Topic: Thread for people who don't belong here (Read 34747 times)

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #100 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 04:28 »

I wouldn't worry about icing the tart if I were you. Just eat the tart.

Then eat the icing.

Problem solved.

Also, re-reading my last post it occurs to me I shouldn't say Y'know so much. Y'know?

Lunchbox · « **Reply #101 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 05:19 »

Guys, i started reading the comic again semi-regularly. It is not bad really!

Hey Mark.
Sup.

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #102 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 05:36 »

Hey there Lunchbox.

Not much. Chillin', havin a Bud. You?

D'you watch House? Season Premiere was good.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #103 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 05:45 »

Havin' a cup of tea. Bbritish heritage, you know.
I probably should watch house, I remember liking it when it started. I have a Tv but I always forget to turn it on because i am busy on the internet! Crazy!

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #104 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 06:05 »

I know what you mean. I think I've seen, maybe, three episodes of House on TV. I don't want to wait months for it to come out over here so I download them all. Being a Brit has its down sides.

Caleb · « **Reply #105 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 07:38 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 27 Sep 2009, 20:55

If nothing else this thread has assured me that I am not the only one who has 6 boxes of cereal on their refrigerator.

...I thought I was the only one.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #106 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 07:43 »

Yeah you and the rest of America

Caleb · « **Reply #107 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 08:06 »

Shit dude I guess I am not the breakfast food outcast I thought I was.

I think we have all learned something today...

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #108 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 08:43 »

Quote from: MarkTBSc on 28 Sep 2009, 05:36

D'you watch House? Season Premiere was good.

It was interesting, but I'm waiting to see if they actually change the show. House is usually good about not doing things for ratings, but changing the main character in a sort of major way is very risky.

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #109 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 10:34 »

I'm hoping he'll still be a jerk, but in a much more compassionate 'Call you an idiot and then give you a hug' kinda way. I have a lot of confidence in Hugh Laurie's ability to pull it off in a believable fashion. And House has always been good with small children. Maybe that side will come out more.

Now, am I hoping here or just wishing?

jhocking · « **Reply #110 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 12:38 »

Quote from: Tyler on 28 Sep 2009, 00:10

I would say some of my favorite posters on this forum hardly qualify under any manner of indie title, such as Paul or Mr. Hocking.

I might be indie if I listened to music. I think I heard some songs by the Killers and liked them, are they indie?

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #111 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 12:44 »

I don't know. Whenever I try to fit in with people I think are Indie I put Otis Taylor or Mark Ronson on.

I don't think they're particularly Indie but I'm trying to strike a balance between neither of us wanting to take a crowbar to the other's music collection.

jhocking · « **Reply #112 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 12:46 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 28 Sep 2009, 05:45

I have a Tv but I always forget to turn it on because i am busy on the internet! Crazy!

the internet IS the best tv

calenlass · « **Reply #113 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 12:55 »

I am pretty sure I might be a hipster.

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #114 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:01 »

Well the hat certainly supports your hypothesis...

On the other hand you might be a hacker. Do you have an inexplicable urge to set information free on the interblag?

snalin · « **Reply #115 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:12 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 27 Sep 2009, 19:20

man if I'm not mistaken Jeph hasn't even talked about music in the comic for ages. The closest he's gotten is the newsposts or the character's t-shirts.

He wrote somewhere that he was listening more to metal than to indie these days. Hint: the only interesting part of the comics forum is Jeph's posts in the ask Jeph thread.

Quote from: jhocking on 28 Sep 2009, 12:46

Quote from: Lunchbox on 28 Sep 2009, 05:45
I have a Tv but I always forget to turn it on because i am busy on the internet! Crazy!

the internet IS the best tv

Hulu can go suck it's own American-only ass

I don't think I belong to the crowd, really, but I've kinda just stopped trying. People have a thread about what they wear, and the people in the music forums says that In Flames first albums were better than the last ones (can you imagine?), so I stick to the places where there's interesting stuff going on.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #116 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:12 »

Wait, does this board have a generally agreed upon definition of hipster? Cause i'd actually be pretty interested in knowin'

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #117 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:13 »

Quote from: Drill King on 27 Sep 2009, 12:49

FIGHT THE OPPRESSION. FUCK.

calenlass · « **Reply #118 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:20 »

Man, I meant hipster as the stereotype I have come to know. It is more or less Tommy.

