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    Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.

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      Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.

      There’s loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.

      I sometimes watch sports I’ve barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.

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      There are dozens of us!

      My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don’t even ask whether you watch, it’s assumed you do, so they’ll ask stuff like “that match yesterday was awesome, right?” or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can’t comprehend someone doesn’t watch hockey.

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      I can watch sports I don’t play. Like football(both American type and what we call soccer), MMA(although I haven’t watched anything in years), basketball(but only NCAA), hockey, the occasional baseball game. I’ll make an exception for boxing and tennis, those are watchable even when I was deep into them. But golf‽ How does anyone watch that? I get walking the greens, and hitting it every few minutes yourself, but watching someone else just seems so boring.

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      It’s fun seeing someone do something with Incredible skill /or great athleticism. Doesn’t need to be sport per se performance art like acrobatics or artistry e.g. Bob Ross have similar aspects.

      Some sports I like to watch I have personally partaken in, in that way I can more appreciate the skill needed by the professionals.

      Some sports I don’t know at all but I like to figure out the rules by watching and discovering what makes a great play (American Football is in that category for me).

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      I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.

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    Twitter or any “microblog”.

    I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.

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      You can do that. But certain voices carry extra weight within communities.

      I followed today’s Formula 1 race on both Threads and Mastodon. Both platforms allow you to follow topics and that’s what I did. But then I follow the people I find interesting as well

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        I was really rooting for Yuki the most and he lost so many places 😭
        granted they did switch something up on him without preparing him for it but still

        otherwise man I hope the FIA learns something from this race, it was bloody horrible. I would’ve had a more entertaining time going to church with my father and listening to someone preach for an hour and a half 🙃

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      Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.

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    Vtubers. I get the cute anime girl thing and I like fan art of them as I do other anime. But the models move wayyyyyy to exaggerated. It hits uncanny valley for me.

    Also I don’t get the parasocial relationship of chatting in a huge room of other followers. The chat is scrolling by at a hundred miles an hour and you’re competing with everyone else for their attention.

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      I enjoy watching and chatting in smaller streams sometimes (like, a couple hundred in the chat at the MOST, usually < 100), it’s still parasocial, but tends to be WAY more chill. If it’s a stream with thousands of people, I don’t see the point in chatting, it’s passive entertainment at that point for me, personally!

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      It’s 100% uncanny valley for me as well. There’s a creator a like who doesn’t like to appear on camera much (most of their main content is animated) and wanted to watch their livestreams. They used an avatar and it just weirded me out. It doesn’t help that I’m seemingly way more sensitive than usual when it comes to audio and visuals being even slightly out-of-sync.

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      Supposedly vtubers need to make very exaggerated facial expressions irl in order to make sure the software picks it up and translates it onto the model, which is sometimes unsettling to people when they get in the habit of doing that normally.

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      I don’t get the uncanny valley from them, but I guess that can vary from person to person, so that’s fair.

      The thing about chats being filled with too many people for any one person to matter I agree with. But that’s a big streamer thing, not exclusively a vtuber thing.

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    Most superheroes.

    EDIT: SJW admins confirms that I’ve been down voted by Superman and Spiderman

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      Same LMAO they’re neat but I’ve always been so meh about them. And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again

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        It’s been 30 minutes: time to reboot Batman again! Let’s spend half the runtime of the movie rehashing his origin story just in case there might somehow still be one single person on Earth who doesn’t know what Batman’s deal is.

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        And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again

        That’s the worst part for me, there are thousands upon thousands of superheroes to make movies about, but it’s always about the same ones. And you know what the sad part is? That every once in a while we get a different superhero with a cool movie/TV show and it either ends up becoming overused like Batman/Superman (e.g. Spider-Man, or Iron man) or it’s completely dropped and forgotten (e.g. Jessica Jones, or Spawn)

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      Personally superhero movies aremy crowning achievement as far as willing suspension of disbelief goes.

      It’s fine that superheroes have powers and/or levels of combat expertise that would be impossible to achieve at their age WITHOUT superpowers. That’s just how it is.

      That they solve all major problems by punching people and acting as less murderous COPS, though? THAT’S what I have to force myself to overlook in order to enjoy the escapist silliness I’m watching 😄

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    “Reality TV”. Could anythjng be more contrived yet obviously “make it up as you go along”?

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      I can’t help but wonder how much the popularity of reality TV led us to where we are now. I don’t just mean how the US president used to have his own stupid show, but how many people grew up thinking that “watching people create drama” is peak entertainment.

