cybernetsoc [he/him]

Yeah, it is kind of hard to explain but just a fascination by the stories and bringing them up again that just comes off as weird, also simultaneous mixed with judgy undertones for the latter type of stories.

Yeah, being constantly around white collar professionals really made me so acutely aware of all these critiques of the emptiness of suburbia. But in terms of relating to them, it essentially boiled down, “oh these people are very easy to relate to if I just assume life revolves trying out new restaurants and escape rooms and politics is just entertainment where I feel inspired by Butigeig or horrified at the Orange Man’s rudeness”. It might be that I am less threatening since I am a very nerdy white guy, but I also get weirded out by the opposite reaction, where stories of getting in brawls with meth heads and dealing with family members being busted for drug possession are treated with a strange fascination.

Oblivion was the best. It was the perfect middle ground between Morrowind having huge amounts of content and development, but everything is slow and you are spending hours collecting books for Cosades, and Skyrim where things are really streamlined and straight forward and all the guild quests being “Let’s have this guy we just met be our leader.” The Oblivion Dark Brotherhood quest line was awesome.