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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
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Ah, my future roommate uses proper grammar when she texts. That's a plus. Also, has the concept of zombies ripping people up to steal their body parts ever been a thing? Like, they lose an eye so they replace it with someone else's? Peeling the skin off a fresh corpse to cover up their own rotting flesh?
edited 24th Jul '14 11:07:10 AM by Mort08
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It sounds familiar, but I can't think of actual zombie cases. It reminds me of Star Trek's Vidiians, who steal people's organs to replace their failing ones, but that's played more like body snatchers.
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@Mort There was an episode of Supernatural with that gimmick.
They buried him alive in a fridge I think.
edited 24th Jul '14 1:00:37 PM by Keybreak
It occurs to me that there are examples of zombies with plug and play body parts from other zombies. Or pulling their own body parts back together.
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The '80s had some of the best music, but also some of the worst music videos.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
@Mort: It may depend on quite how you define the term "zombie". For example, Imhotep from The Mummy (1999) did something similar (taking on organs and general "life" from certain people), but while he was undead he was, by some definitions, not a zombie.
If you don't mind going far enough from zombies that you lose the actual "undead" part of the concept, the Igors from Discworld can, as I recall, surgically transplant most body parts.
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Rollin' rollin' rollin'
New life goal: Play a kitsune bard in Pathfinder and find an excuse to sing "What Does The Fox Say?".
"We're home, Chewie."
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I know how I'm going to write my zombie novel. I'm going to create 10 - 12 characters and tell their stories concurrently, with three plotlines going on at a time. I'll randomly pick the three characters I'll start the story with, and then I'll randomly pick the three who will make it to the end. Everyone else will die. When someone dies, another character is brought in.
edited 24th Jul '14 7:26:10 PM by Mort08
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Everything I like is coming to an end! Homestuck, Brawl In The Family, The Legend Of Korra...
It must be symbolic of my starting life after school.
so i made a new avatar
Hasn't Homestuck been over?
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
No, it's been on hiatus for like a whole year now and the next update is supposed to be the very last one.
It feels very satisfying when you take three dogs on a road trip to get them to a rescue group upstate, and all three of them behave like angels when you finally introduce them to their new handlers when, back before you had handled them for several months, they would likely have either snarled, cowered, or play-tackled them.
Seeing them go actually stung a little, but it feels good to know that they'll find good homes.
Hey there! Having fun?
There'll be new things we'll grow to like.
Who am I kidding, there never is. I'm not even upset about those three... Okay, I care a little about BitF, but the others don't affect me at all.
Yeesh, someone get me a damn hobby.
edited 24th Jul '14 7:43:07 PM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer
No, when it starts updating again, it will go until the end. I don't think an act and a half will get dropped on us all at once.
I just got started reading Shortpacked, and it will be over by the end of the year. Hopefully I'll catch up by then, but it's doubtful.
edited 24th Jul '14 7:48:52 PM by TParadox
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I've been thinking this over for the last few weeks, and I've decided now is the best time to suspend all regular updates until I've finished the story, rather than pausing just before I start on the final animation. When I'm done, I'll post it all at once. There are a lot of reasons why I think this is the best strategy.
Primarily, it's about efficiency, and being able to work on the remaining (and likely the most difficult parts) of the story without distractions, or the added challenge of having to crank out the next serial update as fast as possible, which means I always have to stay totally linear with the work. This way I can produce the rest of it more comprehensively, prepare animation assets in advance, do more stuff in parallel, etc. It will go faster. And ultimately, I think it'll read better as one thing, rather than as a sequence tortuously spread out over time, as has been the norm for years. I think it's close enough to the end now to safely retire Homestuck as a serial reading experience. There's nothing to be gained from that presentation anymore, in my view. It's just time to bear down and get it done.
I'm still expecting a rolling update. That'll be hundreds of pages to go live, could take a couple of days.
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Is economics a math class or a history class?
It's a social science class.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
That Sableye avatar is so fucking cute
Oh really when?
So history then? K.
And now it reminds me of this one asshole during debate class who tries to invalid my argument because "Keynes theories are just theories!"
edited 25th Jul '14 1:24:03 PM by KnightofNASA
"Just as planned."
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Social science with a large focus on maths due to the amount of statistics and calculations we use.
... NOOOOOOPE.
edited 25th Jul '14 1:21:49 PM by RatherRandomRachel
"Did you expect somebody else?"
My on-level econ class was going over basic concepts. My IB econ class which used material from both AP Micro- and Macro-economics went over various graphs, models, equations, and the concepts they illustrated.
"Just as planned."
I've always been wishing that when students are taught the basic concepts they give you the most basic equations and models and demonstrated them with sample statistics - while it does bring in the issue of perfect information and imperfect knowledge adds a whole level of depth and complexity, being able to understand how they're calculated from the start does those students a huge favour.
Well, my on-level teacher was shit. He failed at properly explaining the simple production possibilities curve. :/
I took some allergy medicine earlier, and I've been trying to sleep it off. I can't, though, because my mother won't shut up. I told her that I was trying to sleep... so then she started not shutting up about a bunch of ridiculous nu-age tricks to induce sleepiness.
In short, I'm even more tired and unstable now than I was before.
edited 24th Jul '14 10:01:57 AM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer