GavinSkulldrinker
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GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
13's pretty weak for such a spicy baity post that's gonna attract the ambient upclickers.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
...Why would I buy a home at the height of a real-estate bubble? Especially when I mention that I mostly sold phones up until COVID?
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
Is there somewhere within 20 minutes of Redmond that's particularly cheap and un-pretentious?
I'm not used to the big city, at this point, I'm used to the countryside. I just want to be somewhere that unattached women age 28-35 exist, where I can have a conversation that doesn't bore me to death, and I have pre-existing family to lean on socially. My plan is to get a quality D&D game going, and use that to network my way into selling psychedelic fungi to corpos. There's a sizable number of aspiring players but not enough DMs, and these are exactly the sorts of people who make ideal customers for shrooms. Festival kids and wooks are tiresome flakes, and overly-paranoid.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
A clever crypto-tankie and a guy who reflexively takes the anti-american position sound pretty much the same. Add some ironic Komrade-Posting and now they're larping as a Tankie, at least from the outside. "Non-tankie" Marxists still have to do a lot of mental heavy lifting to ignore all the horrific authoritarianism and mutilation of the human soul that happens every single time Marxists gain power. For people who say That Wasn't True Communism, Though, they sure do seem to be big fans of those regimes, which do much worse things than all the things they call the west a capitalist white supremacy for.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
Sorta like how the 24-hour-news-cycle didn't exist before 9/11 and ever since then keeps looking for the next 9/11, the social media machine is getting hungry for dramabombs after all the recent wackiness has died down.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
I've started making shit up that's nonetheless descriptively accurate. "Fedora-tipping Atheist" or "Techno-Conservationist"
Every single female character in anything will be called a Mary Sue by someone on the internet, it's a sub-variant of Godwin's Law. There's a decently-sized contingent of internetizens that are just as retarded as the average twitter or reddit leftist calling everything white supremacist, just for the other side.
Also, Mary Sue has drifted a bit. I think that now a colloquial definition of Mary Sue might be "A character that the story treats with favoritism that runs counter to the audience's sense of narrative consistency." The most blatant, elemental mary sues are self-indulgent; they're meant to appeal to the writer, and to no one else. Reading a story about a Mary Sue is like someone inviting you over for sex, but it turns out to just be them wanking then asking "was it good for you too?"
It's slightly unfortunate that every Woman Protagonist Achieving Something That A Man Told Her She Couldnt Do is now called a Mary Sue or Feminist Propaganda or whatever; my sympathy is limited because the feminist propagandists have been pushing Mary Sues for years and saying anyone who doesn't like self-indulgently-written characters just hates women.
In the new Predator movie, I honestly can't tell whether the main character was intended to be a Strong Female Role Model Who Everyone Is Mean To For No Reason, Which Is Why They All Deserved To Die, or a mildly-abrasive tomboy Final Girl. It doesn't help that the scenes in the film intended to show how smart and observant she is instead imply the viewer is an idiot who needs everything spelled out to them. I think of her as Not-Funny Aubrey Plaza.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
If it were the Russians, why would they blow up their own pipeline and not an enemy pipeline?
Is it a feature of slavic warfare to do lots of false-flag attacks, or to just claim everything is a false-flag attack?
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
Is it a terrible idea for me to move to Seattle?
This isn't an optimize-my-career question. I have ADD and trouble keeping my opinions to myself. I'm early 30's with an undergrad zoology degree, but I've wound up mostly selling phones and doing nightclub security on the side occasionally. I was living in Milwaukee when my heart got badly mutilated in october of 2019, and riiiight when I was starting to recover from that, COVID happened.
During COVID I fell in with an old friend who had been somewhat-similarly dispossessed, but it turned out later it was for a reason (they were both terrible). He and I wound up in a new social circle and his behavior became increasingly manic, unaccountable, and manipulative, and eventually, violent. It was probably classic Borderline Personality Disorder dirty-bomb self-destruction, but he did it all while being woke and black-ish, so he got away with way too much. I eventually won, but it was a pyrrhic victory.
I was so disgusted with the situation, and lockdowns still weren't over in chicago itself, I took an office job in the north woods. That turned out to not go great; I got downsized in september and the town I'm in is uniquely meth-y. Most of the people I see around me look diseased, physically or mentally or both. The dating pool is so garbage there should be warning signs posted.
But my younger brother lives in Seattle, Redmond, specifically. 4 years younger, we get along very well, he's a bit anxious and un-motivated. We play video games a lot together lately, I've talked to him about the idea, he likes it but acknowledges there's lots of logistical challenges.
Pros:
This way I don't have to start over in a new city from scratch. He and his wife have friends there, friends I got along with well enough at their wedding.
He's trying to lose weight, I've lost a lot of weight in the past and kept it off and could stand to lose more, I think us paling around would further that goal.
I enjoy outdoors stuff and nature stuff. The area has that. I'm actually something of a sentimental tree-hugger at heart; it's part of why I hate faddish climate activism so much.
