Back In 88 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyWishes Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 i'd punch a paraplegic 6 year old girl with a stutter in the throat for that dessert right now Taste like vector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Since when has entertainment and/or politics at large appealed to anyone but the lowest common denominator? I haven't owned a television since 1986...I don't really know what goes on in the mass media but if it's making people happy is that really a bad thing? Most people aren't trying to go to art museums, or the opera, or avant garde performances, or watch PBS...and that's the problem, they're so burnt out from working their asses off to maintain their artificially inflated lifestyles that they can't be bothered to plug into anything intellectual, much less think outside of the box in a political capacity. Also, if you want Channel Zero to be a smarter place, that's your job. Some of you are intelligent, make use of it. I don't mean to sound condescending but I spend an inordinate amount of my time trying to enlighten people who just don't get it. It gets frustrating, but that doesn't stop me from trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocodile Tears Posted July 2, 2012 Author Share Posted July 2, 2012 Well... I think ch0 has dwindling participation. I was not inferring that it wasn't smart enough in here. I made the thread to get better insight to my own thought. I actually prefer if someone one picks an idea apart, then you can either bow out and concede to loss, or find more ideas to support it and different ways to make the original stronger. You don't sound condescending. You sound silly. I think people care about your television ownership as much as they care about the oontz clock, its neither here nor there. My contention, again, is everyone is selling dreams and faking the funk so much (these days), that almost all substance has been stripped away. It happens so often, that its becoming harder and harder to notice. Its all thats left in media and its become so common that it has saturated all of us and it is affecting everyone on what I feel to be a personal level. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 amen...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Shai is working on his annual moderator campaign platform Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Is that what that read like? Huh. I must have got sidetracked somewhere between when I read the OP and when I started to respond. Channel Zero goes in cycles. I didn't believe that a few years ago, but it's true. I don't know what those cycles are or what influences them. (That's not entirely true, but read on.) I don't think Channel Zero is that bad right now, but that's only my opinion. My point was that the content in here is 100% up to us, so saying that it's falling off is taking a very subjective view and not looking at what's good. It's better to just take a break or post less...things change. Maybe you changed, and your relationship to Channel Zero has shifted based on your new perspective. It happens. The point I was trying to make about not owning a TV is that I don't get exposed to 90% of what's going on in mass media. I hear a little bit of commercial radio and see headlines but that has little to no effect on me either way. And I don't really care about popular politics until I get dragged into a debate. I don't know where I stand on cultural appropriation....sometimes it's good, sometimes it's a blatant ripoff. I like Warhol and Lichtenstein for some of the same reasons that I I like remixes. This stuff has been going on for a long time. It's where art movements and musical genres come from...someone hears something or sees something and thinks, "I' like that, but I think I can make something that looks/sounds better." Or they do commerical art or play in a cover band. I agree that there are a lot of hacks out there performing that have questionable talent, but the media industry isn't interested in quality...they follow formulas based on image and marketing that have nothing to do with quality. If you've seen past that, congratulations. You are now an aesthete, AKA a music snob and/or art fag. That's not a bad place to be, but it can be lonely. Maybe I shouldn't be trying to wrap my head around this right now, I'm way too tired. I'll try again tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 What happened/happens is people grow up/ move on/ real life happens. People grow out of things. One of them is channel zero. I've been on here since 2001. I've seen really old people like Tesseract. Dee38 (fuck i can't even remember the rest of them) but one day, they disappeared. Then a new group of people become the cool kids, and now its like they're all gone too. I really don't know who they are, but there is a lack of people on here. I'm sure all the kids everyone was negging, are going to become the popular channel zero, and a new batch of 12 year olds will come along and the kids that got negged will the the ones making "cool threads", and the noobs will be getting treated like people who need to learn a thing or two about a graffiti everyday talk section of a forum. It's funny because most of the cool people that use to frequent this forum, used to just jerk off the next dude (well the popular post'ers) and they all have there little inside jokes, or points and opinions,(just like all those crews people joined, night owls, and whatever the fuck) but are more inclined to respect a person you know who posts a lots, opinion or view on something, and had a green name, But if that person made a fake alias, and said the exact same thing, Someone wouldn't see it the same was as if it was someone whose been on the forum more. Does that make sense. Not really, but this is sadly how it is. I guess its the same way in everyday life too. i don't know.I use to subscribe to a bunch of threads that were always staying live. Now i come on here, look at everything thats new. a week later come back, and maybe one of two of the threads have a few new posts. Years , even a year ago it wasn't like that. You could go maybe an hour. Come back and it would just be more live. The only reason I'm on here is because i bought myself a computer after not having one for 3 years, and just going on every now and then. I'm getting old, but I've been doing this so long. I I've forgotten what else there is to do on the internet. I got my routine down. I open up youtube, start finding songs, while flipping back and forth from tumblr photos of boobs/girls, to 12oz, But now 12oz is just been so slow and dead. I've never seen it this bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 participation is off because most people cant access this site from their phones any more. I use to be able to use the shittiest web browser on throwaway phones to get on here, now you have to have a flash browser... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Actually yeah. I know a few people who can't even log in on their computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I have trouble sometimes, it took me 3 or 4 times tonight - if you don't have the right browser with the most current flash, good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back In 88 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Is the glass half empty or half full? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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substanceOVERhype Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I slowed my roll coming here ever since artfag street art and tyler the creator took over the front page news. even when peoplevoice complaints nothing changes, its like someone is paying 12 oz for some of these stupid news updates. a lot of the content is NOTHING that would concern any of us. If I wanna see that shit Ill go to hype beast and try to act like a cool guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 i have opinions on this but uh yeah. i think husk really hit on something important with the props thing. i would really love to see props done away with when the upgrade happens. (and i'm definitely one to neg noobs and lol about it...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickos Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Walid Jumblat Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Buck Turgidson knows the scoop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 earl broclo ESQ lurks In his house at R' lyeh, ex mod earl lurks dreaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I SEENT IT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPS! Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 God bless Merica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I'll take American Kate Upton to suck on my flag pole. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Buy plenty of flag napkins and plates to show your true patriotism tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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