No.
GOTO Hellis BASIC.Hell: GOTO HellDamn, you beat me to it
Came here to say this
I hope the things you like get mistaken in the news as white supremacist-related, then nazis all pile on until nobody can enjoy it any more.
It's usually the other way around. The nazis slowly corrupt a community that consists mostly of one of their target groups, pushing out people who are aware of their dogwhistles because, well, they're clearly nazis, and is not going to recognize that or listen to you, as they wouldn't make a good target group otherwise.
Then, if they succeed, at some point it gets bad enough that the media notices, after which the nazis go "look at the silly liberals, thinking everyone is racist these days" and get a lot more open, thereby pushing out the last few people who were initially oblivious to there fascism, or forcing them to endure fascist rethoric to enjoy their hobby's community.
K-On is one of my favorite guilty pleasure shows, and for some reason saying that now makes people suspect I'm a Nazi.
I ain't letting them have this one. It's a stupid show about high schoolers drinking tea and playing music, dammit.
Are you an early Pepe the Frog fan?
I don't think that's actually happened a lot, the worst that happens is the specific parts of the fandom that fall to the nazis end up quarantined
Warhammer, D&D, MLP, and Punk/Skinhead stuff come to mind
Happens to me all the time with music. Be jamming out to a song I've loved for years, right when my fav. artist dropped the album. Then tiktok plays the one hook from one song on their album and people always ask "Oh! Did you hear that on tikTok?!" .... No...no....no 🙄
Oh, no
Oh, no
Oh, no, no, no, no, no
That has happened to me so much in recent years, both with clipped songs and bands/artists I like becoming popular. I don't hold myself with any music pretention, and the vast majority of my "underground" discoveries are just random chance and Spotify algorithm. There is no way I have found to explain "no, I've been listening to them since [insert album]" that hasn't been met with some form of hipster comment.
Maybe you don't have to tell people anything at all about how you discovered good music?
"Oh, did you hear about them on TikTok?"
What?
"TikTok. You probably heard that song on TikTok."
Oh ok. I really like their new album. I also enjoy [insert other music you like].
"Yeah, I heard it on TikTok. I really love the 20 version I've heard replayed thousands of times."
Cool. Have a good day.
Just have your favorite band not release a new album for a decade. cries in streetlight manifesto
Happened to me with Sleep Token.
And why does that impact your enjoyment? Did the song change? Did your ears change?
It sounds like you care too much about the opinions and experiences of others.
I guess that must be the only reason.
Back in the 90s, saying the earth was flat meant you were open to talking through hypothetical science and creating wild theories. You knew the truth, but you never wanted to break kafabe. The sheer sillyness was part of the fun.
Today, saying the earth is flat means youre a flat out moron who lacks other critical thinking skills. It's a warning sign that you also have other troubling thoughts.
Flat earth was so much fun until all of them got roped into Q.
Back in the 90s, saying the earth was flat meant you were open to talking through hypothetical science and creating wild theories. You knew the truth, but you never wanted to break kafabe. The sheer sillyness was part of the fun.
See, this is what I thought we were doing back then too, but I've got a different hypothesis. I believe many of the people we were talking to back then actually really did believe it. I don't think people were any more level-headed back then than they are now -- we just assumed they were joking because that's what we were doing.
I used to have a certificate of membership from the Flat Earth Society (circa 1995). I don't know what happened to it.
GOTO Hell isn’t correct and will lead to a syntax error
20 GOTO 4311 is technically correct but you’re actually going to hell for writing your script this way.
I used to write heaven and hell into scripts specifically for this joke
I used to use Shit or Hell for error handling
So that if you arrive here and things aren't as expected, everything goes to shit and then you can go to hell
Didn't qbasic implement labels?
I remember when gaming and D&D were niche interests. They got popular, and now look at them. 😩
You can actually find a group that manages to play with some regularity?
No, that's still an issue somehow 🤷🏻♂️
"Go to hell is basic. Instead say I hope your DnD group starts to get momentum right at the climax of the campaign, it becomes impossible to get anyone to show up."
Really? For me it's exactly the same as before critroll. "Anyone want to play? Sure I'll DM. See y'all this weekend!"
For gaming I see your point, it looks like everything as to be a money grab nowaday which greatly reduce the quality of a lot of games.
For ttrpg I don't feel like it though. Sure Wizard of the Coast/Hasbro has gone to shit but I left the D&D train a long time ago already. And the amount of other very good and accessible system is amazing. IMO The only thing "bad" that this new popularity bring is players with wrong expectations. Some expect every games and every DM to be of the same quality as Critical Roll or other well known podcast, some exept to find "video games" mechanic like in baldur's gate, some are trying to force the meme stuff inside the game, ect.
I know it's disgusting, there's D&D groups all over my town now, I can't even play all the games that are accessible to me. discusting i say!
It's happened to everyone. I'm sorry, but it would either be too effective or do no damage.
“Enjoy the next 24 hours”
sounds like a threat even though it can mean the same thing as “have a nice day”
Dear God....no...
I'm glad that the only gacha that entered normie sphere was Genshin, with all the negative attention it got I wonder how people would react to second job ones like Fate GO and Granblue.
It's great that Blue Archive is impenetrable.I think Grand blue is fairly well known in the US because of their expansion into other game types. Plus the anime. The fighting game is marvelous.
Wtf
Unfortunately, everyone still thinks of Lost as the show with a bad ending. Even though it's completely misinterpreted.
It was the worst ending of any show I've ever seen. If it is misinterpreted by the masses, then it was clearly done with incompetence.
By any chance, did you watch it when it first came out? Lost was made to be binge watched in an era of television before that was commonplace. It holds up much better if you can watch an episode every few days, instead of once a week.
You sound like a hipster taking about music.
Clearly you've never had your blorbo get youtooz'd
I'm glad you put "go to hell" in quotes, because that's the only way it would print in BASIC.
... what niche interest is this person talking about? ... is it Star Trek? I'm not sure that makes sense
Except this is all predicated on caring about other people's opinions on your interests, which is foolish to begin with.
If you like something, like it because you like it. Let however other people process the thing be how they process it; it doesn't have to have any impact on how you process it.
It might be mildly annoying, I give you that, but throwing a tantrum about people enjoying the same stuff as you but "not enough" or "the wrong way" is super immature and petty.
It's exactly this mindset that started the bullshit wars regarding cultural appropriation.
"the wrong way" is super immature and petty.
Oh yeah? Look up stoicism on YouTube. There are wrong ways.
The problem primarily is when a niche interest becomes exploited for profit by capitalists and no longer maintains the community-oriented culture it once had.
It will lose aspects of it that make it unique and special but they don't appeal to the general public, because ultimately making as much profit as possible means attracting as many customers as possible.