Since the broken heart thing, I've stared dabbling in being a shadowrunner as part of my early-midlife-crisis. One thing that enchanted me about chicago was that it was possible to have a fun side-hustle playing at being a freelance professional henchman; I really did get "I'm putting some people together for a job" calls, I really did flip hot merchandise, I really did occasionally dress like I'd gotten lost on my way to a midnight showing of Blade 2. One problem (among many) with where I live right now is everyone is either an upstanding member of society, or a meth-head; there's no cool dirtbags.
Shrooms are decriminalized. I grow shrooms now recreationally (see above) and know how to build a customer base, in theory. If I want to get my shroom-dealing side hustle going on, seattle is technically the safest place to do it.
I'll have someone there that I love and trust.
Cons:
I don't think there's much wokeness in my brother's circles, but if my goal is to stay away from wokeness, why am I moving to the west coast?
I don't want to put an unfair emotional or logistical burden on my brother (and his wife).
I don't have a career, I'd be living in an expensive city with no guarantee'd "significant" income, making me kinda out-of-place among a bunch of microsoft employees.
(I don't know enough about the area to come up with more-specific Cons. Thus the posting in the thread)
I think Psilocybin mushrooms work well as a "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"-style solution to mental problems. (no, it won't fix everything, especially not just doing it over and over, but it's worth starting with [before you call IT support], and something you should probably do once every couple months anyways).
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The novelty and adversity of a mild trip is enough to give you that sense of crisis you need to begin crawling out of your depression pit.
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This is going further out on a limb, but I think they give you a smidge of the ole' neuroplasticity; not enough to learn five new languages, but enough to notice you're being a sad-sack.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
My perspective on 4chan is very skewed, because I pretty much only use the /tg/ board, which has a much lower post volume than the other boards, has tighter moderation (by 4chan standards). What it has is CRITICISM. Everywhere else on the internet, people either shill, hugbox, or bait controversy. On /tg/, they nitpick. It's a relentlessly negative place, and an excellent one in which to hone your writing craft.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
In my time with college-educated 20somethings, they call a LOT of things "white."
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
It's full of enough reflexive contrarians that whenever things veer too right-wing anti-SJW-echo-chamber, the urge to disagree kicks in and homeostasis is maintained.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
I try to arrange my surroundings thoughtfully, like I'm making an enclosure for an animal I want to keep healthy and happy.
Decorations everywhere. An easy trick I found is that costco and walmart will print any damn JPEG you want, and most craft stores have a 40% single-item coupon for a basic black picture frame. The wall behind me includes: The God-Emperor (Of TTSD fame) Enthroned, a map of Middle Earth, some Arvalis Realistic Pokemon Reconstructions, and that scene from the Twitter Hearings with Jack Dorsey, Alex Jones, and Google Glass Guy, touched up with filters to look slightly Rembrandt-y.
Separate sleeping room. I've previously put my bed inside (ventilated) walk-in closets, so I have the entire room to myself, as it were. The bed is ideally in a small dark room with your clothes and valuables and nothing else functional, just a few soft decorations. No TV. The bedroom for sleeping, dressing, and fucking. Your actual room is more like a study; desk, computer, books, small couch/loveseat, hobby stuff.
Water availability. For whatever reason, you need water accessible in a way that feels "special." Just a pitcher of tapwater in the fridge will do the trick; it's more important to drink lots of water than to drink filtered water (unless there's lead in it).
Typically either white, or ambiguously brunette (It's Chicago, so there's lots of dusky women who could be some manner of mexican/puerto-rican/blatino/asianish, or a pretty european woman with a tan, or one of the really olive slavs.) but there were one or two Ask-Me-About-My-Blackness Black women, IIRC.
I find it offensive to my cognition that they have say "I Hate Racists and Racism" right there on the page in addition to "No Whites." How do they themselves not notice the contradiction while typing? I know they think you can't be racist to white people, definitionally, but the arrangement of the words should be enough for them to think "Hmmm, I know there's nothing technically inconsistent here, but maybe I should tighten this up a bit with a re-write". Also, if they hate white people so much, White People = Racist, so they could save space and just say "I Hate Racists," then white people and cops are covered (Oh, but not Cops of Color, dang).
I just don't believe that young women in major metropolitan areas are beset on all sides by legions of MAGA-cap-wearing, Fox-News-Watching, RNC-Attending, Heated-Gamer-Moment-Having young men who loudly bray how much they despise all the mud-people around women they want to fuck. I don't think these statements of preference are honest expressions of frustration, and I'm also annoyed that a guy's profile saying "No Fat Chicks" is treated as a fucking hate crime against women by these same people.
I want a meme or wall of shame or infographic or whatever that's just a compliation of Tinder profiles full of stupid political demands, with captions like:
"#CurrentYear Much?"
