Sounds like you give a shit
That's a mistake
Also explains why he'd prefer to live in ignorance because he's a control freak which prefers ignorance and self righteous feelings to reality
That's how you end up controlledFVBTVS wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:13 pm its not really ever the content of simfoccs attempts at thinking or his sub literate pseudo intellectualism because who among us right? there but for the grace of god go i
its just that faggy sneering redditor intonation that i'll never quite get over. i feel like mister burns going through seven layers of high tech prestige security to find a broken screen door hanging off the hinges of my nuclear power plant
why would anyone want to sound like that
Holy SHIT I feel bad that Russ ended up a conspiracy theorist.Necrometer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:53 pmthat all tracksEight Bit Alien wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:22 pmIf you only see stuff you like, you will get bored and leave. If you experience mostly shit, you will stay longer hoping for that squirt of dopamine you remember from the first stage of the habit. It's designed exactly like a casino. It turns us into hardworking, foraging squirrels.
Exactly like the description of the "first matrix" which wasn't effective.
I presume you've heard about how snack food is not engineered to be thoroughly satisfying, rather it's engineered to make you keep eating more of it. if there's just enough shitty aftertaste, you go back for more?
I love a well-curated reddit/twitter experience, but you're totally right that it doesn't tap into that same need to feel super engaged (squirl brain)
I've never been able to articulate this idea in an air-tight way, but I think another strong instance of motivating toxicity is around gossip. like... we talk shit about each other because it feels good to feel superior. but there are costs when that gets back to the subject of the gossip, right? so I think there's this market that gives you the toxic thrills without the interpersonal blowback: tabloids. I think the british royal family might serve the same purpose, even before media existed: it's a group of rich layabouts that everyone can gossip about, potentially displacing the in-group blowups that would otherwise take place. it certainly seems like that's their function in the post-tabloid world
(RIP princess diana, ofc, who paid the ultimate price of all that toxicity )
livid dealer wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:31 am DIO NEVER JUMPED ON WHAT WAS POPULAR (THE PROVERBIAL BANDWAGON)
AND DIO DIDNT FUCK GUYS
livid dealer wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:31 am DIO NEVER JUMPED ON WHAT WAS POPULAR (THE PROVERBIAL BANDWAGON)
AND DIO DIDNT FUCK GUYS
you mean to tell us you don't think Dave Grohl is just the nicest fucking guy despite being a huge rockstar? how can anyone not like him...
That's absolutely 99% of that content, and they all review the same stuff. I had a friend link me to a gen z black kid seemingly getting his mind blown by bohemian Rhapsody back in 2020 and fell down the reactor-hole. Such a bizarre business. The only guys that do that shit and even remotely come across as not just clocking in at the "make 40 year old white dudes feel relevant" factory are the two dudes behind Lost In Vegas, they sure as shit are happy to be like "yeah, this does nothing for me"Eight Bit Alien wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:15 pm The "react" subgenre of metamedia is fucking weird. There's an entire subgenre which is just black people saying that they like songs.
Like a room full of african-american guys who hear Dragonforce for the first time, and they go "Hey man... ya know what, this is pretty good!"
I've never once seen one of these videos where the reactor doesn't like the media they're presented with. I think the purpose it serves is to make a person feel validated in their taste?
livid dealer wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:31 am DIO NEVER JUMPED ON WHAT WAS POPULAR (THE PROVERBIAL BANDWAGON)
AND DIO DIDNT FUCK GUYS
I had a dental hygienist once rambling on about how Shania Twain was really nice to people and Julia Robert's was a bitch and the actually dentist passively aggressively told her to shut up and finish.Necrometer wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:23 pm dentist trying to have a conversation with me while my mouth is full of their fingers
I was scanning through it and landed on a part where the cops say they assumed the place was empty because they didn't hear anyone and then a teacher says that they and the students are instructed in an active shooter situation they should be as quiet as possible. So I other words don't watch it.