      The same era saw the decline and demise of a number of educational channels and shows. Is it a coincidence? I don’t know. All I know is there are lots of adults who grew up watching “reality” shows who now think politics are just a game to “win” and that when their opponents are upset, it’s amusing. It’s like the concept of empathy or working together don’t even enter their minds. Everything is just for entertainment, no matter how serious it is or how many innocent people get screwed over by it.

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    Mobile UI. It sucks. Yet the majority of people online are now connecting from it, and everything wants to be an app.

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      Apps can collect all your data from your phone whereas a website doesn’t have access to your GPS location, etc necessarily.

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    The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.

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      I grew up and have put my fair share of time in the trades. They do pay well but if you don’t get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.

      The one thing I can’t wrap my head around is why everyone wants to work so much overtime. Even unions are rocking 50-60 hour work weeks and then claiming they treat you well. It’s looked down upon if you only want to work 40.

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        They do pay well but if you don’t get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.

        That is the key, “getting off the tools” aka getting a white collar/office job….

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        and its also mostly to a specific demographic too, and not the one people want to associate with,hint hint.

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      I started an IBEW apprenticeship and was so put off by the vibe/attitude of everyone I quit in the first week. Fuck that, I don’t care how much you pay me I’m not working outside in the heat getting literally and metaphorically roasted all day. If I wanted to work with toxic immature assholes I would get a fast food job.

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        Most of my time in construction was during high school and early college and even then I recognized how many immature assholes I worked with!

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      I’m a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.

      I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just… doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won’t regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.

      Of course my back and joints couldn’t keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn’t have wanted to get swept up in that.

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        That sounds nice because you’ve never done it. The horrors you encounter in people’s homes and the creativity you have to come up with when doing the wiring are real.

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        So the most fun I ever had at a job was the after I graduated college and worked as chef, the work was so much fun, the waitresses were hot as hell, I was young in great shape and we all got off work at 1030 went out and partied. I had sex with really sexy women. All I did for about a year and a half was work out, work and hang out.

        It really was an amazing year, but there was no future in it. I often think back nostalgically to that time.

        I hear you man, one of the greatest aspects was I left work at work…

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      it destroys the body, and i only ever seen white people work in trades, so i suspect as to something to do with how they are only hiring those people too.

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    AI, the only people hyped about it are corporate heads, and people trying to get into the industry via grad school pipeline.

    hyping content creator as the goal for younger people to become? these people arnt really good models to follow and you hear them get into some kind of drama and find out they are pos: sniperwolf, mr beast, siderman. also liek to mention most current creators are often rich/come from wealth themselves, so it doesnt help people who arnt as rich as they are.

    and then people still defending PEWPEWDIE? why are people still trying to give his previous support of bigotry a pass, just because he had a child now.

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    Most social media stuff.

    Omg did you hear X did Y?

    I guess I’m just old but I don’t follow most. Even with dogpiling PirateSoftware. Yes, he’s wrong and probably lied. I just don’t get the hype around it. I’m happy that the hype led to Stop Killing Games getting enough traction though, that was nice.

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      I’ve never heard that name in my life, and I’m petty sure I don’t care one way or another. My daughter gets wrapped up in internet drama and I can’t for the life of me understand why. I am not drawn to drama but were I, there is plenty to be found in my own life. It’s all so performative and pointless — the good and the bad.

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      I’ve been watching countless PirateSoftware drama videos since it’s the clown that keeps on giving. I never bothered with drama channels on YouTube, so I never realized how much of an industry these people made out of it now that I keep getting recommend them. It’s sickening.

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    Poekmon: It came out when I was in highschool doing band, theater, occasional sports, a summer job (fulltime), and a parttime job otherwise so I just never got into it. To me, it’s a glorified paper-rock-scissors simulator with extra steps and zero nostalgia.

    VTubers: it’s just uncanny valley to me. I’m also super sensitive to audio-video sync issues and avatars seemed to always be slightly behind the couple of times I tried to watch it.

    Shorts (and entire social media like TickTock, reels (I think it is called?), etc.): the forcing of vertical video is one reason since I’m almost always watching things in landscape (95% of the time on a TV, monitor, or tablet). I also just want to see more of the same topic, typically, and it’s over and now I have to pay a mental context-switching fee.

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      when i was in MS, a girl classmate said it was just picture on paper. the current hype/pandemic is due to scalping pokeinvestors trying to gouge prices over it. the pandemic just made everyone stayed home and play pokemon all day. funny thing is nobody said anything about MTG when i was playing HS, and yugioh was hot sht when i was HS, and it was too risky to play it, because people were stealing it from other people.

      it got some resurgence due to people capable of plahying it online. people do criticize the prize mechanic is archaic and should be done away with, i much prefer a life point type mechanic instead.

