Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh facts of Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
double kicker is that the opt-out settings have been been in āNo, do not use my dataā for months
discord feedback: āThank you for sharing your concerns. We understand your frustration regarding ads in the client. Discord continuously explores various features and changes to enhance the user experience, including the possibility of advertisements. As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our development team.ā
wait whatās the fucking point of nitro again? is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments?
I ask, having instantly closed the nitro ads discord regularly pushes to my client cause the feature list looks roundly annoying and irrelevant to how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium, DMs, and an annual game of Quake)
Remember when people used to smugly say āunless you pay for it, you are the productā turns out you always are the product!
and server boosts! (and better video quality I guess?)
irunno the whole mechanic is a bit weird but Iāve been āokayā with it in the sense that at least it meant discord was getting revenue from rich-enough gamers and that would mean they didnāt have to suck on the VC nozzle. ostensibly.
like I wouldāve likely never bought nitro for myself because idgaf about the featureset, but I would consider it if it meant no ads. alas.
yeah. god. it hurts how many projects have done this shit. and now I bet that exact fucking thing I predicted may start coming aroundā¦
also, slack, ~1h ago:
the ouroboros must be hungry.