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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-06-18 11:05 am
dev_chieftain) wrote2012-06-18 11:05 am
Father's Day and nonsense on the internet
Had a nice Father's day hanging out with my parents and Danny! Weekend was pretty decent. A large portion of it was spent asleep.
Found bugs of some type on the kitchen counter last night before bed. Ergh.
Really tired of seeing the comments on news articles on the 'net. Like, here's the thing. I don't really give a shit what random persons think about an article. I hate that news sites have the comment format. Because then I see the comments, and there's just a shitstorm of antipathy on all sides. Why not force these guys to go get their own blog if they really want to bitch all that much? Or keep it all in a forum elsewhere on the site? Make it HARDER for these people to directly associate their trash talk with YOUR article. Make them work for it if they're going to hate on you just because they don't agree with you.
I'm sick of seeing every single article written by a female author with comments beneath it suggesting that she hasn't got enough braincells to be writing; suggesting that it's a crime that she's capable of using a computer; suggesting that she should be brutalized in some way for having an opinion. It's probably lucky I'm in such an unimportant corner of the internet myself, because if I was also getting these sorts of comments, I don't know how much I'd want to keep writing. Which is, of course, the point. These commenters hope to either intimidate the women who are writing, or somehow convince the people who employ those women that they have made a mistake in hiring those women on and should rectify it. Why the sites cater to them in any way at all is mind-boggling to me.
It's just incredibly frustrating because, despite my own corner of the internet being a pretty all-right place, everywhere else feels pretty shitty and full of either insincere pleasantries or outright vitriol.
On an unrelated note, we tried out Eversion over the weekend. Was able to get the first ending, but the World 8 tricks I still haven't been able to full beat. Keep getting stuck at one spot. It's a pretty fun game, with plenty of creepy weird Lovecraftian stuff mixed in.
Found bugs of some type on the kitchen counter last night before bed. Ergh.
Really tired of seeing the comments on news articles on the 'net. Like, here's the thing. I don't really give a shit what random persons think about an article. I hate that news sites have the comment format. Because then I see the comments, and there's just a shitstorm of antipathy on all sides. Why not force these guys to go get their own blog if they really want to bitch all that much? Or keep it all in a forum elsewhere on the site? Make it HARDER for these people to directly associate their trash talk with YOUR article. Make them work for it if they're going to hate on you just because they don't agree with you.
I'm sick of seeing every single article written by a female author with comments beneath it suggesting that she hasn't got enough braincells to be writing; suggesting that it's a crime that she's capable of using a computer; suggesting that she should be brutalized in some way for having an opinion. It's probably lucky I'm in such an unimportant corner of the internet myself, because if I was also getting these sorts of comments, I don't know how much I'd want to keep writing. Which is, of course, the point. These commenters hope to either intimidate the women who are writing, or somehow convince the people who employ those women that they have made a mistake in hiring those women on and should rectify it. Why the sites cater to them in any way at all is mind-boggling to me.
It's just incredibly frustrating because, despite my own corner of the internet being a pretty all-right place, everywhere else feels pretty shitty and full of either insincere pleasantries or outright vitriol.
On an unrelated note, we tried out Eversion over the weekend. Was able to get the first ending, but the World 8 tricks I still haven't been able to full beat. Keep getting stuck at one spot. It's a pretty fun game, with plenty of creepy weird Lovecraftian stuff mixed in.