Sometimes cheating can lead to an interesting new way to play a game.

Diablo 2's Open Battle.net was an interesting place that really was a kind of wild west that showcased some of the silliest items people could make.

After joining a few random lobbies, I remember being given a charm that did something like adding 99 to all skills, as well as a ton of movement speed, experience gain, and resistances.

That got me into using the D2 Hero Editor and the hacked character dueling scene which had its own meta of transforming your character into the Amazon Valkyrie skill and using a shield to Paladin Smite people to death.

Excuse me, do you like to laugh?

The episode where Bart, Jay Lenno and a monkey are bathing a clown.

Your honor, I would like to illuminate the court as to what my thought process towards the relationship between this platform, its content and voting systems have been.

I primarily use upvotes as a way to mark content that I personally enjoy or appreciate enough that I would like to see again. Naturally, this leads to a far lower amount of comments being upvoted by me, because people tend to mostly say silly things that don't have as much impact on me as seeing someone post a cool or cute drawing they made.

As for downvotes, the reasons are a bit more varied. I will downvote posts and comments based on things like the content being clickbait or a scam, an article source being a tabloid or otherwise low-quality, a person who tries to argue in bad faith, seems to be trolling or espouses an especially egregious stance on a topic.

Most recently I have added news articles that use a variation of X says Y to Z as a headline to what I consider clickbait, because articles and their titles should ideally focus on the tangible action behind someone's words over the words themselves. Unfortunately, this has led to many posts being downvoted by me, even if the content may otherwise be sound, but I do not mean it as a personal attack. It's more of a frustration toward the current state of journalim that has led to these kind of titles being so ubiquitous.

I will admit to some pettiness on my part, where, if I have noticed someone repeatedly post or comment content that I find irksome, I will look at their most recent 20 or however many my Lemmy app shows me, posts or comments and downvote them before blocking a person.

My downvotes average out to a bit over 15/day, which is actually lower than I expected.

I have generally been a lurker in various forums for most of my internet existence, but I have been trying to interact more. When I made this account three years ago, I would never have made this comment at all.

I wanted to provide some context behind my actions and am willing to accept whatever sentence the court decides.

I have always had a sense of paranoia when it comes to escalators: they are always up to something.

This might be the episode where we learn the origin of Lisa's saxophone. Homer spends the money the family was saving for a new air conditioner on it. This ice-block-cat was the stopgap solution.

I've got family here from all over the globe! Here's Jose Flanders:

Buenos ding-dong-diddly-dias!

The episode where Lisa becomes a vegetarian.

Bart donates blood that matches Mr. Burns' rare bloodtype to save him. Homer is dissatisfied with the thank you card Bart receives, which ultimately leads to this scene of Smithers and Burns looking for a present to give the Simpsons.

The episode where Abe Simpson courts Marge's mother. Bart steals Homer's credit card to buy an animation cell containing part of Scratchy's arm, leading to Nelson having an out of body experience to Ha-Ha him.

I smelled some marijuana smoke in Vietnam!

The episode where Rev. Lovejoy's daughter becomes Bart's girlfriend.

The episode with the chili cook-off and Homer goes on a spiritual journey after eating insanity peppers.

Homer is climbing a lighthouse to find his soulmate after getting in a fight with Marge.

Probably the worst part of this is being allergic to garlic —garlic makes things delicious. Otherwise, this isn't too far off from my normal life.