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 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 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 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”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 4 : Major Adult Freakouts are like Showing Off Before Losing in a Collectible Card Game
There doesn’t seem to be any way to actually criticize the most insufferable public behavior committed by adults. Nor a way to try and prevent the most difficult situations in the workplace, which lead to somebody getting fired. Perhaps most unfortunately, plenty of people throw their lives away in an abject fit of violence. ThoughContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 4 : Major Adult Freakouts are like Showing Off Before Losing in a Collectible Card Game”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 2 : Corporate Madmen Grab the Useless Eleventh Coin in Mario Kart (Proposal to Humanity)
Do you know about my favorite tactical aspect of the Mario Kart series? One of things that sucked me back in after 10 years or so? It’s the coins. You can grab coins on the road, lose coins when being hit, and take coins from other people. The more coins you get, the faster yourContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 2 : Corporate Madmen Grab the Useless Eleventh Coin in Mario Kart (Proposal to Humanity)”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 1 : Supermarket Menaces Loathe the Fleeing Option in RPGs
You ever get shitty luck while playing an RPG? How about an open world game? High level enemies come out of nowhere. Your ass clenches a little. You dread losing progress. And yet, sometimes, you choose to fight instead of run. It feels rather spicy, doesn’t it? Like nobody told you this is what videoContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 1 : Supermarket Menaces Loathe the Fleeing Option in RPGs”
Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 0 : Lonely Teenagers Admire Glitch Creatures on Game Boy
Do you know about Missingno.? It’s a “glitch Pokemon”. A creature that exists entirely by accident. It’s a topic of much fascination and intrigue. Many even have affection for this garbled mess of pixels and data. When I was younger, and my social life was about as dull as it possibly gets, I found solaceContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 0 : Lonely Teenagers Admire Glitch Creatures on Game Boy”
The Found Emotion (Invoke Yourself) 