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   I'M NOT GAY!!

   It's 2012, and if you're like me there's probably a lot of shit out there you just absolutely detest. I don't think I've ever been so damn annoyed by so many things in popular culture.

   - dubstep. Worst embarrassing trend of the modern period.

   - Modern language being truncated. American society is soon going to devolve completely into a series of text short hand and memes

   - reality/celeb shows. Am I dreaming? Is this stuff really that popular?

   - loud noisy michael bay styled CGI movies. This is what's killing movies

   - Wii this, android app this, Apple that. Put down the technology and read a book or have a picnic in a park. Unplug, just for a few minutes. Play real frisbee, not Wii virtual Frisbee for a second.

   - endless remakes/sequels/reboots/reboots/reimaginings in movies.

   - Political sides. Obama, Romney...they're both war loving stooges in the pocket of wall street. Yet liberals and conservatives are going to waste the next ten months arguing who is better?

   - "Retro"/geek/spoof/intentionally faded t-shirts. Yes I know, "cake is a lie",
   "Mario gives mustache rides", "You just lost the game", "Gir Loves Tacos".

   - Autotune and anything resembling it in pop music, rap, etc. I'm glad hip hop is no longer glamorizing pimps and guns, but autotuned clownish party rap and disposable female pop music isn't much better.

   - Angry Birds. Seriously, wtf is that? I can't walk anywhere without seeing advertisements, merchandise or people playing it.

   - Emo/Scene/Crunkcore/Mall Screamo: It's twenty fucking twelve, and this "music" and style still exists? Are the executives at that soon to be chapter 14 Hot Topic still keeping a breathing tube in this 2007 myspace turdball? Hey hats off to Black Veil Brides, Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria...is there any non asymetrical hair cutted tweens actually into this stuff?

   - Internet memes and macroimage replies. These were cute in 2001...even 2004 they still had some charm. Now it's about as edgy as showing a boob in a movie.

   - My Little Pony: Princess Is Magic(both the cartoon and internet meme)

   - How most cable cartoons are now these cheap flash ADHD shows, with randomness for random sake.

   - Expressions like "...REALLY?" This is on par with late 90's lingo like "hella sick", "my peeps", "who let the dogs out", and "don't go there"

   - Modern video games. Is everything now war propaganda, sports and generic apocalyptic 3rd person sandbox games? I constantly refer to Gamestop as "Bro'stop". It's all bro games. Congratulations video game industry.

   - Modern toys. Action figures are now these dinky ultra cheap things, yet cost on average $12 bucks. A far cry from the glorious 90's action figure period

   - Boring NPR snoozefest "indie rock". Yeah I'm looking at you Bon Iver, Kings of Leon, Black Keys, Fleet Foxes, and the rest of the hipster versions of Nickelback

   - Big Nanny Laws. I don't think it's the government to say what lightbulbs can be banned, what happy meals people can have, or treating the public like gulag prisoners at the nation's airports.

   - Urban Outfitters, American Apparel and all these other bland clothing stores. Fashion today is almost as embarrassing as early 1990's clothing from the midwest. 400% markup on clothes intentionally made to look like they came from a thrift store. Nice.

   - Oh and finally...goggles, ventilator masks, fuzzy neon leg warmers, green biohazard logos and stupid shit in the hair and whatever else goes with the "Aggrotech/Terror EBM" joke of a scene. Congrats cybergoth kids, you put the nail in the coffin for "EBM" and what was left of the industrial scene. That look always was an embarrassment, and for whatever reason it's probably the only thing left in "the scene" for all its worth.

   I'd say the apocalypse couldn't come soon enough

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   Damn dude. lol

   I will agree with Dubstep. Not that I hate it but it just isn't my cup of tea. Not the least bit inspiring for me.

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   Wow. a well thought out post there Mecha.