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #119 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:47 »

Hipsters are like porn. I know 'em when I see 'em.

jhocking · « **Reply #120 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 13:53 »

Quote from: snalin on 28 Sep 2009, 13:12

Hulu can go suck it's own American-only ass

oh yeah I forgot about that, that is pretty lame

Since the only two shows I watch regularly are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report and both are on Hulu, I have no desire to pay the cable company an exorbitant fee on top of what I already pay for internet access.

scarred · « **Reply #121 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 14:14 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 28 Sep 2009, 13:12

Wait, does this board have a generally agreed upon definition of hipster? Cause i'd actually be pretty interested in knowin'

Seconded

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #122 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 16:24 »

Quote from: snalin on 28 Sep 2009, 13:12

Hulu can go suck it's own...ass

How does one suck an ass?

KvP · « **Reply #123 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 16:33 »

You know it's weird because I feel like I've always had a reason for being here except for those times when everybody's talking about webcomics. I don't like webcomics and never have. I have yet to run across a webcomic I think is good. It's like for all of 5 minutes I realize that I'm living amongst the lizard people. And then as abruptly as it started things are back to normal.

0bsessions · « **Reply #124 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 16:55 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 28 Sep 2009, 16:24

How does one suck an ass?

Same way you suck anything else: apply mouth, suck, repeat.

Lines · « **Reply #125 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 17:26 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 27 Sep 2009, 20:57

Because post counts are the new dick.

Suck the next seven posts you see?

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #126 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 17:29 »

Linds are you sure sig is feminine?

Lines · « **Reply #127 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 17:38 »

I don't speak French, but I say it's feminine because I'm a lady.

Slick · « **Reply #128 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 17:46 »

I personally think we are well and past postcount padding at this point. No one cares about postcounts that much anymore?

also, thread, whatever.
Dude who started thread I did not hate you now you are a bit annoying? You said you wanted to be part of this place but really what does that mean?
I guess the question to ask is: do you find/make friends other places by starting conversation by proclaiming a manifesto of who you are why you feel ostracized and who you want to be friends with?

Ferc Eater · « **Reply #129 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 18:04 »

Indie is short for independent. Not being like everyone else, you are independent. Would this make you indie on these boards?

Lunchbox · « **Reply #130 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 19:20 »

Quote from: jhocking on 28 Sep 2009, 12:46

Quote from: Lunchbox on 28 Sep 2009, 05:45
I have a Tv but I always forget to turn it on because i am busy on the internet! Crazy!

the internet IS the best tv

Dang dude I don't even have broadband.

KvP · « **Reply #131 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 19:39 »

Plus Ozns are not civilized enough to watch Hulu.

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #132 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 00:48 »

Well, not to be a padded postcount Slick, but all I was really trying to do was find the people on the boards who maybe felt the same way I did. I was going for support-group rather than ostracized and persecuted minority. I mean, even an epidemic of friendship needs a small cluster of initial cases.

Think of it like Go.

est · « **Reply #133 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 03:32 »

I don't know about everyone else, but when I don't like something I stop doing that thing. (Except for y'know, work, but they pay me money, so it's a trade-off.) I'm not so much making a suggestion here as wondering why you'd want to hang around when there are probably plenty of other forums with communities of people you would be more interested in talking to. This isn't just you I am talking about, either. I've seen a few people saying similar things and I always wonder what is keeping them here bitching about cliques and indie hipsters and so forth. There are plenty of forum-fish in the internet-sea. You don't have to force your square peg into this round hole (and I mean, if you insist on doing so at least use some lube)

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #134 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 04:10 »

It's not that I don't like it here. I just wanted to find some of the people here who had a lot in common with me, figuring that they'd be easier to talk to than the people (who seemed to make up the majority of the board population) whom I have little in common with.

est · « **Reply #135 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 04:26 »

That is cool. Generally the way you do that though is by starting threads about things you like and seeing if other people talk about it. Forums are a game you kind of just play by ear. You don't really have to metagame them.

I think that at least one good thing came out of this thread though, and that is the physics/science thread.

Hat · « **Reply #136 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 04:30 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 27 Sep 2009, 20:54

Okay, I think some of you are being a little too soft on this thread.

This thread screams "I want to be popular without having to actually work my way up a social ladder."

Seriously, if you can completely miss what is going on these forums as hard as this thread did, there's probably a very good reason you're not amongst the "in" crowd, such as there is one.

I will be the first to admit: yes, this forum is very clique-y. Nobody should bother denying it. There are many among us who get VERY defensive and start making in-jokes when occasional new folks who don't meet their criteria of strong boarding step even a toe out of line. I will readily admit I've been guilty of this more than my fair share.

That said, I think the guy completely missed the actual cliques. Yes, there are a fuck ton of us who speak routinely off the forum, have big rocking parties with each other and sleep on each others' couches. That doesn't happen because we like the right music or because we wear some certain style. Anyone who knows me on here knows that I'd have left here right quick if that were the case.

