I bet that anon texter practically jizzed himself to see how much chaos a few words could create.

It’s not about having a serious alternative, what twitter does can mostly be written by like 10 people in 3 months. The problem is scaling it to be big enough while eating that cost until enough people start using it.

AND the advertising budget.

There’s no real way to break into that now without a ridiculous amount of investor capital which investors are gunshy in offering for shit like this right now.

We don’t need an alternative, we need the next generation and I hate to say it but it might just be Discord if they get their shit together.

Social momentum is a hell of a thing

China has other problems right now which is why they are playing nice, they’re heading into a population collapse and it’s gonna be real messy.

They already fetishize the military and are nationalistic AF, but they also have leadership more invested in the status quo than becoming the dominant military, so their new weapons are finance and trade instead of bombs and bullets. That said, they have a FUCKTONNE of bombs and bullets and MILLIONS of people willing to use them.

A lot less of them now Covid is here, bada bum tisss

Yes this is true but there is nothing you can do to fix gullible people so no action can be taken to mitigate their idiocy.

I don’t care about blame, I just want to stop our nation from falling into fascism.

They’re going to be dead soon from old age, I’m more worried about all the gamergaters and magapedes that will be old enough to vote this year and all the elections afterward.

If the force were directly inverted, my laziness would transform me into the motherfucking Flash on adderall.

The Land from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Most people will dismiss it as being a Tolkien-esque immitation (The Ravers as Ringwraiths, the BBEG is very Sauron-like), this is more a fact that there WASN’T much other fantasy writing out there to draw inspiration from.

The real deal is that there are so many amazing and unique fantasy races, the Bloodguard, how giant culture worked, the vile and ur-vile cultures.

Magic also felt like a part of the landscape, and had an essence of good or evil that could affect the very land itself.

The main character is super annoying, full of self-loathing and a sense of powerlessness for most of the series so to me it was more 'putting up with Thomas’s self indulgent whiny uselessness until he observes the next cool scene.

But the cool scenes are so amazing that I can forgive just how terrible he is as a protagonist.

but they lack depth.

Read the mangas, both of them are absolutely packed with a ton of detail that never made it into the animes.

Naussica especially, there’s a whole worldwide ancient apocalypse buried in there on top of a VERY unique and well thought out ecosystem.

IT professional here, cheap initial purchase means that when I go to my boss with the required ‘3 options’, DESPITE me detailing why HP is super terrible and expensive long-term, they will ALWAYS insist on the HP.

Add onto that brand recognition and it’s basically impossible to convince any site I work on to switch to Brother unless they directly experience just how unreliable and expensive HP actually is. Even then it’s still a 50/50 if they’ll make the rational choice.

Fascism of course, just like we are heading towards.

To be clear, I violently oppose fascism, just that it seems to be to historical outcome of socially disconnected youth about the time they hit adulthood. Those disaffected youth become the audience that charismatic dictator-wannabes can manipulate.

China MAY be able to avoid this as their social controls are far more strict but with the internet and how tech savvy the disaffected Chinese youth are, this isn’t a guarantee.

Its common knowledge amongst the rich that we are heading towards a collapse, and ‘emergency villas’ have had booming sales across the last 10 years.

They know what’s coming, and are going to grab as much as they can before they fly off to their safehouses.

Jokes on them, psychology says their own armed guards will be taking out their bosses and taking the villas over as soon as shit gets bad.

I got banned from reddshit for saying that, so now I’m here:

Eat The Rich!

The sad thing is that there are enough people who don’t care to keep their revenue up.

I really wish the entire world would just take one week off the internet, would be interesting.

I remember the internet before popups. It was so nice…