People crying about Nintendo Online pricing. First off, it’s for an entire year, not by monthly, so I don’t know how that’s a negative. That’s just an example.
US-defaultism when the discussion is clearly and unambiguously about the U.S.
You’ll be hard-pressed to catch me complaining about anything. I don’t like hearing others do it, so I don’t take part either.
And I don’t mean expressing distaste for something when it’s relevant to the discussion. I mean the kind of unprompted whining we’re all exposed to here on a daily basis. I’m too aware of the social game being played there, and even the thought of joining in makes me cringe. Pointing out everything wrong with the world without offering anything even remotely like a sustainable, realistic alternative is incredibly unproductive - it’s mostly just tribal signaling.
I disagree, it’s absolutely vital that it be possible to complain about stuff, otherwise we’d fall into some kind of ultra obedient civilization where silence is the norm.
Just because you don’t have a solution doesn’t mean you can’t highlight an issue. That’s just silly. That’s every single bug report lol.
We wouldn’t be this far advanced if we hadn’t come together to share grievances and stuff that grinds our gears, all the time. “How can we make things better?” “What’s on your mind today?”
I’m tired of the bitching. Let’s get some shit done. Enough talk.
I’m tired of all the non-fascists bitching about the non-purity of other non-fascists.
We are supposed to be allies. If we can’t work together, we deserve to lose.
“We need a revolution and vigilante justice should be meted out on the billionaire class”
I am so tired of seeing this repeated endlessly everywhere by people with no intent to actually fucking do it. Yes everything is shit but you are not improving or changing anything with these empty platitudes.
These people also don’t seem to know their history very well when they’re using the French Revolution as an example.
Once the common enemy was defeated the revolutionaries realized that they no longer have the thing that united them so they turned on eachother next. Just like the US and USSR turned on eachother once the Nazies were defeated.
Armchair Revolutionists are the worst kind of armchair types to confront online and anywhere.
Try asking them about the aftermath if this theoretical revolution were to be successful. They almost always don’t have one, because they do not think that far. They just think that if we go around destroying everything and killing off those involved, the world will be a better place. No we wouldn’t, not if we don’t have a process or a plan in how to go about it.
But that’s too big of a concept for them to think about, so they just stir idealistically in how things should be ran and those who don’t agree are just part of the problem. They’re honestly sounding like micro-dictator versions of themselves if you listen to them long enough, which is ironic in of itself.
Ugh yeah, also this.
I’ve encountered a truly depressing amount of self proclaimed ‘anarchists’ who’ve gone on and fucking on about how if they could just organise their own paramilitaries and forcibly take over the governments to impose ‘totally not fascist, we’re the good guys!’ mandatory regimes of wealth and resource redistribution on the public, they could really fix everything…
And the worst part is that I get it, I was also once a naive and optimistic teenager who read Marx and thought that if I could just explain things to people the right way they’d get it too, and we could fix everything wrong with the world together because most people were fundamentally good and would want to make the world better, if I could just get them to understand Marxist theory…
Lmao, it was fucking soul crushing realising that’s not actually how anything works.
At least back then I wasn’t on about paramilitaty takeovers and ‘anarchism’ though, like I get why more people are armchair revolutionary-ing to those extremes now but that’s just so much more fucking stupid than believing people are ‘mostly good and should read Marx’.
I try not to interract with these types of people any more, I just wish I could stop seeing them pop up so often.
They mix up cause and effect. They think the system is making people shitty, but it’s people making the system shitty.
Isn’t that why the Occupy protests never really went anywhere? There was no plan for afterward.
There was no plan period, other than just sit there and basically be handled by the authorities. All it did was make a buzz in the media, who totally screwed around as the media does, by twisting around what the purpose was and manufacturing their own perspectives about it. And was largely forgotten about in weeks.
Any Occupy protests would’ve spoken a lot louder, if there had been a plan for it and if there had been a loud voice behind it about why those protests were happening. Not just mostly being quiet about it. That’s why they failed.
