/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5006937]

>first day back to uni
>edgy professor plays symphony of science video
>"u mad? trollface.jpg" + me gusta face in another intro lecture
>shitty imbecilic reddit memes spread all around campus
>LOL XDDD PONY CLUB!!!!1111111111111
Remind me again how shitty internet culture somehow caught onto the hipster mainstream /sci/

[Anonymous No.5006953]

Its because modern entertainment is not only crap but also has weak association. You can't really spout anything about Breaking Bad or modern tv shows, even if they're good.

But le le le le le you can express that very easily. So people latch onto it.

[Carl No.5006967]

It was always amusing to see people in my lectures browsing 9fag instead of paying attention. Needless to say they failed the exam.

[Anonymous No.5006978]

>>5006953
>modern tv shows
>good

[Anonymous No.5006982]

It's retarded and I hate it out of principle, but at the same time it's probably a good thing to have an international culture that people can associate with without throwing in nationality, ethnicity, race, etc.. Of course, if you believe globalization is bad then you probably disagree.

[Anonymous No.5006983]

>>5006967
I find it more offensive than amusing that supposedly intelligent people are entertained by 9fag. Reddit okay, but 9fag? I just don't fucking get it.

[Anonymous No.5006990]

>>5006978
Nice reading comprehension there.

[Anonymous No.5006994]

>>5006967
>in my lectures
Are you implying you're a lecturer?

[Anonymous No.5006996]

>>5006967
>mfw I'm browsing /v/ instead of paying attention right now

[Anonymous No.5007000]

>>5006996
mfw you think /sci/ is /v/

[Anonymous No.5007007]

>>5007000
My mistake, I spend a lot of time there too. They're not really that different anyway.

[Anonymous No.5007184]

>starting uni in a week
>assigned a room with roommates

fuck

[Anonymous No.5007201]

>>5007007
/v/ is slightly more on topic.


That realisation makes me weep.

[Kasey J. Reynolds No.5007214]

How is this any different than language?

Slang developing into everyday use, accents and vernacular.


Aren't memes just another way to communicate?


Reading, writing, speaking, these are all "memes"

[Anonymous No.5007249]

>>5007214
>Aren't memes just another way to communicate?

The problem is that a large constituency of the regulars on here regard this site as the internet's supersecret fight club. They identify with it and they attribute to it exclusivity which it does not actually possess. Somehow they fail to understand that this is a very popular mainstream site with

>134 million unique visitors

this year alone, not some underground, unknown website. When they see memes "in the wild", they get butthurt over the imaginary breach of exclusivity.

Most of the others just find these shitty memes annoying because they are no more than a sad attempt to seek identity through internet culture, the same way others seek identity through mainstream "subculture" music genres, etc. It's a sign of weak identity and insecurity and most of those who vocally identify with it contribute very little to it. They are seeking uniqueness in mass produced culture.

tl;dr: because faggots

[Anonymous No.5007279]

>>5007249
>super secret fight club
No, 99.99% of internet memes are pure unadulterated festering feces.

They are tolerable in their novelty, but overuse just reveals that they don't have staying power.

[Anonymous No.5007282]

>>5007279
That too, but the ones who get annoyed by seeing them irl are usually one of the two aforementioned groups.

[Anonymous No.5007294]

>>5007249

I don't think that's what OP meant.

>>"u mad? trollface.jpg" + me gusta face in another intro lecture

The problem isn't the meme itself, it's how it's overused to the point that it's no longer funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtOW1CxHvNY

[Anonymous No.5007298]

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[Anonymous No.5007304]

[Anonymous No.5007305]

Not even 2chan is safe from this evil.

[Anonymous No.5007307]

>>5007298
>>5007294
>>5007302
Someone's taking it way too personally.

[Anonymous No.5007308]

>>5007304

[Carl No.5007312]

>>5007304
lel, saved for reposting

[Anonymous No.5007314]

>>5007307
I have lots of these pictures.

[Anonymous No.5007320]

[Anonymous No.5007315]

[Anonymous No.5007317]

>>5007314
successful troll of linux redditfag was successful.

