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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There used to be an app that was a Dragon Ball Z scouter. You could point it at anything with a face and it would tell you a random power level. Apparently mine is 10,550 (I can barely lift a jug of milk).

[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Over 9000!!!! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿคฏ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know, not the worst in this thread at least.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Until we find out it's actually a white supremacist thing and OP is just pasty af.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Power levels" was/is a white supremacist dogwhistle for cryptofascists, as in "Don't forget to hide your (white) power level."

You'd see it referenced on their meme communities on Reddit fairly frequently. At least it was when I still had an eye on what cryptofascists were doing, which I have to say is the best part of Lemmy, not constantly seeing cryptofascist things.

With that app, and that in mind, there's a (completely and mostly jokingly speculative) possibility that it was measuring albedo instead of just randomly assigning numbers. I'm mostly being a miserable cynic bringing it up without evidence tbh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Bit of context for the power level stuff: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hide-your-power-level

It only became an alt-right thing because it leaked from /a/ to /b/ and to /pol/, but it wasn't originally alt-right. /w/allpapers always has a "power level" thread running with anime stuff that isn't immediately obvious to the casual observer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Oh, that. Worry not, I'm not a white supremacist (not that I could be, I'm half Pacific Islander half Scottish). It seemed to have a very loose definition of a face, like you could point it at a drawing or an animal and it would work the same. I take it that it was programmed to assign a number to how closely something matched anime pareidolia.