Really like this one, as it's A) actually a "taunt" taunt, where you're making fun of the guy you just killed, and B) both Halloween themed and all-year-round Medic themed.
Really like the bits of Rotunda that are themed like an abandoned/destroyed base
Direct Twitter link: https://twitter.com/Sarexicus/status/1703675255427121167 I think this is super cool, and something i hadn't though could be done up until now.