WhiningCoil
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WhiningCoil
1d ago
You know, this got me thinking about how long the tails of games are now. Like, I adored my father, and when I started playing Nintendo games, he would show off how good he was as Donkey Kong, which was apparently his goto arcade game once upon a time. Blew me away that he could "beat" it on the Nintendo, which if memory serves, and it may not, was completing all 4 screens at least once? I donno. But I had little incentive to play Donkey Kong myself, nor was I amazed at his Donkey Kong "lore", I was just impressed my dad could play an old game, but I preferred the newer ones like Super Mario Brothers 3.
Compared with the 15(?) year legacy of Minecraft, yeah, kids are still going fucknuts over the same game it's feasible that their parents went fucknuts over a decade prior. There are titles so evergreen, they've become a multi-generational institution not unlike reading the same books to your kid that were read to you. The only thing slowing it down is parents' awareness of the dangers of screen time for young children.
WhiningCoil
1d ago
Making incremental progress towards my 200 snatch goal this week. Got up to 116 without any lingering pain. Although the next day some of my calluses were developing gnarly blisters that just ripped off without much effect the next time I worked out. I am hitting a limit where around snatch 80 or so, whatever chalk I had on my hands is long since gone, and its wrecking my grip fighting my sweating palms to keep hold of the bell. Also makes the blistering way worse when I have to keep a deathgrip on the handle because anything less just lets the sweat take the kettlebell away. Ordered a chalk bag I can use to refresh my off hand, and we'll see how that goes. If I can get up and over 120 without pain, I'm curious to see what my next plateau will be, since that's where my back gave out hard last time.
WhiningCoil
1d ago
Getting sidelined by an injury is the worst. I remember when I was doing martial arts, there was still ample I could do injured. Always something I could practice. Of course I was in my 20's then, healed faster, and had way more drive.
Not sure how that works in grappling arts though, since I've never done one. I always had the impression there wasn't much you could practice if you weren't rolling on the mat with people.
WhiningCoil
1d ago
I'm a little older than you. I discovered Minecraft during it's Alpha from reddit, and binged hard along with my at the time girlfriend. We got seriously lost in Minecraft, and just ordered takeout for a week while we indulged our mutual addiction to exploration and crafting. I lost interest at some point after biomes came out I think? That's all so long ago, sometimes I watch videos about Minecraft and outside of the blocky world, I don't recognize anything that is happening anymore.
WhiningCoil
4d ago
I think I've said this before, but I agree with the "girl-dad" criticism. And I reject this notion that empathizing with young men just translates to validating their anxiety and fear. One thing that is almost inescapable watching almost any medium of modern culture is that women act like cunts, while the men tiptoe around them begging forgiveness. I mean, just for instance, compare the Dune novels and David Lynch's adaptation, where the love between Paul and Chani is a fated historic romance. In the newer adaptation I don't think Chani so much as smiles at Paul once, and they supposedly love each other? "Romance" according to modern media is a woman treating a man like garbage, something that got stuck to her shoe that she can't seem to get rid of, and the man gets to feel thankful she settled for you. Being an absolute cunt to someone you ostensibly love is viewed as some political project to reject being a "Stepford Wife".
Unsurprisingly, young boys raised in this environment aren't sold on their role as eternal abuse victim in this new model of "romance". And I sincerely doubt you can get them "step up" into the role by brow beating them, or educating them about their proper gender role being the initiator. They see all around them that even if they "win" they still lose.
You want better men, you need to raise better women.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
I was going to say, didn't Hanania have several public tantrums on his blog about Elon, largely because his twitter derived income fell off a cliff?
WhiningCoil
7d ago
That's good enough for me. My post was less about you specifically being a bot, and more, just... I can't take anything I read on the internet as being written by a human for granted anymore. Even in weird out of the way places like this. I just find myself side eyeing any account that I don't personally recognize from at least 10 years ago.
It's hard to put this into words. The civilisation I care about is dying, and I fear I can do little to change any of that.
I sympathize with this so hard, you have no idea. But you may have more cause to, it does sound your like civilization is going in the shredder maybe a generation before mine is.
