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Lobok posted:Did he care or was he afraid he wouldn't get to make any more appearances? trump isn't a sociopath. it's just that his internal values are so out of whack, and he's a bully authoritarian racist, that he comes off like a sociopath a lot of the time
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Why the gently caress is Kotaku so concerned about interior decor it's funny to see a bunch of young men with video game money playing house
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i appreciate that half of the front facade is garages and the other half is this massive foam portico meant to evoke an off-strip casino or something
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Jul 9, 2020 14:26
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zedprime posted:It's a weird article about a weird situation. Any other context it would scream "new moneyed trash people!" but it almost reads on the side of incredulity that the scam housing market sold these guys a house furnished with a snack bar, wine rack, and a piano (played by Sinatra no less lol) as a grand most excellent mansion. big rich people custom houses stuffed with symbolic displays of wealth are like a whole other world. the thing is that when it comes to expensive houses like this, you either get something that's designed and architected well like a finely tailored suit, or it's stuffed full of flashy but tacky design trends that age poorly. anyone with the cash to throw around to purchase a house in this market could just as easily build or remodel their own custom dream palace rather than inhabit someone else's custom dream palace circa the hottest new trends of 2010. so there's lots of these dumb dream palaces sitting around on the market growing moldy they bought this dream palace as-is, because it is just a platform to broadcast wealth, success, accomplishment, etc. fine. but then they had no need to change any of the silly decor (the white baby grand piano in its piano nook was never touched by sinatra, i guarantee it) because this is not supposed to be a house for living in or hosting guests or raising a family, it's just a backdrop for youtubing and instagraming. the funny part is the discrepancy between the image the house portrays and the image their personal spaces portray. the house is this giant statement of tastelessness which only broadcasts the wealth of the inhabitants as loudly as possible, using symbolic displays of wealth which are not just tacky but dated. their bedrooms, where they are certain to spend nearly all of their time, are cozier but decorated in a different awful way, more honest to the taste of young men who are professional video game streamers. it looks like some mix of aspirational cyberpunk with the neon annoyance of a 1950's diner. so it's like, two different layers of superficial displays of wealth. and this underlines the tension between "giant room full of bad design trends that is uncomfortable" and "my tiny gamer cave where i spend all my time basking in LED light" the wine wall is a good example. wine is classy, rich people like wine and have wine collections, so if i'm showing off how rich i am then i need a bunch of wine. i have a problem, though - wine properly stored in a cellar is hard to see and it's not immediately impressive. what if i take all the wine and hang it in front of my window? sure it will go sour and i can't actually drink any of it without ruining the effect, but still - classy wine collection! thus, the previous tenant of this home put up a symbolic collection of wine just to display wealth in an impractical way. now, what if we take this a step further, and we never even pretend that we are going to drink the wine - i mean, i have a personal overclocked cooler of soda pop in my bedroom, so...
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Jul 9, 2020 17:09
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the article says these guys formed a corporation to purchase the house. everything they're doing is part of a business, it's just portrayed as a bunch of cool gamer friends living in a party mansion. it's calculated
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Jul 9, 2020 18:45
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doverhog posted:I wanna say they calculated wrong, but who the gently caress knows anymore. Trump is president, big time streamers make lots of money, etc. kate wagner has a good breakdown on the aesthetics of mcmansions and how to identify just bad, lazy architecture https://mcmansionhell.com/101 regarding why houses like this exist, i don't want to fill up this thread with words but i'll +1 elviscat on the whys of cheap tract housing. to put that into historical context, basically the dependence on automobiles as a major method of transportation has made a lot of cheap land accessible historically through the 20th century. in very populated places with difficult geography or high population we have mostly exhausted the supply of cheap land for suburbs. but even if you live in a place where land is scarce or land is plentiful, there is still incentive to build a lot of cheaply made housing. over the last five decades houses have tended to get bigger and more ostentatious as an empty signifier of wealth and this is generally what creates mcmansions - people wanting maximum house volume for maximum flash, and gluing on all kinds of things that seem to indicate "my house is expensive!", basically the house equivalent of wearing three or four watches on your wrist this isn't a symptom of america's decay, it's just more people being able to afford giant dumb houses as the use of cheaper materials and a supply of cheap land you have to drive an hour to get to continue to make houses cheap. american wealth generation was largely fueled on overconsumption of land by unsustainable use of automobiles, and it can't really be decay in the same sense that cancer is a form of growth
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it's fun to make fun of people who do something embarassing, even if the embarassing thing is not obviously embarassing to everyone regardless, when it comes to a video of young men showing off all of their very expensive things, the people criticizing that video are not the elitists in this situation
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Jul 10, 2020 13:29
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Phlegmish posted:It's 100% showing off that you're a member of the cultural bourgeoisie with the right tastes, values and preferences. making fun of young people with too much money: guillotine!
