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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)

  • swlabr@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    Ā·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    Also, shit writing prompt. I havenā€™t seen a writing prompt online that I didnā€™t hate. ā€œHey wouldnā€™t it be neat if someone wrote about this premise???ā€

    Writing prompt: Day one at the dildo factory

    shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      Ā·
      6 days ago

      Writing Prompts:

      • Pokemon and Digimon are both real and they are at war.
      • Fractals are alive and they hate us
      • A woman explores beyond the event horizon of a black hole and itā€™s just very hot and cramped and boring and not at all pleasant
      • A company starts a time mine where they mine causality but they didnā€™t think about sustainability

      OK OK you have a point, I hate all of these and I wrote them.

      • swlabr@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        Ā·
        6 days ago

        when I think about it more, what I donā€™t like is how insistent WPs are. Like whatā€™s being communicated to me is ā€œhey this is a good story idea, now you write it so you can prove my point!!!ā€ You arenā€™t my editor, pal!

        • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          12
          Ā·
          6 days ago

          Yeah, itā€™s a lot easier to think of a potentially interesting premise than it is to sit down and actually write it out. Also if Iā€™m gonna write something itā€™ll be something I think is interesting rather than a prompt.

      • istewart@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        Ā·
        6 days ago

        ā€¢ Diligent application of Bayesian reasoning finally gains you the ability to fly, propelled by your own farts

    • blakestacey@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      Ā·
      edit-2
      6 days ago

      Writing prompt: Day one at the dildo factory

      ā€œYarrgh. Another crew of bushy tails, more wet behind the ears than 'tween the legs. Youā€™ve no idea whatā€™s in store for you, but these eyes, these old eyes have seen things. Like the great injector malfunction of aught-sixā€¦ā€