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[Solid Snek]

I want to hate on this but grief is a fucker. Ok Ernest, you get one.

Yeah, that's incredibly sad. It reminds me of Bob becoming a Sonichu in Chris' autism-riddled brain after he died, only somehow, Pnictogen's version is more unhinged.

Pnictogen is not going to enjoy the same popularity as Lou, I'm sure, but I think he's a nice change of pace, and could be enjoyable even for people who don't like Lou. As others point out, he's got an "old school crazy" that you don't see as much of these days, and even if a thread on him is slow by Lou standards, we can't all be as good at pissing people off as Lou.

My vote would be for one of you who "knows" Larper well to throw something up in Proving Grounds. Make a short intro to him and let the people who check that forum decide if he's worth having a whole thread on.

Definitely include his fight with Jordan Peterson, too.

Seven video game characters from a recent video game, considering how old he the host body is. That's weird too; dude's old enough to have some Final Fantasy people or a Thundercat in there.

If he was born in '74, he would have been about 41 years old when Undertale came out.

41 years old.

What were these characters doing in his head for forty years? Did he recently develop his DID? (by which I mean, is his own headcanon that he recently developed his DID; obviously he's not DID because it doesn't exist)

 

[Spunt]

OK I don't have the time to research things like I used to (and I was never very fast or skilled at it) but I can write a thread on Pnictogen if I can get some Kiwis to help me research it. Or at least we can go mining into his postings and history to see if a dedicated look would generate enough content for at least a decent OP, if not a very busy thread. @Norman B. Normal 's deep dive post was nearly 4 years ago now, we'll at the very least need to check that that information is still correct and see what he's been doing since then.

DM me if you're up for helping. If I get enough offers I'll organise a group to collate info and put something together.

@Solid Snek , @kazuhiro , @Aunt Carol , @Fuggalope @Athena's Biggest Fan tagging you because you've all posted about him recently.

 

[The Dude]

Yeah, that's incredibly sad. It reminds me of Bob becoming a Sonichu in Chris' autism-riddled brain after he died, only somehow, Pnictogen's version is more unhinged.
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Pnictogen is not going to enjoy the same popularity as Lou, I'm sure, but I think he's a nice change of pace, and could be enjoyable even for people who don't like Lou. As others point out, he's got an "old school crazy" that you don't see as much of these days, and even if a thread on him is slow by Lou standards, we can't all be as good at pissing people off as Lou.

My vote would be for one of you who "knows" Larper well to throw something up in Proving Grounds. Make a short intro to him and let the people who check that forum decide if he's worth having a whole thread on.

Definitely include his fight with Jordan Peterson, too.


If he was born in '74, he would have been about 41 years old when Undertale came out.

41 years old.

What were these characters doing in his head for forty years? Did he recently develop his DID? (by which I mean, is his own headcanon that he recently developed his DID; obviously he's not DID because it doesn't exist)

Considering that there is no professional psychological consensus on whether or not DID is even real...

Most psychology professionals (that is to say, the ones who are serious about it being a medical field and not new age-style advocates who merely ass-pat their patients instead of actually trying to get them healthy) feel that it's bullshit and that everyone who claims to have it is faking. The few who do believe DID is real say the vast majority are faking, and that genuine cases are extremely rare. The small, SMALL number of cases that are considered to be genuine do not manifest ANYTHING like what people on social media and Tumblr claim the condition is like. The different personalities are usually unaware of the others existence. They don't behave like roommates in a rental. When one personality is in control the others are asleep or the brain is manufacturing entirely different realities for them until conditions are right for them to be in control.

This "plural unit" bullshit is total bullshit.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

No idea what happened to him to make him bugshit crazy

Undertale and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Wuk Lamat.

Lou completely failing to see why she's hated by most of the the players is pretty on-brand.

Even outside of the writing issues that plague the character, which extend across locale, Sena Bryer, the VA, delivers a woefully horrendous performance plagued with terrible takes, quality issues, and downright baffling intonations which can at-best be explained by "man trying his hardest not to sound like a man."

