Caltrops - Dead Trees





	[quote name="skip"]Most of my Facebook friends rarely post anything that interesting, Twitter is just trending hashtags and retarded drama, but Reddit has the highest signal/noise ratio of posts to potentially comment on. [quote name="Vested Id"]Reddit is maybe half as interesting as it was five years ago. I used to sort of admire the culture, now I feel like I'm forever running into all the cringiest versions of myself from childhood through young adulthood. There is no reason to subject yourself to anything on /r/funny, /r/gaming, /r/aww, /r/photoshopbattles (pathetic crew here), /r/lifeprotips, /r/showerthoughts, /r/tifu, /r/dataisbeautiful (AKA mmm yummy data i loove data mmm nomnomnom). [/quote] Holy shit it's so true. I unsubbed from most of the ones focusing on mockery/negativity since I no longer have a job that I hate (although I'll never leave you guys). I tried keeping 1 or 2 big defaults like /r/videos but it just overwhelmed all the smaller ones I subscribe to. /r/dataisbeautiful had so much potential but it's been wasted by nerds who think the following are interesting: [quote] Pokemon graphed by height x weight The Effect of DC's Metro Shutdown on Bikeshare Usage A map of the deaths of all named characters (200+) in Game of Thrones Over 5,006 board games were released last year, but most were terrible [/quote] Clearly, all this is worth knowing. I might even be interested in the boardgames one but anything relevant will be x-posted to /r/boardgames. [quote]There are good active subs though it takes a lot of subscribing and unsubscribing to lean which ones aren't annoying in practice. [/quote] A lot of subs are good for searching (askreddit) but awful to subscribe to. Sports ones are seasonal since there's nothing but discussion about player Tweets during the off-season. And yeah, a lot of subreddits are just photos of tattoos related to that topic or other boring shit. I read somewhere that classical music and other traditional arts don't die because the audience ages into them. I feel like that's happening to me and I'm so relieved as I'm tired of knowing all this frivolous pop culture or political shit that is mostly just fodder for clickbait. I've reduced the number of TV series and movies I watch and games that I play and it's been great to get so much of my time back. Maybe this is the path to being the person who loudly tells everyone they don't own a TV but the opposite end is being involved in Gamergate (still) and I know which side I'd rather lean to. For anyone who wants to read Postman's book by the way, here it is: https://libcom.org/files/Neil%20Postman%20-%20Amusing%20Ourselves%20to%20Death.pdf[/quote]