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What are some weird flexes people have that they think make them better than others? (piefed.world)

submitted 13 hours ago by Soulifix@piefed.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don't know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that's not really a good method of protesting if you're someone who hates Epic Games.

You're still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.

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[–] tychosmoose@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

I think you missed the point entirely. Yes, the thread is about weird flexes. Just yesterday there was a discussion in !selfhosted@lemmy.world about Plex, and a lot of people who run Jellyfin were saying running Plex isn't selfhosting. A weird (to me) anti-Plex flex.

OP asked for weird flexes. Weird flex in reply.

So when you replied:

hosting your own media server is just so weird

You seem to be disparaging the hobby of selfhosted media servers. That's why I responded as I did. I never said that I participate in that hobby at all, so I'm not sure why you think I'm the one doing the flexing here.

I guess what you may be saying is that you don't recognize "running a media server" as a hobby at all, but some kind of weird flex within the space of "I like movies." I can see your point that in a conversation about "I like movies," jumping in with "I run my own media server, akshully" could come off very negatively. I agree. There are a lot of self-congratulatory dingbats in that space. But that's not what happened here.

Open-ended question looking for weird flexes people have heard. Weird flex was provided.

Have a nice day.