Helmic

I have never paid money for an epub. Use library genesis or even just the pirate bay if it's popular enough.

mate i don't care how fucked nintendo is shooting up a workplace isn't praxis. at least specify assassinating a CEO.

why would you post this.

Henry Kissinger, again. He wakes up in a coffin and has to die again like that.

no scabs allowed on this train

That one might fuck over an actual person selling a card they no longer want or need. Have to be careful to pick an enterprise seller.

I've used Streamlink Twitch GUI. Opens up the stream in mpv (via youtube-dlp) and optionally another app to handle chat like chatterino. Never had any ads and I get to have playback in mpv which lets me run everything through the same filters. I guess I don't see some of the HTML5 bullshit effects but I don't usually like those anyways.

In that case, a custom ROM is probably the best bet. I quite like GrapheneOS, as it will let you install Google Play but sandboxed - this gives you a lot more control to suppress its notifications (so your phone isn't begging you for attention when it doesn't really need it) while still keeping Signal and Telegram updated. I'm assuming you're able to use hte phone without compulsively going to install things without parental controls to literally stop you, so the Play Store itself being available wouldn't be so much an issue. The issue is that GrapheneOS is only on relatively recent Pixel phones only, and that's a lot of money to spend on a device that only ever runs chat apps and phone calls. I don't know of any other custom ROM that does that sandboxing, so I don't know whether they're able to suppress those notifcations which are likely at hte heart of any compulsive use.

I would say a flip phone would be better, but again since you specifically need these two apps that does limit you to a smartphone of some kind. Lively sells phones marketed to seniors (you might remember commercials for Jitterbug phones) that can be locked down with only a few apps - this might work for your purposes But if you do that, do at least make sure someone else gets your old phone that needs one, no sense in contributing to e-waste.

He's aiming at God and is ready to fire.

Might be easier to give advice if you can explain the motivation. Are you worried about privacy with smartphones? The cost? Spending too much time dicking around on it? Controlling a kid?

I don't know of a way to get a phone that only has those apps, they require internet to work. GrapheneOS can be quite secure and you can simply not install any more than the base apps and then freeze the built in browser, but then you'll need to manually update Signal and Telegram and I assume you needing to unfreeze your browser to grab regular updates is far too much of a pain. Running outdated versions of secure chat apps is a risk.

But it's not something that can - or should - be dropped because some Chapo dickhead thinks it's "cringe." Chapo is always going to find an autistic cringe, we are defined by how we annoy and inconvenience allistics, that is what gets pathologized as arrested development.

Media can and should be criticized, as I keep bringing up, but that isn't what is happening here. The very act of hyperfixation is what is being moralized here, that doing so makes you fail to be a man, that doing so makes you a reactionary (which was exactly what I had called out, because leftists still use autistic caricatures to talk about chuds), that someone here literally cannot connect with someone who is into Family Guy of all things because the idea of being into something in a way that even resembles autism is seen as abberant and creepy.

Now, I don't listen to CTH, but my guess is that this treat and slop meme had a lot more to do with talking about the bad shit people actually do to protect creature comforts at the expense of others like ignoring the pandemic to crowd into theaters. If you're losing that focus to just complain that people act and talk weird, like yeah the people who are always going to be treated as weird are gonna push back on that sort of reaction and call it out for what it is.

Having a special interest is not exclusive to autistics, but it does get pathologized - as you're doing here - which leads to the abusive "cures" a lot of us had to go thorugh as kids. Half of what got Chris-chan harassed and what built up Kiwifarms was their special interest in Sonic, and it's hard to imagine that shit would have ever gotten so bad if people had simply left her the fuck alone. Whether someone is diagnosed or not, that someone might get shit for passing as autistic is a problem for autistics, I'm not going back to us being used as shorthand for people with bad politics.

Again, you're not really defining what you're meaning by "unhealthy" here, which comes across as simply moralizing. What makes what you're arguing any different from a chud complaining about "removed" (edit: the d-word they call everything they don't like)? You're not even actually complaining about these people actually, materially having worse lives for really liking a specific movie or game or whatever. And you can't even draw useful conclusions about people from it, because you're stuck assuming I'm into Marvel or whatever when my special interest is specifically leftist politics. I don't watch movies or play many games, and those I do play I'm overtly critical of and am varied in my tastes like a lot of NT's - but because I am in solidarity with people who have been nearly driven to suicide over mockery for their special interest, I'm going to defend their dignity against the people who supposedly are their comrades.

Haven't even fully unpacked all he gender roles you're putting into this either - you very much are specifying "grown men" here to talk about a supposed failure to become a man, which intersects with the autistic masculine experience in a ton of fucked up ways. It's embarassing and bad for a man to like "childish" things, but I guess it's less cringe for women because it's more OK for them to act "childish?" Are autistic men not men?

I need you to actually point to a materially bad thing, and actually connect it to whatever point you're trying to make, 'cause otherwise it seems like you're trying to take a comedy bit from a podcast this website has historically criticized for having dogshit takes and present it as serious politics without even having to take the effort to criticize the obvious shit like cops being presented as heroic figures or fans excusing Rowling's transphobia. There are actual criticisms of media, like superhero movies becoming this status-quo enforcing thing that has to generate infinite sequels because that is easier for hte purposes of extracting money out of people, that aren't about moralizing the workers that enjoy it for enjoying it.