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Jul 10, 2020 14:07
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yakov smirnoff attends local city council meeting to speak out against mask mandates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaM3xP35gLc&t=4026s
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Even if it works perfectly 100% of the time (which it will not), and even if it never pokes out anyone’s eye or stabs their brain (which it will), the question is: why? Does anyone think that looks faster or more efficient than letting a person do it? Are they going to put these in drugstores like blood pressure testing machines? I’m just not seeing the market. a lot of people uncritically believe "automation is the future" without trying to understand how automation increases efficiency. for example, there's this stupid little robot arm thing that flips burger patties. it's very stupid and inefficient thus pointless, but every few years someone pops up with a new article about this robot nobody wants and a bunch of dull people chime in with "rip minimum wage workers". meanwhile the real automated burger making robot is the giant conveyor system that cranks out thousands of frozen patties per hour if not entire bagged frozen burgers (whole burgers are really hard to freeze and is the real bottleneck in automated burgers) so you're right, taking a robot arm and making it swab a nose is a completely pointless application of automation, because the nose-swabbing part of the process is one of the quickest and easiest parts of the test. automating the processing of results is a lot more useful and i'm sure there are other companies working on that that operate on a more intelligent level than "make a robot arm do it"
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Platystemon posted:Yeah but remember the guy who was in florida during a cold snap, all the iguanas fell from trees, and he was like "hell yeah! free iguanas!" so he was collecting them and storing them in his car then they warmed up and he had a car full of furious iguanas quote:SHAPIRO: Magill says if you meet a semi-frozen iguana, treat it as though it could be alive. He told us this crazy story about a guy in Key Biscayne who was originally from Central America. https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/576082463/what-to-do-if-you-come-across-a-frozen-iguana
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if yall want to know about bull semen have i got the url for you https://www.cattle.com/semen/bulls/Man-Among-Boys.aspx
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bradford pears are very pretty trees but they have a fishy/cummy smell in the spring when they're blooming and any kind of moderately strong storm will snap them in half
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Nov 30, 2021 04:56
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Lady Disdain posted:I'm baffled by this one. Was it written by a friend or an enemy ? I honestly can't tell. the best revenge is living well, and you WILL notice how well i am living GOD drat IT I AM DOING FINE
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Dec 9, 2021 18:24
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to put context around this, you may think "hey! some creep photoshopped the prime minister of finland as a catgirl!" no, she did that. she makes these pictures of herself and puts them on the internet. she owns https://twitter.com/Synthimers/status/1468709114792620034
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By popular demand posted:Whenever I'll feel like I'm the world's biggest weenie I'll look at those pictures of people who can't even chase a cat away from an appliance box. look at this weirdo who doesn't know that existing in a state of constant brinkmanship is the entire point of owning cats good dogs are those which are obedient. disobedient cats are celebrated
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yeah when he got lost at sea he instagrammed the whole thing (getting lost on the water starts around 1:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkuR8ODzo1Q
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Captain Hygiene posted:That news article won't load. This is something different than old school radio I guess, or is there something I have never heard of as far as tying that to something other than just a general audio signal? contemporary radios can interpret a secondary signal sent alongside the audio signal. this can be used to display on the car radio things like what station you're listening to, or the current song/artist
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Phy posted:Every single loving time someone refers to arugula as rocket, my brain starts trying to figure out how to drop a "chew chew rocket" pun, only to abandon it because of the unlikelihood that anyone else in the conversation has had a weird commercial for an obscure Dreamcast game rattling around in their internal jukebox for nearly their entire adult life yeah even if i got the joke i would not acknowledge that i did, for fear that i would then have to explain it to a third person i would be mildly impressed though, very mildly
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wasn't Goldbelly the thing Lowtax ordered cookies from?! yeah, its a boutique ordering service so you can pay way too much for extremely special food items like cheesesteaks from this one place in philly so they must be the best, or cookies baked by a grandma who lives on a remote mountaintop or whatever
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By popular demand posted:What was wrong with pansexual Sims? That sounds pretty great. in a previous update a while ago they added options to make your sims genderfluid. stuff like, does this sim pee standing or not? can this sim impregnate others, or get pregnant? does this sim prefer female or male gendered clothing, or both? just disconnecting all of these variables from the femme or masc body type, so that a masc body sim doesn't necessarily pee standing up or impregnate others in conformance with this option they added sexual preference options as well, which ironically is the first time you can canonically make sims homosexual or heterosexual as previously sims are vaguely pansexual until you tune them to be gay by continually flirting with same-sex sims. even as far back as the original sims in 2000, sims just kinda gently caress whoever Marcade posted:So did they change it to where players can initiate incest, or is the AI now able to initiate relationships, including incest? Never played The Sims, myself (if I wanted the ability to ruin a life, ah *gestures broadly*) its a bug, whatever they did to change preferences got around the "no banging genetic relations" rules to prevent creepy incest pretty mild bug compared to some all time greats, like dwarf fortresses' "carp spend all day leveling up swimming so they are all level 100 murder machines who one shot anything that comes near the river" or crusader kings 2 "whoops! we made the AI engine spend most of its time obsessed with blinding and castrating in-game characters!"
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Jul 29, 2022 18:32
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game of thrones rear end name
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/IllyBocean/status/1582155185811439616?s=20&t=i2ZuGbHCbIvUvf25bGJqog they really did just rip off the sims
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By popular demand posted:I really hope to see that on Forgotten Weapons someday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0l01o2-X3A&t=997s
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lindsey graham hosts the "patriot barbie" podcast? or this rando conservative lady who is trying to boost her podcast by getting filmed in a cougar suit? "we have to fight CRT in our schools and investigate electoral fraud, nyan~"
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Milo and POTUS posted:Well I guess he wasn't scared of needles the lovely thing about fentanyl these days is that everything gets cut with it. there's a problem with teens who start experimenting with pills, which was a typical gateway activity back in my day and one which is only moderately risky. except now the counterfeit pills get cut with an unknown quantity of fentanyl so some of the pills are just an immediate overdose and you won't know until you drop dead in your bedroom for your parents to discover the next day. drug overdose deaths in the united states have doubled since 2015, and its all because of fentanyl there's a similar problem with synthetic weed analogues exploding in usage, and being potentially risky, except pretty much none of the enforcement attention is focused on synthetic weed and delta-N derivatives because nobody's dying from that, so it isn't an immediate crisis. meanwhile fentanyl is picking off dozens of people every day
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