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As suggested at this thread to general "yeah sounds cool". Let's see if this goes anywhere.

Original inspiration:

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to make it a post, there's no quota here

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[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I learned about this because someone dragged a copy to aella’s birthday orgy and it showed up in one of the photos, but the rationalists have a cards against humanity clone and it looks godawful

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

imagine someone pulls this out and you have no idea what it is. you're kind of nervous and weirded out by the energy at this orgy but at least this will distract you. you look at your first card and it has a yudkowsky quote on it

[–] self@awful.systems 16 points 8 months ago

one of the data fluffers solemnly logs me as “did not finish” as I flee the orgy

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Raise the Sanity Waterline

We all wish our friends would be more rational, especially when they disagree with us. But actually helping them can be difficult, especially when already in an argument. Rationality Cardinality will help you teach your friends how to think more clearly, by introducing them to concepts in a fun and memorable way.

Well, it will make your friends more Rationalist but not in the way they hope.

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

every card is a valuable lesson in how insufferable the Rationalists are

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep that’s just as many WPC (words per card) that I was expecting

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Jesus wept, that one deserves a thread of its own. I can't remember the last time I winced this hard.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

dear fuck I found their card database, which doesn’t seem to be linked from their main page (and which managed to crash its tab as soon as I clicked on the link to see all the cards spread out, because lazy loading isn’t real):

e: somehow the cards get less funny the higher the funny rating goes

e2: there’s no punchability rating but it’s desperately needed

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

Only cards that have incorrect punctuation should be considered funny, this is a clear violation of Rat Law. Big Yud will hear of this.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I propose a SneerClub game night where all we do is play rounds of this thing until we can’t handle any more of it

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago
  • puked on a fluffer
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

Having that much liquor on hold may need to be its own budget line item

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

• came in a deck of cards

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

instantly tries to connect to port 3000 on load too, heh. looks like a diyolo socket.io implementation, badly done

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

is it truly that hard for people to configure websocket upgrades under a known url on their primary hosting endpoint

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

now you may think rationalists know anything about technology

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

new basilisk defense: only speak to it in websockets

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Incredible, they just use the limerick that appears in the "Exaggeration and distortion of mental changes" section of Phineas Gage's wikipedia article, uncritically.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Now I really wonder how much EA donation money went into making this.