In which we get updates from the lives of tropers. Kinda like Twitter with more than 140 characters, but less than a blog or LJ.
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.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:38 AM
Permanently Banned
@Fluid: True, but I think Aliens hits the right balance between horror and action. 
I might check out Last Scenario, it seems interesting.
@Zudak: I've seen that. YUM. I wonder if anyone's actually dared to copy epic meal time recipes.
edited 13th May '11 4:23:35 PM by Shichibukai
Requiem ~ September 2010 - October 2011 [Banned 4 Life]
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Multiple choice also known as multiple guess. :P
Who watches the watchmen?
@Shichi: Well there is this.
Fluid: ...Does that game work on a Mac?
Aliroz:
In this case, though, it's a guy who really likes heroic legends and wants to be that kind of badass.
Dove:
Unfortunately, no. The game is built on RPG Maker, which has no Mac release.
edited 13th May '11 4:33:59 PM by Fluid
Books to read:
- Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
- Barry Hughart - Bridge Of Birds
- Baruch de Spinoza - