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

[Holdek]

See, this is what I mean by 'ignorant'. All Sweet would have to do is sit down at his computer for a few minutes and look this stuff up on a search engine. It's as if his intellectual capacity stops at "I want something", and cannot fathom the details associated with it. That he confused Windows 8 for "Explorer 8" really demonstrates his inability to do anything more with his mind than to make up ridiculous conspiracy theories in order to explain his massive failures in life.

On the "Explorer" point, the program in Windows that opens folders is called "Windows Explorer," so that might have been where he got confused.

But yeah...as I said to him earlier in this thread, his inability to find a phone while wandering around in a hospital for eight hours makes me think there is something awry with his cognition.

Something I think is telling is when lolcows try to explain why people are mocking them.

Iconoclast says:


He's talking about some of us making fun of him a few pages ago for his bandana of fail. Of course, he gets the details wrong, thinking we were laughing at his comic character rather than the actual picture of him with a boy scouts badge. But what's really interesting is that he thinks this makes us mad. I've read the entire thread and can think of maybe one instance where someone was legitimately angry at something Iconoclast did and it sure as hell wasn't his lame comic.

If I'm gonna guess why he does this, I'd say it's probably a transference thing. Iconoclast is an angry little man but can't express his anger because he is so powerless in his own life (mostly his own doing). So he imagines everyone else as angry at him, at his "revolutionary ideas about turning the world half-past 1997", to justify where he is in his life.

That, and he's able to easily shoe-horn any criticisms of him into a liberal agenda out to persecute him. Nobody mentioned anything about the Boy Scouts and homophobia until he brought it up in that post.

 

[John Titor]

Well I am telling you now. Lets start this up and you tell me your progress. You got a new computer, not lets learn another new thing. It is very easy, I can assure you.

DROPBOX <---Click there and simply sign up. Just by signing up, you will have instant free storage to store all your content. They even have support staff you can contact.

Okay, this has nothing to do with your alma mater. Just leave it out of this and lets focus on getting things YOU want accomplished done.

To see if you can find a work-a-round with your computer, simply ask some folks on a PC Help Forum and see if they can help you. It has more computer whizzes then any school will have. They might have a very clever way that we could never have thought about. They are pro's. So contact them and let me know if it works or helps. Here is another computer help forum that breaks it down by computer operating system and that might help too.

I want to make you happy with your new computer. I already told you I was going to help whether you like it or not.

Read more: http://usaspatriot.proboards.com/thread/530/interview-author#ixzz3PF9UFwVA

This is from someone who can tolerate his existence and offered to help him install dropbox; notice the kind advice to stop bringing up ASU.

 

[Holdek]

Also, it appears that Sweet wasn't being paid for his time working in the second-hand lawnmower store.


(Source, backup)

Sweet calls Christian Weston Chandler a "welfare chiseler", but Chandler has actually done at least one brief stint of paid work, and has made in excess of $5,000 from his internet business.

Chris also worked at Wendy's for a couple of weeks. It appears that Jon literally has never had a job.

 

[Le Bateleur]

But if my Win 98 no longer connects to the Internet, it's no good to me even if I "do" learn how to use it. I think what I really need is an external hard drive enclosure, but I can't order one online without a credit card.

This is why I miss being a newspaperman. In the old days I could write one column, mention my problem, and the fans would send me the information or equipment I needed as gifts. The perks of the job, you know.



Read more: http://usaspatriot.proboards.com/thread/530/interview-author?page=48&scrollTo=399868#ixzz3PGDIjEn1

More dependency from Sweet. He really seems to want a life where all his problems are solved by other people.

It's almost as if his rants against Liberalism are an overcompensation to hide his desire to be a client of a welfare state.

Here, Sweet - from my rock-ribbed self-reliant ability to Google: you can buy pre-paid credit cards with cash, and use them online. Watch out for the fees and charges. I believe you can also transfer cash to a PayPal account through various means.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

I sincerely hope that isn't supposed to be his impression of a voice of a stereotypical racist caricature of black people.

He claims it's just the way stupid people talk, and we are the racists for bringing black people into it.

Seriously yes though, it is straight-up minstrel dialect that would be perfectly at home in a turn-of-the-century "Zip Coon and Sambo" routine.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

I actually really enjoyed his typo in that "my computer is terrible, help help" rant: "archaic bowsers."

I've never played Mario games (my username comes from a MMO that I do play)... or else I would seriously consider asking for a name change to "Archaic Bowser." Like, one that hobbles after Mario on a walking frame, yelling at him to get off its lawn.

 

[Bound2]

Bowser whose Koopa kids don't call anymore.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Spoiler: Archaic Bowser

Nobody ever told me how to defeat Mario!
My NES minions aren't compatible with this Wii U castle I bought. Nintendo University have state-of-the art warp pipes that I could use to transfer my army but of course I'm not allowed to set foot on campus...

