Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
5hr ago
I do see a strange amount of masking (well, the mask is under the chin) from ghetto/poor/underclass black people and could never figure out why. The queer leftists I get, but these people aren't exactly famed for their social consciousness.
Skulldrinker
6hr ago
Sometimes I wonder if there's something appealing to them about the mask in and of itself and the COVID stuff is motivated reasoning by this point. The mask now soothes their social anxiety somehow and they're stuck with it. Trannies like masks; it covers up their off/masculine facial features. (The last time I went to a North Chicago game store, the entire staff was trans, and masked). A lot of queer leftists have low self-esteem or are just ugly; maybe the mask is a Harrison Bergeron leveler.
I remember these people expressing a sense of betrayal and anger when the CDC officially ended the pandemic. COVID era messaging asked people to suddenly care way more about something they only kinda cared about before: not getting someone else sick. If you take that to heart, it's hard to dial that back down even after the all-clear signal was given (years later then it should have been). Caring about COVID also made way more sense if you live in a dense urban area, as the archetypical queer leftist does. But the people in the article live in a small town, yet somehow are more mask-nazi than the ones I run into. (Proof of the Hicklib concept, I guess)
That Socialist convention the other week (the Fitness=Fascism one) was also masks-mandatory.
One thing I find heartening is that outside this specific subculture, everyone else, even progressives, seems to find the continued mask-wearing strange and cringe when they encounter it or are informed of it. When I mention still seeing maskies to my (literal socialist) friends in non-megacities, they're taken aback. The more exposure all this gets, the crazier they look to normies.
Skulldrinker
23hr ago
No I just accept that a scolding is a possibility.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.
There's some real gems in here, and I feel bad for the one remaining owner and wish they/them the best, now that they've seen how positive, supportive, and inclusive their chosen subculture isn't.
This is also an example of the Internet showing me exactly what I want. Even when I'm browsing substack not logged in, it can somehow target me and my hobby horses.
A "Lesbian" Bar (which seems to really be a Queer Leftist establishment ridden with trannies) was until recently a Masks Required establishment; they planned to allow some days each week in which masks were optional rather than mandatory. Histrionics ensued. You'd think the article was a hit-piece from a right-wing rag, but the Boston Globe is only conservative if you're standing near the Left Pole.
I post it here at the risk of it being Boo-Outgroup, but I'm actually slightly gladdened. The neighborhood where I do most of my socializing is ridden with queer leftists who still mask, but "enforcement" is limited to the occasional DIY show or rave that's specifically targeted at maskies. However bad it is here, it's not as bad as a small town in Massachusetts.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
The most I'd attribute to GLP1s is the ego-boost from feeling sexier making someone scramble to similarly upgrade their lifestyle, but that would really only account for the expensive vacations and maybe the car. They don't to my knowledge make someone manic, but the hotness boost could send someone with that problem into a manic episode.
If anything, I find they make me "want" things less.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Regarding the environment itself being dangerous, how about importing Death Stranding's literal-walking-simulator gameplay? On top of being an RPG world with goblins and such.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Well, they probably had to buy new clothes, and put a bunch of thought into their new look/wardrobe, because now vanity has more potential payout.
Playing up how spiritual and non-materialistic you are is either cope for not having anything (materially and figuratively) or a flex you do while also having everything (materially and figuratively).
Skulldrinker
6d ago
I assume general AI use. Hinge is so cringe, conformist, and buzzword-y already, I don't see how AI could even be noticed there.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
With respect to AI, I haven't noticed an army of NPCs uniformly and uncritically repeating the same talking points and buzzwords. I haven't seen much in the way of virtue-signalling competitions.
I've been seeing Hinge profiles with demands that anyone who wants to fuck them not use AI, at slightly less frequency than the usual ACAB/Palestine. And I've heard the data-centers-use-wAtEr rant from my local frothing leftist co-worker once or thrice.
Skulldrinker
10d ago
Instead of a conservative girl, how about one that doesn't make politics the front-and-center of her personality?
Skulldrinker
11d ago
I'm waiting on The Thrice-Bound Fool, sequel to Black-Tongue Thief
I think a lot of the millennial dating discourse you/we personally encountered was in the nerdy/educated liberal social scene, due to IRL filters and the internet at the time being full of nerdier/educated people and the online media being liberal. There was this collective front of women writing blogs who maintained the narrative that women only want Nice guys (who are feminist), and any guy who can't get laid is insufficiently feminist and also not an actual Nice Guy but in fact a Nice guy, also something-something-male-gaze, frat party rape, wage gap, et cetera.
These days the internet is much trashier, and the ideological messaging has drifted to "must be a frothing leftist to fuck me", while lowest-common-denominator have let slip that actually they just want half-elf CEOs with abs. Liberal Feminism doesn't have a monopoly on dating discourse anymore, and Redpill/manosphere content isnt exactly underground.
Skulldrinker
11d ago
I thought it was a novel enough scenario, since usually it's men talking themselves out of getting laid by saying something that's a Red Flag or an Ick. And it's frustrating because this is the closest I get to someone acting as if they like me, and they still seem to hate me.
I guess the question goes back to: "are women being intentionally unpleasant and political as some sort of ideological test, or do they just think this is how people talk? Because it mostly felt like argument bait."
