Strange modern phenomenons

[Gorse]

The need to buy shine new things even if you got an already working thingies (be cellphones, microwave, cars, etc) or they inability to send them (withing reason) to repair if they broke.

The second of these points is responsible for the first.

 

[Bonkers225]

Social media have been useful as it ousted alot of people, from the regular joe to celebrities of being complete, utter blittering morons, usually by their own doing.

 

[Deleted member 537]

morons and woman being in charge of modern gaming. ( @ _ @ )

Social media have been useful as it ousted alot of people, from the regular joe to celebrities of being complete, utter blittering morons, usually by their own doing.

hey you finally noticed, well thankfully its not to late to improve. : )

 

[bjork]

It's not modern by any means, but blanket statements and generally unfounded beliefs

 

[χKai]

What are some of the odd things that affect society nowadays that you find difficult to logically understand or justify?

For me, what comes to mind most strongly is how the internet created this odd tendency of people wanting to desperately share any and all kinds of minutia that pertain their lives.

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation... but it still baffles my mind that a human being would so easily open up details about themselves to countless unknowns literally across the globe.

I'm probably old fashioned and shut in by nature, but yeah.

Like posting a picture of your dinner, or telling people when you have to pee, or your butt itches.

Honestly I think it's a combination of lonliness and the unmet need to be around other people physically, then everyone in the room will know that you farted, instead of having to spell it out.

 

[Auriiya]

People asking in games to hear your voice or for your WhatsApp or your instagram

 

[Inkingsama]

I've noticed that many people complain about living costs raising but at the same time, they pay for like 5 subscription services, a new phone every year, eating out regularly and stuff. It may be an exageration but you can't deny it, i'm broke and yet i find the money to spend in yugioh cards. What a strange world we live in.

My mom told me that poverty now is different from before: She was poor when she was a kid: a numerous family that could only afford to eat bread and coffe with milk for breakfast, no fridge, no tv, having only a car. Nowadays it seems any poor person has a phone, a tv, a car (somehow), and an internet conection.

Take in mind, this does not apply to everyone but it's curious to see and it's something that we can only see in modern times.

 

[Gorse]

I've noticed that many people complain about living costs raising but at the same time, they pay for like 5 subscription services, a new phone every year, eating out regularly and stuff.

This reminds me of when people complain that certain media “doesn’t respect your time”. Like, what the fuck else are you doing, drone? Doomscrolling social media and masturbating? God forbid anything cut into that!

 

[Clippy]

This reminds me of when people complain that certain media “doesn’t respect your time”. Like, what the fuck else are you doing, drone? Doomscrolling social media and masturbating? God forbid anything cut into that!

'Well I could be masturbating but I have to watch the goddamn Seymour cutscene again because I lost to him'

 

[Antilocal123]

Damn, this is an old thread.

Anyway, gaming forums, should rename it to the Virginity Club. /j

 

[CargoRoms]

I still can't get over how anyone can defend AI slop.

Artists' lives are being ruined, you steal free art posted by generous folks, spending hours, days on it, and transform it into an abomination, selling for ludicrous price. Fake illusions everywhere.

If I want reference sheet, I have to type "before:2022" all because asshole opened Pandora's Box.
This cancer ruined popular platforms for good, there's no turning back now...

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

Obsessive behavior towards sports fandom; essentially making sports your LIFE (when you aren't a player) and letting it heavily impact your social situations. People get violent, scream at each other, make huge spectacles of themselves, even riot and rampage sometimes leading in death... Just the whole way people talk about and treat sports. It's... crazy.

 

[Deleted member 884]

Faith, we live in the 21° century and in the 2025, but still people believe in anything that make them feel better for no real reason, or they do because that's what they're told.

For the record, I just answered the OP question, didn't mean to offend no one.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

What are some of the odd things that affect society nowadays that you find difficult to logically understand or justify?

For me, what comes to mind most strongly is how the internet created this odd tendency of people wanting to desperately share any and all kinds of minutia that pertain their lives.

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation... but it still baffles my mind that a human being would so easily open up details about themselves to countless unknowns literally across the globe.

