Azaran on 26/7/2025 at 22:58
[video=youtube;TQSwDenTM88]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQSwDenTM88[/video]
Tocky on 29/7/2025 at 03:45
Oh god I sympathize with her. The whole town of Oxford, Mississippi has become a mockery of itself. It used to be a bohemian little college town and now it is all about money. We had original people that you could not reproduce or replicate. We had restaurants owned by one family for decades that everyone went to. Apartments are crazy going up. The old building and lot where I used to work was levelled and transformed into an apartment complex in three months. They bought the dream of what it used to be and put up a cardboard facade that people fall for because that is all they have to choose from. They have plenty of money and rake in plenty of money and no soul whatsoever. Everything is a copy of what it used to be.
It hurts. I remember the old days. I remember walking into a smoky bar with hardwood floors and pool tables and a stage and pinball machines and most of all people who were real and had opinions that would surprise and inform you. Sure you might get in a fight or arrested but you would have a good time. You would dance with a strange and exotic girl. You would fight some asshole that might become your friend after. You would know that what someone said was real. There were no moon hoaxers. People thought about things. They didn't think that those their age were somehow smarter and better because they thought opposite and opposite was somehow better. Durr hurr boomers don't get it. Yeah. No. New generations are not better because they are new. Idiocracy was not just a blueprint we should not follow but a warning. It was a cautionary tale. Does anyone know what a cautionary tale is anymore? I'm scared to know the answer to that.
Azaran on 29/7/2025 at 14:41
One of the reasons for minimalism and barrenness becoming trendy is smartphone/social media overstimulation. A lot of people can't handle being in visually rich, colourful environments for long periods of time, because they spend hours on the internet and it wrecked their brain.
So now we have people gutting nice houses all over because, essentially, they're mentally unwell. And it's so common, that developers and contractors are now catering to it. In with the all white, open concept, harsh recessed lighting (ironically), and gray floors.
Paradoxically, how do those people handle being in nature? Go figure.
I also noticed when I've been to Europe, people doing the same to palatial houses, and one of the bizarre motivations is people who were raised in nice houses somehow developed fatigue, got tired of "all that old crap", and want to follow modern trends. I don't understand it
Quote Posted by Tocky
New generations are not better because they are new. Idiocracy was not just a blueprint we should not follow but a warning. It was a cautionary tale. Does anyone know what a cautionary tale is anymore? I'm scared to know the answer to that.
Idiocracy was prophetic
Cipheron on 11/8/2025 at 09:52
Hey this was a great little one
[video=youtube;3q33XUFw5gk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q33XUFw5gk[/video]
