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[cetera]

LOL
i feel super embarrassed
i just tried to get all righteous in freaking Heosphoros' facebook post!
i ridiculously rebutted a guy who who was actually being hilariously sarcastic.

i even thought twice that he might be joking before i posted, but i was so blinded by that pot of gold - "to be right on the internet" - that i ignored my judgement and hit that post button.

is this where i am supposed to learn to

A: hang with funnier/hipper people so i can raise my sarcasm level?
B: learn that you will always eventually fail if you think you can put someone in their place on the internet?
C: be righter and smarter so i can make informative posts that knock the posers of their pedestals?
D: quit the internet only realize real life is the same and even more hurtful when u have egg on your face?

is anyone else feeling me here?

i feel like its a major NOOB topic actually, very worthy of the year 2002

[Spookmeister C]

Link isn't working.
Maybe because I'm not friends with the guy yet.

[cetera]

http://www.facebook.com/Heos2A03

here he is, i will make a little screen cap for anyone who is curious of the convo. its not big deal. i just look like a doof lol

EDIT:

here

[Moldilox]

In my opinion by even thinking about this long enough to post about it you're thinking about it too much. Not a big deal.

[Xplo]

LOL
i feel super embarrassed
i just tried to get all righteous in freaking Heosphoros' facebook post!
i ridiculously rebutted a guy who who was actually being hilariously sarcastic.

i even thought twice that he might be joking before i posted, but i was so blinded by that pot of gold - "to be right on the internet" - that i ignored my judgement and hit that post button.

is this where i am supposed to learn to

A: hang with funnier/hipper people so i can raise my sarcasm level?
B: learn that you will always eventually fail if you think you can put someone in their place on the internet?
C: be righter and smarter so i can make informative posts that knock the posers of their pedestals?
D: quit the internet only realize real life is the same and even more hurtful when u have egg on your face?

is anyone else feeling me here?

i feel like its a major NOOB topic actually, very worthy of the year 2002

E: Stop being a self-righteous dick.

Unfortunately, internet culture is all about PWNING people and saving face if they try to PWN you, so it's hard to avoid.

[Ken Oh]

E: Stop being a self-righteous dick.

lol, cetera, u just got pwnt

[cetera]

E: Stop being a self-righteous dick.

i'm sure this was worded for humor, but it also kind of stung!

how does one go about amending themselves if this is the case?

there is no dick switch that you can just turn off!

i'm being serious

[travis]

You made your quotes orange.

...

...What the fuck, Ryan

[matsunami]

Paranoid Android

[XMark]

Well, I was reading about that guy on Kotaku on the way to work, and I was also facepalming at it.

Dude wasn't even really releasing his stuff in NES cartridge format, he was just ruining existing carts (which are no longer made and are a dwindling resource) and shoving USB drives inside them.

[raubhimself]

In the past few weeks I've had a few instances of making quasi-sarcastic comments with small nuggets of truth that have been taken without the sarcastic part. Hell, I straight up pissed off creeper, one of my bestie IRL friends because I posted something with sarcastic things that weren't aimed at him, but were interpreted that way. I guess that's sort of the other side of your situation but I felt the egg dripping too. Sarcasm on the internet sucks and it's even hard for people who have known you for almost 20 years to detect it. Live and learn.

Also I'm pretty sure someone I know IRL defriended me on Facebook because I challenged him on his political beliefs. Oh well.

Life's hard, man.

Also this makes 3 cringe-worthy chiptune articles I've seen in 2 weeks

[Guy In Rubber Suit]

Well, I was reading about that guy on Kotaku on the way to work, and I was also facepalming at it.

Dude wasn't even really releasing his stuff in NES cartridge format, he was just ruining existing carts (which are no longer made and are a dwindling resource) and shoving USB drives inside them.

People do that with ROMs as well. There are also some companies where you can purchase 'blank' NES cartridges that aren't (I believe) cannibalized games.

So what I gather from this is that it's not 'troo' or 'kvlt' to release music on a cannibalized NES cart with a USB drive in it?

[Nario]

is anyone else feeling me here?

You made your quotes orange.

...

...What the fuck, Ryan

cetera's name is Ryan!? Sorry, I... he's cetera to me.

[XMark]

Sometimes you can say something sarcastic, and people interpret it as genuine, and you look like a bit of a jerk.

Sometimes you can misinterpret someone else's sarcasm as serious, and you look like a bit of a jerk.

But remember, no matter what you do, you probably won't be as much of a jerk as some douchebag that destroys old NES carts to market his own non-video-game-related music.

[raubhimself]

So what I gather from this is that it's not 'troo' or 'kvlt' to release music on a cannibalized NES cart with a USB drive in it?

The article says "Musician Releases Album on Old Nintendo Cartidges" and "Not a reproduction, not a replica case, he's released it on actual NES carts".

Now compare Alex Mauer who released albums only playable on the NES to this guy who put a USB stick in a NES cart. This dude isn't even a chiptune artist, he's just literally putting an album on a USB stick inside of a cart. He could shove it in a tupperware container or a '57 Chevy and you could say the same quotes as above. It's really nothing special and it's disappointing in the same way that the dude covering Radiohead albums in "8-bit" getting a lot of attention is disappointing. Neither is representative of chiptune culture and they get way more "props" for something that's not really original and certainly not true to the culture. I don't think people are upset because this reveals the secret chiptune culture to the masses, it's upsetting because it's revealing the wrong things. There's way more interesting stuff out there, so why is this what rises to the top?

Certainly in the realm of being not a big deal in the long run but still makes me

And now because I'm bored at work, this thread is coming full circle.