Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025 - awful.systems
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. 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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

    • flaviat@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Thanks for the work you do on Newgrounds! This sentence stuck out to me

      No more worrying about lack of content or fickle UGC creators

      Oh they’re just publically advertising their company to be anti-union. Bold.

      • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Thanks for the work you do on Newgrounds!

        Appreciate it - keeping one of the last bastions of creativity free of slop is a thankless task.

        This sentence stuck out to me

        No more worrying about lack of content or fickle UGC creators

        Oh they’re just publically advertising their company to be anti-union. Bold.

        What is AI if not a tool built to abuse the proletariat?

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      That’s fucking abominable. I was originally going to ask why anyone would bother throwing their slop on Newgrounds of all sites, but given the business model here I think we can be pretty confident they were hoping to use it to advertise.

      Also, fully general bullshit detection question no.142 applies: if this turnkey game studio works as well as you claim, why are you selling it to me instead of doing it yourself? (Hint: it’s because it doesn’t actually work)

      • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        81·
        3 days ago

        I was originally going to ask why anyone would bother throwing their slop on Newgrounds of all sites, but given the business model here I think we can be pretty confident they were hoping to use it to advertise.

        Considering that AI bros are

        1. utterly malicious scumbags who hate anything which doesn’t let them, and them alone, make all the money ever

        2. exceedingly stupid and shameless dipshits with a complete inability to recognise or learn from mistakes

        I can absolutely see them looking at someplace like NG and thinking “hey, this place which stands for everything we want wiped off the Internet will totally accept our fucking slop”.

        (Personal sidenote: Part of me says this story would probably make a good Pivot to AI.)

      • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Sure maybe the “Showcase” link doesn’t do anything, the “Watch video” link goes to a password protected file, and none of the “Learn More” buttons do anything; but at least they tell you who invested in them as the very first thing on the page!

        Also haha I clicked on the blog and this was at the top of the first post:

        Here’s a Substack post draft that introduces videogame.ai with a compelling and engaging tone suitable for readers interested in games, tech, or the future of creative work:

        New use case for AI found: extracting money from venture capital without actually doing any real work.

      • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        Gotta love how the website isn’t even functional.

        Its probably been vibe coded by the fucks behind the LLM, I’d be shocked if it was genuinely functional.