Skulldrinker
12d ago
Pretty sure if I had tried anything like that, I would have gotten an affronted "how dare you" reaction.
(Reposted because it's obviously still bugging me, since it was the last time a woman expressed fondness for me, and my one Hinge match unmatched me after agreeing to a date this week)
The other week, a woman managed to talk her way out of getting laid.
Cute, curvy, African-American, hair with the double-buns and side curlies, sitting at a cocktail bar, reading a book. I went in with no expectations, just asked her about her book. Initially the conversation was just fine. Good, even. Then she turned out to be a sociology grad student, and I got a bit worried I was gonna be subjected to Academic language. And I was, she said White Supremacy three times over the course of five sentences.
Then she said I "sounded Conservative." I can only guess she was referring to my wisconsin accent (or sperg accent).
Other choice quotes from her:
I'm not going home with you tonight
Why are you sitting so close to me? [She scooches closer to me]
Why haven't you kissed me yet? [I kiss her] Hey! You didn't ask to kiss me before kissing me [she keeps kissing me]
I think to myself "waaaaait a minute, am I being ...shit-tested? I thought that was made up by internet misogynists."
I'm sure she thought she was being cute and playful, but I just found it all tiresome and off-putting. I'm too old for this tsundere schtick, and this isn't one of my Japanese animes. The next topics of conversation all seem to center on men and what trash they all are. Something about catcalling and 16-year-olds.
By the end of the night, I'm walking her to her corner, then it turns out her place is just down the block, so we're at her doorstep. I'm still making out with her, it's getting hot and heavy, and I realize...this isn't worth it. This chick is super-reactive to every little thing, I've only gotten this far by nodding and smiling, eventually I'm going to say something that she'll twist into being offensive. I don't want to just get laid, I want to interact socially with someone I like AND fuck them, regularly. Also, I frankly think there's some weird racial/ideological component to her attraction to me, which I don't appreciate. It's ironic that, in practice, black women seem to hate white men less than white women do.
So instead of asking to come in, as she obviously wants me to, I take my leave, send her the "home safe" text, and nothing further. She did say earlier "I'm not going home with you" so obviously I was misinterpreting the situation and would have been accused of something-or-other. She wouldn't have lied, right?
Do women know how much they actively repel men? If they think they're trying to filter out "Conservatives", they're not, they're selecting for guys who nod and smile and wait for their pants to come off. Or is this just what they're like all the time and they forget to turn it off around guys they want to fuck? Obviously I have issues and resentments with women, but at least I can keep it to myself briefly when I'm in front of someone who I want to like me.
"She's a really nice girl and super-sexy, but...I just wish she cared about Social Justice more" -- no guy, anywhere, ever.
Skulldrinker
12d ago
But the Bush administration squandered a lot of that will, and the Left took full advantage of it. Pretty soon I saw teenagers putting "No Enemy" stickers everywhere and when the Dixie Chicks said America had 9/11 coming I noticed that while some people were outraged a whole lot more were not.
The Bush administration made it cool to hate America. Then during the Obama administration everyone still habitually hated America and had to reach for increasingly tenuous reasons to keep doing so, and that's how we got to today.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
She has a point, Christianity is a spooky religion; you drink blood and the priests wear black and especially holy people bleed from their palms
Skulldrinker
17d ago
How did Astrology become a Thing again? Since 2020, I've encountered it more and more IRL among the general population, even in people with undergrad degrees. I checked Tinder the other week before re-un-installing, and at least 1/3rd of the profiles had birth sign front-and-center. I honestly thought this was a slain beast.
Someone talking about capricorns really riles up my inner fedora.
Skulldrinker
19d ago
I really want to ignore all the defenders as idiots amplified by Tik-Tok. But the astrology stuff brings out my inner fedora.
Skulldrinker
20d ago
Back in OG red/blue, move types were dumb. Most attacks were "normal" type. Psychic Pokemon were only weak to bug and ghost, but no ghost-type move used weakness/resistance, they were arbitrarily immune to Lick, Dream Eater was Psychic, and all the ghost types were Ghost/Poison, along with most of the bug types, who rarely had a bug-type move anyways.
I'm sure FireRed has fixed a lot of this; even Pokemon Yellow added Mankeys to the early game, with fighting type moves that could damage Rock types. So you can pick whatever starter you want and still breeze through gym battles.
Skulldrinker
20d ago
The models can't meaningfully evaluate the balance of a simple custom Magic, the Gathering card.
Skulldrinker
23d ago
To use just one example, if an open source AI ever gets smart enough to help someone who wouldn't otherwise be able to do it, to biohack together a new deadly virus in their garage
"Hey, the virus you made for me that you said would have a 100% kill rate didn't do anything! You said the whole concept was chef's kiss!"
You're right to push back on that.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Same, I couldn't get over the sportsball player wanting to rent a rock because he broke some glass.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
I wish I had walked out of Terminator Genysys.
I had to leave Hunger Games part 3 early because the girl I was with flew into a rage because someone thinner than her shushed her.
Lesbianism has by this point been eaten by queer/trans. Regardless, I think the problem is neuroticism, hypochondria, and disability posturing, rather than actual incidence of disease
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