[Anonymous No.5007322]

>>5007305
We caused this, we must take responsibility.

*commits le sepukku xDDD*

[Anonymous No.5007338]

Hopefully they'll drop or get their shit wrecked. Don't worry, OP.

[Anonymous No.5007346]

What hapen when reddit gets its mitts on costanza?

[Anonymous No.5007349]

>>5007346
the world will never be the same, I'm surprised they haven't already spread the cancer over it yet.

[Anonymous No.5007351]

>>5007184
>Living in the third-world.

[lkj No.5007352]

>>5007346

Then people like you who actually care will be irrationally upset about something you had no hand in creating or popularizing in the first place. And the rest of us will laugh at you for being a little bitch.

[Anonymous No.5007356]

>>5007349
I'm suprised they haven't gotten, fuck, I can't remember his name. The sportscaster guy.

[Anonymous No.5007359]

>>5007356
this guy?

[Anonymous No.5007370]

>>5007359
Of course.

[Anonymous No.5007375]

>>5007314
This picture made my day.

[Anonymous No.5007385]

OP/the majority of the people in this thread seem to dislike anything considered "mainstream" or "popular". Many people hate Justin Bieber for his popularity/fame, same situation here.

The hatred for popular culture essentially boils down to a mix of social isolation, schizophrenia, and cognitive dissonance.

Surprisingly, this is the same mix for conspiracy theorists and crackpots.

Enjoy your autism, OP and friends

[Anonymous No.5007404]

>>5007385
>schizophrenia

Hallucinations? What?

Unless you're thinking of shizoid personality disorder, then yeah.

[Anonymous No.5007409]

>>5007385
5/10
My hatred does not stem from dislike of popular things, it stems from the fact that people who spout memes outside of the internet (or even outside of 4chan/reddit/wherever) are retards with no common sense or ability to see just how stupid they look to everybody else.
What would you think if someone said "lol" to you during a spoken conversation? That's exactly what memespouters are

[Anonymous No.5007415]

>>5007409
Oh, in that case disregard my straw man comment.

[Anonymous No.5007416]

>>5007409
I agree that they sound like retards, but you're forgetting that they sound cool to each other. What's more important to you? The esteem of your friends, or the esteem of random haters around you?

[Anonymous No.5007419]

>>5007416
but their friends are retards.

[Anonymous No.5007430]

Overuse of memes is filtering all communication through a template, which is annoying no matter what it is.

Granted, I don't like how people like things because of their popularity (wherever on the spectrum it places) and not their merits, but I'm able to separate and balance these different typs of dislikes.

[General Vagueness No.5007488]

I didn't even know it happened. I also didn't know it was /sci/entific. I guess you learn new things every day.

[General Vagueness No.5007491]

>>5007488
er, I didn't know this subject was /sci/entific

[Anonymous No.5007498]

>>5007491
memetics bro

[General Vagueness No.5007501]

>>5007294
I thought that was the fate of all memes.

[General Vagueness No.5007512]

>>5007298
bad comparison IMHO, cake pretty much sucks, it wouldn't have nearly the popularity it does without frosting; and if it's good enough, you'd better believe I'll eat ten spoonfuls of it with no cake in sight

[Anonymous No.5007518]

>pony club

I envy you

[Anonymous No.5007519]

>>5007512
you are a sick individual with a sweet-tooth the size of Jupiter.

[Anonymous No.5007526]

>>5007512
Drop the use of acronyms or the name. Please. Both preferrably.

[General Vagueness No.5007551]

>>5007346
I sure hope those guys don't do this
>>5007416
I don't think it's about anyone's esteem, it's about stuff being annoying
>>5007498
fair enough, but it wasn't posed as a memetics topic, it was posed as a complaining topic

[Anonymous No.5007568]

>>5007518
No, bad.

If you like the show, you do not associate with bronies.
DON'T. BAD.

