EDIT: I don’t like the ableist parts though. I specifically meant the prescience of the “singularity” power fantasies that promise more comfort to already comfortable affluent techbros.
drawing cartoons bad??? having special interests bad??? speedrunning… bad???
was so so good until the last like 4 panels
the worst part is that these are all like fundamentally less-consumerist activities much of the time and are therefore fundamentally incomparable to vapid silicon valley singularist nerdshit
really reveals how fundamentally incapable people are of comprehending the breadth of ableism that we can’t fundamentally disconnect the very real material evils of the white neurotypical nerd from the autistic invader zim fan we hated in middle school because they weren’t playing our social games enough
The “singularity” and related nerd rapture escapist power fantasies deserve to be mocked and tend to be comfort prophecies for the already comfortable.
yeah except that’s the part we love too, it’s the weird implication that you can’t think your art is great or something or have other ‘obsessive’ interests without being inherently infantile that i take issue with
Edit: and to be clear I do not think, for instance, marvel fan-ism is like good or ok. I’m talking about actual hobbies like regular traditional art or composition or, even, nerdier stuff that’s actually cool, like radio shit or linux tweaking. It’s unfortunate because the comic actually seems more condemning of the latter than the former even though I would say there’s much more overlap between marvel nerds and apple nerds than there is between apple nerds and, like, xX_phatcockdrawer_Xx
Me going to my high school reunion solely to tell the jocks “You were right about everything. You were trying to help me.”
Although it’s something the comic touched up on a bit, I’m surprised there isn’t some businesses that’s all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
I’m surprised there isn’t some businesses that’s all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
there are some. Not enough, and probably way more outside the imperial core, but I’ve seen a few. I think it’s getting better as time goes on and tech iteration slows down. 10 years ago it would’ve been something of a struggle to run modern web pages on a 5 year old laptop, let alone an office suite, much moreso than using a 2019/2020 laptop today.
The bigger thing now I guess is the proliferation of people not even having a computer and just using their smartphone for everything. Smartphones are treated as an absolute essential, so people just suck it up and buy a new one when they can’t get any more life out of the old one, rather than adapting their usage. Mandatory app updates and built-to-fail batteries and other components just seal the deal
I tend to think of it as the other way around, like using “ooh so sleek and thin” as justification for the actual reasons but its probably just self-reinforcing in both directions
it’s a really weird and wild veer off course from the salient take of “most nerds are actual evil soulless monsters” to the weird and brainwormed idea that “my idea of Socially Acceptable Interests and Socially Acceptable Amount of Interest is objectively right and is the foundation of adulthood (i don’t infantilize autistic people btw i swear!!!)”
The full comic is even more prescient.
EDIT: I don’t like the ableist parts though. I specifically meant the prescience of the “singularity” power fantasies that promise more comfort to already comfortable affluent techbros.
drawing cartoons bad??? having special interests bad??? speedrunning… bad??? was so so good until the last like 4 panels
the worst part is that these are all like fundamentally less-consumerist activities much of the time and are therefore fundamentally incomparable to vapid silicon valley singularist nerdshit
really reveals how fundamentally incapable people are of comprehending the breadth of ableism that we can’t fundamentally disconnect the very real material evils of the white neurotypical nerd from the autistic invader zim fan we hated in middle school because they weren’t playing our social games enough
There’s clearly some weird self hatred going on there
I didn’t like the whole thing myself but the “singularity” dunk was well earned.
the singularity dunk is the best part of the comic to the point that it has some of the highest based/pixel ratio of any image segment i have seen
I can see why the OP only used the first third
The rest starts ok then veers off into nonsense
That is the “starts ok” part
Agreed.
yeah except that’s the part we love too, it’s the weird implication that you can’t think your art is great or something or have other ‘obsessive’ interests without being inherently infantile that i take issue with
Edit: and to be clear I do not think, for instance, marvel fan-ism is like good or ok. I’m talking about actual hobbies like regular traditional art or composition or, even, nerdier stuff that’s actually cool, like radio shit or linux tweaking. It’s unfortunate because the comic actually seems more condemning of the latter than the former even though I would say there’s much more overlap between marvel nerds and apple nerds than there is between apple nerds and, like, xX_phatcockdrawer_Xx
I edited my earlier comment to clarify that I don’t like the ableism rant at the bottom either.
also tbf i don’t think its like explicitly ableist. it’s just. very reminiscient of some weird things people say
Me going to my high school reunion solely to tell the jocks “You were right about everything. You were trying to help me.”
Although it’s something the comic touched up on a bit, I’m surprised there isn’t some businesses that’s all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
There’s plenty of marketplaces that sell only refurbished electronics. It’s how I got my laptop.
there are some. Not enough, and probably way more outside the imperial core, but I’ve seen a few. I think it’s getting better as time goes on and tech iteration slows down. 10 years ago it would’ve been something of a struggle to run modern web pages on a 5 year old laptop, let alone an office suite, much moreso than using a 2019/2020 laptop today.
The bigger thing now I guess is the proliferation of people not even having a computer and just using their smartphone for everything. Smartphones are treated as an absolute essential, so people just suck it up and buy a new one when they can’t get any more life out of the old one, rather than adapting their usage. Mandatory app updates and built-to-fail batteries and other components just seal the deal
Yep, and the thinness of phones makes all this worse too
yeahhh
I tend to think of it as the other way around, like using “ooh so sleek and thin” as justification for the actual reasons but its probably just self-reinforcing in both directions
marketing
sales
The closest thing is recycling the gold from circuitboards.
Alright it’s too early in the morning to be personally attacked like this
it’s a really weird and wild veer off course from the salient take of “most nerds are actual evil soulless monsters” to the weird and brainwormed idea that “my idea of Socially Acceptable Interests and Socially Acceptable Amount of Interest is objectively right and is the foundation of adulthood (i don’t infantilize autistic people btw i swear!!!)”
That part was
to me.
I mostly remembered the “singularity” dunk and its prophecy of additional comfort to already comfortable techbros.
Incredibly prophetic, I can’t believe it’s what, at least a decade old?