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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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      anti-ai bots

      thereā€™s nothing I hate more than when people who hate chatbots flood me with chatbots

      e: please stop sending soldiers from your anti-war militia to fight me

      actually that sounds like a metal gear plot point Iā€™d overexplain while intoxicated

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        Honestly I would love to hear someone try to explain the Metal Gear story while drunk.

        ā€¦No no no you see the Patriots are actually the AI reconstitutions of Plasma Snakeā€™s old boy scout troop from the like the 80s, Shadow Moses, and they really liked (hic) Gundam and thenā€¦

        ā€¦But see, they actually didnā€™t even like all the wars and stuff even though they were making all kinds of money and explosions, so Raiden - oh and heā€™s a robot now but itā€™s cool he gets a dog - has to figure out whatā€™s going on but then itā€™s all ā€œThe good old days after 9/11ā€ ha ha haā€¦

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          ā€œgames explained badly, the podcastā€ sounds like it has phenomenal potential for pissing off just about the entire gamersphere

          Iā€™m down

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            Iā€™m so down for this I might unbury my good microphone

            ā€œand then Dick Cheney appears and thatā€™s the final boss and he beats your ass. no, not a character based off of Dick Cheneyā€¦ā€