PWD PWD 1034: Prepare for something STUPENDOUS Edition.

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You know something, I think the Oscars have stumbled upon something. Have a "Main Event" where it's a charity boxing match or something. We've had enough of the bloviating, and virtue signalling, let's have a fight.

The only times people have talked about the Oscars in recent years, Chris Rock getting slapped, the La La Land/Moonlight mix up, and Kevin Hart quitting because they kept whining about 10 year old gay jokes. Hand out the awards, let multi-millionaires pontificate about Orange Man Bad or "I support the current thing, please clap" Then let's see Bradley Cooper and Jake Gyllenhaal smack each other up.
 
Smigg said:


Fuck's sake, Mick. You had a great joke, and then you just couldn't help yourself.
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Why? He's right.

Will is twice the size and incredibly successful.

He just beat on somebody on live TV, his peers supported him and nobody gave a shit.

If a white person did that, there would be an uproar.

If I did that at work to the person who called me a cunt and a spastic, I'd be fired, arrested and blacklisted from the site.

Will is untouchable.
 
Wrath of Foamy said:
Why? He's right.

Will is twice the size and incredibly successful.

He just beat on somebody on live TV, his peers supported him and nobody gave a shit.

If a white person did that, there would be an uproar.

If I did that at work to the person who called me a cunt and a spastic, I'd be fired, arrested and blacklisted from the site.

Will is untouchable.
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It's because with Mick there's an air of disingenuousness when he does things like this, the man is always after his social media good boy points, and instead of making funny jokes like he did the first time it immediately went to usual "I believe the good thing", especially when he's tagging The Rock, and Chris Rock in an effort to get it tweeted/retweeted by them.

It's not so much the sentiment, I agree to a point, it's the cloying "I'm a good person" stuff that irritates me about Mick, because he does it all the time.
 
Smigg said:
It's because with Mick there's an air of disingenuousness when he does things like this, the man is always after his social media good boy points, and instead of making funny jokes like he did the first time it immediately went to usual "I believe the good thing", especially when he's tagging The Rock, and Chris Rock in an effort to get it tweeted/retweeted by them.

It's not so much the sentiment, I agree to a point, it's the cloying "I'm a good person" stuff that irritates me about Mick, because he does it all the time.
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I never really got that about Mick. I just saw an older, liberal bloke using social media as a platform to air his views, like a lot of people do.

Seems like a nice guy to me.
 
Wrath of Foamy said:
I never really got that about Mick. I just saw an older, liberal bloke using social media as a platform to air his views, like a lot of people do.

Seems like a nice guy to me.
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I've met Mick Foley, he's an incredibly nice guy. But, I also know that he's addicted to the Social Media Good Boy dopamine hit.

I think, with me, it stems from his whole "Take over the show, hijack it, make your voice heard!" when it came to Daniel Bryan main eventing WrestleMania, only to turn around and finger-wag when they behaved in the exact same way that he encouraged when it was at a time when he didn't approve of it, basically a "Hey, do it to Batista... but don't do it to me! And you especially don't to it to the women!"

I think it's just his crippling social media addiction that does it to him.
 
Smigg said:
I've met Mick Foley, he's an incredibly nice guy. But, I also know that he's addicted to the Social Media Good Boy dopamine hit.

I think, with me, it stems from his whole "Take over the show, hijack it, make your voice heard!" when it came to Daniel Bryan main eventing WrestleMania, only to turn around and finger-wag when they behaved in the exact same way that he encouraged when it was at a time when he didn't approve of it, basically a "Hey, do it to Batista... but don't do it to me! And you especially don't to it to the women!"

I think it's just his crippling social media addiction that does it to him.
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Yeah, though at least he's trying to promote something fairly good. Trying to remain somewhat wholesome, promoting womens rights, santa, clowns, general happiness etc, nothing too extreme.

I've got a friend who keeps going absolutely berserk on Facebook about anti-vaxxing and anti-establishment. He's a pretty old guy too and we got on well when he was still in the country, and we went to the same gym. He may still be a good guy, but all I've known of him over the last few years is him posting nothing but angry memes. I don't engage, but considering that I only have a few friends on Facebook (family really), it's somewhat tiring...

...I'd rather happy stuff...

Older people on social media...
 