WhiningCoil
7d ago
So, I don't know how to phrase this in a way that's not offensive to mrvanillasky, though not for the reasons you may anticipate with that preamble.
Some time ago, there was that low brow documentary about India, "India: Worst Country on Earth". I believe self_made_human pushed back on it significantly, dismissing it as cherry picked examples of India, and not representative at all. When I told my wife about it, and how disgusting I'd heard it was, she wanted to see it. She made it about 60 seconds in, until the scene where a young boy is sucking a dogs dick, and noped out. I didn't bother continuing to watch it either. But there is one thing about it's discourse that stuck out to me.
There was an assertion, either in the documentary itself, or in the commentary surround it, that the minority of higher caste Indians in India regard the rest of the degenerate masses as subhuman. I've always wondered how true this is. It didn't seem like the people making that assertion had any native knowledge of that claim.
So along comes mrvanillasky, an Indian native, seeming to support just that assertion. Only at this point, I'm so fucking paranoid, I have to wonder if he's even real. It's just too perfect, a native Indian supporting all the foreign prejudices of India.
Then again, truth is truth.
Who even knows anymore. Psyops are everywhere.
That's the offensive part BTW, I can't help but wondering if mrvanillasky is a bot or a psyop. I mean, not in a serious way, or a way I expect there to be consequences. More just... dead internet theory seems ever more predictive than it used to.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
I mean, I didn't block amadan because he's a mod, I blocked him because of his armchair psychology every time he engages with me, seemingly for the sole purpose of goading me into breaking the rules further. Whatever warning I'm missing is worth it to avoid the incitement.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
Naw, wasn't that. Was way dumber and less skilled.
WhiningCoil
12d ago
RE: The burning, make sure the bit is clean. I use a spray like this, and so long as you haven't worn the bit dull, it works wonders. I generally clean all my blades and bits after every major project. If you are scorching the wood, that means there is too much heat, which means you are also dulling the blades of the bit. There are some, well not exceptions exactly, but times when this is less the case than others. Maple scorches notoriously easy as I found out the hard way. Just make sure you keep feeding at a steady rate and don't linger for too long in any one area. If you need to reposition, pull the bit away from the workpiece a little and then get back to it.
The other thing is to invest in good bits. In the US Whiteside is a reliable brand that has proven sharper and more durable than anything I'd find in the store, or whatever cheap chinesium shows up on Amazon. I actually grabbed a fresh Whiteside template bit before I began my current project because the one that came in a (I suspect counterfeit) Bosch set was a fucking joke.
I'm also looking forward to building a router table. I have one that came with the first router I bought, and it's ok. I had to buy a new fence for it though, since the one it came with had a problem where the left side of the fence wasn't flush with the right side of the fence. Wrestled with that always taking a slight divot out of the last inch or two of a workpiece for 2 years before I splurged on a $100 "high quality" fence. Was definitely worth it though. Lately I've been desiring a higher quality router lift to build into whatever table I make. Debating building it into the miter saw station I have in mind. But it might have to wait since that's a pricey bit of kit, and this project is supposed to be on the cheaper side.
WhiningCoil
13d ago
My sense is that all of the university teaching programs have been captured by folks who teach all the new teachers that the most important part of being a teacher is being an activist.
Once upon a time, when my wife was in her 20's she worked at an organic grocery store. The pay was shit, management were assholes, and the benefits sucked. While this is broadly true for grocery, it was especially true there. Anybody with any sense went to go work for Whole Foods or Trader Joes instead. The people who stayed were true believers in organic food. They'd do all kinds of weird shit, like refuse to help customers find products (like honey) because they were vegan and they didn't think it was ethical.
Increasingly I'm finding the same to be the case with teachers. They are overworked, underpaid, and increasingly the only ones sticking around are the ones with some sort of radical agenda that it's worth sticking around to push. Vaccine mandates, like most ostensibly public institutions, flushed out a huge proportion of the dissenters. Though they occasionally still shitcan a few especially stubborn teachers who've manage to hang on this long over their conscientious objection to trans policies.
