/baw/ - General Discussion

>>418448
Holy shit the ordering of those top posts is bad here. Top to bottom, left to right, yes?

>>418460
It's cool, three good replies.
>22:22:33
>00 dubs
Anon has already been found...

>>418461
HOLY SHIT

>>418478
Christ it depresses me when people fall for this kind of shit.

>>418498
>give it a week and they won't even remember this one

lmao

>>418603
I find it funny that all sites have been encouraging posting personal info online for almost a decade now; and ONLY NOW with the cambridge analytica fiasco, did people realize "holy shit, our personal info is online for others to see!".

People need to realize that others can see what you post on the internet.

>>418708
Yeah, it took me a second reading to fully comprehend but it does make sense and is realistic. I'm a bit distanced from a lot of this (I'm actively revolted by lots of advertising and pop media) and never really studied the social impact of targeted marketing so it too a bit of time to properly understand how reasonable those content marketing implications are.
Whenever I think I am weird or crazy, I should take a step back and see how poorly the non-critical consumers are doing...

>>418709
Yeah, I understand the part about targeted marketing selling lifestyle narratives and turning people into cults (see any Apple fanboy).

But I don't exactly understand the autonomic intelligence part.

>>418710
I believe they are talking about automated trading, where computers will trade stocks. If you have machines capable of trading thousands of times a second (maybe a few orders of magnitude more), then I think it makes manual, large-scale pretty futile.
These machines don't just look at stock prices, they look at media. One interesting side effect is that Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s stock rises whenever a film Anne Hathaway features in is released because naïve bots will/would mistakenly associate the positive feedback to Anne Hathaway with Berkshire Hathaway and trade accordingly.
I can't say that autonomous intelligence is the right word (nor am I an expert on trading) but I believe the point is that a lot of this flow and decision making has left human control and that may not be a good thing. A similar automation would be present in implementing targeted advertising online, so I believe that is the connection anon was making between the two. Mindless algorithms are significantly affecting society and culture and they believe it is responsible for a lot of agrravated political hostility. I'm honestly not too convinced that is the main reason, but I may be wrong.

^^I am tired and re-reading this, it's a bit disjointed. I hope I got some ideas across though. There are different systems used by all kinds of companies to sell, trade and advertise, which are basically feeding each other information. They take this information and make (seemingly) profitable decisions, which other systems will use to make their decisions, etc. This would cause a lot of those feedback loops.
Eh, maybe I should stop typing and think first...

>>418735
Who is all this even for?

It seems to be massive... overcompensation(?) by the parents, which is understandable in the end as an side-effect of grief.

>>418736
Context: Disney forbade a child to be buried with a Spiderman toy.

>>418739
How can they stop you, just put the favorite toy in the coffin alongside his body.

What are they gonna do, dig up the child's grave?

>>418739
No, that was a different kid than the one pictured. Disney did not want them to put spiderman on the gravestone or something.

>>418740
>How can they stop you

Disney effectively runs the United States through their legion of lawyers. They can stop you, they can sue you if you do it. They have sued hospitals for putting up mickey mouse decorations without their say so.

>>418741
is more correct.

>>418855
Neato!

>>418882
should've been shot on the spot.

>>418887
Reminds me of that screencap of the thread where anon and his sister had sex because they were hoaxed that the country was going to get nuked, and it was fucked up, the sex was not the good kind of incest.

>>418896
I remember a bit of that one, I think it was Hawaii.

>>418986
I did not need to read that.

>>418987
You are stronger now.

>>419127
17/10

>>419157
>rts as a genre is considered dead

yeah, they can go bankrupt and rot in hell for that one alone.

>>419158
I didn't post it on the games board because you can never trust this knd of hearsay, but Blizzard has been ridiculously retarded lately so if any of it is true then that's more hilarity to add to the pile.

>>419157
1) fiction and falsehood, etc.
otherwise
2) ENJOY YOUR LAWSUIT. yeah, I wonder which of the people they just fired wrote this....

>>419220
And that is why Smash is not a real fighting game.