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    Nirvana. The band.

    I missed the grunge movement in its peak but I got into Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Just couldn’t get into Nirvana beyond a few songs that I do like. Musically, I feel like both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden dwarf Nirvana.

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      I respect Nirvana tremendously for the movement they ushered in. I cannot enjoy most of their music, however.

      Foo fighters is a bit better, but I admit I pick and choose.

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      When an artist is the first to inspire a movement, history tends to look back on them differently. There’s a related trope that covers this phenomenon - “Seinfeld is Unfunny.” From that page:

      There are certain works that you can safely assume most people have enjoyed. These shows were considered fantastic when they were released. Now, however, these have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we’ll cry, “That is so old” or “That is so overdone”.

      The sad irony? It wasn’t old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that work’s niche. They ended up being taken for granted, copied, and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the new status quo.

      Nirvana is one of the artists mentioned under the “Music” examples on that same page. The point is, they were groundbreaking when they came out, but they changed the music scene so much and have inspired so many similar artists that their original work has become overshadowed by the successors they helped create.

      Your experience is common and it’s okay not to enjoy their music, but the key to remember is that without Nirvana helping to pave the way, other grunge bands may not have risen to the popular level they reached.

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      Bleach and Incesticide weren’t particularly good albums. Generic rock pulp, the songs were interchangeable.
      EIDT: I’d argue it’s their live shows that made them stand out. “Live and Loud” electrified me to no end.

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      Nirvana was ok. They are the ones credited with killing the hair metal genre.

      But honestly Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots…they are all 10 times better than Nirvana ever was.

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      Yea it’s decent, but what really takes the cake is that it’s far better than what you can get at McDonald’s and (at least in my area) it’s cheaper than McDs

      Their double double combo is like 10$ compared to McDs pitiful BigMac combo at like 13

      It’s not worth flying across the country for like some do, but if I have a choice between McDs or In-N-Out…

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        Oh, for sure I’d rather it over McD’s. I just don’t think it’s amazing like a lot of other people seem to think it is.

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      I remember when In-n-Out first came to Texas, and the line to try it had the entire highway backed up for miles; People couldn’t even fit in the parking lot, and the line had literally backed up all the way up the highway exit and onto the highway.

      Tried it like a month later, and wasn’t impressed; If I just want a fast food burger, Whataburger is better.

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      The first time I had In-N-Out was the first thing I ate after Basic Training, so I remember it being the best thing I’d had in months.

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        I had one for the first time the other weekend. It was…ok? It tasted like a handful of other fast food burgers I’ve had.

        Lots and lots of people working there, though.

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      It’s a lot better than other fast food burgers. But it’s a pretty basic, straight forward burger. It’s fresh ingredients, done simply. And it’s why everyone loves it.

      I know of a few places near me where they serve nearly identical burgers, and I love those too.

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      Then you go to the east coast and they claim Five Guys is the better In-n-out and holy shit it is definitely not. Even more overpriced and not even as good as a burger king. Sheesh.

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        Having eaten all 3, Five Guys is the best. But hey, that’s why everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Yours just happens to be wrong. 🙂

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        In Colorado five guys is king as well. And I completely agree. More value for your money and the fries are much better.

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        Very overpriced. Free peanuts tho

        It’s not better, it’s just what’s available. Like Sbarro when you’re not in NYC and the local pizza sucks

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    Working for corpos. It’s a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.

    As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I’m currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.

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      The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck

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        It’s impossible to be an expert at everything a project needs.

        Being part of a team that knows how to perform together to achieve very challenging goals is quite an experience.

        I’ve been part of multiple projects that migrated/extended/moved extensive, broad-reaching, crazy complex systems with serious financial and life/safety risks (things like fire alarm systems that trigger suppression and alert fire departments).

        The satisfaction of knowing it was done in time (no loss of monitoring), no one got hurt, no penalties or fines were paid because we maintained regulatory compliance, etc, is fantastic.

        It’s the teamwork. I’ve been a key performer on such projects, and could not have done it myself - it’s just not possible.

        Figuring out a critical path with all sorts of unpredictable risks requires strong understanding of these systems, and the capabilities of the groups you’ll engage along the way.

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      […] JS […] dream.

      Your dreams are my nightmares. Maybe that’s why I stick to backend these days.

      I used to want to work for Google because I thought they were hiring the best and brightest and making cool stuff. That hasn’t been true in ages, though, as they do things that I definitely would define as ‘evil’ and love to kill off their products. Even were I to work there, I’m not sure my other goal, getting to work with and learn from some brilliant engineers, would even happen anymore. (I mean, if they’d hire me (and they almost did ages ago)…)