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Streaming and the normieization of the internet have ruined underground culture
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2018-08-08 at 6:51 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny It's a commonly accepted, even among professional gamers who have all the time in the world to practice games, that reaction times increase as you age. Mind you, if you're comparing like 14 years olds with 20 year olds it's not reaction times that are making the difference in competitive play and that extra practice and general cognitive ability older players have is more important, but there's a reason pro games tend to "peak" somewhere in their 20s. Research on the subject seems to support this idea as well.
This is what I was getting at, yeah. I mean it happens eventually, but if kids seem crazy at games that's not why. 14 yearold Johnny is not kicking your ass at CoD because his developing brain reacts so much faster than yours, he's kicking your ass because he plays 4+ hours a day, every day, and takes it way more seriously than you probably do. -
2018-08-08 at 11:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine Before only people who truly cared about a certain aesthetic or interest would seek it out and the culture would flourish because only people who truly cared for it were there.
Now with algorithms recommending normie plebeians anything from boku no pico to noise music, the appeal is gone and the feeling that those things belonged to you and your circle has diminished.
Is there any way to get around this in this day and age?
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2018-08-08 at 2:21 PM UTCIts so hard to use other peoples creative pursuits to express my own unique identity these days.
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2018-08-08 at 2:45 PM UTC
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2018-08-08 at 2:52 PM UTCWell I like books, and when other people like the same books as me it either sends me into a jealous rage because it makes me feel less special or I'm like cool we like the same stuff.
User was banned for saying the taboo phrase "book"! -
2018-08-08 at 2:58 PM UTCHe didn't say that word though..he said the plural of it...
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2018-08-08 at 3 PM UTChash tag baited
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2018-08-08 at 3:07 PM UTCThat was quick. Sorry MM.
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2018-08-08 at 3:13 PM UTC
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2018-08-08 at 5:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny
The "underground culture" that people remember so fondly is actually almost always the death spiral of an actual insular subculture. That's what the glory days of totse and 4chan were, communities that were small and boring ballooning and in that instant between being a backwaters and being inducted into general relevance people think it's an amazing thing the normies are killing. You're the normie that killed it and it sucked dick on either side of it's particular eternal september.
It's a commonly accepted, even among professional gamers who have all the time in the world to practice games, that reaction times increase as you age. Mind you, if you're comparing like 14 years olds with 20 year olds it's not reaction times that are making the difference in competitive play and that extra practice and general cognitive ability older players have is more important, but there's a reason pro games tend to "peak" somewhere in their 20s. Research on the subject seems to support this idea as well.
I was posting on 4chan in 2005, totse in 2003.
Harsh noise, shotakon and imageboards were not "mass culture" -
2018-08-08 at 5:22 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny
The "underground culture" that people remember so fondly is actually almost always the death spiral of an actual insular subculture. That's what the glory days of totse and 4chan were, communities that were small and boring ballooning and in that instant between being a backwaters and being inducted into general relevance people think it's an amazing thing the normies are killing. You're the normie that killed it and it sucked dick on either side of it's particular eternal september.
It's a commonly accepted, even among professional gamers who have all the time in the world to practice games, that reaction times increase as you age. Mind you, if you're comparing like 14 years olds with 20 year olds it's not reaction times that are making the difference in competitive play and that extra practice and general cognitive ability older players have is more important, but there's a reason pro games tend to "peak" somewhere in their 20s. Research on the subject seems to support this idea as well.
Im the normie that killed those sites?
It was people like me that built up those sites you idiot.
You are the fucking normie, you didnt even know about totse until 2008.
I was always on the vanguard of internet culutre, engaging in thinga years and decades before people like you discovered them and shitted it up -
2018-08-08 at 5:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine Im the normie that killed those sites?
It was people like me that built up those sites you idiot.
You are the fucking normie, you didnt even know about totse until 2008.
I was always on the vanguard of internet culutre, engaging in thinga years and decades before people like you discovered them and shitted it up
"internet culture"
"vanguard"
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2018-08-08 at 5:34 PM UTC
-r—w—- blaze it!
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2018-08-08 at 5:43 PM UTC
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2018-08-08 at 6:14 PM UTC