Yeah I was one of those people. I still kinda am. But I agree with your sentiment. The biggest risk of turning things violent is that there’s more likely a chance for an authoritarian system to emerge than a truly egalitarian socialist one.
So I’ve decided that the best thing is to try to figure out ways to develop alternative stuff to market systems. Grow your own vegetables. Host your own cloud storage/streaming service. Try to contribute to ongoing projects in your community to help realize that(volunteer at free clinics, food pantries) and try to join an organization.
Windows. I get it, Windows sucks. I’ve been saying that since Vista. Fucking leave it already. “Oooh, I can’t. I play Frexus Dilectin 2: Rogue of the Latrine, and that has kernel level anticheat.” Well, sucks to suck. Quit bitchin and feel bad about your life decisions in the corner, quietly.
People bitching about Windows already use Linux…
That isn’t true in my experience.
While true, it doesn’t stop them from attempting to derail posts when Windows is talked about. They always have to come in and be smug about how they’re using Linux. Like, we get it, you feel all superior and mighty to have all of the time in the world to deal with a single Linux distro. But, some of us still using Windows have our reasons too and we’re not going around browbeating people into using Windows at a given chance, unless it is out of mockery.
I do not, literally for the reason that guy just said. I like to play Gelatinous Fentaculus 4: Shart of the Lactoids, amongst others, which do use that anticheat nonsense.
What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?
Literally everything.
Half the posts I scroll past are just someone bitching about something. Few people posting about cool stuff, most people posting about rage this or rage that. Or if there is a post about something good, there’s people bitching in the comments how it’s not good enough.
Ugh. It’s like this place wants to be miserable and doesn’t know any other way to exist.
Complaining about bitching. Wow! Is that ironic or meta?
How dare they answer the question OP presented. What a hypocrite!
The only important things are the things that affect OP personally. Literally everything else is triggered snowflakes
Uh oh. It’s infectious. Quick! Everyone post more cool stuff!
Lol, it really is. It’s how we got the terms “Debbie Downer” and “you’re bumming everyone out”.
I like that meme picture where someone on the left is complaining about something around a group on the right. Then someone just rises from the group to give a big thumbs up before returning to the group.
That’s how it feels like. It’s also like the lyric from ‘Touch of Gray’ where it’s like “say your piece and get out”.
The Fediverse is just full of Carols (on the right/brown coat):
video game metas. i can’t share memes and strats and highlights about the games i play in their largest communities (on reddit) without having to wade through endless bitch threads about how the game has never been worse and everything needs to be nerfed (except what they like to play).
just more reason to stay away from reddit these days.
@OP any subscription for online play is too expensive
Clearly people aren’t complaining enough because everything is still going to shit idk.
I mean, that’s the thing - complaining doesn’t get you anywhere. Sure, you can identify problems, but for anything to get better you have to get off your ass and actually fix them.
tried that, couldn’t afford the gas, or the parking.
Carpool
Words are big sweaty balls of hot air. Of course nothing changes in response to that.
I do agree that there is far too much talking in relation to action. People seem to love to over complicate everything.
Except, we have complained enough. People everywhere online, really have this mentality, that politicians, corporations and other entities read everything everyone is complaining about. If that was true, maybe something might’ve been done, but that’s not what is happening. They’re clearly filtering us and have been filtering us for years. They only want to read or listen to things that are positive.
The kind of feedback they especially don’t want to read or listen to, are the vehemently strong negative feedbacks calling for deaths or so. They’re fragile people and they know what they do is pissing us all off, but all that we’ve been doing, is shouting into the void. It’s not reaching the people whom we want to hear us the most and it never will.
The only things we have to do now, is to really get up infront of their face and force them to take accountability for the shit they’re doing to others at the expense of their benefit.
Yeah I mean that’s more of the thing I’m talking about, not writing stern letters to the editor or writing snarky tweets every day but everyone collectively letting their feelings be known that we will not stand for this or something I guess.
I’m sick of listening to people who are objective well-off whine about how poor they are because they can’t afford the things they want, when they already have way more than most people ever will.
