nationalism for apple or microsoft: live and die by smooth product design and marketing/be a reactionary to smooth product design and marketing

It's none of this, it's Asperger's Syndrome manifesting itself through excessively rambling about a particular topic and, judging by the content of a lot of posts here, I'd say that it's relatively common on saltw.

I really ramble just to be entertaining/confusing, like some labyrinth of text with all sorts of weird passages and hidden secrets - or something. Also kind of knowing my interests through childhood were kind of trash and trying to reconcile it in the most ridiculous way possible - Goldeneye jumping into the airvent represent's the hero's journey

also just because I can/internet has infinite space for rambling text

there is some underlying theme of being to access all this random childhood shit via the internet and the vaguely odd/confusing/disturbing experiences it brings back to the surface - and yeah elimination of context is cool too, that's why Homeland soundtrack was full of so many samples

but I just think everything's trash now and try to treat all sort of media/experiences as this unknown territory, like holy shit that McDonald's lemon guy is kind of creepy if you don't form any sort of narrative or accept the logic of the commercial and just treat it as this image you walked into on the street or it's just placed in front of you. Target commercials are like they're directed by Stanley Kubrick, you could probably re-edit a bunch of them so it's like a Shining sequel in a department store

It's none of this, it's Asperger's Syndrome manifesting itself through excessively rambling about a particular topic and, judging by the content of a lot of posts here, I'd say that it's relatively common on saltw.

you have no idea what you're talking about

Some new lyrics popped into my head while I was messing around in a strange tuning: I've got a message in a bottle, written down in gasoline. I'll sign it with my lighter soon, sent from my heart straight to you. I will make you a promise, so someone might keep you close. Leave a record of all you've seen. Sign it with your lighter soon, like a bullet burning through. We'll sign it with our lighters soon.

It's none of this, it's Asperger's Syndrome manifesting itself through excessively rambling about a particular topic and, judging by the content of a lot of posts here, I'd say that it's relatively common on saltw.

hell yeah!!

I really ramble just to be entertaining/confusing, like some labyrinth of text with all sorts of weird passages and hidden secrets - or something. Also kind of knowing my interests through childhood were kind of trash and trying to reconcile it in the most ridiculous way possible - Goldeneye jumping into the airvent represent's the hero's journey

also just because I can/internet has infinite space for rambling text

there is some underlying theme of being to access all this random childhood shit via the internet and the vaguely odd/confusing/disturbing experiences it brings back to the surface - and yeah elimination of context is cool too, that's why Homeland soundtrack was full of so many samples

but I just think everything's trash now and try to treat all sort of media/experiences as this unknown territory, like holy shit that McDonald's lemon guy is kind of creepy if you don't form any sort of narrative or accept the logic of the commercial and just treat it as this image you walked into on the street or it's just placed in front of you. Target commercials are like they're directed by Stanley Kubrick, you could probably re-edit a bunch of them so it's like a Shining sequel in a department store

yeah that seems like a good explanation. Idk i don't know who started this here in gw (its ages) but it just sort of reminded me of how i was absorbed into all this chinese bootleg (i have one for my nes though none of them are homebaked chinese games), this VHS full of special cartoons and 80's commercials (in the 90's!!) and uh just sort of naturally led me to remember all these...flashbacks, really brief memories of some sort of cognitive dissonance/strange experiences when as a kid you just dont really follow the logic of the narrative so fluently. like the difference between kid and adult in games that adults naturally focus on goals GOTTA WIN THIS GAME OPTIMIZE EVERY ACTION BECOME THE KIND OF THE HEAP and kids are more absorbed in to the general experience/world of the games. at least MOST prone to this though games like pilotwings 64 and blast corps were kinda boring due to lack of controls/exploration and contradictory things/objectives within the game (pilotwings: mission brief in short message, gets you thrown above a vibrating island, become puzzled as screen is full of arbitrary meters and numbers, try to control the flight and realize that its ridicilously hard to keep the plane even functional like in GTA so its a bummer)
and then again the water level tune + the map in mario 64 was enough to make any kid an arthur russell, press Z to pretend that you are crouching on an island/being stranded in an island while arthur russell plays in background...

in general i have noticed that uh people dont usually find the shit eg in that topic CONFUSING or amusing or amazing (unless is for lols, its the guilty dog lol owned...) because they follow the narrative completely/as a given... even though some of the rhetorics or means used in the product are counter-intuitive/could be better/designed better for the purpose/are just eg GROTESQUE (like that mcdonald lemon or those fucking egs with black spots jesus christ that freaked me out for no reason).
its bit like hearing a boring/strange bridge in a song and nobody stops to think that WHY this bridge is like that or doesnt anybody find this uh kinda strange in or even out of context... if the whole world was the middle part of don't fear the reaper everybody skips/let it go on anyways...


i fear that one day all of this will be determined by the lowest accepted determinator by the population/mass at large and eventually you have all these bizarre, grotesque narrative given tools in the media nobody questions in any way. its just like those bollywood/indian or chinese/japanese advertisements throwing strange grotesque american cliches out of nowhere just for convention AHH! INTERNATIONAL YES YES, WEST=HIP, YES YES! I LOVE AMERIKA! AMERIDA...and this stuff happens just over here in west just about everything, david thomas was right...

