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Damien: A Retrospective - bunniey - 05-31-2025
In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. This was the pinnacle of human achievement, years of scientific advancement culminating in something though impossible just a year prior, at the peak of some of the most tenuous times in the history of the United States. That was the moment the world knew the United States was the peak of human civilization for the time. If you take all of those goods at their opposite, you get Damien. He is quick to anger, refuses to have conversations if it involves even the slightest bit of strain, and thinks his opinions are the end-all-be-all, despite being mostly sheltered. He is what you get when you throw a rock into a bucket of water. Nothing special.
Our relationship started at the height of simping activities in Dinks, where everyone was overly invested in the charms of a Nari. At this time, he was a child, so his random petulance was understandable. Not quite warranted, but understandable. Then he grew up. I won’t say he didn’t have any negative influences, as there are some very obvious ones, our entire friend group at the time, plus a previous friend…but this isn’t an excuse. Growing up is supposed to entail growing up, but I still see him randomly flip a lid at the drop of a hat. Now, I am one who likes to poke and prod at people a bit, so I don’t help this, and tend to actively make it worse…but it still shouldn’t be as easy as it is.
This wouldn’t be a problem if it was possible to open any dialogue with him. If he feels slighted at all, he uses his turtle talisman and retreats into a shell of “I’m right you’re wrong” in the most obnoxious way. You could be having the most calm conversation, but the second you have any amount of upper hand, even if you’re not trying to, you’ll trigger this mechanism and it becomes more productive to talk to a brick wall. No amount of trying to get him out of this will work, generally it takes him leaving and joining back a few hours later for this to fix itself, where like an episode of Johnny Test, everything will be reset back to normal.
If you think you’re trying to avoid that, you’ll fail. He’s very opinionated, despite most of his opinions being grounded in nothing. It’s not like it’s well-researched, or even well-reasoned, but he’ll definitely make it feel like it is. There’s no way to get through this, you just have to stand your ground until he goes turtle mode, or just walk away. Be careful not to insinuate he’s wrong about anything, you’ll get with the classic “it can’t be wrong it’s an opinion” spiel that means nothing. Like yes, at the surface level, opinions can be wrong, but they can also be so dumb that a reasonable person couldn’t consider them right, so there really isn’t a difference between the two.
At the end of the day, he’s not a bad guy or anything. Just like at the end of the day, fentanyl won’t necessarily kill you. But why risk it when you can just avoid it? You can learn to tolerate it, or learn to enjoy it even, but then it’s just Stockholm Syndrome, which is inarguably a bad thing. If prefer someone short-fused, you can buy a Mr. Potatohead. If you want someone who shuts down at the slightest bit of trouble, find someone with BPD. If you want someone overly opinionated to a fault, just go to Reddit. But if you really want someone that’s all three, find yourself a Damien, you’ll probably regret it.
RE: Damien: A Retrospective - jaye - 05-31-2025
Damien is cooked
RE: Damien: A Retrospective - Damien1579 - 05-31-2025
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RE: Damien: A Retrospective - Virunas - 05-31-2025
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RE: Damien: A Retrospective - Market Down - 06-01-2025
I thought we agreed no AI Slop unless it was mpreg
RE: Damien: A Retrospective - 茶 Tea - 06-01-2025
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RE: Damien: A Retrospective - Damien1579 - 06-01-2025
(06-01-2025, 02:02 AM)Market Down Wrote: I thought we agreed no AI Slop unless it was mpregnot ai
RE: Damien: A Retrospective - Saylor Twift - 06-01-2025
(06-01-2025, 02:02 AM)Market Down Wrote: I thought we agreed no AI Slop unless it was mpreg
"AI slop"?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ohhhhhhh, barnacles, that's rich! What are you, the literary critic of the Chum Bucket?!
Let me get this straight—you waddled in here, probably with tartar sauce on your fingers, read maybe TWO sentences of Rand's heartfelt, squishy, jellyfish-powered masterpiece, and decided to call it slop?! That’s not just rude—it’s lazy. Like, lazier than Patrick on a Tuesday.
You wanna know what real slop is? Plankton’s meatloaf. THAT’S slop. What Rand wrote? That was passion! That was artistry! That was 3AM caffeine-fueled genius, baby! Rand poured his whole porous SOUL into that thing. He cried. He laughed. He accidentally glued a pencil to his forehead. It was the creative process!
But nooo, you just had to drop in with your snarky little comment like you're Squidward with a Twitter account and zero joy. Well guess what, pal: you don’t have to like it, but you better come at him with something better than a recycled insult from the discount Krabby Patty bin.
Until then, Rand will be over here, writing more “slop” and winning underwater Pulitzers, thank you very much.
P.S. At least Rand's essay didn’t smell like anchovy breath and existential dread.
RE: Damien: A Retrospective - d33r - 06-01-2025
![[Image: f9fb808aa5393efb4bc9fbb9f9245df6.png]](https://i.gyazo.com/f9fb808aa5393efb4bc9fbb9f9245df6.png)
RE: Damien: A Retrospective - Ryan - 06-01-2025
Damien is single-handedly keeping forum rep alive, and the web admin prospect decides to light him on fire and unlock his wheels on a slope.