Holy shit did Harry Gregson-Williams rip off this soundtrack to compose Yell Dead Cell? As you can see my critques or essays haven't got much better and probably won't. Gopherland has been a pretty nice community of neurotic Scandavians until now. I have made it 'toxic' or whatever buzz word video essayists like to bend all moving off. Fuck the culture of smart drugs, fuck technology, fuck the pseudointellectual neckbeard that fell in love with this show and is writing this crap. Smart drugs, nootropics, are the shallow cesspool made of the waste product of le STEM and le TECH. No one is alowed to be a cog in the machine anymore. Now we are exptected to be masters of technology and automation with HR departments making more and more insane demands. And employers sticking to them when you have successfully bullshited yourself into hell itself. Your really hitting walls at this point? Realize after that cushion of early 20s narcissim that your just average? Time to crack out the modafinil and go down the rabbit hole of teeting between anxiety and depression. What does this have to do with Lain? Nothing really, the smart drug just lets the guy see how screwed we are. We're all connected, especially him now, unless he is in limbo i.e. his unscalable cryptocurrency can't be sent for less then $15. Copland OS is like some developer edition of Windows without the charming jingles. The fonts remind me awfully of 2005, which incidentially from the invoice we can see when the show is set. I remember getting into this high tech nightmare at my friends house as he showed me movies in real player and we toyed with HTML. Little did know it would ruin our lives. Never do web, not even once. Overall it was quite a happy time in my life with Pope John Paul II dying and beautiful sunsets. Around that time I remember looking forward to Windows Longhorn, getting excited about java mobile games and javascript and being excited about the possibility that someday I would have a megabit connection. Realizing this, I know don't need to live in the moment. The moment was wrong in every way and is just tragically amusing now. 90% of technology is crap and I am surviving off knowing a small subset more willingly then anybody else in the office. I don't need a big git repo and to be slaving away for giant tech company that makes the crumbs of my labour look like substantial rewards. Of course I'm not smart enough for that, but I feel ~wise~, no lucky enough, to avoid this crap at all costs as I brace myself and family for the unraveling of all this nonsense. Don't end up like suicide nightclub guy. Realize that alot of this technology is only difficult because it's disasteriously complicated. Unionize and take it easy. The first part is probably going to be pretty hard.