like the difference between kid and adult in games that adults naturally focus on goals GOTTA WIN THIS GAME OPTIMIZE EVERY ACTION BECOME THE KIND OF THE HEAP and kids are more absorbed in to the general experience/world of the games. at least MOST prone to this though games like pilotwings 64 and blast corps were kinda boring due to lack of controls/exploration and contradictory things/objectives within the game (pilotwings: mission brief in short message, gets you thrown above a vibrating island, become puzzled as screen is full of arbitrary meters and numbers, try to control the flight and realize that its ridicilously hard to keep the plane even functional like in GTA so its a bummer)
and then again the water level tune + the map in mario 64 was enough to make any kid an arthur russell, press Z to pretend that you are crouching on an island/being stranded in an island while arthur russell plays in background...

this is a convo i've had with several people recently, the differences between being a kid playing a game and being an adult.  i think growing up ruined games for me because i can't play them the way i used to anymore.  i think fallout new vegas is the closest i've had to that because i spend my time in that game just doing whatever shit feels right to me at the time i.e. see if i can go into the casino and jump across the room on the tables without hitting the floor but when i play games now i'm too aware of how games are designed and i can't help but think about what makes sense in a game instead of just going on gut feelings.  like the guy who begs you for water in fallout 3 outside of megaton, i assume (even though i've not done it enough or looked it up to find out) that if you give him x amount of bottles of water you get some sort of reward or REACTION at least from him.  but what if you just keep giving him water and nothing ever happens??? that's how it should be.  some things should just be dead ends.  you shouldn't be able to just assume that if you give a beggar a ton of stuff you'll get some sort of reward, maybe he's just thirsty!!!  a kid thinks "i wonder what happens if i give him more water" but an adult thinks "i know if i give him enough something will happen".  playing so many games and learning how they're made have made me enjoy games less.  the reason i love gamecenter cx so much is that arino, despite being a grown man, still plays games like a kid.  i'm so jealous of him.  i miss playing games like a kid.

i think another problem is that when i play games now i'm always on IRC or have music playing or SOMETHING i am never just playing a game.  i need to just shut off everything else in my house and sit down with my game and just play it.  and play it for hours i mean, i have no attention span for games anymore which is awful i get tired of playing most games after about half an hour at most i need to just sit down and play a game.  maybe if my attention wasn't so divided and i was sitting in a quiet room with just the game i could play it properly.

irc is the end of all mental activity

I'm getting a Kindle in hopes that I will be able to actually concentrate on a book with the convenience of it/every book ever at my fingertips

idk i haven't used kindle at all but it seems like the potential for infinite undifferentiated books would be kind of a barrier to seriously reading any of them? maybe that's just me but i know with huge rom torrents or something i tend to just kind of dip in and out lookin for immediate interest whereas most of the books i've read to the end are ones that have sat around my room for weeks before i made a concerted effort to go through them.
 
wait actually if you do get a kindle then you should totally just download like the entire contents of project gutenberg and just treat it like a folder of awkwardly named zxspectrum roms EZPOU_CANTOS.CBR flick through for ten seconds then push onwards, embrace the cultural drift / please write harold bloom to add Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers [NES] [ROMHACK ][/ROMHACK] to the recognised western canon
 
you could definitely develop a stranger and maybe better or more rounded view of Our Lit Heritage by having the canonical masterwork stuff be hidden anonymously alongside thousands upon thousands of awful or mysterious or irrelevent old books, some of which are just reskinned versions of others or semi-sequels or installments in some odd hermetic little genre thing. english mystery plays are stand-ins for YS III or whatever the fuck and you cant tell which book on the Faust myth came first
 
 
also i kind of like playing games more now than i did as a kid because i can think about and appreciate all the goofy or interesting stuff rather than just blankly assimilate it all as just grist for the mill. like even the ridiculous kid obsessions with missingno or hidden goldeneye dam were probably product of uh this ravenous maw just snapping blindly for anything else to chew up. unthinkingly internalising these vague hints and trying to follow them down dead-ends. that can be fun too but only retroactively!! at the time its just another part of this homogeneous experience-froth. spend 2hours wandering through Doom maze over and over in attempt to find Blue Key while none of it registers at all.

well honestly I'm not so excited about full-on books but stuff like KPUNK-ABSTRACTDYNAMICS.ORG that I really want to read but ah wall of text it hurts my eyes. This will be cool I think that all this random internet stuff can just be displayed like a real book or magazine article


what I actually came here to post was why don't any conspiracy theories mention the text SIMPLE UNIVERSAL LEADER which is apparently printed on every film reel ever made or something


oh yeah I listened to a Bull of Heaven song all the way through

just mentioning this new show Rookie Blue somehow in a commercial or something I think it reminded me totally of Resident Evil with the S.T.A.R.S. team and all. Main character is Jill Valentine

might have just been because she wore a hat

I got a Kindle a few months ago for my birthday. It's neat, but I'm not sure there's any real difference in reading "quality" over regular books. I would recommend one if you read a lot of books and wouldn't mind some extra space. You can buy e-books pretty cheaply (and it's really easy to pirate a shitload of books.) But if you are the kind of person that doesn't read much I say don't bother. And I think you'd like it Ragnar, because in my experience the kindle formats text pretty nicely.

thanks for the advice Julian Assange