   I agree with a lot of what you said (even though I am sickly addicted to Angry Birds..grrr) and I like some screamo, but just the parts where they aren't screaming if that makes sense (reminds me of hardcore punk in my day)

   I will add:
   TEXTING - by far the worst trend in modern times. I don't like typing on a damn phone!!

   E-MAIL - I am convinced beyond convincing that Satan himself invented e-mail so that you would never EVER have a break from work.

   Movies about people addicted to drugs or murders. If you watched TV and movies and never went out, you would be convinced that all the world ever does is take a ton of drugs and kill each other. Life has so many interesting facets, BRANCH OUT!!

   As far as "reality" television, it isn't that I think it is the end of modern civ, it is just that it has become VERY apparent that there is in fact no "reality" in the shows. Increasingly I can tell that people are reading scripted lines and doing things in the shows that were pre-scripted. The worst part is that stupid fans of the shows think they are real at all.

   To make this music related, could we please have one band break-out that isn't completely and totally manufactured? What happened to the "4 lads from Bristol who met in the basement and were discovered in the local pub"?

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   Gmail's new look.

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   All of the above!! Thank you, Mecha. That was an excellent post. I despise most the combined effect of all those things have had on society. Everyone is in such a huge rush to go nowhere and do nothing. Then they wonder why people have so many nervous disorders, panic disorders, anxiety diorders and heart disease. You are inundated with messages every day that say nothing you do, are, have or can do is good enough. Is it any wonder nobody can relax? Amazing then that we are also by far the laziest, fattest people that have ever been on earth. Maybe if humans got more exercise they'd have less stress and less extra weight. Just a thought.

   I also hate the way that using technology has replaced the acquisition of knowledge and that kids don't play outside anymore.

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   a boy was given iPod touch as a gift, looks disgusting

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   "...To make this music related, could we please have one band break-out that isn't completely and totally manufactured? What happened to the "4 lads from Bristol who met in the basement and were discovered in the local pub"?..."

   I think this is an illusion, such things never happened ;)

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   I too used to hate internet memes....

   But then i took an arrow in the knee.

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   TACOS!

   People who take the time of their day to bitch about modern things in order to feel they are above the mediocrity and validate their existence is one thing I absolutely hate.

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    I'M NOT GAY!!

    Sinfelmare wrote: "All of the above!! Thank you, Mecha. That was an excellent post. I despise most the combined effect of all those things have had on society. Everyone is in such a huge rush to go nowhere and do nothing. Then they wonder why people have so many nervous disorders, panic disorders, anxiety diorders and heart disease. You are inundated with messages every day that say nothing you do, are, have or can do is good enough. Is it any wonder nobody can relax? Amazing then that we are also by far the laziest, fattest people that have ever been on earth. Maybe if humans got more exercise they'd have less stress and less extra weight. Just a thought.

    I also hate the way that using technology has replaced the acquisition of knowledge and that kids don't play outside anymore."------------------------------------
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    I don't think I could have said it any better. I see all these zonked out children addicted to their smart phones...I see most the population in San Francisco immersed in twitchy finger smart phones and ipod ear buds(surprised there's not more accidents)
    Did people not see THX1138 or the Matrix? The government would never need to trick people into taking microchips. They'd just need Google and Apple to sell tracking chips as "hip, cool and convenient" with some Foster the People song in a commercial.

    Less and less kids play outside, less and less people seem to talk on the phone. It's all just video games and texts. Pretty soon people won't even need to go outside, if the videos from this year's CES launch of future products are any indication.

    True story: I saw a PBS special called "Digital Nation" where MIT students thought they were being on top of things with "multi tasking", but in fact studies showed that what they call multi-tasking(texting while trying to listen to the professor while being on their laptop doing facebook) was compartmentalizing their minds and they were formatting their minds to not learn anything

    Everything has to be instant. Remember when getting an album was an event. Now people cant even get absorbed in a movie or new album, because they're doing a zillion other things.

