💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Gregis said:
Not the ones only just uncovered!
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that's true but there's more in there if someone wanted to display them on their shelf, this is how you impress dates
 
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Sneeds said:
I was rewatching the September 12th stream where Josh told people to buy guns and saw this chat lmao
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The best part about owning handguns, is knowing that Britbongs don't know how to. And it's important to own handguns so that you can remind angloids that they aren't allowed to have anything good in life. They're allowed to have faggots and tea, and fast food fried fish, and that's you know pretty much it.
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Heyyyy, that's a good handgun, not that a britbong would know, HAHA HAHAHAHAHA
 
Null said:
literally glowing in the dark.
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Maybe he wasn’t talking about that, but I distinctly remember seeing somewhere that there was actual proof found of CIA agents using bioluminescent technology for… some fucking reason I can’t remember (either to scare or to disguise themselves iirc).
 
Null said:
He's not talking about bioluminescence or literally glowing in the dark.
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I honestly think Terry thought they LITERALLY glowed in the dark and you could see them while you were driving.

One thing about Francis E. Dec that i thought was interesting was his attempt to escape to Poland. He said he was taken to a place that was snowy and people were talking polish, didn't he? Could it be he went to soviet-dominated Poland and they were suspicious of him for being an american? Maybe they thought he was a spy and he was actually tortured by their secret police until they realized he was just some crazy guy and sent him back home?
 
Nigger Cattle said:
I honestly think Terry thought they LITERALLY glowed in the dark and you could see them while you were driving.

One thing about Francis E. Dec that i thought was interesting was his attempt to escape to Poland. He said he was taken to a place that was snowy and people were talking polish, didn't he? Could it be he went to soviet-dominated Poland and they were suspicious of him for being an american? Maybe they thought he was a spy and he was actually tortured by their secret police until they realized he was just some crazy guy and sent him back home?
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I hadn't thought of that, I forgot Poland was red in 1965. If he did make it he would have had to compartmentalize why utopia wasn't there.
 
It is a little odd that outside of the WW2 letter he had nothing to say about the Soviet Union, everything he complained about was American politics. I would have assumed he though Russians were the worst mulatto Ethiopian mixes because of their occupation of white Slovene Poland.
 
Null said:
He was referencing these old cartoons. He's not talking about bioluminescence or literally glowing in the dark.

google makes finding anything hard but they'd draw black people like this and have gags where the lights go out but you can still see the whites of their eyes and teeth, like so:
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how else would you describe that succinctly besides glowing in the dark?
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Pictured: An Italian. "White."
 
@Null Do you/would you really want a manual typewriter? I had one growing up (I'm not that old, just a vintage collector) and it was THE COOLEST THING. You can still find ribbons for them, like super easy.
 
gampboonerisms said:
@Null Do you/would you really want a manual typewriter? I had one growing up (I'm not that old, just a vintage collector) and it was THE COOLEST THING. You can still find ribbons for them, like super easy.
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I'm wondering now: is there people out there collecting typewriters like retro gamers collect CRT TVs? Because, like, for old consoles i understand how CRT TVs can make a game look better, but i can't see the benefit of using a typewriter in 2025. You can't even argue it's "safer" because if the police enters your home then they can read all the shit you wrote, while on the computer you can encrypt everything and they won't be able to unlock it unless you give them the password.
 
Nigger Cattle said:
I'm wondering now: is there people out there collecting typewriters like retro gamers collect CRT TVs? Because, like, for old consoles i understand how CRT TVs can make a game look better, but i can't see the benefit of using a typewriter in 2025. You can't even argue it's "safer" because if the police enters your home then they can read all the shit you wrote, while on the computer you can encrypt everything and they won't be able to unlock it unless you give them the password.
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It's like reading an old book printed on real dead trees and bound by hand, versus reading one on your Kindle tablet. The words are the same, but the feeling is different.

Typewriters are absolutely a hipster thing now. But there's just something about the satisfying, visceral sensation of typing on a manual typewriter, with its linkages and noises, compared with pressing a button on a computer keyboard and having it glow on a screen in front of you. Imagine painting with oil paints on canvas using real brushes and pallet knives, versus using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. It just feels more real.
 
Nigger Cattle said:
I'm wondering now: is there people out there collecting typewriters like retro gamers collect CRT TVs? Because, like, for old consoles i understand how CRT TVs can make a game look better, but i can't see the benefit of using a typewriter in 2025. You can't even argue it's "safer" because if the police enters your home then they can read all the shit you wrote, while on the computer you can encrypt everything and they won't be able to unlock it unless you give them the password.
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Not A Cat Person said:
It's like reading an old book printed on real dead trees and bound by hand, versus reading one on your Kindle tablet. The words are the same, but the feeling is different.

