Here in Kansas City it's not so tough being a Mac user, as there are plenty of major chains that sell Macs or peripherals for them (Microcenter and until recently, Circuit City), a large, healthy MUG (featured on Apple's site, no less) and many third-party suppliers and repair facilities (dumpster-diving has been fun since I moved out here). There's only one real drawback of living in Kansas City and being a Mac user: the rampant art faggotry, pseudo-creativity, and nerdario emo fags associated with Macintosh computing!
Yes, sadly, Kansas City is a hotbed for the so-called art
and emo
communities. You know the kind. Thick, silly glasses, mussed, tussled hair, ill-fitting cardigans, sweaters, dirty jeans and corduroys, and faded T-shirts purposefully purchased for the obscure entity it advertises on it. They're everywhere, these emo idiots, and they've infiltrated the Macintosh community through their affiliation with art.
Talking to one of these jerks is as exciting as digging up your dead grandmother and trying to get her to converse with you (though as hard as it would be staring at the fetid, rotting corpse of a loved one, I'd probably rather do that than spend any time with one of these whining, pierced, star-tattooed morons). They are usually brain-dead to begin with and share a common brain with each other. If art and emo fags sharing a brain is anything like allowing multiple log-ins on a Linux server, you know the drag-and-lag I'm talking about: roughly as fast as fat 4-way amputee quadriplegic in a marathon, and about as sharp as a beach ball.
As easy as the Mac is to use, hardware- and software-wise, these people make it look like Apple has asked them to interface with the thing using assembler. With their eyes shut and using only their tongues to type on the keyboard. Inquiring as to what version of Mac OS they're running usually results in only being able to tell if it's either Mac OS X or not: the old one,
or the new one,
is about all you'll get. Hoping one of these sub-human poseurs knows anything about their Macs is hoping for too much. I swear to God these people bought their Macs to be different and not because they actually needed a computer that worked right.
Yeah, maybe Macs are computers for people who don't use computers. But dammit, man, if you're going to own a tool, be able to use it and maintain it. I've seen some of these idiots on high-speed connections that are 4 or 5 OS updates behind. My favorite are the clueless slags who run 9.0 on their Mac and refuse to upgrade to X for whatever reason and haven't even touched 9.1 or 9.2. I mean, if you refuse to move up to X, at least be running the latest Mac OS 9 update that you can.
Kansas City's a great place, don't get me wrong. But the art community here, as well as the emo scene, make being a Mac user a little embarrassing. Maybe it's just me, since I moved from an area that wasn't so saturated with subculture shittiness and gayness, but I am having a harder and harder time being the proud underdog Mac user with these vegan indy-rock retards standing in my corner.
Will I abandon the Mac because of them? No. The Mac experience is finally growing my leaps and bounds again after half a decade of holding pattern. But I will start kicking ass and taking names the next time I see some slobbering, giggling emo retardo talking about his new iBook or Power Mac G4 louder than necessary, letting people know how different
he is.
And that's a promise.
