• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    I mean I get where he’s coming from, it shouldn’t, just use the damn program and don’t focus so hard on the name which in all honesty does not matter where functionality does.

    But also people complain on this one because A) Sex is icky and everyone is a Puritan and B) it has been used as a slur in the past I guess. It’s almost like naming an RNG tool “Free Auto Generator” or something.

    Personally idgaf.

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      2 hours ago

      Marketing is unfortunately not about what you personally gaf about, its about mass appeal, what most people gaf about.

      Users are fucking stupid, and will throw a fit over the most banal shit, for no explicable reason beyond ‘thing x gives me the ick’.

      Tell a relative normie you use Fedora, they’ll mock you as a reddit dork mall ninja neckbeard.

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        Yeah but what I think you’re missing here is that “that’s stupid.” We can still call those people stupid for being stupid, when they complain about stupid things. As we’re all doing currently. The difference is he thinks users should care about important things instead, you’ve given up on that, and I still don’t actually give a shit either way.

        (Tbf also I do agree with him users should often get gud, and I say this as a user, I’m only a “dev” if writing personal bash scripts using copied stack overflow for loops I don’t fully understand counts. I do also agree with you in that they’re probably not likely to get gud, but I still think it would be good if they did.)

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          2 hours ago

          I’m basically just trying to say that the vast majority of users are very, very stupid, compared to a power user or actual dev.

          Just think of everyone who bought beanie babies, funko pops, stanley cups, now I guess its ‘Nee-Dough’ or something.

          Thats much closer to ‘the average user’ than you or me.

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              Hell those people use an iPhone and nothing else lmao.

              Extremely correct, and why I will never stop laughing at Mac users.

              Nee-Dough:

              Its… basically a squishy cube, presumably made of something resembling silicone.

              Tiktok has been going apeshit over it the last few days, people getting into fights at stores to buy these things.

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                50 minutes ago

                Ahh I get it, knead, it’s a stress ball, or cube as it were. I mean tbh looks like a fine stress ball but sounds like it’s having the opposite effect so far lol.

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                  37 minutes ago

                  Yes, the irony is certainly in great supply…

                  sigh

                  I mean, Tiktok has entire genres based around not using Tiktok, around lowering the level of engagement and use that you have with social media and just digital things generally.

                  They make and post videos on Tiktok, about not using Tiktok.

                  Its essentially perfectly absurd.

                  Tiktok is basically the ‘how much money would someone have to pay you to kill someone’ moral hypothetical, writ large.

                  The answer is that, with sufficient operant conditioning, human morality and logic is worth a few bucks a month, on average.

                  Gotta get them updoots, dopamine!