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      DEEP MEMORY UNLOCKED

      Little Flakes explaining Pokémon to my father and watching the light leave his eyes, then leave the room and start watching El Chavo forever teaching me that nobody likes the things that i like

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        Little Flakes explaining Pokémon to my father and watching the light leave his eyes

        “What if we lived in a society where we sent 10 year-olds off into the forest to gamble on dog fighting? Can I borrow some money dad?”

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          Looking back, I think he knew it was something that would cost him money

          But to be fair, my Pokémon card collection did help me to pay for college

          So, I suppose the lesson should be that everyone should be nice to me

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      The cringe we spoke was shares a lineage with this shit and knowing what I know now I would have cut the edgelord shit out sooner than I did. It was a long time ago. We were operating on one layer of irony, maybe two if you were feeling especially daring. This shit is hothouse bred, irony poisoning crossed back on irony poisoning with a lineage that makes the Habsburgs look like an example of hybrid vigor.

      I presume by ASU he means Arizona State University, which is and always has been its own flavor of cringe. Tempe needs to get shut down until we can figure out what the hell is going on there. Of course the guy who hits himself in the head with hammers and enjoys meth is from the east valley. This is just a type of guy there. Mesa is about 50% this type of guy, if you exclude the Mormons.