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Listen I'm into old tech, but I pods? My guy, get off the Apple train and focus the autism elsewhere
Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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PipTheAlchemist
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Autists can't exactly choose where they focus their autism
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Old iPods are pretty repairable and moddable so you can give them loads of storage and replace the batteries and stuff. I’ve got a 256gb modded iPod mini for my music hoard and it’s pretty cool. There’s no need to have 9 of them at once, although I have a feeling most of these are modding projects due to the lack of iPod nanos in this guy’s collection (all of the nano models are a nightmare to work on so there’s no mods for any of them).
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Now at least that I understand. Heck in this guy's case, if he'd had a little cottage modding buisness, at that point I'd clap. But as you said, 9 at once. The most my autism goes is having at least one Xbox for each generation, even then, I'm not collecting every variant, I'd go poor.
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Apple has a consoomer following to be sure, but their products are also very reliable. I finally upgraded both my phone and laptop recently, and I was using the first gen iPhone SE and an 8 year old MacBook Pro. I only upgraded the MacBook Pro because the hard drive was starting to fail, but I’ve replaced that and it’s still a good backup computer.
People who chase Apple’s dragon are very cultish indeed, but unlike worthless figurines their hardware is usually relevant and usable for a good long while.
I just felt like this bore saying, since the product they make is legitimately useful to people past the satisfaction of consooming.
gamer2014
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That is the face of a man that does not and will not ever have a modicum of wisdom.
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I’m almost a year older this month, and it hasn’t been proven wrong yet.
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Only 30 days?
I’m surprised he didn’t do it for over 30 years.
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Is this the black version of super size me?
Nuclear Poisoning
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Calvin did Soylent before it was cool (1991).
Is it because he's a hallucinating schizo who is unable to appreciate his mom's wholesome home-cooking, or is his mom's wholesome home-cooking actually legitimately revolting, making him completely ignorant of good food? Who knows. But people IRL who end up wanting such a product probably are either autists with a poor grip on reality, or unfortunate enough to have grown up in a household where nobody has cooking skills, which makes this strip even more accurate.
Is it because he's a hallucinating schizo who is unable to appreciate his mom's wholesome home-cooking, or is his mom's wholesome home-cooking actually legitimately revolting, making him completely ignorant of good food? Who knows. But people IRL who end up wanting such a product probably are either autists with a poor grip on reality, or unfortunate enough to have grown up in a household where nobody has cooking skills, which makes this strip even more accurate.
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I mean, have you SEEN her cooking?
And before you say "That's just how Calvin sees it" here's a comic where Dad can't even figure out what it is:
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Eh, idk, I think in that comic he's doing it for the same reason the efficiency-worshipping bugmen do.
The joke there is that yes, he is technically correct, your stomach won't know the difference and you don't have to chew. It would also save space in your lunch just stuffing everything into one thermos.
However despite what he's saying being correct, it completely neglects the actual experience of eating; just because an idea is new and "efficient" doesn't make it worthwhile.
The difference is that current day bugmen would look at that girl acting disgusted and declare her an unenlightened, regressive idiot, then go on Reddit to discuss how anyone who believes traditional activities like enjoying home-cooked meals are worthwhile are probably horrible people who vote republican and should be forced to submit to their objectively correct new-age thinking. Eat the bugs, bigot.
Well that's just because Calvin inherited his psychotic tendencies from his father, who is also completely detached from reality.
#calvinsmomdidnothingwrong
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Isn't Panzer Dragoon Saga still difficult to play on an emulator because Saturn emulation sucks, or am I a few years out of date on that?
Nuclear Poisoning
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I'm more for the "That's just how he sees it" paradigm. There are indeed a couple instances where the dad seems put off by her cooking as well (another iteration of that strip is with spider pie instead of monkey heads), but in those cases I think it's more him being easily swayed by her graphic descriptions. More likely though, it's just a character inconsistency in the service of a punchline, since as brilliant as C&H is, it's still a comic strip, not a novel. But he does worship bland oatmeal after-all, and is, as Uberpenguin mentions, a psychotic, proto-Thoreau/TedK, as is Watterson himself. He strikes me more as someone who would immediately dismiss any dish that is slightly out of the ordinary and brand it disgusting rather than appreciate the novelty, all in the name of keeping it simple. Why mix so many spices together to make some "gross" curry when there's already salt and pepper?
To keep it on topic, the mentality is like the other face of the foodie consoomer coin, where there is a superficial appreciation of diverse and fancy food, but it's only skin deep, since the motivation for experiencing all that food is just to fill a bunch of checkmarks, rather than it being part of some larger cultural exchange or something. I dunno, I'm kind of rambling and strawmanning now. It seems inevitable that the offspring of both kinds of people (Calvin's dad who hates fancy food on principle, and the foodies who have no idea how to cook themselves and have never been outside a large city) will end up completely confused and see no value in food beyond the pure nourishment.
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Not been on the farms for some time, so late reply.
Regular bulking powder or it is called gainers in the fitness supplement world. Problem with them, is they don't really contain any nutrient of worth. Mainly simple sugars, which will just make you fat. So a bulk on a gainer will be a dirty bulk, meanwhile a clean bulk is bulking with something that’s healthy.
But you can easily make your own gainer that isn't horrible nutrition wise.
Blend up oatmeal to flour with a high powered blender.
Add protein powder.
Add peanut butter.
Add milk.
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Nope.
At this point, almost any commercial game that was on retail is playable on emulators. Even if you want to use the original console, you can just burn the game on a cd and play it that way.
Retro game collecting has become this cesspool of fat neckbeards and weirdos hoarding this shit.
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Free MCboot is amazing. I can download and burn any PS1/2 game on original hardware. I was so happy when I learned I can play burnt PS1 games using a swap magic-like trick.
I have some games that I have kept and I have paid up to a hundred dollars for old games in perfect condition that I really care about, but the market for retro is absolute garbage at this point. I could probably flip the game I paid 100$ for a few years ago for at least a 5x profit at this point.
