I know it's a care cup thing, but I'm finding NeoGAF really tough to read any more. Even as a joke.
Nah, you're crazy. It sucked about six months ago, but it's been comedy gold lately. Watching people righteously adopt positions and methods that they would (rightly) have decried just a short time ago is priceless. It's a reminder that behind all the preening and posturing, everyone on the political fringe is just a slightly different flavour of arsehole.
Since becoming a parody of itself, GAF has found true greatness. I'm just a bit bummed out that they are nearing the apex of their pointless infighting. Unless there is an influx of Native American posters, the oppression olympics are drawing to a close.
I think GAF has both become a parody and gotten better. The worst elements got worse, but they no longer dominate the conversation.
Trump getting elected broke something in a lot of regulars, made them a whole lot worse in their tribalism and paranoia, but these people seem less relevant than they were before and you can almost go as far as ignore them (for non-comedy purposes). You have the same old characters no longer being able to bulldozer over the berniebros and they occupy themselves with building a dossier to send to the CIA. Yeah, they'll do their receipts shit, but I noticed no one really gives a fuck besides those who already hate the guy who was speaking out of turn. It
is comedy gold. PoliGAF has lost a lot of ground in OT and OT has lost ground in Gaming. Bish no longer being a mod by itself is a big change to the atmosphere.
The only thing is that it has become a worse news source, as something like 33% of Trump threads end up being "fake news" (grossly misreported, like the one about him creating a holiday being some fascist thing) that they just blindly accept, but I don't know if you can say that's a GAF thing.