T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

they really do take aaages

real answer is SPLOID

they really do take aaages

I found a super annoying but otherwise v helpful counterpoint to this that is p helpful. guy actually demonstrates in a video that it takes about ten mins

link plz

http://www.stellaculinary.com/podcasts/video/how-to-qucikly-caramelize-onions-short-version

his normal cooking videos are actually p good, though his voice is annoying. for some reason with this he decided to do this full-on comic book guy nerd rant with stupid funny voices and its like uhhhhh

the short version is tolerable tho

thanks!

I always feel duped when I land on a Gawker sister site that has that ~earnest~ tone that appeals to the self-proclaimed "nerds" that dudes like Max and Sam make fun of on the daily

"SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter."

and

Who Would Ever Want To Dirty These Custom Adventure Time Hand Towels?

Toyland: We love toys. Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

They have a blog about toys

http://i.imgur.com/ZzFtEQW.jpg

A Working NES Inside an Ecto-1 Is Everything Great About the '80s

The Definitive Darth Vader Figure Even Has His Iconic Breathing Sounds

This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga

Look At This Yoshi Figure

An Incredible High-res Gallery Of All the Original Star Wars Toys

The 1982 Sears Wish Book Featured Some of the Best Toys From the '80s

The 1985 JCPenney Christmas Catalog Is a Great Nostalgia Trip

Possible First Leaked Photo of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Figures

http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif

really did you REALLY think sam biddle thinks bullying should be "brought back"?

do you think sam biddle's issue with nerds is that they like star wars figures or that when people suggest video games should be held to the same standards as other artforms they form weird little cliques and persecute women?

i wonder i wah wah wah wah wonder

Max's lengthy Game of Thrones explainers were pretty earnest

http://gawker.com/justine-sacco-is-good-at-her-job-and-how-i-came-to-pea-1653022326

heh

SPLOID is one of the better gawker subsites. "I Don't Understand This At All, But Holy Crap Can You Believe How Cool It Looks?" is a hell of a lot better than "Installment 14 of our Weird Grudge Against Amanda Bynes" or "Making Fun of Celebrity Baby Names".

destroy tech blog hegemony

the rockism of blogs

i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. now it's all about publicly humiliating mentally ill actresses and reposting Reddit content.

"so what's in the news today? a popular former child actress is slowly developing schizophrenia - what a loser!" it's like one of those dark parodies of tabloid journalism, but for real.

probably the worst site for those stories that i've read is LAist (don't know about the other "ist" sites)

Jalopnik and Deadspin are good reads IMO.

i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. otm tho gawker stalker was gross back then too.

love me some gawker

yeah, i don't want to be disingenuous, i probably read gawker too much for my own good

This was the most tone deaf thing I've read so far this year:

http://gawker.com/woman-who-sleeps-22-hours-a-day-craves-unhealthy-food-1678481884

This is a sensitive topic for me because my wife has a debilitating sleep disorder. It has ruined her life. And one of the challenges that people with sleep disorders face is that there's almost no public understanding of them, and a tremendous stigma around them. So here we have a Gawker writer mocking somebody with a debilitating disease, undermining its severity, like, "lol, you sleep 22 hours a day? who hasn't been there? I wish I got to sleep in all day!"

I just don't get the lack of basic sensitivity. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand how having to sleep 22 hours a day would completely torpedo even your most basic hopes and dreams, or your ability to live something resembling a normal, happy life, then you are a monster. The basic lack of decency/sensitivity our society extends to the disabled is utterly appalling, and I don't get how somebody could write this, or how an editor could allow this, without realizing how cruel it is.

Again, sorry to vent about all this, but lack of public awareness about diseases is a huge challenge that many disabled people face. Insensitive shit like this, as inconsequential as it might seem on the surface, can actually have a huge on people's quality of life, because it fans the stigma around certain conditions. I usually try to temper my outrage over stupid Internet content, but in this case it's actually making people's lives worse, so I feel the need to try to do something to correct it.

having been in the professional blogging trenches, i think in the grind you become a cross between joel mchale on the soup and jake gyllenhaal in nightcrawler

p4reene to reenter Gawker trenches btw

dan lyons seems not very bright and very un-gawker-like :(

Lyons, whose idea of a joke involves strikethrough text and whose idea of a lede is "Imagine a room full of these things,"

loool

i'm never ever #teampando but their piece on lyons was in very nice form http://pando.com/2015/01/18/dan-lyons-career-an-obituary/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/why-i-m-coming-out-as-a-christian.html

a fish a barrel and ilx

St. Ann O'Tate