Baseball was the only American sport to take root in Japan because it's the sport that most closely approximates the turn-based battle system of a traditional JRPG.
Nobody is talking about this.
2034. You can't remember when extended family hadn't shown up uninvited to your home in the middle of the afternoon. Yesterday an uncle who watched soccer and drank beer on your couch. The day before two aunts gossiping in the kitchen. You pray for quiet but God does not answer.
Video games are terrible nowadays because developers don't include an entire page of recommended reading at the back of the manual to further elucidate their whimsical satire of post-war American suburban consumerism.
Mock California all you like: as we enter the age of Texas-Miami cultural dominion, you're going to witness slop like you would not dare to dream about.
Being a girl and seeing highlights reels like this every single day on your social media feed while you're stuck in Starbucks pretending to study by making flashcards of your biology textbook has to absolutely nuke your mental health.
The same Gen X creeps who built a brand selling you hookup culture, decadence, and hedonism, and are responsible for a generation of younger people struggling to pair bond now want to sell you the cure.
The most Third World thing you can do is to question why somebody spends their time learning something that doesn't have an immediate financial benefit. There are, in fact, a small--yet dwindling--number of people who don't spend their entire life thinking of ways to "get rich".
Zoomers will never believe it but there was a time not long ago when you could talk to girls in public before a bunch of swarthy Gen X guys creeped everyone out by turning it into a rigged Korean mobile gacha game not at all dissimilar to telemarketing or door-to-door sales.
anyone see that black mirror episode where the protagonist stares at Microsoft excel for 10+ hours per day and then gets stuck in traffic for three hours on the way home
"OK, now press the Windows key and type 'vlc' and select VLC media player. Click on Media and then Open File, and navigate to the nested file directory in--"
"Dad, can we just get Netflix?"
"No. Now do you see the file ending in (1080p BluRay x265 RZeroX).mkv? Click on that."
The contemporary discussion around gender is perfectly understandable when you realize that this was our model for "masculinity" growing up in the late 2000's/early 2010's.
"Drop out of college and learn a trade--plumbers make on average $300,000 per year."
Thelonious G. Goldsmith III, Esq.
Managing Director, CKSCKR Capital
JD/MBA, Stanford Graduate Business School
BA, Princeton University
The Russians have a lot of rare, untapped cultural clout that could be used to manifest soft power, much like Japan has been doing since the 1980's. There aren't too many countries in the world that are inherently "cool" to foreigners in this way.
Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian government to look into developing a video game console
This follows Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony halting sales in the country
"Why are working age men dropping out of the workforce?" Bro, there is no workforce we're sending e-mails all day for a pittance, can't afford a house, can't marry because we're not 13 feet tall, none of this shit matters
imagine being a semi-conscious fetus floating in oblivion when a needle comes out of nowhere and headshots you for the insta-kill because your mother would rather make PowerPoints for $60K/y than raise you
I wouldn't hire anyone smart. You want to hit that perfect crest on the IQ bell curve where someone is stupid enough to find fulfillment in "achieving core business competencies" but not bright enough to question what that actually means, or what anything means at all really.
The perfect wageslave is a married man with young children and a mortgage. Companies know you're locked in for the rest of your life and will do everything in their power to exploit that socioeconomic reality.
the positive relationship between marriage and men's wages is correctly understood as a causal effect of marriage on earnings
no joke my wife watching kiddo and making dinner every day lets me exert myself to a degree i would have once believed superhuman
I'm noticing a lot of these "loser homes" forming where 4-5 single guys in their late 20s-30s will rent a house together while working dead-end jobs or not working at all. They'll do nothing every day but game, order delivery, and smoke weed. It seems like kind of a waste to me.
One of these days, we'll come to realize that we ruined the greatest source of information ever invented because we allowed subcontinentals publish SEOslop to earn a few rupees off of Amazon affiliate links.
Men don't travel because it is mentally and physically agonizing to spend money on anything that isn't worth potentially more money at some undefined point in the future.
My aunt is still in Kabul and she says the Taliban are now going door to door and forcing all the women to watch Drive (2011) starring Ryan Gosling on repeat with their male family members.
