Polyass vs main forums in 2025

[neufox47]

“You see, we like our Nazis in uniform”

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[ötzi]

^^ looks like that video's gone

[Danno]

it's infected with the TGR emoji virus is the problem, I think

[Trackhead]

Benny,

Relax bro.

[alias_rice]

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Posts forty, forty three, and forty eight are or good examples.

[mcski]

It isn’t clear if he’s talking about the PA and/or the PR.

If people want to engage w politics or Buffalo here, they should. And if you don’t like it, scroll the fuck on. The political posts will have zero impact on you or the website stoke if you don’t read them. Or do these guys just need something to whine about ?

[bennymac]

Posts forty, forty three, and forty eight are or good examples.

Make sure you’re warmed up before stretching that far

[toast2266]

It isn’t clear if he’s talking about the PA and/or the PR.

If people want to engage w politics or Buffalo here, they should. And if you don’t like it, scroll the fuck on. The political posts will have zero impact on you or the website stoke if you don’t read them. Or do these guys just need something to whine about ?

I dislike this post.
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People whine about politics.
People whine about people whining about politics.
People whine about people whining about people whining about politics.

With this post, I have achieved the elusive 4th level. I am whining about people whining about people whining about people whining about politics.

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[buttahflake]

He’s right you know.

[grinch]

He is right. If theyre going to whine about threads that they can easily avoid, i have no problem calling out their apathy and cowardice

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[bennymac]

Well there you go - I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong

[jono]

I guess…
Also there’s something in there that touches a theme I’ve been pondering for a while now: there are numerous discordant views of what this forum is, how it’s supposed to be used, what to expect from it, etc.

One of those views seems to be that fiction and characters are all a part of it. That view manifests intermittent clashes with the view that this is more like a club of honest people sharing their own honest views and experiences, where fictional writing and fictional characters are an offense to the general order.

It seems possible IskiBC, and others, were doing something not unlike writing dialogue in a novel or a screenplay. We don’t think of those writers as inherently mental because the social framework of what they’re doing is well understood…but then you have guys like Andy Kaufman and Sasha Baron-Cohen and Nathan Fielder who take fictional nonsense into the real world. There’s a thrill in getting away with it, there’s humor in the absurdity of ridiculous characters interacting with dumbfounded real people, there’s tension in the risk, there’s appreciation for the skill in improvisation.
The real question about iskibc is whether he was grounded in reality while he did it, and then you have that basic “what exactly is an Internet forum and what’s acceptable in that environment” question, where some people are going to be fine with somebody dicking around playing characters that argue with each other, and others are set in a mentality that we’re all real except for the username…so something like iskibc comes off as split personality mental case stuff.

A lot of the discord on here comes from different competing concepts of how posting on the internet is supposed to work and what the ground rules are.
It’s not solved, and I’m not sure it’s solvable, given how intuitive and entrenched some of the views are.

I got nothing.