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(The spooks shall soon be upon us.)

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 you’ll 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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

I am demonstrably fucked in the head and thus continually tempted to wonder how a story could be done better. With plenty of the B-movies we've watched for Monsterdon, I've been like, "Well, if they had gotten rid of this character and streamlined like so, they'd have delivered better on the promise of this interesting idea...". Yud has burned the impulse out of me. There is no critique, only sneer.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah realizing the weird grave ending wasn't weird, it was just because the catgirl killed herself (weird fridgeing) made the story not really fixable imho.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

It's so fucking lazy. Generic whitebread fantasy setting, tedious dialogue, lazy ending. As storytelling, it is the triumph of entropy.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Goddamn South Park did "why don't you just grind in the forest to level up" twenty years ago tomorrow.

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