sarsaparilyptus

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[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Post: Uses the word normies in a positive sense and literally says it's great that gaming is more accessible

Fediverse: Is this a neckbeard?

The reaction is a bit more like

"B-B-B-BUT THE CONNOTATIONS!!! Bro you just LITERALLY used a word that has PROBLEMATIC CONNOTATIONS because it's ALSO USED by PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE, and that makes you GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION!!! I am PROUD of how I combine purity testing and code switching into a DEFINITELY accurate litmus test, because I think I'm a character from Dune!! I don't know what the FUCK 'context' is but it SOUNDS like something the ALT-RIGHT would care about!!!!"

If I ever caught myself taking an obvious self-effacing remark seriously, I would be so ashamed. Anyone coming into this thread with hurt feelings about the word "normies" is a huge dork and needs go outside.

[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that you're able to think that is all I need to hear, you're officially beyond my power to help. Good luck, you're going to need it.

[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this a studied effort to miss my point, or are you just like this?

[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Infinity was originally a Reddit app that has been forked. This came up more than once:

"This is intended".

Maybe that's different now, but normal people don't pay attention to feature upgrades on open source projects that they don't use, and the fact that this was intended behavior led me to believe there was no particular reason it would ever change, especially since it still hadn't when I last used the app some time after the dev commented in the second screenshot.

[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It was like that because of a deliberate design choice that enjoyed widespread support

[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Too bad Infinity has that weird fixation on not marking posts as read persistently, it would be great if not for that.

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