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Literate Chaotic / Re: Things that RAW was wrong about
« on: June 13, 2013, 08:07:06 pm »
Actually, what he did was
1. Popularize the work of others in a fairly effective way (The Cosmic Trigger, etc), and
2. Write fiction that starts out great, then turns into absolute garbage and gibberish at the end, making you feel you'd wasted great chunks of your irreplaceable time on this Earth.
Makes me glad that I read Illuminatus! on a road trip, with my head all full of the funk of jet lag and motel breakfasts. It all seemed to fit in nicely in that context, and it's not like I was spending that time on more productive things.
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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: Psychoanalysis with Dialectics
« on: June 13, 2013, 08:01:01 pm »Okay, so:
Everyone split off into tribes of about 150 people, each occupying an adequate roaming territory with plentiful resources. Only come into contact with other tribes to exchange genes once in a while, to keep things fresh.
There. Once you manage that, you've regressed humanity far enough to render institutionalized government unnecessary.
Yeah, and I'm gonna get MY 150 people to sneak up on HIS 150 people while they sleep, bash 'em on the head, and run off with their women and their shit.
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Right, so we just need some kind of system to prevent-
Oh. Ooohhh.
Yeah.
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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: Psychoanalysis with Dialectics
« on: June 13, 2013, 07:19:29 pm »
Okay, so:
Everyone split off into tribes of about 150 people, each occupying an adequate roaming territory with plentiful resources. Only come into contact with other tribes to exchange genes once in a while, to keep things fresh.
There. Once you manage that, you've regressed humanity far enough to render institutionalized government unnecessary.
Everyone split off into tribes of about 150 people, each occupying an adequate roaming territory with plentiful resources. Only come into contact with other tribes to exchange genes once in a while, to keep things fresh.
There. Once you manage that, you've regressed humanity far enough to render institutionalized government unnecessary.
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Apple Zone / Re: I'd cut my left arm off to be able to verbally spout like this guy!
« on: June 13, 2013, 03:59:44 am »
Someone, somewhere must have a term for it. It sounds very much like a deliberate vocal technique for lulling an audience into a rhythm.
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Apple Zone / Re: Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race
« on: June 13, 2013, 03:47:53 am »
I took the one for associations of weapons with black people vs white people earlier today.
I automatically want to fault the way the test works, since it "trains" you in the first round to use the same key for "weapons" as for "black american", and then it switches it in a later round. But maybe I'm just offended by myself.
If you'd asked me to self-assess, I would have told you that I associate weapons with white people, mainly because I associate guns with white hillbillies, and melee weapons with white SCA nerds and LARPers. I would have assumed that I'd be biased against associating black people with weapons, because I'd assume (not based on any kind of actual knowledge) that more black people avoid carrying weapons for fear of being in the wrong place at the wrong time when cops roll around.
I automatically want to fault the way the test works, since it "trains" you in the first round to use the same key for "weapons" as for "black american", and then it switches it in a later round. But maybe I'm just offended by myself.
If you'd asked me to self-assess, I would have told you that I associate weapons with white people, mainly because I associate guns with white hillbillies, and melee weapons with white SCA nerds and LARPers. I would have assumed that I'd be biased against associating black people with weapons, because I'd assume (not based on any kind of actual knowledge) that more black people avoid carrying weapons for fear of being in the wrong place at the wrong time when cops roll around.
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Apple Zone / Re: What in the living fuck?
« on: June 12, 2013, 06:28:56 pm »
That sure is a lot of breathing sounds. 
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Apple Zone / Re: ATTN: Hylierandom
« on: June 12, 2013, 05:14:09 pm »Heyyyy
This is also not a "trounce Hylierandom" thread. This is me communicating with her as an equal, because I believe she deserves the communication. And because I believe it might be a beneficial communication, me to her.
In that spirit, I'd like to apologize for going apeshit in my previous two posts ITT. I got a little overexcited.
edit: apology is directed at both Nigel and Hylierandom
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Apple Zone / Re: MAKE ANOTHER RULE, PASS ANOTHER LAW!
« on: June 12, 2013, 05:12:21 pm »Apparently this is now a super serious bone of contention on Tumblr.
Half of Tumblr is going "yeah, awesome, stick it to the men!" and the other half is going "retarded shit like this is why they raised the petition number limit, causing a number of good petitions to fail you morons". And those two groups are now fighting.
It's cute how both of them think the White House pays any damn attention to the petition site anyway, and won't just do what it wants to regardless.
Massachusetts drivers are literally the worst fucking drivers I have ever been in proximity to, and I've been lost in Manhattan traffic multiple time.
There's a certain mean-spirited insanity present in those freaks that I cannot explain. Especially in Worcester.
My only exposure to Mass traffic was Boston, and I was all, whoa what are these people doing. Jesus fuck.
Right? In Manhattan and basically everywhere else in NYC, you'll encounter horrible traffic jams, bad driving, and shitheads. But there's a sort of Zen quality to it, in the sense of "Zen" as a filler word for something I don't have the mental energy to properly articulate at the moment. It all feels like the natural way of things, even thought it's painful and occasionally life-threatening.
In the worst parts of Massachusetts, there's a sort of icky personal feel to the horrible driving. Like every other person behind a wheel is deliberately trying to make your experience worse.
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Apple Zone / Re: Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race
« on: June 12, 2013, 05:03:26 pm »
I just realized that I was more surprised than I ought have been by his behavior, because my drunkbrain mixed him up with someone else who has a letters-numbers forum name.
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Apple Zone / Re: Thoughts?
« on: June 12, 2013, 02:38:58 am »
An early First-Person Shooter game, after Doom but still in the relatively early days. Considered unique for the depth and scope of its story. The "Marathon" itself was a spaceship carved out of one of the moons of Mars to be a supply ship for Martian colonies. It was managed mostly by three distinct AIs: Leela, Tycho, and Durandal. All but Leela were damaged by an alien attack, and Leela is eventually overwhelmed by Durandal, who has gone "rampant" (when an AI accesses computer resources sufficient to become self-aware and break free of its programmed purpose).
The player is rendered little more than a pawn of vastly greater intelligences than itself, eventually saving the universe from an Elder God trapped in a star not for the sake of sentient life in the universe, but because the rampant AI recognizes it as the only threat to its otherwise eternal existence.
Also, you shoot lots of aliens.
The player is rendered little more than a pawn of vastly greater intelligences than itself, eventually saving the universe from an Elder God trapped in a star not for the sake of sentient life in the universe, but because the rampant AI recognizes it as the only threat to its otherwise eternal existence.
Also, you shoot lots of aliens.
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Apple Zone / Re: Thoughts?
« on: June 12, 2013, 01:59:09 am »Yup. I always hear I look confused or annoyed.
Maybe this speaks to people assuming unreadable expressions are by necessity negative, because you don't know what the person is thinking.
Meanwhile, what you are actually thinking is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAxiGZKpGQ
pretty much
DUDE
Marathon was like my favorite thing for a long time
I rejected Halo when some random Internet spag once led me to believe that Halo was a continuation of the Marathon story, and I found nothing to indicate that to be true.
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Apple Zone / Re: Thoughts?
« on: June 12, 2013, 01:45:50 am »My best friend has Bitchy Resting Face.
I apparently look either SUPER FRIENDLY AND APPROACHABLE, or silently, coldly angry like I just pulled a man's legs off while he was still alive.
well maybe if you stopped actually being both of those things at the same time, then people would be able to deal