everybody on ilx complains about reddit

The cold war was basically two homosexuals trying to fuck each other

http://i.imgur.com/jC5GWEs.gif

The cold war was basically an arm wrestling contest between a US business man and curly

While striding phalluses.

r/nostupidquestions
Is Stephen pronounced the same as Stephen?
submitted 1 year ago * by daniellayne

that's a fuckin' zen koan man

if a stephen falls in the forest and there's no-one around to hear it, is it still pronounced stephen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MevbiOH9W4U

Is Stephen pronounced the same as Stephen?

http://nbalead.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/stephen-curry-is-surprisingly-underpaid-he-signed-a-four-year-44-million-contract-extension-in-2012-and-now-makes-12-million-per-year-he-could-triple-that-when-he-becomes-a-free-agent-in-2017.jpg

is reddit still uniformly pretty fucking bad? need some more timewasters besides ILX. i've heard the 'ask a history prof' one isn't bad?

ugh why am i doing this

this one you're auto subscribed to when you sign up. what is this shit

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/

LPT: If you listen to podcasts when you work out, instead of music, you can exercise your body and your brain at the same time.Health & Fitness
submitted 10 hours ago by hungcyclops007

LPT: If someone calls your phone looking for someone you know, don't give out the persons info. Instead, take a name and number and give it to the person you know.Social
submitted 3 hours ago by Rob_Royce

LPT even if you think everything is going fine and you see no problems coming your way: save what ever project you're working on right now or back up your project and save your self the pain later.Computers
submitted 22 hours ago * by Xanthophobia42

okay lol this is on the front page, like one of the most popular posts on the site today

https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/64kd1u/emma_watson_graphite_pencils_and_cartridge_paper/

still uniformly bad

hungcyclops007

The broader the subreddit the worse it is

here's another popular selection from r/art:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/5hkovp/the_last_human_by_karichristensen_digital_2014/

askhistorians is good in that it's heavily moderated and seems to have avoided the fascist troll epidemic, but most of the questions are people looking for homework answers or researching their fantasy novel and there's no discussion.

I'm subscribed to a wide variety of animal GIF subs. Reddit definitely wins out over ILX for cats being assholes and adorable puppies.

re: art, that's not really Reddit's fault. Look at every single art or photography sharing/forum in existence.

Some of the specific areas are good - TV show subs Ive loved, people go over things in great detail (Legion and Fargo were awesome).

I also like TIFU.

the majority of reddit is so wrong about literally everything that i really don't trust the "verified"/"well-moderated" corners to teach me anything true

Reddit reminds me of the guys in the nerdy fraternity that tried to recruit me when i was a college freshman. They had this kind of forced positivity about them that, for some reason, seemed like it could flip at any moment into its opposite. They were literal minded and defensive; not for them was ilx's withering sarcasm, an attitude that might even be more corrosive in the end but is at least civilized.

I've occasionally gotten a decent book rec from r/literature. r/books is hilariously terrible, either "i hate reading how do i shot book" or "anyone else like Terry Pratchett"

I waste way too much time on r/aww looking at cat and puppy pictures. I feel no shame.

I almost always regret going on Reddit, but /r/ObscureMedia is a great resource, so there's that at least.

askhistorians is good in that it's heavily moderated and seems to have avoided the fascist troll epidemic, but most of the questions are people looking for homework answers or researching their fantasy novel and there's no discussion.

I'm subscribed to a wide variety of animal GIF subs. Reddit definitely wins out over ILX for cats being assholes and adorable puppies.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:38 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol so true. so many topics are basically /r/domyhomework. and its also heavily moderated with a bunch of rules and Im afraid to even post anything at all..

It's the fault of the upvoters too, so many fucking questions about pirates and Hitler.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBluePill/comments/64k1ae/terper_is_suicidal_because_women_get_older/dg3cbaw/

Future of the internet tildes - all the way down to the ankles

weird technical interest subreddits are cool because its just a place where people will find affinities. ditto like fan reddits for some adult swim show or whatever. occasionally browse /r/cooking, and despite the grating house style can be entertained by /r/talesfromtechsupport

Pirates and Hitler are like 80% of American pop-history (the other 20% is the Civil War).

the DIY and somethingimade reddits are sometimes good browsing if you're into that stuff. Lots of dreck but people will put up some interesting woodworking and crafts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/sf2e7/i_sent_gabe_newell_a_question_about_what_his_life/c4dmknx/

and only written on his 10 minute break as a starbucks barista

the DIY and somethingimade reddits are sometimes good browsing if you're into that stuff. Lots of dreck but people will put up some interesting woodworking and crafts.

― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:55 AM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and the unintentional comedy of people building attemtping to build their own death traps

The Internet has done an excellent job of making me hate the word community

I should take this to the annoying words community

^^^^^

I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

genuine lol

That's fucking amazing

"is reddit still uniformly pretty fucking bad? need some more timewasters besides ILX. i've heard the 'ask a history prof' one isn't bad?

ugh why am i doing this

― global tetrahedron"

i usta lurk /r/AskHistorians but they kind of have a scale issue. answers are heavily moderated but questions, last i read, aren't, so there's a sea of upvoted-to-the-moon and unanswered stupid nazi questions and actually finding good content is trickier. you can actually the subreddit by new answers which works better for finding content but overall reddit as a site isn't suited to what askhistorians are trying to do.

my guilty pleasure (because i'm _really trying_ to stay the hell away from reddit) is /r/VintageObscura. lots of good old stuff there.

/r/hmmm is the best

Take 2: /r/hmmm is the best

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-K_qolXkAEIQyy.jpg

http://uproxx.com/technology/reddit-red-pill-founder/

holy fucking shit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisher_(New_Hampshire)

his wikipedia page already edited lol

http://68.media.tumblr.com/ceddf5bda2ab3a805ca9144b8fcd4441/tumblr_op3bk56eKX1v2rokwo1_1280.jpg

Omg. It's *whom*

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Let's check in with the well adjusted logicians at r/Anarcho_Capitalism. pic.twitter.com/l4Sxg4UKr6

— GarbageApe (@GarbageApe) May 3, 2017

huge big trigger warning on this one

you're going to want to climb the nearest mountain naked and expose yourself to the elements until dead