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HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its] @ HiImThomasPynchon @hexbear.net

Yes, it is I, reclusive author Thomas Pynchon

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  • Oddity

    OMG did it get released finally?

    It's not Mother 4

  • And you arrived at this conclusion how, exactly?

    Actually never mind that question. Answer my request for hog first.

  • Bruh you've been engaging in bad faith this whole time why do I owe you civility?

    Also: Where's your hog?

  • So you concede to the fact that you are a

    -brained turbolib with no hog to post and your only response is "You're a Nazi"?

  • Are you a poster? And if you are, why do you feel the need to hide your hog?

  • Same reason they invented Israel IRL: So nations around the world can turn away boatloads of Jewish refugees in the event of another genocide and so "the international community" can have a pro-West power in the Middle East.

  • I had a friend who had a Krait. Crewing up with myself in a deployed fighter and another friend of ours on the guns back in the Krait was lots of fun.

  • I wanted a Fer-de-Lance but was never in a system that had one while I had the credits to buy one

  • I never got the hang of bigger ships. I think the biggest one I had was a Type-7. I think I had a Federal Dropship at one point but I didn't get any use out of it.

  • Lakon Diamondback Explorer

    OR

    Faulcon DeLacy Cobra Mk III (Specifically MY Cobra Mk III)

  • So Epic games can just cut 830 people because they're "spending way more than they earn" and nobody bats an eye. But when I cut 830 people because I spend way more than I earn, I'm "committing assault" and am "a menace to society."

  • I'm no expert on the lives of the revolutionaries, but to take an educated guess: publishing.

    There's a lot of time to think when you're in exile, and thinkers tend to write. They almost certainly struggled, as publishing isn't the most stable source of income, but it's something.

  • So the problem with thinking about "hippies" is that we've kinda been handed a shitload of people with otherwise nothing in common except a penchant for psychedelic drugs and a few hairstyles. There are probably more ways to do this, but I'm going to separate "Hippies" into 3 categories:

    Youth Movement: The boomers understood that they were a generation bigger than any other and that they could affect some real tangible change in the world if they put their minds to it. They got burned out or otherwise found their place in flatland around 1972. Ideologically they had some sound footing, and even got some big wins (lowering the voting age to 18, abolishing the draft, title IX) but they grew up and the new kids just didn't feel the same way.

    New Communalists: An even bigger mixed bag. The New Communalists were eager to explore new ways of building communities and living together. Noble enough intentions, and it even led to some really cool stuff like the way we're interacting over the internet right now. However, one of the new ways of building community they got really into was psychedelic drugs, and this is how we get into all the horrible things that people did in the name of "free love."

    And then there were The Freaks: They were libertarians before libertarianism had a foothold in American conservatism. They were in it for the sex, the drugs, and the music. They also often got confused for Youth Movement types because they were hairy, they were smelly, they smoked pot, and they were broadly critical of the US Government.

    "Hippies" is term that really only helped the Nixon administration crack down on their political opponents with draconian anti-drug laws.

    Edit: Come to think of it, there were probably a fair bunch of radical leftists among the Freaks, but again, who was actually listening to their politics? Besides, radical leftists and libertarians used to be able to find common ground in their exclusion from, and subsequent disillusionment with, American politics.

  • Music @lemmy.ml
    HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its] @hexbear.net

    Punk Rock History with Thomas Pynchon Day 1: 1958, The Year Punk Broke

    cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/261026

    Featured song: Rumble by Link Wray and The Ray Men (March 31st, 1958/Cadence Records/New York, NY)

    I find myself commenting about punk history a lot in this place. Seems a lot of you have questions and misunderstandings about the genre. Thought I'd throw my hat into the "Post something every day" ring, but with an informative twist. Of the things I'm encyclopedic about, punk history might be the one thing I'll never run out of stuff to say about.

    To begin, I'd like to answer the most hotly debated question in punk rock: Who was first? There are a number of oft-cited answers but this one's mine.

    It's winter, early 1958, in Virginia. While trying to lay down a guitar-centric version of The Stroll by The Diamonds, Link Wray's amp makes a noise it's not supposed to. Might have been some faulty electrics, might have been some bizarre environmental variables. All we know is that nobody had ever heard distorted guitar lik