You likely would be interesting, but being a drug dealer, beating people up and generally acting like an unhinged loon would be more beneficial back in the day.
Go watch the film Kids for a glimpse of “art” imitating reality.
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Nah. You have to look at the pocket you’ll be in down the road.
You’re like 20 now. So in 15 years, you get out and have some cool face tats and some well placed stab wounds.
But by then the women in your range will be looking for guys that are settled, have a career path etc.
The novelty effects wear off.
I’ll point out I was a low-self-esteem square who some jackasses liked hanging out with. They didn’t abuse me and were nice to me. I think being around me was a break for them.
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I know this film (I’ve seen it)… it’s a very bleak, disturbing and unfortunately at times realistic representation of youth degeneracy.
Jonah Hill directed a quasi toned down version of this called “mid90s”. Far more watchable as the content isn’t quite as morally repugnant
I think “kids” was actually banned in quite a few countries due to how shocking it was.
I was a low self esteem… opposite of a square who hung out with jackasses because I found them exciting. But the problem was, I wasn’t a jackass (at least I’d like to think I’m not). Towards the very end of high school I was “in” with the popular crowd, which I’d argue is quite rare for an autistic kid. It was as if eleven years of schoolyard bullying and exclusion suddenly paid off. The crowd I was “in” with consisted of the school captain (actually this guy was alright), his characteristically good looking, athletic friends and their friend groups. It was great while it lasted…
I won’t go into the whole dynamic, however at a certain point I had a falling out with this crowd (they sometimes treated me like dirt) and came to the conclusion I’d rather hang out with nicer people even if they didn’t offer the same degree of novelty or excitement. It’s not all it’s cracked out to be, and surprisingly; even those at the top of the social hierarchy don’t have perfect lives.
At this point I legitimately believe I’ve dodged a MASSVE bullet as I believe many of them may have peaked in high school. Who knows where I’d be today had I stayed with this crowd? I’d probably still be spending my days smoking cabbage, going to gym (still go to gym though), frequenting nightclubs and going to the beach. No responsibility… just fun.. Sounds nice in theory, but where does this get you decades down the line? I can’t believe I still managed to do alright in school…
There were a lot of festivities the group got up to of which now I look back at and think “how on earth did I think the was okay?” even though I didn’t directly participate. I suppose desensitisation occurs in response to enveloping yourself within this environment day in and day out.
Still, I never truly felt like “one of the guys” because by all means… I wasn’t. I was novelty, someone unique to hang around because I didn’t characteristically behave like a “bro”.
As of today I am a mildly low self esteem quarter to half square. I don’t like to drink alcohol aside from designated special occasions. When observed by my demographic that catapults my square rating into the stratosphere.
Got it… score some E and beat up people smaller than me.
I’m taking notes!
So far we have
- beating people up
- selling drugs
- face tattoos
- stab wounds
@SkyzykS, any more pointers?
Nope.
Nothing I did or do in this regard is in any way calculated.
My only real advice on attraction, dating, etc. Is just stand still and don’t say anything dumb.
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So I’ll beat a few people up, sell some drugs, get stabbed in a deal gone wrong, tattoo my face THEN approach a girl and stand there ominously.
We’ve cracked the dating code!
Don’t forget to mumble! 
Do you think I’m stupid!?!? Of course I’m going to grunt and mumble
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Re: polyandry and cuckoldry
I didn’t say men will generalist accept it. I said I expect an increase in it. Dating has become increasingly difficult for men and as they will and do have less choices, some who do not have a fetish or inherent acceptance of polyandry will tolerate it to have a woman at all. More men will also become actual cuckolds, not in the fetishistic sense, but actually.
Again, I said an increase and I said an expectance. It does not mean I will be right or that it will increase significantly.
I have a different, albeit equitably worrying scenario I can see unfolding.
It’s far fetched, but I’m serious (here me out). With technological advancements, pornography has become more “interactive” with the implementations of onlyfans (onlyfans hosts more than pornographic content, but is primarily used for porn), VR content, hyper realistic, human sized dolls.
How long until technological advancements reach the point wherein AI becomes reality. From there, how long until AI is abused and manipulated to satisfy sexual desires? It didn’t take long for the first pornographic movie to arise after the creation of film (12 years. Film created in 1895, first XXX film in 1907, although the first softcore erotic film was released in 1896)
It’s a disturbing thought, but a very real worry I have. An era where you can create a PERFECT, lifelike Android or something to serve as a girlfriend/boyfriend. Like Westworld, but in real life…
We already have hyper realistic, human textured sex dolls that can talk. The whole concept creeps me out, but I can see this unfolding. Esp if there are a lot of lonely, single people around in the future.
I can see this being an appropriate outlet for lonely men/women, but for the masses? Oof…
If this were to eventuate, I think I’d actually rather stay single… That or visit brothels. Not realistic to expect lifelong celibacy. I’m not a priest… I don’t have that level of restraint and dedication…
I’d rather have no partner at all relative to one who sleeps with seven other guys. This is a VERY depressing, pessimistic outcome so I’m hoping you aren’t correct. The pendulum swings, I believe there would be ample pushback if this were to even be trialed let alone systemically implemented.
