🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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I too attended college in the mid-'90s, there's some slight similarities between Sweet's experience and mine. Not too much, but they are there. He's a few years older than me, and also from a small town, but past that, the man-child mystifies me. His story of "the System" didn't really explain any concrete reality of what "the System" is, who runs it, and how it is ran. Basically, I still want to know more about it, but I've been asking him for that info since he started posting here, so I should just give up. Also, going by his little story, I've found more and more colors to draw and paint with as I've gotten older. Sure, we all get laughed at a bit when we come back home for the first time with big ideas, but when you let that stop you from doing whatever the hell you want in life, you are the loser. "The System" didn't hold you back, you held yourself back, you just want to blame it on everyone else. I know, I know, that's the biggest recurring theme with Sweets.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I also notice that Sweet apparently addressed a point* I made a long while back by claiming that the only way he can get "tech-savvy" is by going back to ASU. Sweet really wants to get back into that computer lab.
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As much as we've heard about this world-class computing facility, I don't think any of us have ever done any research on it. So I did a quick image search.

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John Titor said:
He brought up the Allegory of the Cave before but it was to illustrate that he liked the cave better because the outside changing world is too scary.
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That just highlights what a pathetic manbaby he is, especially since he repeatedly tries to dance around what he says prior to not sound like a stupid fuck. Shame it just makes him look dumberer.

As for the System he keeps spewing at @atomik fyre , he might be getting that nonsense excuse if any of the fatheads he listens to (Limbaugh, Beck, or O'Reilly) ever talked about machine politics. The Dems IMO were and are still more well known for using machine politics than the GOP, with examples like Tammany Hall being one of the worst examples ever seen in US politicking. Hell, New Jersey and Illinois are still noted for it.

It would appeal to it not being his fault, and the notion of a cabal of influential party members pulling the strings and making or breaking people would appeal to the idea that it was circumstances beyond his control that forced him out. It's all BS, but it could explain the origins of his excuse.
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
As much as we've heard about this world-class computing facility, I don't think any of us have ever done any research on it. So I did a quick image search.

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I guess high tech in this case is standard computer lab that every college and even public libraries have nowadays.
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
As much as we've heard about this world-class computing facility, I don't think any of us have ever done any research on it. So I did a quick image search.

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My heavens. It's like the future, but with chairs!
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
As much as we've heard about this world-class computing facility, I don't think any of us have ever done any research on it. So I did a quick image search.

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Are we sure he'd know how to use a computer that's not running Win98, in an environment that's not poorly-lit, covered in cobwebs and full of holes and mold?
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
There have been writers and artists who didn't start writing or painting until they were older that Sweet is now. William S. Burroughs, Raymond Chandler and Anthony Burgess come to mind when considering authors. In Sweet's case, he would probably be more encouraged by the fact that the Marquis de Sade didn't publish his first book until he was 51.

But those people spent the earlier years of their lives doing something that I like to call living. Sweet has spent twenty years holed up in a hovel, watching children's cartoons and plotting elaborate and deranged revenge fantasies that will right all of the imaginary wrongs he has suffered.
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People have written books about their escape from mental illness.

It would be cool if Sweet could overcome his issues and write a book or essay about how he slipped into madness, the years he spent rotting in the mental prison of his own design, his taking a chance with professional care, his subsequent realization about how much of a shitheel he's been, and his eventual emancipation toward reality.

(Bring on the optimistic ratings.)
 
No, that gets a feel rating, because that's what we all want. Or at least, what I want. I'd gladly give up all the lulz in the world if it meant we could live in a world or at least a nation with no cows, and all that entails.

But in the interim, I'll laugh my ass off at stupid people. :D
 
Sweetums said:
From then on, no matter how strange it seemed to me, I never said anything. If there were goodies on the table, I simply grabbed, no questions asked.
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Sweetie Pie said:
it was how we lived, and how we were taught, and as long as the goodies kept flowing, we never asked questions.
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Daily reminder that said "goodies" were one water bottle, a handful of pennies, and a poster. Sweets would be ridiculously easy to bribe. "Here's $5 and a candy bar. I need you to deliver this package to the address written on this piece of paper. Don't ask any questions!"
 
Some mixed Sweets:

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Ruin said:
Does it amuse anyone else that even on Deviantart he has no friends?
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It's funny but also tragic. Even that creepy middle-aged guy who draws the roided-up women in bikinis doesn't talk to Sweet Bro.
 
I was going to type a post about how Sweet doesn't need access to a computer lab to get acquainted with new technology. He could just google anything he doesn't understand and use tech forums to ask questions. But since the idea came from here, he'll immediately dismiss it. But whatever, it's his life, if he wants to waste it, he can.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I wonder what the people of Blytheville think about the apparent fact that the most outspoken resident of their town is Jon "no one told him Fekul The Baby Haggis McCrablice Dr. Belch" Sweet...
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I'm sure if you asked him, he'd say that they treated him like a god, just like the other mortals did back in college.
 
Shadow Fox said:
he'd say that they treated him like a god
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I wonder how often Sweet goes out into town.

Shadow Fox said:
Win98
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Sweet mentions 2 computers in the Sweet household - a newer one and the "still serviceable" Windows 98 one. Speaking of computers, I'm probably the first to tell him that he needs to make backups of files he wants to keep. Also, as was said earlier, CD-Rs are a lousy storage solution. USB drives are better, and are pretty much sold everywhere nowadays.

Le Bateleur said:
Some mixed Sweets
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Why does Sweet have to tell us about his cat peeing in the closet? Humor?

It also reminds me of how at 14BLC, Charb seem to let their pets make a bathroom of the floor. But remember, the differences between CWC and Sweet are vast.

I admit I got a laugh out of the trick-or-treat one. It's actually pretty legible for once.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
That computer lab looks like a regular classroom.


I wonder what the people of Blytheville think about the apparent fact that the most outspoken resident of their town is Jon "no one told him Fekul The Baby Haggis McCrablice Dr. Belch" Sweet...
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It might be a classroom, but it was the fourth result in a search for "Arkansas State University" and "computer lab." I thought about using the third hit, which was an image of what Sweet would describe as "many coons" sitting at computers, which would definitely keep him from entering his long-sought nirvana of high tech .

Sweet has written about spending a lot of time creeping around town and in the nearby woods. I imagine he has the sort of reputation that Boo Radley enjoyed in Harper Lee's Maycomb, Alabama.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
"Supper?" That seems like a very redneck term for "dinner."
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Dinner is the main meal of the day, regardless of when it's eaten. Supper is the smaller evening meal if you eat dinner at midday.

This used to be more standard but I've only known a few elderly Southerners to make this distinction in my lifetime.
 
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