Topic: miscellaneous musings (Read 552685 times)

Welu · « **Reply #1900 on:** 18 Aug 2015, 08:24 »

I remember when most pamphlets and people that came through my door were about god's love and wanting to welcome you into the fold. In the last couple years there seems to be a real surge in the fear-mongering god.

The one I got yesterday was all about how you're born a sinner, there's nothing you can do about it, and sinners deserve death. "Deserve" was the word used. So you better join our sect just incase for the tiny chance to not burn in hell, somehow. Based on the text it was aimed at people who were already some form of Christian and went to church too.

explicit · « **Reply #1901 on:** 18 Aug 2015, 14:25 »

We had Jehovah's Witnesses come by once. I was playing basketball and they took a few shots with me. I didn't want to discuss religion with them, but they were nice about the whole thing... Grandma was not nice about it...

Grognard · « **Reply #1902 on:** 18 Aug 2015, 18:59 »

seen on a sign somewhere...

"JWs shot on sight. Mormons get a 5 step lead. Salesmen, beware the minefield."

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1903 on:** 18 Aug 2015, 19:45 »

What We Do In The Shadows is a good movie to watch if you know a bunch of classic vampire lore and maybe are also drinking. That's awkward phrasing, but I had to do it because it would be pretty fucked up if I advised you all to read Dracula, then get drunk and watch what we do in the shadows.

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #1904 on:** 18 Aug 2015, 19:48 »

Watch it sober, watch it drunk, it's a fucking brilliant film either way. More of that unique, FOTC style of humour

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1905 on:** 18 Aug 2015, 20:14 »

Quote from: Detachable Felix on 18 Aug 2015, 19:48

More of that unique, FOTC style of humour

Why I rented it in the first place. God, Jermaine Clements and Taika Waititi are comedic geniuses. As of now, I've watched it sober AND drunk. This was the more fun time, hence my recommendation, and also because I got to tell you lot to stop drinking and watching what I do in the shadows. It's creeping me the eff out, yo.

Welu · « **Reply #1906 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 15:06 »

There's possibly a sequel happening. I frickin' loved What We Do In The Shadows, partly because I saw it in a dingy little cinema in San Jose and it was the perfect atmosphere for it.

osaka · « **Reply #1907 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 15:36 »

This is weird. I made a comment on a youtube video of Borderlands 2 stating my theory about the events of Borderlands and I'm not getting constant notifications of people saying that my theory is stupid and I'm stupid. Did youtube break? Did it become a decent place?

Like, it goes against official canon and all (although it is in an attempt to make everything clearer, at least to me)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1908 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 16:15 »

Official canon as in what's in the game itself or what the creators said? Because if it's the latter, who cares?

Welu · « **Reply #1909 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 16:20 »

Why do you put so little stock in Word Of God?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1910 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 16:45 »

Why should I put any?

Welu · « **Reply #1911 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 16:57 »

Because the creators created the creation? There's plenty of times something can't be put directly into the product, whether it was cancelled, there wasn't time to include it or it was censored.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1912 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 16:59 »

I'm not blaming them for not including it, I'm sure they had their reasons, but that's the price of not including it. It doesn't really count.

Welu · « **Reply #1913 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 17:03 »

I strongly disagree but that comes from a place of being a content creator.

osaka · « **Reply #1914 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 17:13 »

Word of God. Which moves in opposite direction to what the game establishes in the particular matter I mention.

Honestly, I wouldn't go against Word of God if it didn't clear up the story of all three games to me.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1915 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 17:14 »

Quote from: Welu on 19 Aug 2015, 17:03

I strongly disagree but that comes from a place of being a content creator.

I'm not saying the content creator is usually wrong. They're usually not...probably. But they're not inherently right just because they made it.

94ssd · « **Reply #1916 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 20:18 »

Lately there's always exactly one bug (visible, at least) in my bathroom. The other day there was a spider, which I was sure to spray to death and not squish in case it was carrying eggs. Yesterday, there was a fucking millipede crawling around in my sink which scared the crap out of me when I saw it. And this evening there was a house fly, I was able to coax it out the front door.

