binkle,
@binkle@clubcyberia.co avatar

this video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRph_R1Eww

is long and kinda depressing, but it got me thinking:

I don't think the reaction of OG internet dwellers to normies hosting the most popular websites should be defeat.

That a niche website doesn't have millions of people on it doesn't particularly matter, because if it were in the before-times, that site also wouldn't have millions. It would have a couple hundred, maybe a couple thousand dedicated users.

I think the proper reaction to normies doing normie things online is to simply ignore them and stay well away. Stop comparing it to other places and just focus on making the site you care about a fun place to be

MMS21,
@MMS21@seal.cafe avatar

nigga nobody wants a smaller internet. I got psyop’d into making calicoforum(dot)com and absolutely nobody gives a shit. I let the ssl cert expire and haven’t pushed the latest commit to main in months. gonna kms tonight cute kitty overdose :3:3

binkle,
@binkle@clubcyberia.co avatar

@MMS21 i actually do want a smaller internet, which is part of why im on fedi and not elsewhere

inertia,
@inertia@pone.social avatar

@binkle video starts with Faust. Omg I had to read Faust for school. That book has serious plothole issues. All everyone takes from it is "don't make a deal with the devil", while the bigger lesson "don't simp for a woman" goes completely unnoticed.

binkle,
@binkle@clubcyberia.co avatar

@inertia through the thesis-antithesis-synthesis process we can conclude that simping for a woman is itself a deal with the devil

inertia,
@inertia@pone.social avatar

@binkle It's even worse than you think.
So this Faust guy really pines after some woman. Then makes a deal with the devil, presumably to get that women.

And then he never 1. use any supernatural powers. In fact I don't think that deal got him anything, but a placebo confidence boost.
2. that woman becomes irrelevant to the story after the deal.

I don't remember who it ended...

inertia,
@inertia@pone.social avatar

@binkle or was it different?
maybe it was:

Faust makes a bargain to be told all the secrets of the universe and what makes everything hold together.

Then he proceeds to never actually ask any questions or get any secret knowledge, but goes wooing a woman.

As a sci-fi fan this was just very underwhelming. I was there for the esoteric knowledge maxxing, not for a dumb love story.

inertia,
@inertia@pone.social avatar

@binkle same with Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull.

(good movie btw, I love the aliens)
So that french girl asks the aliens for ultimate knowledge of everything.
And then the aliens just kill her?????
WOT???

Super underwhelming. I was soooo disappointed.
This once again proofs that books, movies, games, etc are a complete waste of time and contain 0 answers.

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