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Kupok

Offensive for the sake of being offensive

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Back in the late 90s before I even discovered emulation, there were these 100 in 1 NES knockoffs just starting to show up in flea markets and dubious places. Weird place to see the Skinhead Mario hack, but a young me was like "Wow, someone can even do that?! I bet Nintendo would HATE that, that's so cool!"

Since then I'd discovered emulation, romhacking and all that. There's an amazing amount of offensive for the sake of being offensive kind of romhacks for the nes. SNES too. Early chans were like that too. Sometimes just... for the heck of it. Seemingly.

It has a purpose, mind, Any punk can tell you. It repels people. It's a shield. Corporate suits, Good boys, nice guys. True down to grits offensiveness  beyond edginess can't be marketed to, can't be marketed. And beyond that, traditionally, family values old guard conservatives types HATED it. And honestly.. It's a bit fun. It's a bit fun to just say a bunch of shit and get away with it, knock a pole or two down, break shit. It is fun.

The queer community often protected itself with just a bit of offensiveness too. Still does in some ways.

... Now I can't tell you where it happened. Can't pinpoint it. There were forces that had always tried to hijack the punk scene and similar scenes, don't get me wrong, but somewhere, The offensiveness grew malice.
That sounds off. How do I explain this?
Being offensive for the sake of being offensive had traditionally been a SHIELD.
But somewhere, it has become a SWORD.

Rather then being used to protect a group, a community, from outside influence by repelling those who don't understand, It's being used to invade. To hurt.

I'm still wrapping my head around it, but it's like.. When you're just having a good time with your friends in your personal space, I get it. It's an extra salt circle too, keeping people out. It helps a space feel like yours, like no one's here to tell you what to do.

But I can't understand going out of the way to make people in THEIR own spaces feel uncomfortable and hurt. I can't understand making "u mad?" your entire personality and purpose. Making the offending of others your entire purpose.

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Added: 1 year, 4 months ago
 
roolloons
1 year, 4 months ago
There is definitely a line to be drawn with being offensive between exercising contrarianism versus gaining pleasure through harassment.
Nishi
1 year, 4 months ago
Whenever I look back at my old art, I don't think it offended many people, but when I see it now, I'm the only one it really ended up offending. X3

When I was really in love with satire, I know a lot of people around me had fun being offensive, but it felt like it was clearly just a joke and style of humor. Like, "Wow! We know better, and know you can't say stuff like that! What a smart way to be so incorrect." But, for me, whether it was around my early 20's, or just how society was becoming around 2010, it seemed like the joke part was lost on the world. And it was clear how people who're actually prejudice were missing that it was wrong, and enjoying hurting others, and the people who were the subject were just feeling hurt rather than having a laugh. That was the moment for me anyway - where like you said, instead of it being a funny thing or a shield, one friend was using it as a sword to hurt another friend, and I think I picked the right side of that. :3 Not everyone picks up on that, but I'm glad you're aware too!
Klandagi
1 year, 4 months ago
Interesting thoughts.

Have you heard what Mandy Patinkin has to say about Inigo Montoya these days?
hammse
1 year, 4 months ago
very well put.
I feel your confusion. (if thats the right word)
My impression is its female resentment for masculine disappointment.
They haven`t been shown that it is in them and can`t bare teaching themselves.
(everybody has both hemispheres)
and my theory is for that, during first and second world war males war away in war, after that they were hands down away at work because industrializiation and specialization made everybody not really come back like war and it just grew.
Id keep my ears perked because realizing that in the physical language it needs was a long time coming.
In fact folks are starting to figure out that the west lacks the basic languages. (Where animals excel. the last twenty years psychological bestsellers piled up etc)
hammse
1 year, 4 months ago
actually this strange wave of climate protesters that visibly are only happy until trafficers get aggro might be a good catalyst to take a look at this. Somehow the SJW needs outside people to reflect themselves.
a lot of people are -just as visibly- bored to death by the provocations.

As somebody who luckily gets enough sleep I daresay It could make less sense ~
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