I need to find out how they're getting in, the landlord recently installed a new vent fan in the bathroom which may be a suspect.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1917 on:** 19 Aug 2015, 20:44 »

Quote from: 94ssd on 19 Aug 2015, 20:18

Lately there's always exactly one bug (visible, at least) in my bathroom. The other day there was a spider, which I was sure to spray to death and not squish in case it was carrying eggs. Yesterday, there was a fucking millipede crawling around in my sink which scared the crap out of me when I saw it. And this evening there was a house fly, I was able to coax it out the front door.

I need to find out how they're getting in, the landlord recently installed a new vent fan in the bathroom which may be a suspect.

Definitely suspect. How certain are you your landlord isn't in cahoots with the king of the creepy crawlies? How convinced are you that your landlord isn't, himself, the king of the creepy crawlies? You can't be sure, the goblin king looked remarkably like David Bowie

explicit · « **Reply #1918 on:** 24 Aug 2015, 07:17 »

You ever start telling a story or a fact that you know and then realize halfway through that you just dreamed that?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1919 on:** 24 Aug 2015, 18:57 »

Or saw it on an episode of The Simpsons?

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #1920 on:** 24 Aug 2015, 19:04 »

It's a perfectly cromulent thing to do

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #1921 on:** 25 Aug 2015, 21:17 »

Why did Achilles wear a helmet?

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #1922 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 00:29 »

To get to the other side.

Akima · « **Reply #1923 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 02:21 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Aug 2015, 21:17

Why did Achilles wear a helmet?

Why did he wear any armour other than a pair of really strong boots?

LTK · « **Reply #1924 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 02:26 »

Did he? I seem to recall some Greek heroes being pictured as going into battle naked. Or am I confusing that with the Olympics?

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1925 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 05:15 »

Quote from: LTK on 26 Aug 2015, 02:26

Did he? I seem to recall some Greek heroes being pictured as going into battle naked. Or am I confusing that with the Olympics?

I'm sorry, but that just sounds like a terrible idea. Too many exposed, dangly bits.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1926 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 05:23 »

No dangly bits in this picture. I'm sure they styled it just like it was in real life.

explicit · « **Reply #1927 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 07:59 »

There were a lot of people who fought naked back then. Something about naked guys charging at you is frightening.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1928 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 08:11 »

Just because he can't be damaged might not mean he can't feel pain. If that's the case, armor and a helmet makes sense.

Kugai · « **Reply #1929 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 17:12 »

Well, Boagrius made the mistake of not wearing Armour

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1930 on:** 26 Aug 2015, 19:37 »

Quote from: explicit on 26 Aug 2015, 07:59

There were a lot of people who fought naked back then. Something about naked guys charging at you is frightening.

For me personally, MANY things about a naked guy charging at me is frightening.

94ssd · « **Reply #1931 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 05:58 »

So my new laptop comes in today. Which means I get to play the fun game of waiting around to sign for the package.

I actually had to get one of my shifts today in order to wait. I can't really complain though because the alternative is for it to be left outside the door of my downtown apartment, a door that probably hundreds of people walk perpendicular to every day. And I could've gotten a computer at the store but the whole reason I ordered online was to buy refurbished, and if I consider the lost wages as part of the cost of the laptop, I'm still saving a lot of money

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1932 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 14:11 »

It's weird as fuck being proud of something you can't actually show anyone you personally know.

I just checked the deviantart page where I post my (potentially, if you're aware of the fetish, but otherwise mostly clean) NSFW stories, and I've officially hit 150,000 page views. I've got individual stories with more than 38,000 views only counting one of the three places I posted it. I've been in contact with a sorta-kinda-semi-professional model in that world who knew/appreciated my stuff.

I have reason to be proud, dammit, but I still would be weirded the eff out if anyone I knew personally made the link between that username and me.

