its clearly making a point targeting an unknown group of people, so you tell me

honestly, who is this targeting? conspiracy theorists?

im not pushing anything on anyone?? this is my opinion and i am allowed to have it, i’m not making any laws. i also agree with the other commenter that there’s no way a relationship between a 30 year old and an 18 year old doesn’t have an unbalanced maturity and power level dynamic. this is my opinion.

huh? it is literally exactly for word what i said, so what are you talking about??

“most hopefully they weren’t irresponsible enough to date a teen, that’d be just as yuck no matter the gender”

also, how am i lecturing you?? i dont even know you or anything about you. you replied to me calling my opinion dismissive and i disagreed, point out the lecturing. and anyway, why is there an issue with how i choose to express my opinion on something controversial, or anything in that matter? you find it dismissive that i think middle aged people dating legal teenagers is gross, okay, why should i care that how i expressed it is apparently dismissive??

i dont get how calling someone that age dating a teen ‘yuck’ is dismissive lol

true, i made an assumption. either way, its yuck to date someone fresh out of HS if you’re 10, 20, 30, 40+ years older. imo there’s no reality where an 18 year old should be dating a 30 year old, even though it is legal

most hopefully they weren’t irresponsible enough to date a teen, that’d be just as yuck no matter the gender

god i wish most men were like this. but there’s 50 yr old men out there dating women fresh out of highschool, yuck

oh where is this feature? i must have missed it

good points! ernest really is making kbin the best it possible can be every day

I love this answer!! and hey, I recognize you too :D. I am glad you like my profile style

Hard agree – though it wears on me at times when I’m unable to get some engagement going after keeping at it for so long. I’ve changed my mindset about it a little while ago, so it’s not too bad.

Yea, I got burnt out a few months ago and dipped for this exact reason. I was making scripts, styles, mags, and posting content several times a day every day trying to build kbin and encourage engagement, and on that front, it pretty much never got better. I would be and still am lucky to get a handful of upvotes. It feels a bit lonely, I do wish more lurkers would consider joining the convo. There’s lots of talk about things being stale and dead, not many active niche communities, but 98% of people aren’t contributing. It’s okay to not be a content creator, but a single comment a week is better than no comments ever. I might be a taaaad salty, because of how much effort I put in, and that the lack of interactions and engagement is pretty much the ONLY thing keeping kbin from reaching it’s full potential.

Speaking of microblogging, I still don’t know what those are somehow lol. are they like mastodon tweets or toots or whatever? 😭

this is the first i am hearing of it, gonna check it out now 👀

my brother in christ, it is a joke and this is a shitposting community

its been 3 months since you left this reply, and im nearly done with my first sem in computer networking tech! im in college because of your replies, how crazy is that? anyway, i have a lot of career related questions, i’m feeling both doubt and excitement and worry and everything you can imagine about continuing on with this program. your replies were so impactful for me that i am back here 3 months later rereading them to get a better sense of direction.

feel free to say no this of course if uninterested, but would you be willing to chat on discord? you’re very insightful and intelligent and i could use some of that from someone who knows what theyre talking about lol

this is gonna go nowhere per usual, but still, the very idea of working in your dreams is fucking horrifying. black mirror type shit.

i considered CS but went with IT for a less math-heavy focus, i am absolutely shit and way below average at math

great answer. im currently doing what you were doing all those years ago, procrastinating more school, so you and the other person’s response about getting a degree sooner rather than later are resonating with me. if only i knew what to get a degree in 😭 and great advice about health, especially dental hygiene

literally this. i see a lot of mods of niche communities working their ass off trying to generate content with 0 help, including me. and all people do is complain that they aren’t doing enough, it’s not active enough, while doing nothing to help it grow.

be the change you want to see. contribute to your communities, especially niche ones.

huh? astral projection real? 🤨

they keep it to themselves to remain on top. empress also accepts donations, even going so far as to refuse to crack a game unless she receives a certain amount of money like $500.

she doesn’t release info because then she won’t be needed, and therefore won’t receive money for something that many crackers can do