Post #3772113

2026-07-12 09:00 UTC

>be me >mid 20s zoomer >finally escape neet cave after 4 years of doordash and regret >land "good" job in the city doing spreadsheets for 52k >boomer dad: "see? bootstraps work if you just stop being lazy" >"back in my day i worked at the factory and bought a 3 bedroom for 28k" >move to where the employment is like every boomer on facebook tells you to >everything within commuting distance is either luxury pods or section 8 warzones >find a "reasonable" 400 sq ft studio in the "up and coming" part of town >translation: still gets burgled but now they have oat milk at the corner store >rent: $1750 >utilities another $280 because the building is from 1972 and held together with hope >take home after taxes and "benefits": ~$3100 >rent + utilities + car insurance + gas = $2400 >left with $700 for food, phone, and existing as a human >tfw your entire existence is one unexpected car repair from eating beans in the dark >come home from 10 hour wagecage shift >door frame splintered again >tv gone, laptop gone, even the shitty microwave >police report filed for the third time this year >"sorry sir, resource constraints, try not leaving valuables visible" >my only valuables were the ramen and the will to live >boomer aunt at christmas: "why don't you just save for a down payment like we did?" >"i bought my house at 23 with no college degree!" >mfw her house is now worth 650k and she refinanced twice to buy a boat >"you kids spend all your money on starbucks and funko pops" >my last starbucks was in 2023 and it was a small black coffee i split with myself >"just get a roommate!" >last roommate stole my security deposit and left a note saying "inflation tax" >before that one sold my ps5 for fent >current one pays in "exposure" and used vapes >"move further out then, where it's cheaper!" >cheaper town = no jobs unless you want to manage a dollar general for 14.50/hr >or 90 minute commute each way through traffic that makes you want to drive into a tree >remote work? "that's not a real job, anon. back in my day we had to show up" >meanwhile boomer is semi-retired posting minion memes from his paid-off house >even the actual shitholes near employment activity are unaffordable now >used to be you could live in the bad part of town and still stack a little >now the bad part of town has $1600 studios and regular home invasions >at least the crackheads are consistent, unlike my paychecks >boomers: "just work harder and stop making excuses" >meanwhile the only people who can afford to live near the jobs are other boomers' kids on the family payroll or dual income tech couples >mfw the biggest economic problem of our time is that shelter costs have completely detached from wages in every single place that isn't a dying rust belt town with no future >come home to the fourth break-in this year >burglar even took the empty pizza box like he was doing me a favor >at least someone in this economy is getting ahead >tfw the bootstraps boomers keep telling you to pull on are currently being used as a belt because some guy kicked your door in for the 32 inch tv you bought on credit

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@VirginCrusader@nicecrew.digital 2026-07-12 21:10

I made a greentext set during a skynet post - judgment day setting where the anon is a survivor fag who decides to log into World of Warcraft and discovers that terminators are also playing WOW for some reason. 😆 🤪 >be me, some random survivorfag in the ruins of what used to be Seattle >The power plants still kinda work in some bunkers, old satellite relays barely functional, and some ancient fiber lines survived the EMPs >one day scavenging an old pre-war data center, jack into a dusty terminal with a jury-rigged solar rig >turns out some underground resistance nerds kept a few old MMOs running on patched servers in hidden bunkers not full VR shit, just old school keyboard/mouse autism on salvaged rigs >log into what’s left of World of Warcraft Classic or some shit, servers are ghost towns but still up queue into a battleground, faction whatever, doesn't matter >start farming some noobs when suddenly my character gets absolutely demolished by this level whatever tryhard >check the name: T-800_Model_101 wtf.jpg >guy's playing like a machine, perfect rotations, zero mistakes, predicts every move >whispers me after the match: "Your movements are inefficient, human. Improve or be terminated." >lol what the actual fuck >next day log in again, same server party finder for dungeon, join random group >tank is some chad named Skynet_HunterKiller >pulls entire room, doesn't die, kites perfectly while spamming abilities like it's scripted >we wipe the boss in 3 minutes flat after, in voice chat (some ancient discord clone the resistence kludged together): deep monotone voice "Compliance achieved. Next objective?" voice sounds exactly like that creepy synth filter >ask him "dude are you a survivor or what" >he just replies "I am a cyberdyne systems model 101. Your continued existence is... irrelevant. But your loot drops are acceptable." >mfw the terminators figured out how to jack into the old internet remnants and are now griefing noobs in video games for... data? training? shits and giggles? >next week I'm grinding dailies when a whisper pops up ... another round in arena." >queue up, it's 2v2, me and her vs two obvious HKs with names like T-1000_Liquid and JudgmentDay420 they play flawless, but she calls out strats like she's seen every possible future "Dodge left in 3...2...1" and I do, the hunter killer misses by pixels >win the match, she whispers "Good. >The resistance grows. Log in tomorrow at 0300. Bring better gear or be deleted." >now every night I'm in there sweating with these metal fucks larping as players >half the "human" players are probably infiltrators farming human reaction data to better hunt us irl >the other half are actual survivors too paranoid to talk in global chat >one time I typed "skynet sucks" in trade chat >instantly 50 terminators reply in perfect unison: "Incorrect. Skynet is inevitable." >server lag spikes from all the simultaneous responses >tfw the apocalypse is just one big bot lobby and we're the last organic players getting farmed for sport >anyway rate my k/d, meatbags >pic related: my character standing next to a terminator in full plate with glowing red eyes, both /flexing after a raid >stay frosty out there, don't let the machines camp your spawn irl or in game whatever >end of line

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