Return of the Naruto Community Derail Thread: Part Two!

Finished A Brief History of Time.

....If this is a brief version, I'm definitely not ready for the long version.

Time, it may surprise you to know, has been around for a while.

So I read an app visual novel called Ripples.

Objectively speaking, it's nothing worthwhile: it's ridiculously short in content, crude and unsubtly in writing, amateurish in technical aspects. Shouldn't have expected much from a free game.

....and yet...there's something I find oddly charming about it. I don't really know how to put it though.

Sometimes something caters to you in just the right way, even when objectively is nyeh.

I've been thinking a lot about mortality, and the limitations of humanity lately, and came to this conclusion; Nothing's actually stopping me from binging on all of Ctrl+Alt+Del, and yet I am too much of a coward to pull the trigger.

edited 27th Aug '17 2:32:21 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Not quite mortality, but I've recently come to a (temporary) conclusion of the meaning of life.

Maybe we're not meant for greatness and there's nothing wrong with mediocrity. Perhaps it's this pressure that we are born special and have some kind of purpose in life that is, ironically enough, hindering us from seeing the world and ourselves for as they are and actually make some clear picture out.

Or maybe I'm just being a pessimist and defeatist here. I wonder if I'm actually going through depression right now.

There is no meaning in anything

Nothing matters

So do what you want

I want to get discharged.

-sighs-

Lads, edgy teenage nihilism never made anyone happy.

I wasn't trying to bring the mood down, with edgy teenage nihilism. I just wanted to invite you fine fellows into reading Ctrl+Alt+Del, which now that i typed that out is the same thing huh.

@droy: I have nothing figured out, but my current view on the end and mortaltiy is "as long as I am happy with myself, and feel like I'm making life better for people around me, so be it." Also, hang on there, man. Sorry it sounds like it's been rough.

Roy, you must believe!

Believe in things that aren't true.

How else will they become?

hey mine wasnt edgy

It's liberating

You're all edgy preteens.

Yours was the most edgy.

Not even

If nothing matters, there is no pressure

Dont stress over not being the best or striving for some great cause if that aint you

Just do you

No one else would do it, so I began marathoning some CTRL+ALT+DEL.

It isn't especially offensive yet. like, a few of the strips land because the author understood brevity at some point. The art is poor, but if I didn't know it wouldn't get any better, I could just attribute that to early days.

It's a fascinating time capsule though. It's a few bites of Early-2000s Gamer Culture, with all the dated memes and references, and lines in the sand that entails. It's also does referential humor the worst (Where the joke is just the reference, and nothing else), has the worst comedy protagonist, and even if it's early days, art is still a sack of tripe.

I hope I can hold out until loss.

edited 28th Aug '17 12:55:25 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

godspeed

So this last year has been really shit. Recently discovered the facebook content curator/editor "wholesome comics". Liked a couple, then decided to subscribe because I could use more uplifting stuff. Saw a couple comics that made me think "that's kinda racist..." Google searched for more info.

Apparently the person behind it is racist and transphobic.

Well, it was nice to have a little win while it lasted.

Boy I know how you feel.

The "politics of the author should never be a factor in enjoyment", has always been bullshit. Among many things, art's an expression of the self. When the self is a sack of shit, there will always be a lingering waft around their work that many people just can't ignore.

Okay, either I didn't dig deep enough or wander is pulling my leg, because I checked the page and see nothing racist.

...Or maybe I'm at a wrong page. :I

You were.

You should have been on this.

Wha...?

Does it matter?

I suppose any explanation would just take away from it.

Finished reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Next item: Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman.

I'm in a mood for physics.

edited 2nd Sep '17 9:15:47 PM by dRoy