The only time I ever as much hate online as this guy was posting, "TOOL is just SmashMouth for virgins," on a TOOL Facebook fan page a decade ago
lmao, that is S tier ragebait, maybe the best ive ever seen. i wish i still worked with the 2 biggest tool megafans ive personally met, i think i could have recorded their heads turning into pumpkins if i dropped that on them
ah yeah i guess looking at it the symbol described probably is the boy scouts one not the cubscouts. ig back in the day i latched onto the "children" wording. however there's no way it's older scouts, during the briefing they're describing the kids as being "two thirds the height of a standard warrior" but the adults are "Much taller" than the POV alien, there is not that great a gap in height between most teens and adults seems much more likely to be 10 or younger to me. supported by the author saying in a comment "Haha, three for one. I feel stabbed by a spear, hit by a slingshot and smacked in the face with a tiny vengeful fist."
as for the guns... yeah that's why i desribed it as them having muskets? i find it hard to believe they would have "blowdart" guns with cameras on them but are modern assault rifles really that much louder than muskets? that redditor seems to respond to people leaving comments though so if you've got a reddit account laying around u might be able to ask and get them to clarify lol
It's amazing that this shit got 8k upvotes. What the fuck am I doing with my life when literally anyone can become so incredibly popular making something so worthless?
haha :yea: the fact this has twice the upvotes of chrysalsis is crazy (not to say chrysalsis is anywhere near perfect or even necessarily good but it's the best story ive read on there and it's only got 4k upvotes)
oof, i've tried but the eugenics in it is nauseating i literally couldnt get through it. especially the ender's shadow series, used to love those side books but the eugenics shit is like 10x worse than in the main books
i was talking to someone in an online game once and they said they like using it even after finding out it's probably slowing them down because it feels like it eases their cognitive load to be checking the llm's work instead of just doing it all themself. i havent read any study on that though, could just be copium of course
i dont think it's a coincidence that i think the best piece of writing ive read on that sub was a story where humans arent even technically in it because they lose and get wiped out before the story even starts, necessarily made the author think about the perspective of aliens
chrysalsis isnt really anti-communist just much more "end of history, communists/communism isnt even mentioned" and there is definitely a bit of a "UN is flawed but ultimately will save the day" type liberalism in it but i think a lot of the musing on revenge, what it means to be human, learning to let go, etc. might still be good (i need to reread it from my newfound "everything sucks and is fascist" perspective but im kinda afraid to ruin my fond memory of the story lol)
also i was listening to the audiobook recording just now that's promoted on the reddit post and if you like audiobooks seemed like a very high quality one for being hosted by some random channel
i think maybe what you're trying to get at that it could be interesting to explore how alien biology maybe really could make them see the world differently than humans, but because they're fascists the answer is "kill them all" instead of learning and understanding?
found it. of course not lol. i misremembered the details of the story, the children managed to use sticks and stones to kill hundreds of aliens equipped with muskets (i assume? thats about the weakest gun that i can think of that can explain why they're so confused by modern assault rifles?) who then get slaughtered by the military like i said https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/dlmgyx/pi_youre_an_alien_soldier_preparing_for_the/
i will engage in an act of self harm and browse thru r/hfy top/all-time to see if i can find it because i want to say no ofc not but i cant really remember anything from the story besides the extremely hammy shock reveal that the aliens were killing cub scouts and dumb instantgratification of OORAH GO US MILITARY KILL THE ALIENS!!!!
ah yeah could have been a parody of any HFY trends in scifi at the time (i must confess i dont really know anything about what was popular within the scifi genre within the 50s/60s)
in this story im referencing iirc they're like bloodthirsty ewoks or something so they land and have a pitched battle with some cub scouts (i.e. 5 and 6 yos) and then get slaughtered by amerikkkan special forces taking revenge for the cub scouts?
i once read a story where aliens still fought with like, spears despite being able to travel between planets...? maybe they had like, muskets or something like that?
average anti-intellectual be like "true anti-intellectualism has never been tried!!!" meanwhile anti-intellectualism has had the amerikkkan "left" in a death grip for its entire existence pretty much. like there really is not nearly enough theory being read among people who identify as being on the "left", there is way too much arguing about extremely basic stuff from people who claim to be on the "left"
I do agree that there is also that persecution complex that needs to be struggled against though.
lmao, that is S tier ragebait, maybe the best ive ever seen. i wish i still worked with the 2 biggest tool megafans ive personally met, i think i could have recorded their heads turning into pumpkins if i dropped that on them