Dylanrockin
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Fucking... why is this meme? Why? Why are people using the term "Autistic" as an internet meme? I'm sure that 2% of people who use this term ACTUALLY know what autism even is. And for those people... you should stop using this as a derogatory word for "retarded" or "stupid"
Are some people just simply assholes that use it as an insult associated with impaired social skills? And I also just don’t understand the hate against fandoms deemed as “Autistic.” I have many friends who are Autistic and one of my past girlfriends was Autistic and I'll let you know this: they were all fully-functioning adults that if they were to tell you they were autistic you wouldn't know otherwise.
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When everyone has free reign on the internet, all kind of unnecessary word connections are made.
@Combat KYM is a website dedicated to documenting any and all internet phenomenon (anything that touches the internet, really), not just memes. It documents most memes old and new, many fandoms, whatever fresh political controversy that Don (is forced to?) write about, and internet terms.
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Goals for 2020:
* Get debt settled
* Work on game after debt settled
* Profit
Also, sup.
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God, the finale of this anime... IT'S SO GOOD!!!
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Goku confirmed for wanting Veronica Taylor to voice Ash Ketchum in the upcoming movie!
You know that when Goku is asking this it IS a big deal!
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Good news for followers of my game! The Symphonic Horizon manga will be continued in May!! Also, the manga will be likely having its first volume completed either this fall or winter!
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Happy I'm Still Single Day!
*cries*
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Health Update: Finally recovered after 5 days of feeling like shit. To celebrate, here's Judd. Splatoon 2 hype!
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Here's a question for all of you: what would this be considered - when you are asked the equivalent of a yes/no question, but when you answer no, your parents berate and tear you down because of it. Why would you even ask if you don't want me to say no? And then you have the nerve to break me down and weaponize past events against me?
To me that's freaking low.
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Here's a question I'm willing to ask to you: Is it dangerous that people see YouTubers as their "friends"?
I look at this not only from a psychological perspective (mostly towards children in this regard), but also from a "professional" one. In regards to the latter, I look at it in the same light as how a student-teacher relationship SHOULDN'T be. You should not make friends with your teacher, just like you shouldn't make friends with some guy on the internet making videos, who is pretty much playing up a funny facade for your retention and ad-revenue. It's a one-sided relationship in that regard. When it comes to children, which comprises a huge majority of the demographics there, it's not exactly a safe option for them, from a sociological standpoint, to treat their favorite YouTuber as their friend.
I could go on, but I'm mostly interested in how others feel about it, because it is a topic of debate that would be interesting to delve into more.
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I believe the furthest it could get would be "idolization," rather than being friends. Much like how some of us (and many that came before us) had idols as we grew up, whether it be a pop singer or an action star. I'm personally not the one to indulge into idolization, but seeing how most people (going by people around me + news coverage) aren't reported to have gotten themselves into the wrong path because of idolization, I don't think it's particularly dangerous to do so.
Honestly, considering how the line between Youtubers and the viewers are only ever so slightly thinner than stars outside Youtube and their respective audiences, I believe that experiences with the two are very much alike. I haven't seen people considering their idols as friends, so I would expect people not to consider Youtubers as friends, too, though I would appreciate a counterexample of someone that has considered a Youtuber as their friend, with the one-sided intimacy that one would expect from a relationship of unequal powers (Perhaps the case that had made you ask the question?). -
Pmuch what Seal said, it depends on how genuine they are. Some of the people I watch are just being themselves while doing something they enjoy on camera, and those people are often very interactive with their audience.
None of them can gain my friendship, as I very narrowly define it, but I can see why others feel a more intimate relationship with them. And to be honest, I feel in many cases it's not one-sided. The YouTuber may not be aware of each individual, but I can see them developing a sense of intimacy and affection towards the concept of an individual fan. Just look at the level of trust displayed at meetups they do at conventions compared to more typical celebrity meetups.
As for danger, I'd say yes. Because developing a sense of mutual trust and intimacy without actually knowing someone sounds like it could lead to all sorts of messy.
