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[doitrockapella]

Carmen Sandiego

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." —Winston Churchill

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[doitrockapella]

That's interesting. So it's not strange to you, the thought of people being able to do things like that.

[parodeity]

nope
but also
i understand how a really fucking weird game called sburb works
so
very little actually sounds strange
sometimes its like why is that even a thing
but its never like that totally cant be a thing
its just like
i mean i GUESS

[doitrockapella]

To paraphrase a philosopher, it's given you an unusually high tolerance for preposterous bullshit?

[parodeity]

yes
im pretty sure aristotle said that
but yeah thats accurate as fuck

[doitrockapella]

Well-spotted. Likely he learned it from Plato, who as a student himself of Socrates, would have been a firsthand authority on all manner of preposterous bullshit.

[parodeity]

being a student of socrates probably earns you like a lifetime achievement badge

[doitrockapella]

Did you know that Socrates used to walk up to accomplished, educated people, ask them if they thought they were smart, and then verbally eviscerate them just to prove the "point" that they allegedly really weren't?

Even centuries before the internet existed, human nature never really changes.

[parodeity]

i didnt but im so glad people were trolls back then
man
hed be one of those people
who would get into wiki edit wars wouldnt he

[doitrockapella]

Yes. Absolutely.

Of course, the difference between Ancient Greece and the internet is that back then, when they got tired of Socrates's trolling, they just killed him.

[parodeity]

so which greek philosopher do you think would win a wiki edit war in the end
or a meme war

[doitrockapella]

Pythagoras, probably.

alex did you make that

[parodeity]

lmao
youre my favorite
im printing that out for my fridge

I SURE DID

[doitrockapella]

The Pythagorean Theormeme. I'm glad you approve.

i'm so glad

[parodeity]

that would be an excellent online handle
and john asked me wtf it was but im not telling him

[doitrockapella]

Because the satisfaction will be that much sweeter when three weeks from now he gets it?

[parodeity]

i hope he dramatically groans

[doitrockapella]

You know who was the Grecian master of groaners? Archimedes.

"Eureka? Hi, Reka, I'm Dad."

[parodeity]

do you think theres like a job for that

[doitrockapella]

For making dad jokes?

[parodeity]

yeah
that could be my NICHE
that or just like churning out internet memes in my dotage
just me and mspaint chugging along
even tho the program is obsolete

[doitrockapella]

If you're willing to foray into satire I'm sure there are plenty of niches available for that. People love absurdist social commentary as long as they don't realize it's criticizing them in actuality.

[parodeity]

absurdist social commentary is my jam
and apparently in fact what i did in at least one lifetime

[doitrockapella]

You mean the past you?

[parodeity]

the past me who was the second iteration of me who i never myself became yes

[doitrockapella]

...Of course. That one. The theoretical you.