I’m a metal guy. I’ve met lots of people in the scene over the years who are very gatekeepy, though I’ll admit it’s gotten better as that attitude is less socially acceptable now. It’s not just metal though, same in goth and alt scenes. So it does happen.

I do get the ‘name one song’, criticism. It’s gatekeepy. Memes are written for brevity, so for some reason I really charitably read this as “hey what’s your favourite megadeth song?”. And the metal guy response being “oh, well at least this hot girl is wearing a metal shirt this is still a win”.

Thanks for the response I see I was maybe being too generous to the meme.

I see that interpretation now. But to be honest I have spoken to lots of girls that wear band shirts, especially 70s to 90s bands that are just fashion choices. They don’t know the band.

And that’s totally fine.

From that lens, when I see a meme like this i interpret it more charitably like ‘metal guy is excited hot lady shares his interest, asks about it’, ‘turns out it’s just a fashion choice, metal guy shrugs and accepts that it’s still a hot lady in a metal shirt’

Looking at votes its funny how controversial this tame meme is.

Why do people dislike it?

Mustaine-Metallica bad blood (still??), or the meme implying metalheads aren’t picky? or that people have girlfriends? I’m outta ideas.

I get that.

Personally if it’s single player and I don’t want to support the authors urgently, I can wait.

So for HP I was happy to never buy it, then I saw Epic give it away and i thought… Oh. Well, I guess that works.

Ive played several games on Epic.

I don’t get this attitude for single-player games. If its free… Why the heck not.

Oh right you need people to see your game achievements on Steam?

That’s literally it?

Did people not get over the Achievement Hunter phase a decade ago and just start enjoying games?

Who would own Howarts Legacy on Steam when Epic gave it away free for a whole week…

The NYT haven’t changed. They’ve been aligned with corporate greed and neo-conservative goals and attitudes for at least 40 years. Yes you can find individual articles that don’t, but editorially they always have.

Though they always presented their image as ‘social liberal progressive attitudes’ and ‘fiscal responsibility with social support’, if you look at their actual reporting track record they’ve helped manufacture consent for almost every US war of the last 30+ years, and have consistently sided with the desires of whatever government is currently in power and fiscal conservative attitudes throughout.

Nah that spider is too cool to enjoy dark web shit.

It’s just taking kids to all the inclusive communities, private torrent sites and free streaming servers.

The one child policy was tried. It was a disaster.

The real question is why you would possibly think it’s a good idea to try.

Downvote for cropping out the artist name.

They’re not getting traffic to their site by us rehosting the image - all they ask is that their image is unedited to highlight credit. It’s not much to ask.

(Edit:

Actually, I see removing watermarks is like part of your ethos of hating people getting credit for their work or something… So I’m just gonna block you. Life’s too short. Byeeee.)

Totally.

I get some people having a brief shower in the morning to ‘wake themselves up’, also.

… And here I am thinking FistingEnthusiast and FartMaster69 must surely have a lot in common.

When will I learn to never make assumptions on the internet _sigh

I don’t drink coffee after 3pm for that reason, and it’s definitely helped with settling for sleep at night. Good luck with your efforts.

Very cool, never heard of it… What an unfortunate latin name due to colonial misunderstanding.

I’m sure more enviromenally-hardy caffeine producing plants like this will become more popular and economically relevant as time goes on.

Totally fair enough, thanks for entertaining my curiousity. It is psychoactive which would be concerning about its widespread use if it wasn’t so clearly studied. Kicking the alcohol is definitely a far more impactful improvement to holistic health. Good luck in your efforts.

I have ADHD so caffeine is a useful tool for me, and I do love the flavour and scent.

Why go caffeine free?

I sadly figure the oil companies will make us all go caffeine free in the medium to long term, so may as well enjoy it now before it becomes a luxury of the wealthy.

Notepad, the app I literally only ever use accidentally, or to edit a PC’s hosts file… Ah yes, this definitely needs CoPilot and markdown formatting.

All it needed was a dark mode to match modern Windows light/dark theming, done.

The additional shit (markdown, CoPilot?!) is just noise, intrusions, and vulnerabilities.

I appreciate the effort to bodge together a composite image of a possum eating an Oreo instead of a slop AI image. Nice one spinoff.co.nz.

Maybe this is a meta meme.

When will the bullshit of posting captioned screenshots from social media pass?