WhiningCoil
13d ago
Sometimes I try to remember things I used to find funny on the internet. This is one of those times. I need help.
There used to be a really low brow humor website back in the day. It went hard, and crass, and one of the pages I thought was hilarious was Fuck Zombie. There was some page about him running for president, and really having a thing for women in nursing homes because they are so soft. And I'm drawing an absolute blank on where i saw that, what the site might have been, how to look it up on archive.org, anything.
The perils of finding joy on the internet when you were a teen. Unlike a box of old comic books, or a collection of cassette tapes or CDs, a lot of old niche pages on the internet are just gone forever. No going back.
WhiningCoil
13d ago
I do support political solutions that are bad for public schools as institutions, whether it’s schoolchoice, permissive homeschooling, forced budget cuts, whatever. Many of these can actually get done.
WhiningCoil
13d ago
It would help if we weren't constantly gaslit about the nature of what's happening.
For example, the relentless bait and switch around Title IX "interpretations". Obama's DOE famously published that "Dear Colleagues" letter, and all the colleges wrung their hands and went purposely insane under the premise that if they didn't, the DOE might withhold their funding. Trump's DOE rescinds that guidance, and those same colleges turn around and sue him in court. Biden's DOE does an even more expansive Title IX "interpretation" making it so there can be no local discretion in how the school system handles trans issues. You need to flee the country if you want to live in a school district that can't secretly trans your kid. The schools "begrudgingly" comply, none sue. Now many states sue, but the schools, suspiciously mum about it. Trump rolls in, rescinds the guidance, even forcefully reverses it, schools sue again.
It's a constant shell game. When a Democrat DOE is top down forcing local schools hand it's "Oh, elections have consequences, don't want this to happen vote harder next time." You win that game and suddenly the locus of control shifts to the local level "Oh, you have to win at the local level too, too bad, so sad". You can't win both in perpetuity, and somehow things never ratchet back in your direction no matter what you do.
The truth is, public schools, pedagogy, teacher training, the unions, etc have all been deeply captured institutions. It doesn't matter what battles you win against them, they are hostile to your interest, and will never comply. No matter where or how you win, they just gaslight you that the "real" battle was over here. In reality, they are just doing what they wanted to do the entire time, and coordinating with where ever they can to launder legitimacy on their immoral actions.
WhiningCoil
13d ago
Berserk (1997), rating pending. A delightfully old-school anime I had never gotten around to watching. The opening theme is probably the most discordant I've ever heard: what kind of song do you pick for your grimdark fantasy anime with gallons of blood and a protagonist that is named after the lower digestive tract? Yep, some upbeat Japanese pop punk must be perfect.
I can't rate it because I abandoned it after three episodes, again. Maybe he gets better, but Guts is the kind of character that inspires rants about toxic masculinity.
Berserk 1997 is more or less the only Berserk adaptation worth watching. I'm trying to remember how much we know about Guts 3 episodes in, and if they had the flashback episode to his childhood yet. He goes through quite a journey over the course of this series, and the manga is one of the few I bother to keep up with for over 20 years now. Other manga series either concluding, or going too far up their own anime asshole to be entertaining anymore. Berserk I can sit down with like an old friend like no time has passed and reread. All that said, if you are the sort of person who views the tropes Guts plays to as "Toxic", so much so that you quit the show, you don't deserve to bask in it's greatness.
WhiningCoil
13d ago
There Are No Viable Political or Legal Solutions (Drooling Retard Edition with words, words, words fo the slow kids in the back who have hammers they can't be trusted with)
Imagine, hypothetically, your daughter's teacher was a fucking machine. You might have concerns that this literal automaton that is only capable of fucking might fuck your daughter. I mean, you can plainly look up it's product page, seems pretty cut and dry. This machine fucks. You goto your local school board meeting, but inexplicably, the school board is like 70% fucking machines, and they are struggling to understand the nature of your complaints. They actually find them rather hateful, like some sort of personal attack. The police pull your pants down, drag you out of the meeting, and arrest you.