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Iconoclast's generation also treated Asians like crap, funny how that works huh?

EDIT: Also, Stan Lee was from a generation before his where caricatures were even more offensive; Stan Lee, who unlike Iconoclast isn't stuck in the past, would agree that they are unacceptable in modern times.

"Nuh nuh nuh! You is bad! You a'most destroyded our paper. I's hate yee-oo. I's hate yee-oo!"

Jesus fucking Christ where do I begin? First and foremost he's too young for the "my generation" excuse to be relevant. It's typically a tactic used by grandparents who spout racist shit at Thanksgiving. Despite being a physical wreck of a man he's like 40 something long after Mickey Rooney using yellow face was acceptable. More importantly he can't claim ignorance since even if he were elderly he still would have lived through the civil rights movement. This would have exposed him to different ideologies and show him he was being a racist motherfucker and to stop it. A part of these ideologies would be him realizing that his whole "Yes massa, I runs a paper" shit is crazy racist.

If he wants to debate these points he's more than welcome to grow a set and return. Otherwise I just take this as more confirmation that he's crazy racist and is too pussy to at least admit he's a bigot.

 

[Ruin]

Jesus fucking Christ where do I begin? First and foremost he's too young for the "my generation" excuse to be relevant. It's typically a tactic used by grandparents who spout racist shit at Thanksgiving. Despite being a physical wreck of a man he's like 40 something long after Mickey Rooney using yellow face was acceptable. More importantly he can't claim ignorance since even if he were elderly he still would have lived through the civil rights movement. This would have exposed him to different ideologies and show him he was being a racist motherfucker and to stop it. A part of these ideologies would be him realizing that his whole "Yes massa, I runs a paper" shit is crazy racist.

If he wants to debate these points he's more than welcome to grow a set and return. Otherwise I just take this as more confirmation that he's crazy racist and is too pussy to at least admit he's a bigot.

He's in his mid thirties actually, which means not only was he born well after the civil rights movement but he also grew up in a world where multiculturalism was the rule rather than the exception. Because of this I assume his racist attitudes are more a result of him growing up in the rural south than as a "product of his generation" or whatever excuse he makes for being a racist piece of shit.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

About the blim blim gibber:

While I wouldn't be surprised in the least that Sweet was trying to parody a blaccent, personally I think it's more of a childish way of deriding someone, a la the classic nah-nah-nee-boo-boo tactic. The following is from his blog, circa 2008. Sweet's brother had gone to jail, and Jon was relieved to learn that he wasn't to return. He had decided to help himself to the use of his brother's computer.

I moved [my] files--and there were many--over to his computer, reasoning that thing [his brother] was never coming back, so I was free to borrow his CD burner. I nearly, after many days of arduously resizing some ninety files, had it all set. The files were almost all transferred, and ready to go.

But ...

Then, on Jul 4, with no warning, he was released from jail. He knuckled-walked right into the house as if he hadn't been away longer than it takes to buy a pack of smokes and spirited away the computer back to his new place--with all my redone files on it. I watched in open-mouthed, impotent horror. There went my work. There went my long-held dream of going back to ASU within a year or less about to come to fruit, now shuffling right out that door in the hands of that ignorant, grinning gargoyle...and I was helpless to stop it.

Why were you helpless to stop it, Jon?

Captain Stupid swooped right in and undercut me. He selfishly refused to let me use his equipment for fear I would mess it up.

Goodness! It sounds as if he was using his brother's computer without permission. But, finally, Jon whips out the most powerful weapon in his arsenal:

It was as if he was mocking me. Nyah, nyah! I'm here, but my precious, faster computer with the CD burner you need to rebuild your shattered life is miles away, and you can't get to it! Ha, ha, ha!

See? "Nyah, nyah." As John says, it was as if he was being mocked. What he is whining about is the fact that his brother, who owned the computer Jon was using without permission, took his property and did what he wanted with it. To be sure, this did not mean Jon was without a computer. He had one of his own, it was just slower and didn't have a CD burner. So, essentially, Jon is throwing a tantrum over inconvenience. Powerless to stop any of it, John falls back on the blim blim gibber, because he really is just that juvenile. When he's as helpless as a baby, that's exactly how he talks.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Then, on Jul 4, with no warning

You may have not picked him up upon release but neither Sweets nor his mom at least hearing he was going to be released? I call bullshit.

He knuckled-walked right into the house as if he hadn't been away longer than it takes to buy a pack of smokes and spirited away the computer back to his new place--with all my redone files on it. I watched in open-mouthed, impotent horror.

You couldn't stop him from getting in? You couldn't, idk, lock the door? If you're so scared not changing the lock is on you. Then there's the fact that it's his computer and he can do what he wants with it. But fuck that noise, it hurt Sweet's fe-fes!