I'm probably old fashioned and shut in by nature, but yeah.​

Mine is actually really similar to this, but moreso the other side of it. I've never really understood why people care so much about every small detail about stranger's lives. I've particularly felt this way for a long time about celebrities, and it's only been made stronger with the advent of social media. Quite frankly I just don't think I care that much about whatever small dramas are going on in the lives of people who are effectively total strangers. It just kind of feels like a waste of time to be so invested in the small details of someone you'll likely never share a single interaction with. This isn't to say I don't understand wanting to know anything about these people. Biographies, histories of someone's professional career, a creator talking about someone's influences, things like that I can all understand the appeal of, but celebrity and social media slop on the level of dating drama and unearthed old comments made on the internet made half my life ago? Why does anyone even really care?​

 

[RageBurner]

Mine is actually really similar to this, but moreso the other side of it. I've never really understood why people care so much about every small detail about stranger's lives. I've particularly felt this way for a long time about celebrities, and it's only been made stronger with the advent of social media. Quite frankly I just don't think I care that much about whatever small dramas are going on in the lives of people who are effectively total strangers. It just kind of feels like a waste of time to be so invested in the small details of someone you'll likely never share a single interaction with. This isn't to say I don't understand wanting to know anything about these people. Biographies, histories of someone's professional career, a creator talking about someone's influences, things like that I can all understand the appeal of, but celebrity and social media slop on the level of dating drama and unearthed old comments made on the internet made half my life ago? Why does anyone even really care?​

Yeah, this is really the flipside of my initial questioning and just as relevant.

 

[Clippy]

I still can't get over how anyone can defend AI slop.

Artists' lives are being ruined, you steal free art posted by generous folks, spending hours, days on it, and transform it into an abomination, selling for ludicrous price. Fake illusions everywhere.

Highly unpopular opinion: I don't care if art is made by AI or a human being. I only care about the quality.

People love to harp on AI because it takes what's already been made and just produces facsimiles based on a mixture of influences the model was trained on but that's exactly what 99% of man-made art is these days as well. People getting inspired by artists who came before has been a concept since time began. AI is just being more efficient about it.

Another thing is that a lot of modern art just sucks. Does it really matter if it's made by a human being or a machine?

Lastly, the really good artists will survive and thrive. It's the mediocre ones you see crying the loudest since they simply don't have the skill or creativity to outdo AI. Automation has come for a lot of jobs in the past, this is just another one on the never-ending list of professions that were ground and crushed by the ever-grinding gears of progress. You don't see elevator operators these days because automation made their job extinct. You don't see armorsmiths, other than rare artisans, because technology made them obsolete. This is just another part of that process.

 

[RageBurner]

Highly unpopular opinion: I don't care if art is made by AI or a human being. I only care about the quality.

People love to harp on AI because it takes what's already been made and just produces facsimiles based on a mixture of influences the model was trained on but that's exactly what 99% of man-made art is these days as well. People getting inspired by artists who came before has been a concept since time began. AI is just being more efficient about.

Another thing is that a lot of modern art just sucks. Does it really matter if it's made by a human being or a machine?

Lastly, the really good artists will survive and thrive. It's the mediocre ones you see crying the loudest since they simply don't have the skill or creativity to outdo AI. Automation has come for a lot of jobs in the past, this is just another one on the never-ending list of professions that were ground and crushed by the ever-grinding gears of progress. You don't see elevator operators these days because automation made their job extinct. You don't see armorsmiths, other than rare artisans, because technology made them obsolete. This is just another part of that process.

Well said!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Highly unpopular opinion: I don't care if art is made by AI or a human being. I only care about the quality.

People love to harp on AI because it takes what's already been made and just produces facsimiles based on a mixture of influences the model was trained on but that's exactly what 99% of man-made art is these days as well. People getting inspired by artists who came before has been a concept since time began. AI is just being more efficient about it.

Another thing is that a lot of modern art just sucks. Does it really matter if it's made by a human being or a machine?

Lastly, the really good artists will survive and thrive. It's the mediocre ones you see crying the loudest since they simply don't have the skill or creativity to outdo AI. Automation has come for a lot of jobs in the past, this is just another one on the never-ending list of professions that were ground and crushed by the ever-grinding gears of progress. You don't see elevator operators these days because automation made their job extinct. You don't see armorsmiths, other than rare artisans, because technology made them obsolete. This is just another part of that process.

The thing I dislike about AI is mostly about corporations using them to monitor us (even more than they already do) but I won't go as far as "it's like in The Matrix/Terminator!".

And I'd say that ugly AI art is moslty because people making prompts don't take time adding more details so it's basically like making a rushed draft instead.

Hell, even our best artists took inspirations from others (I remember a famous quote going by: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” and how Tolkien took many elements from older folklore like Beowulf to make his famous books that are considered to be the basis of modern fantasy).

