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I'm not a  Destiny guy and today marks the first time I ever saw the Reddit business go down. I was supposed to roll some LoL with a bud, but I totally ditched him to listen to those blue-switches clack away and make lines that I couldn't read. (I can only watch streams on 240p, ahaha.) I literally had no idea what he was writing beyond the few blurbs he vocalized.
It. Was. Fascinating.
I do remember when I thought watching other people online doing relatively mundane things was an impossible fantasy. I recall thinking, "Nobody would give a crap long enough to watch someone post replies." Despite that, there I was, actively choosing to watch Destiny respond to posts over actually playing a game. I love games, man. If I told this to any of my non-sc2 friends, they would think I've gone crazy. (My SCII friends automatically knew I was watching Destiny, haha.)
Maybe I should pick up science fiction and write about the near-possibility of an entertainment network centered around people doing normal things and how it creates some new family dynamic for the lonely and bored middle class future-household. (Joking. I'm an awful wordsmith.)
Anyway, I decided to (attempt to) immortalize my feelings with a doodle. Uncertainty with awkward, uneven-as-hell-eyes. Very much what I felt after he stopped. I think I'm going to make sure that a doodle makes it into every freaking blog I start. Keeps me active, motivated and, I dunno', maybe it unlocks some creative potential.
Yikes, I need some sleep for Boxer v. Yellow at 6 AM PST. Super excited, but I dread missing it. . .
P.S. My mouse is still hanging from the ceiling with weights stuffed inside. I keep looking at her and wondering whether or not I'm crazy. We'll see how kinky she is tomorrow. She better not be, or I will string her up again.
 
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Maybe you should consider getting a hobby or something. I can't think of anything more boring than watching someone post on reddit.
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You can be a doctor. You can be an engineer. And here you sit doing basically nothing.
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On August 05 2011 16:55 Sotamursu wrote:
Maybe you should consider getting a hobby or something. I can't think of anything more boring than watching someone post on reddit.
This is a tough post to respond to. Not because I don't have hobbies, but because it is so obvious that I have hobbies that I don't know what to say.
Or maybe I'm just being weird with intertwining these hobbies together to express something. I dunno'.
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On August 05 2011 16:59 Arnstein wrote:You can be a doctor. You can be an engineer. And here you sit doing basically nothing.
Yikes, what brought that on?
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you might get more sympathy if you made some effort to explain why it was so entertaining...
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On August 05 2011 16:59 Arnstein wrote:You can be a doctor. You can be an engineer. And here you sit doing basically nothing.
Eh... forget these middle-class aspirations. As you say, we're living in an amazing world. Why not just take a little time to enjoy the experience.
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On August 05 2011 17:01 Sinborn wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2011 16:55 Sotamursu wrote:
Maybe you should consider getting a hobby or something. I can't think of anything more boring than watching someone post on reddit. This is a tough post to respond to. Not because I don't have hobbies, but because it is so obvious that I have hobbies that I don't know what to say. Or maybe I'm just being weird with intertwining these hobbies together to express something. I dunno'.
I don't usually judge people on what they do on their free time (I've watched ants kill each other when I was bored), but damn man I hope you didn't spend too much time on watching that.
Maybe I should pick up science fiction and write about the near-possibility of an entertainment network centered around people doing normal things and how it creates some new family dynamic for the lonely and bored middle class future-household. (Joking. I'm an awful wordsmith.)
There is one and it's called Big Brother 
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I don't understand the hostility in this thread, i mean ofcourse you don't like people who are different than yourself, but you must understand that this dude likes someting you don't, i mean, i don't like fish but i don't tell people who eat fish to get a new taste of food or go study instead (Apparently being a doctor or scientist makes you more of a human than living on the streets, who knew?)
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People paying unneeded attention to mundane actions of shitty so called celebrities?
Nothing new or futuristic about that.
User was warned for this post
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On August 05 2011 16:55 Sotamursu wrote:
I don't usually judge people on what they do on their free time (I've watched ants kill each other when I was bored), but damn man I hope you didn't spend too much time on watching that.
You're not the only one who watched IRL ZvZ when they were kids. Of course, I have giant-as-fuck-roach-ants. They'll be the death of me.
On August 05 2011 17:24 sob3k wrote:
you might get more sympathy if you made some effort to explain why it was so entertaining...
I don't think sympathy is the right word, but it does bring up an interesting point. If the next person on the internet doesn't understand you, hostility is to be expected. Probably a good rule to go by, actually.
For your sake, however, it is entertaining because it is not engineered to be entertaining but has inexplicably entertaining elements. You have a plastic fork and a game console. I opted for the fork even though I am topping Maslow's pyramid. I'm not quite sure why the fork was so appealing in retrospect. The realization that I picked the fork was intriguing at the moment.
On August 05 2011 17:33 Gamegene wrote:
People paying unneeded attention to mundane actions of shitty so called celebrities?
Nothing new or futuristic about that.
I don't know man. Streaming wasn't exactly in the cards back when I was reading Gamepro in the 90s. Then again, I think I made the mistake of not establishing that we're in a relatively dystopian future compared to what was laid out by the Jetsons, which what makes the whole fascination and subsequent realization have a tinge of humor upon further introspection. Either that or video games suck right now. I could've taken two approaches, but I decided on the more-obscure and less-negative variant. Definitely ate some ire as a result.
On August 05 2011 17:30 Bagonad wrote:
I don't understand the hostility in this thread, i mean ofcourse you don't like people who are different than yourself, but you must understand that this dude likes someting you don't, i mean, i don't like fish but i don't tell people who eat fish to get a new taste of food or go study instead (Apparently being a doctor or scientist makes you more of a human than living on the streets, who knew?)
It's bizarre, yeah. I mean, it started with one shot and it's arguably easier to follow the vibe of the comments, but I actually didn't expect to evok-
I can't keep a straight face. I used Destiny's name. Even I knew that would cause the dust-devil equivalent of a shit-storm no matter the context. Maybe I deserved it. (Not really.)
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