I'll keep saying it: modern developers lack perspective from outside of video games which leads to dull, uninspired retreading of familiar territory. A generation raised on video games is ironically the least capable of making compelling video games.
Really enjoying this new genre of Zoomers on TikTok realizing the world they're about to enter is a rigged carnival game with prizes that you both can't win and aren't worth winning.
Wanted to congratulate Pfizer for turning the human immune system into SaaS.
Even Salesforce could not devise a recurring revenue scheme this diabolical and they try their best.
I know the WhatsApp cultures of the world will disagree with me, but having quiet time to yourself is essential for any sort of learning or personal development to occur. There's a reason countries where you're never left alone are the way they are.
Man invents wheel. Is bound by own his own creation. Begins to believe that time, reality itself is a wheel.
Man invents computer. Is bound by his own creation. Begins to believe that time, reality itself is a computer program.
And there is no new thing under the sun.
Toasting "Oppai!" instead of "Kanpai!" at the after work salaryman event and pretending not to know what it means, met with thunderous laughter and applause from my Japanese co-workers, instantly promoted to COO of Toyota.
The only reason this 157 billion dollar company even exists is because people don't know how to navigate a file directory and are scared of websites with Cyrillic letters.
2038: Sex is legally mandated to occur only in designated Zuckerberg Pleasure Pods, wherein the consent of both parties is audibly verified by a smart contract embedded Amazon Echo and cryptographically hashed onto the blockchain.
You try encouraging your kids to study but your mother-in-law takes the books away because reading is for gringos and they should be learning a trade like their uncle who cuts palm leaves with a chainsaw for a living. The AC unit doesn't work and it's getting even hotter outside.
In retrospect, you may find that your teenage atheism was less due to a lack of faith on your part and more due to the fact that Evangelicals have the worst conceivable theology and traditions.
Most people should be able to get into a deep squat.
But sedentary lifestyles and constant sitting has limited our ability to access full hip mobility.
Here’s the most common reasons why you can’t squat deep + how to improve it.
Prole drift.
As the middle class contracts and upward mobility becomes impossible, formerly middle class Americans begin affiliating themselves more and more with the sort of vulgarity that was once beneath them (e.g., country music, tattoos). Record labels then sell this image.
What’s with this trend of slovenly white guy soul singers with face tattoos named like Pasty Slims channeling recovered drug addict who owns 3 rescue pits and is really into novelty hot sauces vibes?
The autonomy kids used to have in the United States will always be surprising. It's still like this in other countries.
My generation was told that if we left the driveway in front of the house, we'd instantly be kidnapped and murdered. And they blame us for being too online.
Conservatives are such an exploitable Internet demographic for selling any sort of snake oil supplement because you just know not a single one has taken a biochemistry class, or any science class at all for that matter.
Lactose intolerance is BS.
Raw milk (unpasteurized) has the enzyme lactase which is needed for breaking down the lactose in milk.
Your aren't lactose intolerant, just switch to Raw Milk:
I should just start one of those book TikToks and farm Zoomer fangirls instead of spending hours per week coming up with clever things to write to entertain and inform a dwindling audience of mentally ill Millennials.
The youngest Millennials are witness to a unique historical phenomenon in that the end of their Childhood and transition into Adulthood aligns temporally with the End of America and transition into the Rules-Based Order that has no rules, no order, and isn't based (c. 2007-2012).
Just lie on your resume. There's close to 0 risk.
Nobody's going to find out. You won't break anything. You'll simply learn on the job like everyone does.
me, 2011: facebook sells your data to advertisers and their parties
normie: dude u sound like a conspiracy theorist do u believe in ufos lol
news, 2018: facebook sells your data to advertisers and their parties
normie: this is OUTRAGEOUS
"My life sucked until I leveraged the relative strength of the United States dollar and the higher wages earned by American workers to start a new life in a country with a functional society."
There is something almost poetic, I believe, with the Boomers sailing off into the sunset during their twilight years on titanic vessels.
A decadent end to a decadent age.
This man really sacrificed the lives of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen so he could be a Hollywood celebrity. Hustler's University has nothing on this grift.
