• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 days ago

      i-think-that The “singularity” and related nerd rapture escapist power fantasies deserve to be mocked and tend to be comfort prophecies for the already comfortable.

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        yeah except that’s the part we love too, it’s the weird implication that you can’t think your art is great or something or have other ‘obsessive’ interests without being inherently infantile that i take issue with

        Edit: and to be clear I do not think, for instance, marvel fan-ism is like good or ok. I’m talking about actual hobbies like regular traditional art or composition or, even, nerdier stuff that’s actually cool, like radio shit or linux tweaking. It’s unfortunate because the comic actually seems more condemning of the latter than the former even though I would say there’s much more overlap between marvel nerds and apple nerds than there is between apple nerds and, like, xX_phatcockdrawer_Xx