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
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Does anyone know if acunpucture works?
Have you forgotten the face of your father, troper?
Hey there! Having fun?
I have no idea how to write aliens swearing.
Do you know how difficult it is to write natural-sounding angry dialog without "damn", "hell", "fuck", or even Gosh Darn It to Heck!?
I just can't figure it out. I've tried things like "by my fathers", but that sounds damn clunky.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer
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Today I watched Breaking Bad season 2 ep 6~7.
In particular, episode 7, it's the first time a stuff on TV series absolutely terrified me. Like...holy shit.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Pirate AND writer!
Just had to try explaining to someone why The Great Gatsby isn't as hated as Fifty Shades Of Grey. My work defending that book will never be done, will it?
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Who on earth would hate that book? The movie I get hating, but not so much the book.
"Just as planned."
Fifty Shades I hold only the greatest loathing for - it practically makes me a berserker when mentioned.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
I haven't read either of those, and I still know The Great Gatsby is better.
"We're home, Chewie."
It's bad writing, bad characterization, and an incredibly bad example of BDSM.
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Pirate AND writer!
So apparently the person hadn't actually read 50 Shades and wasn't aware of all the shit that happens in it. Still not sure why they compared it to Gatsby, though. At least they thanked me for being polite while explaining my opinion.
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Maybe they assumed that since they hear about them both a lot they must be good?
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@dRoy: You act like you've never seen a severed human head on a tortoise before!
A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line
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I see one of those every other month.
Also, how hot is a supernova, and how does it compare to both a nova and a hypernova?
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
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It was quite a blast on my nerve. My limbs are still shaky.
Jokes aside, I could definitely get where Hank was coming from.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
@d roy: You...didn't watch the news much?
Pointless advertising is pointless if the only populace that paid attention to it are already your fans.
edited 30th Jul '14 5:55:02 PM by KnightOfNASA
Pepsi and Coke spend billions on advertising not so you'll break your loyalty to one of them or so you'll buy soda, but so you'll buy more soda because they've rented space in your brain.
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Well I'll buy Coke no matter how much or little advertising there is, so whatever.
The idea is that you'll buy more because you see advertising for it, so it's fresh in your mind and you think "I could go for a Coke" more often.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
That's already my go to beverage. And when I'm not drinking that I'm drinking other Coke products. So they've already got me locked down.
Well, if the point of the advertisement is to get more fans, but instead the only people who paid attention to it were already hardcore fans, then it is time to switch to better strategies.
Wouldn't it be funny if every time a germophobe had to shake someone's hand they would put on a new glove?
Their reasoning being "I may need to be polite, but you still sicken me." 
I say this because even though a handshake may be traditional, a fist bump is still healthier.
But tradition has never cared for science, has it. ;p
"Just as planned."
Actually, part of the point of advertising when you already know them is to remind you they are there.
It seems pointless until you remember how many will just let a brand slip by, even if they remember them - instead of going out to get it regularly, they'll let them slip but still remember them because they've not seen them often enough.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
How evil of me is it to think that marriages and childbirths should happen less and less often so we can handle the people who are already living? :|
edited 31st Jul '14 12:45:02 AM by Keybreak
literary masochist
Well, there's a difference between advocating that less people hook up and have children, and advocating what King Herod was biblically notorious for.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
One of my prompt idea is to take something out of history. Not alternate history, or everything suddenly change except you. Set a parameter. Everything relating to that parameter just disappears. For example, if you take the Internet out at this instance, then a lot of communication will stop, the trade centers would load errors, Internet connected artificial heart stop working.