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One way that I feel it'd be easier to look at this situation would be from a personal vlogging/live streaming aspect of it, where you see the person's face quite a bit, and there's a lot of interaction. Some have a camera on and some don't, but a huge majority do. One unhealthy way of thinking about it from a streaming perspective is when some impressionable viewer reads the description of stream and the streamer says something along the lines of "donate x amount of dollars for me to notice you". Some viewers really do, genuinely, care about their favorite streamer or vlogger and tends to take upon them, what IntSys said, a sort of "celebrity/idol worshipping" stance on the matter. They believe their streamer is their friend when it comes to that (this mostly applies to significantly younger audiences, as I'm sure most adults would definitely not let themselves be manipulated so easily like that.)
In that situation I put above, it's a matter of the viewer thinking that their "idol" cares about them when they show a genuine reaction to their donation and praise them, and in some vain scenario where the viewer meets them irl and realizes their idol doesn't know who they are, then... well, I don't need to tell you the rest there.
But, that's just a very specific scenario, and I'm sure some other people have counterexamples to that and probably better organized than my scatterbrained...ness.
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Here's something that doesn't make sense: My General Physics teacher, my Freshman year, was teaching with Multivariable Calculus when the pre-requisite was Calculus 1. And then someone said "but the prereq is calc 1" and he said "then i guess you need to learn multivariable calculus as well as physics".
Oof. Bad times aplenty as a Freshman.
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Here's something that I'm sure will be... quite enlightening:
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Hey guys, as you all know I am in the musical: Hunchback of Notre Dame. Well, given the recent events in Paris, with the Notre Dame Cathedral catching fire, our cast at Midland University sang for the people of Paris who witnessed the events first-hand. If you all could take a moment to share the video we recorded, whether that be on Facebook or Twitter, of the cast and get the word out there, that'd be amazing! Also, if you could, please, use the hashtags #notredame #midlanduarts, that would also be amazing! Thank you all for taking the time to read this, and I hope to see you all again "Someday", haha
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Hey, guys! I'm doing a thing for a demo-reel for some upcoming videos to help promote the game! IF and that's a big "IF" any of you are aspiring to do or even want to find an outlet to practice voice acting, then feel free to sign up and try out for some auditions! The casting call for them are here! However, this is only for a demo reel and the chances of this going full-scale are slim and will probably be only reserved for the in-game skits:
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Hey, you guys want to sleep with one-eye open tonight? Go watch John Carpenter's: The Thing.
That's my post for today.
Dylan out.
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Hi. I'm Matt. I'm a Radar Technician:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/undercover-boss-starkiller-base/2969845?snl=1
Literally the funniest thing I've ever seen for Star Wars anything, ever.
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I accidentally created a radioactive texture that breathes and it's texture shifts.
IT'S ALIVE!!
I basically just multiplied the Texture Normals by the Cosine of Time and then Lerped the green and red together and then using Sine.
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I actually think these Radiant Dawn hack fights are super rad to watch! I'm in a huge FE mood at the moment, and I've been playing through Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn and Awakening again lately.
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I call bullshit!
The PS3 barely managed to equal out to the Xbox 360's sales. But they were evenly matched, even though the Xbox 360, at launch, had that... 57% failure rate of Red Ring's.
But then you look at PS4 vs Xbone and then...
That is the textbook definition of hubris there, kids. Microsoft's sales in 2013 reflects how awful their E3 Press Conference was, which for those of you who watched that conference... ooof boy. It was bad. They were so full of themselves and tried marketing the Xbone as a Home Media Player, rather than focusing on what their general market cares about: games.
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I can't wait for E3 this year so I can shit talk all the egotistical video game publishers who pump their chests and try to act cool each year, on Twitter for my own amusement. Best part about E3 is being a cynical bastard towards all the lies spewed out from those publishers and letting them know that they are full of it.
Also, I'm praying that there won't be a new Pokemon game announced this year, because we don't need a new Pokemon game every year. I'll take one, every other year, and have a Mystery Dungeon game on the off-year.
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I don't know why I found this typo to be so damn funny XD Just saying that word makes my giggle.
