Zamazenta the OS-Tan Fan

I mean, I'm not against "attacking the substance of your argument," I just wanted to know if you were a real person first. I'm still not fully convinced, but you seem real enough, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and do the short version, cos I also don't care enough to do the long version either way. So basically:

• A tool (like a smartphone) cannot be inherently bad; it can only be used poorly. And even if the average person is using it poorly, so what? Mind your own fucking business.
• Going against the grain simply because you can absolutely does not make you better, and thinking it does is outstandingly pretentious. You could just as easily be called a contrarian or egotist as you could a rebel or free thinker.
• Comparing anything to the US in 2025 is unwise, and you could have picked any other nation born from rebellion. Just as a sidenote.
• On which note, the Revolutionary War wasn't because "we're such free thinkers;" it was primarily because "the Crown is taxing the hell out of us and trying to monopolize our economy."
• Logging in from different IP addresses is a non-argument at best. Not only do VPNs exist, different devices have different addresses. My Android phone which is less than ten feet away from me has a different address than my desktop I'm typing this from.

There wasn't much substance to attack, but there you go.

I mean, I could say so much about this, but no: 

“Resisting and not following the crowd kind of does make you better. It shows you're a freethinker, maybe even a rebel. The United States was founded by freethinkers who resisted the British crown and fought for independence, creating one of the freest countries ever seen.“

Ted Kaczynski, for example. 
but like let’s just break down the fallacy of your argument:  

if you assume “going against the crowd” means to fight against a politically-positioned party, sure. This is only compared to people being on their phones. 
 

Go to a coffee shop, wait on a bus, have a doctor’s appointment. Because you choose to people watch rather than being on your phone does not make you better than them, it makes it doing the same thing with a similar outcome. 
 

Your argument really extends to an unnecessary position of politics, technological concerns, so many other things that are not particularly involved in this sentiment. 

Just because you choose not to smoke doesn’t mean you’re not going to get second hand smoke. 

for your arguments, I think you need to ground them in something before you explore other trajectories. I love how “worldly” it is starting (thinking broadly) but it also shows the ignorance that you are beginning to develop. Me choosing to put down my book for look at my phone for a second doesn’t mean I am going to start a militaristic army of resistance. It is really just me wanting to pick up my phone. 
 

Choosing between apple and Samsung phones doesn’t mean I am pro/anti consumer, it means that I am personally choosing a phone for myself. 
 

Now, if you want to extend this into politics, we can surely do that. You have some knowledge of what trajectories this can leech onto, but let’s first start with talking about how “going against the grain” is really just going to the grain of something else. Revolutionary activism is all about forgoing your personal sentiment for a crowd mentality. 

Oh, and to add insult: if you think that “doomscrolling” is ruining the former, that one should read instead. I promise that I read more than you on any boundary and topic. I promise that I doomscroll, too, but I have more mentally stimulating activities under my belt than you will even. 
 

so please, let me know how you go out of your way to stimulate your mind at every moment. By the time you figure that out, I’ll be on my next book or do something else that “over-saturates” my mind. 
 

oh blame hina, like she has anything to do with this.

nah, that lovely girl can do no wrong.

Sorted, also what the heck Greggles

Sorry, babe. I’ll keep our relationship info more private. 
 

@Ash Can I please make a suggestion? How about we take a page from Goujer's book? Goujer is the admin of this forum: https://www.ostan-collections.net. Before a post can be publicly visible, it should be verified by an admin or moderator. This is how Goujer was able to combat the bots. Additionally, users with 10 or more posts on the site wouldn't need to have their posts verified. This approach allowed Goujer, the site admin of the OS-Tan forums, to effectively deal with the bots that were overwhelming the site back in the winter of 2024.

Do you think this would be a good idea?

Note: Users who had 10 or more posts before the verification system was implemented are not affected.

wtf is os-tan

It's possibly something we can implement, yes - but I'd rather not have to unless we need to.