I really try not to buy everything on amazon and support the remaining department stores we have, but shit is rarely in stock these days when I do try to look in person. It’s a bummer. *sighs in defeat and goes to amazon*
Today’s issue was replacing my kcup coffee maker. I’m done with the keurig brand cuz they break on me and I hate contributing to landfills. But they seem to have a chokehold on most in-person stores.
And I know it’s ironic that I’m talking about landfills while using kcups. I’m human, okay. I try my best.
Kcup coffee maker. Let’s look this up.
Oh, it’s one of those single serving coffee making machines where you put a little plastic cup of coffee into the machine and it will make you a cup of coffee. I saw one of these at a job that I had. We’d get a token every day to use at the machine. It was fine, I guess. I’d get a hot chocolate.
But we’re talking about home use. Is it wasteful? I mean, I guess there are less wasteful ways to brew coffee. I think that I’ve like two sips of coffee in my life and it was disgusting so I’m not an authority on coffee. But I believe that the traditional method is to brew a pot of coffee using a filter, which is probably biodegradeable, as opposed to these individual cups.
I can understand not wanting to brew an entire pot of coffee but can’t you just brew less? You go through more filters, I guess. Although, I believe you can reuse the filters, with diminishing results each time.
In my research, I’m not entirely sure that you can brew just one cup with a regular coffee machine. And there are some many “cute” references about how these people are addicted to coffee. What a way to live. And people just make jokes about it. “Oh, I’m completely hooked on this disgusting beverage.” People don’t talk about their alcohol or drug addictions this openly but caffeine is fair game.
And Erin is ruining her teeth with this shit, and possibly her zombie gums. Does coffee have an effect on gums, zombie or otherwise? Let’s look this up.
Coffee is quite acidic. The acid in coffee can weaken the enamel on your teeth, making them more susceptible to decay and cavities. If you develop cavities, it can lead to gum disease if not treated. Additionally, drinking acidic drinks like coffee can irritate your gums, especially if you already have gum problems.
Well, there you go. Who has worse gum problems than old “Zombie Gum” Erin? So yet another reason to stop drinking coffee.
But this wasn’t an isolated landfill reference. She also gave this bizarre, apocolyptic tweet about Minecraft toys a few months ago.
This image evokes many emotions. This toy was designed by someone. Then it was manufactured and packaged. Now it’s on a shelf. Then it will be on clearance. Then it will be in a discount store. And then a landfill along with the funko pops. The end of the planet is near.
What’s her beef with Minecraft? Is that toy any worse than the other billions of plastic toys out there?
And this is somebody who has thousands of unwanted old plastic video games just lying around collecting dust. And she made Mike buy her all of those He-Man figures for that week when she was all about He-Man and wanted to do a video about her short-lived passion. And she constantly talks about stupid “cute” toys that she allegedly wants.
So Mike, in a peculiar pre-emptive defence of his sugarbaby, says, “I will await the “why do you have to be negative” smooth brains to appear.”
Talk about the actual issue, Mike. Not ad-hominen attacks on her mentally challenged fanbase, who you know are mentally challenged but still use derogatory comments like “smooth brains” in reference to them.
Why the sudden obsession with THIS PARTICULAR toy? It doesn’t make any fucking sense. It’s stupid. Who cares? There are a billion stupid plastic toys out there. Dollar Tree or whatever is full of complete shit that’s going to be played with once, broken, and then thrown out. At least this Minecraft toy appears to be reasonably well-made and has some kind of collectibility value. Better that it ends up on somebody’s shelf than in a landfill. I guess.
What is Erin even proposing? A return to wooden toys? So start cranking them out. Learn a trade. Open an Etsy shop like JOHN RIGGS.
Speaking of which, I was looking at his shop recently. He advertised it in a video where he begged people to subscribe to his channel and said that views were down. Well, maybe if you’d stop doing these cookie cutter “What (NES/Sega/Arcade/whatever) games were YOU playing in (whatever year)?” videos you’d get better results. Do the fucking nerd convention videos but SHOW WHAT YOU EAT. I found those at least entertaining. You’d see the fucking portion sizes that this guy would get. He’d order two meals and shit. But then he stopped showing the food and just showed the fucking games that people were selling. Who cares?
Anyway, JOHN RIGGS is selling all kinds of shit on his Etsy shop like it’s a Turkish bazaar. INCLUDING shitty plastic toys. Watch out, JOHN RIGGS. Erin and her new obsession with landfills is coming for you.
He sells what he describes as “action figures” but there’s no “action” to speak of. With a flagrant disregard for copyright protection, he makes pixel by pixel recreations of various Atari characters like Pitfall Harry or Donkey Kong from the Atari 2600 port. No articulation, of course, these are just solid, immovable figures. Statues. And he puts these figures onto a cardboard backing that’s full of copyrighted images of the game and whatever and it has a plastic bubble thing protecting the figure.
