>>428902

I think it's dated in that it's no longer as culturally relevant as it was for a number of years. The whole kind of Matrix chique, certain styles of clothing and sunglasses in particular as well as general aesthetics, that was something that was hot shit when it happened, but then the whole visual media imitated and emulated it, and kind of rode the Matrix's idiosyncratic tropes to death.

It did define the late nineties and early noughties, but it just really feels like that moment in time has passed. Pop culture has moved on, as has most of sci fi.

I had to venture outside London for a couple of days and I've had to book an emergency session with my psychiatrist for the PTSD I now have from being exposed to so many friendly and open English people.

Films like The Matrix and Fight Club really fuck me up to watch nowadays, not only because I grew up with them, but because I now realise how influential stuff like that was on who I am and how I see the world. That and a steady diet of Command and Conquer and X Files. Men in black, UFOs, cryptids and shady government dealings. Don't trust the man. That's just my entire personality in a nutshell and it stings to confront it.

I just feel deeply mournful, somehow, when I consider that so did plenty of other lads from my generation. Look how it turned out. Look what the "red pill" means in a modern cultural context. Look what Anonymous has done with itself. Look where our conspiracy theories got us. I'm equally as proud that whole mindset has permeated the mainstream, as I am disappointed and aggrieved.

>>428902

Aliens wasn't expressly set in the year 1999

And T2 was only 9 years old at that point as opposed to the 20 Matrix is now. If you asked me if T2 felt dated in 2009, in a lot of ways yes but the characters in it are a shit load more stronger than the matrix, matrix hit on some sort of zeitgeist perfectly but now with the eyes of an older man I see that underneath it is a story of very silly broody superstitious 2D characters.

Where as when you strip down Aliens and T2 with the eyes of an older soul you find a huge amount of character depth, they are both weirdly films about family, one about being a mother suffering loss, and one about absent fathers and lonely damaged characters regaining a family connection if only for a while. I know that seems stupid thing to take away from high action kill fests with a long list of quotable one liners but it is the kind of notes that make it stick with you once the adrenaline rush wares off and you are bein snobbish about these things in later life.


>>428914
> Look where our conspiracy theories got us. I'm equally as proud that whole mindset has permeated the mainstream, as I am disappointed and aggrieved.


I don't know how to tell you this but everything you named was rather mainstream. If anything they got less mainstream for a while post 9/11 when people realized that pretending the government was in total control and omnipotent was toxic for handling the truth of the situation. Area 51 seems to be back in the public consciousness maybe we finally stopped having the 80s revival and moved into the 90s one.

>>428918

>I don't know how to tell you this but everything you named was rather mainstream.

Well, yes, but I was more referring to the weird online counter-culture that came out of that era. The whole hackers on steroids thing. Going from something most people couldn't comprehend, to a daily aspect of almost everyone's lives, without anyone ever noticing where it had changed. I didn't articulate it very well.

That's just the way of pop culture though innit.

>>428913

Did you go to the costa del sol or something?

>>428920
Large Canary Island.

>>428923

What a genuinely hilarious joke.

>>428914

The Red Pill movement is just emblematic of a segment of the population that existed long before The Matrix came out. You had an undercurrent of these conpiracy theorist types for a long time who thought everyone else around them was crazy for not growing wise to the fact that the whole world around you is a scam.

And then The Matrix with its poorly thrown together New Age philosophy came along, and they thought finally somebody was popularising that general idea. When in reality, those thoughts expressed in The Matrix were not really much more than throwaway regurgitated pop culture statements. Everyone of us has in some form or another always suspected that governments can't be trusted, and it's no coincidence that the Agents in the Matrix look like the kind of secret agents that you see protecting high-value targets like top politicians at public functions.

So the thing isn't that these ideas don't exist in the public's minds. Or that maybe they've even got a point. It's just that a particular segment of the general population has hijacked the idea of the red pill for its own screwy world view.

As a slightly olderlad, all I can say is, it's not always a good idea to join or associate yourself with a movement whose two main kinds of ideological fuel are a general, unchannelled anger at the world and the idea that everyone else must be forced to accept the secret knowledge that that group believes it is in possession of.

