Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

The banality of evil. Interesting concept. Very real.

@thor
>to take a break from all SoMe
Excuse me, what?!

I'm "sorry" that you don't even understand how the feature you suggest would actually end up (not) working IRL. When every word can be a #, eventually every word will be a #. And a function who's purpose is to highlight that a word can be marked as # will eventually mark all words as #.
Sure, #every #word is a bit of an #exaggeration. But #things can and will #eventually #degenerate to #ridiculous heights. Again, if you can't #realize this, you haven't see enough #shit #online.

>infinite hell of checking out hashtags?
Let's say post A has 5 #. I find it interesting. I want to check the 5 # to see if there's anything else interesting going on. I find posts B C D E F, each having another 1-3 different # than the initial 5 #. You see how this can quickly degenerate?

> hashtags are part of the format. if you hate it so much, what are you even doing here?
Look around you, how many # do you actually see people using on here?
And it's not the hashtag itself I hate, I dislike your idea of turning it into a game of "gotta catch'em all".
Do you just not comprehend how your concept is basically your computer being a passive aggressive bitch at you: "Are you sure you don't want to # these words too? Maybe it will get better reach if you do it."

@thor
Your word processing example doesn't work at all, because I actually have an interest in writing properly in that context. I don't, and no one sane has, an interest in # every word on social media. The only ones who would benefit from it are the owners of the platform. The more hashtags being used, the bigger the chance people reading a post are drawn into an infinite hell of checking out all the hashtags. Like how people will waste eternity, jumping from Wikipedia page to Wikipedia page, just from clicking on hyperlinks.

@thor
Maybe the best analogy, is comparing it with lootboxes in certain games. You could be perfectly able to play and complete the game without them, but if you were to receive constant notifications to partake in them, we'd see it as abusive and manipulative behavior.

@thor
If you don't see how this suggestion of yours would be used to manipulate people, I don't know what to say.... I guess you just don't understand, and I'll leave it at that.

@thor
Autosuggest is far different than what you're suggesting, of highlighting every word in a post that could be marked as a hashtag.

Autosuggest works as a search function, that helps you find the correct tag when you're trying to hashtag something.

What you're describing is for pestering the user to hashtag something even when maybe they weren't thinking about doing it initially. The addictive element comes from punishing users by annoying them when they don't # a word; and then receiving or being promised to receive incentives for hashtagging every word.

@thor
Maybe you don't see it, but having constant suggestions on how every few words should be a hashtag is precisely the typical reinforcement thing that enables addiction behavior.

@beardalaxy
It works best because it offers the biggest before/after contrast, but it also works worst, because it completely ignores the intended art direction of the original game.

Maybe Minecraft didn't have much of an art direction, cause it was just the passion project of 1 person, but Morrowind, Quake, Portal 1, did have one. And I promise you, these ports didn't give 2 fucks to even try to understand it.

While I am impressed on the technical front by these ports, so far I haven't seen one that I actually respect as a game. I can't see them as anything more than tech demos.

@thor
>it would be to gently highlight words in the post you're typing that have been hashtagged frequently, and quietly suggest that you add the hash symbol to them

Thanks, I hate it. That sounds like a dystopian nightmare feature Facebook would implement.

Let me post and talk about what I want, the way that I want to. Stop trying to manipulate how I type out things, stop trying to push what I should say, stop trying to transform me into a mindless content creating algorithm. I'm a human being, not a function of your source code.
That's how I'd respond to this if Facebook or Twitter implemented this.

When I think of RTX, I instinctually want to jokingly associate it with a game who's main thing is NOT having realistic or fancy graphics, to emphasize how shallow the push for it is. But then I remember Minecraft RTX is a thing, and I feel like I'm stuck in a world were satire became reality. I can't even use retro games anymore to make my point, because Quake 1 RTX is getting released now.

What even is this timeline?

@cake-kun
I initially thought it said "What french hell is this?"...
... I mean... it IS Canada. It makes sense.

@special-boy @Chet
If you have no morals, and only care about winning, then you're the type of person that would justify raping children if it offered them a political advantage.

@special-boy @Chet
If you become a monster to win, you don't deserve to win.

@special-boy @Chet
What makes you think I like that either?

@matrix
I'm missing something obvious, aren't I?

@Jim
Return of the South Park, Kanye gay fish meme?

@mushroom_soup
I love how petty her complaint is, only for the people responding to her to show themselves as being even more stupid.