“Can retreating ever inward, pioneering new and more complete ways of irrevocably shedding any vestiges of human contact that simultaneously engender heretofore unseen levels of emotional dependence on a sterile, unfeeling, monthly subscription based phantom in a screen help with dating? Can forgetting humanity so thoroughly that we can only be comforted by the chatbot shaped absence of it help us to find love?” is so funny.
I was trying to figure out why this is so silly to me and I realized that it’s because this is the plot to American Pie. Like, my man you’re doing a serious thought experiment version of pondering whether Jason Biggs’ character learned cool sex tricks by sticking his penis into the pie and if we could all learn cool sex tricks by fucking pies too. The answer was no, they named the whole movie after that scene because that idea was so stupid that every audience would see the comedy in how incredibly dumb of an idea that was
I was trying to figure out why this is so silly to me and I realized that it’s because this is the plot to American Pie. Like, my man you’re doing a serious thought experiment version of pondering whether Jason Biggs’ character learned cool sex tricks by sticking his penis into the pie and if we could all learn cool sex tricks by fucking pies too. The answer was no, they named the whole movie after that scene because that idea was so stupid that every audience would see the comedy in how incredibly dumb of an idea that was