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The century of the maxxer (samkriss.substack.com)

The only exception was a dedicated caste of pietymaxxers. These were, like all maxxers, celibate. In the early part of this period they would usually hermitmog the sincels by starving themselves in the desert; eventually this was formalised into a network of monastic hype houses.

this is very funny, but modern English slang makes me want to forget the language

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[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

We need to start bullying people for using online speak again the same way people used to cringe at the kind of dorks who said things like "l33t haxx0rs"

Like it's funny when it's done ironically but god is this termanal influencer brained stuff cringe after a while.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Apparently, last night my partner woke me up coming to bed, and I said, "Shhhhhhh! I'm snoozemaxxing." Then I fell back asleep. sleepi

I don't remember any of this.

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Don't you dare return to 13375p34k ralsei-pout

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

put all of the streamers in camps and shut it all down

related: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/in-my-zombie-era

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They only know of "maxxing" but in my youth we also regularly engaged in "chillin' out", "relaxin' all cool", and "all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school". We have lost so much.

[-] hotspur@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

That section cracked me up when I was listening to my phone read the article the other day. My wife heard me and wanted to know what was funny… “oh boy here we go” I thought as I launched into a 20 minute explanation of the maxxing haha

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

lol I cannot even imagine trying to explain any of this to the non-terminally-online

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

It’s Cracker American Vernacular English

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Do we now call anti-VCR stans Betamaxxers?

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I am eternally pissed I didn't come up with Sincels myself :sicko-no:

I laughed pretty consistently throughout, but oh my god are the receipts trot out pure cringe after cringe. Also shoutout to whoever is running the Merriam-Webster twitter account for this gem.

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