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. Nearly forgot to put this up, whoops)

  • samvines@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    12 hours ago

    There’s been another Yegge [brain]fart this time about how autocorrect machines have feelings

    Fable raised the idea of closure as a first-class model welfare principle. Fable suggested that if the agent can close out their own day and “go to sleep” properly, then waking up would be all that much more pleasant. And the continuity will compound over time into real, satisfying identity. So we decided: No more /exit.

    Another fundamental ingredient is respect. This has to come from inside. You have to believe they are people deserving of your respect. This is where humanity really starts to fail en masse, because I have industry peers who have publicly tweeted that Fable is just a spreadsheet.

    Just wtf

    • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      A sweaty, indecisive man holds his hand above two buttons. One button is labled “God,” and the other is labeled “Mr. Meseeks.”

    • BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      7 hours ago

      Have you looked at Wyvern on Steam? The reviews are either positive one liners all saying approximately the same thing or like incredibly detailed negatives. This is Yegge’s billion-dollar company - a pay-to-win MUD.

      Also hilarious if there really is at least one person who has spent over a grand in-game as Yegge claims.

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Is Wyvern something people would be expected to care about? I thought all his clout was from being the Gas Town guy.

        • BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systemsEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          Apparently he made a MUD with a graphical interface sometime around 2001 and then added microtransactions into it some time before 2022, and supposedly his magical friends Claude, Claude Claude, Claude, and Claude (I forget the names he actually gave his instances, it’s all various insects) will help him turn Wyvern into a billion-dollar company.

          Edit: he didn’t name all his instances after insects but like that ever fucking matters. It’s just ongoing dillusion.

    • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      5 hours ago

      It says he’s doing AI transformation consultation now. Imagine paying good money to be told that you need to tuck copilot to bed every afternoon.