Links 30/11/23

[wolffyluna]

• Baldur's Gate 3 narrator bloopers
• on fame and criticism in the social media era, or, that time a popular tiktok artist sicced his fan base on a critic
• I am legally obligated to show you cute Doberman puppy pictures
• nsfw: translations of the "filled his house with chintz" poem
• hospital IT is baaaad
• oral history of the protests against the ITV telethon
• xkcd about stars
• skit about gender locked mmo classes that made me cackle out loud
• Baker Boy covered Song 2 and it goes way harder than it had to

Comments

[lb_lee]

Mori: oh man, we read about that tiktok artist thing when it came out. We'd never heard of him.

Rogan worries about us being thinskinned but eesh, who'd sic their fanbase on someone like that for such a quiet normal review?

[wolffyluna]

I do wonder if the artist coming from social media might be why? "This artist is mediocre" would be a dick thing to @ them in, but totally normal in a review.

... then again, I don't know how you'd survive beyond tiktok popular if you couldn't let water roll off a duck's back.

[lb_lee]

Rogan: I admit, I do my damnedest to avoid googling myself and looking up reviews of my work because I have a hard enough time overcoming my "everything I make poisons the world" conditioning and why encourage it on purpose? But I can't IMAGINE being like, "go get that guy!" at my age. If anything, I agonize that someone will decide to play white knight and be an asshole when I do not want them to!