Yah, it was a big ol subculture in the 00s. Still kinda around but nowhere near as much. I grew up around some. Crunchy as hell but extremely anti-racist and anti-homophobia (despite almost all of them gratuitously using the word “fag” and all its other forms, but that was the style at the time.) I had almost entirely good experiences with them.
My duuuuude <3
It was MINDBLOWING to me hahaha. I’m thinking “BUT IT’S NOT EVEN A GD-ROM AND IT WORKS AND I CAN PLAY SECRET OF MANA?!”
The dcemulation scene walked so Xbox emulation could run emulated software in new an innovative ways ;3
Punishment and legal slave labor! Yay America!
Sometimes it feels like I’m the only person in my friend group who feels good about themselves. I certainly didn’t when I was young, but something changed in my 20s and since then, I either don’t think about myself at all or feel pretty great about me.
2girls1cup was fake… swap.avi was not.
Thank you! As person new to using Linux as a regular computer and not a CLI backend for a PiHole or server, I felt that way within the first hour of using COSMIC pop… I appreciate the validation from someone who (I assume) has used Linux a lot longer than me lawl
It’s been a couple weeks since my comment you replied to and I’ve had a WONDERFUL time with Pop 22.x! Everything I’ve wanted to get working has worked perfectly, and I’m learning a ton. Excellent distro for new users (although I’m going to recommend 22.x for the foreseeable future)
Goddamn I love cute furry shit
Lawl you don’t know anything about Apple and the performance kicks the ass of similarly priced Windows machines. Keep spreading BS tho, I’m sure it makes you feel smug
I have me POGs for sure, printed with gameboy printer when I was like nine or ten! Lots of POGs that were just me writing shit on paper, some from magazines, and some like, Pokémon cards from late in the POG game. It was a kit where you just plunk a POG back in with a sticky side, into this device. Put a piece of paper in and line it up, then press down. The machine cuts a perfect circle where you lined it up in the window and stamps it down to the sticky side of the POG. I loved it so much. I prolly made a couple hundred.
I WISH. I have a TON of POGs I made with my POG-MAKER my parents bought me. I love my parents. I wonder if I still have that somewhere.
I still have my favorite two slammers. One has OJ Simpson looking sad and says GUILTY, and one has him looking happy and says INNOCENT (or something to that effect)
Really relics of the early 90s.
It’s so difficult to break through! I tried maybe five or six times and got really close the last time before my first actual breakthrough. Since then I’ve tried it another four or five times with two more breakthroughs. None as strong as the strings breakthrough—I strive for that at least once more.
Oh the craziest one was my second breakthrough ever. I was siting in a room with my closest friends, and everyone had a crazy face suddenly (they still looked like the people I loved, but with crazy faces!) Two parts stuck out to me so hard, I can still see them to this day. One was the strings. I could visually see strings connecting things from where they currently were, to where they were going to be in the future. I’m convinced that my brain was just working really slow, and what I was seeing were trails from where things WERE, but it looked sooooo different from the trails I’d see see on LSD or MDMA/MDA or RCs. Plus, they didn’t sync right with the words I’d hear from people, making it reeeeally seem like I was seeing strings connecting into the future.
The second and most intense thing I saw was a new color, that I had never seen before. It was like a scintillating vibrant color, a mashup of blue, pink, silver, gold, maybe? But kinda, cycling through them at the same time? I can still see it in my mind, and I wish I could show it to other people. I cried.
Well then I DID have some spiritual stuff going on if that counts! I suppose I have also experienced… entities? on n,n-DMT breakthroughs. All extremely positive, but incredibly intense.
It’s definitely time to try that again. I haven’t broken through in maybe eight years.
I learned about furries on a random off-topic thread on a forum I used to go to in the late 90s. I was still pretty young, but maaaan was I confused about the whole “furry” thing. So many people seemed to hate them! But the art was kinda cute.
Flash forward 30 years and I’m usually wearing furry shit when I go out, even to the office. My partner and I go to furry cons now. We’re not into suits or anything, but the people are weird and awesome and super accepting and overall very fun and cute. And fuck me, do they party hard. Anime nerds and furries party second hardest, only under rave kids.
I’ve done almost everything (even opiates now, I thought I’d never touch them but the hospital begged to differ, and they were right… at least for a week) and the biggest change to my life was actually a random k-hole I put myself in maybe 18 years ago. I didn’t intend to hole, but oops! I laid there with my eyes closed and all of the stresses and problems in my life were laid out visually in front of me as… tiles? Spinning tiles? And a whole bunch of things and thoughts and whatnot happened, and I realized fully that I had some toxic people in my life, and I could just… don’t! I could just don’t, whenever I want, and for no reason at all! So after that night, if there was someone toxic at a thing i was going to attend or someone I didn’t wanna be around hanging out with a mate, I just… didn’t. I just said “nah I’m good” and my life got insanely better only seeing people ever who were good for me.
Despite many DMT breakthroughs (soooo cool) and heroic amounts of acid (man it’s been half a year now, it’s about time to trip again!) I never got anything spiritual out of substances.
Thank you for this! This looks like it’ll teach me some stuff, too!
The Rune that Makes Shit Indestructible