Zoomer Cult

[sus]

Rygel paints a portrait in his room in a short little scene, snacking and humming to himself in a satisfied manner. Art? Ah. It's a painting of himself, crudely painted, and the last thing we hear is him lauding its perfection. It's about propaganda, the fact that nine times out of ten on this show, what gets attacked is self-image more than anything else. Not bodies being exploded, but the lies you tell yourself. Being force-fed your own ugliness so that you can burn it out. So you can see the precious stuff you didn't even know about because you were covering up with the lies.

 

[sus]

John arrives on the Terrace, a lovely place we don't see enough, where Aeryn is crouched, watching the lovely Drak swarm into space. He stays back. "Remember me? Didn't we meet at a party a few years back?" She almost smiles... John comes near, so she heads for the door, but turns. "You know. I always thought that lesser life forms were useless, just something to be squashed." Check out how this is her terrifying form of flirting, because she is crazy. John starts in on how humbling it is when you realize the Drak are just people like us, but interrupts himself with a smile. "You're not talking about the Draks, are you?" She grins sweetly. "Fine. Well, on behalf of lesser life forms everywhere, I accept the compliment." Which is a pretty cool elision: if the bugs are for stomping, then other races are for stomping, for the PeaceKeepers, but realizing that symbiosis is just the nature of cohabitation in the universe, then this is a PK crossing that divide

 

[sus]

This is the enlightenment lounge only enlightened individuals are allowed here Linebaugh

 

[sus]

Guys guys check thsi out this is one of the most popular songs in USA Spotify 2021 it has a billion+ plays there half a bil EuTube

it's a p good song I think, the video works it makes you feel things if you let it, the package is all very precocious and sentimental and smol

 

[luka]

check this out Gus

The Insanely Dark Story Behind “Poltergeist” and its Young Star Heather O’Rourke

The unexpected death of the child star Heather O'Rourke at age 12 cemented an urban legend that was circulating for years: The movie

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[Clinamenic]

You're always welcome in Spendo's Thread to come talk about an episode, ask about an episode, express doubts uncertainties criticisms observations analyses, if you just are curious the best Jacob recap bits for a given episode, I can throw you those too.

You just watched Exodus from Genesis, right?

I’ve seen the first two episodes so far

 

[sus]

I’ve seen the first two episodes so far

There is different sequencing, so depends which you're viewing in. Was it the space roaches / heat death one?

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah the second episode was the space roaches.

 

[Clinamenic]

There is different sequencing, so depends which you're viewing in. Was it the space roaches / heat death one?

Are you saying there are multiple ways to progress through the series?

 

[sus]

Are you saying there are multiple ways to progress through the series?

Always has been

 

[Clinamenic]

As in, the canon itself accounts for multiple possible sequences of viewing? Certainly possibly, in theory, but I just don’t know of any shows that have done this.

 

[sus]

On the vibe shift, pt 1: Worldbuilding

See Part 2: Nameless, Faceless. Chatting with a friend last week, I mentioned I was writing a party report on the Lisbon ETH conferences for Spike. She said she was surprised. That there was a narc…

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[sus]

bringbackboredom™ on TikTok

Replying to @kyler Do you act different drunk? 😵‍💫 Today we discussed what we think about people using alcohol to enable certain behaviors. We think that it can be important for people to not completely rely on alcohol to have fun and let loose. That being said it is interesting that alcohol can...

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[versh]

The narrative seems to have completely flipped on this lot in various regions of the American internet. They're now being talked about as more conservative than millennials and you've got all these articles and discussions popping up about Gen Z men essentially being an army of Patrick Batemans. Wonder whether any of it resonates with them or whether they're wondering what people are on about.

 

[wektor]

the twitter brostep teenagers rediscovering electro-acoustic music

 

[Clinamenic]

The narrative seems to have completely flipped on this lot in various regions of the American internet. They're now being talked about as more conservative than millennials and you've got all these articles and discussions popping up about Gen Z men essentially being an army of Patrick Batemans. Wonder whether any of it resonates with them or whether they're wondering what people are on about.

Part of this does seem like another case of loud/extreme voices being taken as representative of larger populations than they actually represent, e.g. the whole "your body, my choice" Gen Z crowd. Pretty disgusting, to be sure, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a small trollish fraction of boys.

The tendency for a loud/extreme minority, and the bots that amplify them, to distort the popular discourse has become, in my mind, one of the factors which reassures me that the polarizing narrative of the day likely doesn't have as much bearing in reality as it would have one think.

 

[versh]

Part of this does seem like another case of loud/extreme voices being taken as representative of larger populations than they actually represent, e.g. the whole "your body, my choice" Gen Z crowd. Pretty disgusting, to be sure, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a small trollish fraction of boys.

The tendency for a loud/extreme minority, and the bots that amplify them, to distort the popular discourse has become, in my mind, one of the factors which reassures me that the polarizing narrative of the day likely doesn't have as much bearing in reality as it would have one think.

Yeah, this is why I'm curious how "Gen Z men" actually feel about the coverage, if they're even aware of it. Do they recognise it or do they just see the media making stuff up again and tarring them all with the same brush?

 

[shakahislop]

Yeah, this is why I'm curious how "Gen Z men" actually feel about the coverage, if they're even aware of it. Do they recognise it or do they just see the media making stuff up again and tarring them all with the same brush?

for what its worth when i was that age the guardian or the times would write something about 'millenials' and what they'd say was unrecognisable

 

[shakahislop]

they're batting at figments of their imagination i think. they can't get a handle on it. imagine sitting down to write anything about gen z when you're not one of them. or even if you were one of them. it would be hard to write an honest sentence without starting it with 'i don't really know'. 'i overheard this fragment of conversation on the street'. 'i drove my daughter and her friends somewhere and this is what they said'. 'i saw someone say this on the internet'