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 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 soo 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this, and happy new year in advance.)

  • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Not sure where this came from, but it can’t be all bad if it chaos-dunks on Yudkowsky like this. Was relayed to me via Ed Zitron’s Discord, hopefully the Q isn’t for Quillete or Qanon

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Curtis

      IQ:300, Special Move: Urbital Laser

      Curtis Boldmug has defined the meta for years. A competitive staple that strongly influences even builds not running him. Special attack causes unavoidable psychic damage even if you resist its charm effect. Vulnerable to sunlight.

      Balaji

      IQ: 300, Special Move: Yes Country for Old Men

      A support type character. Good for ramping grift mana, but can’t carry a game on his own. His ultimate is overcosted and just sucks up the hypecoins he spent the entire game producing.

      Ray

      IQ: 300, Special Move: Black Hole Graviton

      Mostly just receives support thanks to boomer nostalgia factor. Low but nonzero win rate in modern tournament meta. Highly viable in time machine formats.

      Eliezer

      IQ: 300, Special Move: Goffik the Hedgehog and the Enders of Game

      Former newbie favorite, fairly accessible and flashy. The Yud has seen heavy nerfs in the past years and at medium to high levels, his stats plateau severely much like his special move’s plot. Thiel synergy has also shifted towards Curtis mains leaving Yud in shambles. Still a fun archetype and enjoys popularity as a smurf build.

      Jack

      IQ: 300, Special Move: Snorting an entire ground up bitcoin

      Rather run of the mill character whose effectiveness was rather limited for a long time. The Blue Sky archetype made him meta relevant for all of five minutes until he got reclaimed by the toxic playerbase built around the social media platform he originally started and the uber braingenius currently in charge of that company. Beard gives him +1 armor bonus which is fine I guess.

      Peter

      IQ: 300, Special Move: Pondering my Orb

      The apex predator of SV capitalism. The Black Lotus of technofascist grifters. His character is rumored to be based on Count Dracula. Even most SV billionaires can’t touch him in a 1v1 matchup. Truly classic S-tier thinky boi.

      Beff

      IQ: 300, Special Move: World’s Most Divorced Man First Date Percent Speedrun

      Likely intended as a joke character, a guy named Guillaume pretending to know how to pretend to be cool on the internet. His posts turned out to be so lethally cringeworthy he started an entire archetype of */acc brainos. Not quite on the power level of Peter or Curtis, but surprisingly influential for an obvious meme build. Extremely weak to heartbreak from women named Ruth.

      Leopold

      IQ: 300, Special Move: To The Moooooon

      Honestly, I had never heard of this guy before today but the data doesn’t lie. The dots do go up and to the right and he posts a lot of them. Extrapolating from current trends, he will single-handedly reach singularity by the end of Q3 of this year.

        • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          his academic output is funny, he has 2 arxiv preprints, an article (?) published not in any normal journal, but instead on some other dude’s blog (??), and an article at somewhere called unjournal, which claims that it’s not a journal, (???) but instead it’s a nonprofit packed with EAs. and that nets him 230 citations (that’s looking up in google scholar, not going to fire up scopus just for that)

          • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
            5·
            21 hours ago

            For all their talk about “cathedrals” and “gatekeeping” I think we don’t gatekeep the ability to compile a PDF enough.

            We should at least require all the weirdoes to write their bullshit by hand with a quill