I thought “getting Peter Thiel’d” meant being totally evil and then buying out all of ILX and converting it to a hidden Quora or wikihow subforum, all on a floating megafortress made of PayPal, and everyone is totally straight
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
Taking sides: getting Peter Thiel’d vs getting Sean Parker’d
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 19 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
a million young blood sacs isn't cool, do you know what's cool? a billion young blood sacs.
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 19 July 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
I think I realise why I lurk rather than post here is as a 26yo, I feel like I have not lived/consumed enough to participate in the dialogue.
I still feel like this in my 40s and I've been mostly lurking here for probably 15 years at this point. So many smart and knowledgeable people on this board, I feel like my contributions are rarely meaningful and mostly redundant.
― silverfish, Monday, 19 July 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
Ha, sorry for causing so much confusion. Yes, the Peter Thiel thing is not specific to ilx, and I maybe did overestimate how much other people know/care about billionaire/longevity cult people and their young person vampirism.
― emil.y, Monday, 19 July 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Oh i really presumed the buy and wreck it for spite thing was the one!
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
I just assumed everyone knew the "inject yourself with young person blood" story! I was wrong! I did get a little obsessed with the weirdness of longevity cults for a while but I've seen it specifically in reference to Thiel a bunch so figured it'd be an understandable thing, if a bit memey.
― emil.y, Monday, 19 July 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
the first thing i think of with thiel is just how wealthy he is, how vindictive, how he's like the guy in the master, how he dreams of libertarian free-floating fortresses running on crypto. so he wants to be a vampire too and young guy blood, eh that all fits into his main story.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
i joined at age 20 and only like 50% of my old posts are embarrassing now
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
What are decommissioned oil platforms in international waters even for if not youth blood factory farms
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
I was on a pre-ILX thing and cannot bear to see what I wrote on there, my online persona was definitely "complete prick" at the time. Then I didn't actually start posting here until what, 2013? 2014? - after lurking for a year or two. It is a right and good thing that I and everyone else were spared the 2000s posts I would have made.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
Where once we were clouds, we are now the shakers of fists.
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
ILX is not a mirror. ILX is a hammer.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
And every post looks like a nail
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
In each of these polls, the most common age was the age of someone born in 1979-80 (28 in 2008, 31 in 2011, 36 in 2016).
How old are you as of Jan 09, 2008?How old are (were) you as of Jan 09, 2011?How old were you as of Jan 09, 2016?
― jaymc, Monday, 19 July 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Dat's me!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
80
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
i win again
― mark s, Monday, 19 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
xpost 80 in what animal's years?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/oldest-tree.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 July 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
Well this is all disappointing, I was hoping you meant that someone was actually going to make me Peter Thiel. Is it bad form to put a venmo as your profile name here?
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 19 July 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
they can make your peter thiel, but it's bad color grading iirc
― "Rocky Top" and "Funky Bitch" are songs I never look forward to (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 July 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Post in whichever way you thiel best
― Evan, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfYuczzALbM
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 24 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Thumbs up in solidarity with my fellow ilxors who were in their mid-30s or older when they started posting. OTOH - there is definitely a tendency to be condescending I/we need to fight.
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
Aja (aka Asiakitty, daughter of Burmakitty, who I seem to have accidently lured over here from a semiofficial Mission of Burma board we both posted on 15 years ago) existed, but I'm not sure that she was the one posting in her name--her father showed up once and claimed that she wasn't.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 24 July 2021 05:21 (two years ago) link
I don't smokeI don't drinkI don't post At least I can fucking think
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Review requested
― i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 September 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Old enough to know better. Was this ever sorted?
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 September 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
sorted or not, ilx loves its meta-threads about ilx, so if we sort this it'll just be shoved aside for some new form of self-probing, like a tongue obsessively returning to a sore tooth.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 September 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link