Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Minor bit of personal news: Newgrounds got hit with a wave of AI slop games recently.
I caught onto it back on Wednesday, but didnāt get official confirmation until yesterday, when another user investigated the games and discovered the exact slop-generator used to shit them out - VIDEOGAME.ai.
Thanks for the work you do on Newgrounds! This sentence stuck out to me
Appreciate it - keeping one of the last bastions of creativity free of slop is a thankless task.
What is AI if not a tool built to abuse the proletariat?
Gotta love how the website isnāt even functional.
@shapeofquanta @BlueMonday1984 thanks I hate it
Its probably been vibe coded by the fucks behind the LLM, Iād be shocked if it was genuinely functional.
Thatās fucking abominable. I was originally going to ask why anyone would bother throwing their slop on Newgrounds of all sites, but given the business model here I think we can be pretty confident they were hoping to use it to advertise.
Also, fully general bullshit detection question no.142 applies: if this turnkey game studio works as well as you claim, why are you selling it to me instead of doing it yourself? (Hint: itās because it doesnāt actually work)
Considering that AI bros are
utterly malicious scumbags who hate anything which doesnāt let them, and them alone, make all the money ever
exceedingly stupid and shameless dipshits with a complete inability to recognise or learn from mistakes
I can absolutely see them looking at someplace like NG and thinking āhey, this place which stands for everything we want wiped off the Internet will totally accept our fucking slopā.
(Personal sidenote: Part of me says this story would probably make a good Pivot to AI.)