• Minecraft creator Notch endorses the Qanon conspiracy
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I'm glad I didn't discover 4chan till way after my highly influenced years. I know what to avoid and to not take anything at face value. So I just kinda shitpost on /v/ in smash threads. Explore /co/ and laugh at all the people on /x/.
I very nearly fell down the 4chan radicalization rabbit hole in my adolescence. I frequented /r9k/ back in the day (before I first dated / really talked to any girls) and I began to sincerely consider the incel mindset of "chads dominate, western women are evil". Thank goodness I stopped and started dating when I did. Even so, I was quite young, and the fact that notch became entrenched in this shit is a bit pathetic.
Just goes to show that you can take a neckbeard out of the basement, but you can't take the basement out of the neckbeard.
I don't think 4chan is that radical, as long as you avoid /pol/ and /r9k/.
It's been a while since I been on 4chan, but /pol/ infested every board. You can't avoid /pol/ or /r9k/ on other boards.
It's one of the reasons I stopped visiting /v/. Every thread devolves into muh SJWs and other polposting
SJWs were a popular target just about everywhere on the internet back in 2012-2015, and because much of 4chan is poorly moderated the site eventually had multiple culture wars going on across several boards with a common enemy. A lot of people also developed a fierce loyalty to 4chan's "brand", entrenching themselves in the site's warped culture and pushing what they saw as outsiders away.
Nah, /pol/ really fucked the site up. /b/ used to have a lot of different threads, now it's nothing but porn, gore, and racism, it always had those but they've pushed out pretty much everything else. You can't go an any porn board without seeing "BLACKED" and "No Niggers!" in over half of the threads. /v/ devolves into incel bullshit constantly. You can still find good shit in the wallpapers section, and /vg/ is less of a shithole than /v/, but overall the site is way worse than it was 10 years ago. Back then people actually did stuff, now they just piss and moan about race, SJWs, and call everyone cucks.
The worry at the time was that Microsoft would find a way to fuck things up like they did in other projects they purchased in the past (remember Skype?).
im glad I found this place
He definitely doesn't think about it. It may be a terrible metric for determining overall intelligence, but it's literally 100% applicable when talking in terms of programming since it's the exact same kind of problem being solved.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113148/16c9d55e-b4a0-4392-9f63-87b757ade931/image.png
This is "the pyramids were grain silos" levels of stupidity.
I wonder what it must be like being so ignorant.
Sometimes I feel like intelligence may actually hinder some people's ability to see a project to completion, due to overthinking or being pessimistic about things, which might not be an issue for someone less inclined to think but rather simply do.
I used to frequent 4chan, I did quite the amount of silly content on that site during it's early days and have moved on in time. I used to hang out with a group of folks who had no sense of filter and would often say degrading things and would pick on me because i was black jokingly. I asked them if they were serious and while they would never answer me directly, it felt pretty obvious by the year i knew them that they were what i knew them to me. So i backed out of their lives. I've said some things with them that i will forever regret, but it's the step of accepting your mistakes and growing from them that makes you human. I was at a dark place, i wanted someone to give me some worth and i looked at the wrong audience. Thankfully since my early teen days i've found my purpose in my relationship with others. If there's one thing i've learned from 4chan is that what are considered jokes for them often become the real thing they believe in. The site is useless to gain a positive/healthy community.
Also related to the topic, but given how many seemingly educated, intelligent people have been known to get involved with cults and other irrational behaviour, one was to wonder if intelligent people are better at self-delusion.
It's actually a valid argument. There's a reason that "ignorance is bliss" is a common saying. A dumber person is going to have more issues seeing what it'll take to see a project through to completion. And if you're someone like me who starts a project with an idea but no overarching plan (usually because I'm just trying to test out an idea and don't care about the actual implementation as I'm figuring it out) and gets fairly far into it before running into those issues it makes it harder to deal with because your choices are to either continue with what you have and try to work around the issues or completely redo the problem parts which is usually a huge time sink. Someone who simply fails to see the issues though is more likely to muddle through it without much concern.
There also seems to be a phenomena where making ironic jokes gradually into legitimately believing heinous thing, as seen in places like /b/, /pol/, and r/PrequelMemes.
Prequal memes?
Hes purposely trying to annoy people and its working
Ironic shitposting is still etc... etc... etc... But I do agree with you because I honestly do not see absolutely any point in sharing even non-controversial opinions in such a public setting, let alone such controversial ones apart from just wanting to fling some shit into a running fan to see what happens.
Yes yes, he's only pretending to be retarded.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/497/7b85aa55-e8ce-4ca0-bae7-4646e316fdb3/image.png
They started to like the Prequels.
Well at least he's not wrong there.
It proves he has absolutely no self awareness as he failed to not do the thing he was predicted to do in the very post he was replying to
I always remember it being that in the early days , edgy posting was a way to keep out "normies", but they never actually believed in what they were saying. But eventually, people who actually did believe in that stuff saw what was being posted and felt right at home, and little by little it became a community of that edgy stuff unironically instead of being a gatekeeping method
Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
Interestingly this comment came from someone discussing /b/ itself, in 2009.
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