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Eh it's not, but they do own Whatsapp and they're demanding to link Whatsapp to Facebook now. When they purchased Whatsapp, they insisted they would not do this, of course they lied.
 
One reason they may be doing that is younger users typically try to avoid FB, and that's a reason why they also purchased Instagram and a bunch of other companies, mostly to force young people under the FB umbrella.

FB is still doing really well, especially because practically everyone over 35 is on it, and especially Boomers are absolutely addicted to it. I doubt that will change, but apparently these companies feel like they NEED younger users or they will die.
 
It probably won't die unfortunately though, not anytime soon. Still I can hope.

I've been waiting for Facebook to die since pretty much soon after its public rollout. I hope it finally dies now. I personally think it's done so much irreparable harm to society, and to see an entire generation grow up with it and see how they've suffered for it, I think it's way beyond time that it was destroyed.
 
Amazing people are jumping onto Telegram, or Signal. I don't really need either but it's way better for younger people that do.

Eh it's not, but they do own Whatsapp and they're demanding to link Whatsapp to Facebook now. When they purchased Whatsapp, they insisted they would not do this, of course they lied.
 
One reason they may be doing that is younger users typically try to avoid FB, and that's a reason why they also purchased Instagram and a bunch of other companies, mostly to force young people under the FB umbrella.

FB is still doing really well, especially because practically everyone over 35 is on it, and especially Boomers are absolutely addicted to it. I doubt that will change, but apparently these companies feel like they NEED younger users or they will die.
 
It probably won't die unfortunately though, not anytime soon. Still I can hope.

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm confident she'll pull through, and I believe in both of you. Stay powerful, King.

Damn bro I just got over it. Praying for your family. 

My grandmother has covid

I played A2 with friends and did do well against my friend group, as well as XvSF I'd go to different arcades, but I wasn't really world beater at them. Also arcade culture was wonky back then, people hated if you threw.
 
I didn't start really getting competitive until CvS1, and didn't really get good until CvS2, which I was pretty strong at, as well as KOF98 for a couple of years. I played some GGX and 3S around then too, mostly in college. 3S we didn't really play all that much, and the dude that was really good at that game usually just stuck to that. When I'd head to CTF, apparently he was a big name because when he'd pop by and greet me the animosity from the 3s players would just evaporate and they'd usually just give me round 2 to win. I pretty much only played that while waiting for my turn at CvS2. When 3s guy would challenge me to CvS2 I'd beat him but he'd do stuff like hit my start button and just laugh. CTF 3s crew could be suuuuuper hostile though back then. You could feel the intensity.

Sometimes I wonder how OG SRK and the FGC would have been if there were competent admin and mods back then too. Obviously in retrospect there isn't one positive or admirable quality to being toxic behind a keyboard, but we had this whole culture of trolling, flaming and being crass and low class, immature little shits.
 
I'd suspect that the FGC would have been the first true e-sport, and instead of FPS and MOBA it would be FGs that were seen as the elite VG competition. SF was extremely popular and was there before, the SF2 era didn't have the tech in place but it had arcades and dominated culture at the time. Many of us grew up in the arcade era and then were ready to embrace e-sports in our young adult years, but instead the community was run by human trash and attracted and promoted trash behavior, which of course would obviously repel decent people and corporate sponsors. Most intelligent and mature people just bail on the stupidity and toxic BS, what remains is the truly stupid and the foolish who put up with it and take on those qualities too. FGC was heavily driven by such trash, stupid personalities, most of whom never amounted to anything.
 
Well just a thought (experiment). I'm glad we have some ground rules and modding here now. If anything it would be even better if we could run that toxicity off quicker somehow, there's that report button I guess but I haven't been using it. Maybe we all should for the obvious troll BS.

Sometimes I wonder how OG SRK and the FGC would have been if there were competent admin and mods back then too. Obviously in retrospect there isn't one positive or admirable quality to being toxic behind a keyboard, but we had this whole culture of trolling, flaming and being crass and low class, immature little shits.
 
