GavinSkulldrinker
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GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
I mean, corporations are generally not in the business of making frivolous expenditures.
Corporations are big enough that they have a heavy parasite load.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
When I visited it didn't seem nearly so desolate. Can you describe Chicago? That way I can calibrate your analysis against mine.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
...Why would I buy a home at the height of a real-estate bubble? Especially when I mention that I mostly sold phones up until COVID?
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Is there somewhere within 20 minutes of Redmond that's particularly cheap and un-pretentious?
I'm not used to the big city, at this point, I'm used to the countryside. I just want to be somewhere that unattached women age 28-35 exist, where I can have a conversation that doesn't bore me to death, and I have pre-existing family to lean on socially. My plan is to get a quality D&D game going, and use that to network my way into selling psychedelic fungi to corpos. There's a sizable number of aspiring players but not enough DMs, and these are exactly the sorts of people who make ideal customers for shrooms. Festival kids and wooks are tiresome flakes, and overly-paranoid.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Is it a terrible idea for me to move to Seattle?
This isn't an optimize-my-career question. I have ADD and trouble keeping my opinions to myself. I'm early 30's with an undergrad zoology degree, but I've wound up mostly selling phones and doing nightclub security on the side occasionally. I was living in Milwaukee when my heart got badly mutilated in october of 2019, and riiiight when I was starting to recover from that, COVID happened.
During COVID I fell in with an old friend who had been somewhat-similarly dispossessed, but it turned out later it was for a reason (they were both terrible). He and I wound up in a new social circle and his behavior became increasingly manic, unaccountable, and manipulative, and eventually, violent. It was probably classic Borderline Personality Disorder dirty-bomb self-destruction, but he did it all while being woke and black-ish, so he got away with way too much. I eventually won, but it was a pyrrhic victory.
I was so disgusted with the situation, and lockdowns still weren't over in chicago itself, I took an office job in the north woods. That turned out to not go great; I got downsized in september and the town I'm in is uniquely meth-y. Most of the people I see around me look diseased, physically or mentally or both. The dating pool is so garbage there should be warning signs posted.
But my younger brother lives in Seattle, Redmond, specifically. 4 years younger, we get along very well, he's a bit anxious and un-motivated. We play video games a lot together lately, I've talked to him about the idea, he likes it but acknowledges there's lots of logistical challenges.
Pros:
This way I don't have to start over in a new city from scratch. He and his wife have friends there, friends I got along with well enough at their wedding.
He's trying to lose weight, I've lost a lot of weight in the past and kept it off and could stand to lose more, I think us paling around would further that goal.
I enjoy outdoors stuff and nature stuff. The area has that. I'm actually something of a sentimental tree-hugger at heart; it's part of why I hate faddish climate activism so much.
Since the broken heart thing, I've stared dabbling in being a shadowrunner as part of my early-midlife-crisis. One thing that enchanted me about chicago was that it was possible to have a fun side-hustle playing at being a freelance professional henchman; I really did get "I'm putting some people together for a job" calls, I really did flip hot merchandise, I really did occasionally dress like I'd gotten lost on my way to a midnight showing of Blade 2. One problem (among many) with where I live right now is everyone is either an upstanding member of society, or a meth-head; there's no cool dirtbags.
Shrooms are decriminalized. I grow shrooms now recreationally (see above) and know how to build a customer base, in theory. If I want to get my shroom-dealing side hustle going on, seattle is technically the safest place to do it.
I'll have someone there that I love and trust.
Cons:
I don't think there's much wokeness in my brother's circles, but if my goal is to stay away from wokeness, why am I moving to the west coast?
I don't want to put an unfair emotional or logistical burden on my brother (and his wife).
I don't have a career, I'd be living in an expensive city with no guarantee'd "significant" income, making me kinda out-of-place among a bunch of microsoft employees.
(I don't know enough about the area to come up with more-specific Cons. Thus the posting in the thread)
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
If it were the Russians, why would they blow up their own pipeline and not an enemy pipeline?
Is it a feature of slavic warfare to do lots of false-flag attacks, or to just claim everything is a false-flag attack?
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
I try to arrange my surroundings thoughtfully, like I'm making an enclosure for an animal I want to keep healthy and happy.
Decorations everywhere. An easy trick I found is that costco and walmart will print any damn JPEG you want, and most craft stores have a 40% single-item coupon for a basic black picture frame. The wall behind me includes: The God-Emperor (Of TTSD fame) Enthroned, a map of Middle Earth, some Arvalis Realistic Pokemon Reconstructions, and that scene from the Twitter Hearings with Jack Dorsey, Alex Jones, and Google Glass Guy, touched up with filters to look slightly Rembrandt-y.
Separate sleeping room. I've previously put my bed inside (ventilated) walk-in closets, so I have the entire room to myself, as it were. The bed is ideally in a small dark room with your clothes and valuables and nothing else functional, just a few soft decorations. No TV. The bedroom for sleeping, dressing, and fucking. Your actual room is more like a study; desk, computer, books, small couch/loveseat, hobby stuff.
Water availability. For whatever reason, you need water accessible in a way that feels "special." Just a pitcher of tapwater in the fridge will do the trick; it's more important to drink lots of water than to drink filtered water (unless there's lead in it).
I think Psilocybin mushrooms work well as a "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"-style solution to mental problems. (no, it won't fix everything, especially not just doing it over and over, but it's worth starting with [before you call IT support], and something you should probably do once every couple months anyways).
