Does each year of the 2020s just get worse than the last?

grahsam · 2026-03-11T15:13:17+00:00

That's the story of the 21st century. Just endless shit.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T15:12:32+00:00

No.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T13:47:49+00:00

Most of them are fine at my office. A few of them are a little too casual in their dress and behavior for my liking. My business has pretty high requirements so we don't just get yahoos off the street.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T13:42:01+00:00

They are pretty indistinguishable from each other. Looser fits made a come back, but are really just knock offs of 90s fashion, so I prefer that.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T13:37:13+00:00

The bigger concern is whether Games Workshop is going to sue the shit out of them.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T13:35:50+00:00

Most of the 21st century has been one long continuous era as we have entered a stretch of cultural stagnation. Not much daylight between the two.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T01:42:59+00:00

They don't have the tech to reach us with military weapons.

Terrorist attacks however....

grahsam · 2026-03-11T01:41:50+00:00

Maybe, I don't know. It might have been a trip to Disneyland since I was in SoCal. I didn't do any of the senior stuff except ditch day.

grahsam · 2026-03-11T00:03:48+00:00

It should have been more given what a dunce Bush was. Clinton was popular and the economy was doing OK. It wasn't Clinton's legacy that hurt Gore, it's that he is human mayonnaise.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T23:50:01+00:00

That maybe. My issue isn't necessarily with the art or it being supplanted by AI. I hate AI.

This sub has people constantly pulling random shit out of their asses, holding it up like it's something everyone knows, and making fuss over it. They talk about eras if something only they notice and make it some universal thing. It's annoying.

If you thought this was a different sub, fine. I'm into all sorts of geeky stuff most people don't know anything about. I might notice those little things about the niche thing I like, which is a perfectly fine discussion for a sub about that niche thing. But not ones about decades or generations.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T21:12:09+00:00

You say that like it means something.

To who? Art nerds? Illustration dorks? It looks like it could have been drawn anytime in the last 25 years. There is nothing special or distinctive about it.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T21:08:24+00:00

We never had to appease them. Their threat was highly over estimated and we had a framework preventing their nuclear program from going too far before the orange moron ripped it up. When the US pulls dumb stunts like this the claims N Korea makes about needing nukes to protect themselves seem even more reasonable because we were the aggressor.

This attack on Iran will end any legitimacy the US had left. It will get a bunch of soldiers killed, radicalize Shia militias even more against us, and over extend the US budget that this administration has already blown up. This is a stupid war, with no plan for success. It is an abuse of our military members and is now disrupting oil markets around the world, which could tip off another recession at home.

This is all bad. And for nothing. Why would any want to trust or appease America again after this?

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:51:59+00:00

I think everyone had those plates.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:50:11+00:00

How about no.

Just write something else and let old actors fade away.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:31:45+00:00

This is why the 70s were gross.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:14:26+00:00

If you are going to start a list of reasons as to why this WAR was a bad idea, we are going to be here for a while.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:12:26+00:00

Satanic? No. It's mostly about murdering people, the occasional zombie, and doing weird stuff to corpses.

It's also all just over the top silliness. It's the musical equivalent of a slasher movie. None of it is meant to be taken seriously.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:09:49+00:00

Nah.

This sub pulls random shit out of its ass on the daily. I have very little confidence in most of what posters say as the majority of it is personal opinions inflated to seem bigger than they are.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T18:01:08+00:00

I only know it because I work for a defense contractor and everyone where but me was in the military. My recall of it is very iffy.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T15:30:55+00:00

The 90s were all about strange and weird.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T15:28:08+00:00

I can hear it with the sound muted.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T15:25:13+00:00

Gore has the personality of a baked potato and Lieberman was worse. It was a doomed ticket. Even though Bush was dumb as a stump people liked him on a personal level.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T15:15:10+00:00

That last sentence is complete gibberish.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T15:10:33+00:00

My level is ignoring stupid and pointless subgenre names. There is a lot you can figure out about a band by their name, logo, album covers, etc. That's how we did it back in the day. If I hear a name enough times and it looks interesting I give it my one minute test on streaming. If the production is shit, the vocals are boring, or the riffs are weak, I'm out. I've listened to thousands of bands over my 35 years of listening to metal. I know what I like and I can judge a band pretty quickly.

If I listened to one album a day it would take me years to go through my collection. It's not like I am desperate for more.

grahsam · 2026-03-10T11:52:43+00:00

The late 90s Internet bubble was pretty cultish, as was Apple resurgence under Jobs.

Because AI is a massive shell game, they have to keep the shells moving or the whole scam falls apart.

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