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[–] [email protected] 128 points 5 days ago (1 children)

getting bamboozled by shittymorph every goddamn time is one of the very, very few things i miss about reddit

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Ooh and talesfromtechsupport! And Photoshopbattles!

There's probably more I've forgotten. I do miss the ol gal sometimes but we're no good for each other

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I miss poem for your sprog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I was on reddit long enough to remember the early days with the slew of novelty accounts. It was glorious.

[–] Agrivar 2 points 4 days ago
[–] CrazyLikeGollum 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No sleep was fun because a lot of the stories are a bit of a slog with the same twists we've heard 100 times before, but every once in a while you'd find a gem and it would just blow you away. I loved one called the left right game, it was what got me into the subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I kinna stayed away from that sub cuz of precisely that reason but I'm always down for a good yarn now i wanna see if i can dig that one up

Eddie: found it! It's a multi parter, I'm excited, thanks https://redlib.nohost.network/r/nosleep/comments/7asz8x/has_anyone_heard_of_the_leftright_game_part_1/

[–] [email protected] 101 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A tumblrized reference to an ancient reddit in-joke. How quaint.

Honestly kind of a bittersweet thing to see, it makes me think of all the good things we left behind. But then again, we did bring the best parts with us. Star Trek, Linux, and beans are all a Lemmizen needs.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't shittymorph one of the ones who came here with the exodus?

[–] Maalus 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

They're still posting on reddit. So either they never went or they came here, seen the state of the platform and promptly left.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think there were a number of power users for whom that was the case

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We're honestly better off without them. Power users and power mods kinda ruined Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Power users and power mods are trying their best to ruin Lemmy too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Aw, man, I don't deserve the hate :( /s

[–] donuts 4 points 4 days ago

Do we have a c/beetlejuicing?

[–] Maalus 2 points 5 days ago

Shoulda named yourself work/timeuser you wouldn't be catching as many strays.

[–] Anticorp 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What is a power user on Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Someone like Gallowboob. They just post an endless stream of low quality drivel and eventually turn into ad machines and push specific narratives and propaganda. We're much better off without them.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 4 days ago
[–] Anticorp 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's not morphing anymore though, which is kind of sad, but understandable.

[–] Maalus 6 points 5 days ago

They are - on reddit. Someone linked a comment here from a month ago. They just didn't stay on lemmy, if they ever came here.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 3 points 5 days ago

Looks like it might be the latter. I see this profile, but the cake day and the last post were both over a year ago.

[–] RizzRustbolt 0 points 4 days ago

That's a chatbot.

The real one posts exclusively on Pillowfort.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't like Star Trek, I don't understand Linux, and I don't even know what you mean by "beans". Unless you mean the actual food......but that doesn't answer any questions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I admire your honesty, it's a bold strategy on the internet.

Beans is referencing the period where bean memes were the popular meme. There wasn't a reason (that I could see), people just posted bean memes for a while.

[–] Anticorp 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt 1 points 4 days ago

Welcome to memes!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago

Nooooooooooooooooo i aint been 'morphed in forever haha

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] ummthatguy 36 points 5 days ago

Anyone still in contact with the Bad Place:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Never forget ✊

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

I miss shittymorph, what a legend.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I am unable to parse that last paragraph

[–] Hope 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's a reference to a reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1gnxkgd/comment/lweabef/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) who would post these intricate comments with these really engaging stories that would then end with that last paragraph, which describes the events of a 1998 wrestling show where the wrestler The Undertaker threw the wrestler Mankind (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_vs._The_Undertaker) and the type of wrestling match (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_a_Cell ).

[–] spankmonkey 34 points 5 days ago

The user was contributing to the discussion and shitposting at the same time. It was glorious.

[–] qbert 19 points 5 days ago