[ExI] add a letter

[William Flynn Wallace]

.I propose ambitiosexual: those who are turned on by being, or by others
prominently displaying, copious and obvious pretentiousness, but who are
perhaps turned off by actual talent and all the mundanities of following
through to make any actual success meaningful… Adrian
Would you then condemn the entirety of popular culture?  bill w

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>…* *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] add a letter
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> On Nov 17, 2016 9:37 AM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> >>… We are daily confronted with an alphabet soup of sexual identities.
> Now we get to add M for macrosexual.
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> >...I propose ambitiosexual: those who are turned on by being, or by
> others prominently displaying, copious and obvious pretentiousness, but who
> are perhaps turned off by actual talent and all the mundanities of
> following through to make any actual success meaningful… Adrian
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> The whole concept reminds me of something that took place here some time
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> We had a poster some time ago who had some mental issues going on
> apparently, so I was reluctant to take him off moderation.  He only posted
> a few times; I don’t even recall his name.  This all took place about the
> time Second Life was getting big headlines on SlashDot and the geek sites.
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> This poster was really an upfront guy (if he was male (I will assume
> it.))  He explained that he was just not turned on by real life women, but
> rather only those proportioned in such a way that it really didn’t exist in
> the real world.  His solution: Second Life.  He learned how to do computer
> graphics well enough that he created an avatar in Second Life, and used it
> in another sim, proportioned to his liking.  He posted me offlist and
> invited me to come over for a look.  When I saw what he had constructed, I
> had to agree, wwwwooooo Jaysus, ja you are unlikely to find that in the
> real world.  I have never seen it, and I don’t expect to in the future, at
> least not outside a computer sim.
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> In the excellent movie The Truman Show, you may recall how the actress
> playing his high school girlfriend and Truman fell in love, so Cristof
> whisked her away to Fiji and substituted Laura Linney (this is a bad
> thing?  (I would trade a dozen Natascha McElhones for one Laura Linney (but
> Truman and Natasha loved each other, so…)))  Truman has no photo of
> Natascha, so he is always buying women’s magazines and trying to piece
> together a woman from photos that would remind him of her.  Eventually he
> creates a composite that is close.  Wasn’t that a great scene?  He is off
> to Fiji.
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> That guy who was posting to ExI reminded me in a way of Truman’s
> struggle.  He knew what he saw wasn’t what he wanted, but he realized he
> had to create what he was looking for, and live in that fantasy world, a
> sim.
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