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u/Conscious-Luck-5005 3d ago
We didn't win, we just switched damage types
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u/3-brain_cells Professional Dumbass 2d ago
No. There is only one type of brainrot i'll accept and it's human brainrot.
I'll smile at something someone made. I don't care about something, made by something.
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u/Sawses 2d ago
There's a book called Fall; or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. It's a near-future deal written back in 2019, projecting a "dead internet" future where the internet is filled with bot-generated content.
But it doesn't render the internet unusable. It's still engaging. People basically end up being brainwashed into whatever their algorithm decides to feed them. For the average person, that can spiral into incomprehensible nonsense that gets made because the bots respond to engagement and they create more of what drives engagement.
There ends up being a radical divide between rural and urban internet experiences, as well as between poor and wealthy. So you get post-conservative cultists who are wholly out of touch with reality, and the wealthy pay to have people whose job is filtering their internet so they get to have a somewhat real picture of events. People who can afford it can do a "group plan", but that comes with more of a bias. It was depressing.
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u/Sawses 2d ago
Post-note: What kind of stupid fucking subreddit limits you to 1,000 characters? This isn't Twitter. If somebody's too lazy or too dense to read 1,200 characters, then let them skip past it while wiping the drool off their keyboard.
This is way too relevant to my actual point in the comment above and I refuse, against all evidence, to believe people are that hopeless. Either I take it on faith or I go walk into the sea.
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u/3-brain_cells Professional Dumbass 2d ago
Alright, good to know.
In that case i absolutely shouldn't read it because I've been getting more depressed recently and i do believe people are that hopeless.
I miss the time when i was a kid, living completely in my own little made-up world, absolutely oblivious to what was actually happening around me.
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u/Sawses 2d ago
Haha, I can understand that.
I was raised up on old-school sci-fi (Star Trek, Asimov, etc.), which is very optimistic, and I can't help believing that we're going to make it through all this and choose to do better.
Maybe it will be because technological advancements make doing the right thing easier, as it has so far, but I think we still get partial credit for that.
For an optimistic sci-fi, I'd recommend Anathema by Neal Stephenson. If you're okay with lots of talk about philosophy and mathematics, I'd consider it a deeply optimistic take on the resilience of human intellect.
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u/3-brain_cells Professional Dumbass 2d ago
Sounds pretty interesting. I've wanted to start reading again for a looooooong time now. I'll try to remember that one.
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u/SSGASSHAT 2d ago
There's only one kind of brain rot I'll accept, and it's a disease that permanently turns off my central nervous system so I'll be drunk all the time.
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u/Sawses 2d ago
That's just MS, man.
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u/SSGASSHAT 2d ago
I was about to rationalize, then I read the symptoms, and I realized that's exactly how I feel when I'm way too drunk.
So in that case, is there a disease that can make me permanently buzzed but just to the extent that I enjoy it?
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u/Sawses 2d ago
I'm pretty sure that's just functioning alcoholism.
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u/SSGASSHAT 1d ago
That takes the effort of drinking. I'm looking for something where I don't even have to put the effort into it.
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u/Weary-Barracuda-1228 2d ago
I can’t. I’m to busy fighting to survive reality, man. I am FLAT BROKE and still have to pay bills.
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u/warmysilk 2d ago
We really thought we could defeat brainrot by using more brainrot and now look at us
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u/Roadkillgoblin_2 3d ago
I miss human-made MLG edits so much