Okay breaking kayfabe, you're good people, I was just talking shit about goon projects after someone linked me your post.

i preferred the first draft of this post wherein you said you weren't going to get into an argument with someone namesearching and told me to log back off. i respected that. it sucked, but it had a fearlessness and purity of commitment that i respected as a poster.

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Thanks, but I'm kinda attached to having a soul.

Depends on the point you're developing. If you're doing anything delicate or complicated you need word count, either in the scene, or in the scenes that support it.

Carve these words on my fucking crypt:

"If being right means being annoying, be annoying."

I regret much about being Etherwind, but I will never regret my painful sincerity.

"You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided."

I don't think we get another Something Awful. The modern socialisation spaces online are all entirely corporate. The closest we'll get will be the six months to a year or so whenever a platform collapses and a new one wants to encourage influx... like on Bluesky, until recently.

Which lead to 4Chan going Nazi pretty quickly, because the so-called paradox of tolerance (which is really a social contract: so long as you harm no one, and are tolerant of others, I will tolerate you - but break the contract and lose my tolerance) is all that keeps them at bay. ...

4Chan got started because SA banned the paedophile anime posters, sure, but it also got started because moot said "What if we do something in the style of SA's open mic, but we pointedly don't do what Lowtax did, and we don't police political or cultural content at all?" ...

Lowtax's politics put a limit on what was allowed. He was "Libertarian" by association, reactionary by nature, so anything too politically left or culturally new was hounded while he took an active role. See the soft LGBT persecution, the hard furry persecution, the absolute shitshow over LF. ...

The observable fact that SA's influence has been both positive and negative flows from the fact that, imo, there wasn't really any deliberate effort to curate the ideas within the space. In fact, where there was curation, it was mostly reactionary, and hostile to radical progress. ...