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(10-01-2015 06:44 AM)Marechal des logis Daedalus Wrote:  Loup, regarding what we call Kool-Aid, I have spent years trying to identify and undue bits of the 4chan /b/ mindset I absorbed from over a decade of using image boards. What I mean in particular, in the best way I can define it, is all the nihilism and self-loathing image boards tend to encourage. I think it even affected life-decisions. One of the many reasons I enlisted was to cleanse myself of any of those "special snowflake" features chansters express in rants, particularly on OPERATORchan.

I suppose what I mean to say is that no matter how much we may think we are in ultimate control, the communities we become a part of inevitably become a part of us, not that this happened to you. I really have no idea what you did after you left.

Welcome back. I am very glad you returned.

Then I guess it helps that I go into these communities with my own set of beliefs already. I'm well aware of the kind of thinking that extremists from sites like 4chan and tumblr indulge in. I try to keep an open mind though, and dedicate myself to understanding both sides of any given argument because in my experience they each have a point to make. I try not to take any ideology seriously though, and listen to anything anyone says on social media with a grain of salt, knowing full well they're likely biased towards their own agenda. Browsing both tumblr and the chans also has the amusing benefit of seeing one cry about the other whenever something goes wrong, exaggerating the worst of those sites in an effort to create a stereotype for the whole of them instead of just specific factions.

This "Us versus them" mentality would be much more entertaining though if so many people didn't buy into it unquestioningly. Fear for that which is different has held humanity back for centuries however, that won't change anytime soon. We love simplifying things, sometimes just so we can have somebody to blame, sometimes because we don't want to see what's wrong with ourselves.

(10-06-2015 10:08 AM)Chaos Wrote:  Anyone in the mood for a spot of kool aid with a side of cyanide?
http://nichegamer.com/2015/10/thems-figh...with-glee/

Huh, they got the creator of the original show to work on it? That's impressive, especially when the company that owns it shot down their original plan if I recall. It's not something I'm going to pledge support, but good for them.