ah, the foolishness of youth
Iāve heard GW is actually trying to rehabilitate their stance. Theyāve recently made statements that the community should be open-minded and accepting.
Itās an uphill battle as (for those unfamiliar with their games like Warhammer 40,000) they have the issue where many gamers donāt get the subtlety that everyone in the 40k setting is kind of horrible in their own way, especially the āgood guyā factions which tend to be fascist xenophobes.
Itās related to the issues Iāve had with some of Paradoxās computer games where some people are way too in character which is distasteful for (as an example) a crusades-era historical strategy game that models religion as a cause for war.
The old GW forums combined some bad moderation policies (mods would post āI am on dutyā posts; general apathy) with a creaky old forum:
Speaking of old forums, why did so many want to do a view similar to a Windows File Explorer Tree View and assume that made sense? A lot of bad ones seemed to do that for some reason.
I think the View Askew ones had some good sections at least. Some indie filmmakers probably got advice back then.
I havenāt watched Kevin Smithās stuff in years and Iām worried thereās a lot of āthe funny lines are said by horrible people and should not be emulatedā in them.
Iām backing the latest season of MST3K (still a few days left on Kickstarter!) and watched a couple of their live streams where they talk over and can hear the cast cringing at some old jokes they wouldnāt make today.
Also lots of misogynist neckbeards in that fandom. Women who play 40K are much braver than I am. and have way more disposable income.
As for the Windows Explorer file tree format, I was on a couple of those forums in the late 90s and even then it didnāt make sense.
I caught American Pie on tv last week and that has not aged well.
As for Kevin Smithās movies, Dogma probably holds up best. I watched Jay and Silent Bob Reboot last year and, wellā¦it is a thing that exists
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I used to be a KS fanboy and just kind of fell off. It somehow felt like at least for his film work I grew up and he didnāt. He deserves some respect for other things, but I feel like he kind of stopped a lot of development of movie making skills some time around J&SBSB.
Iām not surprised Americans Pie has not aged well.
The MST3k thing has been interesting. Thereās a few movie lines with slurs that were TV acceptable in the 90s that they drop the audio on now. Theyāre at least aware that itās a different group now. (The newest batch of episodes will apparently have a woman as a host for part of the season even.)
The patient group I belong to for HCM used to have a forum, and they moved to FacePlant.
What. A. Mistake.
No real way to search effectively, no way to follow a thread. Anyone can pitch in anything - story or question or diatribe - and it all ends up just being a stream of consciousness with answers and new posts all getting jumbled and mixed together.
Beside all that, thereās the Wonderful World of FacePlant security, right?
Oh, plus the moderators have a decided left-wing bent, so if they want to rail about this politician or that itās OK but no one else is allowed. (And it isnāt just me saying soā¦ there was a big outcry from several people āDonāt make this about politicsā¦ this is about HCM!ā)
Really stupid move.
Itās been quite a while since Marshal McLuhan famously (if perhaps imprecisely) observed that āthe medium is the messageā but we still have trouble grokking how the ways that we mediate our interactions (e.g. forum software choice) will change how we interact.
which is why we should go back to text-based BBSen again.
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That brings back the memories.
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I think teen āsexā comedies just donāt age well in general. Itās cringeworthy and edgelord when they are first made, and thatās why the same jokes are told different ways every 10 years or so.
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I think this is the thread to say weāre not dead? Because Iām not dead, just super busy with being a dad to two boys (one just turned 4 and my youngest just turned one). My wife handles the young one most of the time and I handle the 4yo, but itās still hectic. Work is busier a bit as well because I got promoted right before the start of the COVID lockdowns to Sys Admin, which has actually made life a lot easier for me despite the occasionally crazy work hours.
Life for me has been interesting to say the least. Iām not as stressed out as before so I donāt complain as much, especially with a huuuuuge change that happened this past summer. Kind of a long story so Iāll compress it to a few sentences. Weāve had my wifeās sister and husband living with us since we became home owners back in late 2015, along with her parents. We get along with the parents just fine, but the sister and her husband (my brother-in-law) have been all kinds of crazy which escalated after they had two kids (also boys). This wasnāt crazy in the good sense so all of us pretty much wanted them out and finally, this past July, they managed to get approved for a rental home nearby and they moved out. That means a massive chunk of stress has been taken off my shoulders.
And then just last month, life threw a curveball that nobody expected and my 1yo was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease. Extremely rare, but if not treated properly, it could lead to major heart issues in later years. Poor baby had to stay in the hospital with mommy for five days hooked up to all sorts of monitoring equipment while he was treated. Iāve never been so worried in my life, but luckily, his treatment seemed to work like a charm and heās been normal ever since. Docs will consider him properly treated if no high fever in another week. So yeah, thatās where Iāve been lately.
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I know all about major health scares with infants/toddlers and I hope your son makes a full recovery. When my daughter was an infant, she had to have an MRI because there were questions about the proper development of her spinal cord. Turns out that she was fine and now enjoys life as a late teen draining her old manās bank account.
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Glad to see you back!
It sounds like life has been an adventure since you last checked in. Iām glad to hear that stress is on the decrease.
I hope your youngest makes a full recovery and lives a long, healthy life!
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Is there a strikeout rule for āIām Backā appearances? If not, how about a record?
I donāt have any valid excuses for absence, other than being a social slug with nothing to contribute. And yet, here I amā¦again.
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You going to stick around this time?
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I will try, but the āsocial slugā comment was more accurate than Iād like to admit. Are there any resources for recluses attempting recovery?
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I recommend coming here and posting every day at a specific time. 
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We have a Discord if you want more āimmediateā interaction. Itās not that active, but then you might not want to install an app to see us talk about pets and such.
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As Iāve finally rejoined the workforce in a part-time job with a wildly variable schedule, the advice may be difficult to follow, but given the source, I will see how dilligent I can be.
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Has that invite expired? I just tried it and got told to sod offā¦