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Things that RAW was wrong about

Started by Rococo Modem Basilisk, June 12, 2013, 04:38:42 PM

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How to break the fourth wall effectively.

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Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 12, 2013, 05:15:56 PM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 12, 2013, 05:14:01 PM
How to break the fourth wall effectively.

What the fuck IS the 4th wall?

It's the boundary between the audience and the performance, breaking the fourth wall is when you directly address the audience or otherwise call attention to the fact that your narrative is in fact fiction that is being observed by the audience. Like Ferris Bueller addressing the camera or Psycho Pirate in Animal Man


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Bless RAW's heart, but what I don't understand about the people who perceive him as some kind of a guru is why they don't look at his sources and come to their own conclusions? It's like they missed the whole "think for yourself" portion of the lecture.

If he were still alive I can't imagine he would encourage them to just take everything he said for gospel, but there they go doing it anyway. It's sad.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Salty

Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 12, 2013, 05:15:56 PM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 12, 2013, 05:14:01 PM
How to break the fourth wall effectively.

What the fuck IS the 4th wall?

When you act onstage you have the three walls, behind and on either side that are your whole universe. The fourth wall is where the people are sitting, so you can't use that space, really.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 12, 2013, 05:31:44 PM
Bless RAW's heart, but what I don't understand about the people who perceive him as some kind of a guru is why they don't look at his sources and come to their own conclusions? It's like they missed the whole "think for yourself" portion of the lecture.

If he were still alive I can't imagine he would encourage them to just take everything he said for gospel, but there they go doing it anyway. It's sad.

Congratulations. You have derived the purpose of the thread.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Salty

Jesus.

Will there be cake, at least?
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Chucklemaster

Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on June 12, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 12, 2013, 05:31:44 PM
Bless RAW's heart, but what I don't understand about the people who perceive him as some kind of a guru is why they don't look at his sources and come to their own conclusions? It's like they missed the whole "think for yourself" portion of the lecture.

If he were still alive I can't imagine he would encourage them to just take everything he said for gospel, but there they go doing it anyway. It's sad.

Congratulations. You have derived the purpose of the thread.

Drink the purpose and gain its wisdom.
blah blah blah the rest of the song

Doktor Howl

Quote from: zer0n on June 12, 2013, 05:55:00 PM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on June 12, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 12, 2013, 05:31:44 PM
Bless RAW's heart, but what I don't understand about the people who perceive him as some kind of a guru is why they don't look at his sources and come to their own conclusions? It's like they missed the whole "think for yourself" portion of the lecture.

If he were still alive I can't imagine he would encourage them to just take everything he said for gospel, but there they go doing it anyway. It's sad.

Congratulations. You have derived the purpose of the thread.

Drink the purpose and gain its wisdom.

Wow.  That was all deep and shit.
Molon Lube

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 12, 2013, 06:06:16 PM
Quote from: zer0n on June 12, 2013, 05:55:00 PM
Quote from: Phosphatidylserine on June 12, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 12, 2013, 05:31:44 PM
Bless RAW's heart, but what I don't understand about the people who perceive him as some kind of a guru is why they don't look at his sources and come to their own conclusions? It's like they missed the whole "think for yourself" portion of the lecture.

If he were still alive I can't imagine he would encourage them to just take everything he said for gospel, but there they go doing it anyway. It's sad.

Congratulations. You have derived the purpose of the thread.

Drink the purpose and gain its wisdom.

Wow.  That was all deep and shit.

Just because it's a liquid-based metaphor does not mean it's deep  :lulz:

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Cain

If you look for cake on street pavements long enough, you will eventually find it.