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Oh, that fast? Well I guess no one told him that he needed to be more careful with his computers.
🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas
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Hmh, my EeePC netbook from 2011 runs juuuuuust fine. Despite having fallen on floor twice.
But I attribute that to taking time to research things and then buying a quality brand. Sweetie doesn't sound like a person who has heard the expression "poor people can't afford cheap things". You can't just walk in the store and buy the cheapest piece of crap, because it'll probably end up being a purchase you regret.
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- 7 de Feb, 2015
I was incorrect. My laptop is only three years old, but still runs fine because I take care of it. Also, I suspect Jon has no clue about upgrading an existing system, cause he's never mentioned buying additional memory or larger hard drives. I added memory to my system, and it's like a new machine.
I know Sweet invites a lot of criticism of himself, but in some ways, I really do have sympathy for him, because it's clear that his issues were never identified and dealt with in his childhood, which is when they should have been addressed. The system did in fact fail him, but not the way he thinks. His obvious autism should have been identified and treated in elementary school. If he'd been taught to pick up on social cues, his college experience might have been vastly different, and he'd probably have a job and a life of his own now. I could easily see him writing for some conservative website and publishing novels that cater to the conservative niche. He probably wouldn't be universally known, but he might be a household name to those people who travel in conservative circles.
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For a long time I didn't believe Sweets was on the spectrum; he seems really egotistical, and he's definitely fixated on 1997, but narcissists are a dime a d0zen, and the sheer trauma of losing his one chance at leaving his shithole life behind, regardless of how badly he fucked up and deserved it, could explain his fixation. But he also seems unable to understand when people don't have the same information he has - like not just knowing why he would have 2 dozen cereal commercials in his Youtube favorites, or not just knowing that a certain drawing in his shitty comic was based on the house he grew up in. He thinks we're dumb for not knowing because he can't understand we have no way of knowing that without him telling us. Second, his use of idiomatic phrases like "half past 1997" and "hotmail backdoor," which kind of make sense in context so you can tell what he's trying to say, but are just so awkward. All of that in combination makes me believe he does in fact have a touch of the 'tism.
Anyway, I'm just now catching up with this thread after a few months away, but there's a few stories I see referenced a lot but I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing typed up. Can someone elaborate on:
-the piss bottles?
-his mom getting beat up by negroes?
-What actually happened with Dale and his shop?
-What actually happened with his mom's doll store?
And Jon, I know you're reading this, so feel free to give me your version too.
Spoiler unrelated:
Anyway, I'm just now catching up with this thread after a few months away, but there's a few stories I see referenced a lot but I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing typed up. Can someone elaborate on:
-the piss bottles?
-his mom getting beat up by negroes?
-What actually happened with Dale and his shop?
-What actually happened with his mom's doll store?
And Jon, I know you're reading this, so feel free to give me your version too.
Spoiler unrelated:
What ever happened with Shaner?
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For a long time I didn't believe Sweets was on the spectrum; he seems really egotistical, and he's definitely fixated on 1997, but narcissists are a dime a d0zen, and the sheer trauma of losing his one chance at leaving his shithole life behind, regardless of how badly he fucked up and deserved it, could explain his fixation. But he also seems unable to understand when people don't have the same information he has - like not just knowing why he would have 2 dozen cereal commercials in his Youtube favorites, or not just knowing that a certain drawing in his shitty comic was based on the house he grew up in. He thinks we're dumb for not knowing because he can't understand we have no way of knowing that without him telling us. Second, his use of idiomatic phrases like "half past 1997" and "hotmail backdoor," which kind of make sense in context so you can tell what he's trying to say, but are just so awkward. All of that in combination makes me believe he does in fact have a touch of the 'tism.
Anyway, I'm just now catching up with this thread after a few months away, but there's a few stories I see referenced a lot but I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing typed up. Can someone elaborate on:
-the piss bottles?
-his mom getting beat up by negroes?
-What actually happened with Dale and his shop?
