This is incredibly cool. I also like that you basically do an event bus for interrupt handler rather chain them. That was always really annoying in other OSes.

It’s a capitalist solution to a capitalist problem - the problem of accessing the wholesale pipeline. It’s obviously not this anymore anyway, but that’s what the membership is for. You’re buying at the “convenience store” level, but without the volume that’s what the membership makes up for. Using Costco as your distributer is still a thing in rural areas, esp in Washington. Last time I was near Mt. Rainer there was a convenience store in the town that was clearly breaking up Costco packs, but they were like 1 of 3 places you could actually buy stuff.

The cool thing is that if you believe in Marxism there never was room for change in that system because the base (what we can possibly make and who decides what to make) determines the superstructure (culture).

You’re simply complaining about the change in strategy of selling cultural commodities, something that you never had a say in.

Farm House Modern with a Roman Statue core.

Yeah I love having to watch shows that basically called me the fslur otherwise I would have no friends.

This is such a nostalgia level argument. Monoculture was supremely fucked up in the hierarchies that it allowed people to form in schools and workplaces. If you think racism and homophobia and transphobia is bad now, you aren’t ready for how they actually were in monoculture times. Not only that monoculture was in reality often anti-poor/assimilationist because monoculture is literally consumerism. So if you were poor (or an immigrant) and your parents couldn’t afford (or understand the culture and why you needed these things) the cool new JNCO jeans or to take you to see a Starwar then you were fucked socially twice over once for being poor (or “weird”) and once for not watching the latest thing.

Videogames weren’t monoculture until like Xbox 360. You were considered a massive dork for being a gamer most of my childhood.

Also god forbid you had a different taste than other people and had opinions. When the first Iron Man came out and half way through the movie in theater I felt like I was at the Nuremberg rally. Y’all don’t remember everyone pretending bad movies were good. The argument that there was “common ground to fight over” isn’t real. Monoculture meant that the battles were settled before they started, everyone looked at you like a redditor when you started doing anything close to AKSHUALLY LUKE SKYWALKER AND THE REBELS ARE VIETKONG. All these nostalgia media analysis things feel cute and trite now but socially they weren’t really welcome, they only became exposed to normie circles because the monoculture was dissolving.

Incredible that the “I promise to stop drinking if you let me manage the military” gamble worked. Sign me up for the Secretary of Defense rehab.

Posting the anhedonia king on a doomer comm is basically cheating.

Haha yeah. I remember the first one where it went from flat to skeuomorphic, that was OS/2 and System 6 to Windows 3 and System 7.

I just got a little fixated on the Dreamcast being representative of monoculture.

Yeah trap music is a good example shit was everywhere for a while.

Indie sleaze is another.

Mumblecore movies.

“Prestige TV” literally ongoing.

I think the need to have a shared monoculture is a deeply reactionary way of thinking that prevents us from developing human empathy. You don’t need to say “Bazinga” at the same time as another person in order for you to relate to, care for, and understand strangers. I think the yearning for monoculture in people 25-40 is a mirror of boomers who complain that they cannot relate to kids anymore because nobody really believes in the pledge of alligence or some such other “things r different” nonsense. Yeah I haven’t played Hoop and Stick 3, we don’t need to play the same video games to relate to each other.

It’s a crutch for a brutal culture where you are too scared to show a modicum of openness or vulnerability with other humans because deep down you need to be reassured that they won’t scam/harm you simply because they believe in the magic words of Burgerstan. People are uncomfortable with change and things they don’t know because we’ve built a society where change often begets material vulnerability in people, and information and even cultural media have become a weapon to be used against others.

Monoculture was never good, it simply was. Also despite this being a real aesthetic trend, you should also remember that the vast majority of consumer technology produced at the same time was not clear plastic tech. If anything the monoculture of tech products of that era was that gross beige that yellows in about a year or two. It’s just not aesthetic enough to remember, and in 10 years everything just defaulted black. I’ve actually never seen a clear plastic Dreamcast/ Dreamcast controller IRL. I’ve been a tech guy forever and despite knowing about it, I only know of 1 person that had actually experienced the Dreamcast internet. This is very much nostalgia bait vs actual how things were.

To put it into perspective for one of those phones with clear plastic, there were 10,000 of these

Suffer not the heretic to live.

My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred. In the Emperor’s name, let none survive.

Real grimdank hours going on here.

but.but but works so well on poor people. why isn’t working on nazis!!??!?!

Dawn of War 1. Better yet just computerize table top. I’m antisocial :(

I was a really young nerdy kid, and coming from the Soviet Union like the only thing I cared about was computer. I was obsessed with computer since playing Doom as a kid in a cyber cafe. I got my first computer at the age of 8-9 after we had immigrated. I was about 10 years old when I was trolling AOL chat rooms by myself… and I had a lovely 640x480 web cam… and yeah. A lot of this brings up uneasy memories.

