Should we as hexbear continue to associate with Chapotraphouse? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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boring as fuck jokes, liberal cringe opinions, 9 bad takes out of 10, and more galore. Should hexbear really keep associating itself with Chapo, it really seems that hexbear has outgrown it in general.

edit: by associating i mean using things like chapotraphouse com or askchapo or chapochat. maybe we've grown beyond it, maybe its a neat part of site culture and a nod to its roots while not connected to the cringe stuff.

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[-] Venat@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

I just strongly dislike the man-children aspect of their dynamic, especially Felix who seems to be stuck emotionally as a burnout turned 27 year old gamer. Just everything about his speech mannerisms, his vocal fry, the limited vocabulary and adolescent presentation, the revelations of his habits, hygiene, and "hobbies" (i.e, gaming & internet addiction).

All this is of course excluding Chris Wade who seems to be the only professional, and Matt Christman who seems to be the only one moving forward with building a life and family.

It's probably, most definitely if I was forced to make a decision and commitment, that I - perhaps you too - am just growing out of news podcasts as entertainment. Even long since 10/7, I kind of find these podcasts - Chapo, Trueanon, Trillbilllies, etc - to be a mix of "finding catharsis in the darkness via public broadcasting" and grifting the disintegration and decline of empire for affluence and notoriety.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

and Matt Christman who seems to be the only one moving forward with building a life and family.

I'm glad Matt is able to do at least this much of what he wants, but I think that the way you're judging people here is extremely toxic in a patriarchal nuclear-family-worship kind of way. You don't need to have a partner, much less a child, to be an adult and a worthwhile person.

If Felix had a wife and a child, it wouldn't make him the slightest bit less pathetic outside of the time and effort spent on childrearing, which I think he'd be shit at anyway and probably have the wife bear the brunt of indefinitely.

So, uh, be nicer to Will, his affect annoys me but I think on a personal level he seems perfectly fine, plus he's the actual show runner while everyone else just riffs and rants.

[-] Venat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're right. Though it was not my intention to pedestal the nuclear family or building one as an ultimate goal, I suppose I was measuring the milestones of life through the parallels of responsibility and personal growth, and used that observation about him to mean that he sees a future and existence for himself outside of the podcast. And that sort of seriousness and forecasting is a mark of adulthood and maturity, from my perspective.

Will's alright; I guess I was trying to not singularly focus on Felix.

Felix to me is my personal bogeyman, that despite success and affluence, he is seemingly incapable of escaping his adolescence in both his manner of speech, presentation, habits, and career. A "positive" identity is what a person identifies themselves by what they are, Felix has helped me form a "negative" identity by telling myself what I should not be.

I dunno. I just knew people like that, blessed by success or fortune from birth, and saw them spend their lives in adolescence way into their late 30s.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I agree, Felix is existentially terrifying. I'm not as irked by his speech patterns as some people are, but the rest of it, from spending all his time on game slop, to his attitude toward sex (e.g. bragging about being able to get groupies who are much more attractive than him via the show), to spending however many thousands of dollars on a replica of a sword from Dark Souls, he's like a rich version of what I'm personally terrified of ending up as, to the point that I earnestly would prefer being a corpse and being saved the trouble of looking back at my life and seeing that I really never did anything worthwhile. He's only tolerable to me because usually he focuses on jokes and his knowledge about various internet figures and Israel.

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

is this copypasta lol

[-] Venat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

flattened-bernie noo. :(

Sorry didn't mean to be paternalistic/patronizing or weird I just really don't like Chapo anymore/grew out of it

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

i never listened to the pod lol you're good it just came across funny in a slightly bizarre way

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

i think the vocal fry is sexy

[-] Venat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeahhh...no...yeah... it's-it's like when you find a date on -intense clicking noises in the background - tinder but your car dealership has stopped selling parts for the Metal Gear, but it's like we're all children now and neoliberalism has turned us into babi- deeep vaping noises - and this is what DemoniusX has in mind for our future! it rules! it's awesome! I love this Re Dwah of the Bush Era! I'll use Gee-Aw-Sit-Tees to book us a hotel.