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Every social media platform that focused or focuses on posting pictures or video over text was objectively ruined when Boomers joined it.

If anyone can find an exception to that rule, I’d love to be proven wrong.

A whole lot of poorly configured or cheaply made electroninc appliances or chargers … yeah I can often literally hear when you’ve plugged something in wrong, it makes a high pitched whine, because it is overamping.

Also, if you’re near high tension power lines?

You have to be pretty darn close to be in danger from actual electromagnetic effects.

But… that hum? The buzz?

Turns out that that is actually what causes a lot of long term health problems in people sensitive to it.

Literally the sound, not the EM field, makes you agitated, stressed, on edge, and if that is just your baseline for 20 years, that constant stress accumulates and basically ages you faster, and can cause mental health problems.

Well I’m glad you have/had a supportive family instead of a dysfunctional awful one like me.

I’ve been forced through an ever evolving series of mental health diagnoses by my family until after 20 years of the wrong meds for misdiagnosis… yeah turns out I am autistic and have ptsd/cptsd from my insanely narcissistic and manipulative and mentally unstable family.

Turns out once I get the fuck away from them, I can actually manage fairly well on my own. Oh and theres the whole got two bachelors degrees simultaneously and am very good at a multitude of tech/programming/db admin/data analysis type stuff, and I was making more money than my entire immediate family combined until their most recent attempt to declare me insane for disagreeing with their (objectively wrong) econonomic and political opinions (my degreees are in econ and poli sci, none of them have any degrees).

… Anyway, there’s much more to an autism diagnosis than just the heightened hearing/seeing/touch sensations, but that is a fairly significant component of it.

There are some decent, long form, like 200+ question tests you can take online from actual medically endorsed autism awareness organizations… if you think you may actually have it, take one of those and then take your results to a psychologist.

I used to be able to do this as well until I got into my 30s and my vision naturally degraded.

Was quite good at FPS games, paintballing… the first time I went to a rifle range for an introductory shooting class, the instructor suggested i look into a shooting scholarship due to my exceptional fine motor control and visual acuity… I had very fast reaction times in martial arts (Karate), but being naturally timid and having a skinny twink build kind of cancelled that out.

The reality is most people think you are delusional, and if your family/friends are authoritarian, they’ll try to get you mentally evaluated as seeing hallucinations.

Its less Superman and more Xmen being persecuted for being different.

I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

You’d think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

For what its worth, CyberPunk 2077 is … an alt history that diverges from our own … at some point in the 1960s I think?

Like… the Soviet Union still exists. In 2077.

Point being: The ‘Japanese megacorps taking over much of the American economy’ fear of our own 1980s is very, very much a big part of the lore/universe.

Pondsmith published the first version of the lore in 1988 as the TTRPG ‘Cyberpunk’, originally set in 2013, and this kept getting added to and expanded with subsequent editions.

Arasaka is… well hopefully without spoiling too much, Arasaka corp is basically run by a Japanese fighter pilot ace who pretty much swore eternal vengeance on America after Japan got nuked and lost the war, and his idea of how to do this includes figuring out how to become immortal, so that he can continue to run a megacorp that ultimately usurps American sovereignty and turns the country into his neo-corpo-feudal subjects.

You can get almost all of that by playing through the Corpo intro character path and actually watching the informative slideshow thing in the elevator and on walls/screens in the … megalobby, so hopefully thats not too spoilery.

Also in Die Hard it is Nakatomi Plaza iirc, Nakatomi being the name of the fictional Japanese corp.

Anyway woo random trivia.

The initial comment it was replying to was exaggerating for comic effect.

The initial comment it was replying to was written by me.

I was not exagerating.

Gerudo just popped in and basically said that they thought I was being intentionally harsh as well.

Both of you have now ascribed a motive, a goal to my description of Seattle… that I do not have.

I was simply flatly stating my lived experience in Seattle.

People in Seattle are actually terrible at forming genuine relationships, that is my completely honest, not exaggerated assessment.

I am also an introvert.

I was just describing that yes, Seattle is full of introverts, who suck at socializing.

There is no joke. There was only an attempt at being contrarian in an equally exagerated manner back toward a percieved exageration that did not exist.

In fact, quite hilariously now imo, this entire course of discussion is itself an example of how an anti-social behvaior, assuming unstated intentions behind statememts, reading in context that isn’t actually there… produces confusion and interpersonal friction.

I appreciate your willingness to explain, but I am still confused.

… I am the person who described Seattle as introverted and anti social.

You are ascribing motive, intention, to my original description, that motive being ‘to talk down about something’, ie, to insult or degrade.

