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"*stares at camera*" and other instances of only being able to express their thoughts by pretending that they are a character on a mindless popular TV show.

"Brain worms" and similar phrases. As with accusing someone of being "terminally online" or telling them to "have a normal one" this is part of the general norwood trend of pretending they are the straight man character in a sitcom and attributing anything they disagree with to a character defect / being an embarrassing oddball character in said sitcom. 

The norwood is a conformist, but they are oftentimes conforming to an imaginary crowd, the live studio audience which watches over them. Perhaps we could call this "norwood Truman Show syndrome".

Could be norwood or normie but: Overexaggerating how horrifying something is.
This is something I see a lot where a fairly mundane picture or scene apparently fills with people with unfathomable dread. Often due to its understated simplicity. Ironically this sort of thing in movies is often praised for its lack of horror cliches.
It's root really I suppose is telling everyone how clever you are, 'it's not gore and jumpscares that get me, but the mo'fuggin fear of the unknown!!'

This video essay and its commenters display it nicely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfoU_Z1uVfc

Any commentary on classic thrillers like The Vanishing (1988). It's a good and creepy film, but if it left you shaken to your core, you're a faggot.

I see it also in internet memes/culture such as 'uncanny valley' or 'the backrooms'. I really have no idea why these garner any interest.

There might be a thread to be made out of this.

(12-31-2023, 06:25 PM)Oldblood Wrote: [ -> ]Could be norwood or normie but: Overexaggerating how horrifying something is.
This is something I see a lot where a fairly mundane picture or scene apparently fills with people with unfathomable dread. Often due to its understated simplicity. Ironically this sort of thing in movies is often praised for its lack of horror cliches.
It's root really I suppose is telling everyone how clever you are, 'it's not gore and jumpscares that get me, but the mo'fuggin fear of the unknown!!'

This video essay and its commenters display it nicely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfoU_Z1uVfc

Any commentary on classic thrillers like The Vanishing (1988). It's a good and creepy film, but if it left you shaken to your core, you're a faggot.

I see it also in internet memes/culture such as 'uncanny valley' or 'the backrooms'. I really have no idea why these garner any interest.

There might be a thread to be made out of this.

That "those who don't know/those who know" meme format and it's always some relatively entry-level thing like an innocent shot from idk boku no pico

"Mask off"

I've noticed that a lot of Norwood ticks come from Millennials influenced by Big Bang Theory. The sort of behavior that defined early-wave Youtube e-celebs like Doug Walker, Linkara and the likes. Histrionic over-reacting that stinks of socially awkward geek and self-important triviality. Specific phrases that come to mind are "Let's unpack this" and "Do better."

STOP

WRITING

LIKE

THIS



bonus points if you insert claps between every line

"You will not see the light of heaven"

I bring this up because a few days ago internet leftist James Somerton killed himself and it's being connected to the fact that he was the main subject of a 10 trillion hour long Hbomberguy video. People really couldn't care less about James Somerton but hate Hbomberguy and so will use this new moral high ground to pelt rocks at him. Hbomberguy viewers respond with Hbomberguy's words "If you harass anyone on my behalf you will not see the light of heaven." 

My first thought when I read this quote is "What's a libtard atheist doing invoking the afterlife. Isn't that disingenuous?" I found one other person who pointed that out so I can see what the immediate response would be.


I could be wrong about this but I don't think this is "widely culturally understood." Certainly not in the way exclaiming "Jesus Christ" is. If you've been on social media I think you'll agree that it's only been in circulation very recently and only being said by the kind of person who would watch a Breadtube video. It's not an old phrase with tons of cultural inertia being said out of habit. It comes from them.

I'd be tempted to say that the bringing up the idea of eternal judgement is evidence of libtardism developing as a religion, but I think they just say it because it "goes hard." I read something recently comparing this kind of talk to the Steve Buscemi Spy Kids 2 quote that was widely shared. "Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?" I think they're obsessed with how this quote made them feel. What do you guys think?

Last Note: If you Google search "see the light of heaven" in quotes you'll see more evidence that this comes from them. There's a quote from the book of Tobit, but most of it is this shirt that goes hard or the Hbomberguy video. Brave's search engine has only 3 results and all of them are referencing the Hbomberguy video.

https://shirtsthatgohard.com/

The name, the shirts, what a rich coal mine.

Virtue Wrote:https://shirtsthatgohard.com/

The name, the shirts, what a rich coal mine.

This is absolute brimstone.

Attempt No. 2:

The "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh" Warhammer copypasta is a good example of Norwood tendency to be easily wowed by what they perceive as "cool video game words." Read the pasta:

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah."

Very obvious use and abuse of Biblical wordage ("flesh," "purity," "Blessed," "temple," "saved," "immortal," reference to Messiah, etc.). The quality of writing in this passage is passable for a Sci-Fi video game. It's not outstanding. The popularity of this quote in particular exposes very low capability of appreciation or analysis of art in the Norwood, who is instead clicker trained to recognize how, because of the language used, the writing is Cool and Epic!!!

This quote, and Warhammer in general IMO, is also a good example of Norwood attraction to media depicting (usually religious) extremists in war while undercutting the potency of such imagery with pseudo-irony. Kill ALL the aliens, but even joking about racism is too far, buddy!!! This is also present in the new Helldivers game, which has the awesome imagery of futuristic knights laying their lives for righteous ethnic purge, all under the glasses of America-critical irony so the player doesn't have to think about the uncomfortable truth of how entirely Lame he is.

LoIiMerchant Wrote:"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel."

