415 Prison Planet Sausage Party

[Lemon]

[vaMpiresoftWare]

I’m excited for this one and grateful for all F Plus content regardless of how frequently it comes out. I plan on dusting off my game development dust and at least taking a look at the Megachurch Tycoon repo soon.

[adrenochrome dome]

I can't imagine being so paranoid that "the tunnel of light is a trick".

[PaulLovesToLaugh]

The Extra Credit Masonic Mario episode is one of my favorites!

[Dyna Moe]

[vaMpiresoftWare]

But what’s the synchronicity between Sausage Party and Suddenly Susan Desperately Seeking Susan? (Oops!)

I love that Saturn Cube came up because that is just the exact same thing but obsessing over cubes.

Satanism: “me me me”
Gnosticism: “I know how the world really works and you don’t”

[oscaruglyface]

I’m excited for this one and grateful for all F Plus content regardless of how frequently it comes out.

Same here, I still check for episodes every day when I'm looking for podcasts and won't stop. I love listening to the podcast and have never missed an episode in 13 years!

Great episode!!!

[Napoleon]

Singing chocolate rain at the exact same time Lemon did made me feel at peace

[EYE OF ZA]

When they're talking about how night owls are "pneumatics and psychics" while "hylics" go out in the day, they're referring to Gnosticism's spiritual castes. Pneumatics were the Gnostic elect who would escape the physical world, psychics were non-Gnostics but had souls, and hylics were flesh automata with no spiritual existence.

So they're saying "maybe extroverts are NPCs 🤔". It's Still Reddit!^TM

[LINDA]

Incredible, Reddit finally producing pre-Reddit tier Fplus material. Nature is healing.

Ep 415 Drinking Game: every time they say louche, take a sip of absinthe

[Tipsy Almond]

When they're talking about how night owls are "pneumatics and psychics" while "hylics" go out in the day, they're referring to Gnosticism's spiritual castes. Pneumatics were the Gnostic elect who would escape the physical world, psychics were non-Gnostics but had souls, and hylics were flesh automata with no spiritual existence.

So they're saying "maybe extroverts are NPCs 🤔". It's Still Reddit!^TM

I don't know if it's just dumb luck, but I have yet to experience the stereotypical """reddit""" experience that's been paraded on the podcast for so long. My Reddit feed is mainly tech support, TTRPGs, baking, Dwarf Fortress memes, and misc budgeting stuff. I've visited r/NoPoo and r/ZeroCarb after their respective episodes and they're completely insane, but those feel like outliers compared to the bulk of what I normally see on the website when it comes to common interactions...

Or maybe I'm inured against perceiving it bc I live in reality and don't go to Reddit for life advice...

[ikaribattousai]

When they're talking about how night owls are "pneumatics and psychics" while "hylics" go out in the day, they're referring to Gnosticism's spiritual castes. Pneumatics were the Gnostic elect who would escape the physical world, psychics were non-Gnostics but had souls, and hylics were flesh automata with no spiritual existence.

So they're saying "maybe extroverts are NPCs 🤔". It's Still Reddit!^TM

I don't know if it's just dumb luck, but I have yet to experience the stereotypical """reddit""" experience that's been paraded on the podcast for so long. My Reddit feed is mainly tech support, TTRPGs, baking, Dwarf Fortress memes, and misc budgeting stuff. I've visited r/NoPoo and r/ZeroCarb after their respective episodes and they're completely insane, but those feel like outliers compared to the bulk of what I normally see on the website when it comes to common interactions...

Or maybe I'm inured against perceiving it bc I live in reality and don't go to Reddit for life advice...

My experience has always been that the more niche and technical a subreddit tends to be the more sane it tends to be, but a lot of the really popular "generalist" subreddits are just cesspits

[Tipsy Almond]

My experience has always been that the more niche and technical a subreddit tends to be the more sane it tends to be, but a lot of the really popular "generalist" subreddits are just cesspits

So... what specifically do you mean by "cesspit"? Overly sexual users who don't respect boundaries? Argumentative assholes? Malignant narcissists? All three? Something else?

My usual experience on say, r/AskReddit has been pretty tame during my whole 30 minutes perusing it a couple years ago. The F Plus has pretty obvious selection bias for the sake of comedy, so that's another factor.

I have in fact seen the stereotypical user base on other platforms, like with Twitch and Bluesky, but the bad side of Reddit seems to be comprised of "asshole who thinks arguments can warp reality to their whims" or "asshole who doesn't care about social norms and makes it your problem instead".

The podcast has definitely introduced me to the crazier corners of Reddit, but those are outliers picked because the communities are nuts. They're not random samples of the overall user base.

But I could also be completely wrong and my surface-level meanderings through the site haven't caused the beast to rear its head.

[ikaribattousai]

My experience has always been that the more niche and technical a subreddit tends to be the more sane it tends to be, but a lot of the really popular "generalist" subreddits are just cesspits

So... what specifically do you mean by "cesspit"? Overly sexual users who don't respect boundaries? Argumentative assholes? Malignant narcissists? All three? Something else?

My usual experience on say, r/AskReddit has been pretty tame during my whole 30 minutes perusing it a couple years ago. The F Plus has pretty obvious selection bias for the sake of comedy, so that's another factor.

I have in fact seen the stereotypical user base on other platforms, like with Twitch and Bluesky, but the bad side of Reddit seems to be comprised of "asshole who thinks arguments can warp reality to their whims" or "asshole who doesn't care about social norms and makes it your problem instead".

The podcast has definitely introduced me to the crazier corners of Reddit, but those are outliers picked because the communities are nuts. They're not random samples of the overall user base.

But I could also be completely wrong and my surface-level meanderings through the site haven't caused the beast to rear its head.

I'd say all three but it's a mixed bag. I think a lot of this is not just selection bias but also a reputation that reddit's early userbase earned for itself that, as the platform has grown, has probably normalized a lot more.

[Pavlova]

I've listened to this episode multiple times now and I still have genuinely no fuckin idea what the concept is that they're talking about. Like usually it's not so hard to get a bead on it but... this is really challenging.