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
If you know the grammar, and have a lot (a lot) of time on your hands, perhaps.
Oh, learn? Not understand? Dunno. Probably not, or at least it would take forever and ever and ever.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.Look at a puddle in the rain. Watch a droplet hit the water, and explode with the force of impact, sending water reeling in a circle of waves from the epicenter. In much less than a second the water regains its composure; the drop might well have never been, but for an almost negligible addition to the puddle's volume. It's no wonder water is so overused in metaphors.
Look again. You ignored the instructions. Look at a puddle in the rain. Not some raindrop. You can't see any raindrops. Don't delude yourself. You can see a streaking in the air, a streak you think is a water droplet. How ludicrous. You can see, briefly, the concentric waves I've just told you signal an impact Again, ludicrous. Can you see the impact? You let me describe it to you, and so you imagined, wrongly, that you could. Perhaps you could use film, you think. Spend forty seconds to watch one. How long would it take for you to see every drop? A raindrop is nothing. Don't pretend that you can see it.
Look again. You're so easy to distract. Look at a puddle in the rain. See the impact. Not just one. Widen your field of view. In less than a minute, a hundred raindrops die, or so I tell you. Watch the impacts. Can you see the pattern? There, there, there, there, there, driven by the wind. Your eye is too slow to see an impact, and your mind is too slow to understand them all. Can you comprehend genocide? If you look casually, you'll see two frames, looping. Focus. Do you see three, now? Four? Focus. Now the image is continuous, or so you imagine. You can see the randomness. Can you see the pattern? Drops in a line, a triangle through time, and circles, reverse Gatling guns absorbing bullets from the sky.
Look again. Can you see the pattern of the patterns? A triangle gives way to its circumscription. A tangent line fires (you follow it with your eye), doubles back, continues, splits into two inlets, which do you pick? You can't follow both. Your mind is too slow. Do you see the pattern of the patterns?
Look again. You can't see.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.In my capability as a poor critic, I say "a good, short read."
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.Does anyone know how credible Steven Mithen is? I'd like to read his books, but I'd rather not do so if all of his ideas are bunk.
There's a paragraph in a review of one of his books by another anthropologist that shows me that he's not entirely credible, but she does say that his main ideas are reasonable.
edited 27th Apr '10 5:13:50 PM by LuckyRevenant
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."Myrmidon, you're going to die if you continue these activities! D:
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Planescape Hijack
Somedays you feel like Simon, some days you just feel like Kyonko on fire.
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count DorkuI have to say, I'm a bigger proponent of the idea that Neandertals died more from competition with modern humans rather than being absorbed into them due to interbreeding.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."Has anyone read anything where an adolescent boy is out hunting with his father when he falls down a hole, where he finds a trapped ground sloth
. His father goes to find help, and finds a short-nosed bear instead. Also, the adolescent and his father are primitive men; very early Americans.
I'm trying to figure out if this is something I dreamt, read somewhere once, or is my own original story idea.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."Another post of "Cliche makes quips about an interesting article:"
That's why I tend to be wary of the "video games as art" notion.
Well, that was an odd thing to happen in Imperium Nova.
Tzetze: I liked it because it talked about stuff I liked, like toying with mental conditioning.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.It ended up being about the inability to escape maya. Seems to be the only thing that I ever want to write about. Luckily, it's very general. You could write romance, horror, war, anything really about the inability to escape maya.
I started writing it because I was actually looking at a puddle in the rain, though. Pretty, how random it is.
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Woah, anger, Spain.
It includes the word "rubbishing", and is therefore awesome.
Thought: I'd forgotten how awesome Wendy Cope was.
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
Jane has a big doll. Peter has a ball.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!
Here is Mummy. She has baked a bun.
Here is the milkman. He has come to call.
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
Go Peter! Go Jane! Come, milkman, come!
The milkman likes Mummy. She likes them all.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!
Here are the curtains. They shut out the sun.
Let us peep! On tiptoe Jane! You are small!
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
I hear a car, Jane. The milkman looks glum.
Here is Daddy in his car. Daddy is tall.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!
Daddy looks very cross. Has he a gun?
Up milkman! Up milkman! Over the wall!
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!
edited 27th Apr '10 11:46:23 AM by BobbyG
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