I'd suspect that the FGC would have been the first true e-sport, and instead of FPS and MOBA it would be FGs that were seen as the elite VG competition. SF was extremely popular and was there before, the SF2 era didn't have the tech in place but it had arcades and dominated culture at the time. Many of us grew up in the arcade era and then were ready to embrace e-sports in our young adult years, but instead the community was run by human trash and attracted and promoted trash behavior, which of course would obviously repel decent people and corporate sponsors. Most intelligent and mature people just bail on the stupidity and toxic BS, what remains is the truly stupid and the foolish who put up with it and take on those qualities too. FGC was heavily driven by such trash, stupid personalities, most of whom never amounted to anything.
 
Well just a thought (experiment). I'm glad we have some ground rules and modding here now. If anything it would be even better if we could run that toxicity off quicker somehow, there's that report button I guess but I haven't been using it. Maybe we all should for the obvious troll BS.

Sometimes I wonder how OG SRK and the FGC would have been if there were competent admin and mods back then too. Obviously in retrospect there isn't one positive or admirable quality to being toxic behind a keyboard, but we had this whole culture of trolling, flaming and being crass and low class, immature little shits.
 
I'd suspect that the FGC would have been the first true e-sport, and instead of FPS and MOBA it would be FGs that were seen as the elite VG competition. SF was extremely popular and was there before, the SF2 era didn't have the tech in place but it had arcades and dominated culture at the time. Many of us grew up in the arcade era and then were ready to embrace e-sports in our young adult years, but instead the community was run by human trash and attracted and promoted trash behavior, which of course would obviously repel decent people and corporate sponsors. Most intelligent and mature people just bail on the stupidity and toxic BS, what remains is the truly stupid and the foolish who put up with it and take on those qualities too. FGC was heavily driven by such trash, stupid personalities, most of whom never amounted to anything.
 
Well just a thought (experiment). I'm glad we have some ground rules and modding here now. If anything it would be even better if we could run that toxicity off quicker somehow, there's that report button I guess but I haven't been using it. Maybe we all should for the obvious troll BS.

Seems like Julie Strain has died. She starred in a lot of B films you may have watched on Cinemax past midnight in the 90's, the playboy channel, and was known as a Vampirella cosplayer 😔
She was married to Kevin Eastman, the man that co-created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and publishes, writes, and produces everything from low-budget movies to "Heavy Metal" magazine
 
"Reliable sources have shared that Julie Strain has passed away. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones. Vampirella fans know her well as the official cosplayer at the turn of the century, but her connections to comics and geekdom run much deeper. She'll be remembered."
 

 

 
 
 
 
https://www.facebook.com/DynamiteComics/photos/a.129371723864757/2056243394510904/
 
 
 
 

Messenging is just going to be whatever people you know use. For most people it was Facebook Messenger. So privacy didn't matter too much if you wanted to talk to them, and Facebook was never about privacy.
 
I just use SMS or Discord. The only people I talk to on SMS are obviously people I know in real life and am closer to. Discord is for everyone else and any closer people that use it (my siblings use it).
 
The older I get the less I care about interacting with most people. I'm not accessible to most people and I like it that way. I'm reaching middle age and have realized most people are stupid. Carlin said it and I guess I tried to take it as a joke and argue it, but he was right and I've accepted it. I have little to no interest in meeting "new people", which is what you'd need a popular message service for. Ironically, Facebook is mostly used by old farts, even older than me. Facebook tries to buy anything younger people use, and they really should have been stopped for anti-trust reasons.

Messenging is just going to be whatever people you know use. For most people it was Facebook Messenger. So privacy didn't matter too much if you wanted to talk to them, and Facebook was never about privacy.
 
I just use SMS or Discord. The only people I talk to on SMS are obviously people I know in real life and am closer to. Discord is for everyone else and any closer people that use it (my siblings use it).
 