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The novelty and adversity of a mild trip is enough to give you that sense of crisis you need to begin crawling out of your depression pit.
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This is going further out on a limb, but I think they give you a smidge of the ole' neuroplasticity; not enough to learn five new languages, but enough to notice you're being a sad-sack.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
This article popped up on the last android tech news site I still use(d). Someone complained that they could get google-assistant to say the n-word. When we've reached this point, yes, there's something to be gained from reminding people that it's just letters, it has no etymological connection with "niggardly," and entire songs use it as their sole lyric (and performers use it to fuck with fans), and it does not in fact cause people's ears to bleed or small animals to die when spoken.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
I used to hear it a lot, enough to consider it a symptom of profound memetic infection, and to distance myself from the people who say it.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
all too often, it's intellectually lazy.
Sometimes the impression I get from a lot of "content" is that the writers are deeply disinterested in the subject matter of what they're working on. The people involved who are into wokeness insert wokeness, no one else cares enough to stop them.
You don't have to be particularly technically skilled in order to make something be woke; you just need familiarity with wokeness, so it's a great way for unskilled writers to pretend to contribute.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
A clever crypto-tankie and a guy who reflexively takes the anti-american position sound pretty much the same. Add some ironic Komrade-Posting and now they're larping as a Tankie, at least from the outside. "Non-tankie" Marxists still have to do a lot of mental heavy lifting to ignore all the horrific authoritarianism and mutilation of the human soul that happens every single time Marxists gain power. For people who say That Wasn't True Communism, Though, they sure do seem to be big fans of those regimes, which do much worse things than all the things they call the west a capitalist white supremacy for.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Sorta like how the 24-hour-news-cycle didn't exist before 9/11 and ever since then keeps looking for the next 9/11, the social media machine is getting hungry for dramabombs after all the recent wackiness has died down.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
My perspective on 4chan is very skewed, because I pretty much only use the /tg/ board, which has a much lower post volume than the other boards, has tighter moderation (by 4chan standards). What it has is CRITICISM. Everywhere else on the internet, people either shill, hugbox, or bait controversy. On /tg/, they nitpick. It's a relentlessly negative place, and an excellent one in which to hone your writing craft.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
In my time with college-educated 20somethings, they call a LOT of things "white."
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Women are infamous for complaining about things that men do but still fucking them anyways.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Thank you. I now understand why I'm so painfully frustrated every time I try to play D&D with the current crop of players.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Most on-the-ground capital-C-communists are in it for the social clout and not for the ideological consistency. Calling the united states a fascist white supremacy makes certain women briefly forget about how much they're supposed to hate men. Calling china and russia those things doesn't get that reaction from college girls, so they don't. They also think that China will rule the world in the future, and they plan to be on China's good side, so they'll avoid saying anything one way or the other for the moment. One or two might be inept enough to let slip some outdated pro-russia content.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
So she made herself less pretty?
As an american, to me she looks ambiguously something-or-other; if her eyes were darker I'd think she was some manner of hispanic. I'd certainly not call her black without adding "...ish"
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Once again: reasonable behavior from an American girlboss who thinks this is how you resolve issues in the workplace? Or deliberate, malicious planning from an abusive and savvy operator?
Yes.
Corpo is a slur for a reason.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
Could I ask you to name some names regarding what's popular with the woke?
In my last brush with the New Orthodox Woke during the start of the pandemic, the stuff being pushed was Infinite Jest, Waiting for Godot, Blue Velvet, and anything Southern if it was to do with a black person, ideally a black person who had been lynched. Also, they keep saying they love D&D, but then refuse to play because the setting contains racial prejudice.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
At small rural schools, there's often not much else more interesting to do than athletics and AP classes, and classes are small enough for teachers to actually teach the material. Unless there's a "real" ambient culture of thinking learning is dumb and for poofters (seeing a black guy on TV occasionally doesn't count), so you don't see as much segregation of academic performance, athletics, and popularity.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
13's pretty weak for such a spicy baity post that's gonna attract the ambient upclickers.
GavinSkulldrinker
2yr ago
I've started making shit up that's nonetheless descriptively accurate. "Fedora-tipping Atheist" or "Techno-Conservationist"
I disagree. People with friends don't have thirty different messaging conversations active at once.
Rather, what I see is that it's made people boring and unpleasant to bother interacting with in real life. Ever since COVID, every time I try interacting with people, I walk away genuinely disgusted. Tried going to a bonfire mid-summer; The hosts were old friends, they also invited a bunch of the midwestern mid-20-somethings they knew.
The mid-20-somethings barely engaged with the hosts and formed their own little closed circle, like they'd used their invitation as a pretext to annex territory. They randomly played music from a car sound system (songs would start and stop abruptly, volume would change, all suggestions were ignored). They called eachother "White" a lot, loudly, with the same tone small children shout "Cooties," and despite the gathering being 100% white. One of them tried engaging in conversation with me, but it was to solemnly and intensely say that Alex Jones was finally facing justice, which I didn't care about. I actually found out that two of them lived in my hometown, and asked them what it was like living there as a younger person. The dude talked about how the conservatives were in X bar and the liberals in Y, which was not the question that I asked. Then he saw his girlfriend was talking to another dude, and went over to do some Mate Guarding. Another one assumed I was a communist because I was wearing a black denim jacket and tried talking to me about communism. No women there who weren't with a boyfriend.
I'm not uncharismatic. I run RPGs and spent years in Sales, I can command people's attention and draw stuff out of them. But I couldn't bring myself to want to engage with this group at anything beyond arm's length.
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