#define EEYORE        208        /* excessively depressive response */

Me too, AI. Me too.

Attack the argument, not the person.

Let me remind you of a few things:

1. I am allowed to disagree with any point or argument made in a discussion
2. I am allowed to tell you when I feel your side of the argument or discussion is not compelling me in any way
3. This conversation is still ongoing, as evidenced by any lack of comment removal, user bans, and thread locking

I understand you feel strongly about this, and whether you believe me or not, I respect your point of view. Show me a better argument than the one you are currently presenting and change my mind*. Also, you will need to change the community’s mind too.

~* This is not one of those typical bad-faith “change my mind” meme references you might have seen flying around.~

Your argument, as it stands right now, is not compelling enough to warrant a change in a rule that the community has voted on having.

We already had that conversation. It’s rule #4.

📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due - Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting. - Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

(emphasis mine)

Ok I vaguely remember this scene, but not what movie it came from.

I am not aware of any anti-advertising mechanisms available on Lemmy? That would be neat, if it were possible. 😅

I don’t always like, or agree with, every comic that gets posted to this community, but as long as said comic follows our established rules, I see no reason to remove the comic. We as a community have established that modifying a comic (cropping or otherwise remove any attribution, especially in the name of “advertising”) is not in the best interest of the community.

As an aside, I don’t know what Lemmy client you use, nor if it has a feature for filtering out keywords. If it does, you can filter out “SMBC” as cannedtuna has kindly tagged the comic series in the post title. If it doesn’t, it might be worth requesting that feature and/or finding a client that would allow you to do just that; filtering out unwanted posts is a really nice feature.

If there would be any rule change, I wouldn’t be opposed to requiring adding artist/comic series tagging in post titles. And I am certainly open to having that discussion with the entire community.

There is a 98% (p=±2%) that you might need glasses.

I approve. 👍

Meta Question: what’s with the ++…++ surrounding all the links? Is that meant as some sort markdown formatting?

It’s 2026, just dig out this fossil and fix it already.

That’s the joke. 😅

Why?

Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants. 🙄

~If not self hate, then a serious lack of self intestinal fortitude. Either way…~

Yes, daddy. 🥹

This was funny the first time I read it. Even more so after I reread the body of the post.

Chucklefuck!

🤣

~I am so out of my gourd right now. 🌎 🧑‍🚀~

I assume that’s also why you were downvoted just now too. Shame on you. 😉

You know us Americans, and how we like to think we’re the center of the universe. 🤷‍♂️

I believe what they are referring to is that Trump fucked Americans by implementing tariffs, which affects the “global economy” from the perspective of Americans, since we’re the ones who end up paying the additional costs for things we import.

🙏