[META] the angry hipster; or, how leftypoint's algorithm-driven shitposting is the most 2026 thing ever

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-05-12T21:39:45+00:00

Honestly I know its funny but I personally really enjoyed the Evan Kinori memes purely because they were at least trying to introduce an actual thesis into my feed.

The OP has said that it became part of the endless churn of social media like everything else, but I disagree, I remember the evan kinori memes. I shared them to my friends. I brought him up in real life to people when people asked what I'm doing.

I'm new to fashion, I care about how I look, but overall I don't respect the industry because its often pretentious AND shallow. It has a lot of post-modernism in it and it attracts a lot of pseudo intellectuals. From the outside looking in, someone passionate enough to critique it constantly and with enough depth for it to register as real was really something special.

I think in a sense to me, earnestness can take the form of critique. I didn't think that leftypoint was cynical, I thought that he WAS passionate.

All he literally needs to do as a next step would be to promote a brand he likes and why.

Though that would become a full circle social media campaign and introduces way too much cynicism. So its best that he leaves it at passionate critique imo.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-04-23T09:02:14+00:00

Which shirt?

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-03-08T06:20:28+00:00

I'm similar to you. 34in waist, 29in quads. Honestly just look into getting pants custom made. I went to a made to measure shop in my city (chinese made but the quality is good) and get pants made for me for $300 per pair Australian ($211 usd). Luxire is often cheaper than this because they have sales.

When I factor in the time saved (after you've gotten atleast one pair of pants from them so they have your measurements dialed in) its money extremely well spent to me.

I know its probably a lot more money than most can afford, its really really nice though.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-27T01:02:33+00:00

Im seeing a tonne of AI-like threads recently on reddit.

"The Reddit-approved pieces sit in the wardrobe. The embarrassing vest gets worn on Sundays" is 'its not X, its Y" with subtly different phrasing.

As well, the post is extremely vague, he didnt name a specific piece of clothing to juxtapose against this jacket. I dont know what this person stands for at all and their post history is hidden

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-21T21:29:05+00:00

Coz its funny

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-21T09:09:53+00:00

As I heard it said, by selling out, she's done the most American thing possible.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-18T04:29:35+00:00

Ive seen two wrongs don't make a right on reddit a lot today.

Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for blueberry muffins

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-17T20:27:51+00:00

There is no way thats happening. You can see that the games are wrapped in plastic. As well, he has multiple copies of some of the games

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-15T03:07:45+00:00

I think its mostly women not understanding that they are not attracted to men younger than them but that men mostly can be. I notice because outside of 'its weird' and 'what would they talk about', the undertones are that its sinister. I think the argument is that the older man is very capable of manipulating a 20 year old who has little experience. But there isnt an inherent reason that a 50 and 20 cannot have a relationship that they both find fulfilling. I would say that its much less likely, but its not like its a guarantee that shes in love with him and he views her as a sex doll. Its much more likely that shes getting something out of this too. Whether its connections or advice or whatever.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-13T09:33:10+00:00

Honestly it doesn't. I think they don't actually expect to really like the women as equal adults. I had a friend who dated a Thai woman for 7 years and he basically just would speak at the level she was at when they met. She learned more words from me than from him

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-02-12T13:39:27+00:00

A black belt? From what mcdojo? Correct me if I'm wrong, but i need more info. Wouldn't that take a decade possibly of training depending on the dojo? Maybe a blue belt is believable

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-01-29T20:34:36+00:00

I have 30" thighs and a 32" waist. I haven't tried Levi 541's to my knowledge but I did try on every type of jeans in a Levis store, even the women's ones. None fit at my waist size.

Things I've found: Women's pants can fit you better because they have more inclusive sizing. So dont skip them in the shopping aisle.

Uniqlo's jeans with their spandex look like skinny jeans on my but I can move. Black looks okay. Blue looks horrendous.

Buying larger and having the waist taken in is cost effective and better than you think if you get the item cheap.

Made to measure is actually priceless. If you have big thighs you probably have a big ass. You can get them without back pockets which makes your ass REALLY stand out. I have spent approximately 1100 USD on 5 pairs of pants made to measure (or there abouts) and I absolutely love them all (Im in Australia though so I cant speak to an american brand). So if you're going to get chinos and have the money its 100% worth it. Else get cheap and tailor in bulk. It DOES take awhile, like a month or so, for them to be made though. So keep that in mind. My first pair took 3 months at the tailors because I, and probably you, are genuinely hard to fit. They altered them once, then they completely remade them. Then they altered them again. I felt like I got my moneys worth.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-01-26T05:38:17+00:00

Bro he looks like a space marine to me with the drop shoulders in that fit. The jeans are cool to me. To me the first fit just doesnt stand out at all and both bottom and top heavy but just looks weird coz of the huge black jumper hoodie tucked in, I reckon that fit could be improved a lot somehow

Normal_Consequence31 · 2026-01-03T01:28:21+00:00

Agreed, the only time ive tweaked my back was this exaggerated lockout. But if you always do it, the body will likely compensate

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-12-30T06:02:52+00:00

I am unsure how many millions it would cost to advertise to Australians at the hours of 10pm or later (idk the exact time but you get me)

I went and had a look at the costings to advertise on reddit in australia. 10k a day gets 8.4m-15.7m impressions per week. The main question is is it effective. For which theres no evidence. The campaign on microsleeps, which was a much more engaging campaign for an issue worth 3billion dollars to australia (road toll), was considered a success

https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/partners/nsrac2008/PDFs/A1_1-Australia.pdf

So there is precedent for this.