>>428914
> Look what the "red pill" means in a modern cultural context.
Pretty much the same thing it used to mean, besides also being a name for a MRA+PUA off-shot.

I need to buy a new jacket, but I feel strangely out of the loop about it. Everything seems like chav brands aimed at teenagers or brands aimed at middle aged men, with very little in between.

>>428932
Buying a new jacket is daunting. I've been putting it off for years. It feels like such a defining item.

>>428932
>>428936

What an odd metrosexual crisis. Just buy the one that is most practical that doesn't make you look like a hobo.

>>428937

>Just buy the one that is most practical that doesn't make you look like a hobo.

Sorry, could you repeat that? I can't hear you over all the pockets on your cargo shorts.

>>428938

It must be tragic to go through life so concerned about what others think of you.

>>428939

Agreed.

Just buy what you feel comfortable wearing, and which doesn't make you stick out too much like a sore thumb. There's no point dressing in the height of fashion, when it's something that you don't feel comfortable in. If you care about how you appear towards others and about self projection, then you're far better off buying a bland looking jacket that you enjoy wearing, than something that's this season's hot item but you just keep asking yourself what you were thinking when you bought it.

I bought an American-style varsity jacket once as a teenlad, there was a time in the early 90s when they were the must-have item here in Britain. I felt proud as punch on the way home from the shop, but then after a few days of looking at myself in the mirror while wearing it, I just thought, God, I look so fucking stupid, this is so not my style". My parents weren't pleased that I was just tossing a £50 jacket to the side like that after barely a week of wearing it. 50 quid was a whole lot of money back then for a coat, for a teenlad anyway. Adjusted for inflation, it'd be around £110 today according to the Internet. My parents then ended up selling it to the neighbour's kid for 40. He looked just as stupid in it to me, but he seemed to like it. The shop wouldn't take it back, because they said I started wearing it right when I left there.

One of the managers running another department at work is quite weird.

She refuses to train her team properly because she's too busy and never communicates changes or anything important to them, so they're in a continuous state of crossed wires. They're all shit scared of getting a bollocking from her so they rigidly stick to checklists even when it makes no real sense from a logical or commercial perspective.

When something goes wrong she makes a point of dealing with it all herself and refuses to let anyone help her; she makes a point of saying things like if she wants something done properly she'll have to do it herself. She complains about how much she has to do and makes herself a complete martyr by doing things like only taking a third of her annual leave entitlement (it is not paid in lieu).

To too it all off she lives with her sister. I don't get it. Unlock the fucking workplace annoyances thread.

>>428945
> Unlock the fucking workplace annoyances thread.
Amen to that.

>>428945

>She refuses to train her team properly because she's too busy and never communicates changes or anything important to them

That is litterally her fucking job. She should be fired, and the person who put her in that postition should be fired, that's how ill suited I think she is at her job, based on what you said.

she is a manager, she manages, the clue is in the title and it is only one word.


>>428947

GENTLEMEN, THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!

>>428947
Wait, unlock the thread with 3500 posts? Were you not here when threads had a hard limit in the hundreds?

Consider yourself lucky and stop complaining like some hoes.

>>428947
Just start a new one.

>>428950
>Were you not here when threads had a hard limit in the hundreds?

When was that? I've been here since 2010 and can't recall that. Then again, we didn't really have megathreads outside of the likes of Moaty and the London riots.

>>428952
The Moaty thread has 801 replies. The last but one is from marple refusing to extend the post limit any further.

>>428956
Longer threads on gs is his legacy.

>>428956
>The last but one is from marple refusing to extend the post limit any further.

By the end it was just flogging a dead roid raging police hating ginger tree surgeon horse.

>>426568

They have https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ now.

I guess the impressive headwear isn't limited to thispersondoesnotexist.com.

>>428991
I think Gordon Freeman fights that at the end of Half-Life.

>>428995

I dont remember him, I remember me fighting my way through xen. And a bunch of so called scientists who couldn't get my bloody name right.

>>429005
How many of them did you know by name?

>>429006
I didn't think to ask, I was getting shot at most of the time.

>>429009
So were they but at least they made the effort.

