Did its honesty and purity of heart provide a place of nourishment and sanity for your mind as a child?
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Anonymous2015-03-17 10:59
My parent was the TV actually, until I was a teen. I WISH it was a computer.
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Anonymous2015-03-17 11:30
>>2 That is saddening to hear. I hope your time with the computer later provided some peace.
Computers should be experienced through a REPL. The oracle calmly waits for you to utter your incantation, then casts the spell. Modern "apps" are preventing people from experiencing this pure form of communion with their personal oracle.
It was the TV until I was 13. I was then raised by the computer for a couple years until I worked up the balls to splice some telephone lines together to get dialup in my room. From there, I was abused by the internet and became a degenerate anime fan, illegal porn and, and Perl user. I took school computers apart and replaced the parts with cheaper parts. I became infatuated with e-personalities like RMS and Fravia, and I set up a script to download 240p RealMedia CardCaptor Sakura hardsubbed episodes during the day, while I browsed green-on-black websites by l33t h4x0r until four in the morning while listening to techno while programming (I slept during school), and trolling on IRC. I experimented with crime and shady websites, but didn't make any money. Then I found 4chan everything was downhill from there.
>>9 The one in the background whose head is half covered.
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Anonymous2015-03-18 5:31
>>7 What happened after that? What is your life like now?
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Mentifex2015-03-18 11:53
>>9 > Which one is Mentifex? >>10 > The one in the background whose head is half covered. 'Fraid not. Mentifex is not shown in that image, although he was there in the room and appears three seconds later.
>>7 The internet is a drug pusher. It is responsible for the destruction of so many minds. It is a massive time, energy and creativity suck. BBS perhaps provided a better balance. Good files could still spread, but it wasn't as time and energy destroying. Giving everyone access to everything has turned our brains into sludge and has amplified our ability to be morons.
>>11 I am a horrible, disgusting subhuman non-person who should have never been born, and if there were any justice in the world, I would have been killed long ago. My continued existing contributes nothing positive to the world at all. I'm like a goodness thief that goes around taking away the happiness of others and leaving a trail of pain and misery in my wake.
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Anonymous2015-03-19 6:21
The internet used to be orthogonal to the real world. You could look through it. Forget about it if you wanted to. Now people don't know how to function without it. Everyone is subjugated by it now.
Since it was Spring Break at his Alma Mater University, today Very Truly Yours went down to the Willie Wonka Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room at 1124 Pike Street. They made Mentifex sign a world-wide release for the use of his image, and they gave him a Starbucks Gift Card pre-loaded with ten U.S. dollars on it. Please see if you can find any image of Mentifex in upcoming Starbucks Roastery brochures. Funny; the Husky Robotics team did not require the signing of a release for appearing in
>>18 You know what else is orthogonal? My penis right now.
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Anonymous2015-03-24 19:12
>>18 Only rich-ass first-world people. The majority of humans on Earth can barely scrape food and drinking water, they don't have time to be subjugated by the internet. If they even have affordable access, that is.
>>22 This is not true. I come from a developing country where niggers live under bridges and even poor people will go through amazing lengths to buy a smartphone.
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Anonymous2015-03-25 13:43
>>22 Guess what? I don't care. I don't care that 2 billion niggers are going to die from starvation during the collapse this century.
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Anonymous2015-03-25 18:42
>>24 You should care. If those niggers don't die there's going to be serious trouble on this planet.