"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

In case people aren't in the Telegram group, I've joined for you (against my better judgment)
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EDIT: Null, if you see this, when can we expect mati.live and kiwifarms.cc to be back up and running? If anyone else knows the reason/when it will be back up, please let me know.
I noticed that when I was trying to bookmark some of the MATI articles.

July 20, 2020: Brave New World

April 7, 2021: Section 230 isn't the problem, Payment Networks are

July 8, 2021: Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet

Those are 3 of the important ones, might compile them all right here later.

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It's worth setting up a vk.com account (if you're in any of the Eastern European countries where Ukraine flags are flying everywhere and your ISP has blocked vk.com, try vk.ru, often the point of the censorship is just to not allow non-Russians to visit these pages). They by far have the biggest infrastructure for supporting higher bitrate streams.
 
The Rings of Power was supposed to be loosely based on the Silmarillion and some other novels based on the second age of middle earth (Lord of the Rings happens at the end of the third age). It's supposed to be about how the 19 rings of power were created along with the one ring along with the rise and fall of Numenor (Aragon is an ancestor of this island).

Unfortunately, Amazon gave the story telling for something that has very little written about it, to a bunch of gender studies majors with blue hair. So the story is going to absolutely suck ass and the series will go the way of the Last Jedi where hating the show isn't because it sucks donkey balls with no basis in any of the Tolkien literature but because you are a racist and sexist
 
The Rings of Power was supposed to be loosely based on the Silmarillion and some other novels based on the second age of middle earth (Lord of the Rings happens at the end of the third age). It's supposed to be about how the 19 rings of power were created along with the one ring along with the rise and fall of Numenor (Aragon is an ancestor of this island).

Unfortunately, Amazon gave the story telling for something that has very little written about it, to a bunch of gender studies majors with blue hair. So the story is going to absolutely suck ass and the series will go the way of the Last Jedi where hating the show isn't because it sucks donkey balls with no basis in any of the Tolkien literature but because you are a racist and sexist
The Silmarillion is like the mythology of Tolkien's work. Tolkien was an old school Catholic and basically was one of the guys who heavily studied classic literature. You can't have some materialist dyke dig into that and get it. The true villains in LOTR are effectively nihilist Satanists who can't come to terms with how immense God is or in pure rage at the idea of God.

Tolkien is not very deep, but the prose and story is beautiful because of how simple it is. Sauron is evil, the Silmarillion is the entire story of his fall and how he doubles down on his fall. LOTR is about people coming to together to fight against evil. Sauron literally enslaves people and forces them to wage war for him.
The entire Silmarillion is Morgoth throwing a bitchfit at creation because he wants to be God and isn't happy with being #2 of all creation. You want to know what's cool about Tolkien? Magic is rarely very much casting fireball. It's subtle and other worldly, elves are otherworldly because they are more blatantly in touch with the divine. It's why it's cool when Sauron shapeshifts to make men start doing human sacrifice and get them to wage war on what are basically Angels.
Rings of Power just doesn't seem to get the ethos of Tolkien or why people liked Jackson's movies. It's a skinwalker of a series.

They also didn't get the full rights, they got the scraps. They paid $250 million for basically saying they could make shitty fanfic.
 
I was going through the old Kay's Cooking streams just for some comfy background video while I play some action RPG games and decided to see what Kay was up to now and was greeted by this foreboding thumbnail...
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I love this image. I made this and some backstory when this horror show first came up in Kay's thread.

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A sallow face like melting wax greets the camera, looking blankly at the viewer. Nearly motionless, only a slow wavering shows it is not merely a still image. The light directly above the figure, not even the whites of its eyes are visible under its brow. The mouth unfolding open as if the skin were ready to slip off the muscle it rested upon, it speaks slowly.

"Hai people..."

Slightly echoing, it makes a deep, raspy breath, the very act taking all of its energy. It speaks again, even slower. The video distorts as the words bellow out, deepening its voice almost beyond comprehension.

"Time for," it says as it inhales again, the air catching on its rotten lungs, "...another meal."

As the camera slowly turns to the stove with a shaky grip, the sound of a fire alarm slowly fades in. It drones on and on as the view turns and turns. The camera quietly cracks in clumsy hands.

Smoke fills the air until it completely obscures everything, yet through the haze, a figure is visible on the box-shaped stove. A long, cylindrical form. Two red stumps on the bottom. One red stump visible on the side. On its top, the most defined object in the fog, a caved-in sphere. Still blurred, a mess of darkness and red implying a deformed expression can barely be made out, frozen in agony.

Just as the figure takes shape, the video cuts to a loud, harsh static before it returns to darkness where only vague motion can be occasionally deciphered. Large, fat hands, bloated like a corpse, briefly brush past the camera before the sounds of cracking and tearing are heard. Repeated crunching fills the air, coupled only with the sound of liquid dripping onto cheap linoleum.

Gradually, this chorus of ripping viscera gives way to a deafening hum, broken only by the grotesque sloshing of a single, loud swallow, the long and stringy strands of gore audibly sliding down the consumer's throat. A voice, deeper than before, gasps as if it had briefly forgotten to breathe while it indulged in its ravenous hunger. A pause, it rumbles out a weak murmur.

"Mmm," it hums. "It's quite naice." Silent slurping fills the air as its tongue explores its mouth in the persistent darkness. Its lips slap as it readies to speak one last time, the shimmer of drool briefly flashing in the blackness. "A little crunch-ay..."

Its final words silently echo. The droning hum grows louder and louder, as if the noise was making the air itself crushing and heavy, before the video finally ends. As autoplay kicks in, no trace of the video remains.
 
The Silmarillion is like the mythology of Tolkien's work. Tolkien was an old school Catholic and basically was one of the guys who heavily studied classic literature. You can't have some materialist dyke dig into that and get it. The true villains in LOTR are effectively nihilist Satanists who can't come to terms with how immense God is or in pure rage at the idea of God.

Tolkien is not very deep, but the prose and story is beautiful because of how simple it is. Sauron is evil, the Silmarillion is the entire story of his fall and how he doubles down on his fall. LOTR is about people coming to together to fight against evil. Sauron literally enslaves people and forces them to wage war for him.
The entire Silmarillion is Morgoth throwing a bitchfit at creation because he wants to be God and isn't happy with being #2 of all creation. You want to know what's cool about Tolkien? Magic is rarely very much casting fireball. It's subtle and other worldly, elves are otherworldly because they are more blatantly in touch with the divine. It's why it's cool when Sauron shapeshifts to make men start doing human sacrifice and get them to wage war on what are basically Angels.
Rings of Power just doesn't seem to get the ethos of Tolkien or why people liked Jackson's movies. It's a skinwalker of a series.

They also didn't get the full rights, they got the scraps. They paid $250 million for basically saying they could make shitty fanfic.
Literally all of this

I am just going to be happy when the series is over and the entire fan base can say none of this is real
 
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Just a small thing to contribute for the stream today, should Null wish to evoke the name of the fat fetishizing weirdo that is Pyrocynical and his tendencies to not keep it in his pants.
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I'm sorry does that say "Maid dress stream" WTF????????
 
I hope this whole Keffals war doesn't put too much of a dent in Vidya streams. Those are always a treat
 
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