"Are you trying to connect with a human, or campaigning for office? Pick one"
"We can Tell What #CurrentThing was When You Last Updated This"
And they'd be well-selected, too. No obvious troll accounts or snapchat/OF bait, serious genuine profiles by people who look on the attractive end of normal. People of both genders. People who look like your friends. People who look like you. Holding up a mirror to people is just about the only "magic bullet" argument for changing minds in the culture war.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
Thank you. I now understand why I'm so painfully frustrated every time I try to play D&D with the current crop of players.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
So she made herself less pretty?
As an american, to me she looks ambiguously something-or-other; if her eyes were darker I'd think she was some manner of hispanic. I'd certainly not call her black without adding "...ish"
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
Once again: reasonable behavior from an American girlboss who thinks this is how you resolve issues in the workplace? Or deliberate, malicious planning from an abusive and savvy operator?
Yes.
Corpo is a slur for a reason.
I remember seeing Chicago Tinder in the summer of 2020. I saw lots of bios that indicated that "trump supporters" and people who don't believe "ACAB" would be denied or should otherwise "swipe left."
I also recall quite a few bios stating that they don't date racists, then went on to say "People of Color Only." This left me rather confused, as I've previously been told in real life that People of Color CAN'T be racist, rending much of the text redundant. I was also confused as to why racists would be so opposed to dating racists.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
all too often, it's intellectually lazy.
Sometimes the impression I get from a lot of "content" is that the writers are deeply disinterested in the subject matter of what they're working on. The people involved who are into wokeness insert wokeness, no one else cares enough to stop them.
You don't have to be particularly technically skilled in order to make something be woke; you just need familiarity with wokeness, so it's a great way for unskilled writers to pretend to contribute.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
At small rural schools, there's often not much else more interesting to do than athletics and AP classes, and classes are small enough for teachers to actually teach the material. Unless there's a "real" ambient culture of thinking learning is dumb and for poofters (seeing a black guy on TV occasionally doesn't count), so you don't see as much segregation of academic performance, athletics, and popularity.
I disagree. People with friends don't have thirty different messaging conversations active at once.
Rather, what I see is that it's made people boring and unpleasant to bother interacting with in real life. Ever since COVID, every time I try interacting with people, I walk away genuinely disgusted. Tried going to a bonfire mid-summer; The hosts were old friends, they also invited a bunch of the midwestern mid-20-somethings they knew.
The mid-20-somethings barely engaged with the hosts and formed their own little closed circle, like they'd used their invitation as a pretext to annex territory. They randomly played music from a car sound system (songs would start and stop abruptly, volume would change, all suggestions were ignored). They called eachother "White" a lot, loudly, with the same tone small children shout "Cooties," and despite the gathering being 100% white. One of them tried engaging in conversation with me, but it was to solemnly and intensely say that Alex Jones was finally facing justice, which I didn't care about. I actually found out that two of them lived in my hometown, and asked them what it was like living there as a younger person. The dude talked about how the conservatives were in X bar and the liberals in Y, which was not the question that I asked. Then he saw his girlfriend was talking to another dude, and went over to do some Mate Guarding. Another one assumed I was a communist because I was wearing a black denim jacket and tried talking to me about communism. No women there who weren't with a boyfriend.
I'm not uncharismatic. I run RPGs and spent years in Sales, I can command people's attention and draw stuff out of them. But I couldn't bring myself to want to engage with this group at anything beyond arm's length.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
Could I ask you to name some names regarding what's popular with the woke?
In my last brush with the New Orthodox Woke during the start of the pandemic, the stuff being pushed was Infinite Jest, Waiting for Godot, Blue Velvet, and anything Southern if it was to do with a black person, ideally a black person who had been lynched. Also, they keep saying they love D&D, but then refuse to play because the setting contains racial prejudice.
GavinSkulldrinker
1yr ago
haven't seen the Buffalo shooting posts you're talking about but Kiwi Farms routinely mocks mass shooters. One of their own users (and also Encyclopedia Dramatica admin) was William Atchison, a person obsessed with mass shooters his whole life to the point where he decided to shoot up a school himself - only for it to get unceremoniously stopped by a teacher blocking a classroom door with a couch, before he killed himself. He is forevermore known as "couch cuck" and ever since his death, his user page on the Farms ("FuckYou") is frequently posted on by users mocking and ridiculing him. He is memorialized in one of the comics of the site's background, which depicts him in less than flattering terms (he is stopped in the bathroom by a couch with arms and is dunked into the toilet). Obviously that's an exception because he was one of their own, but in general mass shootings (and fedposting activities in general) are treated as not cool and something only braindead idiots do.
You know, that'd be a really, really good story to be plastered all over the MSM for discouraging school shooters.
I'm increasingly in favor of KiwiFarms. It's like an endangered species, but one of those that's kind of ugly and annoying, like a Yodeling SkunkSnail. Just because something's annoying doesn't mean you can pave over it's swamp to make a strip mall parking lot.
When I visited it didn't seem nearly so desolate. Can you describe Chicago? That way I can calibrate your analysis against mine.
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