This really does - I don't mean it in a disparaging way - read like a mid-life crisis writing. Having to come to terms with the fact that the "old world" is not the current world anymore, which is too bad, because you like the old one, and you don't quite fit in the new one either.

This feeling has existed across generations and most of us have to go through it eventually.

The world, however, is not any less real than it has always been and is not collapsing.

> mid-life crisis writing

Might also be that but his takes have also been…unique

That’s also why I think the blog is liked. Sometimes the takes a bad. Sometimes they are novel and good

>> it’s not like there’s anywhere to go. The real world is strip malls and axe throwing and escape rooms.

The author really needs a change of scenery. 'Strip malls and axe throwing' sounds like a minor update to the 'strip malls and TGIFs' of the `90's.

> This really does - I don't mean it in a disparaging way - read like a mid-life crisis writing.

OP is living in a world of hyperreality of his own making. dude has always been doing software and never been able to break out of that.

it's not like he's been bartending though college and then slide into CS/dev work and is struggling with how startups are it's own weird universe. it's all hes ever known and is now convinced that the hinge dates and axe throwing are the weird, not-real thing.

homie has been in his weird autism-tech-bubble and never had a reason to get out of it

It's more aligned with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality, than that I think.