HYST Generic Discussion Thread

Welcome to the 21st century… no different from any other century before it… but HEY, WE HAVE VIRTUAL REALITY, SO WE’RE ALL GOOD RIGHT!!! AS LONG AS RICH DUDES HAVE ACCESS TO BITCHES AND VR, WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE REST OF HUMANITY…

Sorry… I’m kind of pissy tonight.

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I’m thankful I didn’t stumble into whatever corner of the web you visited this evening. That sounds truly awful.

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I guess I’m just generally pissed off that we live in such a stupid society that doesn’t care about so many people and that too many people buy into it.

I’m just generally feeling hopeless. Sorry. Don’t mind me… :wink:

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We all have our days. :fist: (Really wish the fist emoji looked more like the solidarity one.)

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But true?

Does this mean society is failing because companies are concerned with porn versions of their mascots, because there are porn versions of mascots, or because there are not more porn versions of male mascots?

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@Stynx: That’s me every single time I go to a physical store to buy computer parts, video games, auto parts, tools, or any other “masculine” thing. I thank the noodly goodness of the FSM for the webtubz purchasing holes.

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Questionable Content is the first strip I read in the mornings… that is unless I was up late enough read it when posted, yay west coast time.

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Yes, I know, me either. Part of the reason I really liked the strip this morning.
May I ask what ‘FSM’ is?

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Ah, forgot that you are in Europe. FSM = The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Ah, now I know and understand. 'FSM" I did not know, but ‘The Flying Spaghetti Monster’ reached (in geek/nerd land) Europe. No church however :wink: But we do not have tax-exempt. As far as I know though.

But Indeed: Thank to FSM!

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XKCD
Questionable Content
Wondermark
You’re all just jealous of my Jetpack
Sinfest
9 Chickweed Lane
Non Sequitur
SMBC
Player vs Player
Kevin and Kell
Least I Could Do

In that order, depending on my time left, or planning of the day, I read in the morning.
Any tips?

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Oglaf? (weekly, sadly)
Dinosaur Comics?
Hark, A Vagrant?

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Oh yes, thanks! I’ve read ‘Hark, A Vagrant’ but just forgot to update on it.
Oglaf, same story.
I can binge read when I need to finish something people pay me for :wink:
Dinosaur Comics, I know, but somehow can’t stand the graphics.

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From memory as I am on the work machine.
second for Hark A Vagrant!
Dumbing of Age (and the now done with Dave Willis strips, Roomies, It’s Walky, and Shortpacked in that order)
Something Positive
Gunnerkrigg Court
Girl Genius (which I am way behind on)
Wapsi Square
Diesel Sweeties

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I was not aware of, checking ! :slight_smile: Thanks

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A lot of overlap! I hit my list in the evenings. This is from memory as I’m at work.

Daily updates (or at least M-F):

  • Sluggy Freelance
  • Sinfest
  • Bad Machinery (formerly Scary Go Round)
  • Questionable Content
  • Diesel Sweeties
  • Skin Horse (from the creator of Narbonic, which you really should read if you haven’t.)
  • Dumbing of Age
  • Devil’s Panties
  • Unshelved

The MWF updates:

  • XKCD
  • Girl Genius
  • Gunnerkrigg Court

Fairly new additions:

  • Kill Six Billion Demons
  • Stand Still, Stay Silent
  • Demon
  • Leftover Soup

Less regular updaters:

  • Something Positive
  • Scenes From a Multiverse (from creator of Goats, one of the archetypal webcomics)
  • Wondermark
  • El Goonish Shive
  • Breaking Cat News
  • Powernap
  • Skin Deep
  • Oglaf

Read irregularly/in binges:

  • SMBC
  • Dinosaur Comics
  • 2 Guys and Guy
  • a bunch of others?
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Continuing the discussion from Have you seen THIS?:

I spoke to Siqi Chen, CEO of Hey Inc (the company behind Stolen) about the app and the inherent problems, and while it was clear a lot of the issues hadn’t been thought through, he was keen to stress that “unlike Twitter we are not a neutral speech platform – we are firmly against the any kind of harassment, abuse, misogyny, or racism in our product and our policies and tooling will reflect that.”

emphasis added, for f**k’s sake.

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My vision for the thread was an un-interrupted series of the phrase “Have you seen THIS?” linking to awesome things uninterruptedly. But I explicitly allowed for photos and other things, and herding cats into maintaining my personal vision in a public forum is hardly doable until I buy out BoingBoing with my PowerBall winnings and apparently THAT’S not gonna happen now…

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Oh why now.

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