They aren't just monsters. They're boring. How many fucking times can they please themselves over yet another yacht? Violating children in remote corners of the world seems to never stop amusing them.

All that death and destruction specifically for a number on a ledger going up? Their food is expensive because its expensive and because they collectively agreed it is good because that's what the collective said, no matter how actually slimy and disgusting caviar is (yes, I have petite bourgeoisie in-laws and distant relations and my dislike of their oligarchical slime trays is because I have a "peasant's sense of taste." :capitalist-laugh: ). Their social lives are full each other and that's like a special kind of hell of their own making, even if they take it out on their servants and slaves.

Where's the supervillain flair? Where's the big bold moves that don't involve penis-shaped rockets imitating feats that the USSR pulled off well over half a century ago?

If they have to destroy the Earth and kill us all, can they at least be less fucking boring?

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I know right. When I was watching the Bond movies as a young un I always liked to imagine all the cool shit you could do with enough money.

    Build some hotels inside volcanoes or massive restaurants under water or something, but no they'll just build another castle or some shit, god damn boring ass motherfuckers :sadness:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I used to think Notch was especially sad as a billionaire, but then I realized he was fitting the norms, including the creepiness, the inability to get adult romantic company without coercion, and the need to drum up relevance among the peasantry with social media.

    • Ithorian [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah where's Rapture or an entire floating city? A dystopian arcology is right up:melon-musk: alley, at least that would be cool interesting and new.

    • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      at least like build a giant monument to yourself or something. like buy a mountain and carve your face into it and be like "my face is bigger than mount rushmore"

    • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It would be sick if they were building literal castles actually. Like stone fortresses in the countryside with moats. Way more interesting than yet another yacht

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Building castles is something that even your bog-standard fascist adjacent petit bourgeois can accomplish with ease https://gizmodo.com/10-incredible-diy-castles-built-by-just-one-single-pers-1452608410

        Now building a floating castle instead of a yacht that houses another yacth? That's actually interesting :thinking-about-it: