[ SECRET POST #2075 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2075 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Twilight]


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[Christian Bale, Scott Disik]


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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]












10. [SPOILERS for Misfits]



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11. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire]



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12. [SPOILERS for the Vampire Diaries]



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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]













13. [WARNING for rape]



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14. [WARNING for suicide]

[Truffaldino from Bergamo (1976)]


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15. [WARNING for pedophilia, rape]

[DC Comics]


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16. [WARNING for depression]

[Zac Little/AngryFilmsProduction (YouTube)]


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17. [WARNING for child abuse]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #296.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If I'm reading it right, mass appeal = mainstream = casual gamers, niche appeal = 'hardcore' gamers = hipsters?

[unicornherds]

That...makes sense as an explanation for the secret, but does not make sense. Man, kids these days with their wacky labels.

[nynaeve_sedai]

I'm still trying to figure out what a hipster is. This secret confused me more :-/

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was just someone who didn't want to like nerdy things so said they were liking them ~ironically as an excuse. The Too Cool For School crowd, if you will. And they had a uniform of skinny jeans, dark tops, and fat rimmed glasses.

But now I'm not so sure.

[nynaeve_sedai]

Are they like the faux-Bohemian that like to populate Starbucks and listen to indie music all day? Not that there's anything wrong with Starbucks or indie music, but the combination wrapped up in an air of superiority is what makes it all weird.

I think of them as a subcategory of "Bobos in Paradise" (which incidentally, Wikipedia suggests as a See Also)

[unicornherds]

Not the anon you replied to (obviously), but yeah, when I think of hipsters I think of the Starbucks sitting indie music listening wrapped up in an air of superiority crowd.

[nynaeve_sedai]

Okay, good. So...yeah I'm with you. I'm not sure how FPS = hipster.

I would think a hipster would be more like, "You play Sims? Ugh. I own an Atari and I play pong." or "The Wii? I refuse to play anything but Super Mario World on SNES" and they would pronounce SNES like Sness or something...

Wow. This is getting stranger and stranger... I think...I think I need to stop....

[diet_poison]

That's generally what people say a "hipster" is, afaik. But people also pull that label into other conversations and use it to refer to someone who, within whatever context, are really anal about only doing the old/"good"/not popular thing within that hobby. Secret was a good example, imo.

Also, I don't think very many people really take the word "hipster" super seriously. I think in general it's almost more an idea than a group of actual people, at this point.

[cloud_riven]

FPS. Niche appeal? pffffhahahahaaaha ♥

maybe op is going by one of the other millions of definitions of "hipster." the one about liking things before they were cool.

lbr, hipster is just code for "person who enjoys doing this thing I don't like".

[(Anonymous)]

isn't hipster the opposite?

"person who thinks they enjoy this cool underground thing that other people don't like, and feels superior because of it"

that'd apply pretty accurately to "hardcore gamerz"

[(Anonymous)]

But a hardcore gamer isn't about the underground like-it-before-anyone-else, they're just about knowing all there is to know about their game of choice and being kickass at it and playing all the time. It's definitely a judgey insular crowd that has superiority issues, but I would never think of them as the same as hipsters.

[cloud_riven]

That's

That's kind of exactly what I just said. About liking things before they were cool.

[(Anonymous)]

you said "lbr, hipster is just code for "person who enjoys doing this thing I don't like"" too

which isn't it?

[cloud_riven]

It's both, and meaningless. I honestly can't tell if you're new to gamer bro culture, or if I'm just too used to seeing said gamer bros throw the word around to describe everything from bandwagon fans, tumblr users, ironic fans, indie gamers, and people who wear thick-framed glasses for fashionable reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

Well you're just you. It doesn't mean anything to say a thing and then be that thing when it's just because the thing that you're saying is a thing that was created to be meaningful to a person who meets your exact specifications for being a person for whom the things that you say happen to be meaningful. You can't just take words and use them to make a sentence that is read by the masses in one way in the context of normal speech and comprehension and then explain that it is meant to be read in the entirely opposite way and that only those who are of the group to which you belong can understand, for then you are the very thing against which you rail, are you not? But then, I must take into consideration that despite the words that you use in reference to those which assume the monikers mentioned in this conversation, you may not in fact dissociate from this group. Indeed, you may not wish to seem as though you rail against them at all, and might instead identify with them and construct your arguments in such a way as you defend their philosophy.

In any case, your communication skills are lacking.

[cloud_riven]

oops I forgot to be smart-like about colloquial words my bad

[(Anonymous)]

But what is it to be smart-like about colloquial words if the meaning behind the colloquialism is only colloquial and does not expand beyond the rudimentary expressions that have been derived from the lexicon by the masses? In the end, a barrier is potentially created by that which has been used to set oneself apart in the cultural landscape or borrowed words and phrases stitched together will-nilly in a sort of patchwork emblem of the current penultimate clique. And so, in the end, the thing that has been meant to be conveyed to those who grasp for the thing that you have dangled before them becomes obscured by the layers of impenetrable meaning that have been draped over it by the members of that group which would separate itself from the greater whole -- to its peril, as one might suspect. No, to shroud is not the answer, not even in this way.

On another matter entirely, your response caused guacamole to spew forth from my speaking apparatus and fly across the ether to land upon my computer monitor.

[cloud_riven]

What a horrible waste of mushy avocado.

Seriously though, is your last name Ipsum by any chance? I could use someone like you ♥

[(Anonymous)]

Shall I then become a thing to be used in the visual presentation of prototypes that revolve around displays of the written word? I am uncertain if this would be of benefit to that which constitutes this thing which I am wont to refer to as my life, but it should never be said that when a thing is presented to me that might be called an opportunity by those who typically deal in such things I turn away without first considering the options as they are laid before me. And so, it is left to me only to ask: what services, precisely, would you require of me?

[cloud_riven]

Ya ya i have this business venture and will pay you lots of bucks.

Imma take you to a bank, put you in front of the teller, you talk at them, and I rob the place while you distract with things that sound like they make sense.

[(Anonymous)]

...BAHAHAHAHA.

Okay, this officially broke me. But it sounds absolutely hilarious and I want to either write it or see it written by someone else.

[(Anonymous)]

...nonesensical analogy?

[(Anonymous)]

Nonsense and analogy are often partners in discussion and are made of things which might have meaning if only their meaning would be allowed to them and not taken and diluted in the name of affectation. In this case, however, it is rather safe to say that only one of the two is present and can be assuaged with little care.