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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think if I just continue cooking my mind with enough Brace rants I'll eventually become a good version of BMF

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The sad part for me is that BMF was always completely legible to me, but I don't think I can cook myself enough to ever actually post like that because I despise obscure jargonism.

Please continue your journey to become whitehat BMF.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nah I think what set BMF apart was not so much the jargon, but assuming that the reader could keep up with immense amounts of subtext and implied meaning; usually their posts were long sequences of quotations followed by replies that imply several layers of contradicting and layered cultural criticisms, which you could only keep up with if you synchronized your mind to theirs in a fundamental way.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meh, I always thought everything was pretty straight forward and textual, maybe I misinterpretated it.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1dqmbu1/when_the_heavens_gate_ufo_cult_did_a_mass_suicide/

All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes, and armband patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team" (one of many instances of the group's use of the nomenclature of the fictional universe of Star Trek).

least psychotic Captain Janeway stans

There's at least 4 layers of decoding necessary to parse this post.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Idk, it's mostly just knowing about Heaven's Gate and their idiosyncratic pop culture use, with abit of internet slang. It's just three layers of pop culture, and one layer of UFO death cult culture. I guess I'm so used to it I barely even register it as sub-text. Yikes.

But also, haven't read this one before! Yet another fascinating BMF point, though one I have heard expressed before.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is sounding like the Pynchon of posting.