Typewriters are absolutely a hipster thing now. But there's just something about the satisfying, visceral sensation of typing on a manual typewriter, with its linkages and noises, compared with pressing a button on a computer keyboard and having it glow on a screen in front of you. Imagine painting with oil paints on canvas using real brushes and pallet knives, versus using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. It just feels more real.
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There's a certain feeling of collecting old things. I've gotten into sewing machines recently. (I've got 4 and that's my limit!) You may never actually use it, but to have it makes you feel special. Wow, that sounds pathetic to say out loud. But when you own something like a treadle Minnesota Model L sewing machine or an IBM model M keyboard or even a Selectra II, it makes you feel something. Superiority, "keeping vintage alive", or "it was better back then" I don't know, all I know is this 503a Rocketeer is the best sewing machine ever.
Re the typewriter: it just F E E L S G O O D to type on. you may have a typing speed of 5 words a minute, no ability to correct mistakes, and have to redo something 4 times, but damn does those keys hitting make the brain say "aaoohgah".

[edit to add: these old things YOU CAN FIX THEM. they'renot meant to be thrown away. they are meant to be there and to last longer than your grandkids. that's the true beauty of these old machines.]
 
Not A Cat Person said:
It's like reading an old book printed on real dead trees and bound by hand, versus reading one on your Kindle tablet. The words are the same, but the feeling is different.

Typewriters are absolutely a hipster thing now. But there's just something about the satisfying, visceral sensation of typing on a manual typewriter, with its linkages and noises, compared with pressing a button on a computer keyboard and having it glow on a screen in front of you. Imagine painting with oil paints on canvas using real brushes and pallet knives, versus using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. It just feels more real.
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I mean, i understand nostalgia and why people would gent enjoyment out of using a typewriter, i was just thinking in terms of like: "Is there any benefit to this?".
I mentioned CRT TVs, even though they are huge and weigh a ton, they do have an advantage if you like to play on original hardware: they do hide imperfections in older games. Sprite work looks BEAUTIFUL on CRT TVs, specially with the right cables and whatnot.
You mentioned oil paint and i don't think its a 1:1 to comparison because digital painting is just one more option to express yourself artistically, it's not replacing oil painting on a big ass canvas and knowing how to do perspective and shadows and compositions and all of that.

Like, is there anything that i can only get from using a typewriter except using a cool thing that's fully mechanical and will work without electricity? Jesus Christ, imagine being a writer and doing all your work on a typewriter instead of doing it on a computer and having 30 backups of what you wrote.

gampboonerisms said:
There's a certain feeling of collecting old things. I've gotten into sewing machines recently. (I've got 4 and that's my limit!) You may never actually use it, but to have it makes you feel special. Wow, that sounds pathetic to say out loud. But when you own something like a treadle Minnesota Model L sewing machine or an IBM model M keyboard or even a Selectra II, it makes you feel something. Superiority, "keeping vintage alive", or "it was better back then" I don't know, all I know is this 503a Rocketeer is the best sewing machine ever
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Oh, i understand this completetly. I collect vinyls, i collect old video games, i'm also into collecting more retro stuff. I was just trying to figure out really if there was something i hadn't thought of that made them still desirable aside from the fact that they "feel good to use", if you know what i mean.
Also, another thing i was curious about was prices. Like, CRT TVs can go for A LOT of money nowadays because retro gaming exploded during the pandemic, does the same apply for typewriters and sewing machines?
 
Nigger Cattle said:
Also, another thing i was curious about was prices. Like, CRT TVs can go for A LOT of money nowadays because retro gaming exploded during the pandemic, does the same apply for typewriters and sewing machines?
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Oh Boy! I've never paid more than 25 bucks for any of my sewing machines. Including the treadle. But I do get them all from goodwill/craigslist. Their resell value isn't all there because it's a HOBBY first and foremost. The typewriters on craigslist seem to go between 30 and 500usd. Sounds about like sewing machines. If you can get them cheap, you probably have gold in your hands. A LOT of these things are children of grandparents trying to get rid of clutter after grandmama/papa dies.
 
Optavia Sales Rep said:
This shitbull was not destined to see another day.
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Dude I hate pitbull owners. Not the ones that keep in mind the dogs were bred for fighting and give it outlets for the aggression (How you usually handle dogs like that), but because they go through nine hoops of justification just to try and cover for the dog.
Bro, you trained a shitty dog. You did a bad job, and now it's dangerous.
Try a lab or something next time instead of something bred to fight and kill
 
Nigger Cattle said:
I'm wondering now: is there people out there collecting typewriters like retro gamers collect CRT TVs? Because, like, for old consoles i understand how CRT TVs can make a game look better, but i can't see the benefit of using a typewriter in 2025. You can't even argue it's "safer" because if the police enters your home then they can read all the shit you wrote, while on the computer you can encrypt everything and they won't be able to unlock it unless you give them the password.
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Some people use them as a distraction free writing tool. They are cheap, reliable and force you to just write instead of endlessly rewriting each sentence until perfection while making the first draft.

And they are just cool machines on principle, there is something cool about a mechanical machine that an electronic appliance just doesn’t have.
 
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