The older I get the less I care about interacting with most people. I'm not accessible to most people and I like it that way. I'm reaching middle age and have realized most people are stupid. Carlin said it and I guess I tried to take it as a joke and argue it, but he was right and I've accepted it. I have little to no interest in meeting "new people", which is what you'd need a popular message service for. Ironically, Facebook is mostly used by old farts, even older than me. Facebook tries to buy anything younger people use, and they really should have been stopped for anti-trust reasons.

I get the feeling Chiefs and Pack will destroy whoever gets matched with them next week.

Messenging is just going to be whatever people you know use. For most people it was Facebook Messenger. So privacy didn't matter too much if you wanted to talk to them, and Facebook was never about privacy.
 
I just use SMS or Discord. The only people I talk to on SMS are obviously people I know in real life and am closer to. Discord is for everyone else and any closer people that use it (my siblings use it).
 
The older I get the less I care about interacting with most people. I'm not accessible to most people and I like it that way. I'm reaching middle age and have realized most people are stupid. Carlin said it and I guess I tried to take it as a joke and argue it, but he was right and I've accepted it. I have little to no interest in meeting "new people", which is what you'd need a popular message service for. Ironically, Facebook is mostly used by old farts, even older than me. Facebook tries to buy anything younger people use, and they really should have been stopped for anti-trust reasons.

Messenging is just going to be whatever people you know use. For most people it was Facebook Messenger. So privacy didn't matter too much if you wanted to talk to them, and Facebook was never about privacy.
 
I just use SMS or Discord. The only people I talk to on SMS are obviously people I know in real life and am closer to. Discord is for everyone else and any closer people that use it (my siblings use it).
 
The older I get the less I care about interacting with most people. I'm not accessible to most people and I like it that way. I'm reaching middle age and have realized most people are stupid. Carlin said it and I guess I tried to take it as a joke and argue it, but he was right and I've accepted it. I have little to no interest in meeting "new people", which is what you'd need a popular message service for. Ironically, Facebook is mostly used by old farts, even older than me. Facebook tries to buy anything younger people use, and they really should have been stopped for anti-trust reasons.

From what I see Jion Wansu doesn't even seem to be bothered by it. In my opinion someone who doesn't get bothered every time someone shoots them down and still gets back up is badass. Pantees can't handle him and I since he's mentally weak. He's always triggered by Jion and I. That's weakness, man. 
 
Why are you assuming things that are not true, Pantees? Are you trying to save face after I pointed you out? Ha ha ha! I'm not bothered at all. I am having fun with you. 

TBH, that army of simps they get attention from really are obnoxious. Imagine being a woman and constantly having simps rolling up on you, pretending they're being nice and then calling you a whore when you won't sleep with them for it. And the fact that no matter what the media says and your girlfriends claim, realistically you all know even the average geek can physically overpower you, even if you work out as hard as you can.
 
I think most regular young dudes get it twisted. It's not women that are pulling this BS, it's these simps that are constantly rolling up, not only on women, but on other dudes, being little bitches and insulting everyone they can under the guise of having women's approval.
 
SRK is getting older, when some of you start having daughters I think you'll understand, and your dislike will shift a bit.

Yeah I figured that out too about myself. It's a maturation process. It's also why I don't really argue online anymore, I kind of just realized how stupid it is to do so. Now tbh, a lot of it was from friends that would egg me on to troll who I no longer am friends with, but a lot of it was also immaturity and just mostly on SRK at the time. There's so much stupid on the internet in general though, because it's a lot of dumb angry young men, and it just kind of feeds into each other.
 
The vast majority of young men are obnoxious, although especially white men, since they realize they have immense privilege. That's only gotten worse the last few years obviously.
 
I actually would have preferred to be a kind person throughout, but most dickholes take that as a sign of weakness and try to trample over you, if you then fight back they all start screaming what a jerk you are and will try to gang up on you. Better to deter them by showing force from the get go and giving the impression that you'll fuck them up if they look at you sideways and mock them if they ask you for a favor.
 
