Vespair

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

persecute

Y'all have got to join us in reality.

Yes, there are some misogynists who hate pizzacake because she is a woman exercising her agency.

That is not the majority of pushback against her, just the most disgusting and vocal.

The vast majority of criticism of pizzacake is towards her lack of punchlines, constant strawmanning, the unbelievable sycophants who follow and worship her and have turned the relevant subreddit into basically /r/ChurchofPizzacake, and for pizzacake's pattern of poor behavior in interactions on reddit and elsewhere.

There is a lot of grossness surrounding the entire pizzacake topic, yes, that's undeniable. But to effectively chalk up all or most of the criticism as misogyny when a healthy majority of it sticks to the content of her comics or conduct in direct interactions rather than any extracurricular activities she may engage in, is just disingenuous as fuck.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 32 points 2 months ago (28 children)

Honestly I've come around on pizzacake. I now think it's actually an impressive artistic feat to make a successful webcomic where your secondary main character is consistently a non-existent strawman.

It's like social commentary on social commentary, wrapped in countless layers of irony and meta, right?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I'm so confused, I'm a Spotify user and there are multiple artists I've selected "don't play this artist" on that Spotify blocks for me; it won't even play those artists when I click playlists including them.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Web browser, lemm.ee?

Also appears the same for me on the Thunder for Lemmy app

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I bought a projector in the current millennium, so my projector actually doesn't have a VGA port, just HDMI.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Oh you've seen Seikon No Qwaser too?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Occasionally, not universally. I also occasionally enjoy a small bit of coffee flavor ice cream, though never very much, and I do actually like coffee in food occasionally; the espresso bellavitano is delightful and a small pinch of coffee or espresso is very nice in chilis, pork rubs, or chocolate cakes and mousses.

But drinking the stuff is no bueno for me.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 66 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Admittedly they probably didn't expect an enormous, sophisticated, and well-coordinated effort to promote ignorance and push so much misinformation so as to effectively muddy the waters of that information either though.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Argue with the substance of my argument, not its author.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was not. But counter-point, we have no idea idea what Taylor Swift does with her free time. For all we know she love economics and has spent the last decade devoting all her free time to the deep study thereof. The point is this is hardly outside the realm of feasibility, and there's no reason to over-celebrate degree or downplay the real viability of autodidacticism.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
 

An absolutely criminally underrated gem

 
 
 
 

One of my favorite Buckley tracks

 
 

Certified bop.

 

Stupid sexy Flanders

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