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I think I need to stop posting in his chat altogether. The stream is more pure without my shitty stupid comments
To be a chatter, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in emotes and jokes and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a viewer, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
