Ah that works!

Yes a… reverse weeaboo, hahah!

I mean the guy I met had different facial hair, was maybe 10 to 20 ish years older than this person, but … maybe?

Maybe there are more ‘Ameriboos’ than we realize.

EDIT:

I should probably clarify that the guy I met in the bar, and the guy I met on the hill were totally different people.

Don’t know much about hill-sama, but bar-kun was… well lets just say most of our conversation was about karate, he claimed he was a fifth dan black belt… i am a first dan black belt, a novice in comparison… and he demonstrated his credentials rather convincingly.

He also said was exiled/former yakuza. Had a busted knuckle, told me that he’d fucked something up, and that his boss, instead of taking the finger, hit him with the blunt side of the… presumably a wakizashi… and then basically exiled him from Japan.

My nickname for him was ‘yokai’, which he found very amusing.

Seattle is wild place if you just walk around everywhere.

Oh my god, ‘Eat a duck I must’, I’m using mouthwash atm and that almost made me do a spit take, that’s amazing lol!

Unfortunately I cannot see the image, ita not loading/displaying right for me, and I’ve also not heard of Rawhide Kobayashi.

I don’t disagree, that is the more direct way to understand the scene from uh… like a perspective of ‘what is happening, why is it happening’, in relation to how the plot functions and progresses.

But if you go a bit deeper, into ‘why is the author having the plot work like this, why has the author used/created this kind of a character, what, if anything, is the message or lesson or moral they are trying to convey’… I guess my first comment is how I answer those kinds of questions.

Writing a plot that makes sense and is at least logically consistent, possible/plausible, that’s one thing.

Another thing is to do that, but in such a way that the specific plot beats, character decisions, they’re all designed to ultimately convey a more complex idea by illustrating an engaging scenario that demonstrates it, as opposed to just directly stating that moral or lesson.

Of course, media analysis/critique is always subjective.

I just didn’t preface my entire first comment with ‘Well, I think that…’ or ‘In my opinion…’, partially because I am autistic and tend to be blunt, but also partially because it comes across as more certain and confident, and is thus slightly more convincing, rhetorically.

So that right there is me trying to demonstrate my kind of analysis of author intent… on myself.

What is this, some kind of … office-space?

Same. =(

… The entire fucking planet basically is.

https://economictimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/chem-/-fertilisers/indian-urea-producers-shut-plants-as-iran-war-cuts-lng-flows/articleshow/129439647.cms

This is the entire fucking doomsday scenario that has been predicted by the ‘Limits to Growth’ type models, its just that they predicted it being caused basically by the dynamics of ‘more mouths to feed’ + ‘all the easy to get oil and lng has already been got’ = food prices raise dramatically -> mass famine.

So… this just accelerated that, by taking something like 20% of the world’s inputs required for growing food, and taking them offline… likely for at least half a decade, even if the war ended right now, simply from the damage done to extraction/refinement facilities.

You can’t sustain the human population of this planet, in its current economic configuration, without mass use of chemical fertilizers in industrialized agriculture.

This is basically why Mike Rupert killed himself, he figured this out in his own way around 2 decades ago, and then basically became immensely depressed.

You knock a bunch of fetilizer plants offline?

Well, now, you’re looking at famine for tens to hundreds of millions of people, unless extremely competent emergency response plans are enacted.

… Is there any kind of way to translate the uh, intent, of the phrase ‘brother from another mother’ into Japanese, without it being extremely literal, lol?

I doubt that the sing-songiness of the phrase can be kept in translation… but maybe that is possible?

So I don’t know if this is coming through, but it is also causing a line break, for me at least.

Do you see the same thing, or, does it not cause a line break for you?

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.