RENAMED: Roger is bored. Do something!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Mystictomato, Adenine, Coyote and Khara. LURRRRRRRRRRRKERRRRRRRRRRS

Why'd Coyote change his nick to "Fucked off"? Did I miss anything?

I think he mistook my vitriol toward the Skyrim thread as vitriol towards his rather hilarious Skyrim WOMP thread.

Huh? Just in case we're not having good fun here, I don't think you're a police state monster.

And that's where you've gone dreadfully wrong.  I am a 21st Century American™, and while you Eurofreaks may do all manner of perverse and degrading things in your bedrooms and cafes, WE are FREE, and we STAY THAT WAY by making sure nobody is being a degenerate or saying the wrong sorts of things.  You know, unpatriotic things.  Freedom is for people who DESERVE it, who EARN it, who are willing to FIT IN.  Not for bizarre people who can't settle down and act like all the Good Citizens.

[Triple Zero]

I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?

Also, seeing that you can view pics hosted on PD but not much anywhere else, I was thinking, I might be able to cheese-whip up something for that, button that makes images proxy through PD, for those with corporate internet constipation. Course there's a bunch of other things here now that need fixing too, but I'm no one if not easily distracted :P

[Cramulus]

Have i missed a shit ton of Skyrim posts, or something?
'cause i only see 5 posts today in the thread that i know of.... (3 of which were mine. did i ruined the whole board for the day?)

Yes.

And your fucking penance is to read no less than 10 of THESE:

http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

And deliver a review of the quality of said koans.

Cost: well over $200m. Disregarding the ethics of such expenditure on a film, this unprecedented extravagance has not resulted in sophisticated or even very satisfying storytelling (11 Oscars notwithstanding). The main problem concerns characterisation and structure. A framing device in which contemporary fortune hunters question a now ancient survivor, followed by a romance between upper-crust but frustrated Rose (Winslet) and a poor but plucky artist (DiCaprio), entails not only a needlessly protracted build-up to the collision, but primitive plotting and performances.  Moreover, the sudden, skimpy, soggy love story leads to a conclusion that's perversely uplifting: if your love's strong, you never really lose each other. (Piffle!) That said, the effects mostly ensure pretty gripping spectacle once the boat begins breaking up.

Even then, however, most of the best scenes - excepting a memorably macabre floating necropolis - are so reminiscent of Rank's superior 1958 movie A Night to Remember that Eric Ambler's name would not look amiss on the new film's credits. (Bizarrely, however, Cameron neglects the poignant fact that a nearby ship failed to respond to the Titanic's SOS, thus upping the body count considerably.)

Unlike its namesake, this glossy, bombastic juggernaut will not sink. Everyone will see it anyway, and so they should, if only to ponder the future of mainstream cinema.

[Triple Zero]

My response in that thread, if I recall, was nothing more brilliant than, "wow."

Lurking lets your brain idle.  Run it through its paces once in awhile.

Gotcha. A single word post of acknowledgement is better than nothing. I think I can do that.

Yeah. And not to harp on Luna's "wow", one thing I've been trying lately is this. As been said, single-emoticon-replies aren't much more useful than a +1 Like button. Personally I took that to mean singular "awesome" or "that was great" remarks as well. So what I've been doing is to not just say that, but also include a few words on why I liked it.

It's easy, whatever comes to mind, you know why you like it right? It'll sound real trite at first, you think, "but that's why everyone likes it, so why say it?" except that IS NOT SO! Maybe half the people like it for that reason, so why not be the voice for that half? If someone feels they should add to it, they will. The point is, maybe you're liking the writing for something the author hadn't even thought of. Or maybe it is EXACTLY what they intended it to be and they'll be all gleeful and shit. Or maybe someone else will think "oooohhh I hadn't considered that, now I like it that way as well!" et cetera etc

Again, not to dismiss a simple "wow" btw. Sometimes that's all you have time for, sometimes even all you can really say about it. But sometimes you will think to say "Wow. I especially liked the part about the cheese." and then it's even better. Especially in the case of cheese.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?

