KillingTimeItself

wild way to spell russia.

true, but that’s not as funny.

you guys should ask grok. Wonder what it would say.

You can’t say that “they just didn’t think hard enough about it”, just because they arrived at different conclusions.

to be clear, that’s not explicitly what im saying, i’m just proposing that if you were to think hard enough about anything for long enough, it devolves until it cannot devolve anymore. There is some level of arbitrary basis that needs to be defined in order to make a clear comprehensible statement on something. Where that level is just depends on where you stop.

That’s one of the neat things about philosophy: There is no absolutely true framework or theory. It’s all just different ways of looking at things.

it’s definitely one of the most interesting aspects of it as a field. Much like neuroscience, which we still don’t really understand, the only difference is that it doesn’t really have a direct implication in our daily lives lmao. It’s mostly just people with way too much free time thinking about things they probably don’t need to spend time thinking about.

Absurdism is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless.

in it’s most extreme form yes, similar to how nihilism works in it’s most extreme form, however the difference here is that we aren’t talking about an explicitly sterile environment, unfortunately we live in the real world, and as evidenced by this post. My description probably conveys more accuracy and meaning, than the philosophical definition of it, in this case at least.

i mean, in philosophy, if you go far enough nothing matters at all anymore ever, so everything is just nihilism if you think hard enough about it.

regardless of that, which is definitely an interesting point of discussion, this is a post in 196, about a meme, so i feel like i’m justified in that one.

absurdism is very much not "nothing matters"ism.

Absurdism is pushing the boundaries as much as possible within the framework of a traditionally recognized media, art, performance art, movies, shows, whatever.

A great example of this is many of the pieces done by Marina Abramović particularly the rhythm series (btw performance art has some of the most bizarre pieces out there, highly recommend looking into it sometime), or any of her proposed pieces. The whole point of absurdism is a situation that is not physically conceivable. Or outside the bounds of normality to such an extent that it enters a new plane of reality. You could argue that it may even be a hyper-reality.

The point is to demonstrate the arbitrary nature of our lives, everything around us, and how we define it. It’s not that nothing matters, it’s that everything surrounding us has no inherent meaning outside of our commonly accepted frame of reference.

TL;DR absurdism isn’t just nihilism, it’s meta nihilism. Everything matters, but the problem is nobody knows why anything matters, it’s entirely manufactured. There is no set or explained reason for any one thing being any particular way.

personally i like to think of piracy as dissemination of illegal copies for personal gain.

Think about that - literal pieces of human innovation, steps in the ever-evolving game of technological development… just buried for no reason other than because some company thought they’d make more money without it and had the capital to force the situation

in defense, if the patent was better, it would’ve been used, otherwise it’s going to be about the same as the existing patent.

Really the only crime here is removing innovation from the open market. And bringing it into the closed market, Which is, less than ideal.

and they aren’t making gen x look very good now are they?

that might be it, it’s definitely an odd sub-genre of music, but there are similar things in other samples pulled into other songs. Vaporwave being a fairly similar aesthetic just sort of backwards.

No idea what the etymology of nightcore is, but i’m sure it’s interesting.

it went from “died from laughter” to “good stitch” to “whatever the kids say these days don’t ask me i dont know anymore”

>:(

no i picked up on that, i guess i just don’t see how it’s supposed to sound edgy.

Perhaps you just perceived it as such and im thinking way too hard about this lmao

its not that edgy. Or is there nightcore lore im not familiar with?

It’s just taking music and then speeding it up and pitch shifting it lmao. Seems like an appropriate name to me.

go get into government or something, gen x is prime time age to kick out all the boomers. Please i beg you, do something based.

it was moderately post ironic for us, when we used it. It went from being a once in a while thing just to add some additional slang. To a post hyper irony period where the joke is that the words we used dont make any sense and have no meaning, therefore you can just do that with EVERY word.

emoticons were the correct answer, emojis were a mistake.

dont @ me.

the porn industry has always been weirdly progressive, i’m not really sure why, or what for, i assume money though. It’s usually money.

yeah im still trying to piece together the grammar in the title of this post.