Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 (awful.systems)

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Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

Promptfondlers are biologically incapable of telling good from bad, video game edition.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

holy discontiguous interscene blending, watman

there are so many parts that people in the skeet[0] replies have already pointed at but the thing that someone just went "tune the smoother way up! just make sure it looks good!" and thought they were done with the assignment... amazing. really does a fantastic job of highlighting the same old problem of these things only managing short-duration outputs coherently!

10/10 would cringe again

0 - what's a blacksky skeet called? do they have their own term? I don't know how standalone blacksky operates and I refuse to learn any more about skeeterprotocol than I already know

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Before I knew that they were called skeets, I was mentally calling them “bluesks”. So maybe “blasks?” Btw these are intentionally bad, so spare your critiques.

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

"blask" slaps idc what anyone says

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago

Level design, color palette, continuity, assets and physics by a bowl of salvia

[-] corbin@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

Hey now, at least the bowl of salvia has a theme, predictable effects, immersive sensations, and the ability to make people feel emotions.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

I read that as saliva and I thought you were both absolutely correct.

[-] nightsky@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

Besides the ridiculousness of those issues, I'm taken aback that this "game" is just a series of crappy cutscenes and then you can pick 1 of 3 choices here and there? Worst "choose your own adventure" ever...

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 7 points 6 days ago

@blakestacey

Salvia, LSD, peyote, and three hallucinogens unknown to science.

Also: They made a "game" that is 100% glitches.

[-] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

Oh, so Call of Duty

[-] misterbngo@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I literally can't even.

As someone who spent countless hours of my youth in hammer, laying out areas with props and lighting and doing play testing about areal movement with test npcs, it's hilarious that these people see this slop and say, yes this is the future.

also : "I’m working on a theory that “AI is art” boosters have some kind of limited ability to perceive details. Like they literally only perceive large shapes, colors, and noises. Anything remotely more detailed than ‘big thing go boom’ they actually lack the ability to see it." 🤔🤔🤔

also: after discussing with my brother I came to the realization that this rube was likely very into the "play2earn" bullshit during the nft era