Quote from: jamalaezaz on Today at 03:32:08 PM

Quote from: jamalaezaz on Today at 03:32:08 PM

Congrats bro.
but what does Craft Master exactly mean? what did you do or built?

I will answer that, since I was the one who nominated GazetaBitcoin. As his name implies, he runs a Bitcoin newspaper. His “craft” is journalism. Wherefore the explanatory note:

Quote from: nullius on October 29, 2020, 04:53:12 PM

Code:

10. Craft Master ................... GazetaBitcoin
(for in-depth posts on cypherpunks history & current events)

I think that some people are misinterpreting the “Antihero” category.

Now, I would hereby expound on the transvaluation of values that has resulted in heroes oft becoming “antiheroes”. But you would just scroll on by, like the “unmitigated savages” you are (lolz).

I think that a succinct description for an antihero, on the level of the popular mind, is that an antihero is like a villain with his own fan club. In literature, an antihero is (or should be) more distinct from a glorious villain; but modernity has so blurred the distinction...

Ah, yes—literature! Perhaps the archetypal antihero is the Satan of John Milton’s Paradise Lost as an antiheroic character: He is truly the hero of the story, but he is—literally Satan!

Quote from: Satan (John Milton, Paradise Lost)

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.
[...]
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
[...]
[...]Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

For my part, I reject Utopian illusions of a heaven on Earth that can never exist, and would be worse than Hell if it could. The liberals with their fantasies of “peace and love”, the technocrats with their hybris, the Communists with their “ideals” of replacing humans with absolutely equal meat-robots—I condemn and contemn them, one and all!

To modernity, I am Satan. I accuse you. Better to reign in Hell than serve in a brave new Utopia of talking monkeys contentedly tweeting through their portable telescreens, dissolving what little consciousness they ever had with drugs, fucking around for nothing and aborting the results, begging for the banks to keep “their” money safe so they don’t lose it—begging for the government to keep them safe from terrorist launderers and money financiers, or whatever may be the latest iteration of the War on Bogeys...

Also, philosophically, I am an amoralist in the exact sense that Nietzsche used that word; and I am known to quote from Der Antichrist.

How much more antiheroic could I be?

On a popular level, think: A scary “villain” with his own fan club. I observe that CH effectually nominated me for an Antihero award when he called me “The Phantom of the Opera”. That was a major #FAIL at trolling: Trying to insult me with something that I took as a compliment!

Quote from: bonesjonesreturns on April 24, 2020, 12:15:05 PM

Lol at nullius coming out of retirement to red tag for " empathy" [...blah, blah...]

TPOTO... lol I imagine that tune everytime you post now...

Quote from: JayJuanGee on April 24, 2020, 04:08:16 PM

Quote from: bonesjonesreturns on April 24, 2020, 12:15:05 PM

TPOTO... lol I imagine that tune everytime you post now...

Since I am having trouble keeping track of all of the references and the various drama points, I googled TPOTO....

I got: The Phantom of the Opera.

Quote from: bonesjonesreturns on April 24, 2020, 06:31:07 PM

Nullius is of course TPOTO.

Quote from: nullius on April 25, 2020, 07:27:03 AM

Quote from: bonesjonesreturns on April 24, 2020, 06:31:07 PM

Nullius is of course TPOTO.

I confess, “bonesjones” doxed me!

“nullius” is Erik, better known as The Phantom. Behold my glory!

Whoops! Trying to insult me by calling the evil genius who lives beneath the opera house, working on his masterpiece and killing off incompetent singers? Not insulted here. ;-) The Phantom has his own fan club.

Just to drive home the point of how terribly antiheroic I am, here is a graphic that I made a few weeks ago, for an unpublished post about the proper use of rude people flopped on the Left:

Quote from: nullius (DRAFT)

Post scratched out in haste—to be edited/extended with some cleanup, plus thoughts about Lauda.