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
Not here, look elsewhere
It's the ability to string the words up to be something beautiful, much like how pigment on canvas can create grace and wonder.
An useless name, a forsaken connection.
frozen in time
I've read enough beautiful writing in my life to know that words can indeed have that effect.
no one will notice that I changed this
I just need to go through 45 more pictures and I will be done making all my new avatars. Must not look at new images. Must not look at new images.
DUMB
An author wrote a roman a clef about a romance he had. The other member of the romance later found out and wrote her own. Interesting.
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Listen to someone with a good voice read Paradise Lost out loud (I can't remember the name of the guy who read the recording I listened to in college, but it was really good), and we'll talk again about words and beauty and passion for same. 
The Ant King
Are, however, the terrorist fundamentalists, be it Christian or Muslim, truly fundamentalists? There is a feature that clearly distinguishes all authentic fundamentalists, from Tibetan Buddhists to the Amish in the US: the absence of resentment and envy, the deep indifference towards the non-believers’ way of life. Since they really believe they found their way to Truth, why should they feel threatened by non-believers, why should they envy them? When a Buddhist encounters a Western hedonist, he is far from condemning him; he just benevolently notes that the hedonist’s search for happiness is self-defeating. The contrast cannot be stronger to the terrorist pseudo-fundamentalists who are deeply bothered, intrigued, fascinated, by the sinful life of the non-believers – one can feel that, in fighting the sinful other, they are fighting their own temptation. A so-called Christian or Muslim “fundamentalist” is a disgrace to true fundamentalism.
It is here that Yeats’ diagnosis falls short: the passionate intensity of a mob bears witness to a lack of true conviction. The fundamentalist Islamic terror is NOT grounded in the terrorists’ conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of the global consumerist civilization: the problem with fundamentalists is not that we consider them inferior to us, but, rather, that they themselves secretly consider themselves inferior (like, obviously, Hitler himself felt towards Jews) – which is why our condescending Politically Correct assurances that we feel no superiority towards them only makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural difference (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite fact that the fundamentalists are already like us, that, secretly, they have already internalized our standards and measure themselves by them. Paradoxically, what the fundamentalists really lack is precisely a dosage of true “racist” conviction of one’s own superiority
Just finished Consider Phlebas. Too self-satisfied for my taste. I don't think I'll be returning to the Culture.
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
Oh Yeah?
I'm already so used to Man-Asuka that if I ever see the female version again, my mind will parse her as a man in drag.
Ghosts' Poet
I just realized that Kogasa has no hair accessory.
you'll then have a grave in the clouds where you won't lie too cramped
She has that awesome umbrella. She don't need no stinkin' hair dec.
DUMB
| Contents of | ~/Documents/code | : |
- A simple graphics test in C
- A more organized, nowhere-near built engine also in C
- Miscellaneous data structures C header that I don't use
- Half-made disassembler in C targeting the 6502
- TV Tropes' main JavaScript include
- A bunch of Python scripts that do stuff relating to the first Troper Updates thread
- Data from same
- Some C files that do stuff for Project Euler; abandoned for quick Scheme programs
- A bunch of images used for testing
- The disassembled code of the original Metroid video game
- In a few minutes, some x86 messing around
It's like the computer nerdy equivalent of a desk covered in half-way worked-on projects.
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John Egbert, is that you?
DUMB
Disassembled code?When you compile a program, it turns into machine code that the computer can use.
Disassembly is taking the machine code and making it (barely more) human-readable by converting it to assembly language (Wikipedia is your friend).
Zudak: Thank god I'm not using DIS* and ~ATH.
edited 20th Aug '10 10:42:30 AM by Tzetze
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I wish. It's machine code.
Basically, assembly code is exactly equivalent to the corresponding piece of machine code, hence why it is called assembled and not compiled. Disassembly simply reverses that process, turning the binary machine code into assembly code.
ninja'd
edited 20th Aug '10 10:46:22 AM by Ponicalica
the future we had hoped for
I think Tzetze is some kind of weird version of me in the future from the past.
No one said I had to make sense.
dysfunctional human artistry
I think Tzetze is some kind of weird version of me in the future from the past.
DUMB
No, Anemotaxis is me from the future, not Iverum from the past... er... okay I don't know.
Taking one possible future kills all the rest!
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Just do what I do and explain it all with cloning.
the future we had hoped for
DUMB
Maybe all computer scientists are really Alonzo Church, reproducing Dr Mc Ninja clone style!
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Which reminds me, Anemo's little history thing was pretty cool.
dysfunctional human artistry
The Ant King
Secretist is future me after I've gone completely insane.
Kill all math nerds
frozen in time
Lucky Revenant is past me before I went completely insane.
no one will notice that I changed this
It's all right for others to feel that way about it, but I just prefer to work with a certain amount of dispassion for the medium. As for things I read, they can be pretty neat.
Ce ne pas un post.