>>419221
https://theoptionselect.com/2019/11/09/opinion-its-sad-to-see-people-resort-to-playing-well-just-to-win/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

>>419244
As with all mainstream Superheroes™, it all depends on the writer.

>>419249
Most superhero comics of the 80s and before had HORRIBLE writing. The only good X-Men is the 90s cartoon, as censored and defanged as it is.

>>419251
The only good thing about the 90s x-men cartoon was the Juggernaut Bitch parody.
I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!!!

>>419261
That's actually not too surprising. To someone not acquainted to fighting games, a "Z" motion really could look like that. Those controller inputs presuppose an arcade stick, but most people playing games haven't ever been into an arcade and may not even know that arcade sticks existed. Whatever tutorial the games have, they should not presuppose this information.

Also street fighter sucks.

>>419263
I could easily fall for that. The thread is just straight-up noob-bashing.
t. literally-what-is-a-combo tier gamer

>>419283
Trying too hard

>>419282
I haven't opened the image but the name says it all:
> O P E N T H E S O U R C R E A M

My roommate is a bit of a hoarder, and his room is a shithole and if I didn't live here it would likely spread further than those confines, but I see stuff people post that gets screencapped and it makes me realize it could be so much worse

>>419287
Say No to Drugs

>>419300
2020 will be the year of
>UK is not white
>Sweden is not white
>Argentina is white
>India is SUPERPOWER BY 2020 FUCK YOU AUSTRALIA WE ONLY USE DESIGNATE

>>419301
No, that would be russians. I would know, having been raised amongst them.

>>419306
Cringe.

>>419307
Based.

>>419338
That was really predictable, though.

>>419339
Just like the failure of the Stadia

>>419341
You got me there, fam.

>>419339
That's true but I didn't predict it.

@image, it's less "STOP HAVING FUN" and more "stop supporting a destructive system that can fuck us all over more than already happening".

>>419376
Ouch.

>>419387
/fit/ is a bastion of heterosexuality

>>419487
that's some real 21st century whoring out.

>>419487
It astounds me that people still want to pay while a vast world of free stuff exists. Is it their fetish? I doubt it's out of legitimate concern for workers.

>>419530
Warhammer 40000 is the gift that keeps on giving.

>>419489
I guess its more 'real' to them that way, likely people who lack any sort of intimacy in their real lives so this is as close as they get.

>>419568
>>419569
>>419570
It's so odd when a site or an app stops updating or working due to the owner being in jail. I've seen it happen so many times.

>>419626
The argument is "they are putting this stuff in games to brainwash children into bring gay/trans/whatever".

Whether the argument is stupid or not is not even important; people refuse to debate this with each other, preferring to be angry in echo chambers instead.

>>419631
you were meant to say "dorks".

>>419632
the demon thing isn't about equating demon invasion to immigrants, it's about equating politically correct liberal snowflakes to morons.

>>419634
The original joke from the game seems closer to Corporations using topical social-justicy terms and buzzwords in a blatant attempt to try and make their goals more palatable to the public.

Same as how in the previous Doom game the Mars Corporation base was using Corp-Speak to describe activities more suited to a bunch of satanic cultists.

>>419634
It's my reaction image and i get to choose the text!

>>419632
>Whether the argument is stupid or not is not even important; people refuse to debate this with each other, preferring to be angry in echo chambers instead.
As someone who enters conversations on both sides of the (american) political spectrum in good faith, fuck echo chambers. The media is rewarded by encouraging political/social hyperreality and it's creating a 'positive'-feedback loop of radicalism on both sides of the spectrum. Understandable banning and censorship have lead to echo chamber formation, furthering reducing extremist's exposure to normal people.
(do we want to revive the politics thread for this? Y/N)

Speaking of reaction images, should we make a thread for those?

>>419647
>(do we want to revive the politics thread for this? Y/N)

I suppose this would be better placed in those. The thread is here btw: >>416639

>>419649
>Speaking of reaction images, should we make a thread for those?
No harm in trying.
>mfw seeing anons repost my crops
yay

>>419656
Please do.