Had a mini panic attack while reading the second part.
Ah, the joys of unresolved childhood trauma caused by parents who hated each other
My parents silently hated each other. Well, technically my mother hated my father because she was kind of fucked up in the head - thanks mostly to her cult brainwashing, childhood abuse trauma, and interested mental illness, and it wasn’t silent so much as cancerous and she kept dragging me and my sister into it…
I forgot where I was going with this. At least the hypothetical meme kid got to have friends over.
if you’re getting triggered based on memes. you might need to be seeing a therapist and resolving some that trauma.
i read this and laughed fondly and felt gratitude at how awesome my life is now compared to how I grew up. no more shitty food, no more shitty friends, no more shitty parents. and I get to play all the RPGs I want that everyone mocked me for when I was a kid.
I’ve got snacks, soda, and pizza. I’m good.
I think the coolest difference to reflect on is the respect I felt as a kid in my poor friends homes and the disrespect I felt as a kid in my rich friends homes.
Rich parents see their kids as a burden to their peace. Sleepovers made it super apparent.
In order to get rich you have to dislike people in general it seems.
Yet here I am, not rich.
The more money you get, the more empathy you lose. This phenomenon has been studied, but not enough. Even if you started off poor, if you become rich you being to think you’re smarter and better than everyone else, even if you really only got rich because you were lucky, which is most rich people.
True. I do wonder if there’s not some element to it which works the other way round. Many rich people spend their excessive wealth in order to distance themselves from communities. Private mansions outside the city, yachts, private islands…
Now there’s also plenty of reasons for them to obscure their activities. Not only because some of them are morally abject but mostly because they can’t let anyone notice that they’re entirely unremarkable. But there must be something that makes isolation appealing to them and being an unremarkable part of a community seem horrible. Though maybe that’s just a learned trait under capitalism.
I’m not rich but I enjoy my isolation. While i live in town, I’m on 1.5 acres and it’s pretty dense with vegetation. No one can see my house from the road. It’s like having a little hideaway. I don’t really identify with the other people in my town. In fact, when I do interact with them I just come away depressed by how shallow they all seem.
I live in the US where rampant consumerism is the norm.
isolating is appealing because other people are hell.
the people in my ‘community’ are complete assholes when you invite them into your home. so you stop doing it. I don’t need an endless series of mini lectures about how ‘disappointing’ my choice of dishware is. i have no idea what the ‘quality’ of a dinner plate is, but my community is full of people who AGONIZE about this shit all day long.
I’d be more amendable to my community if it wasn’t full of incessantly nit picky weirdos who criticizes everything you own and everything you do and always tell you how you are doing it wrong or why you aren’t doing it like they would do it.
the few times i ever felt nice in a community was around people who just didn’t care about stupid bullshit. But… that never lasts very long, because the nitpickers always invade and start picking everything apart.
Where do you live that people hate you for your dishware?
Sweet, TV to myself. Time to play some Ocarina.
Crystal Pepsi AND an N64? What year is this?
Pretty sure that Doritos bag is too old for 1999, too
Doritos increased the intensity of their flavors and promoted it as Nacho Cheesier and Cooler Ranch flavors in the mid 1990’s. At some point, the flavor names changed back to Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch. Wikipedia mentions the recipe change in 1994 but not the name change.
So I’d place that bag design at around 1995.
That’s C-3PO on there, so it’s probably 1997-1999 (Special Edition was 1997, Phantom Menace was 1999).
Good catch, looks like it was a promotional partnership for the Special Editions in 1997
Yeah, Crystal Pepsi was discontinued in 1994, but Star Wars Special Edition (see C-3PO on the Doritos bag) was released in 1997, so this is weird.
Edit to add: I was curious, so I looked up the history of the Mountain Dew logo. They connected the “T” and the “A” in 1996, which honestly makes this all a little bit weirder.
Glad someone caught it.
We just go out and touch grass to avoid it. 50/50 chance we end up with an angry farmer chasing us in a field but we could run faster than him and his landrover couldn’t jump the fence.
Switch to his controller and swap yours to CPU obviously
