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I'm thinking my post-apocalyptic battle wagon should have swangaz with whirling knives sticking out from the hub caps.
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frumpykvetchbot posted:I'm thinking my post-apocalyptic battle wagon should have swangaz with whirling knives sticking out from the hub caps. I'll goon for this overlord, that's rad as gently caress
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Oct 27, 2023 12:18
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I miss being in my 20s. Imagining some kind of collapse and postapocalypse is much more fun when you're young, stupid, and independent. When you have kids, pets, + loved ones who need medication so they don't collapse from seizures, things start to look more somber and you start to see that you don't a real win/win scenario in case of future upheavals. So yeah, gonna make the most of the present and future until thing really lovely.
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Oct 27, 2023 13:39
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My future, or THE future? I feel kind of neutrally negative about both, but more positive about my own future since it at least involves traveling. 
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Oct 27, 2023 14:40
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Privately: I think we're doomed, I think the planet is hosed, I think that there will be a total societal collapse most likely not within my lifetime but most definitely within the lifetimes of my niece, my goddaughter and all the children of my friends and family, and that fills me with such an intense sadness that I can never express because I don't want to upset anyone because what can any of us do about it exactly?? In terms of my own life, my wife and I are fine and are going to be probably for the rest of our lives, as long as what I don't think will happen eventually doesn't happen while we're still alive!
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Oct 27, 2023 14:53
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The past has already happened. The future is not yet here. There is only... ever... this moment.
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roomtone posted:i wonder if the feelings that prompt this kind of thread were present in all of history. like the exact same feeling. i bet it was. I imagine it’s new, because we’re hyper connected now. When I look out my window things seem fine, but on my screen I can read about Bitcoin bros wasting enough electricity to power a large country for 10 years But anyway, if you’re worried about society collapsing, it has collapsed many times already throughout history, in many parts of the world  as long as there’s 2 humans left to gently caress somewhere, it will return (in a different way, which you may not like)
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I dunno, I think my parents generation thought the world might end with nuclear war. And my grandparents generation had WW2. And my Great Grandparents generation had WW1 and the Great Depression. I think what might be different now compared to then is how abstract Global Warming seems to be to most people as compared to those more corporeal crises previous generations faced. I think if anything current society is downplaying what is absolutely the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced that is Climate Change. I'm not sure everyone is as terminally online as is the demographic here, for better or for worse. It is heartening that the Zoomers seem to take this much more seriously, but it also makes me really sad that at its current state there's little to nothing they can do about it.
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Oct 27, 2023 17:57
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Oh man the future is coming a lot sooner.
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Oct 27, 2023 17:58
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I like pencilhands threads better
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ChairmanMauzer posted:I dunno, I think my parents generation thought the world might end with nuclear war. And my grandparents generation had WW2. And my Great Grandparents generation had WW1 and the Great Depression. The main difference for me is that there are, if not easy, at least concrete steps to take or not take to avoid or end the other crises. Nuclear war threat? Don't fire nukes. World War? Reach a peace agreement. Great Depression? Change economic policy. Climate Change? We seem to be really hosed and even if we took every step to unfuck ourselves immediately we wouldn't see the effects of that for ~20 years and in the meantime things are going to get more hosed. Plus you know, 90% of global capital and the associated political will being controlled by dragons who just want to be buried with their gold.
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Dinosaurs were on Earth for around 150 million years. Human beings barely have 2 million under our belts. For most of that time we didn’t really bother much, but in just the past few hundred years our population has exploded, and we have created pollution that the Earth has never seen in its history. Will the disease that is the human race destroy the planet? I don’t think so. Earth will continue once it flushes us out of it’s system. So yeah, I feel pretty good about the future.
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Oct 28, 2023 18:13
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Looks pretty loving dire, to be honest!
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Oct 28, 2023 19:02
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short term we are hosed long term it’ll all work out and hopefully humanity gets to explore the universe and keeps going past that but yeah we gotta work out the short term stuff first
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Acapulco. extreme weather will hit more and more often, in more places, and hitting both coastal and inland communities over and over again, costing more and more money and resources until infrastructure, supply chains, economies, banks, governments, societies break down and rebuilding and living becomes more and more grim and difficult and eventually impossible. cushy lifestyles and complex luxuries will for a short while remain accessible to the billionaires until we finish guillotining them. eventually we'll all fade out completely, but first our children will get to enjoy a maybe another century or two of violent, basic, simple hardscrabble type lives, trying to pry any form of sustenance out of the dead broken and depleted planet stripped of all natural beauty. in the shadows of ruined, dark, radioactive and flooded cities with dried-up aquifers, utterly empty and lifeless oceans and endless raging storms. there will be guns and warlords and racism and injustice and persecution of minorities and refugees until our very last days. even as our numbers dwindle, we'll use the might of our accursed cleverness and tools in burning and eating everything that can be consumed. the man-caused extinction event will be so comprehensively thorough, that probably only descendants from hardy reeds and shrubs, cockroaches and rats will remain to regenerate the biosphere. It will take millions and millions of years for beauty and balance to return.
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? - The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats
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Oct 28, 2023 23:00
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80's kids will remember the threat of immanent nuclear war. We're still here!
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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow, Farewell to the straths and green vallies below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. - My heart is in the highlands, Robert Burns 1789 I've been listening to this and the one other good song on Grave of a Dog today, in a loop. They called it the Ocean of Mercy. Wonder why.
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ChairmanMauzer posted:Turning and turning in the widening gyre 
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Easier and cheaper to access to high speed internet than any other time in history. Alan wake 2 has released. 5 of the 6 Friends still alive. It’s hard to imagine a better era in history tbh
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There's a new Alan Wake? I still haven't finished BG3 or the Cyberpunk dlc. I need to find more time to play games.
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Does anybody else feel like something really big is going to happen soon
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Yes, my posting is about to really take off.
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Wizard Master posted:Does anybody else feel like something really big is going to happen soon
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Wizard Master posted:Does anybody else feel like something really big is going to happen soon Comic book movies are over and we’re entering the Videogame movie era. It’s incredible
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Wizard Master posted:Does anybody else feel like something really big is going to happen soon Only like 29 shopping days till Xmas
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I'll goon for this overlord, that's rad as gently caress Careful, goon as a verb has a new and unfortunate meaning.
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I know, every time I hear someone say that it really puts me on edge
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Animal-Mother posted:Careful, goon as a verb has a new and unfortunate meaning. ... what is it?
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The future? Dont like it
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redshirt posted:... what is it? Bad poster with worthless cum
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Nov 25, 2023 02:59
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what future, OP
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Wizard Master posted:Does anybody else feel like something really big is going to happen soon you were right I made a big poopy. it was incredible
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Nov 26, 2023 04:00
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Like, with my feelings. And sometimes by getting the shits.
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From what I can tell, everything is gonna be just fine. Humans have come up with solutions to every problem we've encountered so far. I personally may not appreciate the solutions the humans of the future settle on, but that's going to be up to them.
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I'm for it, OP. I know that makes me a "radical time dude" these days, but so be it.
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Having "Super Punctuality" as one of your mutant powers is useful and maddening. Like a clock in the head all the time, every thing on a timer....
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