5 ms·

Your obsession with how people decide to present themselves is what's creepy and weird.

by delroth 3y ago

beatshift 3y ago
[flagged]
HideousKojima 3y ago
[flagged]
- dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
  Some parts of the programming community has always embraced counterculture/things the public sees as bizzare. Surprise surprise, it's also the part that spends a lot more on the computer than even the already addicted average programmer. So they tend to be godly at the craft compared to us lesser mortals that still maintain some normal social behaviour and they can produce amazing stuff like this. Be thankful for it.
  - vdaea 3y ago
    You can be thankful for the work done and still think marcan acts weird and is off-putting with his "asahi" vtuber persona.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
    - tux3 3y ago
      We knew you could, but you might as well not. Even if you don't see the empathy angle, who benefits from alienating people who do amazing work for free?
      - RedComet 3y ago
        Even if you restrict his work to technology, it might be a wash at best. Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations? I think I'd rather have Cloudflare be neutral than have a few Linux drivers for new MacBooks a couple of years sooner than otherwise.
        throw10920 3y ago
        > Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations? Yikes, is this true? That would be wild - do you have sources?
        RedComet 3y ago
        I didn't follow the saga as closely as I should have, perhaps, given the gravity. But this* didn't take long to find, only shortly preceding the issue. * https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137
      - vdaea 3y ago
        But I don't see it as alienating. Marcan seems an intelligent person so he knows that his vtuber persona is weird. I suppose other people noticing and commenting on it is something he likes or even encourages. It's like... people who dye their hair green, or who wear thick golden chains or teeth grills. They want the attention.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
- louthy 3y ago
  What’s “normal”? You?
  - HideousKojima 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - pests 3y ago
      People have used pen names all the time. Look at you, HideousKojima. What's your real name? Why do you pretend to be this online alias? Is it normal to hide your identity and interact as if you were someone else?
      - orangecat 3y ago
        [flagged]
      - HideousKojima 3y ago
        [flagged]
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
- WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
  I'm wondering if you call authors using pen names "weird". If I ever at all did youtube videos of anything at all, I would more likely than not adopt some persona (and give it a weird accent to boot) so it would distinctly be not "me".
- sunshowers 3y ago
  As someone who is weird along many dimensions, I do expect people to treat harmless weirdness as normal. Expanding the set of acceptable behaviors to encompass all harmless ones is an important part of social progress.
- polotics 3y ago
  Maybe consider that the loudness you resent is the result of reflexivity, and in a world where no-one would flip an eyelid over such persona creation and whatnot, there would only be the loudness you'd mistakenly perceive.

Your obsession with how people decide to present themselves is what's creepy and weird.

beatshift 3y ago

[flagged]

HideousKojima 3y ago

[flagged]

dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Some parts of the programming community has always embraced counterculture/things the public sees as bizzare. Surprise surprise, it's also the part that spends a lot more on the computer than even the already addicted average programmer. So they tend to be godly at the craft compared to us lesser mortals that still maintain some normal social behaviour and they can produce amazing stuff like this. Be thankful for it.
- vdaea 3y ago
  You can be thankful for the work done and still think marcan acts weird and is off-putting with his "asahi" vtuber persona.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - tux3 3y ago
    We knew you could, but you might as well not. Even if you don't see the empathy angle, who benefits from alienating people who do amazing work for free?
    - RedComet 3y ago
      Even if you restrict his work to technology, it might be a wash at best. Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations? I think I'd rather have Cloudflare be neutral than have a few Linux drivers for new MacBooks a couple of years sooner than otherwise.
      - throw10920 3y ago
        > Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations? Yikes, is this true? That would be wild - do you have sources?
        RedComet 3y ago
        I didn't follow the saga as closely as I should have, perhaps, given the gravity. But this* didn't take long to find, only shortly preceding the issue. * https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137
    - vdaea 3y ago
      But I don't see it as alienating. Marcan seems an intelligent person so he knows that his vtuber persona is weird. I suppose other people noticing and commenting on it is something he likes or even encourages. It's like... people who dye their hair green, or who wear thick golden chains or teeth grills. They want the attention.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
louthy 3y ago
What’s “normal”? You?
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - pests 3y ago
    People have used pen names all the time. Look at you, HideousKojima. What's your real name? Why do you pretend to be this online alias? Is it normal to hide your identity and interact as if you were someone else?
    - orangecat 3y ago
      [flagged]
    - HideousKojima 3y ago
      [flagged]
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
I'm wondering if you call authors using pen names "weird". If I ever at all did youtube videos of anything at all, I would more likely than not adopt some persona (and give it a weird accent to boot) so it would distinctly be not "me".
sunshowers 3y ago
As someone who is weird along many dimensions, I do expect people to treat harmless weirdness as normal. Expanding the set of acceptable behaviors to encompass all harmless ones is an important part of social progress.
polotics 3y ago
Maybe consider that the loudness you resent is the result of reflexivity, and in a world where no-one would flip an eyelid over such persona creation and whatnot, there would only be the loudness you'd mistakenly perceive.