The B-plot in Ender’s Game tells a compelling story of a couple of young adults nefariously posting their way straight into the Presidency. People want to believe this is how real life works so badly. They’ll watch a plutocrat elevated by other plutocrats into an office historically held by plutocrats and conclude “Shitposters on the internet did this”.
But to be fair Ender’s Game was written in 1985, before the modern internet.
Shockingly accurate depiction of what bloggers think they’re doing
If worked out pretty well for Curtis Yarvin, unfortunately.
I mean with LLM’s it’s not hard to have an arbitrary amount of bots posing as users pushing a false consensus on political issues.
It’s even easier when the bot accounts are used to falsify advertising data.
Surprise anyone who calls themselves a “nice guy” was never actually nice.
They always say shit like “at least I don’t hit her” or “at least I’m not an alcoholic” while missing that those qualities are a given.
I think it’s a form of narcissism where they can’t handle that their personality is shitty so they project it into the world. They have to use outlandish examples because they’re not such hot catches themselves.
What else would I call myself? I mean, if someone says “hey, what type of guy are you?” Am I supposed to dance around the word “nice” because someone coined a social media buzzword for it mean “guy who thinks hes owed a blow job for holding a door open”?
So now when someone asks: “What type of guy are you?” and you just stick the nikes on and:
hey, what type of guy are you?
I’ve never been asked that question without some context like food or music. I don’t know why anyone would ask that in a sense of “are you a nice guy or an asshole?” There’s just no way to be sure you’re getting a useful answer: many people think of themselves as nice, some have self-esteem issues and put themselves down instead and very few are actually genuine assholes and unashamed to admit as much.
So if someone were to ask me that without context? I’d respond “what do you mean?”
What type of guy are you?
I’m an average dude.
If you’re legitimately worried about someone asking you that exact question (which is sort of an odd phrasing, I don’t think it would happen often) and you’re worried it would be done by people who don’t know you well, just talk about a hobby or something.
- What type of guy are you?
- For work I do blah, for play I do blah, and I’m really into hobby.
Or, and hear me out, we could just not assume that some saying they are nice is a cunt because social media turned into it a clickable buzzword? Judge people by their actions, not whatever dogshit you were told was a red flag by some sad pathetic loser who does nothing all day but hate everything and anyone.
“Hes a nice guy!” is something people often say about others. Its not a trick, its a not a trap, and its not code for cunt. If someone is a cunt, just call them a cunt. Its easy.
The more you comment the more you sound like a nice guy.
I just say that I’m the worst.
You get the memes you deserve!
I mean I’ll take a stack of edgelordy over one tumblrina or Blue Skyer.
I’ve been to The School of Hard knocks, The University of Life, and Facebook jail. Be very afraid
Meanwhile, War Thunder players be leaking classified documents on vehicles to prove that it isn’t modeled correctly in-game.
Based behavior, they do it for the love of the game and being correct in online arguments.
You forgot bottom text.
He’s the jokah baby
isn’t this the better outcome
dressing up in trench coats and shooting up their school is much worse
or attacking a church
You had me in the first half there.
Look, buddy, if you think jerking off while playing Baldur’s Gate 3 is “nothing” that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
