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JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#3451: Jun 25th 2009 at 9:33:55 AM

I need some flimsy pretext to write down all these great oneliners I come up with. Most recent:

"A snappy one-liner is no match real knowledge, but works most of the time"

It's a modified Voltaire quote. Yes, a witty saying proves nothing, but for some reason, it works on people.

Registered Radioactive green from under a space rock Since: Jun, 2009
Radioactive green
#3453: Jun 25th 2009 at 12:38:48 PM

So. At the moment, I can't access anywhere online on this computer except for T Vtropes, which works perfectly.

God, I have the weirdest computer.

JBridge null from Alameda, CA Since: Jan, 2001
null
#3454: Jun 25th 2009 at 1:55:51 PM

@Jethro: Let's just make you a quote page. It's easy enough.

edited 25th Jun '09 2:00:15 PM by JBridge

There's no space in the name.
JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#3455: Jun 25th 2009 at 1:59:26 PM

Me and my brother watched a Swedish show about street art, and there was a segment about the "Free Hugs" phenomenon. My brother hates it, and we devised a culture jammin alternative, where we'd go to a Swedish speaking place, with a plastic knife, and a sign reading "Gratis Huggs"

 *.

edited 25th Jun '09 2:00:59 PM by JethroQWalrustitty

JBridge null from Alameda, CA Since: Jan, 2001
null
#3456: Jun 25th 2009 at 2:00:54 PM

What is it with free hugs? Tons of people had those signs at Fanime.

There's no space in the name.
JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#3457: Jun 25th 2009 at 2:02:14 PM

It started in Australia, with one guy just going around with a sign, and giving hugs to anyone willing to recieve. The police tried to prevent him, because he wasn't insured, so he had a petition made. It spread from there. It's just a random act of kindness type of thing.

Still, Gratis Huggs, everyone!

Noimporta Since: Jan, 2001
Razputin Razzle Dazzle from Louisiana Since: May, 2009
Razzle Dazzle
#3460: Jun 25th 2009 at 2:41:08 PM

That makes me think of the time three different people randomly came up and gave me a hug when I went to a local anime convention. Friendly bunch those otaku are.

I was in Matt (Death Note) cosplay and I was hugged by a Link, a Mello, and someone with a shirt that said 'I <3 Yaoi Boys'.

I've decided to start posting more often. Sorry.
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#3461: Jun 25th 2009 at 2:47:23 PM

'Friendly' may not be the right word. tongue Especially the ones who wear 'I <3 Yaoi Boys' shirts and ESPECIALLY when they're hugging someone cosplaying as Matt.

Although I did get a hug at Otakon wearing EGL, so who knows.

edited 25th Jun '09 2:48:21 PM by Miijhal

JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#3462: Jun 25th 2009 at 2:47:33 PM

@Razputin. Jealousy, thy picture is Jethro.

Dammit.

edited 25th Jun '09 2:48:14 PM by JethroQWalrustitty

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#3463: Jun 25th 2009 at 6:49:33 PM

Various threads here are getting me computer-paranoid. Why the hell is SecuROM running on my computer?! I don't have Spore or Bioshock or anything!

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Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#3464: Jun 25th 2009 at 6:55:26 PM

Secu ROM is fairly common. I wish Spore and Bioshock were the only games that had it.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#3465: Jun 25th 2009 at 6:56:51 PM

Well it's probably harmless, but it really bugs me that it's just sitting there, immune to my prying eyes (well it was anyway). It might be The Sims 3.

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Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#3466: Jun 25th 2009 at 7:05:16 PM

Did you ever play The Sims 2?

edited 25th Jun '09 7:05:34 PM by Miijhal

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#3468: Jun 25th 2009 at 7:17:40 PM

It's not cruelty until you leave them in a cramped (or, if you prefer, ridiculously spacious) empty white-walled room with no windows or doors, and leave them to starve to death.

I wonder, if you put two or more of them in there, if they'll ever resort to cannibalism...

edited 25th Jun '09 7:17:52 PM by Kyler Thatch

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#3469: Jun 25th 2009 at 7:22:19 PM

It's not cruelty until you use mods to have them have children with relatives and then punish them by putting them through constant relationships which end abruptly due to the love interest's death, and then force them to die in a room coated in their own waste because their house has no bathroom.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#3471: Jun 25th 2009 at 7:44:00 PM

Well, not the Sims 2 itself, but the later expansion packs did have it.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#3472: Jun 25th 2009 at 7:51:58 PM

Grrr. A pox on those who would try to keep me from illegally copying their software by installing a sorta-rootkit. I'd be more okay with DRM if it worked, I think, not that it ever will.

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FurikoMaru Reverse the Curse from The Arrogant Wasteland Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: He makes me feel like I have a heart
Reverse the Curse
#3473: Jun 25th 2009 at 8:03:12 PM

HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT SQUEEEEEEE! Jon Stewart just shipped two freshman college kids in the audience! *flails*

... and now he's dancing. Um.

edited 25th Jun '09 8:03:56 PM by FurikoMaru

A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#3474: Jun 25th 2009 at 8:14:48 PM

Thankfully, from what I know, they stopped using it for The Sims 3.

Although now they appear to be withholding content so they sell it to you online for ridiculous prices...

I stopped having respect for Maxis a while ago...

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#3475: Jun 25th 2009 at 8:43:06 PM

It's my brother's game anyway, not mine. The last Maxis game I enjoyed was SimTower.

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