Stereotype posted:

Hello! Welcome to reading this thread, idiot. Your funeral.

I am continuing my series of posts about going to The Most Inhospitable Places On Earth! Last time in this series I went to Antarctica, which is cold and has penguins who are angry giant birds who smell like dead fish. Everyone loved it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3675525. I've been to antarctica several times, but have not for quite a few years entirely because of Republicans/Conservatives, who are awful. You should be a Communist if you think people going to cool places is important. I posted this in YOSPOS last time, and am posting it in CSPAM this time, so don't make me regret it.

This time I'm going to Burning Man, an anarchistic gathering of artists who build a city in some dead lake managed by the imperial government in order to have fun. I am camping with someone I met on eve online. There is apparently a possibility I will die. Stay tuned!

I'll be at 3:20 and esplanade if anyone else is going and wants to say hello to me. I leave on Friday.

Stereotype posted:

the worst decision i've made so far is making this thread btw

Stereotype posted:

oh also if you want to talk about how awful it is for the environment to set a bunch of stuff on fire, you'd probably love the Biosphere Collapse thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3979579

don't talk about that here, because no one cares. we are hosed. deal with it.

NeonPunk posted:

Isn't the entire place all flooded and muddy because of Hilary?

Stereotype posted:

apparently the "ancient" lake was a suggestion and it is also a contemporary lake as well. I'll let everyone know when i get there on saturday, or possibly a week from then because there aren't any working cellphone towers there (federal government is lazy and incompetent)

John Charity Spring posted:

are you going to visit the orgy dome

if you are please don't tell us about it

Red Baron posted:

I thought this was co-opted by people with more money than sense long ago and has been only a shell of whatever past glories it might have had for years if not decades now?

also underwater rn too?

Cuttlefush posted:

shoulda posted this on yospos this time too

Stereotype posted:

I wasn't going to but now I will and also will be super loquacious about what happens

I heard that too but also I've heard the opposite of that. This year there are lots of tickets available, so it seems that the rich landlord class has decided they dont like it anymore, which means it's cool again

it's way more politics related than computer related, which antarctica had at least the pretense of being because i said so. maybe you should post about this is qcs/sad and see what they think,

Stereotype posted:

a very cspam thing is that normally relisting burning man tickets is just like concert tickets, except now there are hundreds/thousands of unsold tickets and people are basically giving them away so if you bought a ton to relist them you're just super mega hosed, which is super burning man probably

Cuttlefush posted:

how much are you spending on this

Stereotype posted:

money isn't real. i've given about twelve blowjobs that i would have rather not given, and about 30 that i was cool with

Red Baron posted:

these revelations are promising

Cuttlefush posted:

answer the question please

Stereotype posted:

the real answer is zero blowjobs and around a thousand dollars for plane and event tickets, and food

Joey Steel posted:

Now this is going to be a funny thread.

Goonspeed.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

let us know when they burn the man

Milosh posted:

Liked and subscribed.

my bony fealty posted:

Seek out and consume the strangest drugs you can. Thanks. 7b-bromo-dragonfly (left handed isomer ONLY, racemic is disastrous to the balls and taint), that kind of thing. Thanks again.

Real Mean Queen posted:

This is interesting, is it like a clock face/concentric circle deal for addresses? Like the number is your direction from the center and then the second thing is how far out from the center?

Any bike plans? It used to be that you could tell burning man had just ended because there would be these horrible, dust-choked bikes just sort of strewn around in town here

Hatebag posted:

make sure you bring lots of sunscreen so you don't become the sunburning man

fartman posted:

are you gonna let your wiener hang out

Red Baron posted:

leaving a ton of trash behind in the desert and surrounding communities doesn’t seem very in keeping with the mission statement

hmmmm starting to think that this might not be all it’s cracked up to be

lobster shirt posted:

burning man should be illegal

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

they're supposed to burn him! he's their man!

Real Mean Queen posted:

Oh I'm not at all in a surrounding community, I think people would just strap them to a bus or whatever and drive them home and leave them out front of the bike shop I used to work at in case we wanted them. We did not want them.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

i learned the term 'shirtcocking' from a frequent burner

Lacrosse posted:

I haven't seen any camps explicitly banning nudity

Weed Wolf posted:

54% of burning man attendees in 2022 made over 75k a year.
40% in 2022 made over 100k a year

Stereotype posted:

I think I understand why people think cspam posters are a bunch of unhinged psychos who only want to believe the worst possible things and then get really passionately defiant when it turns out the reality is just sort of normal and fine.

