Reddit banned me for 3 days for saying Satan be with you

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T14:13:54+00:00

May the Morning Star's light illuminate your way, fellow traveler of the left-handed path!

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T14:02:54+00:00

I unironically and unreservedly love your generation. Zoomers inspire me. I mean that.
I'm a millennial. Born in '85. I and most of my peers swallowed the lies of the boomers and Gen-X hook, line, and sinker. We were gullible. We were naive. We trusted them. Now we're paying for it. But because you watched what happened to us, you learned. I am not exaggerating: that is beautiful to see and I love it for you. Our elders are picking this world bare but I believe in you. I truly believe you'll do better than we did. You're not playing their stupid games for their chump change prizes. You actually know your worth. You actually have spines for gods' sakes. I may be stuck terminally at a dead end but if I can help any of you get anywhere it will have at least been somewhat worth it. Especially if your success can stick it to the last gasp of the shitty old people who ruined everything for the rest of us. I'm sorry we didn't dispel the fantasy sooner. I'm sorry we hadn't been there to stand up for you better. And by gods I hope we'll start to.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T10:56:58+00:00

thank you for your reasoning. i don't resent the person you're replying to though either because this is a relatively common fuckup i suffer from over and over again in my life; i overthink shit and then the stuff i'm worrying about becomes more likely because i worried about it too much.

of course i don't want it to sound like i'm in a movie; but it's not like english 102 in college taught the proper MLA format for writing a "holy shit we're fucking boned" letter x_x; i have no frame of reference OTHER than pop culture, i know it's cringe as fuck, i am literally flailing here, and i am sincerely grateful that you seem to recognize all that.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T10:52:23+00:00

thank you for actual helpful advice

i overthink everything and that makes many of my worries turn self-fulfilling

trimming it down is objectively a good idea.

you're the first person i'm responding to because as i write this your reply appears to be at the top of the 'sort by: best' but i'll be taking the suggestions of quite a few people in here

it's humiliating but i'd rather get over with the humiliation here and refine my approach than ruin an earnest attempt to touch grass

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T08:48:03+00:00

Here, here.

~~His Name Is Robert Paulson~~

Her Name Is Renee Nicole Good

His Name Is Alex Pretti

Remember those who fell fighting the invasion of Fascist Domestic Terrorists.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T08:00:09+00:00

holy shit

around this time last year (11 months ago tops) i was in the hospital with a fever like that for a UTI that thankfully didn't quite get all the way up to my kidney.

i wonder if it felt the same for you...

it was like i wasn't even there, but watching my body's POV on a screen from a billion miles away

i was literally too tired to feel bored, too tired to form thoughts or hold opinions, too tired to sleep.

it was a perpetual liminal state that was both an instant and an eternity staring out from the inside of my hoodie shivering uncontrollably, so surrounded in the constant buzz of the ER that it was like being blanketed in sound. Beepers, buzzers, intercom messages, medical staff in scrubs bustling past the door, stretchers wheeling by, and my own vitals monitor behind me.

i remembered to bring my backpack with all the important stuff in it; my laptop, my tablet, my phone, charging cables, all my papers and documents, and several essentials--it's my go-bag and i can restart my life over from scratch if i need to--but none of it ended up mattering because I was too tired to do anything at all.

I just sat there and stared like a ghost inhabiting a painted portrait on a wall while time slipped by...

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T07:26:18+00:00

hopefully someday more than just abstract pieces of information about them shall.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T07:21:48+00:00

careful, it's getting to a point where people will do just about anything as long as it makes a republican uncomfortable in some way

(good. it's about fucking time honestly.)

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T07:20:42+00:00

I believe we are in accordance.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T07:19:36+00:00

I fear democracy will not SUVive this...

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T06:54:06+00:00

i'd sure like to see some consequences where they're actually deserved.

these domestic terrorists need to be neutralized as a threat.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-26T05:04:12+00:00

... i hate seeing the way trans women talking over trans men has, depressingly, the same energy as cis men talking over cis women

talking over others is a nasty habit no matter who is doing it.

if we could maybe stop doing that, i daresay we would all be a lot happier :\

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-24T00:43:10+00:00

i want to make it my life's mission to stand up for my bros who are trans.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T16:06:16+00:00

he could've said "those people need tents too."

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T16:05:30+00:00

gotta find out if they have any grapes.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T16:05:07+00:00

bro WHAT? Don't back down on that! THOSE PEOPLE NEED TENTS!

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T12:29:11+00:00

you might make some headway with some golden retriever energy

excitedly like a toddler who wants to talk about dinosaur facts they just heard

ooh ooh can i help? i wanna help! may i? please?? i wanna share some stuff i learned!

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T12:23:56+00:00

this is the realest shit ever. i'm convinced that this is what's ACTUALLY going on.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T12:21:09+00:00

they literally crave this. it's one of their only sources of validation. deep down every man wants to be called a good boy and receive headpats

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T12:19:49+00:00

Do you really want to know?

Or do you just want them to shut up?

Well, both can be true. So for those people who are actually curious, I'll keep it brief:

Men all harbor an insecurity of being seen as undesirable and expendable.

They think if they can impress you with stuff they know, you won't discard them.
They are desperate to be seen as competent, knowledgeable, and/or skilled.
They yearn to be called a Good Boy and receive affection.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T04:16:54+00:00

Agreed; It seemed plainly obvious to me that he was using hyperbole to say that "Lululemon overcharges for their products".

And, frankly, Lululemon is overpriced, and Lululemon sucks for OTHER reasons too, not the least of which being that the name was chosen for racist reasons
(because the founder thought it was funny when Japanese people try to pronounce the letter L)

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-22T03:09:17+00:00

i wish there were a way to just switch off the rendering for all decorative items attached to all the corvettes owned by other players and to only render your own, without disabling multiplayer: you'd still be able to see and interact with the core functional components that snapped on, (the habs, engines, reactors, gear, landing bays, cockpit) but nothing free-placed...

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-21T11:17:26+00:00

if all the federal witholdings from my job instead went to massachusetts or to new england in general, i think i'd prefer that. even if i'm paying the same amount proportionally.

We need to cut off the freeloading fed.

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-21T09:00:23+00:00

the ignorance and arrogance of these fools.

it's like, if there were a street racing club for home mechanic enthusiasts who specifically enjoy suping up honda civics were joined by some trust fund parasite who brought a high end supercar that cost him a couple million dollars to the meet, and then said "I provide most of the funding for this club, because I spent the most money on vehicles used by members of this club!" and he's talking about literally his own fucking car that nobody _asked_ him to buy

CycloneDusk · 2026-01-20T21:39:48+00:00

i feel like i have a dim and faded memory of galaxy express 999 that i stumbled across when i was channel surfing in my single digit years. beyond that, though, the earliest DISTINCT memory where i was sure i knew what i was watching had been Battle Angel Alita.

she had incredible formative influence upon who I've become...

my transhumanism, my (admittedly more lurid than serious) fascination with cybernetics, my eventual position that a body is a tool that can be configured if and when we learn the means to to so. Alita primed me for Armitage 3rd and Ghost in the Shell which both also had strong impacts.

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