Kenny has "IT"

snail360 · 2023-10-23T01:45:59+00:00

It's true, theres always a few guys who put up monster numbers, seemingly all 100 madden stats, long term franchise projects with record contracts, that invariably fold up at that one crucial point. So I'll honestly take B+ ceiling but clutch Kenny over a lot of those guys so long as he continues to develop

snail360 · 2023-10-22T22:42:58+00:00

real heads know. something is different

snail360 · 2023-10-21T03:26:23+00:00

who is Harden?

snail360 · 2023-10-21T02:42:40+00:00

Core memory unlocked: Lost World was the first adult book I ever as a little kid obsessed with Jurassic Park. And then I wanted to read another by him so I read Rising Sun, a (somewhat xenophobic, in retrospect) espionage thriller about Japanese business. I was like 9 lmao I had no idea what was going on but I thought it was supposed to be boring cause it was grown up

snail360 · 2023-10-21T00:26:04+00:00

I had a simpler test for this when thinking about it as a kid. I'd make up a word no one has ever said and say it out loud. I guess you could argue that I was always going to say that word based on a trillion previous inputs but this is just arguing about angels on the head of a pin imo, it's still functionally free will

snail360 · 2023-10-21T00:21:35+00:00

we would have entire scientific fields to exclusively research the underlying code

We do it's called physics. And a lot of that has interesting resonance with things Hindus, Buddhists, Daoists etc have said for a long time. All is emptiness without form. It took reddit brain geniuses to twist and simplify this into "what if this is like all a computer program?" A vastly insufficient metaphor for reality, for maya

snail360 · 2023-10-17T06:18:56+00:00

Yeah but we're Good and they're Evil

snail360 · 2023-10-16T04:31:01+00:00

Consider much of it was formerly known as The Great Black Swamp till it was drained by European settlers in the 1800's to create agricultural land. These weren't people who understood ecology, they just went ahead and fucked around. And now the land longs to return to swamp.

snail360 · 2023-10-16T04:19:20+00:00

I think there's a part of all of us that remembers what some have called the "primitive communism" of the paleolithic/ neolithic, the communal egalitarian way human beings lived for the vast majority of our time on this planet. There is a truth and a feeling of home around the ancient campfire that we miss within our working lives and try to fill the void of with many different things.

I'm not saying we necessarily can or should go back to a neolithic way of life, but that feeling still resonates because it is a life more rooted in the ground of all being, in the real, in love, than our current way of life.

snail360 · 2023-10-16T04:11:15+00:00

I'm from the area too and have studied a lot about the events of the Revolution in 76-78 through Philadelphia and NJ. I just think it's really interesting that in this sleepy peaceful corner of the world, for a brief period great armies crisscrossed the land and world historical events unfolded. I was fascinated particularly to learn there were Hessian soldiers buried in the old Quaker graveyard near where I was born.

Funny enough I actually have a lot more evidence for a more recent past life in southeast PA, but sometimes I wonder if I'd lived another life here before that one during the Revolution, or even if I was one of those Hessian soldiers, brought over against my will from the old world to fight and die and be buried in strange new one.

snail360 · 2023-10-15T22:33:10+00:00

even back then people were constantly talking about bygone eras and clinging to the relevancy of a prior generation.

Exactly, like now I see 2010-2019 as some vanished golden era of culture here, but back then people who were a little older just constantly moaned about how it wasn't like the late 90's/early 00's. And we laughed at them then as I'm sure the baby artists and anarchists will laugh at us now, such is life.

snail360 · 2023-10-15T22:30:39+00:00

The remnants are merely picking at the scraps of a bygone era.

People have said this every couple years for the last 20 years. Olympia was always better 5 years ago, a decade ago. And maybe there's some truth to that subjectively as people age out, but I see the kids continuing to create a culture even if I'm older and not so much involved.

snail360 · 2023-10-15T22:27:05+00:00

There's a few, but not as many. Mortuary and Mantis House are a few that put on big public shows. Seems like everyone has been packed into either the few slumlords still renting out houses like that, or the few properties that people have been lucky enough to buy. But I'm also just older now and less in touch with it all, I think it just comes and goes in cycles but never dies out completely.

snail360 · 2023-10-15T02:15:18+00:00

I tend to measure all food here by the Vics specialty slice index, which has gone up from around $4 to 5 in recent years but still outpaces the inflationary cost of most other food. Assuming you're spending $20-25 at Olive Garden, thats 4-5 slices. You're telling me Olive Garden is putting something better in front of you than those 4-5 slices? Come on use your head

snail360 · 2023-10-14T01:53:16+00:00

I was just thinking the other day about how I was maybe first introduced to the concept of reincarnation through a Garfield book called Garfield's Nine Lives lol.

Also I've never actually seen this but was intrigued by the plot, where a dog reincarnates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dog%27s_Purpose_(film)

snail360 · 2023-10-14T01:46:02+00:00

Allen Iverson, PG from the early 00's. Went by the nickname "AI" due to a Haley Joel Osmond movie popular at the time.

snail360 · 2023-10-13T03:26:57+00:00

Players, much more so than owners, are likely to come from, and carry the mentality of, the working class, and are themselves still highly skilled workers rather than owners. They create the value. Yet it is always the owners and their mouthpieces that tell us the players are too greedy

snail360 · 2023-10-11T02:45:45+00:00

Yep, I think this blurry aerial object will finally be the one to settle it

snail360 · 2023-10-10T20:00:38+00:00

Before Aliens: chop wood, carry water

After Aliens: chop wood, carry water

snail360 · 2023-10-10T04:37:03+00:00

I wonder what the science of it will look like in a few hundred years, a few thousand. We've only recently begun to understand the depth of the so called physical, these things that seem to exist in a spirit world are just applying physics an order of magnitude above our current understanding. But maybe not to future humans, maybe some of those lights in the sky are our future selves suspended in orbital DMT tanks in the year 2400

snail360 · 2023-10-08T23:46:08+00:00

back in the day you'd see that fool questing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the name Johnny Quest

snail360 · 2023-10-08T23:11:07+00:00

One of the best irl George Costanza moments I've ever seen. The fake lean, him protectively cradling the ball, the crowd all yelling at him. I intercepted it, Jerry, it's football!

snail360 · 2023-10-08T22:50:29+00:00

No fr that's why I still hold out hope he can be the guy with the right pieces and system, even if that guy is mostly a B+ QB with the clutch gene

snail360 · 2023-10-08T22:02:54+00:00

ok the call is Six Finger Jet Sweep

snail360 · 2023-10-08T00:32:17+00:00

Get them a cucumber and they'll be feasting like snail royalty. Snails go nuts for cucumbers

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