Nate Cox

Tweeting is not action.

Ok NRA, so they’re saying we don’t have 2nd amendment rights anymore. You’re gonna pull all that right wing funding now, right?

Right?

Executing a man on his knees is totally justified bro.

Fucking DHS lies about this are infuriating.

What a shameful time to be American.

No, you see, it’s just a typo. They’re bored of peace.

Well, I’m calling country music “r-pop” from now on for sure.

I could absolutely be wrong about this because I’ve never really looked it up, but I thought “duty to retreat” still allowed use of lethal force once there is nowhere left to retreat (for example, once in your own home).

Part of those pesky “inalienable rights”.

Knowing that I gave you a laugh is the highlight of my day. Thanks!

Ugh, lmgtfy was the absolute worst.

Sending a link to that site was the answer to tell me you’re an asshole without telling me you’re an asshole.

Hey cool recommendations. I’ll subscribe, maybe I’ll see something in the feed I can help with.

Unfortunately, the teams that do suck are also the ones who are constantly hiring.

There couldn’t possibly be any form of causation there though. Nope.

I’ll take it a step further and say that most of the people I’ve worked with have been amazing. Really just some very enjoyable people to be around.

Something about the field though seems to really attract the super assholes and they’re so assholish that they color the perception of the whole field.

It’s really unfortunate how a very loud, very obnoxious minority can have such an outsized impact.

“Being mean to people is a good thing because it teaches them to [something]” is an indefensible sentiment.

Yes, nobody is entitled to your answer to a question and you’re fine to just not answer any question you don’t want to. Being a dick about it, though, is actively harmful to both the person you’re being a dick to, and the community you’re participating in.

It’s interesting that people defending being a dickhead so frequently fall back to accusations about intelligence. E.g.:

If you want to keep asking questions unintelligently, though…

For a group of people so very concerned with intelligence, I wonder if anyone has taken the time to explain to you the concept of emotional intelligence.

Would you walk into a religious place of worship, a strip club, a gun range, or Costco without at least knowing how to interact with that space?

I wouldn’t walk into a strip club period, but for all of your other examples I would absolutely go to those places to figure out how to interact with them. Frankly, I do not understand why you wouldn’t. Who is more qualified to explain to you how to interact with them than the people you want to interact with?

You’re accusing me of “white knighting” (hello, painfully 2010s virtue signaling catch phrase) for saying that people shouldn’t be shitty to each other. I’ll counter by accusing you of enabling that negative behavior by making excuses for it.

I’m glad that I was a beginner before SE. I think it may have pushed me out of my field before I even got started.

Exclusively book learning may have been more difficult in some ways but I’ll take it over SE any day of the week.

No.

All of the “rules” you’re describing are effectively just gaslighting people who have been bullied into thinking they asked for it. It takes so little effort not to be a dick to people. It’s like the lowest effort thing I can think of.

Asking questions is fine; asking without doing prior research is fine too. Online bullies want others to think you need to have a PhD thesis on the topic before you’re allowed to ask a question and that mindset is ridiculous.

Ask your questions @[email protected], don’t apologize for it, and just ignore the assholes. It’s totally fine to look for a human connection first, you don’t need that doctorate beforehand.

Oreos are vegan. Vegan doesn’t inherently mean plant-based.

If you want to add 1 and 1 together, you must first invent the universe.

If any of this audio is true it’s way way more damning than I imagined: https://lisevoldeng.substack.com/p/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find

Too bad but not unexpected. I think the game itself had potential; I like the classless concept and there was a “just go out and play” feel that was cool.

The story, however, was… was there a story? I honestly can’t remember one. Also the PvP systems were dumb.