Seriously, no one is talking about the riots?

[PartyOf5]

The longer this goes on the more I'm tuning things out. It was bad enough that COVID resulted in all kinds of avenues for relaxation and escape from out normal, pre-COVID stressful lives. No sports, not concerts, soon there will be a gap in new movies and shows with production shut down for months, no gyms for months, no comics for a bit, etc...

Now we are being bombarded with BlackTuesday, BLM, etc. everywhere. Athletes and celebrities who have nothing to do for months are jumping in front of any mic or webcam they can find to lecture us on how we should feel, what we should do, and what we should think. Music sites, Reddit forums, etc.. are "going dark" for 24 hours at a time, taking away more avenues of entertainment and escape from the world we all deal with in our own ways every day.

I feel myself slowly retreating into the shadows. I already backed out of live tv and all it's commercials long ago, and with no sports it's 100% complete. I am glad that I don't subscribe to music services that are now deciding what I should be listening to. I can happily listen to my 100gb of digital music on m own server, free of any "guidance". I'm now backing away from even checking ESPN for the hope of news on sports returning as it is turned into nothing but a black history month site and more lecturing from athletes and sports talking heads who have no sports to talk about. I'm tired of the endless riot, looting, protesting, killing videos taking up my YT page and then all of the non-political channels I watch diving into the discussion as well.

I am still working a stressful job full time. I still have to deal with stress and work in my life outside of my job every day as well. I look to these other things for a break from all that stress. As they turn into avenues for adding more stress to my life I will leave them for other forms of entertainment. That is quickly becoming a pre-internet lifestyle, with things that don't force-feed me what they think I want and barrage me what they want me to see and hear. Pretty soon I'll be back in 1988

[Zlaxer]

You sound like 90% of the “Normies”.


Most people are at breaking point - which is where the left wants you.

PS - I’m not far behind you - I find myself wishing it was the 80’s again. Not sure if things seemed simpler than bc I was a kid, or if life really was better than.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I recently mastered the art of the Retropie. I now have every video game made for NES - PS1. Don’t need tv whatsoever.

I do subscribe to Spotify though, for work time. What kind of manipulation are you seeing?

[PartyOf5]

I recently mastered the art of the Retropie. I now have every video game made for NES - PS1. Don’t need tv whatsoever.

I do subscribe to Spotify though, for work time. What kind of manipulation are you seeing?

I know Apple did a Blackout Tuesday where they replaced links to your personal playlists with their own playlists of only black artists. Because they are sooooo under-represented in music. I heard a few other music sources were doing similar things.

It's all virtue signaling with no real change being made to help the causes they are supposedly backing.

I have a ATGames Ultimate Legends arcade. You can load it with your own games. It's a full size arcade machine with a trackball and spinners. I have tons from arcade originals, NES, SNES, Genesis, etc.. I also have backups of all kinds of retro games for Emus as well

[SuburbanFarmer]

I recently mastered the art of the Retropie. I now have every video game made for NES - PS1. Don’t need tv whatsoever.

I do subscribe to Spotify though, for work time. What kind of manipulation are you seeing?

I have a ATGames Ultimate Legends arcade. You can load it with your own games. It's a full size arcade machine with a trackball and spinners. I have tons from arcade originals, NES, SNES, Genesis, etc.. I also have backups of all kinds of retro games for Emus as well

Very nice

I made my own 250GB image, tested, vetted, etc. It's taken weeks, but I've learned a ton.

Just wish I could sell the damn thing lol

What amazes me is that all this fits and runs on a machine the size of my wallet. Makes me feel old lol

[Ph64]

I feel myself slowly retreating into the shadows. I already backed out of live tv and all it's commercials long ago, and with no sports it's 100% complete. I am glad that I don't subscribe to music services that are now deciding what I should be listening to. I can happily listen to my 100gb of digital music on m own server, free of any "guidance". I'm now backing away from even checking ESPN for the hope of news on sports returning as it is turned into nothing but a black history month site and more lecturing from athletes and sports talking heads who have no sports to talk about. I'm tired of the endless riot, looting, protesting, killing videos taking up my YT page and then all of the non-political channels I watch diving into the discussion as well.