It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices.  If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.

[Luna]

I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?

It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices.  If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.

To my shame, I must confess I have some of that not-cheese in my fridge, and I do humbly apologize if Trip accidentally mistook it for food while visiting and consumed some.

I don't know what my system would do with actual cheese, but I bet it would be horrible.

[Triple Zero]

I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?

It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices.  If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.

To my shame, I must confess I have some of that not-cheese in my fridge, and I do humbly apologize if Trip accidentally mistook it for food while visiting and consumed some.

I don't know what my system would do with actual cheese, but I bet it would be horrible.

I actually used the stuff for a while. When I discovered "hey this is just like the stuff McDonalds puts on cheeseburgers!!" but then, this once time, I covered an entire pizza in it, and I was cured. Later on I found that proper Gouda is far superior on a burger anyway. Which you should know because we had that shit at the CT meetup

[Luna]

I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?

It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices.  If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.

To my shame, I must confess I have some of that not-cheese in my fridge, and I do humbly apologize if Trip accidentally mistook it for food while visiting and consumed some.

I don't know what my system would do with actual cheese, but I bet it would be horrible.

I actually used the stuff for a while. When I discovered "hey this is just like the stuff McDonalds puts on cheeseburgers!!" but then, this once time, I covered an entire pizza in it, and I was cured. Later on I found that proper Gouda is far superior on a burger anyway. Which you should know because we had that shit at the CT meetup

Everything about that weekend was awesome, including the food.  I occasionally had no idea what I was eating, but it was great. 

[Triple Zero]

If only this stupid Internet wouldn't have allowed me to make friends with people on the other side of the globe, we could have those burgers WAY more often!!

[Luna]

If only this stupid Internet wouldn't have allowed me to make friends with people on the other side of the globe, we could have those burgers WAY more often!!

Two word solution:  come back!

[navkat]

People are nuts.  I'm sitting here at 11:45 on Saturday night, half asleep listing to some local radio show, here are two grown men talking about arks, pyramid aliens, and gods.  These are grown, educated men, with high paying jobs that have become completely insane and they get paid and accepted for it.  People line up to call in and tell THEIR stories about what they thought happened to them after eating a large garbage pizza and reading Whitley Strieber right before bed, and these ASSHOLES egg them on in their psychosis.

Now here I am, more or less a rational everyday middle class wage slob, and I used to actually respect what PhDs thought about the world and the way things are...Now I think they're all a bunch of whackjob bozos.  Thats not to say I'm better then them...Well yes I am saying that, PEOPLE ARE MORONS, no matter WHAT letters they have after their names.

Don't these people have kids or families or something?  People that might be EMBARRASSED that the ONE GUY in the family who got his doctorate is on the radio babbling about alien love messiahs?

Not Coast2Coast?

[navkat]

It also occurs to me that it's only a few weeks until I have to endure Saint Patrick's Day again.

Yeah, a big ol' Erin go bugger to all you contentious, alcoholic, bipolar, swaggering, staggering, badgering, blustering, brain-damaged, half-inbred, half-dicked, hair-trigger-brawling, loud-mouthed bags of monkey meat. I hope you get ebola from a toilet seat and it works its way outwards from your privates.

Same to the goddamned Irish as well, they're nuts.

Holllld up there, chucklehead. Mardi Gras is 21 Feb yet...and don't forget all the fuck-a-doodle-doos who celebrate Steak And A Blow Job day on the 14th.

What? What's that you say? That's not what it's called? Oh, and I suppose now you're gonna tell me Unlimited Anal Sex Day after lent is a lie too.

[Telarus]

I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board.  We don't have a hundred regular users anymore.  We have less than 30, at best.

This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board.  We don't have a hundred regular users anymore.  We have less than 30, at best.

This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.

We need to what?

[Luna]

I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board.  We don't have a hundred regular users anymore.  We have less than 30, at best.

This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.

We need to what?

Organize shit better and more efficiently.  He's agreeing with you.

The only problem with fewer subforms I can see is, who grabs the shovel and moves stuff?