Bryer is also a pugnacious sort, getting into slapfights on the internet with the fanbase over things - he notably called anyone who disliked "Smile," the widely-panned and horrendously-used feature song of the expansion, as "racist" because the song's structure is "black choir" or something, despite the song featuring zero elements from that particular genre.

 

[Solid Snek]

Undertale and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.


Even outside of the writing issues that plague the character, which extend across locale, Sena Bryer, the VA, delivers a woefully horrendous performance plagued with terrible takes, quality issues, and downright baffling intonations which can at-best be explained by "man trying his hardest not to sound like a man."

Bryer is also a pugnacious sort, getting into slapfights on the internet with the fanbase over things - he notably called anyone who disliked "Smile," the widely-panned and horrendously-used feature song of the expansion, as "racist" because the song's structure is "black choir" or something, despite the song featuring zero elements from that particular genre.

The guy in the second half of the video, right?

Is he foreign? He sounds like a gay man pretending to be a Japanese woman speaking mangled Engrish. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's just from some strange foreign land where English sounds suspiciously like how Japanese Engrish sounds to an American, but...

Also, I tried looking him up, and of course the first thing I see is a reddit meltdown where people are terrified their subreddit will get banned because somebody used the word "he" in a thread about him (not even referring to this dude).

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Is he foreign?

US citizen, I believe from Kentucky or something. Very white.

What you are hearing is someone attempting to do a hispanic accent who is not hispanic, who also apparently does not listen often to hispanic accents. I can't identify what it's supposed to be - it's not venezuelan, bolivian, columbian, brazilian, mexican, puerto rican, argentinian... and it doesn't help that he drops the accent every third line and the voice director just didn't feel like mandating a re-take. There's a lot of obvious vocal compression in the performance as well, where someone in post crunched all but a certain range of frequencies with a ridiculous amount of compression.

Normally, the game's voice-acting is better than that, using a London studio that has some Dark Souls alumni. However, for this particular expansion, the EN localization brought on a US team... to 'be more authentic,' and this is one of the results. It's a pretty clear-cut case of nepotism, given there's connective tissue between this idiot - who I should say is the lead performance of this expansion and has the third-most-voice-acted lines of dialogue of any character in the entire six-expansion-run - and one of the localizers.

At the very least, while Sena Bryer certainly didn't earn the role, he at least earned money for an awful performance. So at least one rung above Lou in that department, and presumably with all his toes.

 

[Spunt]

I may be the first person to actually read all of Pnictogen's insane ramblings about Undertale, (including this obnoxiously pretentious livejournal diatribe) but his backstory is becoming a bit clearer.

Ernest is a severe acid casualty. He would consume vast quantities of LSD and weed and listen to the Undertale soundtrack over and over until he hallucinated characters from the game and various random psychedelic entities with neopronouns, until he "didn't need the drugs any more" to experience these hallucinations and started believing that those characters, as well as other psychedelic entities, were real and moved into his head, also he is a woman. In other words he took so many drugs that he experienced Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, and basically became non-functional.

I had to read all 5000 words of that, along with another 1200 in the livejournal. I think he actually be a worse writer than Jake Alley. Like Jake, he also really likes Kamen Rider, so add that to your mental red flag list I suppose.



Fuck you, Ernest. FUCK you.

 

[Vampirella]

What you are hearing is someone attempting to do a hispanic accent who is not hispanic, who also apparently does not listen often to hispanic accents.

This is the funniest thing I've heard all week. For some reason he makes me think of Mongo from Blazing Saddles.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

This is the funniest thing I've heard all week. For some reason he makes me think of Mongo from Blazing Saddles.

Let's put it this way, the big final fight for the end of the expansion storyline has a point where trooncat busts in to save the day. The initial voice acting was so bad that it was meme'd relentlessly and they had to replace with it with a new recording in a later patch. Endless spamming of "Speeeeeen lissun tu mi" was had by all.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Considering that there is no professional psychological consensus on whether or not DID is even real...