On a meta note I love that sweets brought the classic long posts out of @HSMOF. They've been greatly missed.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

I also have to imagine Sweet didn't try to talk to his brother, like "Hey, man, I put some of my stuff on your computer, mind if I copy it back to mine real quick?" and instead stood there trembling like a frightened child as his big mean ol' little brother took the computer that wasn't even Jon's to begin with.

I just get the impression Sweet is a huge impotent milquetoast in real life and is completely unable to express his thoughts verbally to other people. See: Couldn't find a phone in a hospital and instead of asking someone "Hey, where is there a phone around here?" he wandered around for a third of a day. I know it's been brought up before, but... just holy shit, Jon.

 

[24isthehighestnumber]

I fucking love how often access to a CD burner is such an important point for him. It's so fucking funny. Even by 2008, I think most people would have received a CD-R from someone and wondered why it wasn't on a flash drive or couldn't have been transferred via FTP.

 

[Holdek]

About the blim blim gibber:

While I wouldn't be surprised in the least that Sweet was trying to parody a blaccent, personally I think it's more of a childish way of deriding someone, a la the classic nah-nah-nee-boo-boo tactic. The following is from his blog, circa 2008. Sweet's brother had gone to jail, and Jon was relieved to learn that he wasn't to return. He had decided to help himself to the use of his brother's computer.



But ...



Why were you helpless to stop it, Jon?



Goodness! It sounds as if he was using his brother's computer without permission. But, finally, Jon whips out the most powerful weapon in his arsenal:



See? "Nyah, nyah." As John says, it was as if he was being mocked. What he is whining about is the fact that his brother, who owned the computer Jon was using without permission, took his property and did what he wanted with it. To be sure, this did not mean Jon was without a computer. He had one of his own, it was just slower and didn't have a CD burner. So, essentially, Jon is throwing a tantrum over inconvenience. Powerless to stop any of it, John falls back on the blim blim gibber, because he really is just that juvenile. When he's as helpless as a baby, that's exactly how he talks.

Only communists and thieves help themselves to others' property.

And:

impotent

Lel

Also, why does he think burning his image files to a CD burner is going to get him back into ASU again?

 

[MrsFrizzle]

Also, why does he think burning his image files to a CD burner is going to get him back into ASU again?

I am wondering this myself.

 

[Shadow Fox]

What do you wanna bet he pulled that "nuh nuh nuh!" bullshit when he got the boot from ASU?

Spoiler: I imagine it went down like this:

"Jon, we need to have a talk. First there was that incident with the photographer - "

"I told her that flash was too bright! But she just went 'nuh nuh nuh, no is flash too brights! You's is not brights ENOUGH!'"

"...yeeeeeah. And now some pretty damning evidence has surfaced that you plagiarized an SNL sketch - "

"Oh, sure, I see where this is going. 'Nuh nuh nuh NUH! You is not has any oh-rij-ee-nal ideas! You's is just a THIEF! Nuh nuh NUH!'"

"...you know what, I don't even care. Get the hell out of my office, get the hell off of my paper, get the hell off this campus."

"'Nuh nuh nuh nuh NUUUHHH! You's is not hims havings the newspaperman's jobses! You's is not havings the college perkses! Thems is for US!' THAT'S WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE!"

 

[ToroidalBoat]

CD burner

I haven't needed to use a CD burner in over 10 years. Why doesn't he just use USB pen drives? I'm guessing that's too modern. And why is he doing so much file transferring anyway? (I'm guessing it's all Belch Dimension stuff and the old computer probably predates USB and may be breaking down.)

Spoiler

Flash memory started becoming relatively affordable and comparable to CDs around 2005 or so, and computers may have had USB ports since around "half past 1997", although they really picked up around 2000ish (at least on the Mac side).

 

[Locksnap]

I haven't needed to use a CD burner in over 10 years. Why doesn't he just use USB pen drives? I'm guessing that's too modern. Flash memory started becoming relatively affordable and comparable to CDs around 2005 or so, and computers may have had USB ports since around "half past 1997", although they really picked up around 2000ish (at least on the Mac side).

"Well, nobody told me about flash drives. If I was still at ASU I bet I would have known about them. But thanks to those liberal fartknockers kicking me out what am I supposed to do? 'Yooz can'ts haves thems USBs sticks! Deys nots for yooz!'"

 

[DrChristianTroy]

I haven't needed to use a CD burner in over 10 years. Why doesn't he just use USB pen drives? I'm guessing that's too modern. And why is he doing so much file transferring anyway? (I'm guessing it's all Belch Dimension stuff and the old computer probably predates USB and may be breaking down.)

Spoiler

Flash memory started becoming relatively affordable and comparable to CDs around 2005 or so, and computers may have had USB ports since around "half past 1997", although they really picked up around 2000ish (at least on the Mac side).

It's newer technology. Like TV needing a new antenna it frightens him.