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Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by bluedel »

SilverSlash wrote: post #120
RagnarD wrote: post #119

When did this writing with no capitalization start to become a thing? I'm seeing it too often now. It's pretentious crap and quickly leads to me thinking that the writer doesn't want to be taken seriously, so why read it?

I think Sam Altman popularized it with his tweets during the height of OpenAI, GPT popularity ~2023. Or maybe it was already trending by then but at least for me he was the first among prominent people to be doing it.

the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by disruptiveink »

mnsc wrote: post #124
RagnarD wrote: post #119

When did this writing with no capitalization start to become a thing? I'm seeing it too often now. It's pretentious crap and quickly leads to me thinking that the writer doesn't want to be taken seriously, so why read it?

I read the whole thing without seeing it. But I also fail to see how you marry "pretentious" with not wanting to be taken seriously. So maybe it's me.

If you purposely go into your phone settings and turn off auto-capitalization (which is what the kids do, since they're all typing on their phones), isn't it the very definition of pretentiousness? You're going into extra trouble to signify you're part of a clique, while feigning "laid-backness" and "i dont even care bro".

But you do care. You care so much to project your appearance of being cool and that you don't even care that you go through extra trouble to keep it up, even though paradoxically it would be LESS effort to not do it.

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by monerozcash »

SilverSlash wrote: post #120
RagnarD wrote: post #119

When did this writing with no capitalization start to become a thing? I'm seeing it too often now. It's pretentious crap and quickly leads to me thinking that the writer doesn't want to be taken seriously, so why read it?

I think Sam Altman popularized it with his tweets during the height of OpenAI, GPT popularity ~2023. Or maybe it was already trending by then but at least for me he was the first among prominent people to be doing it.

Smartphones forced automated capitalization on us, just look at how chatlogs have changed over time. I'd suggest no-capitalization is on the downtrend, but sticks out more because everything is automatically capitalized now.

Re: I'm just having fun

#134

Post by int_19h »

bluedel wrote: post #131
SilverSlash wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Sam Altman popularized it with his tweets during the height of OpenAI, GPT popularity ~2023. Or maybe it was already trending by then but at least for me he was the first among prominent people to be doing it.

the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.

It was a thing 25 years ago already in SMS and IM.

Re: I'm just having fun

#135

Post by ChrisSD »

GaryBluto wrote: post #114

I don't know what I expected from a blog written entirely in lowercase but I'm unsurprised it's something like this. > if i can't feminize my compiler, what's the point? I remember when people saying things like this would be considered strange, because it is strange, along with all the other bizarre and often fetishistic references in both the blog body and various screenshots. Same for the bizarre pull request scre…

It's ok to be strange. It's ok to be bizarre. Be free.

I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

performative wrote: post #59
flumpcakes wrote: post #36

Not addressing the content directly but a note on the formatting: I find it extremely hard to read sentences by people that refuse to use normal formatting/grammar. Why is there no capitalisation? I've seen this before and it's just confusing and jarring. Clearly this is done on purpose but I don't know why an author would be so anti-reader.

i think it's either the result of a stream of consciousness into one's phone hastily formatted into a blog post, or something constructed to resemble that. the rushed construction slash abrasive rhetorical tool kinda matches the message it's trying to send, imo. it's often that the amount of time i've spent thinking about something (a lot) is totally disproportionate to the time i spend typing my thoughts up (a littl…

>i think it's either the result of a stream of consciousness into one's phone

I don't know about Android but on the iPhone you have to go out of your way to remove the capitalisation.

Re: I'm just having fun

#138

Post by GaryBluto »

ChrisSD wrote: post #135
GaryBluto wrote: post #114

I don't know what I expected from a blog written entirely in lowercase but I'm unsurprised it's something like this. > if i can't feminize my compiler, what's the point? I remember when people saying things like this would be considered strange, because it is strange, along with all the other bizarre and often fetishistic references in both the blog body and various screenshots. Same for the bizarre pull request scre…

It's ok to be strange. It's ok to be bizarre. Be free. I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

People can be strange or bizarre if they want too but they have to understand it means some people won't like them, especially if their shtick is deliberately making people uncomfortable and being annoying.

> I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

I don't want people to act exactly like me. I greatly appreciate the existence of people different from me with differing points of view and differing nations with differing cultures. This doesn't mean I have to like one specific archetype that I feel acts obnoxiously.

Re: I'm just having fun

#139

Post by tonyedgecombe »

flumpcakes wrote: post #36

Not addressing the content directly but a note on the formatting: I find it extremely hard to read sentences by people that refuse to use normal formatting/grammar. Why is there no capitalisation? I've seen this before and it's just confusing and jarring. Clearly this is done on purpose but I don't know why an author would be so anti-reader.

The other one that I find jarring is putting a zero in front of the year.

I down vote it every time I see it.

Re: I'm just having fun

#140

Post by ChrisSD »

GaryBluto wrote: post #138
ChrisSD wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's ok to be strange. It's ok to be bizarre. Be free. I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

People can be strange or bizarre if they want too but they have to understand it means some people won't like them, especially if their shtick is deliberately making people uncomfortable and being annoying. > I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life. I don't want people to act exactly like me. I greatly appreciate the existence of people diff…

Why do you feel uncomfortable? Why do you think anyone is trying to make you feel uncomfortable?
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