A different kind of hug of death.

I am genuienly curious as to the composition of your ‘De Minimis Internet Fuckups’ category.

‘CoPilot’.

Dear fucking Christ I hope not.

I mean, this is exactly what that scene is trying to convey.

That… this dude is weirdly interested in ‘co-worker music’, he’s like, aggressively bland… and then he fucking snaps.

Hell, Bateman even literally says that one of their albums was too mainstream, too generic.

Bateman is totally vapid and hollow inside, and is desperately trying to find meaning, evoke an actually interesting response, but all he knows how to do is pantomime a cariacature of the perfect wall street socialite type.

So, you carry that forward, and the analogy works out to roughly: everyone whose entire life is wholly about fitting in to corpo culture, keeping up with the jones’s, everyone who is a ‘coworker music’ type of NPC automaton, ‘my personality is a couple Tiktok trends’ type person…

… they all have the potential to have this same Bateman style psychotic break, if they ever become… self-aware enough of their own lack of actual, genuine identity.

Probably not, no, Wendy’s has been shutting down a fairly wide swath of locations.

To me it looks like kitty cat is roughly halfway through being manually rebooted.

cat.exe has crashed

attempt recovery? [y/n]

Don’t touch-y my moustache!

(I’d never actually heard that one untill a Japanese guy I met at a bar said it, and then explained it to me as a joke, after I attempted a tiny bit of actual Japanese with him).

Also, barely related, but kind of related:

A month before that, I’d gotten a tan hat in the style that Japanese soldiers hats were made in WW2, and was wearing some other clothes that vaguely had a somewhat similar style, but not the same colors, as the rest of the Japanese … summer/hot weather outfit during WW2.

So I’m a white dude, walking up a hill to a store one day, and a guy walking down the hill…

Is Japanese, but wearing basically a full getup of 80s/90s era US milsurp stuff, even a helmet (or at least the liner).

We got to each other, noticed each other at about the same time, fully stopped in our tracks, realized the absurdity of the situation, laughed for about 10 seconds, then went on our ways.

“Kept it warm for ya’.”

Slightly annoyed and hungry me:

Warrior.

Realize I am slightly annoyed and hungry, take care of that, take quiz again:

Mage.

Anon…

The pool was closed due to AIDS, like, almost 20 years ago.

But everybody kept swimming.

Hey uh unrelated question

Yes, that’s the guy!

It was misinformation, though. Q and the most extreme bigots are from 8chan¹. I don’t think you did it deliberately which is why I didn’t call it disinformation, it’s just not accurate

¹ Of the chans. There’s plenty of forums that make 8chan look tame.

Are you intentionally putting ^1^ into your comments, or… is this some weird result of maybe my mobile client spazzing out?

The Q posts did originally start on 4 chan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Though QAnon has its origins in older conspiracy theories, it was set in motion in October 2017 when Q first posted on the website 4chan. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, with access to classified information about the Trump administration and its opponents.[17] Q soon moved to 8chan, making it QAnon’s online home.[18] Q’s often cryptic posts, which became known as “drops”, were collected by aggregator apps and websites and relayed by influencers.

I saw some of them there.

And, given what the Epstein files have revealed… at this point, I think the original Q was just literally Steve Bannon.

Then it got handed off to the weirdo father/son pair that run (ran?) 8chan.

That’s basically my hunch, can’t definitively prove it.

… sonuvabitch.

That’s pretty goddamned funny.

Brb, new T shirt idea:

"I read Trotsky and all I got was these dope spectacles.’

Look, I’m not Catholic or any kind of Christian, but…

Catholics do not believe that Jesus’ blood turns into wine.

So… acting like they do… is just trolling, basically.

Its not a joke, because it doesn’t stem from a thing that someone actually believes.

It is simply asserting that someone believes a thing they do not… which is trolling.

There are a vast plethora of ludicrous things that varying kinds of Christians believe are literally true, that you could make an actual joke out of.

Yes but that’s backwards of what the comic is representing.

As I said… I don’t think any kind of Christian believes that Jesus’ blood ever turns into wine.

That doesn’t happen anywhere in the text.

So… the joke is… based off of a thing that doesn’t happen?

It would be like making a joke based off the idea that Moses can summon floods.

He can’t. He’s never shown to be able to do that, he’s shown to be a water bender who can move water out of the way, but not generate it.

Yeah, I don’t get this.

In John, there’s a wedding and the planners forgot to bring the booze, so Jesus tells some dudes to fill a bunch of casks with water, and then poof kablamo, they are made into wine via the power of Jesus being irritated.

There’s certainly a lot of imagery and focus on the blood of Jesus in the Bible… but the whole transsubstantiation/consubstantiation thing is about … the reverse of this, wine either transforming into, or metaphorically representing the blood of Christ.

I am… not aware of any part of the Bible nor sect/branch/denomination/church that teaches that Jesus at any point turns his blood into wine.

I don’t think that even happens in any of the ‘expanded universe’ / Gnostic texts.

In summary:

Wine -> Blood? Yes*.

Water -> Wine? Yes.

Blood -> Wine? No.

Grew up in the realm of your avatar.

… and I am only happy when it rains.

Let’s just say its not impossible to crack the firmware on many of these.

distressed squidward noises