I think there should be a diagnostic criterion that you look at the patient's social media and if it has anything Homestuck-adjacent, they don't have DID.

Like Jake, he also really likes Kamen Rider, so add that to your mental red flag list I suppose.

@Spunt... Do you think love can bloom, even on Bluesky?

 

[Solid Snek]

I may be the first person to actually read all of Pnictogen's insane ramblings about Undertale, (including this obnoxiously pretentious livejournal diatribe) but his backstory is becoming a bit clearer.

Ernest is a severe acid casualty. He would consume vast quantities of LSD and weed and listen to the Undertale soundtrack over and over until he hallucinated characters from the game and various random psychedelic entities with neopronouns, until he "didn't need the drugs any more" to experience these hallucinations and started believing that those characters, as well as other psychedelic entities, were real and moved into his head, also he is a woman. In other words he took so many drugs that he experienced Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, and basically became non-functional.

I had to read all 5000 words of that, along with another 1200 in the livejournal. I think he actually be a worse writer than Jake Alley. Like Jake, he also really likes Kamen Rider, so add that to your mental red flag list I suppose.

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Fuck you, Ernest. FUCK you.

I think the only longform schizoposts I've ever enjoyed were TimeCube - cuz I was like ten when I read that shit - and Jin the Twilight Sparkle Fucker's backstory, which was great because despite how crazy Jin seemed straight from the start, the story got worse and worse with each chapter. It's like reading a horror novel written by the world's most unreliable narrator, whom you think is just a creepy serial killer giving a final confession, but then he slowly, gradually, methodically reveals that he's not just any serial killer, OH NO: he's permanently sealed himself into a skinsuit made from a thousand child corpses buried under his shed, taken over the asylum you thought he was imprisoned in, AND OH GOD YOU'RE NEXT ON HIS LIST.

This one is a slog, which is to be expected and not necessarily a point against Larper, but

Now I could but wrong, but it sounds to me like K. is a real, honest-to-god, living human being that Larper had a relationship with, until he was in his early forties.

Then Larper tells her that he's becoming possessed by a pagan Gallic water spirit, who also happens to be a video game dragon for some reason, and manifests "hirself" to him in the form of a song from Undertale.

And K. puts up with it for a little while, but eventually the spergery gets so bad that she blows her shit and dumps his ass. BUT IT'S OK, because Larper still has his musical dragon spirit beast to keep him company.

... am I reading this right?

 

[Aunt Carol]

And K. puts up with it for a little while, but eventually the spergery gets so bad that she blows her shit and dumps his ass. BUT IT'S OK, because Larper still has his musical dragon spirit beast to keep him company.

... am I reading this right?

Think so, yeah. The "shi" makes me think it's another male furry.

This is an amazing quote, though:
I know another couple that got into friction because of "Undertale", with one partner getting very attached to the game (to the point of RPing constantly) and the other feeling slightly repelled.


24/7 Undertale RP, huh? Got annoying? No, it's clearly a coincidence.

It is interesting how clearly he's describing, from the other side and with actual drugs, how it feels to have a Tumblr-y friend suddenly get into Homestuck/Undertale and turn into an asshole.

No American uses the verb "prise" unless they're writing a period piece, pretending to be British (and also writing a period piece), or they think they're much smarter than they are.

 

[Spunt]

Now I could but wrong, but it sounds to me like K. is a real, honest-to-god, living human being that Larper had a relationship with, until he was in his early forties.

Then Larper tells her that he's becoming possessed by a pagan Gallic water spirit, who also happens to be a video game dragon for some reason, and manifests "hirself" to him in the form of a song from Undertale.

And K. puts up with it for a little while, but eventually the spergery gets so bad that she blows her shit and dumps his ass. BUT IT'S OK, because Larper still has his musical dragon spirit beast to keep him company.

... am I reading this right?

