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Ads no longer say that rival companies should be executed by firing squad and that's what's wrong with society these days
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@eidolon I remember that ad. It was a wild time for game ads.
> rival companies
Technically it was a shot at a publisher rather than a rival. This was Squenex's breakup with Nintendo.
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@p also crazy how these ads went so hard at times for some mediocre games; not FF7 but others since they all had this kind of edge to them
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@mint @eidolon hahahaha holy fucking shit I don't think I've seen that one.
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@p @eidolon How about the high scores?
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@mint @eidolon That one seems familiar.
Would you believe there was a time when it was okay to tell a joke and people understood it was a joke?
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@p @eidolon Everyone here pines for said times, so yes.
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@p It seems like it was edgy but also sincerely optimistic. 2000s saw that edge blunted and the sincerity and optimism killed.
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@eidolon I don't know, people seem hyper-sincere about trivial shit nowadays. 80s, people were really optimistic, but the 90s were, like, I mean look at the big albums that were selling, right, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", "Nevermind". Marilyn Manson was big. You listen to the lyrics of "Zero" or "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" and it sounds like a parody almost. Or "The Beautiful People". I think it reads like optimism, but there was a strong sense of self-determination.
I was talkin' with the lady a while back and she asked me to get the Fight Club torrent and launched into this diatribe about how the big movies at the end of the 90s, "Fight Club", "The Matrix", were about how everyone was in a shitty constructed fake world. The world didn't get any realer but the cult of authenticity went away.
Highly relevant: https://catandgirl.com/mexico-city-all-over-again/
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@eidolon The late 90s were a very edgy time.
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@p It's probably true that it felt shitty and constructed at the time, I guess with how quickly globalisation was happening then compared to prior decades and maybe that kinda hypercharged things. Little did they know how good they had it.
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@p @mint a time when there was such a thing as context?
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@eidolon @mint People used to think it was dishonest to take someone out of context, even if $ingroup guy was taking $outgroup guy out of context.
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@mint @eidolon Game magazines were purchased by gamers (and there wasn't Twitter to rally a pitchfork-and-torch mob) and subcultures were basically the last bastion. Because Hillary Clinton and Joe Liebermann and Janet Reno and Jack Thompson and the Christian Coalition were all trying to ban video games, it was already kind of an edgy hobby so there wasn't a lot of respectability to lose. John Romero pays money to write in magazines that he is gonna prisonn-rape gamers.
Apathy was our last defense against this shit and we lost our apathy because the caremad brigade never sleeps.
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@p @mint @eidolon RETVRN
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@p @eidolon @mint so true fam
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> Little did they know how good they had it.
There's this line in The Matrix where Agent Smith tells Neo, that the matrix simulated the late 90s because the late 90s were the height of human society. People in the theater chuckled.
On the other hand, that was basically the boomers laying the foundation for the last 25 years of batshit lunacy that has dominated politics and geopolitics across the earth and all this shit turned the millennials into paranoid nutjobs (...hi) and I don't even know what is happening with the zoomers but it's like they are all normcore trad-nazbol power-bottoms and I DO NOT KNOW WHAT "HONMAXXING" MEANS
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@Zerglingman @eidolon @mint If we're retvrning, I'd like to at least go back to the 80s, before the boomers ran out of drugs and then decided to make it illegal for anyone else to do drugs. It was not weird for a janitor to own a house in the 80s, I mean, think about that.
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@p @mint @eidolon I think about it every day.
I don't hate the kikels enough.
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@p @eidolon @mint Reading you loud and clear :konata_happy:
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@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @eidolon @mint That part was never true. I've been quoted out of context.
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@p not all the zoomers are like that (myself, @cassidyclown , etc). Most of the people I know that are my age are basically just normal people and don't care for identity politics shit. Just trying to live a 'normal life' i.e. the one's our parents (Gen X) promised us if we studied hard but struggling to because of financial cuckery.
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@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @eidolon @p Why's my avatar not showing?
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@Zerglingman @eidolon @mint You misspelled "boomer globalists".
1. Fuck everything up completely
2. Make sure people blame the scapegoat of your choosing
3. Make sure no one in polite society is allowed to directly blame that scapegoat
4. People chase each other around, either participating in or hiding from the witch-hunt for people that hate the scapegoat
5. No one is blaming you because they are either frustrated that they're not allowed to blame the scapegoat or they are looking for imaginary Nazis
6. Day of the pillow never
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@p @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint
6. Day of the pillow never
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@p @eidolon
happy people pretending to be sad
Vs
sad people pretending to be happy
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@fluffy @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint It is the price we pay for all political parties being controlled opposition. :glowinthedark:
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@p @eidolon @mint I understand.
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@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @eidolon @mint Listen, in the heat of conversation, I may have said things I don't believe to be true.
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@p @fluffy @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint
Humans in groups make bad decisions. From a distance, this resembles a conspiracy; on top of that, democracy eventually becomes exploitative.
