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Why did I just hit the daily limit for likes right now?
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???
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Because youāre a kind person who is generous with your likes? More people should be like thatā¦
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Do you want to be Donalded here?
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Wasnāt she?
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Do you see a question mark?
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I just want to say that Iām questioning every post I make now, whether or not I"m going to get shouted downā¦ so if the goal was to make me curb posting, that has succeeded now. Just FYI.
Are you avoiding the question, the answer, or the presence of a Donald*?
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* Pleasance
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Well? I loves me a good tragic tale. I suppose it became something like Imgur, where everyone is a comedian with no audience and no one really communicates?
From your aparent bafflement at the strange habits of the more image-dependent communicators, I gather your perspective is that a copy-pasted gif can take the place of a well-placed (written) contribution to a discussion, but itās too much of a jokey-memey, impersonal and slippery-to-interpret thing to really constitute a well-placed contribution to a discussion. No?
I kind of disagree. Low in meaning, yes, but not devoid of it. Through context and repetition that slurping thing has changed, in my mind at least, from something nonsensical to kind of funny to kind of not funny anymore to something familiar and surprisingly clever in aggregate. Through the magic of the Kuleshov effect, it does acquire some measure of meaning depending on context even if itās technically the very same message repeated over and over.
It is saying something, at least as much as āchrist, what an assholeā or ājust look at itā is saying something, even if itās just āremember our shared inside joke? huh?ā. Perhaps not enough for top quality discussions, but I still get a laugh out of it and that counts for something, I guess.
Maybe Iām just easily amused.
Discuss.
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Itās also saying āI think what you say is abominable and/or stupid, but I will not flag your post, as I wish it to stand as a warning for future generations.ā
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Iām wondering if itās just ME posting it that makes it so irksomeā¦ as Iām not the only one who has posted it.
But, the truth is I see no reason to waste breath on people who wonāt be around too long. Why not have some fun with it, and save my smart, intellectual discussions with people who I might disagree with, but who I KNOW will answer me on a person to person level, and actually have a discussion, even if it gets heated and we canāt agree at the end of the there are plenty of folks around here who I feel I can have a heated discussion with on controversial topics, and still be friendly with in non-controversial threads. Why waste my time on assholes that will get gobbled up by falcor anyhow? Why not post a dismissive give and be done with itā¦
And once againā¦ WHY SINGLE ME OUT WHEN OTHERS HAVE POSTED IT?
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Because you post as many gifs as the rest of the happy mutant community put together.
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But then we donāt have to. It is a service! @anon61221983 We are not worthy!
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Oh yeah, it wasnāt a criticism. It was an observation to answer the question.
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I have now finally seen a legitimate issue that applies and could make us re-think how many gifs we use in our posts:
Itās a good reminder that not everyone gets even AT&T-level internet service, which is the bare minimum to load gifs without delay.
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as iāve said in another topic the more iāve thought aboout this the more irritated it makes me. i really wish i had flagged the original post instead of trying to provide correction.
I apologize, the intent is not to single you out, but discuss the general reply-with-the-same-gif behavior as a community. I am sorry if I have failed to achieve that, and if this is in any way seen as a āletās pile on {person x}ā because I donāt condone that and I donāt want to do that, ever.
Because you are an awesome human being, I hope this has been possible. The last time I tried to discuss ādo we want this behavior as a community?ā it did not go well. And that was probably my fault. I sincerely apologize if this is seen as singling someone one, that is absolutely not my intent. Itās the behavior I am interested in discussing, as a community.
And if we decide āhey you know what, we love replying with the same GIF over and over, that is our jam, you cannot take that away from usā, then thatās fine too. A reasonable discussion of the behavior is all I am looking for.
So in summary, @anon61221983 is an excellent human being, has always been an excellent human being, and an outstanding member of this community.
I have zero objections to posts that a) have words or b) use a variety of GIFs. All that is addressed here is whatās on the tin: replying with only the same animated GIF.
Well we have a whole thread full of source material now,
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