Just post whatever comes to mind.
Please refrain from excess venting in this thread. Talking about negative emotions is fine but it's best not to dwell on them for too long. TV Tropes is not suited to deal with mental health situations.
If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.
Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM
As soon as we agree what to call the last decade, I think well be able to properly distinguish it and it's zeitgeist from the current one
I think that I've seen it referred to as the "naughties"/"noughties"; Wikipedia gives a fuller list
of suggested names, I believe.
We refer to it as the naughties.
@ Crux, from the last page. Remember that Comcast bought NBC-Universal a few years ago. NBC-U is content creation. Comcast (cable) is content distribution. Netflix is also content distribution via Internet - which, surprise surprise, Comcast also provides. I don't doubt that that the TWC-Comcast merger would mean that Internet speeds to content distributors and content creators are mysteriously slow. TWC-Comcast would control a considerable portion of the market. Why put effort into giving good service when you are the only one that gives service?
edited 23rd Apr '14 5:06:12 PM by inHOPElessGUY
I need to stop drawing faces on balloons. I have far too many illegitimate balloon children.
You are forever immortalised for a moment in my sigline.
I thank you for this great honor, my internet brother.
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My brother just turned off the damn computer while I was writing two final English papers. I'm really thankful Liquid Story Binder XE has an autosave, or else I'd be pissed off to show him how effective a Shoryuken really is.
And my mother's being a huge drama queen about it, claiming it's all her fault because she needed the internet modem reset... it's on the same surge protector as my PC.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer
Why isn't there any surviving pop cultural memory of the 19ty century besides several landmark events, like the war of 1812, the civil war, and the Franco Prussian War? I mean like, starting in the 1920s, which I guess coincides with the rise of Hollywood,you have a bunch of movies that everyone still rememeber sand is able to watch today, as well as recall the people who starred in them , like bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff . But no one seems to remember any 19th century celebrities . Is it that the books that our literature teachers make us read literally were the people of the 19th century's pop culture ? And that until Richard Wagner, orchestras and "classical music " were the equivalent of pop music? Come to think of it there are a lot of old people in the internet who decry the fact that kids my age don't know anyhting about the bands they grew up with , like led zeppelin or pink Floyd . They sound like the parents in the 50s who made their kids listen to "classical music " in order to become "cultured"
edited 23rd Apr '14 5:40:12 PM by Xopher001
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That's pretty much exactly how it went. Bloody opera, corrupting our kids...
edited 23rd Apr '14 5:56:53 PM by BaffleBlend
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There are too many distinctions between the different types and tribes to lump them all together, a lot of them didn't actually live in caves, and it just plain sounds unprofessional.
edited 23rd Apr '14 8:16:22 PM by BaffleBlend
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@Dem: It's all due to the fact that the early man isn't a crow or magnetic, isn't it... (All in Humor Mode just for the record.)
What a long night this is going to be...
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Gas building up overall.
edited 23rd Apr '14 8:38:32 PM by NESgamer190
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Writing something that's like a story, but presently without a beginning, an ending, a setting, or a named lead male and female. Though it's more about this jerk of a character I'm writing...so maybe it's just a snapshot? But I know that there's a cooler word for it.
So Marcus is this guy who passively eavesdrops on this couple over the course of a few weeks, and finds out that the guy wants to have sex but the girl wants to wait til she's married.
So Marcus tries to give her "advice", mostly just making her question her sense of morals, and whether she prefers love or staying pure, and whether she even deserves the guy, and if there's the chance that she wants to herself regardless of her beliefs.
I'm not sure what I'm really doing with it. I don't want to make Marcus sympathetic, but I don't really want him to "lose". I wonder if this is literary catharsis...
State of Mind
That can easily be interpreted as him pressuring her into having sex. Sex with another guy, and showing no respect for her decisions and beliefs all for the sake of the other dude's inability to control his hormones.
edited 23rd Apr '14 9:17:42 PM by Parable
"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim
Oh, so cruel Parable...
But just shows that I need better execution! Because her boyfriend can control his hormones (he just doesn't want to) and Marcus does respect her decisions and beliefs (he just likes to mess with her head).
Still just awesome like that
@Xopher: Everyone who remembers the 19th century is dead.
I have been browsing through my Facebook contact list. Who are all these people?!
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!
Still just awesome like that
My professor is absolutely terrible at explaining the Monty Hall Problem.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
literary masochist
That's a fun topic to mess people's heads with.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
"Just as planned."
"We apologise for the fault in the explanation. Those responsible have been sacked."
"Did you expect somebody else?"
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I get the reference but still haven't seen the movie yet. I know where to find it, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
I do not know if cutting down on glutens will help with anxiety at all. (Not that I don't trust it, but I'm no psychologist.)
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