I think the horny categorization does fit me. I’m not like a gooner or anything but my partner would agree 100% with the statement: “thinks I’m about to pounce on them and always waits for me to initiate everything. Why people basically see horny as one of my personality traits.”

I don’t experience issues with non-sexual intimacy, but I wanted to let you know that you’re not alone!

I agree with all of this, but I think it acknowledges the reality of the limitations that they themselves see in their show and the ennui they’re really exhuding in that article. I don’t disagree that the show is “stale” in terms of entertainment value. I still listen because I am a freak, and I am privileged enough to have the bullshit minutea of the ruling classes public letters be my entertainment. It’s the same way that politics is just hollywood for ugly people. The reality of Chapo is that it’s broad appeal is where the comedy is the cope for the contemptible reality. I think for a lot of ride or die leftists Chapo is a staple because a large portion of the comedy comes from the contemptible reality itself. Think horror comedy (Bodies Bodies Bodies, comedy from contemptible reality) vs comedy horror (Tucker and Dale vs Evil, comedy as cope for the contemptible reality). Plenty of my more normal friends who are still left wing describe it as a “doomer” show. Plenty of these people have also realistically disengaged with politics on any “serious” level, their political understanding has shifted to NYT class party goers where it’s just required knowledge to mingle and show class virtue, but without the neoliberal underpinnings.

Amazon likely has phrenology style stats they’ve been waiting to unleash on their recruitment practices.

General Strikes are escalated to not planned. That’s why the AFL the most idiotic union basically banned escalations into a general strike by requiring striking locals to have national authorization or risk getting kicked out of the union. This was in response to the Seattle General Strike which happened in Feb 1919 and the AFL amended the constition in June 1919. Similary Taft-Hartley which outlaws general strikes in the US was passed in 1947 was a response to the Oakland General Strike of 1946.

Also lol at #3 what is this? 2012?

he believes it would actually change things if the facts came out and it was actually the CIA behind it

Ah yes the classic “force the vote” argument.

For all of Nick Mullen’s faults, he is very self aware of the absolute luck and craziness of his economic position. He is actually fairly open that he basically didn’t do any real work for CumTown and only did real work for his T Shirt business. Not many people who have the same mental health problems as him can make it in life and he really gets that. I think a lot of people who grew up in working class families have real lived experience with that kind of stuff but people from middle/upper middle class families tend to have this ennui that prevents them from understanding that they already live extremely well in context. They demand to be seen by the broader culture as the gifted kids they think they are. The Pendejo Time guys and the Street Fight guys have a similar working class mindset but are less “online” and shitty. From the stories I’ve heard from all people I think the separating factor is that Chapo style guys main disappointment with their parents seems to be political differences or how their parents think. For everyone else their main disappointment from their parents is neglect/abuse due to socioeconomic status, mental health issues, etc. Brian is a great dividing example, his parents were really shitty conservatives that forced him and his siblings to live in a bad way as a kid, despite having the ability to provide. And it was purely based on their political ideas. His father was a computer engineer in the US midcentury, Brian admits he was absolutely loaded but didn’t spend on his kids money as a political thing to “teach them a lesson”.

Stavros is secretly a hard working dude. His whole failson thing is clearly a persona. You don’t own a house in your 20’s being the son of middle class Greek immigrants without working hard. Stav clearly secures the bag, and unironically does it in the “old world” way where half the time the people he hires to help are like his friends/family.

The Chapo hosts - save for Matt - kind of seemed to be lottery winners who just lucked into their success and fortune and have ceased to grow as people as a consequence of their fame and profit. Their reference about the “failson” encapsulates their status as hosts. Just frozen… in Arrested Development.

I completely agree, but I also don’t see it as a bad thing. They are clearly ashamed of it and think society should be different, but they also do have the tendencies to play into the personal psychology of it.

That’s why they tend to gush about media where the main character has already objectively won but cannot bring themselves (usually he/him) to being happy with that because they didn’t win on their terms in the exact way they wanted to win even if in their way/on their terms they’d claim a lesser prize. That’s usually the pinnacle story archetype that they will have sincere love for a piece of media for. Sopranos is a perfect example. Billions (which greatly expands the trope such that women can have this predicament too as if Hillary Clinton isn’t real) is a perfect example.

That’s always been a lib cop-out in my mind. “Do something fulfilling!”. Wow yeah uhh I live in a commodified atomized capitalist hell scape what’s fulfilling and can keep me alive? Not much.