wizardbeard

You mean the overtly over the top "my family member is (mildly) infuriating" posts? Yep.

16 hour old account. Only this post and comments on it.

It's pointless too. Account karma doesn't exist here, so it's not like they can farm it.

I was going to say that it's not nearly as much of a problem on lemmy with the lower user count and lack of allocated per-account karma (karma is only per post/comment), but less than a month apart is silly.

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It's Stamets. C'mon now. There's a lot more you should recognize their account from than just "reposter". They're a mod of many of the Star Trek based communities and one of the most active posters on Lemmy. Seems to be a stand up person but can let their righteous fury get the better of them at times.

Lemmy is small enough that the community can legitimately self manage this sort of stuff, and we probably need the content anyway. Downvote. Block if you feel the need to. Lemmy is small enough that curating via blocking users is still very effective.

Lemmy doesn't seem to be in any danger of growing influencers yet, and again: karma isn't a thing that collects on accounts like it does on reddit. Karma farming isn't possible here.

For new people, please note that lemmy.ml is also a marxist-leninist instance (hence the "ml") and tends to be the home of some more abrasive users of lemmy. Unless you're into that philosophy I'd reccomend only using it for dev discussion and info on the main Lemmy "project".

Otherwise you're liable to get shit on for uttering more "mainstream leftist" views because their userbase doesn't think you're left enough. That makes it sound worse than it is, but there are some users who have given up on Lemmy because of dogpiling by ml users.

Which is intensely frustrating for people who actually care about free speech. Can't talk about it without setting off everyone's "that guy is probably a nazi" alarms.

It's absolutely an intentional trap to attempt to get people to support moves against free speech by tainting the concept through negative association.

We shouldn't tolerate hate speech. But I'm concerned about where we end up in a few decades if the concept of free speech keeps the current connotations.

And people might consider even this comment as sealioning or something.

Meanwhile we have people unironically using phrases like unalive and censoring swear words in screenshots so they don't trip the automated content filters on mainstream social media. That should be more concerning than people seem to take it. People joke about "literally 1984", but unalive is blatant newspeak.

Sonic lore is hilariously messy. It gets absolute batshit when you start getting into the Archie comics. There's more than enough to keep going forever, but at some point you need to address your own brain oozing out your ears and stop.

There's some minor stuff I left out, like how Mecha Sonic (Game Gear) is often called Silver Sonic to differentiate it from Mecha Sonic (Mega Drive/Genesis) when talking about the games, but Mecha Sonic (Mega Drive/Genesis) is canonically named Silver Sonic in the Archie Comics. Both of those are different from Silver the Hedgehog, who is from the future that alternate dimension Nega Eggman (mentioned in the other comment) is from.

And seriously, the Archie comics timeline is insane. This is from the "Metal Sonic Series (Archie Comics)" page on the Sonic Wiki, and it's notably not the only robot doppelgangers-of-characters "team".

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Like how do you even start with that? First Robotnik War? Metal Sonic v3.0 is separate from the other versions, but spoiler: he isn't the same 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2. Mecha Sonic is a separate entity from Silver Sonic?

Also, presented without comment: Psuedo-Sonic from the Archie comics.

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People tend to think of the old Star Wars Extended Universe as the classic over-detailed lore, but the Sonic Archie comics are way way up there too. It was the longest running monthly comic book series to never be relauched, with roughly 512 total issues if you count the spinoffs.

Cybershell is an old Something Awful goon who's made plenty of Sonic videos, but I think his Archie Sonic retrospective/postmortem is an entertaining overview, if heavy on using the word retarded. Was totally aping some of his attitude for that shitpost of a comment.

How do you know there is nobody who wants to take over? Have you posted on the community about it? Or on one of the moderator communities?

um ackshually that's Metal Sonic, first appearing in Sonic CD.

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Mecha Sonic is a boss from Sonic 2 Game Gear, and is totally different.

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Which should never be confused with Mecha Sonic that's one of the final bosses of Sonic 2 Mega Drive/Genesis.

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Or Mecha Sonic Mk II from Sonic and Knuckles, who is clearly an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic, not an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic.

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Or Super Mecha Sonic, the transformation of Mecha Sonic Mk II, but who has nothing to do with Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic, or Metal Sonic.

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And I could never imagine how anyone could be stupid enough to confuse them with Mecha Sonic Mk III, the background decoration from Sonic Adventure, who is clearly an upgrade of Mecha Sonic, not an upgrade of Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic Mk II, or Metal Sonic. (Why do I taste copper?)

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But you could be forgiven for mistaking Metal Sonic for his later self-upgraded form Neo Metal Sonic, the antagonist from Sonic Heroes.

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Neo Metal Sonic can transform into Metal Madness from Sonic Heroes. Only a fool would think that Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic Mk II, Super Mecha Sonic, or Mecha Sonic Mk III could do that.

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Metal Madness can transform into Metal Overlord, of course. I don't know how that could be any more obvious, or how anyone could confuse this for Metal Madness. C'mon they're completely distinct. (Does anyone smell burnt toast?)

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And only an idiot wouldn't understand Metal Sonic 3.0 is a completely new robot made as an upgraded version of Metal Sonic, created by an alternate dimension version of Eggman who isn't from an alternate dimension but is from the future, who is a rival to Metal Sonic who is no longer Neo Metal Sonic. It's mind boggling that something so simple could confuse anyone with a basic modicum of intelligence.

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And the Metal Sonics from the Archie comics are entirely self explanatory. Why is there this wet red stuff coming out of my ears? I think I'm going to have a lie down.

Then you need better ear plugs. Not whatever headphones you use to jam out (although there are decent noise blocking in ear ones if you look hard enough) but actual hearing protection. Maybe look into ones for gun range use? If you can bear sleeping in them, there's also the kind of earmuff hearing protection gear that workers use when working on the airport tarmac.

Or louder white noise. The whole point is so that you have audio that you can sleep through (and won't damage your hearing) that makes outside noise quiet enough that it doesn't wake you up.

Like seriously what the fuck are your neighbors doing that gets through a good eye mask and ear plugs? Coming inside your room and shaking you?

At some point I would think it would be enough you could lodge a noise complaint with your landlord, RA (if you're in dorms), or the local police (using the non emergency number).

There's also melatonin and stuff like zzzquil, but those don't work for everyone and I would be concerned about anything more than melatonin being potentially habit forming.

This comment brings up another important point: by reddit's own "reddiquette", upvotes and downvotes are not meant to be used as a sign of support. Everyone knows that they are, but officially they are meant to simply be used as "this contibutes to the conversation".

So there's hypocrisy right at the base concept this whole plan is built off of. Not surprising.

Eye mask, white noise machine or app on your phone to help drown out noise, and if that's not enough then ear plugs.

Yes, as the comment you replied to already said. That is called the wet bulb temperature.

I'm definitely not inebriated enough for whatever the hell this is supposed to be.