I am still working a stressful job full time. I still have to deal with stress and work in my life outside of my job every day as well. I look to these other things for a break from all that stress. As they turn into avenues for adding more stress to my life I will leave them for other forms of entertainment. That is quickly becoming a pre-internet lifestyle, with things that don't force-feed me what they think I want and barrage me what they want me to see and hear. Pretty soon I'll be back in 1988

Yup. I dumped cable TV a decade ago, as an IT guy people used to question why I don't have a "smart" phone (I do have a "dumb" flip phone)... Even on the tablet now it annoys the crap out of me to constantly be asked to "download our app" for whatever site/service - fuck that, I'll use the web browser thanks, I don't want even more things spying on me. Alexa, Siri, etc... Hell no.

Honestly other than the tablet I rarely even use a computer. I deliberately look to buy low-tech when I can. Even my car I bought a few years back - I wanted a key... Half the cars I looked at had push button start or electronic door entry only - not *one* dealer could answer my question of "when the car battery dies how do I open the door to get to the hood release so I can jump start it or replace the battery?" I got lots of "ummmm" and that I'd have to call them to "break in" to my car... (And then what if I left my phone in the car? Ok, we won't go there).

I drove a friend to the dealer to pick up his new Subaru a couple years back. While showing him stuff in the car he noticed the clock was wrong - their first question? "Wheres your iPhone?" They looked shocked when he said he doesn't have a cell phone, then they asked me and I showed them my flip phone... And then of course I had to ask why you'd need a phone to set the clock? The owners manual was worthless, and with all the buttons and levers and such on the steering wheel to control everything including the radio it took them 45 minutes and 3 different dealer employees to figure out how to set the clock. Remember when it was just two buttons, set/advance, and it took a minute? "Progress" (And there's not even a push button door remote, it unlocks on proximity of the keyfob to the door - they couldn't answer my battery question either, which my friend found out a year later from an electrical problem that drained the battery and left him waiting 45 minutes for the dealer and over an hour late to work).

Me, I'm annoyed only the driver's side door on my car has a key lock - because my old car I had to climb in on the passenger side a few times when the driver's side lock froze in winter. At least I'll be able to get in if the battery is dead (which was twice in 20 years on my old car - but I guess people don't keep cars long enough for the battery to die these days?).

Sometimes I find myself hoping for that EMP event.

[DBTrek]

Modern cars are mobile edge devices that are completely vulnerable to being hacked.

[Ph64]

^ I got the only manual transmission car they had on the lot full of at least 100 cars. And it'd been listed on their website for at least 6 months, so nobody is buying them. I'm prepared for the idea that when this one dies I may never see another (not new anyways).

It also thankfully has the least "bells and whistles" possible.

[Martin Hash]

After having experienced everything I've just read, here's my Wysest Myn in the Wyrld suggestion.

Decomplicate your life. Block out news that makes you feel worse. Even block out people who cost too much emotionally. THEN you'll have some room in your life for a high-tech doodad like a Prius. I love our Prius. I watch videos about how the damn thing works. I have great stories about when the system was designed, by whom & where. Prius is old tech. Older than your flip phone.

[The Conservative]

After having experienced everything I've just read, here's my Wysest Myn in the Wyrld suggestion.

Decomplicate your life. Block out news that makes you feel worse. Even block out people who cost too much emotionally. THEN you'll have some room in your life for a high-tech doodad like a Prius. I love our Prius. I watch videos about how the damn thing works. I have great stories about when the system was designed, by whom & where. Prius is old tech. Older than your flip phone.

You are asking these people to stop having same think... or same speech... you want them to think for themselves,and not allow the media to dictate their answers...

Good luck... that won't happen.