Chat Thread

[Reisen]

I'm just hoping he didn't plan to post himself/get someone else to post just before 3 hours so he wouldn't have to

 

Though if he did, that means he probably doesn't have something to post anyways, so it's a Schrodinger situation

[Breloomancer]

i kind of want to post just before the three hours are up just to troll everyone. but i will restrain myself

[jean-luc]

1 hour ago, Breloomancer said:

my money is on mistgod coming back

🤣

[Guest]

@TB

 

Re: immersion 

 

Good!

 

Chad Bear is best Bear

[Guest]

[Rant]

 

Honestly sometimes I feel like my time on the internet should have been over in 2014. The last time before coming here in 2018. Since 2018 and on, I often encounter people with no chill. Before, like 2010 or earlier, people had no chill but in a flaming kind of edgy way. Now it's more in a gaslighting kind of mock offended way.

 

Who needs a lecture? Criticism I can take but being lectured for telling a story and mentioning a sensitive word is a bit much.

 

So it's like, if I can't be me, annoying as I am sometimes with my odd sense of humor, then it's really boring. Are we just to share images if puppies? I can't explore the seemingly collective sensitivites of certain subjects? No chill at all.

 

[/rant]

 

Good, let's move on.

 

 

🥱

Edited August 29, 2024 by BearBaeBeau

[Guest]

Oh what a cute puppy. This is relevant to my interests.

 

[TurboSimmie]

Hi Bear! 👋 @BearBaeBeau

 

Phil's friend has a new puppy, I'll try to get a picture next time we visit! 😁

[TB]

Oh hi, this is where you are, bear

 

Thanks for noticing my immersive experience

 

Sorry the people you meet online have no chill for you

 

Hope you're having fun anyway, it's nice to see you

[Luminesce]

Frequent internet users are easily polarized, so yeah, it's becoming a little less safe to just exist how you want to in any-given-space

Still hasn't been too hard to find community spaces that fit our general MO in our experience, though

But, even then, you do periodically see people who are a mismatch for the space show up briefly before clearly having a problem with things and leaving

 

The visual of watching a meteor shower comes to mind

 

This isn't helpful on an individual level, but I'll mention anyways, that being someone who helps break up the norms (lightly) in given places is overall good for the health of their users, people and communities stay a lot more mentally healthy when they're exposed to new (including opposing) ideas, though it does preferably need to be light/tactful to be productive, lest cognitive dissonance kick in and they shut down to any ""outsider input""

 

But yeah, that doesn't exactly help an individual's experience, sorry

Edited August 31, 2024 by Luminesce

[Ido]

6 hours ago, Luminesce said:

being someone who helps break up the norms (lightly) in given places is overall good for the health of their users, people and communities stay a lot more mentally healthy when they're exposed to new (including opposing) ideas, though it does preferably need to be light/tactful to be productive, lest cognitive dissonance kick in and they shut down to any ""outsider input""

True

But carefully expanding bubbles instead of bursting them is an arduous and ungrateful task. Host-tier. Sometimes you gotta break things to make room for something new. Even if they hate you for it.