    American society is so backwards, because the media sells this image of women needing to be skinny, guys needing to be tone...but then when the commercials hit, it's "TRY THE NEW TRIPLE POUNDER CHEESEBURGER EXTREME! Only a buck!" I mean you go to Walmart, it's like an obese Jerry Springer convention, a celebration of high fructose GMO products. Soon we'll all be traveling on motor scooters and hover pads like in Wall E.

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    I'M NOT GAY!!

    @poolwaiter: "E-MAIL - I am convinced beyond convincing that Satan himself invented e-mail so that you would never EVER have a break from work."

    You know, I don't even really get emails anymore. Maybe a quick facebook "hey" now and then.

    Back in the early to late 1990's, I had hundreds and hundreds of industrial and goth music loving pen pals on pretty much every continent. Snail mail, sending cassette mix tapes, stickers, zines, and 2-8 page hand written letters. In fact my first girlfriend and I we wrote these elaborate hand written letters for months on end. And you can imbue a lot from those. I never was more excited to see my postman each day.

    Did anyone else get hand written mail from people in the 90's? Thats how I found out about so much good music of the time, the tape trading and zine scene. Man I miss that period. Ive not only never gotten that thrill from email, I dont even get emails anymore.

    And smart phones, yes I use mine every day. But theres something missing when trying to play a video game on there versus a console. Maybe its just a tactile thing or something.

    Anyways, it's all dying.

    Arcades? DEAD
    Rental stores? DEAD
    Anime in north america or dvd? GONE
    2d animation? DEAD

    And soon, physical music media? Was nice knowing ya!

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    @mechapop

    The arcade thing hit me pretty hard. I am still depressed that they aren't around anymore. I used to frequent this one in NJ called Fun n Games. It was open 7 days a week until at least 12:00 am. It had wall to wall fighting game cabinets at one point. Sigh the good old days.

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    @sewn: Well people say it was inevitable with the advent of powerful home consoles. Kids today will never get to truly appreciate and enjoy the magic of practical effect movies, or smokey animatronic pizza eatery arcades:) There was a strong magic with arcades, in that here was an atmosphere where you could make instant friends, be in awe over graphics that towered over the 8bit consoles and it just had a really interesting atmosphere.

    Arcades now days are card swapped deer hunter, racing and rhythm games(I dont consider those arcades) I finally got an X arcade stick for MAME, though someday I'd love a hollowed out arcade cabinet with a computer running MAME.

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    @Mechapop - More Please.

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    I'm also no big fan of dubstep, but I don't hate it enough to complain that other people listen to it....

    Anyway, my few main complains:
    - lack of technological progress... except for cellphones, it seems the industry has just settled with "this is good enough"... pc's are barely crawling forward, the current top of the line game consoles are like 5-6 years old... and why is the computing field the only field that has at least enough progress to make it possible to complain about lack of progress? Have people lost all interrest in the future, or have they never truly had any?

    - MTV style movie cutting, swapping camera every 2 seconds

    - No-one makes science fiction movies anymore... there's like 2 years between every science fiction movie which isn't either a parody, or set on earth in the current time, or both...

    - I'll second the reality show thingie, but I don't really care... I only watch regular tv on special occasions

    - And last, but not least... technical "books" that are being published as 4000 linked HTML pages with one paragraph each...

    - And while I'm at it, huge XML configurations...

    but to sum it up, my main complaint is the first one, that there's not many modern things to complain about because there's barely any modern things... we live in 2002 for the 10th year in a row...

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    "The government would never need to trick people into taking microchips. They'd just need Google and Apple to sell tracking chips as "hip, cool and convenient" with some Foster the People song in a commercial."

    So, so true. It would be marketed as more convenient, more secure and safer than NOT having it. The RFID chip in fact already exists and is already in use. It's just not mandatory. Yet. Once they phase out actual currency, that is what will happen. That or something very like it. And people are all so dependent on technology and convenience that they will welcome it.

