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binarytobis

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  • granted being a teenager felt like an eternity

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  • Not really the right place to ask this, but I feel like I shouldn’t post in communities meant to be exclusive safe spaces.

    What does the term “femcel” imply? Is it female incel? Because it would be absolutely crazy to voluntarily identify with the incels after all the trash sane people have talked about them over the years.

  • its tough out there~

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  • I watched it thinking it was a niche movie that was better than I expected. I was going to recommend it all around, but then I found out absolutely everyone saw it already and the people in my circles talk about it incessantly. Now if anything it seems overrated, no movie has ever been good enough to dominate the discord group chat for three months.

  • Happy new year Rule

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  • I was looking at a new webpage yesterday on someone else’s PC with some niche information I needed, and they had those top of the page banner ads that load a little later and bump the rest of the page down so you accidentally click them. Only, this page and four of them layered and timed to do that four times, perfectly sequenced so every time I started rereading the info it would happen again.

    This experience would radicalize anyone, I think.

  • Based on true events...

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  • I recently installed Mint for my first Linux and honestly it took me a few days to get it set up fully. The initial install was really quick and super easy, 90% complete in an hour. But, for example, my speakers didn’t produce sound. Four hours of trying to force drivers and all sorts of bizarre fixes, finally post on the forum for help and find out there’s a hidden volume setting in alsamixer that was set to 0.

    Still better than windows.

  • Check mate, atheists.

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  • Have you seen Wake Up Dead Man? Had a really intriguing take on reconciling atheists and theists in a way I found very valuable.

  • Tech Support

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  • I was pushed into a university IT call center with no training in actual computer skills and felt like this. But after fumbling through some calls it was 40% getting people to reboot, 40% getting people to reboot despite their lies that they already did, 15% problems I actually happened to know the answer to from home PC use, and 5% “Let me ask the specialist”.

  • NSFW

    Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world.

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  • I’m always treated like a loser nerd for stopping some drunk dad from throwing a box of leftover fireworks on the bonfire or something, because it’s not like anything would happen. We’ve done this a dozen times!

    But, survivorship bias aside, injuries are very common! And severe!

  • Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it.

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  • Never heard it put like that before.

  • Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it.

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  • It’s so dangerous when the passenger tries to pressure the driver to go. If they thought it was safe they would have gone. If they decide to listen to the passenger instead of their own judgement, they are way more likely to get into an accident. Even if the advice itself is good they might take too long to process it or misunderstand. Like “Take a right, now!” then they drive up onto the curb ten feet before the turn.

    Also, if the driver is making mistakes out of nervousness, yelling at them makes it worse every time. My passenger yells anything they can walk the rest of the way.

  • Baby's first Netflix movie 😍

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  • I don’t know this woman, but she’s close with people I care about and responding to her bragging about her son with “His actions are terrible and here’s why” would have stirred up drama. I’m not going to convince her that I’m right and her son is wrong in the five minutes we had together.

  • If you're watching fireworks tonight

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  • Counterpoint: I have a video of a tiger at the Zoo who got a large piece of ice stuck on his tongue and started flailing wildly, and it rules.

    Unfortunately it has my friend in the shot so I can’t share it.

  • Baby's first Netflix movie 😍

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  • Not super related but a friend of the family I’m visiting stopped by yesterday and was bragging about her son, who recently prompted an LLM to write a fantasy series “in the style of the Witcher”, did some loose editing, and published the books on amazon. She wrapped up with “He did some research and it isn’t even plagiarism!”

    I tried to look occupied with something else, but she explicitly called out to me “What do you think?” It took everything I had not to lunch into an anti-AI rant starting with “Actually, his pollution of the literary space syphoning money away from real authors is plagiarism, and here’s why!”

  • Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated

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  • Personally, I hate partial releases so I haven’t played it yet, despite loving Undertale.

  • you rule

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  • It’s true absolute power corrupts absolutely, I wouldn’t be immune either.

    But if we’re talking a 4 year term of dictator, I’m so mad at all the right people, it would probably take four years for me to work through all of that. Even being selfish I wouldn’t get around to the corruption in time, too busy mulching the rich and getting kids school lunches to spite boomers.

    Now if I was pushed into a second term, people would start to regret.

  • We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city"

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  • One of my friends pointed out to the teacher that they shouldn’t store the grades on a shared location the students could access and got expelled. I’ll stick to Oregon Trail.

  • Video game rule

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  • My eight year old niece has been playing coop with me, and any time I wait to let her do a thing she goes “I did it! You’re terrible at games, I’m the best!” and I am tempted to go wild to recover my rep.

    She also keeps holding onto me at the wrong times in Heave Ho and Unravel Two causing us both to die, then turning in fury “Why did you do that!? You killed me!”

    Next christmas I bust out mario kart.

  • me_irl

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  • Outlook always suggests I delete and add words because the way I wrote things is “incorrect”, but their suggestions are, to my mind, objectively worse and communicate my thoughts poorly. Over time Microsoft is gaslighting me to think my grammar is terrible.

  • Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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  • One time I was one of the very first people to play an MMO so my friends and I all grabbed up some really good names that are always taken before we start. I made six characters, two female, one of which I named “Beyonce” and put effort into making it look as much like her as possible.

    On five of the characters people pretty much ignored me entirely, as usual. But when I played Beyonce people wanted to talk to me all the time. They would constantly invite me to stuff, give me things, name drop me in chat. Just kind of gather around me in town. Even other men who were playing female characters just assumed I was a woman.

    I don’t know what it was about that character specifically, but it was a valuable insight into the life of women.

  • ‘DUNK ‘N DATE’ [OC]

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  • Internet memes really gave me a false sense of how much of an advantage my height was going to be in online dating.