No cell phone???

Please. I'm a Luddite, not a damn hippy.

I'm a laptop serial killer...

*gazes over stacks of dead laptops and random computer parts*

Sometimes I masturbate all over these carcasses. I mean, no. I don't. Ever.

Do that...

If only I had been born with the simple desire to learn electronics...

-- Instead, I was born a luddite into an era of technocracy that my feeble, easily offended, confused and aggressive mind cannot comprehend.

Now I am destined to commit predatory electronic abuse on a daily abuse.

*punches monitor, tears it from the computer, screams into the night and throws it crushed and dying into the heap*

ELECTRONICS!!! AGHHHHH..! The pure and total ANGUISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*runs screaming out of the house, operates overheating vehicle 100,000 miles over the recommended oil change sticker reminder to the nearest best buy; purchases something using money like its arcade credits; drives home and plugs the heathen VGI cable into its oozing port*

Please... kill me.

OH sweetie.

I'm a 62 year old accountant without a smart phone.

I'm guessing "mocap" is motion capture? What the heck is "procedural animation"?

Luddite here, my friend. Who doesn't care enough to google.

And out come the luddites....

"Help! Save our children from that awful technology!"

FFS, this is awesome. Would be even MORE awesome with a VR headset.

It would have been Luddite nonsense?

Holy shit, that's creepy... you've been following me since fifth grade? Eww.

I know where luddite comes from, and I know how it's used today; maybe you're thinking of me when I was in fifth grade? If so, stop that. Please. Please stop.

You have no idea where the word Luddite comes from, and no you didn't write better poems in the 5th grade.

We rhyme like adolescent wankers // and our acting skills are worse than FUCK YOU YOU IMBECILIC LUDDITE SOPHOMORIC SHITS swear to god I wrote better poems in fifth grade.

Balance imo. I see children outside. In fact, the parks are more crowded now than I ever remember them. Sounds genuine but is mostly projection. F the luddites hipsters.

Wow, I'm right there on almost every reason he gave there...but I can go one farther (being a luddite). When asked how/why I don't have a cell phone, I still quote my father from the late 80's when he said: (and this is no longer true, but still funny)...
"Cell phones are for those who are so un-important that they can't afford to miss a phone call."
I must admit I sometimes feel left out when I'm in a room full of people and I'm the only one not sealed off in my own little world glued to a tiny screen. It happens all too often.

I do see a fair number of echo-chamber addicts, RFlagg. But the crazier and more extreme the GOP gets, the less they appeal to the other 70% of the voters. This is the self-destruction I'm referring to. 30% of the vote won't get them very far, they'll be the newest equivalent of the Green party, i.e. unable to win any election of value.

I'd like to see a Warren/Franken ticket, in whatever order of precedence. Franken certainly seems clued in enough to capture the non-Luddite crowd's interest.

But yeah, the Democrats definitely have to avoid that defeat problem they historically have had. I'm not sure they can do it...more likely they'll balkanize and start bicker themselves into losing.