In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
>The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
>Pop!
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
I remember years ago I watched a documentary where Russian/Ukrainian women came over to the US and fully expecting to be living the 'american dream' one women gets to the outside of his apartment complex and already looks horrified. It was really clean but didn't look high end. Gets inside and it's really small, just bigger than a bachelor. A small kitchen, a small couch and just enough room for a queen sized bed in the one bedroom. She looked gutted. I think she started crying too and he just laughed, probably not understanding why she was crying.
When I say emojis irl I say the Unicode term and then perform the actual expression with a LOT of effort. My mom says I do the 🤠,🤔,🤪 and 🤤 ones best. Usually in that order. Depends how sloppy she gets
High IQ centrist take: Ohio is (kind of) a shithole, but not for the reasons these $2500/month city slickers think.
Columbus, where I just moved to Boston from after living there for 5 years, is a pretty underrated city in general; lots of cool restaurants and cafés for maybe half the price of coastal cities. Infrastructure does kind of suck, though. Athens is like a smaller, more concentrated version of CBus; qt art hoes as far as the eye can see without any of the faggy leftist politics that come with cities like Portland, Austin, etc.
Cleveland has some of the most beautiful art deco architecture I've ever seen if you ignore the rough parts and a surprisingly decent metro; again, at literally a quarter of the price of NYC.
Like yeah, Ohio has a pretty bad heroin/inner city problem and whatnot, but so does Boston. Ohio's biggest problem is marketing; those two places' problems are about equal, but when you talk to a layman they actually associate Ohio with them, whereas they think of Boston as a kind of racist, but quaint American city that's good at sports.
Do agree with the "air of despair" vibe, but I actually think it's kind of romantic; it's what inspired the beautiful music of Sun Kil Moon, there's an element of hope to it.
tl;dr Ohio kinda sucks and I'm glad I left, but I'd still rather live there then in a $2000/month shoebox in a place like Brooklyn where I'd have to interact with hundreds of try-hards every day.
lots of cool restaurants and cafés for maybe half the price of coastal cities.
It's basically 100% chance that first reason someone will give to move to a gigantic metropolitan hellscape is food. This country needs Jesus and Mohammed real bad.
For real, the best thing about a city is the amazing food. There is a NextDoor thread in my town where a restaurant closed and people were actually bitching that it should be replaced by Walmart or Applebees. Fucking Applebees. This is what these hillbillies think is a "good" restaurant.
No one actually wants to live in places like SF. More than half of the people in California want to leave. They can’t yet, but they will once they’ve accumulated enough money.
Also “high rent”, you realize it’s peanuts for the people there that get a total comp of $300k/year or more (as in most of the people paying that rent)?
I have no doubt that the culturally bereft lefties looking for some semblance of meaning in their lives are excited to abandon their friends and families and places of birth in order to hang out in Barcades and work at ad agencies in expensive metropolitan cities where they gleefully participate in the rotting of the West.
In a time where even a modicum of skills and contract work can net you a middle class living anywhere in God's Country that has Internet access, paying 3,000 a month for rent in a small apartment is 'lead in the paint' levels of stupidity.
Everyone who says that Ohio is the standard shithole of America has clearly never been to Ohio or any of the surrounding states. If they had made that trip, it would be obvious that the surrounding states (with the possible exception of Pennsylvania) all somehow manage to be even worse.
I think Ohio is the quintessential shithole because there's just nothing there even their nature is garbage. At least if you go to some place like Montana, you have mountains and scenery and nature. Ohio is nothing but a wasteland.
Cinci is kind of cool. It has the same sort of depressing postindustrial vibe as Milwaukee or Cleveland, but there are some neat places to hang out and the surrounding country is real pretty.
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In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
>The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
>Pop!
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
In that moment of blind panic and terror, Jazz is Sauron. All triumph and victory is gone. Only the Void remains.
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1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-12-22
This is kino. We have it worse but we will still dab on Yuros.
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-12-22
That’s how you dunk on your GF everyday isn’t it.
1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-12-22
Sometimes. Usually she just looks at me with pity and I laugh. “Haha I’m a mess, trolled epic style 😂😰😁🧏🏼♂️”
I’ll say the emojis out loud too, usually.
1 megafaggotron1986 2019-12-22
Do you describe them or recite the unicode?
1 MrPanFriedNoodle 2019-12-22
When I say emojis irl I say the Unicode term and then perform the actual expression with a LOT of effort. My mom says I do the 🤠,🤔,🤪 and 🤤 ones best. Usually in that order. Depends how sloppy she gets
1 tallcelvolcel 2019-12-22
Imagine paying $2500/month to live in an unironic SRDine can
2 AcademicPledge 2019-12-22
High IQ centrist take: Ohio is (kind of) a shithole, but not for the reasons these $2500/month city slickers think.
Columbus, where I just moved to Boston from after living there for 5 years, is a pretty underrated city in general; lots of cool restaurants and cafés for maybe half the price of coastal cities. Infrastructure does kind of suck, though. Athens is like a smaller, more concentrated version of CBus; qt art hoes as far as the eye can see without any of the faggy leftist politics that come with cities like Portland, Austin, etc.
Cleveland has some of the most beautiful art deco architecture I've ever seen if you ignore the rough parts and a surprisingly decent metro; again, at literally a quarter of the price of NYC.
Like yeah, Ohio has a pretty bad heroin/inner city problem and whatnot, but so does Boston. Ohio's biggest problem is marketing; those two places' problems are about equal, but when you talk to a layman they actually associate Ohio with them, whereas they think of Boston as a kind of racist, but quaint American city that's good at sports.