The figures are complete shit and he’s selling them for fifty bucks but I’m intrigued with how he did it. I assume that the figures are 3-d printed. But how did he get the packaging done? Does he have a deal with some sweatshop in China? Or is it some local printing company making these things? For fifty bucks each, I assume that he could afford to have this done locally.
He’s also selling his bizarre air fresheners. No idea why anybody would want those. He must have just had some agreement with a sweatshop that happened to sell air fresheners.
These non-action figures at least make a little more sense. And it’s unlikely that Atari is going to sue. Erin is surely outraged, though.
But why? Focus on the fucking companies churning this shit out, not the consumers. Smoke and dangerous chemicals are pouring out of these factories, destroying the atmosphere, poisoning rivers, killing the workers, but Erin wants us to stop buying anything that has plastic and paw through our garbage to recycle. Go fuck yourself. If you’re that passionate about it, go after the source. Write your fucking congressman. See how far that goes.
She makes videos where she’s surrounded by worthless plastic but she has the nerve to make comments like this. Make some biodegradeable toys. Why not? Mike is artistic. Fucking do something.
I suppose that wooden toys have their own ethical concerns. What about those Amish corn husk dolls?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_husk_doll
Oh, it’s an American Indian thing. “It’s always about the Indians with you.”
So what was I thinking of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_doll
Just ragdolls without faces. I knew they didn’t have faces. Same as the corn husk dolls.
Anyway, this would be good for Erin. She’d get in touch with her local Amish community. It would be an ethical, sustainable business. It would be a creative outlet. And she’d have a fucking job. Of sorts.
But maybe she’d be successful at this. She could make Sailor Moon Amish dolls, Britney Spears Amish dolls, and whatever third interest she might have. And the colours…oh my god, the colours. Full spectrum of the rainbow is available.
Yeah, she’d have to learn to sew and whatnot but what else is she doing with her life? She has nothing but time. Learn a trade. It would be fun and rewarding.
And she has a built-in market. The horntards would eat that shit up. Make the dolls out of your old underpants. Shishi and Joe from Game Sack would get into a bidding war for them.
Or what about sock monkeys? We know how popular the Power Pad video was. Make some sock monkeys out of your old socks. It would be “cute.” All of this would be “cute”. I should have mentioned that as my first thing to try to entice Erin to do this. Forget all of that bullshit about giving your life some meaning and saving the planet. It would be “cute.”
Mike is there to assist. He can help with the creative and artistic aspects.
Wait a minute. A zombie doll. An Amish zombie doll with no face other than fucked up gums. And sew a cute little rag coffee mug into its hand. Sell it as art. That’s what it is. Rural Pennsylvania folk art from the mentally challenged.
Erin could do an artistic collaboration with PushingUpRoses. She’s doing ceramics, last I checked. Put the doll inside a shitty little coffee mug made by PushingUpRoses.
Erin could do something with JOHN RIGGS as well. He obviously knows about the production side of things. Packaging and whatnot. Marketing. Distribution.
These are the sorts of things that Zombie Gums would do if she was GENUINELY interested in waste and plastics and whatnot. But she isn’t. She’s just a lazy moron who had nothing to say one day, so spewed that bullshit about landfills on Twitter.
So yeah, I am a coffee junkie. I drink at least 1 liter of coffee a day. And no, I don’t need to apologize for it. I do have all sorts of coffee-making gadgets. There’s the regular coffee pot with a filter (mine has a washable filter, by the way, so no waste there), and I also own one of those Nespresso machines, Dolce Gusto machines, and one from the Krups brand too. They are quite similar in terms of the end result. I’ve also got a Pour-over, Italian Moka Pot, French press… if it produces coffee, I own it.
Why so many machines, and how different is the coffee produced by them? I’d say that the end result is quite similar. I have them all, well, just because. They are really pollutant, though, as the capsules take a lot of energy to be produced, and the combination of the used materials renders them non-recyclable. So yes, it’s wasteful. So what? I read somewhere that one air trip across the world is the equivalent of many years of one person’s waste. So yeah, changes can be made, but I’d start somewhere else.
By the way, it’d be nice to get reviews from the John RIGGS videos. I bet the views really diminished now that he is not featured on the blog.
Yeah, that’s true. How much worse are Erin’s twice-monthly flights across the US to visit her parents? She’s done more damage to the environment than probably 99.99% percent of people on earth today. Maybe that’s what this is about. She’s trying to soothe her own anxiety over this by trying to pass the blame onto others.
There’s nothing that John Riggs does that’s worth talking about. I’d write about his stuff in the past when I was desperate and writing every day and totally ran out of material. But I watch his videos once in a great while when they show up and it’s always the same formulaic bullshit. He makes like three or four videos a week, which is a big part of the problem. Just do one a week but make it semi-interesting.
I suppose that Joe from Game Sack tries that schedule and his videos are just as formulaic. So frequency alone won’t determine quality. You have to put some actual work in.