Can we please

Somebody should make a movie around this message of jaded adults refinding their humanity in an absurd, hyperconsumerist world through the rejection of cynicism and embracing of liking things again, but cleverly disguise it as a movie made to sell plastic dolls to little girls to play on the concept of hyperconsumerism.

I think this hypothetical movie will be a smashing success in the box office. And probably win the lead actress an Oscar this year.

Not funny.

Not a meme.

If I hear Christmas music before at least November, I will go nuclear

I don’t mind people putting up decorations early, it’s when stores swap out their seasonal stock early that triggers me

I don't criticize people for enjoying those things, I criticize the corporations for relentlessly monetizing those things, making them insufferable and sucking all the enjoyment out of them for money.

Let people not like things.

But what about the shriveled flower of joy I get from shitting on their happiness

Letting go of the part of you that judges other people is important. It hurts, because that is one of the few avenues of control we can experience in our lives alienated by capitlaism.

Letting your self be free of those childish emotions and learning to replace them with love for your fellows is the path towards true happiness however. That is one of those weird tricks the government doesn't want you to know. Except it is real and it works. The more negative you are about other people the more negativity you experience and the more treats you need to buy to survive. The heart of every true revolutionary is full of love.

I just want to end misspelling "avocado" .

You had me until the too early decorations. The other things don't take away my joy. That does.

This is humanity, there will be no joy! ☝️

Wild how happiness only seems to exist in commodities

The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.

It's incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn't going anywhere.

The drug cartels receive a substantial amount of money from avocado production (weird but apparently true)

Cinnamon is carcinogenic

Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)

Halloween is a celebration of consumerism, microplastics and diabetes.

I'm sure there's a dark side to d&d but I can't think of it right now.

You're welcome

Serious.

If you are seriously annoyed by any of these things, then it should be a reminder of how unburdened and care free your life is that such a thing actually bugs you, and spark a sense of pride and contentment instead.

Isn't the whole gripe with Pumpkin Spiced whatever the same with Christmas decorations popping up in mid-October? Like, its not fucking special if you're putting nutmeg in my coffee in June.

Same with the D&D / Marvel / Roblox / Whatever fandom of choice. It was fine twenty years ago when it was the New Thing. Now we're pushing 100+ hours of Disneyfied extended universe content on Marvel alone. Half my "recommended" podcast feed is six C-list celebrities making the soy face in front of a pair of crossed battle axes. And my street is lined with shitty faux-bakery corporate cafeterias trying to sell a piece of rye bread covered in guacamole for $15/slice.

Who actually enjoys this shit anymore? It feels like I'm being sealed into Disneyland, like a Pharaoh buried alive in his pyramid. It stopped being fun ages ago. Now I'm torn between boredom and horror.

Halloween is my favorite time of the year!

I found my tiny shriveled flower of joy in being a hater. Today's target: people who upvoted this garbage. The fuck is wrong with you? It's not a meme and it's not funny, it doesn't belong on this community, and it's so sanctimonious it gave me diarrhea.

Tomorrow's target: people who push all their furniture up against the wall
Thursday's target: Scots

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This is the way.

If I can't criticize every insignificant difference in lifestyle that I have with a stranger that I probably won't ever talk to again in my life. How else will I stroke my ego and fulfill my basic need of feeling superior to others?

Pumpkin spice lattes?

Costco has Christmas decorations up already actually

Guy across the street spent the weekend putting up Halloween decorations with his daughter. We can this guy "Heavy metal dad" because year round he displays pentagram flags, and wears heavy metal band shirts with the sleeves cut off all year. It's great.

“Let people enjoy things”

No

Is nobody going to talk about the avocado man in the right-hand corner

Pumpkin Spice Lattes are good and also the official drink of hexbear.net (the other ones are good too).

Hexbears in this thread having a knee-jerk contrarian reaction to the "let people enjoy things" sentiment even though nobody actually has a problem with any of these things lmao.

We can; the narcissists cannot.

But how else will I feel superior and generally much more intelligent than other people?

Only hate the really early Halloween decorations at the store when they take away summer things early. Sometimes I need a new pool float in late august...

Sure.

Those same people could also accept criticism of all of the above (regarding D&D, I won't just accept criticism of the game system, I will join in and rant for hours about what a hot mess 4th Edition was) without tying it to their identities to the point of getting enraged when consumer products (or the means used to make them) are criticized as if it is an attack on themselves.

No. I'm not happy so nobody else is allowed to be.

No

Who are these people who upvote posts but never comments, top comment right now has 21 score and the post has 212, thats such an abusrd ratio, is it just a hexbear thing that this is surprising to me?

We should. Yes please.

Yes to everything except the advocados. I hate superfoods and what they do to the soil.

Excellent. More of this sentiment please.

Also, it's important for everyone to feel comfortable expressing their dislike for things, so long as jumping on hateful-bandwagons isn't a source of social credit.

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An eye for an eye ✊😠

Could we, without relentless attention-whoring, stop inventing problems that don't exist?

Who tf is out there getting flak for ANY of these things? These are all perfectly accepted

Wishful thinking, unfortunately.

I like Halloween and love seeing all the cool new decorations

My tiny shrivelled flower of joy comes from relentlessly criticizing.

When they could be playing Pathfinder? I think not!

Does anyone actively enjoy early christmas decoration? Its not the people Im annoyed with, its the stores.

I envy people who only deal with this online

Can we compromise? I'll give you all of those things except the early holloween decorations

Sure. What about pineapple on pizza though? I mean you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Sure, as soon as you stop bombarding me with advertisements for these things to the point I retch at the very sight.

Fucking seriously my local Lowe's had the Halloween decorations on display before the end of August. Two whole entire months am I getting BLEAURGH'd at by an injection molded demon every time I walk in to buy some screws and a quart of stain. Of course the Christmas decorations are going to be out on November 1st. Remember when there were only 12 days of Christmas? Now there's something like 60.

No your a looser