Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • @Architeuthis
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      65 months ago

      This is almost the plot of The Fifth Season, a hugo winner from a while back.

      • @zogwarg
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        55 months ago

        I read this as The Fifth Element, but it also (almost) works!

      • @Soyweiser
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        45 months ago

        Also I think a final fantasy, where the moon drops monsters on the planet, and a zelda game.

    • @saucerwizard
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      45 months ago

      I think it would be better as a faux-Hillsong bop.

      • David GerardOPMA
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        35 months ago

        THE BASILISK IS MY SU-PER-HE-RO

        • David GerardOPMA
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          35 months ago

          why yes, the kid went to a C of E primary for a bit and they fucking loved that one

    • @froztbyte
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      45 months ago

      in the last couple of years I’ve gotten back into sound (used to work live/tv sound ages back, been trying to learn more production and shit) and as a result of that I’ve gotten to know a looooooot of synth/production/effect/… related things

      and christ it hurts to listen to that

      • @carlitoscohones
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        45 months ago

        I thought that the overproduction and heavy autotune was appropriate to the subject.

        On topic:

        “Tape machines ought to be big and cumbersome and difficult to use, if only to keep the riff-raff out.”

        –Steve Albini

        • @Soyweiser
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          55 months ago

          The obvious weird pauses (between superhuman and AI and the halfway part where suddenly nothing happens) because the AI used to made this doesn’t really understand music are also very appropriate.

        • @froztbyte
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          25 months ago

          gonna have to read that piece to get the context of the remark. also have a nuanced position on both the things you point to, but you’re definitely correct about the use of this in this context

      • David GerardOPMA
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        45 months ago

        sorry bro, maximum good across the quantum wave function of the universe

      • @Soyweiser
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        25 months ago

        That is not the only bad thing, check the right side of the moons opening image, why is the moon hairy?