>Palantir>AndurilWhy do evil companies name themselves after LOTR?
>>62671129Do you have permission to use that image?
>>62671129Being evil, they like to corrupt and confuse, steal and subvert.
one did it for whatever reason, the rest will do it because they ape success but can't recognize what actually causes it. elizabeth holmes thought she had to wear a black turtleneck
>>62671129you forgot Mithril Capital where JD got his first high tier wagie experience
>>62671129The English are maybe the most evil of all humans.
Why would you call your surveillance data crunching company palantir when it was very clear the palantir could be misused and even have their vision distorted/manipulated?
It’s a nerd thing…shoving it in the faces of all the girls that wouldn’t date them in high school
>>62671129Peter Thiel has a fixation. All of these companies with the Tolkien names are funded by Thiel.
>>62671545Is Thiel actual autismo schizo or is he playing pretend?
>>62671549He's somewhat schizo but mostly just addicted to bussy, which is how Altman, Luckey, et al got their funding in the first place.
Those companies aren’t evil tho
they're only evil if ur an orc
Boomers and Gen X fucking love Lord of the rings. It's in all the culture they created, all the books, video games, and music. I'm sure someone knows better than me why that is, but it is
>>62671814When we were young nerds nobody had heard of it. Tolkien was our shibboleth and right of passage into an intelligencia that was deeply disrespected and destined to shape society. A boomer revenge narrative where the 90 lb weakling ends up being your boss and fucking your wife because they are smart and you are not. A reversal of the power dynamic that disadvantaged us in school but made us gods in business and politics.Lotr represents the same thing to boomer incels that anime does to modern ones. A fantasy where brains beat brawn. A fantasy that often comes true.
>>62671743White people are the war mongering orcs of earth
>>62671814It's a deeply rich fantasy lore that is ultimately secular, even if it is Christian coded. It's effectively modern mythology then, distanced from Christian, Greco-Roman or Norse origins to make it palatable to nu-gen boomers. It was heavily pulled into dungeons and dragons, which is then absolute peak gen X nerd shit.
>>62671886Have you read it?It's unreadable garbage that was only made popular by translating it into dumbed down cartoons and games and even then you had to be extremely unhappy with reality to suffer through the lore.
>>62671886D&D was extreme even for nerds. Like maybe the very least attractive 10% of nerds played the game. I used to play. Playing D&D meant you had given up entirely on dating and popularity.Even among nerds, the game was never popular
>>62671899when i was a kid my sister's bf gave me his huge box of 1st edition ad&d books. he had a leather jacker and a mustang not sure what he was doing with that geeky shit lol.
>>62671918Not everyone who played was a complete loser. Also lots of losers bought leather jackets and pony carsBut playing was social suicide. The game is highly addictive and filled a gap before video games became interesting. The real nerds played chess and learned to code. The D&D kids were losers even by nerd standards
>>62671129its le heckin coolerino and witty and creative chud
>>62671899>Playing D&D meant you had given up entirely on dating and popularity.Yeah who the fuck do you think founded PayPal?
>>62671891>>62671886And KJV is super digestible? I'm not claiming I really like it but it's deep lore and I struggle to name anything close to that that was better written around that time or before. Narnia is pretty shallow, idk what's left that's anywhere even vaguely close in time to Tolkein, Asimov?
>>62672004Pretty much all D&D players were also computer geeks.But very few computer geeks played D&D
>>62672010I've never met anyone that finished either the KJV or LOTRBut yeah it was better than Narnia and less painful than lovecraft
>>62671868Thanks for sharing, that was interesting. Was there actually a concern with DnD players being satanists, or was the satanic panic way overblown?
>>62672071Yeah the US was far more religious in the 70's and 80's. Most of modern porn was illegal back then. It was normal to beat fags. Everyone said nigger openly in conversation. People thought the Procter and Gamble logo was satanic. Playing Beatles records backwards searching for satanic messages.D&D was considered evil which was a big part of its draw. It was a rebel game against Christianity
>>62672071I was raised a JW. The leaders of the entire religion ordered members to boycott the movie E.T. just because of the D&D scene. They weren't the only church to do that. I think the game was strictly banned by all fundies and most of the more liberal churches as well.We bought books and modules at the hobby shop in secret because my parents wouldn't let us even walk down that aisle
>>62672111>I was raised a JWoof, from what little I know I've heard that's the most cult like of the (more) major religions in the US. You must have had a strong draw to nerd culture to risk whatever punishments and play DND still.
>>62671165I get it
>>62672252You couldn't choose your group back then. I was a nerd because I was smarter than everyone else. Didn't matter how well I dressed or how athletic I was or how many crimes I committed or how many girls I dated. High grades meant I was automatically a nerd. Cool people didn't get straight A's and take college classes in middle school.I got hooked on D&D from the choose-your-own-adventure books in 4th grade. Honestly the game is still probably the funnest thing I've ever done with my clothes on. Done properly it's better even than open world vidya.
>>62672419>I got hooked on D&D from the choose-your-own-adventure books in 4th gradeI really liked those too actually, I remember using the Internet to try and see what "rare" ones they had when I was younger.Thanks for sharing anon, your posts were very interesting to read
>>62672432My pleasureWhen I was 32 I made my first million dollars and the very first thing I bought was the old books and games I loved as a kid. These 3 are still favorites of mine.
>>62671883White people dominated the planet so hard it practically deleted wars. You only have white people to blame for the relatively prolonged peace we're experiencing. If you read history, you'll know this to be TRVE.
>>62671883Poor bait. White people are high elves.
>>62671883You have "white" confused with "American"
>>62675178They lose every war they start however
>>62671129Evil hiding behind the mask of Good