94ssd · « **Reply #1933 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 17:58 »

So I got my new laptop. There's a lot more space between keys so that'll take time to learn. I'll also have to import the backup from my old laptop and do the windows 10 update. The update will have to wait for another day because the background download was really slowing everything down, and I have schoolwork to do and a bunch of other stuff I want to get installed on here. But I have a number pad now, which will make playing Sid Meier's Pirates easier if nothing else.

It also needs a name. My old laptop was named Theon

(click to show/hide)

so maybe another Game of Thrones name.

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #1934 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 19:57 »

Cover it in onions and name it Davos

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1935 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 20:31 »

Change the casing every other week and call it Jaqen H'ghar

Metope · « **Reply #1936 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 22:06 »

Connect it to another device of the same brand once in a while and call it Jaime or Cercei

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1937 on:** 28 Aug 2015, 22:19 »

download a buttload of eBooks and call it Samwell Tarley. This only works for larger laptops.

94ssd · « **Reply #1938 on:** 30 Aug 2015, 08:42 »

Quote from: Metope on 28 Aug 2015, 22:06

Connect it to another device of the same brand once in a while and call it Jaime or Cercei

Connect it only to other PCs and call it Renly or Loras?

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1939 on:** 30 Aug 2015, 13:02 »

Quote from: 94ssd on 30 Aug 2015, 08:42

Quote from: Metope on 28 Aug 2015, 22:06
Connect it to another device of the same brand once in a while and call it Jaime or Cercei

Connect it only to other PCs and call it Renly or Loras?

I feel you'd have to get even more specific than that, like, only HP or whatever brand laptops

Kugai · « **Reply #1940 on:** 31 Aug 2015, 15:09 »

HP?

Call it Voldimort and be done with it

explicit · « **Reply #1941 on:** 31 Aug 2015, 19:32 »

My gf and I finally put that we were dating on facebook. I think it's interesting that out of the 40 people who've liked that status none of them are my friends. I feel like there's a lesson there.

94ssd · « **Reply #1942 on:** 31 Aug 2015, 19:48 »

Quote from: Kugai on 31 Aug 2015, 15:09

HP?

Call it Voldimort and be done with it

It is an HP. And the case is flat black, like no reflectivity at all...

SIRIUS!

LTK · « **Reply #1943 on:** 01 Sep 2015, 00:26 »

Whenever my dad opens a fresh jar of peanut butter he sticks a knife in there like he's trying to murder it.

94ssd · « **Reply #1944 on:** 01 Sep 2015, 05:10 »

Adult (v.) - when a college student actually takes care of responsibilities that give normally them cognitive dissonance attacks just thinking about them.

Ex. "I was adulting all day today. I paid my rent and filed my taxes."

"I was filling out forms at the bank all morning, adulting is hard."

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #1945 on:** 01 Sep 2015, 05:18 »

I use that phrase all the time.Adulting is hard. Also not to be confused with Adultery. (Yes my phone has autocorrected the former to the latter before

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BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1946 on:** 01 Sep 2015, 05:25 »

Quote from: explicit on 31 Aug 2015, 19:32

My gf and I finally put that we were dating on facebook. I think it's interesting that out of the 40 people who've liked that status none of them are my friends. I feel like there's a lesson there.

"Like!"

explicit · « **Reply #1947 on:** 02 Sep 2015, 19:32 »

Saw a girl who posted, "what if he's your Romeo, but you're not his Juliet?" and I really wanted to comment, "then you both get to fucking live next week, that's what".

Method of Madness · « **Reply #1948 on:** 02 Sep 2015, 19:35 »

I would've.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #1949 on:** 02 Sep 2015, 21:07 »

I just saw Romeo and Juliet on stage, local non-profit theatre. Not terrible. Saw Romeo before he went on stage, assumed he was just a cosplayer who was really into Shakespeare. Then I thought he was the best kind of cosplayer, the kind that stays in character the whole time.

They happened to have an open bar at this show.

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