• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    The only thing I can guess what the fuck he even means by this is that it’s insanely easy to get popular on Instagram; you really just need to hit it 3 times to win.

    If I was comparing SM to video games:

    Reddit would be GTAV Online because it looks really fun until you actually start playing it a while and realize how fucking abysmal it truly is.

    Twitter would be whatever the current most popular mobile bullshit is. Everyone plays it, but nobody would ever say it’s actually fun.

    InstaGram is Pokemon Snap.

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      InstaGram is Pokemon Snap.

      Don’t be dissing Pokemon Snap like that, it was a first person photography game for N64 and it was brilliant back in 1999.

      More like Pokemon Go — digital manipulation imposed on reality. False sense of community.

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    Twitter is actually 1982’s classic erotic Atari 2600 game "Beat 'em and eat 'em.

    There’s Vladimir Putin at the top of the building, firing his pixellated ejaculate over the side and the player controls both Elon Musk and Donald Trump, running left and right with their mouths open to collect it.

    article on videogamegeek wikipaedia article

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    I feel like there’s not a single person Elon’s comparisons would make sense to

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      He’s claiming Twitter is more or less “hardcore” and requires a certain level of mental fortitude to stick with. Instagram much less so.

      I don’t know how Bloodborne compares to Dark Souls, so I don’t get what he thinks the distinction is there.

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        Bloodbourne is faster paced than Dark Souls. To me the focus on micro blogging with strict character limits would make Bloodbourne fit Twitter more than Reddit.

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          Not inaccurate, if it’s analogous to preemptively defending or disclaiming something about whatever point you’re trying to make, trying to avoid the downvotes and questioning that follow if you offend or confuse too many redditors.

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        He’s just listing games he knows are beloved by their fanbases, hoping to get any of those fanbase’s bigots to support him.

        I’m personally offended he’d ever make those comparisons. You made the site trash Elon. Reddit is trash, and instagram is scraping artists work for their ai. You all suck. All those video games are more worthy of my attention than any if those sites.

        Anyway, I’m going to go continue my yearly October playthrough of bloodborne. Fuck you Elon. I hope you get hand foot and mouth disease and can’t type for weeks.

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    Sorry, Musk. But the order goes like this:

    MySpace - Demon Souls, most popular precursor,aid a lot of the groundwork for the following series.

    FaceBook - Dark Souls, filled with mad and hollow undead all under the maniacal fist of an uncaring madman who refuses to let the world progress

    Tumblr - Bloodborne, the truth lies just behind the veneer for those who can see it, the porn is still there.

    Reddit - Lies of P, about half the people who said they played it actually did. Theres so much random shit shoved in here, is that Russian architecture with an old British cop bot? Uh, gnosticism?

    Instagram - its actually just the Painted World of Aramis, not a separate game. A beautifully painted, but fake, world that is degrading as time goes on

    Twitter - Derelict, low-res models that attempt to look like their inspiration but not well. Developed on an existing platform that already has a shitload of users. Tries to get you to spend money unnecessarily. Is free to use.

    Bonus
    Lemmy - Hellpoint, faithful to the original, with some unique features. Futuristic designs still impose a feeling of dark forebodence, slay cosmic gods like flies and bring humanity to apotheoses.

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      What about train station graffiti? Or Wikipedia discussion pages? Or the linux mailing list?

      You have really opened a can of worms we here.

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        Train Station Graffiti - Ghouls & Goblins, the original hard mode, get hit once and you’re done for, a true work of art (at the time)

        Wikipedia Discussion Pages - Blasphemous, ancient and unknown beings wield extreme power over the common populace, theres a lot of blood and religion

        Linux Mailing List - Salt and Sanctuary, an imaginary amalgamation of the real world, most people who end up here are castaways, the one with the most salt rules

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      I wouldn’t say it’s really that fateful, it’s pretty similar, but there’s still some differences and things missing.

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        I might be operating off of fresh vibes with that one. It was the most recent soulslike to consume me when it was on sale for like 4 dollars. Highly recommend.

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        I’d say the quality matches, as well as the dark patterns. And I believe the goal of buying twitter was of a double pronged nature. Disrupt the huge enclave of leftists there and buy a platform already saturated with users, which is why you make a Roblox game in the first place. The users are already there looking to play shitty games. (Not you tho Creatures of Sonoria, I love you even if you are predatory).

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    OK, now hear me out first

    Reddit is the halo of social media.

    The wildness you used to get up to on the multilayer was on a new level. There was nothing like that before. On one level you were fighting back the orange hordes from the front pages, the next level you were fighting wealth hording dragons and ripping them off by playing them at their own game. On the last level they let you have freedom on, they were gearing up to try and kill a god. I mean, I don’t know how far antiwork would have gone in the end but it seemed to have been estimated far enough that action had to be taken and the threat neutralised. We might well not have killed that particular God but I reckon we could’ve given them a bloody nose all the same.

    Then they parted ways with the people who actually made the game good and what you ended up with is a shite, soulless over corporatised shell of what it was before, thats little more than the skins from a game you used to enjoy transposed into one that you don’t.

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    Reddit is Bloodborne

    Okay this might be the comment that makes Ted Kaczinsky’s manifesto take on new meaning and inspiration for me