I'd argue that art is also transformative so taking existing things is part of the course so parodies are also art.

It's probably a hot take but when someone's talking about making money with art, is this right to do? Of course artists needs to eat like anyone but art is fundamentally meant to be useless (not made to be tools) and not to be thought as a business. Modern/Contemporary art is sadly a corrupt field in this regard.

I still remember when some considered that "digital art wasn't real art" when it started to become more widespread.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

Tiktok really did ruined a generation of kids.

 

[trickybus]

The unintuitive process of reappropriating slurs. Still blows my mind that words I grew up being told were horrible are now being used to self-ID. But only some slurs; other slurs are still no-no words. It's even worse if the usage is restricted to certain groups. I can't look at a group that claims to want equality while also creating unequal rules for language as anything but malicious.

 

[Nidstang]

The neo-puritanical/pro-censorship movement thats popular right now.

How did "we" go from a society that was embracing mature media, and fighting against censors in the late 1990s/2000s, to demonizing mature media and becoming the censors by the late 2010s?

 

[Yousef]

A modern phenomenon im unable do explain is that I haven’t finished a game in the past four months.

 

[Captain Murphy]

What are some of the odd things that affect society nowadays that you find difficult to logically understand or justify?

For me, what comes to mind most strongly is how the internet created this odd tendency of people wanting to desperately share any and all kinds of minutia that pertain their lives.

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation... but it still baffles my mind that a human being would so easily open up details about themselves to countless unknowns literally across the globe.

I'm probably old fashioned and shut in by nature, but yeah.

Lets see. Religious fanaticism. The systematic destruction of social norms, the eradication of common decency for those of a different viewpoint, a shortage of people who know how to read and write and post properly, god-forbid, eloquently about any given thing, mass hysteria about DEI (some of it's bad but people take their grievances about it way too far when they begin to attack these people IRL). Every group on facebook is now a shit-posting group. Lots of risque subject matter going around. (ngl that doesn't really bother me that much but it's quite distracting from topics attempting to be discussed). I think a lot of it has to do with a decaying republic. The internet is a shadowy reflection of humanity at its worst. It feels like we are in the terminal stages of death when it comes to democracy. It's a turning point but we are turning so sharply to one side that it's giving most people whiplash. Btw, (not to get too political here) but the empowering of autocratic regimes is creating issues that people are having difficulty navigating either online or off. I guess I understand some of this and where it comes from without really being a part of it. I feel like it's quite toxic and it hurts personal and professional relationships. So I appreciate not talking about politics here but it's hard to discuss the dysfunction a society or internet community faces without also understanding the circumstances behind it.

 

[RageBurner]

Lets see. Religious fanaticism. The systematic destruction of social norms, the eradication of common decency for those of a different viewpoint, a shortage of people who know how to read and write and post properly, god-forbid, eloquently about any given thing, mass hysteria about DEI (some of it's bad but people take their grievances about it way too far when they begin to attack these people IRL). Every group on facebook is now a shit-posting group. Lots of risque subject matter going around. (ngl that doesn't really bother me that much but it's quite distracting from topics attempting to be discussed). I think a lot of it has to do with a decaying republic. The internet is a shadowy reflection of humanity at its worst. It feels like we are in the terminal stages of death when it comes to democracy. It's a turning point but we are turning so sharply to one side that it's giving most people whiplash. Btw, (not to get too political here) but the empowering of autocratic regimes is creating issues that people are having difficulty navigating either online or off. I guess I understand some of this and where it comes from without really being a part of it. I feel like it's quite toxic and it hurts personal and professional relationships. So I appreciate not talking about politics here but it's hard to discuss the dysfunction a society or internet community faces without also understanding the circumstances behind it.

Yeah, it's complicated. I know it is a shaky topic (in hindsight maybe too shaky for me to start a thread on), but yeah, there are a lot of real symptoms you pointed out.

 

[Captain Murphy]

I have no issues personally discussing these kinds of things. I mean it's real! ... but it also potentially is used to create division between people. I don't sense that this was your intention though. It is depressing to put too much focus on such things b.c so much is outside of our ability to control. That's where video games come in to save the day! ESCAPISM for the win. It's a shame but the short of it is that people are just becoming shittier to each other; more intolerant, more ignorant, more entitled and just plain ol' nastier. This sort of mass-behavioral modification is being encouraged and exploited by a certain group who wants people to continue fighting at any cost b.c that's how the ruling class has maintained control throughout the centuries ... and it's always worked.