Wrath of Foamy said:
Yeah, though at least he's trying to promote something fairly good. Trying to remain somewhat wholesome, promoting womens rights, santa, clowns, general happiness etc, nothing too extreme.

I've got a friend who keeps going absolutely berserk on Facebook about anti-vaxxing and anti-establishment. He's a pretty old guy too and we got on well when he was still in the country, and we went to the same gym. He may still be a good guy, but all I've known of him over the last few years is him posting nothing but angry memes. I don't engage, but considering that I only have a few friends on Facebook (family really), it's somewhat tiring...

...I'd rather happy stuff...

Older people on social media...
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I remember seeing an interview with a guy named Jaron Lanier, and he talked about how Social Media effects people etc, and I almost immediately sacked off Twitter, scaled back use of Facebook, occasionally look at Reddit for gaming/movie news, got rid of WhatsApp and pretty much everything. This is pretty much the only place where I'm somewhat "active", and even then, I leave for weeks at a time

Since I did that, I felt so much better.

 
Smigg said:
I remember seeing an interview with a guy named Jaron Lanier, and he talked about how Social Media effects people etc, and I almost immediately sacked off Twitter, scaled back use of Facebook, occasionally look at Reddit for gaming/movie news, got rid of WhatsApp and pretty much everything. This is pretty much the only place where I'm somewhat "active", and even then, I leave for weeks at a time

Since I did that, I felt so much better.

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I may have to check it out.

With me, I used to post a lot of shit on Facebook and realized that I just wanted a proper conversation with somebody. I never got it.

Then I realised that I was worthless to them, pulled right back and detached myself from it all. I feel better for it.

Facebook to me is either one big feed of depressing or boring shit. Everyone is ranting about something. I prefer Sherdog by a mile, just have to stay out of the War Room
 
So does Will Smith have to move back to his aunty and uncle in Bel-Air now?
 
Wrath of Foamy said:
I may have to check it out.

With me, I used to post a lot of shit on Facebook and realized that I just wanted a proper conversation with somebody. I never got it.

Then I realised that I was worthless to them, pulled right back and detached myself from it all. I feel better for it.

Facebook to me is either one big feed of depressing or boring shit. Everyone is ranting about something. I prefer Sherdog by a mile, just have to stay out of the War Room
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I was the same with Twitter, I read further into it, and they discovered that outrage/negativity causes way more engagment, so they tweaked the algorith to specifically selected things to get you pissed off so then you react and get into arguments, because you're more likely to stick with that, and if you stick with it, you see more adverts. The also drip-feed your notifications, so instead of getting them as and when they come, they hold it back so you're more inclined to keep going back to it.

When I pulled back, I did notice that I wasn't getting irritated by my friends because I didn't have this constant feed of the exact same three conversations every single day.
 
Smigg said:
I was the same with Twitter, I read further into it, and they discovered that outrage/negativity causes way more engagment, so they tweaked the algorith to specifically selected things to get you pissed off so then you react and get into arguments, because you're more likely to stick with that, and if you stick with it, you see more adverts. The also drip-feed your notifications, so instead of getting them as and when they come, they hold it back so you're more inclined to keep going back to it.

When I pulled back, I did notice that I wasn't getting irritated by my friends because I didn't have this constant feed of the exact same three conversations every single day.
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Yeah, I was getting to the point where I was actively trying to get a ride out of people, just to have some form of conversation with them.

I did notice that I was getting more right-wing stuff, even though I didn't subscribe to it.

I was going to cancel Facebook this month, though I bought a few phone with a good camera and wanted to put at some photos on there. I don't see why though, may just try the Sherdog photography thread instead...
 
Wrath of Foamy said:
Yeah, I was getting to the point where I was actively trying to get a ride out of people, just to have some form of conversation with them.

I did notice that I was getting more right-wing stuff, even though I didn't subscribe to it.

I was going to cancel Facebook this month, though I bought a few phone with a good camera and wanted to put at some photos on there. I don't see why though, may just try the Sherdog photography thread instead...
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With me, I don't give my number out, so I use Facebook messenger to keep in contact with people without having to give my number out. But I did notice that I was getting posts from months ago on my timeline, because the algorithm was just throwing up stuff they think I'd engage with.
 
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