Vent thread

@LightningBolt  
It still feels like I’ll waste everypony’s time by being one of those artists whose art is terrible, and people filter it early on and then it never takes off.

@Zaknel  
You didn’t read my comment it seems.

@LightningBolt  
I have made uploads that aren’t art based, but there’s no badge for them, and I’m growing increasingly obsessed with badges.

@Zaknel  
Just donate a few bucks to the site’s patreon if you want a badge then.

@Zaknel  
There’s lots of badges for uploading. :/ Too many.

@LightningBolt  
Not for screencaps, reaction images, or anything that isn’t an original piece of artwork.
 
@ice1517  
I can’t.

@Zaknel  
Why not?
 
No paypal or low on money?

@ice1517  
If I would, I’d definitely donate, cause those bit and gem badges look shiny.

@Zaknel  
I meant UPLOADING ART YOU SEE not random rubbish.

@ice1517  
Gotta conserve money. My teacher predicted that I’d spend money like crazy throughout my youth, and I have to take that as a warning and not do it.

@LightningBolt  
I can try. I swear, every time I do, it turns out to be either DNP or already uploaded, even when I check both of these beforehoof and see no indication of this.

@Zaknel  
It’s your money, do what you goddamned want.

@ILoveMyoozik
 
Well, at least I’m a monkey. ;-)
 
@Topic
 
With the salary after next, I think I’ll donate, too. This site deserves it.

The tree out back was growing over the fence and I never knew about it.
 
There was nothing to cut the branches with, so I had to use my hands.

Humans have a very skewed risk calculus if you really think about it.
 
Ask people if killing 30 mook-level terrorists with a strike that kills one civi is worth it and they’ll say take the shot without missing a beat. Regardless of how easily replaceable those mooks are, and how little damage it’ll actually do to the greater whole. The number on the left is higher than the number on the right, so it’s worth it.
 
Ask them if killing 30 civis to take out the big second in command without which the organization may tetter on oblivion and you’ll get a lot more umming and ahhing.
 
I’ve done this with a few people. And this example can be extrapolated to other, more mundane areas of life.
 
It shows that people rarely consider the inherent value of an action as much as they claim too. More numbers is just more good, end of the story for them.

@Zincy  
I said no to both.

@pixel
 
I do to, personally.
 
But I’ve seen a lot of people jump for joy at the first one shouting to high heaven about utilitarian value, who then turn around and squirm at the second one.
 
If they are really harping the utilitarian cords, they need to do the actual risk calculus.

@Zincy  
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if people who actually try to be consistent are the minority.

@pixel
 
This is more me venting at the “super logical” utilitarians I’ve been running into that interject into any debate with an “actually, if you do this durr hurr, maximum good”.
 
Turn around and give them actually difficult situations to tease through and their logical brain implodes in typical human emotion.

Pet peeve: When Wikis have opinions tossed into articles instead of just being informative. No one cares that you, random wiki editor, doesn’t like this game or character, your pointless opinions are a waste of time and should not be here.

@LightningBolt  
That’s part of the reason I’ve mostly stopped reading TVTropes.

@pixel  
TVTropes isn’t even my issue, but it is annoying when people have to make it clear that X was hot and Y was not to them. Like who cares.

@pixel
 
Now that you mention it, to me Urban Dictionary is one of the worst. A slang word made up by and used only by one person in the world is treated the same as widespread lingo. That’s… kinda not a dictionary.

@pixel  
It’s even more annoying when people tries to use a fucking trope to win a discussion.

@ArkyNoid  
Nothing like ego-stroking about your own damn name on Urban Dictionary.