Listened to Null's bit on Rackets and couldn't agree more. I've been a viewer since the EVS debate, and couldn't quite put my finger on why I couldn't really enjoy Nick's content anymore. I defended the sex talks while people were calling him a coomer, because that seems to me like regular adult relationships, but Nick's gotten way too parasocial with his audience and his show suffers for it. It's mindblowing to me that he's been on the internet but can't see the trainwreck ahead if he doesn't chill out on that stuff. He thinks his audience loves him, and they do, but they don't care for him, and would backstab him in a second if they gained anything important from it. Internet fwenz and all that. Because you can't truly care for someone you've only seen in real life once.
It's good that he's enjoying his time with his wife, but he's getting too focused into it, like there's nothing else he could enjoy working on in his life. Get a hobby. You've always wanted to learn about cars, woodworking, hunting. Well, time to look around and actually try those things. And how about you get back into weight-lifting, fatty. Seems to me he's walking a thin line on doing something he can't take back, and no matter how thrilling it is, it could destroy the future he's worked on so far, and impact more than himself.
It's good that he has all that free time, but spending so much of it in discord and locals, while easy to justify productivity-wise, produces the opposite, as Nick has barely anything new to talk about on his show. On his shows, there's the news and there's whatever stupid stuff happened in his community, which I can't imagine is entertaining, even for the people that were there.
It's like there's nothing new or pressing in his life, so he just stays home and presses the same button, like on of those rats hooked up to a dopamine machine.
/mad-at-the-internet-2023-01-06:9
