The “singularity” and related nerd rapture escapist power fantasies deserve to be mocked and tend to be comfort prophecies for the already comfortable.
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
That is the “starts ok” part
Agreed.
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
I edited my earlier comment to clarify that I don’t like the ableism rant at the bottom either.
also tbf i don’t think its like explicitly ableist. it’s just. very reminiscient of some weird things people say