• CubitOom@infosec.pub
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    13 hours ago

    Oh man…remember when satire news publications had articles of bat boy on the front page because politics weren’t as absurd yet?

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      8 hours ago

      I miss those magazines. I love absurdity, and I’d beg my mom to buy them for me. She wouldn’t and said they were trash, and not real.

      I know. Thats why I want them. I don’t want real news. I never asked her to buy a newspaper. I want to read how Bigfoot was caught bathing in a bird bath in northern Canada. Yes, I was 7, and knew the difference between this and reality. But I love absurd fake shit.

      I spent the 90s watching pro wrestling where an undead wizard faught his own long lost brother, who was thought to be dead decades ago after the undead wizard burned his whole family alive inside the family owned funeral home. Turns out his brother was kept locked in a basement to hide his scars, and now wears a mask to hide his disfigured face. And somehow, because he was burned alive as a child, he now is able to summon fire, which is just as plausible as his brother being able to summon lightning.

      I know most of you don’t watch pro wrestling. I get that it’s not for everyone. BUT! After reading that summery of an actual decades long storyline, if you EVER ask a fan of pro wrestling if they know it’s “fake”, you’re even dumber than you think we are.

      Point is, I love these magazines, but at some point they gave up. They couldn’t be more absurd than real life.

      Absurdity is dead.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    50s dude could uno-reverse card that shit by breaking out the slang from his own teen years. Get all the gens conversing this way in one thread just for pure chaos-sake.

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      11 hours ago

      We definitely had ridiculous slang in the 80s and 90s, but the truth is I always felt like the media over-played it trying to sound cool. And when we’d over-play it amongst ourselves it was as a way to laugh at adults.

      Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? Cowabunga. Some of my favorite stuff had excessive references to skateboarding, roller blading, or other Xtreme sports (Hackers, anyone?) and that’s coming from a guy who used to be a part of that scene.

      Maybe I’m wrong. If I am that wouldn’t be fetch.

      Edit: my drunk ass doesn’t know the difference between all of the 80s and 89.

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          But you’re not jamming with the console cowboys there, as much as I wish that happened. I guess I should have hacked the Gibson harder.

          On an entirely related note, theoretically there will be a Neuromancer TV show next year.

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    16 hours ago

    At first I was like:

    …then I saw this:

    And began to realize that things were about to get bad…

    I didn’t realize the drama, the pathos:

    The good times:

    …and the bad:

    After much contemplation, I realized there was only one meme I could post in defense: