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A lot was lost to the Eternal September...
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2023-07-23 at 11:37 AM UTC(I imagine, anyway. I wasn't there. Long before my time.)
But totse? It survived. Flourished. It couldn't have existed as it did for most of us (at least those of us who were "there, man") without the Eternal September. So with that in mind, it's kind of a poetic justice that the thing that seemingly eroded Jeff's sense of purpose with the site - the thing that ultimately robbed him of his conviction in the ideals that kept totse alive for 20 years and brought him to finally pulling the plug on it - was the Eternal June (I'm coining this phrase, if it hasn't been minted by another already). The Eternal Summer Vacation.
Jeff closed the forum registrations a lot. Every summer they'd get a "tsunoobie". This was also before my time. Basically, every summer a tidal wave of bored kids, freshly off school and looking to make trouble, would find their way to the site and shit up the forums with their childish retardation. He'd leave regs closed for a while, and only periodically reopen them. Eventually, I think he realized this was unsustainable and that massive periodic influxes of retarded immigrants - even if tightly controlled - had a profoundly detrimental effect on the quality of the community he wished to build. So, like Donald Trump, he built a wall. He closed regs in 2006, and I don't think they ever reopened. But before he did that, at some point in late February if I'm not mistaken (I wanna say 2-23), I joined the forums. During the last, brief period in which they were open, I hit the registration link and it worked. The last "tsunoobie", of a sort. I was there for that one. I was part of it. I got in the very last time Jeff opened registration for the forums.
Apparently he regretted it. Understandable. In the 3ish short years I visited those forums, I shot to being the user in ~60th place for "most hours clocked on the forum". I was 15-18 at the time. You can safely assume that means nothing I said had any merit or value (not much has changed), because it didn't beyond occasional (and usually accidental) comedic value. The closest I came to saying something that did have value was a thread I made in a transparent attempt to be modded in a newly minted forum. Pathetic.
I was the cancer that killed totse.
I killed the thing I loved and respected. It may still be the thing I respect most, out of all the... things... in terms of its ideals. As cringe and Gen X and 'Rage Against the Machine'-tier edgy as the content was, and as retarded as the userbase ended up being (in no small part as a result of my diligent efforts), that ideological core of freedom of speech/data/information/knowledge that seemingly motivated Jeff in the project initially was pure gold. It profoundly shaped my worldview and had an outsized influence on who I became as a person. And that's completely disregarding all the other, more tangible and concrete ways in which the community's existence shaped me as a person. I've... huh, yeah, I guess that's true: I've literally never dated outside this community. It's how I met the guy from whom I scored my first psychedelics. First loves and first psychedelics, all in the same place, and if those aren't good enough to be shorthand for 'profoundly impactful life experiences' I don't know what would qualify.
I basically don't talk to anyone from back then, really.
Or maybe they don't talk to me.
I killed the thing they loved when I killed the thing I loved. I killed the thing that made me, and made us. I'm a monster.
There's no blood on my hands, there was no massacre, but I'm a monster. I have ash on my hands. My retarded peers and I, by not getting bored with his site and disappearing, unknowingly incited Jeff to burn it all down in the face of our relentless, persistent, profound mental retardation. The Great Library at Alexandria for the kinds of recipes that'd get you put on a watchlist and blow your hands off if you actually followed them as written. The Baghdad House of Wisdom, minus the wisdom, with a whole lot of angst and a moderate helping of knowledge in its place. Gone. Because of us. Because of ME.
Anyway I literally only made this thread because I thought the Eternal June was a cool concept, and that it was... extensible. Maybe the same thing happened in a lot of places as internet adoption became more ubiquitous. The internet has died in stages, been reborn in cycles. The Eternal September which saw USENET faced with an endless tide of retards as ISPs started getting folks online, and its echo in the Eternal June during which those retards' retarded children started posting en masse all the time (rather than just during summer vacation).I'm not sorry about how long this is, and I'm equally not sorry that I spent most of those words on rambling and waxing poetical about my favorite long dead forum.
I don't care. Read it or don't. It's probably not worth your time. Nothing here is.
You suck.
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2023-07-23 at 11:50 AM UTCI fucking hate green day
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phuck new users m,aene!!!
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2023-07-24 at 1:20 AM UTCHave you ever considered writing?
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(she actually ghost wrote the lannyist manifesto ,)
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2023-07-24 at 2:10 AM UTC
Originally posted by frala Have you ever considered writing?
Beyond the occasional schizophrenic musing in Half Baked? Nah.
Okay, that's a lie - who doesn't consider it at some point or another? We ~all know how to write, and we more or less do it every day, so it's simple enough to find opportunities to think "why don't I just do this... but more? super easy!". It's not easy. Being a writer sucks the big doo doo. End of the day, I'm just another autistic xillennial douchebag who'd be writing some retarded sci-fi I consider 'high concept' or whatever - that kinda shit with no soul and awkward dialogue because I've only genuinely connected with ~1 person for each decade of my existence and do not know what human relationships are actually like.
I just like fucking with language, and making it do fun things that sound neat to me. That's all. OP features some very purple prose... I think. Some of it must meet the criteria. Surely. Well, as long as we understand purple prose to mean 'pretentious' + something akin to 'chewing the scenery' in acting, but for writing. Schizos in Half Baked can get away with writing like that, but that shit don't fly for writers.
Like: writing purple prose is fun; Writing purple prose is probably not. (ie being a writer known for the purple-y hue of their prose) -
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2023-07-24 at 2:27 AM UTCWell purple prose is better than overly prosaic. AnyWAYS. WHATEVER.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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Originally posted by Meikai SLANDER
LIES
I DISAVOW
I AM NOT A COMMUNIST
Hmm well I read "John Lanny's" manifesto and introduction of the political theory of Communism and I thought his framing of communism as software with each "type" of communism being like a github repo was a very interesting take on the matter and not overtly ideologically focused like most political rags nowadays , as someone not well versed in classic communism myself I can see the arguments put forth by the more extreme leanings of it and can see that at the end of the day, we aren't all that different and it's a lot more fleshed out than just WORKERS OF THE WORLD and touches on a lot of things I think relate to what is talked about here a lot. almost as if someone took a robot ,scanned robots.txt (without honoring it ofc) and sumemrized it all into a political theory!!! wild!
I also enjoyed the authentic Italian home cooking recipes and refernces to DAOISM
Originally posted by A Note: Feel free to adjust the sugar level according to your preference, as Lannyism encourages flexibility and individual taste.
it's not a NYtimes best seller but this "John lanny" fellow who you claim not to be of course is worth checking out
Remember, comrades, this Panna Cotta recipe is not just a dessert but a symbol of our commitment to a fair and equal society. Let the sweetness of this treat remind us of the potential for harmony and solidarity in the world. All hail Lannyism!
IMHo
Originally posted by That forum guy that helps you understand sarcasm another mystery solved thanks to the superior ideology and philosophy of Lannyism
remember folx…
uhhh uhhh RELEVANT QUOTE GENERATION ERROR fuck .. the lannybot is on the friz again
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2023-07-24 at 2:52 AM UTCWTLDR
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2023-07-24 at 3:05 AM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai Beyond the occasional schizophrenic musing in Half Baked? Nah.
Okay, that's a lie - who doesn't consider it at some point or another? We ~all know how to write, and we more or less do it every day, so it's simple enough to find opportunities to think "why don't I just do this… but more? super easy!". It's not easy. Being a writer sucks the big doo doo. End of the day, I'm just another autistic xillennial douchebag who'd be writing some retarded sci-fi I consider 'high concept' or whatever - that kinda shit with no soul and awkward dialogue because I've only genuinely connected with ~1 person for each decade of my existence and do not know what human relationships are actually like.
I just like fucking with language, and making it do fun things that sound neat to me. That's all. OP features some very purple prose… I think. Some of it must meet the criteria. Surely. Well, as long as we understand purple prose to mean 'pretentious' + something akin to 'chewing the scenery' in acting, but for writing. Schizos in Half Baked can get away with writing like that, but that shit don't fly for writers.
Like: writing purple prose is fun; Writing purple prose is probably not. (ie being a writer known for the purple-y hue of their prose)
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do crack