And I didn't even mention girls. Young women are the absolute worst human beings of all. They encourage men to be complete pricks and assert dominance over each other. Most of my absolute worst behavior was because of some dumb random bitch that I won't have even had sex with, and even if I had, I'd cringe about it today.
 
I don't want people to get it twisted, but there really need to be controls on young people, especially young women. Can't just have young people acting out on their own, they're much too stupid and their brains too undeveloped for that to work well. Schools obviously do not work either. I can kind of get why Plato thought young people should be basically taken away from their homes and trained by the State in facilities to make them decent human beings. But then you can't really trust the State either, so there's really no good solution, as great as Socrates mind is, I don't think he hit it there.

TBH, that army of simps they get attention from really are obnoxious. Imagine being a woman and constantly having simps rolling up on you, pretending they're being nice and then calling you a whore when you won't sleep with them for it. And the fact that no matter what the media says and your girlfriends claim, realistically you all know even the average geek can physically overpower you, even if you work out as hard as you can.
 
I think most regular young dudes get it twisted. It's not women that are pulling this BS, it's these simps that are constantly rolling up, not only on women, but on other dudes, being little bitches and insulting everyone they can under the guise of having women's approval.
 
SRK is getting older, when some of you start having daughters I think you'll understand, and your dislike will shift a bit.

TBH, that army of simps they get attention from really are obnoxious. Imagine being a woman and constantly having simps rolling up on you, pretending they're being nice and then calling you a whore when you won't sleep with them for it. And the fact that no matter what the media says and your girlfriends claim, realistically you all know even the average geek can physically overpower you, even if you work out as hard as you can.
 
I think most regular young dudes get it twisted. It's not women that are pulling this BS, it's these simps that are constantly rolling up, not only on women, but on other dudes, being little bitches and insulting everyone they can under the guise of having women's approval.
 
SRK is getting older, when some of you start having daughters I think you'll understand, and your dislike will shift a bit.

I guess I should have more compassion for the women since they have it harder than men in general. I should love them and give them attention. I tend to ignore them and it frustrates them. 

I heard of this chick. Wasn't she whining that no man wants her? I'm surprised people just let her go on that. I would just link her to r/incels or something whenever she tweets if I was on twitter.

I vaguely remember really liking Geese' stage in CvS, as well as his music.

Yeah I figured that out too about myself. It's a maturation process. It's also why I don't really argue online anymore, I kind of just realized how stupid it is to do so. Now tbh, a lot of it was from friends that would egg me on to troll who I no longer am friends with, but a lot of it was also immaturity and just mostly on SRK at the time. There's so much stupid on the internet in general though, because it's a lot of dumb angry young men, and it just kind of feeds into each other.
 
The vast majority of young men are obnoxious, although especially white men, since they realize they have immense privilege. That's only gotten worse the last few years obviously.
 
I actually would have preferred to be a kind person throughout, but most dickholes take that as a sign of weakness and try to trample over you, if you then fight back they all start screaming what a jerk you are and will try to gang up on you. Better to deter them by showing force from the get go and giving the impression that you'll fuck them up if they look at you sideways and mock them if they ask you for a favor.
 
And I didn't even mention girls. Young women are the absolute worst human beings of all. They encourage men to be complete pricks and assert dominance over each other. Most of my absolute worst behavior was because of some dumb random bitch that I won't have even had sex with, and even if I had, I'd cringe about it today.
 
I don't want people to get it twisted, but there really need to be controls on young people, especially young women. Can't just have young people acting out on their own, they're much too stupid and their brains too undeveloped for that to work well. Schools obviously do not work either. I can kind of get why Plato thought young people should be basically taken away from their homes and trained by the State in facilities to make them decent human beings. But then you can't really trust the State either, so there's really no good solution, as great as Socrates mind is, I don't think he hit it there.