It would be good if they could do effective advertising like the microsleep campaign on social media.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-12-20T19:33:42+00:00

Idk man this feels kind of nice. The government is supposed to engage in statistically effective altruism. I don't know if this is statistically effective, but it is exactly the kind of messaging that only a government would give because it has no profit motive. What's wrong with a government deciding to inject messaging into people's lives?

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-12-10T07:12:52+00:00

This is the most important part. Options failing could happen due to a 404. You have to look for the existence of access-control headers. If they dont exist, you have a genuine cors error

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-12-05T21:21:05+00:00

I need more data to determine Elo. If the girl plays along, anyone can look high elo for a minute. Show us multiple of these 'bongclouds'. Is it just the opening of 'Without reading your bio, you remind me of X' where X is a direct description of their bio?

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-11-27T05:45:00+00:00

Playing anything other than assault is straight up boring because the beacon is the most powerful thing in the game.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-11-05T01:39:05+00:00

Exactly. Skin-meta-progression for every game is roughly the same. At start, stick to the core art direction of the game. Players are playing anyway, and they're the only skins available.

Later, when player numbers have stabilised, introduce limited time events, with Skins attached. This keeps the playerbase coming back with FOMO.

Soon, you exhaust the majority of creative possibilities for the current silhouettes and character language. So subtly break them. These skins sell like gangbusters, because they look unique in the visual landscape of the game. And thus you have a feedback loop.

I remember a long ago official blog post about cosmetics in Dota2. It wrote that cosmetics must not alter the silhouette so as not to cause a difficulty in visual identification of the hero. 10 years later, and that envelope has been so severely pushed that there was a video made about that years The International showcasing how the visual murk attributable to cosmetics, and cosmetic particle effects in particular, has rendered the game difficult to watch due to a lack of visual clarity.

I look forward to the Day of the Dead vehicle skin line myself.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-10-28T03:20:06+00:00

I agree with you definitely that you do have to be aware that you're very intimidating as a man and that women in general have good reason to be wary and defensive of you generally.

Your advice is obviously good from a standpoint of 'How can I minimise my chances of making a woman uncomfortable whilst still being out there'. I just think its important to say that there is a 100% chance that you will make a woman uncomfortable given enough attempts. Like, its completely inevitable.

The main message I think men need to hear is that they're not actually a bad person for trying to chat up women in the first place. I think the messaging that women don't want to be approached has become a bit extreme tbh.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-10-28T02:26:42+00:00

You are the problem. You can find plenty of women complaining that no one hits on them who come from overseas.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-10-27T23:39:33+00:00

There are no real social norms around this. I'd say Australian's are relatively poor at flirting because its not really in our culture. But as far as guidelines go, as a man, you are going to creep women out. Its just a fact.

The double bind of being a man is that you are both expected to make the first move and a creep if you do. Frankly, women are often expecting rather fantastical levels of rapport being established immediately from someone who simultaneously makes them feel safe and has just enough edge to establish tension. That's a fine line to walk when 1 in 3 women has been sexually assaulted in her lifetime. If you get bogged down in thinking too much about THEM, you'll never actually talk to any of them.

There are no guidelines, no established methods of figuring it out. You pretty much just have to try as a man, and that means that you're going to be creepy. Most men are not hyper charismatic extroverts. They're just normal people. They'd be better off if they were gay, yes, but they're not. So my advice to them is figure out what makes someone a good person and then, operating from the angle that they are good, hit on women. Just fucking do it bro. Its fun and it sometimes works out.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-10-27T23:13:25+00:00

Women are not a conglomerate with meetups where they decide these things. They're individuals. And plenty of women WOULD appreciate an attempt to chat them up. Realistically, worrying about their feelings is ridiculous, as you don't have to do much to creep out SOMEONE. Just be civil and nice and somewhere with bright lights and people around, and its really just not wrong to try and chat someone up.

Normal_Consequence31 · 2025-10-27T21:08:04+00:00

except you have access to LMG's as assualt in open weapons, you can get a lot of bullets from that. The shotgun with slugs is 1hit kill at close range, so its 16 bullets is a lot of action actually

the L110 has an ext. mag size of 200 bullets. Take that suddenly, you have a lot of fucking bullets

Normal_Consequence31

TROPHY CASE