>>429014
They didn't save the world though did they, or whatever the hell the plot is.

One of my friends is going to NZ with another friend and has invited me to come but given me a short deadline to decide.

I'd love to go and it's once in a life kind of thing but it's like 1500 for flights and probably another 1500 all included really for everything else.

I am planning to quit my job and travel in maybe a year so I'm not sure whether or not to drop the 3k and YOLO or save it in case I go travel so I've got a substantial amount more.

It is too cunting hot.

How do you ask a sexually active woman if she's clean without sounding rude?

>>429022
Realistically you could buy much more fun with that 3k than New Zealand. Depends on how decent a time the two others are but I'd read you travel diary across the Middle East.

Be sure to buy yourself an acoustic guitar and sing Wonderwall at any hostels you stay in. The other guests will love it.

>>429072

You can't. The closest you can get is something along the lines of "I really respect you and I'd be mortified if you caught anything from me, so before we take the rubber off let's both get tested". It has to be a mutual better-safe-than-sorry thing, but even then you're treading on thin ice.

>>429074

>Be sure to buy yourself an acoustic guitar and sing Wonderwall at any hostels you stay in. The other guests will love it.

And people wonder why backpackers get murdered.

>>429077
>murdered

The correct term is mercy killing.

>>429077
> before we take the rubber off
And there's your first mistake. It's not just there to prevent STDs, it also prevents pregnancy. Unless you are committed enough to want a child together, you'd better wrap your Johnson. What you indicate by taking the Johnny off, is: it's up to you, you take all the responsibility, and I don't care what it does to you. Unless you had the snip, it behooves you to wear a rain coat on your member.

>>453072
This is a very old thread you've bumped. I thought I recognised the Honey Monster.

>>453072
Your mistake is to assume I'd have any qualms or difficulty disappearing into the night if she so chose to inflict that on herself.

The lass I'm shagging is hesitant to use any form of contraception, and while she insists she doesn't want kids, it is beginning to become concerning.

I'm going to have to start just spaffing in her gob.

>>453421
Not only is this a mid-week thread, but it pre-dates COVID, you daft sod.

>>453422

So why the fuck are you having a go at me and not the last five posters who bumped it, you short bald foreign retard.

>>453421

Either she has seen way too many Insta posts about "natural contraception", or she isn't being entirely truthful about whether she wants kids. Is she in her very late 20s or early 30s, by any chance? A lot of women go a bit weird when their progressive beliefs are increasingly challenged by their biological clock.

>>453423
If I was "having a go" I would have told you to jump in front of the Virgin Pendolino. If being called a "daft sod" gets you that worked up, you can't expect me to cater for your sugar glass-like ego. What should do the next time you do something stupid? Call you a silly sausage? A big baby? Smother you with a pillow?

>>453424

The age group is right, but she's definitely not what I'd describe as progressive. Just someone who doesn't want the responsibility of kids around their neck- More of a hedonist, which is why I have no reason to believe she's lying there, because it would be very out of character.

I want to urge her to get the coil but she's uncomfortable with the idea of having something lodged in there; and despite what they tell you about it, I know from experience with exes that it can cause discomfort, especially during that time of month or if you smash their cervix in during a vigorous coked up rutting. She categorically rules out any of the hormonal contraceptives and doesn't like condoms, so there's really not much choice left.

Weird one really.

>>453425

Oooh, look who's a touchy baldy.

>>453426

>Just someone who doesn't want the responsibility of kids around their neck- More of a hedonist, which is why I have no reason to believe she's lying there

That's essentially what I mean by progressive - she's a young, fun-loving woman who doesn't want to be weighed down by kids and become a boring old mum, but her ovaries might say differently. Next time you're out together, try to look at her eyes whenever you pass a pram. She might genuinely just be feckless, but I suspect there's a bit more going on.

If she can't be tempted by any of the options - and it's worth pointing out that there are a lot more options than there used to be - then you might just have to bite the bullet and get your tubes tied. Unfortunately the perfect contraceptive already exists in the form of RISUG, but we can't have it. Bastards.

>>453422
Tbf, it's nice to do a bit of time travel to the world before. Look how care free most of this was.