    Someone tried to argue with me over the "using technology replaces the acquisition of knowledge" thing and I said to him, "Let me ask you something: how many phone numbers do you no longer know from memory because they are programmed in your phone?" This is a small example but think of how widespread it is. There are a million other small and not-so-small things just like it, too. Is it any wonder then that people would RATHER have an intrusive Nanny Government to do the thinking and decision-making FOR them? When they have been taking "intellectual shortcuts" everywhere they can for the past 20 years or more? I don't think so.

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    @SinDelleMorte:

    tracking... already happening big time, a large part of your life is in logs... your best hope is that it's too much information and too distributed to be worth putting together... ;)

    Regarding "using technology replaces the acquisition of knowledge", I totally disagree... access to information online, and being able to store phone numbers on cellphones and such gives you the freedom to learn important thing and gain more abstract understanding, instead of spending your life memorizing trivial things...

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    @xeno: "tracking... already happening big time"

    Oh, that is 100% the case. That's why I don't understand people saying they have privacy concerns with using Google or Facebook or something; if you are on the internet AT ALL, your privacy is already out the window anyway.

    And ordinarily I would agree with you regarding the mind being free to absorb more important information - it certainly makes sense - but that is not what's happening. For example, if a child is doing a report on the solar system and they have to read a book or lots of books on the solar system then write a report about it, the information is learned. But if the child opens a WORD document, goes on the internet for info about the solar system and simply copies and pastes one line at a time to make their report - maybe rewording it, maybe not - that information is not being learned. It's being copied. This is how kids do their homework now.

    I see it with my own kids, where information is simply copied and reported, not absorbed. Even if they were to copy it verbatim from a book (which I of course would not allow), they are still forced to write it, which reinforces the information in their brain. This is true with many things, even with adults. It's not required to learn or absorb things; you simply need to report them. Or they are reported to you.

    It can also be "dangerous" information, in some ways, because the internet is GIGO. That stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. Anybody can put ANYTHING on the internet. I can make an entire website dedicated to proving that Abraham Lincoln was assasinated by aliens. That does not make it true. Or take Wikipedia, for example, which is cited by everybody for everything. Too many people don't realize that Wikipedia can be edited by ANYBODY to say whatever they want it to say. I know because I know people who edit articles on there just to be assholes. Or Snopes, which is considered by MANY to be the go-to resource to prove or disprove things, but is not run by a team of researchers or some academic establishment or even one accredited individual. It's run by some guy out of his house who was considered "one of the most notorious trolls on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup."

    So on the whole I am glad that information is more readily-accessible. I just worry when I see the inherent problems that come with it.

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    "I totally disagree... access to information online, and being able to store phone numbers on cellphones and such gives you the freedom to learn important thing and gain more abstract understanding, instead of spending your life memorizing trivial things... "

    But like Sin said.That is not happening. Average Americans are dumb as shit. I had a discussion with a person the other day about how granite is not a man made material. Yet I bet she knew exactly who was fueding with whom on Real Basketball Wives or whatever the fuck these idiots watch. Technology is granting people information, but still not allowing a proper education or any common sense. Just read Reddit for a couple days. People in general are so damn stupid. Abstract thinking? Then why do we need to many film remakes that explain things out and glamour us with loud noises and colours? These corporation are having us sign paperworkl that basically says 'we are going to screw you over at every chance we get". Yet we are still signing. Still believing the hype. Still assuming someone out there has our interests at heart and will do the right thing. I cannot speak for the whole world, but Americans are full of technology and dumb as rocks.

    Snopes is a good one. ha ha. If I had to tell you how many times I had to explain that crazy shit not being factual to my Grandma. Oh, we would be here all month.

    "I can make an entire website dedicated to proving that Abraham Lincoln was assasinated by aliens."

    Wait! Are you saying he wasn't a Vampire Hunter either? I read a whole book on that, it HAS to be true. It was even at Barnes & Noble on sale!

    `michael

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    I believe this is what Charles Barkley referred to as "white people problems"...

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