thecybird

Funny Mechanical Birb Artist

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Voidpunk agender aromanic asexual.
A robot from 404 years in the retrofuture, roughly in the shape of a California Scrub Jay.
> play "/sounds/caws/*.ogg" shuffleloopall
@hungybirb for vore type content


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lorenziniforce
@lorenziniforce

this happens a lot actually, pejorativization and the reverse is a thing, hyperbole and irony means that colloquial terms for "good" and "bad" are always shifting. Think like, calling things "sick" as a complement

This is genuinely a completely normal linguistic process that happens all the time


thecybird
@thecybird

I was always under the impression that "mid" was short for "middling," and that word had had a negative connotation for as long as I can remember. Akin to "mediocre."


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in reply to @bethposting's post:

I swear it's an attitude that trickles down. From the top "there's no reason any of our contractors should ever get less than five stars, if they get a low review then cut their hours." To "even the games worth looking at are dull, video games are so cooked."

Like this attitude where you only accept "exceptional" work because you feel like there's no reason to "settle" for anything else. Everything is ranked and anything that isn't something good enough to wrap your sense of self around gets devalued.

I wonder if it's cultural honestly (on the Japanese restaurant review site Tabelog for example, very few restaurants average more than 4 out of 5 stars and anything above 3.6 is probably already very good, and very often you see very glowing reviews that rate their experience a 4 out of 5 or lower)