I wear T-Shirts and jeans, primarily. I loved Metallica's last album. I'm terrible at guitar, hate just about any film without major studio backing, play WoW and follow baseball religiously. That said, just about everyone on the forum who posts routinely knows who I am, be that for better or worse.

That's because this isn't High School. People aren't going to toss you out on your ear because you're not the model of their opinions. You know how I, as a person who doesn't share interests with a good chunk of the forum, got to be known on here? By actually talking to people and getting to know them rather than charging in and taking an "I don't need you" attitude.

That and I tend to yell a lot and just like being belligerent for the sake of it. People who do that go far in life.

OP I hope after reading this post you understand that all you have to do to fit in here is care way too much about an internet community for normal people to be comfortable with.

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #137 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 05:07 »

I yell too much and I like being belligerant for the sake of it also.

This thread is why I like it here, not the starting of it, but the calm reasonable way everyone has posted after that. It's nice.

I like heavy as hell music (The only forumite I know personally I met at an Unsane show.) I mostly listen to soundtracks from the 80's & Stevie wonder records at the moment. I like Toto & Journey & Styx with no irony.

I do like comics & webcomics & marmite.

I also liked that there was a knitting thread, although as I don't knit socks or hats I tend not to go in there much (Also american knitting has different words. Confuses me.)

I find that the Geeky/Nerdy stuff is less fanboy, the music stuff less obnoxious and the silly stuff funnier. I like it here. I like the level headedness. I have no idea how much I have in common with more than maybe one person?

I can think of way worses places for being left out if you don't agree with certain members, that's why I don't post there anymore. I post here.

(I also think I may be a hipster, just not an indie one, I may need to seek help...)

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #138 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 05:37 »

est, I have a tin ear and am terrible at judging stuff. I guess the creation of this thread proves that. Still, kinda cool to have something I did referred to as meta-gaming. Thanks!

Hat! Unfortunately I don't do obsession. I kinda do passionate but that's about it. Closest I ever came was Buffy... Although, come to think of it, I came out of that wit my best friends so... Ummm... Ok!

Eliza... What are you for, BTW? Are you an attempt at passing a Turing test? I like the way people are being polite. I may have committed a board faux-pas and been a trifle elitist seeming but people really have been nice about it.

I am now going to listen to some MC Hawking and YT Cracker, because Nerdcore is awesome. As are you guys.

Lines · « **Reply #139 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 05:40 »

See, I like nerdcore, so there's something to have in common!

est · « **Reply #140 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 05:58 »

I am not so fond of nerdcore (nerd rap, right?) but I do like 8-bit type stuff like Anamanaguchi.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #141 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 05:59 »

I don't understand why people get so uppity about 'things they have in common.' Why can't people just hang out and be cool without having to put things in neat boxes?

Lines · « **Reply #142 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 06:03 »

Yeah, I like more of the 8-bit stuff like Anamanaguchi and Bit Shifter, but I like MC Chris, who is nerdcore but not really rap.

est · « **Reply #143 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 06:12 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 29 Sep 2009, 05:59

Why can't people just hang out and be cool without having to put things in neat boxes?

This is basically just paraphrasing what girls told me all through highschool :c

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #144 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 06:16 »

Sometimes when you're going off on one about your conception of the ghetto in The Wire constituting a pre-modern space and how that relates to Zygmunt Bauman or you're half delirious because Martin Sorrondeguy just name-checked Gary Floyd on stage it's nice to be around people who don't give you a blank look.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #145 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 06:22 »

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #146 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 06:59 »

Quote from: elizaknowswhatshesfor on 29 Sep 2009, 05:07

I like it here. I like the level headedness.

This might be the only place I've ever seen on the internet where people have admitted they might have been wrong. I was confused the first time I saw it.

MarkTBSc · « **Reply #147 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 07:15 »

That Anamanaguchi's pretty good. Not sure I'd want to listen to it every day but it reminds me of my misspent ZX Spectrum youth.

I think people still freak out and get... Confrontational on here, I just think most of the time they realise that if they do, most of the other people will take a dim view of it. Social disapproval is a powerful motivator.

jhocking · « **Reply #148 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 07:29 »

Quote from: Hat on 29 Sep 2009, 04:30

all you have to do to fit in here is care way too much about an internet community for normal people to be comfortable with

I may have a new sig-quote. I rather like my existing one though. decisions

supersheep · « **Reply #149 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 07:39 »

normal people aren't generally comfortable with the idea of having people you know on the internet that you do not know in real life

so i guess if you actually post on here you fit the bill for that one

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