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I appreciate the detail in the photo of leaving in the subject's weird fetish crap.

Always nice to see a long, overwritten and meandering article about some weird guy with a fetish doing some sort of thing no one cares about.

I think doing this kind of article would have made sense back when uh, Hunter S. Thompson was in his 30s or so, and there was no internet, etc.

Now I don't see the point. This is a very long piece about something that isn't worth reading about. Anyone who spends the time reading it will have a lesser existence as a result.

"Disgusting", says the man calling himself a bear. "You'd never catch me mentioning my fetishes in public."
> “Well.” He takes a deep patient breath and looks around. “Y’know, uh, you’re an intelligent guy, and you’re hardworking, and yet, y’know, you didn’t have enough time to get through A Table for Fortune.”
> Our elbows graze and his windbreaker says “vwip,” “vwop,” the walk feeling almost like a jog until finally he slows, we’re getting ready to jaywalk

The little onomatopoeia feels quite forced and out of place here -- totally the wrong note. FWIW, AI really likes writing that kind of thing, and I wonder to what degree that's influencing actual writers.