Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

Heh. If I were pointing at stuff that blurs the car/truck line, I'd probably point at CUVs, myself. (Though those have a different raison d'etre than the El Camino did.)

That's right, bruh. Because we all know that the raison d'etre for the El Camino was to be hella awesome!

 

[Velderan]

There are those that do this. But I think of this slightly more charitably.

Think of the old adage- when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Well, there are some people that just want to have the same argument discussion. So when they stumble into a thread, it doesn't matter if the thread is about A, B, C, or letters we don't even know about. They're going to bend the topic to X. Because that's what they want to talk about.

Some people are subtle about it. Some ... less so. But generally you know it. I don't think it's malicious, and I wouldn't even call it threadcrapping. It's just ... well, they really want to talk about X, and will find a way to inject X into all threads. Some values of X can be quite large, so it can be easy to turn almost any topic into X.

And ... that's enough.

It's probably not a coincidence that you chose X as an example of constant arguments discussion.

 

[Velderan]

Yeah, my son and I are both avid gamers and we have a big disagreement about PvZ2. I understand why they did it -- the original was apparently the most-pirated game in China at one point -- but the resulting game really disappointed me.

Which is crazy to me. I remember working with a guy who insisted on jailbreaking his iPhone so he could get free apps and I asked him "so you have no problem paying Apple $800 for that phone, but $1.99 to the developer who made that game is too much..?"

I'm sure we would have ended up in "everything mobile is a subscription"-land eventually, but part of me wonders if we ended up there faster because of jerks like that.

 

[payn]

That's right, bruh. Because we all know that the raison d'etre for the El Camino was to be hella awesome!

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Unlike the Dodge Rampage which was designed to be hella funny.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Some people are subtle about it. Some ... less so. But generally you know it. I don't think it's malicious, and I wouldn't even call it threadcrapping. It's just ... well, they really want to talk about X, and will find a way to inject X into all threads. Some values of X can be quite large, so it can be easy to turn almost any topic into X.

I fail to see what this has to do with my gnomish bard, Pete Zah D’Annanas.

Edit: made the name more bardy

 

[dragoner]

That's exactly the problem I'm having, yes. Thank you for proving my point.

I think having dedicated discussions about cars and trucks would be productive, but for some reason there's always someone who feels compelled to chime in with "But that excludes the El Camino!"

It's crab mentality.

"Hey, I'd like to climb up the wall of this bucket and see what's over the wall."

"Don't you dare!"

Yes, there is overlap and things are a spectrum and we can talk about that, too. Eventually. But this weird notion that we're not allowed to start somewhere because that isn't perfectly all-encompassing inclusive of every game that's ever been published in the history of ever is just dumb and exhausting. It makes even the possibility of conversation impossible. You're not allowed to start because it's not perfectly finished and complete when you start. And honestly, at this point, I think that's exactly the intent. That attitude is pervasive and it's meant to prevent conversation, not foster it.

When people are talking about something and a rando pops in and threadcraps "But what about X?" and the thread then devolves into an endless argument about that separate topic, that prevents rather than fosters conversation. And again, honestly, I think that's the point. For some reason there are a whole lot of people on this discussion board that simply don't want others to have anything resembling a constructive conversations.

Car groups are way more toxic, some like GMT800's With A Threatening Aura thrive on it, and even have their own lingo OH NOES TH CLIBBINS BARB FELL OFT!

To me it's more about if you want to engage that social clutch or not.

BTW was looking at a 59 Ranchero out in Cali the other day

Sick, and would be a good winter project, already partially restored.