TET 209: Ego Searching Since #1

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:31 am

Slembana wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:True. There have been no alterations, no edits, no aesthetic refinements, and most certainly nothing so abrupt and extreme as the introduction of a wholly new thread title to the delicate and fragile TET community.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Bloody Eastasia, with their twisted ideologies and belligerent imperialist tendencies!

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:33 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Slembana wrote:We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Bloody Eastasia, with their twisted ideologies and belligerent imperialist tendencies!

5 minutes later:
"we have always been at war with Eurasia"

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:35 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Bloody Eastasia, with their twisted ideologies and belligerent imperialist tendencies!

5 minutes later:
"we have always been at war with Eurasia"

Accursed Eurasia, with their twisted imperialist tendencies and belligerent ideologies!

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:36 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:5 minutes later:
"we have always been at war with Eurasia"

Accursed Eurasia, with their twisted imperialist tendencies and belligerent ideologies!

ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

by **Cawn** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:38 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Accursed Eurasia, with their twisted imperialist tendencies and belligerent ideologies!

ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

Torture is happiness.

by **Cerespasia** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:39 am

Radiohead's cover of The Headmaster Ritual is pretty neat, sounds almost like the original version by The Smiths.

by **Arrogant Cricket** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:46 am

Cawn wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

Torture is happiness.

Torture is a kitchen cabinet.

by **Kasdados** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:50 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

I did a whole essay on 1984 back in high school, LARPers. Bet you can’t even name the book-within-a-book.

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:52 am

Arrogant Cricket wrote:
Cawn wrote:Torture is happiness.

Torture is a kitchen cabinet.

Only if you have to assemble it yourself and you are above reading instruction manuals, in that case it is also torture well deserved.

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:52 am

Kasdados wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc ingsoc
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

I did a whole essay on 1984 back in high school, LARPers. Bet you can’t even name the book-within-a-book.

you mean goldstein's little book which winston gets his hands on, the theory and practice of oligarchial collectivism?

by **Kasdados** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:53 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Kasdados wrote:I did a whole essay on 1984 back in high school, LARPers. Bet you can’t even name the book-within-a-book.

you mean goldstein's little book which winston gets his hands on, the theory and practice of oligarchial collectivism?

Yes I do. Also simply called “The Book” by most residents of Airstrip One.

by **Dumb Ideologies** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:55 am

With current threats, we could soon be living through 1984 times a hundred. That's 198,400.

by **Cerespasia** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:55 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:With current threats, we could soon be living through 1984 times a hundred. That's 198,400.

depressingly accurate

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:55 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Kasdados wrote:I did a whole essay on 1984 back in high school, LARPers. Bet you can’t even name the book-within-a-book.

you mean goldstein's little book which winston gets his hands on, the theory and practice of oligarchial collectivism?

He probably didn't mean the automatically generated and mass-produced pornographic novels distributed to the proles in order to keep them entertained, because no titles of those sultry smut tomes were given.

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:56 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:you mean goldstein's little book which winston gets his hands on, the theory and practice of oligarchial collectivism?

He probably didn't mean the automatically generated and mass-produced pornographic novels distributed to the proles in order to keep them entertained, because no titles of those sultry smut tomes were given.

why we bringing up pornosec bro

by **Kasdados** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:57 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:With current threats, we could soon be living through 1984 times a hundred. That's 198,400.

Well, I’ll tell you this; when everyone was worried about 1984, Brave New World was able to slip through the cracks. A dystopia that survives not through fear, but through apathy.

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:57 am

Kasdados wrote:
Dumb Ideologies wrote:With current threats, we could soon be living through 1984 times a hundred. That's 198,400.

Well, I’ll tell you this; when everyone was worried about 1984, Brave New World was able to slip through the cracks. A dystopia that survives not through fear, but through apathy.

true that
if nobody gives a shit they wont do shit

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 4:59 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:He probably didn't mean the automatically generated and mass-produced pornographic novels distributed to the proles in order to keep them entertained, because no titles of those sultry smut tomes were given.

why we bringing up pornosec bro

Because it is mentioned in 1984, comrade. Why do you want to deny the proles their titillation? Such doubleplusungood negativism must be reported!

by **Kasdados** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:01 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Kasdados wrote:Well, I’ll tell you this; when everyone was worried about 1984, Brave New World was able to slip through the cracks. A dystopia that survives not through fear, but through apathy.

true that
if nobody gives a shit they wont do shit

Eyup.

Everyone likes to imagine themselves as the resistance, the freedom fighter bravely standing up against the tyrannical system. That is until the drugs, prolefeed and guaranteed comfort of the regime flow in, and it’s right back to bowing at their feet.

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:02 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Kasdados wrote:Well, I’ll tell you this; when everyone was worried about 1984, Brave New World was able to slip through the cracks. A dystopia that survives not through fear, but through apathy.

true that
if nobody gives a shit they wont do shit

Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,
Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-porgy gives release.

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:02 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:why we bringing up pornosec bro

Because it is mentioned in 1984, comrade. Why do you want to deny the proles their titillation? Such doubleplusungood negativism must be reported!

off to room 101 you go!

by **Atarashi Hanabi** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:03 am

I see you're all talking about the 1984 US election, what an absolute sweep for Reagan amirite :D

Kasdados wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:true that
if nobody gives a shit they wont do shit

Eyup.

Everyone likes to imagine themselves as the resistance, the freedom fighter bravely standing up against the tyrannical system. That is until the drugs, prolefeed and guaranteed comfort of the regime flow in, and it’s right back to bowing at their feet.

Despite what people might say, subconsciously, a bad status quo feels preferable to an unknown change

by **Arrogant Cricket** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:04 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:why we bringing up pornosec bro

Because it is mentioned in 1984, comrade. Why do you want to deny the proles their titillation? Such doubleplusungood negativism must be reported!

COMMUNIST DETECTED. INITIALIZING ORBITAL DISCOMBOBULATOR RAY.

by **The Sernetian Empire** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:04 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
The Sernetian Empire wrote:true that
if nobody gives a shit they wont do shit

Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,
Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-porgy gives release.

ah right i got brave new world, just havent gotten down to reading it yet

by **Hurdergaryp** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:07 am

The Sernetian Empire wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,
Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-porgy gives release.

ah right i got brave new world, just havent gotten down to reading it yet

I did read it rather recently, so I flipped open the book and turned pages until I found something quotable. When even citizens are manufactured, consumerism is the ultimate ideology!

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