[Anonymous No.5007579]

>Orgo II final exam review session
>Hosted by lead TA
>full of memes and shit

fucking kill me

[Anonymous No.5007589]

[Anonymous No.5007608]

>>5007314
brilliant, post more then

[Anonymous No.5007688]

I've never been to redit before but you guys keep talking about it. So I created an account (easy enough, not even email required), but where do I go to post my collection of gore gif's? I just don't get it.

[Anonymous No.5007714]

>>5006937
Oh shit, OP. I mad now.

[Anonymous No.5007716]

Does anyone have a PDF of the 7th edition of Biology: Concepts and Connections?? I reeeeeeally don't want to have to pay $100+ for this book. I'm too college-poor for that shit.

[Anonymous No.5007719]

>>5007716
Do you even read the sticky?

[Anonymous No.5007731]

>>5007719
I'm pretty sure it isn't in there. I'm searching high and low

[Anonymous No.5007749]

You can say whatever the hell you want about reddit, they have a better Science section than we do. At least they actually discuss science.

[Anonymous No.5007754]

>>5007749
Looks like social science spiced with small amounts of pop science.

No thank you, that drowns out real math and science.

[Anonymous No.5007761]

>>5007749
Do you think they would have my book? How do I work Reddit??

[Anonymous No.5007763]

>>5006937
>edgy professor plays symphony of science video
>"u mad? trollface.jpg" + me gusta face in another intro lecture
>shitty imbecilic reddit memes spread all around campus
>LOL XDDD PONY CLUB!!!!1111111111111

is it really that bad? I was actually looking forward to my first year in uni. Now I somehow do not want.

>>5007346
pic related

[Anonymous No.5007765]

>>5007184
>starting uni next week
>got a SINGLE ROOM

Happiest day in months when i heard that.

[Anonymous No.5007766]

>>5007754
which /sci/ has neither of

[Anonymous No.5007771]

>>5007754
Which we discuss here often, right? Let's open up the first page of /sci/!

>Jupiter thread, not based on any recent observations, but acceptable enough considering

>HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR image

>shitty math homework thread

>reddit thread

>a thread about "biology" in general where everyone hates it

>workfag thread

>nuclear protest thread

>troll thread about ants

>pyramid conspiracy thread

> http://www.frankhatchiii.com , haven't even clicked but probably irrelevant

>math thread, good job!

>Relativity thread, nothing high-brow but relevant enough, good job!

>Daniela Titan thread

Wow amazing, three threads that are barely relevant!

[Anonymous No.5007775]

>>5007749
>real math and science
>/sci/
You must be new here. We had a 12 year old on here yesterday trying to get someone to do his middle school homework. He got a b& and he's still whining in the archive about how his babby shit belongs on /sci/.

Try
http://www.reddit.com/r/puremathematics
http://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry
http://www.reddit.com/r/physics
http://physics.stackexchange.com
http://chemistry.stackexchange.com
http://mathoverflow.net
http://physicsforums.com

for real science/math

[Anonymous No.5007773]

>>5007308
>grandma computer.jpg
not
>The Elder Stops Scrolling.jpg

[Anonymous No.5007777]

>>5007385 anything considered "mainstream" or "popular"

Using mainstream and popularity is a fairly accurate way to gauge the quality of something. It's basic statistics, if 80% of people are stupid....

[Anonymous No.5007788]

>>5007775
>first link
>fifth post and onward submitted over a month ago.

In that context it really does have less math posts than here.

[Anonymous No.5007794]

>>5007788
I would have linked to the actual math board, /r/math, but I figured it would get hammered down with "pop-mathematics" by the edgy teenagers of /sci/

[Anonymous No.5007800]

>>5007385
>>social isolation, schizophrenia, and cognitive dissonance.

Er, right. It sounds like you just came up with a couple neurological disorders/behaviors and attached them to an entire group so as to make yourself House-Tier diagnostician.

I think more likely is that it all boils down to exclusivity. The more exclusive the club, the more everyone else wants to get in and the more valued the members inside the club feel. In the 'real world' sense, the amount of members in any given club is easily measured by the subjective experience of meeting with your club or whatever. The internet flips this norm by attaching that exclusivity to immensely popular sites, therefore creating this sense of a patchwork community who are united through humor. The issue is that the club itself is full of millions of members, and that the club members delude themselves into thinking that the amount of people in the inner circle is quite small (because they never subjectively experience just how many members subscribe to their club of choice in a real world setting.)

