[ SECRET POST #7026 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7026 ⌋

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Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

I think I’m just getting old and losing my patience for people. The number of posts I’ve seen in my main subreddit asking the same questions or posting the same dollar store merch makes me want to scream. And it isn’t just fandom; I bought new software today despite all the warnings about the “steep learning curve” and when I launched it the first time I thought I must be overlooking something because it’s very simple. I watched some of the tutorial videos and it turns out that the “hard” stuff is learning how to expand a branch in the file tree (not that they call it that; “look for the folder icon and click, then click any plus signs you see.” Everything is point and click. These people would absolutely die if they had to work with embroidery software or pre-cloud versions of Adobe Suite. I feel like I’m surrounded by idiots while also knowing none of this is a big deal and I should just get over it. Usually I don’t really think much about it or maybe privately roll my eyes. But some days…

Anyone else ever have days like this?

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, we are in a race to the bottom.

What dollar store merch?

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

Dungeon Crawler Carl keychains. They’re these little plastic star things full of oil and water with a weighted charm inside that manages to look nothing like any of the characters. There are like 8 different ones and they come in blind bags for $5 each and people are ridiculously over the top excited about them.

Although today the sub is nothing but the limited edition Virgin Dirty Shirley chocolate bars and just one or two keychain posts.

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

Had someone ask how to use AO3 the other day. And I don't mean "how to post" or "how to make a site skin" or "how to make a collection." Literally the question was "how do I read a story." *facepalm*

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

I would have had to walk away to prevent my inside thoughts from becoming outside thoughts o.0

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

Whoo boy, that's a special one.

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, just about every day I have days like that. I think part of the problem is that technology has advanced so rapidly, it's dizzying. When I was a teenager, the internet was in its infancy and the obstacle of 1) having the proper, very expensive equipment to access it and 2) knowing how to access it kept a lot of people out. But when newer tech came along that made it easier to get online, you got a flood people who knew (mostly) how to use this shiny new tech, but didn't know how the tech itself worked and their grasp of the internet was wobbly at best.

A couple decades ago, I worked with a lady who didn't understand how to use computers AT ALL. You'd explain that to access this program, she needed to click on this icon and she just... didn't know what an icon was. You'd point it out to her, and to her, it was just a little picture, and the desktop was also a picture so she'd be clicking on the desktop wallpaper and wondering how come Excel wasn't opening up. It wasn't entirely her fault, it's just that stuff had developed at the speed of light from her perspective, and she couldn't keep up.

Re: Old (Wo)Man Yells at Cloud

[(Anonymous)]

I got in a reddit fight because people in my city's sub were misidentifying a phoebe as a chickadee. I don't know if they're just relying on a bad AI summary or what but they're wrong about birds on the internet and now I'm mad.

Anyway I get you - when you don't know the age or background of people swearing that Thing is Hard to Learn, you don't know if they're serious or if they just literally did not grow up learning how to open file trees...or read an abstract, follow a map, read the fuckin manual, etc. It's hard seeing the degradation of conceptual learning in real time.