When I first saw this quote as the top rated comment on a (Helldivers-related?) YouTube video I thought they were referencing Mishima and that there might be a greater mass of gamers keyed into RW literature than I'd realized. Disappointment followed a quick Google search of the phrase.

LoIiMerchant Wrote:Attempt No. 2:

The "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh" Warhammer copypasta is a good example of Norwood tendency to be easily wowed by what they perceive as "cool video game words." Read the pasta:

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah."

Very obvious use and abuse of Biblical wordage ("flesh," "purity," "Blessed," "temple," "saved," "immortal," reference to Messiah, etc.). The quality of writing in this passage is passable for a Sci-Fi video game. It's not outstanding. The popularity of this quote in particular exposes very low capability of appreciation or analysis of art in the Norwood, who is instead clicker trained to recognize how, because of the language used, the writing is Cool and Epic!!!

This quote, and Warhammer in general IMO, is also a good example of Norwood attraction to media depicting (usually religious) extremists in war while undercutting the potency of such imagery with pseudo-irony. Kill ALL the aliens, but even joking about racism is too far, buddy!!! This is also present in the new Helldivers game, which has the awesome imagery of futuristic knights laying their lives for righteous ethnic purge, all under the glasses of America-critical irony so the player doesn't have to think about the uncomfortable truth of how entirely Lame he is.

Have we talked about The Burned Man from Fallout New Vegas here?

I only played Honest Hearts relatively recently (gave up after that DLC, I still haven't seen the others) and it was so short, hollow, and unimpressive. The Burned Man as an idea is better fleshed out in his wiki page than the game, where he's just a quest-terminal and biblically tinted slogan dispenser. And look how enduring he is. He's like Jordan Peterson in a video game. A source of what feels like old wisdom in a context you can come across yourself. But like Peterson, how much real wisdom is in here? Well we could look at this fans. 

I seem to remember one making a video about how dbdr needs to man up and stop whining. He ducked my comment calling him a dishonest faggot. Actually just checking in now it seems like he's deactivated all comments. Maybe that was because so many people agreed with me. Anyway I also found his last video:

(03-06-2024, 07:39 PM)LoIiMerchant Wrote: [ -> ]Attempt No. 2:

The "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh" Warhammer copypasta is a good example of Norwood tendency to be easily wowed by what they perceive as "cool video game words." Read the pasta:

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah."

Very obvious use and abuse of Biblical wordage ("flesh," "purity," "Blessed," "temple," "saved," "immortal," reference to Messiah, etc.). The quality of writing in this passage is passable for a Sci-Fi video game. It's not outstanding. The popularity of this quote in particular exposes very low capability of appreciation or analysis of art in the Norwood, who is instead clicker trained to recognize how, because of the language used, the writing is Cool and Epic!!!

This quote, and Warhammer in general IMO, is also a good example of Norwood attraction to media depicting (usually religious) extremists in war while undercutting the potency of such imagery with pseudo-irony. Kill ALL the aliens, but even joking about racism is too far, buddy!!! This is also present in the new Helldivers game, which has the awesome imagery of futuristic knights laying their lives for righteous ethnic purge, all under the glasses of America-critical irony so the player doesn't have to think about the uncomfortable truth of how entirely Lame he is.

This is all the more strange when the same guys use "bruh (cool niggers please like me) he's talking like an anime villain," when someone is not using the chill, laidback norwood lingo.

Is "a you problem" norwood or just soy?

"Neck Yourself"

This is only ever used by a certain kind of faggot when flustered and trying to sound hardcore. I don't know why they say this particular thing. Maybe it's an unconscious preference to not say "kill", predating the weird tiktok memewave of everyone writing k*ll and all that.

anthony Wrote:predating the weird tiktok memewave of everyone writing k*ll and all that.

Is that a meme? I thought that people were censoring particular words because of automated social media censorship, which supposedly relies heavily on the algorithm (leftist understanding of the evil social media algorithm is another topic worth looking at). But I use social media very rarely, so I don't know how much of that is true.

isotope Wrote:

anthony Wrote:predating the weird tiktok memewave of everyone writing k*ll and all that.

Is that a meme? I thought that people were censoring particular words because of automated social media censorship, which supposedly relies heavily on the algorithm (leftist understanding of the evil social media algorithm is another topic worth looking at). But I use social media very rarely, so I don't know how much of that is true.

A meme in the sense that it started because of that but seems to have stuck as habit now for a lot of people. That or it really is necessary to do in that many places and I just don't know. How many times shadowbanned am I from every site on the internet? Potentially a lot. Now to go back to telling people to kill themselves on RPGcodex.

I was recently sent a video with some funny Dirty Harry-isms in the comments section.

Here are some choice selections:







It's not the enthusiam about firearms itself, but rather how they conceive of it. Spouting norwood one-liners about how they'll use ostensibly the worst weapons available to dispatch their hypothetical opponents. The audience of appears to be people too poor for modern equipment like thermals or drones, so you get this type fantasizing about all they'd be able to do with pop's old hunting rifle.

Turns out there's a whole genre dedicated to precisely this kind of unrealistic power fetishism. Even with weapons and military tactics being autistic object-fetishes of mine, I can suddenly understand what Anthony meant when calling "guntubers" retarded.



A community of these people wouldn't even be worth keeping around for a tithe: it doesn't appear that they have any ability to produce any of the useful goods they stockpile. The average Babushka living in the Urals or the Carpathians knows more about "prepping" -- at least there you can expect to find a small garden and freshly pickled goods.

"national treasure" annoys me. "(faggot retard) is a national treasure"