Do you have any evidence that thats the case?

How so?

If you’re dealing with pain and trauma, therapy might be a good idea. Making dark self depreciating jokes online probably isnt going to actually help you deal with it.

I’ve found self deprecating humor or telling stories about fucked up shit happening to you is rarely funny and usually elicits more of a awkward fake laugh and/or pity vibe than a belly laugh vibe.

Lmao it kinda does.

Exactly this too! Try to drown out the assholes with a chorus of positivity.

My actual response depends on the situation and how i’m feeling at any given moment. Usually its just ignore and move on, sometimes I’m feeling in a “be snarky online” mood.

What does it change? Eh maybe someone somewhere will see the pushback on the -ism/-phobia and rethink. I’m not saying it does, it probably doesn’t most of the time, but I’m forever realistically optimistic and recognize I need to put in the work to make real that optimism.

I already described my litmus test. You explained who your punchline is hitting. Punching up at the jerks is fine by me.

My litmus test is i ask “what is the joke?” If theres a clever turn of phrase or twist to expectations I chuckle to myself and move on. If I cant figure out what the clever turn of phrase or twist in expectation is, or the punchline being some kind of -ism or -phobia then yeah I’m gonna take it seriously. Unfortunately making jokes where the punchline is racism, sexism, homophoboa, transphobia, or any other kind of punching down gets a lot of engagement and responses.

There was that one recreation episode they did on live TV with Woody Harleson from a few years ago I think?

Edit: did some more reading, have more to say

So after checking out the Wikipedia page apparently Cartman from South Park was heavily inspired by Archie. So do with that what you will.

Exactly, word for word? No not really but a lot of the politically relevant themes the shows had are disappointingly still relevant today, Archie uses the same gotchas as an excuse to be a racist pos and his son uses the same appeals to humanity and doing the right thing progressives have been using. Its like going back and watching West Wing, we’re still dealing with the same ineffectual liberals who get moral victories while losing the mandates of power and bible thumping conservatives making the lives of everyone who isnt a straight white dude a living hell.

So I’ve been on the inside of a small crisis while at work and can easily see how the mixture of hubris and mistakes and events out of our control and rushing to present the most positive picture in the aftermath and take advantage of the events.

I’m working on an internal project, a recognition platform, with a few others at work that hasn’t been put out there yet. We just finished setting it up on the technical side, set up a bunch of programs on the platform, got user data uploads and single sign on set up. We figured since nobody really knows about it yet or can find it anywhere, we didnt have to worry about people signing in and using it before the launch. Well, there was an automated email that went out to all the managers from a platform we haven’t announced yet and a few people start signing in and using it before we’re fully ready for launch. We scramble to shut everything down, and send out a message out to everyone who got the automated email basically doing our best to save face and after the dust settled, we discussed what went wrong, where our mistakes were, and what we learned, we did come out of the other side knowing the new platform did work and was very easy to use.

On the inside it was basically a comedy of errors that we gained some nice insights from. From the outside I can easily see a conspiracy minded person being like “they purposefully leaked the whole thing to test if they could get away with it and preplant the ideas in our heads.”

I really think my minor crisis experience is closer to what happened on 9/11 than some mustache twirling villainous conspiracy with secret cabals micromanaging the entire thing. I think not taking the initial reports seriously enough by 2 separate presidents, led to a major crisis unfolding, and the aftermath being a lot of useful consent manufacturing to pass a ton of draconian legislation.

Cards also need to take quite a bit of damage before they stop working too.

No. You need to freeze in in an insulated container with only one side exposed so it all freezes in 1 direction. Impurities get pushed to the opposite side and you are left with clear ice.

Its the same kind of arms race that cybersecurity is going through, one side creates defenses, the attackers (all color hats) figure out bypasses and exploits, the defenders patch out the exploits, attackers find new exploits, defenders keep reacting, attackers keep finding new exploits, and the cycle keeps continuing. In an attempt to break the arms race, the defenders are going to turn to legislation to make engaging in the arms race illegal unless you’re certified.

Side note but I’m not making a value judgement on either side, there are defenders protecting bad people and attackers who are justified in their attacks and have released important information out to the public, but protecting your own information from malicious attackers is also super important, stuff like login info to critical infrastructure systems or your financial details so bad actors dont open up a dozen credit cards in your name and destroy your financial reputation needed to survive in this world (fuck credit scores but they are unfortunately part of our reality.)

Same sort of deal with copyright holders vs pirates, copyright holders are trying to protect what is legally theirs, and pirates are trying to bypass that. (Again no moral arguments here, this is just the nature of the conflict). Pirates gain access, copyright holders create more hurdles to the content, pirates gain access again, copyright does the same thing. Eventually they just keep throwing more legislation at the war to make privacy becomes increasingly expensive through the courts. At the end of the day, unlike cybersecurity, this piracy war wouldn’t exist if every piece of media created was commodified for massive profit. Steam is evidence of that.

Its a narrative consulting company based in Canada that right wing chuds think is ruining games by forcing wokeism into games because Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was a bad game.

Nah you’re good, I have a feeling there is significant overlap between “unsolicited advice dudes” and chuds who screech about Sweet Baby.

Not really even that, they just changed her from a classic femme fatale pose to a literal pinup pose.

Not quite. Mickey Mouse is still a trademark of Disney, but the actual animation of Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, so using the mouse in a way that promotes brand confusion is a no go but using Steamboat Willie is perfectly fine.

You mean the one that is already in use?