I like finding and reading old zines, there’s an amazing mashup of pornography and counterculture and early tech wizardry geekiness to be found in late 90s and early 2000s zines that just can’t be replicated anywhere else.
If you tried to make them today, you would just be a poser.
And a good one is one that seems to be contextually relevant but turns out to be shit, whereas a bad one is just some sort of ooga booga caveman completely off topic reply.
Power is addictive, but its addictive properties are interesting because it becomes “normal”.
It’d be like every girl you’ve ever dated has H cups, and then you go out on a date with a girl with E cups and you’re like, “wow, she’s got small boobs”, when really her boobs are large, you’re just so accustomed to H cups that anything smaller seems small.
I would do practically anything that isn’t evil for magic, so worth it in my book.
I’ll go with the “I have a skill that everyone thinks is useless, but it’s actually the most OP skill ever because I’m so smart in how I use it” trope.
Like, my skill is material molding. Most people use it to make nails or to be a production worker of some type, making wheels for carts and the like, but since I know about the modern world, I’ll be making record players and computers and cell phones and solar panels.
Generic isekai with magic. Should be fun
The ones that don’t primarily use English simply because I can’t understand what they’re talking about, and even if I could, it’s usually about the issues in another country that I can’t do anything about, so my input is useless.
I have a hunch that there’s something fucky with passkeys, and it’s gonna turn out to be a security and or privacy nightmare in the near future.
It’s also really annoying because even if you do make your own website, like unless you do something that draws attention on some other, more populated website, pretty much no one’s ever gonna find you.
The best answer I can think of is it depends, and it’s always on a case-by-case person-by-person basis.
It’s like finding out that a famous painter whose art you really like did a murder suicide.
In some cases, that could actually add to the allure, even though it’s horrible.
But in the case of a musician that used their musical career to coax underage girls into performing sex acts for them, like the singers of the Lost Prophets, it’s a lot harder to separate the art from the artist.
Like I said, it would take a manifesto to explain it.
Uh, I mean I could probably write a 30 or 40 page manifesto explaining it, but what it boils down to is the main bottleneck in human society is resource management combined with a lack of vision and purpose.
Anything above the level of the family has resources, needs, and uses that are being managed by people that are ultimately too selfish, too greedy, and not interconnected enough to work together.
As to why this is a useless fact:
Even if I’m 100% correct, nobody wants to hear it.
No one will work with me to accomplish these things.
All this knowledge does is add misery to my own life, knowing that I could make things better if only.
My personal problem with all of the alternatives to YouTube, and I know, first world problem, I’m being picky as hell, but I don’t feel like enough people make content just for casual browsing and fun and to share things.
It’s almost as if the Venn diagram between the people capable of setting up and establishing one of these servers and the people capable of generating mindless, entertaining content is practically an infinity symbol.
I know how to fix the entire world.
Everything flawlessly. Human satisfaction at all time highs.
So much so that the largest problem that humanity would face is the ennui of not knowing what to do with itself.
The Bible says there are many antichrists.
An antichrist is someone who simply disavows the work of Jesus, someone who rejects God and gets other people to follow them.
In that sense, we could easily list many of the famous billionaires as Antichrists.
But I think in this specific situation you’re not talking about antichrist lowercase, you’re talking about the big cheese, the head honcho.
The Son of Perdition.
And I would say that among the things that have happened right now, the front runner would be Trump.
The guy was born into wealth and power. He has had everything his entire life handed to him on a golden platter, and he’s the most miserable pile of human excrement that has existed in this generation.
He literally does nothing but hate.
I’m sure that there are others that fit the bill. Putin is pretty high up there. Musk is pretty high up there.
But if you put a gun to my head and said I had to guess, I would guess Trump.
My house is pretty good for a zombie apocalypse, i’ll probably just hang out here.
Being able to tell a joke as a non-black person that uses the N-word is such a fine line that the joke has to be divinely inspired to happen.
It is very difficult to thread the line of a joke that is actually funny, that requires the use of the N-word, and that is not derogatory towards black people.
People should not be given carte blanche to say the word because most of the non-black people that say it are saying it to be offensive, and if you throw open those floodgates, it’s just going to legitimize the offensiveness.
It may come back into common parlance one day, but probably not in our lifetimes.
Also, as far as how to get those skills, part of it is just being born with it. Both me and my dad are hyperlexic.
We taught ourselves to read.
My first words were “M-I-L-K, that spells milk”, which shocked the hell out of my mom because apparently we were driving around in a car and I saw the billboard and it clicked in my head.
I was like nine months to a year old.
The rest of it is just boredom. I was offered to skip grades multiple times, but my mom didn’t want to embarrass my older half-brother by having me be in the same grade or ahead of his grade, so I got held in place, and I still managed to graduate a year ahead of my class.
With all of the extra free time for my mind to ramble, I read and consumed information and I was like, I’m going to do something great and I need to know everything I possibly can know in order to accomplish this greatness.
Unfortunately…
Being horrendously abused by the people that are supposed to be nurturing and caring for you makes it incredibly difficult to reach out and achieve greatness when the opportunity is in front of you.
There’s a surprising number of them available on archive.org, just search for zines.