Reminder That Steam Is Not Only "no Longer Supporting Windows 7" ,. They Will Be Actively Disabling All

Check for understanding:

What tone does the phrase 'fun fact!' give to the next statement?

Why did crabs-but-better phrase the extra time as 'forbidden'?

How does capitalizing 'Watch Out', as opposed to 'watch out', change the interpretation of these words?

What could have caused amiru-shubfeast to reblog with commentary?

What does the use of exclamation marks imply about their mood and mental state?

What formatting choices did their followup post use? Why?

Discuss with a mutual: what are the short and long term effects of sleep deprivation? Have you experienced any?

@reading-comp-posting

fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out

#piracy efforts will keep media alive for far longer than corporations will even bother attempting

What makes us human is the Nintendo 3DS

and how did i even learn of tildes/fedi to begin with? reddit. Links upon links to "how to set up mastodon" "how to join tildes".

here's the thing: whole subreddits are now outright dead, with only antique/nothingburger posts and a link to discord. local chapter of 4chan* has a survey every New Years. It's userbase shrinks and grows old. As local digg went from "nonobviously rightwing nutjob leaning" to "rightwing nutjob turf", people visibly migrated to national subreddit (causing an influx of whiny posts). This caused this not-digg's frontpage to go from "there is something interesting" to "all trash all the time". Hell, afaik The 4chan was better until janitor positions were taken over by neonazis, tho all i remember is dropping by and going "wow even the insults/conspiracies got shittier". Like, i am pretty sure /a/ had real threads instead of a torrent of m e d i o c r i t y. You'd expect tiddies but not even that

You're seeing the point i'm getting to, right? Creativity (and thus, quality content to jump ship for) is fundamentally** left-leaning. When enmuskittification of twitter happened, where did people go to? Tumblr. Why? because SM reposts. The Good Stuff had tumblr structure -> tumblr it is. In other words, it's not even needed to proselytize. The moment the user wants to leave the cesspool, they will, taking literally the first train link out. Do you know anyone who is hanging around those 9gag meme aggregator sites? (If you do, how the hell they didn't migrate to greener pastures already?) You do not need to do fancy loopholes to point them elsewhere, especially when you can just search for search engines/social media/forums (these still exist!).

…so, how the fuck did you manage to catch me on supremely awkward tumblr? because i'm not on feddit et al! The other part of it is - people stick to specific websites because they have critical mass of users that end up producing qualityposts on various topics, not just specific censorbait. Consider all the posts here on Palestine - noone would bother if it was an echo chamber, BDS call to action works only if released upon territories that are general-assembly, otherwise the blast zone is too small.

Herein lies my actual parry: people get tech-savvy with time/practice/neccesity. By being the content on sites you do not want to support, you disincline them to leave these lands. What if they try to talk, get banned, then fed up, then leave FB/tiktok/etc? Good! That's what should happen! They will move and wherever they go to will be richer for it. Furthermore: persistent 'stupidity' 'naivete' conceals something else. What if they like it there because it censors icky, inconvenient, buzz-killing subjects? This is why leaving is so important - by staying the cesspool gets the good (original thought that comes from not being the majority) without the bad (the minorities existing at it)!

tbh i despise "can someone please think of the children!" argument. It always covers something else - even if in this case it doesn't seem to cover anything more ambitious than unwillingness to cut ties with whoever is on… the blacklist the discouse of OP's post provides. Anything that protects the children either protects everyone or is An Agenda. So yes, we can and should leave to rot anyone who doesn't want to leave.

in the spirit of the post, furthermore was partially powered by:

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False Witnesses

In my past life as an evangelical for social action, I had a much-photocopied dossier in my desk drawer from the Procter & Gamble corporatio

*because of it's secrecy, yes, but that also means it's a quality chan still. **i do not need to labor for proof of that, right?

...also now that i'm double-checking above i'm reminded of a method to disrupt activists by tying them up in inefficent endeavours. Couldn't find a good proof it's part of modernized cointelpro until i tapped mojeek. Not an accusation but it's good to have an eye on the big picture and the goal-of-goals, yeah?

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

finding this curious as i was debating whether or not to link your Summation in there. Like, someone solved DQ 'just' before canto 7 and response was ecstatic? what gives?

A momentous occasion is upon us.

The Daiyu-Baoyu theory has its first haters on Reddit 🎉🎉🎉🎉

// Anyway don't go harass anyone over this m'kay? In fact I hope we get more haters cause I actually find these comments really entertaining.

