Are you listening? Are you there? Let’s take it back to Karen at the retail store. Let’s turn on our open minds as well as our infinite disgust at the fact that not one thing has ever been written that could reliably de-Karen-ize a human being immediately. Let’s turn on our hope that we’re justContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and The Banality of Karen – Level 15 : To a Karen, Retail Workers are like Pinball Machines, Ready To Have Their Buttons Pushed [Nightmare C: Good Desires]”
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Spicy Gamer Vibes and The Banality of Karen – Level 14 : Objecting to Accommodations for the Disabled is like Making fun of New Game Controllers [Nightmare B: Good Taste]
What was your first reaction when you found out about the existence of Braille? Probably a little bit of shock and confusion at first. Likely some disbelief that it actually functions, or that people are willing to manufacture it. Maybe even something resembling disgust or agitation was felt by 7-year-old you. Whatever that strange pityContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and The Banality of Karen – Level 14 : Objecting to Accommodations for the Disabled is like Making fun of New Game Controllers [Nightmare B: Good Taste]”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and The Banality of Karen – Level 13 : Street Harassers and Shouters are like the Fierce Watcher In Red Light Green Light [Nightmare A: Good Presence]
I was harassed on the street recently. Let’s just say I was staring at the wrong convenience store’s two dimensional food imagery for a few seconds too long. At a less nice street in a good neighborhood. Near the wrong person in a mainly innocuous street. Showing the wrong body language in a state ofContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and The Banality of Karen – Level 13 : Street Harassers and Shouters are like the Fierce Watcher In Red Light Green Light [Nightmare A: Good Presence]”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 12 : The Scummy Stalling of the Filibuster is a lot like Winning by Doing Nothing in Mario Party
I presume you’ve heard of the filibuster? A lot of the details are pretty complicated, but to put it simply, it’s a weird stalling tactic in the American legislature involving reading stuff that’s barely relevant. At some point in time, they nerfed the whole thing, and now it’s a lot less infamous and egregious thanContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 12 : The Scummy Stalling of the Filibuster is a lot like Winning by Doing Nothing in Mario Party”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 11 : Dress Code Enforcers Might Admire the Eagerness to Report People for Cursing in Your Online Lobby
Dress codes are pretty banal things. Just telling people what to wear. But the reasons for having a dress code, and what to do when somebody defies it, that’s not so banal. And yet, it is banal. Just wanting people to do the thing you told them to. You know that flashy clothes aren’t necessarilyContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 11 : Dress Code Enforcers Might Admire the Eagerness to Report People for Cursing in Your Online Lobby”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 10 : Controversial Scientists have the Humble Audacity of Tier Lists (a maddeningly hopeful climax)
I took a class called “Scientific Issues” back when I was in college. It was a philosophy course, I guess. It was pretty engaging. There was some weird logic stuff about “ravenswans”. Debates about “direct observations” with microscopes or glasses. And some general talk about people getting bad vibes from heliocentrism. Perhaps if we hadContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 10 : Controversial Scientists have the Humble Audacity of Tier Lists (a maddeningly hopeful climax)”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 9 : Pro Athletes have the Holistic Indignation of Hardcore Gamers
Which of these people irritate you more? The football player who shoves the camera man,or the guy who slams his controller into the ground? For me, the football player is the obvious answer,but I wouldn’t blame anyone for disagreeing with me. I wouldn’t fault anyone for feeling more disgust for the gamer than the athlete.Continue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 9 : Pro Athletes have the Holistic Indignation of Hardcore Gamers”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 8 : Phone Scammers Wear The Funny Mask of Another Character Class
Have you watched any “scammer revenge” videos recently? They’re very satisfying. Cool people doing weird things to trick the digital swindlers. And yet, I seriously doubt those videos will deter scammers as a whole. People desperate for a job, often thousands of miles away, aren’t going to feel guilty about lying to some strangers. ButContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 8 : Phone Scammers Wear The Funny Mask of Another Character Class”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 7 : Exploitative Explorers are like Goofy Glitch Hunters
They’re not teaching about Christopher Columbus like they used to. It’s a good thing, right? Talking about what people actually did, both intentional and not, rather than embellishing it under tactless grandiosity. Perhaps you’re among the types overjoyed to see holidays changed to honor the people exploited by conquistadors and the like. Perhaps it makesContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 7 : Exploitative Explorers are like Goofy Glitch Hunters”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 6 : Teachers Love Pop Quizzes like a Random Damage Extravaganza
Some people say pop quizzes are abusive. They say they don’t have much of a positive effect. They say, it’s self-indulgent to surprise your students. They say, it’s sickening to mess around like that. They say, you should make things more fair for your class. I don’t really disagree. But I wouldn’t get my mindContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 6 : Teachers Love Pop Quizzes like a Random Damage Extravaganza”
The Found Emotion (Invoke Yourself) 