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@p @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint
#TheDayOfThePillow is coming fast.
It is every day for me.
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@amerika @p @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint yo momma made a bad decision when she didnt take birth control
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@p @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint
Normal people could afford normal lives.
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@amerika @Zerglingman @eidolon @fluffy @mint
> Humans in groups make bad decisions.
Demonstrably false, or there would not be more humans.
> From a distance, this resembles a conspiracy;
You ascribe to democracy things the CIA, the least accountable organization on earth, has admitted they did.
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@amerika @eidolon
> #GasTheFuckingNormies #EndDemocracy
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@p @eidolon
Early 1990s = oh no, the Boomer takeover. Late 1990s = yep they bedshat like we thought they would.
#GasTheFuckingNormies #EndDemocracy
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@p @Zerglingman @eidolon @fluffy @mint
Humans reproduce individually, not as a group, unless you mean one of those key parties or bukkake things.
I ascribe to democracy things democracy has done. Whether the CIA also participated or not is probably not relevant.
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@amerika @Zerglingman @eidolon @fluffy @mint
> Humans reproduce individually, not as a group,
If you can reproduce on your own, please do not share any details.
But the point is that if humans in groups made bad decisions, groups would get themselves killed.
> I ascribe to democracy things democracy has done. Whether the CIA also participated or not is probably not relevant.
Only if the CIA is a consequence of democracy, but the KGB exists. It's the consequence of paying taxes to an unaccountable ruling class. Eliminating all taxes solves all of our problems. :ancapchanlol:
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@p @eidolon @Zerglingman @amerika @fluffy >If you can reproduce on your own, please do not share any details.
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@mint @Zerglingman @amerika @eidolon @fluffy Mitosis is extremely draining and you have to get really fat before you start it.
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@p @eidolon @Zerglingman @amerika @fluffy A true American reproduction method then.
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@mint @Zerglingman @amerika @eidolon @fluffy You mean European.
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@p @Zerglingman @eidolon @fluffy @mint
Individual humans make reproductive decisions, not the group.
A group making reproductive decisions is a terrifying notion. Everyone votes for who you breed with, like reality TV.
CIA? LOL. FBI...? Warmer. DOJ? Bingo.
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@mint @p @Zerglingman @eidolon @fluffy
The only truly equal method is bukkake and hope the best sperm wins.
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@p @eidolon
I disagree; individualism is an anti-realistic pathology.
The good farmers tend to be realists who act within reasonable parameters.
The insane ones want giant monopolies.
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@p @eidolon
Mismanaged collectivism is the norm, but that is enforced by groups of individualists.
Only hierarchy rewards the realists.
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@amerika @eidolon
> Mismanaged collectivism is the norm, but that is enforced by groups of individualists.
This is blaming the farmer's individualism for the cattle's herd mentality.
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@amerika @eidolon This is absurd. Individualistic ideologies believe in people to manage their own affairs; the hubris of micromanaged collectivism has created one burnt souffle after another.
> Individualistic ideologies tend to be apocalyptic because they are narcissistic like serial killers.
The narcissist believes he knows what is best for society.
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@p @eidolon
Individualistic ideologies tend to be apocalyptic because they are narcissistic like serial killers.
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@amerika @eidolon
> I disagree; individualism is an anti-realistic pathology.
I have something for this but it is long.
> The good farmers tend to be realists who act within reasonable parameters.
Even good farmers cut your balls off so that you taste better, they turn your offspring into veal, and they cut your throat and your friends' throats and shove you all onto a truck to be eaten by people you have never met. I don't view this as an acceptable state of affairs: cattle and sheep were bred for this, I was not. So if it's all the same to you, I don't want to get farmed, and I don't plan to farm anyone else. As long as people can opt-out,
> The insane ones want giant monopolies.
We can agree on this. Nygard out there chugging baby smoothies and the president specifically calling that a conspiracy theory.
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@amerika @Zerglingman @eidolon @fluffy @mint
> Individual humans make reproductive decisions, not the group.
Historically, no. Until very recently, you had to spend a lot of time making sure the rest of the lady's family was cool with you before you could plausibly get a wedding.
> Everyone votes for who you breed with, like reality TV.
At least nominally, everyone present at your wedding gets a veto.
> CIA? LOL.
This takes a minute. All of the shit I have to say about this is a series of crazy tinfoil conspiracies that are obviously the ramblings of a mad man and my citations are fringe websites like cia.gov and Wikipedia. You could have a look at Project Mockingbird and then list a handful of reasons for the timing of the Family Jewels leak and then explain why Dulles hired Bernays to work at the CIA.
Or you could "lol" at the concept and dismiss it out of hand. On a completely unrelated note, did you know the CIA coined the phrase "conspiracy theory"?
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@p @amerika @Zerglingman @eidolon @mint that's all in the past, boomer-san
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@fluffy @Zerglingman @amerika @eidolon @mint I'm sure they stopped and are well-behaved now.
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