There's nothing else to do with elite cognitive talent besides speedrunning. The private sector doesn't want it because smart people make the managerial caste uneasy and the public sector doesn't want it because the lives of citizens might improve. Hence, we arrive at Spyro 3.
Every day I am newly in awe at the amount of elite cognitive talent––world historical levels of memorization, strategy, optimization, real-time problem solving––getting put to use on increasingly trivial tasks like speedrunning Sekiro blindfolded.
Gen A has already managed to produce a more sophisticated and entertaining multimedia franchise than the greatest creative minds in Hollywood and they're like 9 years old.
These political comedy infotainment shows they started to put out 20 years ago have been among the most successful and insidious works of propaganda in history.
Everybody thinks they're in favor of eugenics until they realize the wealthy actually practice it and believe you to be sub-human.
Did you really think you'd make the cut because you deadlift twice per week?
There seems to be three white collar salary tiers that have the escape velocity of Jupiter. You'll likely get stuck in one and it'll be impossible to leave without some combination of education, changing companies, and lying profusely on your resume:
$50-70K
$120-150K
$180-210K
Zoomers will never know that there was a time not long ago when people got bullied for liking video games and anime.
Today is actually the best it's ever been for those with such interests. Shame about the video games and anime of today though.
I just got back from Europe and here's your report card:
British (elderly): ++
Charming, good manners
British (young): -
Slovenly, obnoxious
French: +++
Polite, quiet
Dutch: +
Friendly but a slight bit cringe
Spanish: ---
Please shut up and stop singing randomly in public
Young people aren't drinking because it's expensive and they're dead broke. You can't go racking up $100+ tabs per bar every evening if you don't have anything to spend.
It seems that young people have given up drinking alcohol in favor of safety and sterility.
This trend, contributing to a society of sexually inactive people and a bland, homogenously dull culture, is likely to worsen the birth rate crisis.
Everything in America is designed with the singular intent of scamming you. From prices ending in 99 cents to Internet cookie opt-out forms that place the Allow All button where the Confirm button is supposed to be, the entire country is a monstrous grift nobody is safe from.
If you feel that you're lying "too much" on your resume, just remember that there's multiple disgusting foreigners with piss poor English applying for the same job as you who're lying 10X as much without a shred of the same moral reservations you have.
I spent hundreds of hours studying blockchain and cryptocurrency, taught myself how to use the technologies, tried to make wise investments, and my mom buys Shiba Inu because "I like dogs" (her exact quote) and outperforms my portfolio.
Nine times out of ten, men who don't go to college end up smoking weed all day, every day and playing some horrendous live-service game like League of Legends full time.
The other ten percent do the same exact thing but they wake up one day and enlist in the military.
When tech companies outsource to South Asia, the work gets done but it gets done horribly wrong.
When tech companies outsource to South America, the work doesn't get done at all.
Both result in you having to do the work yourself anyways. Yet somehow this all saves money.
I did this for over two years in the software industry and I can say without hesitation that јасkіng оff and playing solo ranked queue League of Legends for 12 hours per day is a better use of your time.
I like the totally fictitious part in Deus Ex (2000) when you're in a bar in post-2047 Hong Kong & the bartender mentions that China is the last sovereign country on Earth after the rest of the world falls under the control of a cabal of billionaires due to a manmade global pande
There's an entire managerial caste in this country that knows absolutely nothing and does absolutely nothing. Their entire purpose is to insulate their superiors from the consequences of their horrendous business decisions. That's all they do. They're there to take the fall.
The only way to escape prole drift is radical snobbery. Getting "rich" won't help. There are billionaires undergoing prole drift as I write this very post.
You need to develop such a superior sense of aesthetic sensibilities that the totality of existence becomes slop.
Prole drift.
As the middle class contracts and upward mobility becomes impossible, formerly middle class Americans begin affiliating themselves more and more with the sort of vulgarity that was once beneath them (e.g., country music, tattoos). Record labels then sell this image.
It's crazy how frontloaded games are now. Everything interesting happens in the beginning.
Games used to get better as they progressed but somewhere along the way developers realized that "journalists" and people who make YouTube essays only play the first 10 hours of a game.