I was just talking about this on discord (unironically). Something I genuinely miss about reddit (among other things) is being able to go to a TV show subreddit and engage on topics by strictly quoting lines from the show back at each other. But to have that meant all the other shit, where you can’t quote Wayne’s World 2 without automod thinking you’re advocating violence. The world I want and the world we have cannot seem to co-exist. And I am not sure it should. I’m just not sure it shouldn’t either. And my side is always losing.

Half-Man is very good so far. Has a very similar tonal discomfort like Baby Reindeer. The actors who play the younger versions of the leads are fantastic.

I didn’t even find her stubbornness particularly novel or outrageous. I would say the majority of supervisors in my subordinate day over the past 20 years are just as if not more stubborn. They may not have been as aggressive or hostile about it but I don’t think it is because the impulse wasn’t there. They just lacked the vocabulary to weaponize their words. Plenty of them screamed or threw tantrums though.

Started watching HBOs The Dark Wizard today. Three episodes in and I found him genuinely insufferable and yet I could not stop watching because I recognized the architecture of it. Not the climbing. The part where the thing that makes you extraordinary is indistinguishable from the thing that’s slowly killing you and everyone around you knows it except you, or worse, you know it too and just don’t care enough to stop. The result is roughly the same, people who loved you standing around with complicated feelings trying to figure out how much of it was genius and how much was just a very compelling death wish. The doc is great. He was kind of an asshole. Both things are true.

The final episode is pretty devastating but poignant. Really can’t recommend it enough.

Honestly, based on early interactions I’ll probably have to avoid political conversations if I can help it since even people I agree with ideologically seem to irritate the shit out of me. Not all of them, obviously. But enough to have clocked avoiding engaging with certain groups already. I’ll just have to know it when I see it.

What is a tankie?

I lack diplomacy when I get annoyed.

I got permabanned this morning. Made a joke that automod thought was inciting violence (said people who don’t punch their ponies in their face make me sick - not even my joke or a joke but a reference to someone else’s joke - in response to someone calling horses disgusting) and all my alts were banned too. Which is fine but I miss my TV show communities a bunch. I like to discuss my stories!

This is helpful. Thank you! It will make sense eventually but it’s very frustrating whenever I encounter something new and I can’t intuitively figure it out my own but that’s the price for it not being reddit, I imagine.

Oh Brilliant! Thank you for you patience! That seems to have worked. So if I add a “!” in the future that should work?

Yeah that was the one I tried to join but it said I couldn’t because only admins can create accounts. Unless I just don’t know what I am doing, which is totally plausible seeing as how I just joined Lemmy this morning.