Stereotype posted:

The key words there are "as we know it." Humans will definitely last until 2150. We know a world of relative stability, global community, and at least a semblance of civilization. Sure for the most part global capitalism just creates the illusion of these things, but for many if not all of us our experiences in this life have been free of many of the immediate and significant challenges that we as living beings will face in the coming decades. Today has all sorts of problems and is worse than what our parents or even those slightly older than us experienced, but it is far preferable to what is to come. There are too many people wanting too much without enough to satisfy them, and those who have the most have no interest in ensuring that the mean happiness or life expectancy levels are reasonable. Reports are that things are going to be much worse much sooner than previously predicted, and those reports keep coming out at a higher frequency with worse conclusions that even doomers are alarmed at.

You should personally have skills that allow you to subsist mostly on your own as well as a close trustworthy community of people who have complementary skills. That's about all you can do. Enjoy the golden future.

Stereotype posted:

I think I understand why people think cspam posters are a bunch of unhinged psychos who only want to believe the worst possible things and then get really passionately defiant when it turns out the reality is just sort of normal and fine.

Cuttlefush posted:

Ringo Roadagain posted:

you okay?

a dingus posted:

They just want to regurgitate hackneyed uninformed opinions for internet high fives from other weirdos. Although I am not at the burn this year I've heard from ranger friends who share your opinion on how things are going. Thankfully anyone who is interested and wants to can eventually go to burning man for a week, enjoy themselves and actually find out what the event is about.

lumpentroll posted:

the two of you need to go next year

Poppers posted:

Durring Man. Lol

AnimeIsTrash posted:

going to take hoot and coup to burning man next year

Feels Villeneuve posted:

Ebola is no longer confined to the Black Rock Desert; Black Rock City is a springboard for bringing radical and creative pandemics to the world. In 2014 Burning Man became a nonprofit organization with a mission to make Burning Man viruses and fevers accessible to more people, in more places, more of the time.

theflyingexecutive posted:

the mud is a lot stickier than regular mud. you could be 3-6 miles from the road, which is a barely traveled rural route, then 5-8 miles from a larger but still barely traveled main road. in the mud this could take literally 12 hours to do.

it's raining p hard again, but this morning a lot of people drove out on the drier parts of the playa. cops are letting people go

happy to keep on the ground reports of diplo's ebola tho

Stereotype posted:

Hello! Welcome to reading this thread, idiot. Your funeral.

I am continuing my series of posts about going to The Most Inhospitable Places On Earth! Last time in this series I went to Antarctica, which is cold and has penguins who are angry giant birds who smell like dead fish. Everyone loved it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3675525. I've been to antarctica several times, but have not for quite a few years entirely because of Republicans/Conservatives, who are awful. You should be a Communist if you think people going to cool places is important. I posted this in YOSPOS last time, and am posting it in CSPAM this time, so don't make me regret it.

This time I'm going to Burning Man, an anarchistic gathering of artists who build a city in some dead lake managed by the imperial government in order to have fun. I am camping with someone I met on eve online. There is apparently a possibility I will die. Stay tuned!

I'll be at 3:20 and esplanade if anyone else is going and wants to say hello to me. I leave on Friday.

Feels Villeneuve posted:

this mf decided to go to burning man bc Antarctica had too many libs

theflyingexecutive posted:

the official line is that people shouldn't try driving out because it's very easy to get stuck in mud pits and gently caress yourself when medevacs aren't possible. the cops don't give a gently caress about that

lmao at cspammers losing their poo poo over a festival that actually tries to be ancom when literally every other music festival in the country is a for profit cash grab with gated experiences baked in

Feels Villeneuve posted:

Pov the burning man inspectors found an ebike manual in your glove compartment

Lacrosse posted:

Thanks buddy. Without us admitting to coming to this ya'll would be missing out on a gently caress ton of free entertainment. I didn't have to come here to get dragged by goons, I chose this.

I've got some pretty rad photos but I'm trying to be mindful of our satellite bandwidth so I haven't been posting any.

Lacrosse posted:

I was here on site for over a day before that happened also I didn't travel that route.

theflyingexecutive posted:

yeah that was cringe and factually wrong.

you can also do 16 hours of volunteer shifts for a ticket, which works out to ~$40/hr