You vote as hard as you can, and bless your heart, you even win! The schools don't care. The dude you voted for specifically tells the schools to tell the fucking machines to stop fucking. They simply can't stop.
When you think about it, it is rather silly to imagine you can vote or law your way out of having a single purpose machine fulfill it's singular purpose. You might as well vote or sue to make a mouse into a lion.
Now, I'm not saying the public education system is literally a machine that fucks kids. Although... No, this is more an allegory that it's impossible to change the nature of a teacher, and the hill they've chosen to die on. Around me free public institutions are risking it all, to make sure kids can keep viewing cock sucking. Libraries are forgoing the majority of their funding from the county, schools are grandstanding on it, it's a world I can scarcely comprehend. Neither politics nor the law provides any solution. Turns out the physical reality of these people's nature, and the fact that they have exclusive control of your child for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is just immune from votes or the law. It would probably takes the 101st Airborne stationed in every classroom to make it stop, and even then teachers would still do it, confident that the government would never use their monopoly on violence to actually stop them from showing middle schoolers some queer cock sucking.
I repeat, there is no viable political or legal solution. What you do with this knowledge is between you and your own conscience. I've chosen to move counties, keep my child out of public school, and look towards joining a church that shares my values. It's been at great expense, and to my eternal sorrow likely cost me the opportunity to have more children. In a shameful sense, I've chosen to run, because I view my family as something too precious to risk. Other people might have different views, less options, or have already lost the one thing they lived for. I refuse to condemn them for the different choices they may make, nor preface this bare fact, that there are no viable political or legal solutions, with some smooth brained pre-emptive disavowing.
If pointing out the hopeless position we are in amounts to a "call to violence" to you, that is between you and your conscience. It's not illegal to shout fire in a crowded theater if the theater is actually on fire.
WhiningCoil
15d ago
Definitely do not care. Schools and libraries near me have basically taken the position that nothing short of the 101st Airborne will get them to stop showing pornography to children. They don't care about elections, court cases, funding, irate parents at school board meetings, nothing. Showing sexually explicit material to children is their terminal goal, and nothing can possibly stop them from doing their favorite thing.
All the viable solutions are outside of the law and politics.
Edit: Awesome, I make a neutral post in line with the choices I've lived and personally spoken of repeatedly. But someone fedposts near it after the fact, so now I look sus and eat a ban. This place is a fucking joke. "Well, he didn't say it, but next to this thing someone else said later, maybe he's thinking it."
WhiningCoil
15d ago
It is completely fucking wild to me that some random 4chan slur gets adopted by it's target nation for their own underclass. Is this widespread? Is it just their westernized too online NEET class? I must know more.
WhiningCoil
15d ago
"Own the racist" is a funny way to say "Dunk on the poor victim's cuck father".
Allegedly there is some NGO that goes around coaching/bribing/threatening victims families into saying a bunch of "Let's not make this about race" bullshit. It's quite the contrast to when some black teen commits suicide by cop. But regardless of whether the father's calls for forgiveness, lenience and understanding are sincere or coerced, the degree to which the murderer's family is adding insult to injury should be unforgivable. Not a single ounce of contrition, reflection or humility. I get that people are framing this as the father being a "Good Christiantm", and I'm no Christian myself (yet), but I'm under the vague impression even God requires you to ask forgiveness with some sincerity. It's not just on tap for everyone all the time always regardless of how remorseless or sociopathic they continue to be.
Scott Adam's continues to be correct. It's a hate group, and it's not safe to be around them. If you had doubts before, they are literally putting their money where their poll results are.
WhiningCoil
16d ago
When last I left you, I had milled most of the parts for my set of chairs, glued up the panels for the seats, and made a template for the back legs.
This week was all about trying to get ready for the weekend when a buddy came over to help me out. This was a fairly repetitive process of doing 96 tenons on 48 work pieces on my router table. I keep thinking it would be faster to do this on my tablesaw, with the proper jigs to support a workpiece on it's end. I should probably try that one day. Doing a handful of tenons on the router isn't bad. Doing 96 of them feels like an enormous waste of time when you know the tablesaw would make quicker work of it. Ah well, maybe next time.
