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Chasm / Re: Separating the real humans from the zombies (DeathMetal.org)
« on: April 05, 2013, 03:04:27 AM »
JewishPhysics: I remember your articles being good. It's hard to feel confident around writers like Crow and Ted Swanson -- tell me about it. They're good. But surely the sheer amount of late-night turds I publish should make you more confident.
Thanks to both you and Annihilation for some sanity.
I bear no ill-will toward the former team; I know what needs to be done, however, to reach the state of power from which we can accomplish our goals.
To that end, I've removed all politics from the site. They are obvious, and not really political. At this point, the essentialism I speak of isn't left, right, political or even social. It's just rabid realism.
If any of the former team are discontented, please email me. The address has not changed. I hold no grudges, schadenfreudes or other ill-will.
Thanks to both you and Annihilation for some sanity.
I bear no ill-will toward the former team; I know what needs to be done, however, to reach the state of power from which we can accomplish our goals.
To that end, I've removed all politics from the site. They are obvious, and not really political. At this point, the essentialism I speak of isn't left, right, political or even social. It's just rabid realism.
If any of the former team are discontented, please email me. The address has not changed. I hold no grudges, schadenfreudes or other ill-will.
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Chasm / Aspie Internet Culture
« on: April 04, 2013, 12:39:28 PM »
The internet is idiocracy. We all admit that, and yet, it's not true.
Are phone lines (cell towers) idiocracy?
Are roads idiocracy?
They're mixed between the fools and drools, the normals and the elites, both of the fake and the natural.
However, internet aspie culture has arisen, which goes this way:
1. No one understands me.
2. I am a unique snowflake.
3. Instead of explaining myself, I will form a clubhouse with others.
There, we will all be aspic together.
What's wrong with this?
It steps outside of trying to change the world. At that point, being on the internet is a personal entertainment, a hobby, not a purpose. It's self-amusement. It is another consumer product, no matter how "anti-consumer" it tries to be.
My one political statement: quality of people determines the outcome of any group. You can't enforce this quality with rules. (In other words, politics itself -- manipulation of groups -- is hogwash.)
When people are dedicated to their own amusement, this principle isn't in effect. Instead is the mistaken notion that with enough ideology, we can compensate for what our actions are.
I prefer to be non-aspie, and to do what I can to influence outcomes.
Are phone lines (cell towers) idiocracy?
Are roads idiocracy?
They're mixed between the fools and drools, the normals and the elites, both of the fake and the natural.
However, internet aspie culture has arisen, which goes this way:
1. No one understands me.
2. I am a unique snowflake.
3. Instead of explaining myself, I will form a clubhouse with others.
There, we will all be aspic together.
What's wrong with this?
It steps outside of trying to change the world. At that point, being on the internet is a personal entertainment, a hobby, not a purpose. It's self-amusement. It is another consumer product, no matter how "anti-consumer" it tries to be.
My one political statement: quality of people determines the outcome of any group. You can't enforce this quality with rules. (In other words, politics itself -- manipulation of groups -- is hogwash.)
When people are dedicated to their own amusement, this principle isn't in effect. Instead is the mistaken notion that with enough ideology, we can compensate for what our actions are.
I prefer to be non-aspie, and to do what I can to influence outcomes.
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Chasm / Re: History Channel says Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert were African
« on: April 04, 2013, 12:32:53 PM »TV is dumb, but I remember fondly watching historical and nature programs with my siblings and other family when I was younger, usually on the History channel or Discovery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721Te40h4vg
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Chasm / Re: Separating the real humans from the zombies (DeathMetal.org)
« on: April 04, 2013, 12:31:52 PM »Did they leave? Were they abandoned? Perhaps they are disillusioned? I have no doubt some feel betrayed by the new direction of the site. However, as I mentioned earlier I know for a fact that a small minority of those people who left did so with good will, neither deprecating you, nor acting as detractors....they simply disagreed with you.
Do you speak for this group? That authorizes me to speak in turn; otherwise, you're hitting a man when he can't respond, and that makes you a dickhead who needs to be removed.
Let's look at your words and only your words, since you have made these public, not I.
