People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don’t know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that’s not really a good method of protesting if you’re someone who hates Epic Games.
You’re still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.
Acing cognitive tests.
Most people don’t know that ‘dumb’ is spelled with a B…
Hey, I’m no dummy
I’m no dumby.
Bumb sounds like something from 'Allo 'Allo
I definitely qualify for Mensa, but I’ve never applied because only losers brag about their IQ score, and only idiots are impressed by it. I’m seriously considering it now though, just to pull out my card when right wing idiots call me stupid for being a leftist.
IQ scores have been proven to have no correlation with intelligence, just ability to learn how IQ tests work.
they will just call you stupid for pulling out your mensa card.
It’s a situational strategy, you have to lock them into buying into that metric first. But for a disturbingly common kind of person, that’s not really much effort.
Even still, it’s not really useful for changing minds directly, just lining them up to feel like a fool so they might be meeker in the future. It’s a game of inches.
how old are you? are you really so niave you think this is in any way going to be ‘effective’.
all you are doing is making yourself into an asshole here, so you can feel smug and superior to these folks. like is this even real, or is this just an imaginary scenario in your head you are making up?
because having regular interaction with such people most of my life, i can tell you you are not convincing them of anything no matter what you do. they only typically change their beliefs based on personal tragedy or trauma.
I sense great irony in the force, Luke.
all you are doing is making yourself into an asshole here, so you can feel smug and superior to these folks
These folks’ entire political worldview is based on feeling smug and superior to commie libtards. It’s just ego and tribalism, purely emotional justifications. They don’t care about facts, they care about posturing and rhetorical victories.
they only typically change their beliefs based on personal tragedy or trauma.
Which is what makes shame and belittlement so effective at denting their armor. It isn’t about convincing them in the moment, it’s about making them feel small and stupid. Feeling small and stupid is personal trauma, and if it happens enough they might abandon the beliefs that target them as small and stupid.
The biggest problem with the left is that we try to be civil and win the debate with facts and logic, when the audience doesn’t give a shit about facts or logic. They are simple creatures, shame is the only thing their walnut brains understand.
People who rent (or sorry, LEASE) $150,000 cars, live in 10% down houses and post a lifestyle on Facebook driven entirely by debt.
Good luck with that in your 60s!
They run Jellyfin and not Plex.
Heh, hi from !selfhosted@lemmy.world
hosting your own media server is just so weird. I have never understood the appeal, but every IT person seems to want to brag to you they have ripped 2000 DVDs of shitty movies they will never watch.
The appeal js not paying for streaming services. Sailing the high seas means you don’t have to do any ripping yourself.
People have different hobbies than you? I’ve never heard such a thing. Truly weird!
We’re not talking about hobbies, we’re talking about weird flexes.
Clearly home media servers are a flex for you? I have lots of hobbies, but I don’t like interject/brag to random people in conversation how I have several custom-built boutique brand mountain bikes that I built myself. That would be a weird flex and make me a douche. So I never really talk about that unless someone specifically asks me where/how I got my bike.
I just say I like to mountain bike. I also like movies, but I just watch them on streaming services or go to the library, because very few movies I will ever watch more than once, so owning them is kinda pointless for me.
and futher, I work in IT, and it’s like every third person I meet in IT who brags about their Plex server, as if it’s some great achievement… rather than just a time sink.
I think you missed the point entirely. Yes, the thread is about weird flexes. Just yesterday there was a discussion in !selfhosted@lemmy.world about Plex, and a lot of people who run Jellyfin were saying running Plex isn’t selfhosting. A weird (to me) anti-Plex flex.
OP asked for weird flexes. Weird flex in reply.
So when you replied:
hosting your own media server is just so weird
You seem to be disparaging the hobby of selfhosted media servers. That’s why I responded as I did. I never said that I participate in that hobby at all, so I’m not sure why you think I’m the one doing the flexing here.
I guess what you may be saying is that you don’t recognize “running a media server” as a hobby at all, but some kind of weird flex within the space of “I like movies.” I can see your point that in a conversation about “I like movies,” jumping in with “I run my own media server, akshully” could come off very negatively. I agree. There are a lot of self-congratulatory dingbats in that space. But that’s not what happened here.
Open-ended question looking for weird flexes people have heard. Weird flex was provided.
Have a nice day.
this entire reply is you being this person. that’s what you don’t understand.
it’s ok, lots and lots of weirdos on lemmy do this shit all the time. they love to lecture strangers on the internet about how stupid and dumb and wrong they are, and take your comments about other people generally as personal attacks on themselves. and then feel a compulsion to defend themselves and their choices and then turn it into a pissing contenst where they implicity seem to want you to admit ‘fault’ for ‘upsetting’ them or your admit your ‘ignorance’ and their ‘genius’.
steam, linux, plex, politics, etc. topic doesn’t matter, attitude and the strucutre/stlye of the replies is always the same and totally interchangable. they will always use ‘true scotsman’ style argumentation, or accuse you of stawmanning, or some other ‘logic’ flex they think makes them ‘smart’ and you ‘stupid’.
I know I’m weird, but I generally don’t get upset or personally insulted other folks don’t share in my hobbies or beliefs or whatever. And I’m fascinated by how hostile the often are to me I share them in a top level comment, or say often a contrasting scenario/example that disagrees with their oversimplified premise. then they tell me i’m generalizing and that’s bad or something, but when they do it, it’s good, or something.
Just got my Steam controller, and it’s amazing how many friends I have who are just like: “Ew, I never use a controller. I played <insert some game that would be better with a controller here> with a mouse and keyboard”
I play most games with mouse and keyboard. But there are games that just play better with controllers especially casual ones. Also good luck couch gaming with keyboards and mice. :)
Pfft, Wireless key and mouse on a tray (definitely comfortable to do) ;)