I am not doing that. I am describing my lived experience in Seattle as objectively as I can.

Yes, it is my personal, anecdotal experiencd, so it may or may not be truly representative…

But I am not exagerating in my assesment.

You have assumed I am doing that, and just said something with a contrarian intention than the intention you incorrectly assumed I had.

That still isn’t a joke.

It is just being contrarian.

I am not trying to be an ass, I am autistic and I do not understand what the joke is supposed to be.

This reads to me as a contradictory paradox.

If you say the joke is that Gerudo was facetious, ie unserious, sarcastic, didn’t actually mean they liked Seattle when they said they ‘liked Seattle for a reason’… and then they do indeed confirm they do actually like Seattle’s social introversion because they are an introvert…

Then… they were being serious in the first statement… ie, not facetious.

So… that cannot be the joke.

If I exaggeratedly said 'Man I LOVE~~~ hamburgers!" … and someone said ‘wait are you serious?’ and my response was ‘Yes I do really love hamburgers.’

Then again, the only thing I can see as the part that is supposed to be funny in any way is the exaggerated tone.

That to me just reads as … dramatic, quirky, enthusiastic? Not inherently funny though?

… Is the ‘joke’ that they didn’t realize why they liked Seattle untill I described the social norms?

The… joke would then be… it is funny that they couldn’t describe or put words to why they liked something and had to have their own thoughts described by another person before they could articulate them?

That… seems more like an insult than a joke? I guess that could be funny if I were predisposed to enjoy cruelty/mockery against Gerudo… but I’m not, so that just seems rude.

I am at least self aware enough of an autist to know that many people find my confusion in this scenario funny, when I would describe that as cruel, but I am genuienly baffled by how what Gerudo said was ‘a joke’.

Looks like Miami also does not have any specific vernacular for ‘friend’ on these maps, so… maybe if you just overlay all these maps and find all the deadzones, you’ve found the areas of antisociality?

I do not understand how your joke works.

If you genuienly enjoy antisociality as a norm, because you tend to be introverted, then you just like Seattle because of that.

You would then not be joking, in the sense of sarcastically saying you enjoy something you don’t actually enjoy.

‘I knew I liked Seattle for a reason’ is then just the same as saying ‘Yup, I’m also anti social and I love it here’.

The ‘joke’ isn’t that you actually don’t like Seattle’s social norms and were being sarcastic, because you just said you’re introverted.

I honestly do not understand how this is a joke.

Is… just using the pithy/vague phrasing… in and of itself… the joke?

I’m gonna need a Carlos to Cubit to Banana diagram.

With a slinky for scale.

… either you enjoy having no friends…

… or you enjoy superficial performative ‘relationships’ that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?

I’ve seen a number of allegations he’s groomed minors online, as well as a number of videos with other youtubers/twitch streamers where… he just suddenly shifts the conversation to pedophilia for no reason at all, and starts trying to get whoever he is talking to to admit that they are into it or would consider it.

Very fucking weird and creepy shit.

I don’t frankly care for the ‘its satire/performance art’ defence.

I am from Seattle.

Anecdotally:

This is correct.

People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I’ve ever been in the US.

… I’m sorry, but isn’t Mister Girl like… a well known, prominent advocate for pedophiles, if not actually a pedophile himself?

Platitudes do protect the poor from thugs if platitudes are embodied by people of courage and moral character willing to meaningfully advocate for them and protect them with force if necessary.

If your society does not do this, your society is of low moral character.

Actually acting in line with your expressed morality is the bare minimum, first threshold of your supposed, proclaimed, performed morals being… things you are actually willing to promote in the world.

If your morals do not actually guide your actions, you are merely cosplaying them, and are just a pedantic preening poser… with low moral character.

Socrates disagreed with the reasoning behind his assigned fate, but accepted it nonetheless, in accordance with his conviction to his principles.

A morality that is not built on responsibility and duty to others is no morality at all.

How to actually do games preservation:

Reform IP laws.

Mandate open sourcing of hardware and software architectures after some period of time. 10 years? 5 years after no more of that hardware/software is sold? Yes texhnicalities are insanely complicated but you get the idea.

Oh, how about government funding for emulator development? We fund libraries that preserve books, and movies, and other stuff.

Be like Spike.

I hope youre right.

In my lived experience… no, it is not.

90% of poor or moderately well off people I’ve known will still argue for supply side Jesus right up untill the moment their worldview is actually applied to them personally.

EDIT: And then the 10% that do agree with that idea theoretically, well they absolutely never apply it personally, in their own lives, amongst people they know personally.