Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

huh

i seem to do this thing where if i think i've bothered someone, if they aren't obviously close, i'll just ghost them forever--no matter how much i want to get to know them

it makes sense to my brain for some reason that this is a reasonable penance for annoying anyone ever

even though this is pretty harsh, i wonder if it's at all appreciated? i mean, nobody would likely notice one less hovering presence, would they? and if they did, would they be happy about it?

@LongLevy ohhh, that's what you meant

and yeah, if you write a page and then format it nicely later, it does kinda blow that you might need to add some CSS to make it look the same

@LongLevy wait, why does it do that..?

aren't newlines in html content just rendered as a space, making trailing whitespace redundant?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz ｎｉｃｅ

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz we should do league sometime!

i can't do it right now, but if our schedules line up, i'd be down with playing sometime

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz actually, have you tried squeezers yet?

like, the foil squeezer has more range than dualie squelchers if you tap the fire button--but it also inks like a splattershot if you hold it

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz dualie squelchers have so much range. they are definitely my best dualies

you don't even need to be aggressive, because they are unbelievable at keeping stage control, so you can even hang back and just ink the territory ahead--picking off anyone who breaks through the most heavily contested areas

that's often enough to push entire teams back to their base

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz totally!

i triple-main for the most part (new squiffer, luna, and splat brella), but i play so many different weapons overall

it's not spreading yourself thin to get to know the strengths and weaknesses of anything that catches your interest--and sometimes you can figure out neat strategies for different modes

plus it's fun to experiment

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz my aim is really unpredictable too, but if you get the drop on someone, it can play ridiculously offensively

i get >20 splats on quite a few matches with it!

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i really like the luna!

i also find it pairs with ninja squid extremely well since it's a 0HKO weapon when your aim is good

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh SNAP

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz but what i was getting at is that the people who are in the mobs i see usually aren't the victims friends

i mean, their friends *do* feel pressure… but not to join the mob–they often feel pressure to withdraw

this has other problems, because that evaporates the support network of the person being attacked, meaning those friends have basically become enablers

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh, i definitely agree

it's also really frustrating because, even if everyone realizes this is happening, it's *extremely* hard to hold a mob accountable since focus can't be easily distributed among a group without dehumanizing it

these are *individual people* doing nasty things; not some faceless abstract entity like a mob

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz that...sounds like a lovely dynamic

the mobs i usually see are large crowds, convinced by someone with a grudge that someone they don't like is Bad™

any individual thing that someone can dig up to paint you as nasty is enough to steer a crowd using sensationalism

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i've always thought the people who fear this the most are people who have friends that were affected by it and have no other support network

when something almost hits you, and you realize if it were you, you would be doomed? that's kinda spooky

i wonder who the first country leader with a fursona will be

i mean, it'll probably happen eventually, right?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz yeesh, that's pretty gnarly

i knew they were pretty hard to get rid of and a really Bad Thing, but that sounds just crazy ​