Do agree with the "air of despair" vibe, but I actually think it's kind of romantic; it's what inspired the beautiful music of Sun Kil Moon, there's an element of hope to it.
tl;dr Ohio kinda sucks and I'm glad I left, but I'd still rather live there then in a $2000/month shoebox in a place like Brooklyn where I'd have to interact with hundreds of try-hards every day.
3 FroppyHoppyMyFloppy 2019-12-22
Ok fentoid
1 AcademicPledge 2019-12-22
It's over for methcels.
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-12-22
It's basically 100% chance that first reason someone will give to move to a gigantic metropolitan hellscape is food. This country needs Jesus and Mohammed real bad.
1 bebackinanhourorso 2019-12-22
Rents high because people actually want to live there.
1 AnnoyinTheGoyim 2019-12-22
No they don’t.
1 McFluff_TheCrimeCat 2019-12-22
In Ohio?
1 bebackinanhourorso 2019-12-22
Dunno not American, but usually rents high because of high demand.
1 megafaggotron1986 2019-12-22
Bay area
1 pm-me-your-covfefes 2019-12-22
Rent is high because retards are cool with paying $2,000/month to live in a closet with 3 other people and not afford to do anything else.
But hey man they live in the super cool hip area of town so it makes it all worth it.
Tech nerds are the worst about it because they think if they live in those expensive cool areas they will get friends. They still don’t.
3 AlexJones_GayFrog 2019-12-22
But just think about the FOOD
1 Lysis10 2019-12-22
For real, the best thing about a city is the amazing food. There is a NextDoor thread in my town where a restaurant closed and people were actually bitching that it should be replaced by Walmart or Applebees. Fucking Applebees. This is what these hillbillies think is a "good" restaurant.
1 TanksAreLit 2019-12-22
Lmao cope
Rent is high cause people want to live there and there isn't enough houses for everyone
1 MrPanFriedNoodle 2019-12-22
Did u pass macro economics in high school
1 Cockroach-Lord 2019-12-22
Economics isn’t real, that was proven by mythbusters
1 AnnoyinTheGoyim 2019-12-22
No one actually wants to live in places like SF. More than half of the people in California want to leave. They can’t yet, but they will once they’ve accumulated enough money.
Also “high rent”, you realize it’s peanuts for the people there that get a total comp of $300k/year or more (as in most of the people paying that rent)?
1 tHeSiD 2019-12-22
Not want, have
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-12-22
I have no doubt that the culturally bereft lefties looking for some semblance of meaning in their lives are excited to abandon their friends and families and places of birth in order to hang out in Barcades and work at ad agencies in expensive metropolitan cities where they gleefully participate in the rotting of the West.
In a time where even a modicum of skills and contract work can net you a middle class living anywhere in God's Country that has Internet access, paying 3,000 a month for rent in a small apartment is 'lead in the paint' levels of stupidity.
2 bebackinanhourorso 2019-12-22
Mate, calmo.
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-12-22
oh im very calm. ive got calmydia
1 rocinantebabieca 2019-12-22
Thirdie here, and the American Midwest just seems comfy in general (not the worst parts tho)
1 soapsudss43 2019-12-22
JFC ohio, could you imagine??
thats like the worst place to live or be raised in burgerstan.
i've met only a handful of people who have escaped ohiozakistan, they have all been shitty low IQ skidmarks
1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-12-22
Somewhat true, but people that say this have never actually seen Indiana tbh. Or Nebraska. You can say cope, but trust me it can get so much worse.
2 PUBLIQclopAccountant 2019-12-22
Everyone who says that Ohio is the standard shithole of America has clearly never been to Ohio or any of the surrounding states. If they had made that trip, it would be obvious that the surrounding states (with the possible exception of Pennsylvania) all somehow manage to be even worse.
1 Lysis10 2019-12-22
I think Ohio is the quintessential shithole because there's just nothing there even their nature is garbage. At least if you go to some place like Montana, you have mountains and scenery and nature. Ohio is nothing but a wasteland.
1 PUBLIQclopAccountant 2019-12-22
Indiana is even worse.
2 Lysis10 2019-12-22
oh yeah my friend is from Indiana and she moved back for a boyfriend, and ugh the pictures just look like it's a wasteland.
1 soapsudss43 2019-12-22
the whole upper midwest is a disgrace, there is no retribution until wyoming line
1 texanapocalypse33 2019-12-22
Flyovers are all the same. Keep making the corn for my gamer snacks
1 TrailerParkRide 2019-12-22
Ohio is like second tier. Bottom tier is Mississippi, Oklahoma, Wyoming, North Dakota, and the majority of Nebraska.
1 FroppyHoppyMyFloppy 2019-12-22
I wouldn’t call Wyoming a shithole. It’s just empty. Nicer country than the others too.
1 DangerNut 2019-12-22
Ah Ohio...where the two best cities in the state are Cleveland and Cincinnati....
Fucking mistake by the lake...
1 TrailerParkRide 2019-12-22
Cinci is kind of cool. It has the same sort of depressing postindustrial vibe as Milwaukee or Cleveland, but there are some neat places to hang out and the surrounding country is real pretty.
1 DangerNut 2019-12-22
Everyone flees Ohio ...even their sports teams....
1 byobombs 2019-12-22
Absolutely this. Everyone I know moved out west to Colorado, California, Nevada etc... they all said it was the best choice they’ve ever made lol
1 MrPanFriedNoodle 2019-12-22
Milwaukee is cool, pls visit me anytime. I'll show you around the city and make you an alcoholic in no time bro😘
1 TrailerParkRide 2019-12-22
I unironically love Milwaukee. I was applying for jobs there a year or so ago but it didn't work out.
1 capthazelwoodsflask 2019-12-22
Ohio causes a whole lot of seethe. Drama capitol confirmed.
1 FroppyHoppyMyFloppy 2019-12-22
Counter argument, Indiana exists.