It’s not something I’d be willing to tolerate. I’d get jealous, as most men would. My perceived sense of self, my sense of masculinity would be in crisis mode!
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Yeah well no way for me. I’d rather by alone a thousands time. I’m used to it anyway.
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Are you talking about this:
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“Ben Detrick of the New York Times has described the film as " Lord of the Flies with skateboards, nitrous oxide and hip-hop…”
WTF how come I’ve never heard of this movie? Thanks for the recommendation!
You know, these do make sense when it comes to kids and respect.
But why are kids TODAY eating TIDE PODS??? At least the stupidest shit I’ve heard of like glue sniffing gets you high.
This B movie predicted the future.
Seriously, I’ve played around with one of those “real dolls”. The current ones look but don’t feel real. You can get them real cheap in China. We bought one there for use as a prop for a scene we were filming because it was even cheaper than a dummy and I didn’t want to invest in something expensive since I don’t store any of my stuff in China.
The scene involved a chick jumping from a building. It was supposed to be a simple single shot. Use a wide angle for the doll falling, put a real person on the ground in the same position on impact and use simple CGI to make the transition look fluid. But the damn doll was so heavy since it was made of silicon or something like that over a metal endoskeleton like a fucking T1000. It took 3 guys to carry it up and toss it off the building properly and it still looked fake when it landed on the ground because the joints were so rigid. But damn was it durable. After 3 takes I said “fuck it” and decided not to use a single shot for the scene. So we just put it into the pile of props we had near the site. When filming wrapped up, it was gone. Some fucker had taken it home along with some device that came with it that heats up it’s orifices lol.
Hope he had a lot of fun with it.
It’s one of those films I felt unwell after watching.
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Really? I had a sense of hope overcome me after I saw this film
I thought humanity was doomed, then I watched this film and it my faith was restored.
I’m joking btw, this is one of the most disturbing films ever made.
There’s a movie called gummo that has a similarly bleak, nihilistic vibe. About a rural town in the Midwest that is ravaged by a tornado. Follows the disturbed, broken inhabitants as they try to escape the mundane by any means possible. It’s not quite as bad as kids, but it’ll also make you feel queasy.
Kids however is actually a decent film in despite of how morally repugnant the content is. Gummo isn’t a very good film, but it is very, very disturbing.
Nothing can sicken me unless Will Ferrell’s in it. Holmes and Watson was a fucking horror movie.
I also feel the urge to throw up if I catch just a glimpse of Jimmy Fallon on TV.
Seriously, the reason why I normally don’t get affected by many things in movies is because even when I see something really fucking gory, my mind shifts to thinking about stuff like props and camera tricks involved in the scene. It started without even any filmmking knowledge the day I first watched The Evil Dead and spent weeks thinking about how they got those long camera shots from the POV of the entity. It takes something like Bone Tomahawk to really get to me.
Thematical stuff is just one of the things I look at. The Evil Dead example was when I knew nothing about the filmmaking process. There can be 10 different things running through my head at the same time now. Unless the you have a very gifted filmmaker behind the lens and an actor of Kurt Russell’s calibre like in Bone Tomahawk, I can’t really get very immersed in movies or individual scenes that are supposed to elicit certain reactions from the audience or involve heavy social commentary although I can easily spot their intent.
Only directors from Scorsese to the dude who made The Witch (2015) are able to give me enough confidence by the 5min mark that it’s time to turn off my mind and just watch the goddam movie and go analyse it when it comes out on DVD later. Otherwise I have to mentally tell myself to do so like when I watch badass shit like the John Wick series, which is actually MUCH smarter than people are giving it credit for.
It’s why I find some bad movies funnier than good comedies. Not sure if, but hopeful that this explains my thought process lol.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, most of the actors playing “kids” in movies during that era were 25-30 year old adults. It’s why I find the slashers so fucking hilarious.
I don’t know what the intent of the scene you mentioned was but it’s always possible that it was an anti-whatever social commentary. A good movie should depict such scenes as realistically as possible to do justice to actual heinous acts that really happen so the audience can witness the reality of such horror or it’s more like a cartoon where a grand piano falls on a character and he doesn’t die.
In old movies, people just dropped dead with a single gunshot. I’d expect people to be less trigger happy if they showed how long it takes someone to die after a shot to the stomach.
When someone, especially a male, watches the 20min rape scene in Irreversible filmed in one long take (long takes are typically used to cause the the audience to pay particular attention to all the details in a scene), I’d want this person to walk away feeling sick enough to take shit like that way more seriously if I were the director. I wouldn’t hold anything back even for fear of any backlash if that was my objective.
The first time I saw that I didn’t know it was a movie because I was on a massive dose of lsd. I just thought it was really happening on TV.
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