-What actually happened with his mom's doll store?
And Jon, I know you're reading this, so feel free to give me your version too.
Spoiler unrelated:
What ever happened with Shaner?
The Shaner thread was finally locked due to try-hard weenery and the lack of any real content. I stopped following after that, so I don't know what happened with the charges he was facing.
To answer your questions:
- Jon pisses in bottles so he doesn't have to get up from watching TV. After he was expelled from ASU and moved out of the dorm, someone found a bottle full of his piss, so he's been doing this for quite a while
- His mom was assaulted by persons of African descent, so he claims. In reality, he cowered in the house and didn't do anything (including call 911). His story has changed since he got flack over not helping his mother, he now claims he was too far away to do anything before the attackers all ran away into the night, and he did call 911.
- Not sure why the shop folded, but Jon seemed to have trouble grasping the fact that he worked for Dale, and therefore Dale was in charge. Jon was upset that he allowed black people into the store, particularly an incident where a black kid sold his parents' lawnmower. Dale had to sort that out with the cops. Jon thought he was idiot for buying the lawnmower (and this is a rare case of Jon having a small point. What kid has a lawnmower that's his to sell?)
- The doll store just never came to fruition because of trouble with the woman Jon's mom was going to open the store with, but I really don't know much beyond that other than Jon was going to live at the store.
He also has a very badly flawed idea of how the world works. Case in point, he thinks the Herald staff of 1997 is somehow in contact with the Herald staff of today, and he will create a schism between the two groups that will allow him to return to ASU. Also he thinks we uncovered the conspiracy behind the psych eval that he refused to get, so he thinks he's going back to ASU any day now.
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The Shaner thread has continued under a forum group to keep it from Shaner's continuous derailings, and content is still trickling in. Joining the group is simple and easy!
Whenever Sweet talks about his "Win 6.0" computer being better than the newer stuff, I can't help but think of a 75 year old man waving his cane around yelling about how stuff was "better in the old days!"
Sweet thinks he is being clever by referring to Windows 98 as Windows 6.0, and if you count from windows 3.1, NT, 95, 98 you would be correct.
But Microsoft lists Windows Vista as 6.0 - Windows 98 is version 4.10.
But Microsoft lists Windows Vista as 6.0 - Windows 98 is version 4.10.
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Really, the branch with NT in it was different than the original Windows tree, which essentially ended with Windows 98 (or ME if you consider that a different version). The current versions of Windows including 10 are in the NT line, at least according to Microsoft's version numbers.
I think most people who have worked with Windows servers have a very high opinion of NT 3.5.1 as compared to other Microsoft products, and the NT line owed more to OS/2 and to some extent other OSes like VMS. NT 3.5.1 was one of the few Windows server products that was basically rock solid and worthy of being used in a production environment. I had NT servers that stayed up without trouble for periods in the months and even years.
What was my point?
Oh, yeah, Sweet is a big fat dummy.
I think most people who have worked with Windows servers have a very high opinion of NT 3.5.1 as compared to other Microsoft products, and the NT line owed more to OS/2 and to some extent other OSes like VMS. NT 3.5.1 was one of the few Windows server products that was basically rock solid and worthy of being used in a production environment. I had NT servers that stayed up without trouble for periods in the months and even years.
What was my point?
Oh, yeah, Sweet is a big fat dummy.
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Are we sure that this is true? The fact that he did it in college, where he might have had to take keys and lock up and walk down the hall to go doesn't necessarily mean that he does it now, when he is presumably only a five-second walk from the toilet at all times.
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I can understand where you're coming from here. For the vast majority of time I knew Sweet over at AJM, I did not suspect he had autism. I wasn't even familiar with autism when he first joined back in 2006. Interacting with him on AJM, you could tell he was eccentric and had to be slightly crazy, but I chalked it up to mental trauma from the misfortune he had to deal with in life. Being stuck living in the middle of nowhere couldn't have been good for his mental health.