I hope we get enough Redditors knowing about it and hating it that someone tries to make a full post trying to disprove it so I can milk that thing and talk about my own experience desperately trying, in vain, to find contradictions that would disprove it myself.

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Fukuchi's ideology (as explained in the last episode) is embarrassingly flawed. I want to grab the guy by his shoulders and shake it out of him because holy shit, it's so immature. I want to assume that either there's more to it, or that, perhaps, some impactful events in his life cemented that ideology as true, and now he views and rationalizes the rest of the world through that lens. Anyway, if that's all there is to it, disappointing for someone so smart, boo!

I'm stating this as someone who hasn't seen the rest of the season or read the manga leading up to the last episode, so maybe there actually is more to it. But my friends who have done so also agree with me.

I wonder if Teruko stays in her younger form so often to avoid the intensity of her own emotions.

Her devotion to Fukuchi despite his faults -> A childish crush

Her intense pride + rage that she must endure horrors for the sake of national peace -> Constant tantrums that seem disproportionate to the situation

Her sadism going unfulfillled during an interrogation and the storm of emotion that arises from that -> Cluthing Jouno's hand and wailing like the child she is embodying

can we form a coup against asagiri and make you the writer instead? genuinely... I am not taking the Fyodor immortal information well.. please help............................ ( ´，_ゝ` )

Oh, I would absolutely not do BSD well either. I just wish Asagiri had stuck to his roots more. He was a great comedy writer, and the beginning of the story was great for it. It's the action and Death Note stuff he can't seem to get mastery of. But for the immortal part: I'm not entirely sold that Fyodor's immortal, yet. It seems like yet another twists that will twist to reveal oh, shocker, he faked his memories to confuse Sigma/the ADA... or something. Could very well be immortal, but not 100% guaranteed.

LET'S GO WE FINALLY GOT HIS NAME!!!

I know it has some deep meanings but it's funny his name is just literally cicada

Also the ep47 name is Lament of My Wingless Body,i wonder if it was hinting us his name.To think asagiri had already named him but just decide to tell us on a random day lol.It can be about the episode but i don't remember details about it.

oooo this is cool!! i didn’t know he was given a name, thanks for the info :D

the episode name could mean many things. i haven’t put too much thought into it until now actually.

id assume a wingless body would be a metaphor for possibly someone not being able to escape something? kind of an opposite to the phrase "spread your wings" as a way to motivate someone to move/change?

in lament of a wingless body could be grieving the time she couldn’t escape? in reference to yosano grieving the past (possibly grieving shunzen here)?

or lament of a wingless body could be her grieving shunzen(which you said means cicada), like you had said! i like this idea a lot actually

nikolai and strong wind -> there is a helicopter outside (and well he's outside too) pleased into displeased -> didn't know the world is ending? YOSANO WHO CAN GAME THE GAME? dostoy way too amused, and talking to someone -> sigma, letting him go? which would match with nikolai being pleased sigma didn't die/has real intel, but also: that he's joining ADA? ALSO ALSO ALSO HE HAS ANSWERSSSSSS (wait i forgot. did fukuchi seriously break apart the most OP combo on the board? instead of having the superior other fuku die to exsanguination?)

season 5 ep 11 preview is out ohmygoddd Fukuzawa is aliveee guyss!!! But they haven't shown anything related to soukoku...? WTH?? there's not even a glimpse of either chuuya or Dazai or what is gonna happen to them....well Nikolai is back so ig Sigma is saved...?

BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR SOUKOKU!???!!!!? THEY CAN'T DO THIS, WE'VE BEEN SUFFERING FOR A ENTIRE WEEK, THEY CAN'T JUST NOT SHOW ANYTHING REGARDING SOUKOKU AND LEAVE US ON A CLIFFHANGER TO SUFFER MOREE!!!

omg please atleast just show that Dazai is alive, god please!!

i remember someone mentioning that a Sonia-like character would work to set up Dostoy for a redemption arc, but it couldn't be Sigma b/c they're wrapped around his finger. BUT NOW, their self-esteem should be improved via Dazai + they're being given all intel in a way that would prevent lying + apparently they're held in high esteem by Dostoy + being 3yo gives relatively biasless outlook.

bonus rephrasing: now Sigma has taken the offer to have their knowledge be equal to someone they percieve as having absolute control over everything.

or, you know, just flip them over and step on their trachea.