I used a palm router for the mortises in the back rest pieces. It went ok, and since these just hold the slats in for the back rest and are less structural than the mortises in the legs will be, it was sort of an experiment to see if the palm router is sufficient at scale. Pretty sure my answer is no. The mortises came out okish. I had to do them in 4 passes, reaching a total depth of 3/4", and weird things happened where it would grab a side just slightly wrong and rip out huge chunks on a deeper pass, or reach the end of a pass, contact the end wrong and somehow explode a chunk out of it. The nice thing about mortises, I think, is they can not be perfect. Glue does most of the work, and so long as there is enough good contact, they'll be fine. Any imperfections get covered up when the tenoned piece overlaps it. All the same, I want to do better on the legs.
So I got a plunge router from Harbor Freight. Short of a dedicated mortising machine, this is what I've seen used most often for mortises. I got started on a jig for it, which was super easy. Slapped on a fence, used a 1/2" bit to route out a 1-1/2" and 2-1/2" slot, and then a 1/2" bushing with a 1/4" bit will make the mortises easy peasy. I do need to pay more attention to some sort of clamping contraption on the back side though, because when I used it on a test piece, all clamped down to the table, the work piece walked off a huge amount. So some improvements will need to be made before I use it on the legs. Either adding a fence to the bottom, gluing some sandpaper to it so it had a bit more grip against a workpiece, or somehow adding rails to the bottom that clamps can be used with to clamp the piece directly to the jig.
Speaking of the legs, I picked up the 6/4 walnut I needed for those, and when my buddy came over we got to work. I didn't stop at all to take photos cause it just didn't occur to me, but here is the finished product. At least the first one. The template worked pretty well. Has a lot more milling marks than I anticipated, but those will sand out. Took about 90 minutes from rough lumber to semi-final product, which may not be bad? Usually I'd do them all in a batch, but I wanted to take my friend through the whole process on one leg so we weren't just on the jointer all day.
Only thing that went wrong was at one point the weight of the leg caused it to lift off the router table, and the router took a small chunk out of the template. I need to repair that before using it again, otherwise it will just transfer that mistake to all the other legs. I'm thinking sawdust and superglue, or something more temporary, but making a fresh template off it that will hold up better. I may do both just so I have a backup template if it happens again.
WhiningCoil
17d ago
One of my brothers in law is a "pagan". Which basically means fat slob reddit atheist cosplaying to "own to the cons" and just being a complete degenerate manchild. As well as some bizarre victim identity because "Christian's killed my forbearers and stole all our holidays".
WhiningCoil
17d ago
I mean... anecdote and all, but my wife and I are trying to find a church right now, not because Pope Francis made Catholicism more progressive, but because that was nearly the last straw. We feel like all the promises of a secular, expert run society we were promised in the 90's just opened up fresh new horrors we could have scarcely imagined, and are ready to try to retvrn and believe in Christ. I find myself questioning 40 years of staunch atheism by the fruits it's bore, and am totally ready to just start going to church and see what happens.
And in that search, Catholicism is virtually the top sect we are most hesitant to consider, behind "Unitarian" which at least near us codes to "Whatever goes man" loosey goosey "spiritual but not religious" non-faith.
Then again, we've encountered a lot of very conservative Catholics near us that have invited us to services with them next week, so we'll see how that goes.
On the one hand, after they can agree that rules are rules, and it doesn't matter what "disproportionate" amount of blacks end up in jail, what is there left to argue about? The central plank of blue tribe ideology seems to be rooted in the inherent evil of western white civilization, and exhibit A is blacks as a permanent underclass globally.
On the one hand, yeah, old habits die hard. It is hard to imagine the average blue triber going "Ok, yeah, I admit it, more blacks are in jail because they commit more crime" but then being ok with gun ownership, recklessness towards the climate, or free speech. But I also, simply, have a very difficult time imagining the blue tribe mind without that aforementioned central plank of their ideology.
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