The reason why 4chan hates reddit is obvious. 4chan flawingly sees itself as the polar opposite of reddit's popularity. Many members on 4chan still hold the delusional belief that 4chan is more exclusive (through a combination of over the top humor and shock value.) Reddit mirrors their own lack of exclusivity and instead of looking at the flaws within, they look at the mirror and punch it right dead-center.

[Anonymous No.5007825]

>tfw older student start talking about how /b/ is sometimes good
>tfw see much older student browsing 9fag


Oh god, I thought this stopped in university.

[Anonymous No.5007848]

>>5007800
>Reddit mirrors their own lack of exclusivity and instead of looking at the flaws within, they look at the mirror and punch it right dead-center.
The board I visit the most here is /a/. On /a/ we hate normalfags. I don't like many people on 4chan for this reason alone but most people here are still tolerable because of the anonymity.

For me reddit humour is no different than people on facebook who post images macros, it's the same shallow immaturity.

Comparing your average anon to your average redditor is like comparing a geek with an obnoxious girl who's read 3 comic books and goes attention-whore at comic-con. Redditors are proud of plastering their design all over the internet, they want an identity. Yeah, 4chan is not a secret club and it's quite popular on the Internet, but that's not by design.

[Anonymous No.5007902]

>>5007848

I think the groups that comprise reddit and 4chan share a remarkably large amount of users. It's only really a small minority who use one or the other in exclusivity and usually those people are deluding themselves by believing that their 'exclusive' club of choice is inherently 'better' because it appeals to specific quirks in their personality. I think the difference (if there even really is one, over so many millions of users) between reddit users and 4chan users is that one leans slightly more towards lighthearted, narrative humor while the other leans slightly more towards expressive/evocative humor that shocks.

>> On /a/ we hate normalfags.

I think this pretty much supports my speculation. A subgroup within a larger group that polarizes the two by generalizing about one and ignoring the inconsistencies in the other.

And I think the initial design of 4chan or reddit is irrelevant. Many physical inventions were designed for a singular purpose and proved to be incredibly versatile, even opening up avenues for new needs which demanded new inventions. 4chan sort of evolved from being a specialized section of the internet dabbling in the dark arts to being a wide-encompassing internet forum filled with hundreds of subgroups with subgroups of their own. Reddit just follows the natural flow of things. As 4chan grew more popular and widespread, a need for a stopgap between the dark humor of 4chan and the light humor of the average internet user grew more and more evident. Reddit filled that gap by catering to the newer generation of internet users AND the bored non-hardcore 4chan dwellers.

It's sort of like how Hulu filled the gap between youtube and online tv show websites (which contained tons of bad quality links.) Here you had the technology AND popularity for fast video streaming (youtube) coupled with the need for more convenient online TV watching.

[None !!BJiYgff8zf2 No.5007904]

The only difference between 4chan is reddit is that 4chan hates newfags.

[Anonymous No.5007979]

>>5007800
YES

[Anonymous No.5008003]

>>5006937
RELEASE THE NEUROTOXINS NOW.

[Anonymous No.5008027]

Its kinda sad that I was browsing /b/ the day coolface first made an appearance there. Wasting my life.

Wasn't actually that long ago.

[lkj No.5008099]

>>5007777

[Anonymous No.5008217]

>>5008027
ahh sweet innocence

[Anonymous No.5008228]

>>5007315

[Anonymous No.5008495]

>>5007749 better Science section than we do

It's literally just people posting links to every news story they can find.

[Anonymous No.5008524]

>>5007589
got a similar one

[Anonymous No.5008534]

>>5008495
Better than discussing Philosophy all day in a board meant for discussing Science.

[Anonymous No.5008539]

>>5008495
They have actual scientists there, though. Not just /sci/entists.

[Anonymous No.5008587]

>>5008228
Please explain the point of this post.

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[Anonymous No.5008620]

>>5008587

Resolution