“Wahh, I’m $10 dollars away from affording the latest IPhone! This world is a vampire!”
meanwhile, Average Joe is still hoping and praying their $250 budget phone makes it another year and it is 5 years old at this point
Maybe a bit too meta, but I’m really tired of people who are willing to accept that literally everything has gotten demonstrably and objectively worse in the past 30 years.
People are complaining because the world is going to shit and most of us have hit our breaking point.
You are an enabler OP
I don’t think evening has changed that much. Morning is shittier though.
Literally half the threads on one of the technology communities I am on are complaints about how much AI sucks. Probably a similar ratio on the other technology communities, I didn’t count for those.
This one is understandable though. It’s unavoidable now. They’re putting AI in everything. Places where it reeeeally doesn’t belong.
I know. I mean, there are posts that so much speak a tiny bit positive of AI, they’re removed immediately. What more do those people want? At this point, they just like hearing themselves talk about how better they are for hating something they don’t understand in how it is used and knowing that there is some benefits to using it. Just because techbros have bastardized it and shoved it into everything imaginable, doesn’t mean the tech itself is bad, it’s the techbros who made it bad.
this whole thread makes me feel like I don’t belong here…
I know its always been somewhat toxic but the gaming discourse has gotten to be ridiculous. It makes it difficult to even discuss an upcoming or newly releaded game because someone will have an intensely negative view of the studio/dev/publisher/IP Owner, etc.
Yeah. I can’t keep track of which games I’m not allowed to like.
We all know the gaming industry is doing practices nobody likes. But, these kind of people who call themselves ‘gamers’, are acting like AAA gaming is all we have when we’ve got thousands and thousands of games to play. They’re so cemented on criticizing AAA gaming that they feel it applies to nearly all games available.
There’s a game for everyone now, please go find it and let people enjoy what they want to enjoy. At this point, you’re screaming to everyone to not have fun so we’d be left to hear you complain about what you think is wrong with games today.
This is a pretty bad take. It is the same as saying “I don’t care that these workers are underpaid and overworked - just let me (other people) enjoy the game.” No, bitch. The industry keeps getting worse because people who don’t know or care keep feeding them money. Gaming for many people is an escape from reality, an interactive way for them to escape a rather harsh reality. Morally righteous people can’t stomach when that escape was created or funded by the people they are trying to escape from.
People complain because they are passionate about it. This goes for the entire thread - if you are tired of hearing people bitch about it, don’t just plug your ears. Do something about it or piss off.
Absolutely not.
Clearly, you didn’t read anything else I’ve said, so you fixated and were choosy on what to respond to, than taking account the entirety of what I said.
No where do I believe or think that I don’t care about these workers at all. The thing I’m saying, if you cared to read, is that there are other options that we vote with our wallets by. It does not always have to be about AAA, we leave that battle up to the studios who still bother with it. It’s not ours to fight and quite frankly, it is a losing battle anyways because they’re still existing and not listening enough to people’s criticisms. Only if barely, but barely listening isn’t cutting it.
There’s nothing passionate about going around berating others for enjoying the games they choose to play. That is you, gatekeeping and dictating another’s enjoyment. You just excuse that kind of behavior by calling it being passionate.
Capitalism.
Most people complaining about capitalism don’t even know what the word means. They’re often really complaining about market economics or such.
Most people defending capitalism don’t know what the word means.
Absolutely. Free markets and capitalism are completely different things.
Well, one exists and the other doesn’t, so that’s true!
Toilet paper orientation
Pineapple on pizza
The word “moist”
Basically the stupid shit that chronically online people hate because they’re told to.
None of these three are issues for chronically online people. The people in my life who barely go online all have strong opinions about these topics.
They’re not exclusively for online people, but online people seem far more likely to complain about them, at least in my experience. Or maybe I’ve just spent far too much time on Reddit.
Yeah I genuinely feel like these topics come up way more in meat space for me.
It’s not even deep or funny anymore, it’s guaranteed annoyance and doesn’t spark any discussion except circle jerking.
