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People underrate the extent the opioid crisis was linked to Console Culture
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Date: July 8th, 2026 9:32 AM Author: Drunken orchid boltzmann I remember one friend’s house where we played GoldenEye for hours on a TV that had a permanent green tint. He was a good kid, honestly one of the funniest people I ever knew, but there was a heaviness in that room that I can still feel. Years later he got into pills after a roofing injury and never really came back. People want to pretend these things are random, but they are not random. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49985905) |
Date: July 8th, 2026 10:47 AM Author: Drunken orchid boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49986024) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 11:46 AM Author: Exhilarant pit liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49986143) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 11:51 AM Author: Exciting Theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49986149) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 9:40 PM Author: Dashing Trust Fund Been saying this for years. They are inexorably linked. The lineage runs from Genesis to N64 to Xbox, and beneath it runs the same American story: cheaper houses, injured fathers, dark living rooms, bad backs, pills in orange bottles, boys learning to disappear without leaving the couch.
Console culture furnished the rooms of the opiate crisis. Halo in a finished basement that was never quite finished. Mountain Dew, stale carpet.
Consoles Console us. That was always the bargain.
NAFTA arrived. The 32X arrived. The jobs left first. The add-ons came after. Plastic towers in the living room while the mills went dark and the fathers came home early with bad backs, severance papers and prescriptions. The boys learned new worlds while the old one was liquidated around them.
Then came the caskets. Small towns lined them up beneath flags. Mothers blamed dealers. Politicians blamed China. Everyone found a culprit far enough away to remain innocent. But the room was still there. The green television. The stained carpet. The controller cord across the floor. America had spent twenty years teaching its sons to endure decline by sitting still.
The Console kept its promise. It Consoled them.
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Date: July 10th, 2026 9:47 PM Author: Drunken orchid boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992161) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 9:45 PM Author: Dashing Trust Fund As for PS1 btw, it emerged almost entirely unscathed, like the surface of a CD lifted carefully from its jewel case.
That was not an accident. It belonged to houses with Bonus Rooms. Old televisions migrated upstairs instead of dying in the garage. System Link appeared. Lemonade appeared. Dinner happened at a table. Someone’s mother knew where everyone was.
The console war continued online because the survivors needed it to. PS1 men cited sales figures. N64 men cited memories. Xbox men arrived later with broadband, headsets and the heavier silence of a country already hollowed out.
The PS1 disc still shone. |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 10:08 PM Author: Drunken orchid boltzmann Exactly. N64 men remember bodies around one screen because that was the last intact thing they had. PS1 men remember Libraries, System Link and Lemonade because someone was maintaining the world around them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992200) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 10:14 PM Author: Dashing Trust Fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992205) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 9:53 PM Author: electric dun station faggotry No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992173) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: Dashing Trust Fund Why are your siblings dead? This is the thread to talk about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992190) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 11:46 PM Author: electric dun station faggotry I guess it all goes back to the release of the Sega Saturn and the Sega Dreamcast. One was rushed to launch and floundered from liftoff, the other held potential but was eclipsed by a revolutionary new product (Sony PlayStation). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992354) |
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Date: July 11th, 2026 10:52 PM Author: Drunken orchid boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49993675) |
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Date: July 10th, 2026 11:55 PM Author: Impertinent Lake Hissy Fit Pretty sure most junkies trade their consoles for drugs around week 2 into their journey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49992368) |
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Date: July 11th, 2026 5:30 PM Author: Drunken orchid boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880729&forum_id=2Vannesa#49993271) |