You affirm however, that these people did leave and stop contributing because something they disagreed with happened. In other words, they wanted total control, and when they couldn't have it, they bolted for the hills.
Is that what you're saying?
Have we deprecated these people, or acted as detractors?
What exactly is their complaint? (You mentioned "disillusioned." This doesn't happen without a complaint.)
How does someone feel "betrayed" (your words, again) by the new direction of the site?
Is there actually a new direction?
Did they wait to see what that direction was?
Now that you've opened this can of worms, tell us everything.
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Chasm / Re: Separating the real humans from the zombies (DeathMetal.org)
« on: April 04, 2013, 02:31:48 AM »However, as I mentioned earlier I know for a fact that a small minority of those people who left did so with good will, neither deprecating you, nor acting as detractors....they simply disagreed with you.
And not to be too blunt but: who cares, then? Doesn't sound like a harm occurred to them.
Most people however oppose this direction because they want a clubhouse, and I don't think we should shy away from bashing that narrow-minded short-sighted mentality.
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Commerce / Re: DEATH METAL UNDERGROUND
« on: April 03, 2013, 03:21:29 AM »
A Short History of Underground Punk and Metal Music
Three threads ran alongside each other: punk, metal and progressive rock. All three are on the edge of being metal, since the type of progressive rock in question is raw and disturbing and not of the “everybody be happy love friends” hippie style. This is music that thinks our society is disturbed, and that therefore many of the values we reject are worth a closer look.
Read A Short History of Underground Punk and Metal Music
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Chasm / Re: Poop comments
« on: April 03, 2013, 01:58:25 AM »Sometimes, after discharging a large log, my rectum is kind of loose, and when I wipe, my fingers go up my butt a little bit. Is it gay to enjoy this? I kind of need to know because I don't want to suffer eternally when Jesus comes back.
No, Jesus will help you with that. Thanks to the holes in his hands, he's a whiz at fisting.
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Chasm / Re: Separating the real humans from the zombies (DeathMetal.org)
« on: April 03, 2013, 01:57:32 AM »I think there has been some success with infiltration of big forums, but the work is soul crushing and results are slow and small.
I agree, hence the transition to social networks where success is more likely. Most forums are the do-nothing-go-nowhere people, but it's good to maintain a presence in them. If 1% of the people visiting this site chose to put the links in their signatures, we'd have a much higher presence.
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Chasm / Re: Suggestions
« on: April 03, 2013, 01:56:06 AM »Who knows...
Google translate suggests the original title was misspelled:
http://translate.google.com/#la/en/facta%20loquuntur
I suppose we should go with the correct Latin, since the band has.
On both band pages for Master and Speckmann Project there's a link to Deathstrike that doesn't work because no underscore has been used. The real link has an underscore like: death_strike.
Will fix in next iteration.
Didn't one of this website's iterations review Winter's Into Darkness? Am I just imagining stuff? I
Yes, we lost some reviews with the Evilmusic transfer and back again. There were also server issues for a year or two which dramatically reduced our availability and page rank.
In the 4x7 "Metal Reviews" side column there is a blank space after "0."
Perhaps that blank space could be filled with an "All" hyperlink that lists all the reviews on one page for easier navigation of the review archive.
Interesting idea. Will think on it.
Might you guys be able to link to the previous article and next article at the bottom of ever article rather than go back to deathmetal.org and scroll up or down? I like navigating that way, myself.
This is a good idea. I'll ask our graphic designer wizard.
Thanks all for the suggestions!
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Chasm / Re: Separating the real humans from the zombies (DeathMetal.org)
« on: April 01, 2013, 11:23:50 AM »You sound bitter about the fact that some people decided that they did not like the direction you took deathmetal.org in. Now you are reaching out to find new writers, when you had a whole slew of people who admired, respected, and wanted to write for, and in collaboration with you.
That's true. Why did they leave, do you think?
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Chasm / Re: Passive-Aggression
« on: March 29, 2013, 04:01:12 PM »
The internet in general is passive aggressive. Here, we're trying to deprogram ourselves. And if you insult me, it's because you're not respecting my equal rights as a sovereign human individual!!1!