I've grown up with computers since before my teen years even, I got my first Internet account in 1993, I've watched decades of corporate rot and political corruption of U.S. high-tech culture, and I must say: there's a white-hot core of rage inside me over how computing and geek culture got taken over by all the fuckin' NARCS. Tech and programming got coopted by all the snottiest, fashiest, bootlickiest dweebs, ice-cold neo-fascist minions like John Carmack and Roko Mijic, people who see no higher purpose for technology than serving the whims of the police state and figuring out new ways to slaughter people at a safe distance. I remember in the 1990s when you started to see crap like the NSA openly headhunting for ambitious programmers, and the U.S. Army trying to make war seem like slaying a dragon in a videogame, and gawd I remember laughing and my friends laughing but the joke was on us! Geeks responded to that shite. The money was too good, the power too intoxicating, and heaven help us all, there really and truly exist geeks who can make themselves feel like slaughtering [insert slurs here] with some drones is heroically equivalent to being a Knight of the Round Table.

~Chara of Pnictogen