LOL! This is very gratifying in a kind of egotistical way. Myself and some close friends (artists, musicians, game developers) have always, always found 'conten

LOL! This is very gratifying in a kind of egotistical way. Myself and some close friends (artists, musicians, game developers) have always, always found 'content' too disgusting to ever utter. If we have to, we pronounce it "caaaaahhhhhntent". Blech. I always had a massive personal problem with "community" depending on usage. Are you talking about a neighborhood where people know each other? Little League? Block parties? Barn raisin's? Totally fine. That's community. Bacteria? Bees? Cool, that's a biological definition. Extend it to something like a corporate apartment complex where I've never said more than one sentence at a time to a neighbor on my way in? ("Join our community, sign a lease today!") Now you're getting gross. Programming languages, ala 'ruby community', 'c++ community'? I'm giving you the side eye. You'd better be referring specifically to the people who go to conferences, meet each other, serve on committees, and write in journals or at least blogs so that members of this alleged community know of each other a little. If you call everybody who writes C++ code 'the C++ community' I don't want to talk to your euphemistic ass anymore. But the most revolting usage of all, the one that's sure to make me have to lie down and breath, is extending it to Internet-Only Shit. Forums. Groups. Discords. I don't know you, I've never met you, I've never seen you, I don't know whether you're a dog, if I even recognize your gibberish username chances are excellent that I don't like you, I'm here because I have a crippling addiction not because we're all buildin' somethin' together.... Oh dear. What was the other one? Oh yeah. Culture. It's quite like community. Anthropological and biological definitions. It's basically fine as a descriptive word. But this one... I've never enjoyed the actual thing that it points to, at least in many cases. I never liked how people almost always glorify these so-called cultures. Talk about them glowingly, with reverence. Can't say anything bad or criticize a culture unless you're sure everyone agrees it's really really bad! Meanwhile ignoring that culture also transmits much grief, suffering, and cruelty. But then when people do try to bring up certain bad cultures I don't always like that either, depending. And then the implications of everybody in a group being involuntarily programmed to talk the same, act the same, think the same, participate in dumb-as-fuck rituals that I would never say anything bad about of course, one of us, one of us, one of us... Shudder. Culture is the fuckin' twilight zone, man. Fine word though. So is "creator".