I believe so, yes. Bear in mind that "K" used shi/hir pronouns, so Ernest's drug-fuelled insanity was too much even for a neopronoun genderspecial.

EDIT: Undertale LARPer's thread is now up in PG.

 

[kazuhiro]

"Could someone PLEASE let me have $11?"

It was originally $60.

Stream postponed.

Lou mentions Nicki Brie out of nowhere. He must want something.

A reminder.

FFXIV.

724 is actually the area code for Greensburg.

Not doing that great right now, if anyone's wondering.


Walking.

Ew.

Doctor Who.

God.

More FFXIV.





On parade.



Cat. RIP.





Politics.

 

[Bill Evans 45]

He looks like a bag lady. All that's missing is the shopping cart.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Walking.

Can't leave the house to buy groceries for two weeks, but he's walking in an event literally named "Walk a Mile."

And he's making threats against the rest of his leg as a rhetorical device again.

If Lou weren't so bad at anticipating the future, I'd swear he's making as many of these posts as possible so he can screenshot them for the BKA power chair GoFundMe. Lou's the grifter son of a grifter, but he DFEs way too often for him to plan ahead like that.

Unless... what if KiwiFarms was Lou's backup plan all along?

Anyway, either he has a post-op shoe rather than the claimed post-op boot, or he's not wearing it. I'm still no fashionista, but I'm pretty sure boots are taller than crew socks.

 

[Spunt]

That cat looks in really poor condition for 12 years old. If you showed me that picture out of context I'd have guessed it was 18 or 19, really old rather than just older than average. Maybe it had health problems, or maybe it received the same level of care as everyone else in that house.

 

[JaneThough]

I don’t wanna cow tip but there’s gotta be a way to get Staph and Lou aware of each other. The new odd couple, they’re not opposites just fucking weird.

 

[kazuhiro]

Lou is back on Disqus as TheAshhole (archive). 639 comments in ~3 days.

 

[Solid Snek]

Lou's the grifter son of a grifter, but he DFEs way too often for him to plan ahead like that.

Could be a genetic memory, going all the way back to his Union-busting ancestors. Lou may not be smart enough or have enough time awareness to carry the plan out, but like a very fat spider or a predatory slug, his base animal instincts are always angling his body towards the next grift.

More FFXIV.

What the fuck is a WERE-COUGAR GENDER?

I'm sorry, I know I should just accept this stuff, but I'm still old enough to remember when "gender" was proposed to describe that set of shared cultural rules and expectations which governed people of a given sex. Using "gender" to mean your favorite fashion trend, social clique, or - in Brenda the Were-Cougar's case - a group of friends bonding over a shared interest in a repulsive sexual fetish, is not something I can ever accept. "Oh, this new makeup? Last year I was a skater gender, but I'm a GOTH gender now! And look at all those stuckup cheerleader genders over there, with their prep gender and jock gender boyfriends! Ugh. I'd rather eat lunch with the nerd genders..."

Also, re: the last post from that group; I notice Lou says he was "pretending I was a banged up WoL". I'm not sure if he's trying to be funny and means "banged up" in the "banger" sense, but the way I'm reading it, it sounds like this may be confirmation that he's NOT cleared to walk yet, and is indeed fucking his feet up again.

Imagine ignoring your doctor's instructions to not lose your fucking foot, so as to trundle down the street for a tranny parade, and then not only are you in the tranny parade (which is bad enough), but you play adult make-believe and pretend you're about to get this amputation because you're a furry video game character limping away from a boss fight, and not a diabetic fat man disregarding doctor's orders following major, ladyshoe-initiated surgery.

A reminder.

Good to know we can ridicule, torture, and kill him.

Maybe Lou's noticing that his normal marks aren't sending him comfort food money, so he's pawing through his rolodex to find people he hasn't hit up in awhile? Classic addict behavior, so on-brand for Lou.

Politics.

Wonder how long until Rep Lee says something hateful, like "transwomen should not jack off in women's bathrooms", and Lou fires a Hard R her way?