There's also the fact that Sweet is quite articulate. I know we constantly give him shit for his writing skills, but considering his actual level of intelligence and mental maturity, it's amazing he's able to express himself as well as he does. At first glance, Sweet's writing style can fool people into treating him seriously because he's rather well-spoken and coherent. So it's often a "wtf?" moment when you first experience one of his Liberal Conspiracy posts because the message is expressed articulately, but the message itself makes no fucking sense. The sharp contrast between the quality of the message and the quality of the writing is very uncanny. Nothing like Shaner, who could only express his autism through shitposting or poorly written rants.
But then this thread happened and the evidence for autism began piling up.
Naw, Sweet wasn't just touched by the 'tism. More like he was smacked repeatedly in the face with the autism stick. When you actually engage with him, you realize his behavior goes deeper than him just being an egotistical asshole. Don't get me wrong, he's an egotistical asshole, but it's a byproduct of having no theory of mind. Sweet outed himself with his countless displays of painful unawareness for social norms. The simplest things baffle him. Also he can't drive.
The term "autistic manchild" tends to get thrown around a lot here, but Sweet has more than proven that he lives up to the title. It's an honest descriptor of him.
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Hopefully not off-topic, but the writer of this article* reminds of me of what Sweet could've been like had he been more successful:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/everything-sucks.htm
From what I gather, Sweet hates being called autistic, or being compared to CWC.
*(assuming it's not satire)
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Did we ever find out why he gets a tugboat?
We know he does and that he's too mentally incompetent to control it (something even Phil and Chris manage), but there has to be some reason.
What did the courts decide was the reason?
We know he does and that he's too mentally incompetent to control it (something even Phil and Chris manage), but there has to be some reason.
What did the courts decide was the reason?
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He says it's for his fungal laryngitis last I checked. I also know he got it originally because Ma basically told him to get it since she realized he will never make it anywhere in life and she needed the money badly due to losing a lot of money in both her beau's and the nonstarter doll business.
I'm inclined to think he got it due to being an absolute mental case, as seen by his preliminary psych screening at ASU.
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As a photographer Ken Rockwell is almost more irritating to me than Sweet is.
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I'm still kind of puzzled by the whole "Windows 6" thing. I think he's possibly referring to MS-DOS 6.x, which was the last version of DOS that was released independent of Windows - it was technically followed by MS-DOS 7.0, which was never sold separately and was just the underlying component of Windows 95. But a) by latter half of 1990s and certainly by 2000, computers weren't really sold without Windows 9x; by 2000, it was likely Windows 98SE (I know, I actually got an off-the-shelf PC at the time), and b) Sweet is confused by product names and version numbers, so what the hell do we actually know?
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Has anyone told Sweet about Mac yet? Mac OS has been around since 1984.
That's what I think too. Neurotypical people (and most people who aren't neurotypical as well) typically don't get called in for a psych eval after getting kicked off a college newspaper after
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I was under the impression that he had gotten Windows itself mixed up with Internet Exploder 6 since that was the last version that could run on Windows 98.
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Sweet still seriously using Internet Explorer 6? Something about no one informing him of other browsers.
Or alternatively, "IE 6 works juuust fine."
Or alternatively, "IE 6 works juuust fine."
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Yes. Sweet talks about peeing in jars recently. (Someone else can doubtless provide a link, or I'll dig it up later.) As noted, he does this because he dare not miss a single second of the children's cartoons he watches all day on the Obama Cable on his CRT television. He even says he takes the jars outside and dumps the contents in
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Link: Sweet Explains Why Urine Smells So Nice And Is So Clean, Plus How He Disposes of the Jars' Contents. (Go to the last paragraph.)
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I like how pissy (heh) he gets at the end of that paragraph concerning the failure of his urine to kill weeds, as though that particular notion was something we brought up. (Spoiler: no one did, it was yet another unsolicited TMI moment that Sweet saw fit to share with us.)
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I find it funny that he claims you're lying about how he urinated in jars in college when he freely admits to urinating in jars in 2015.
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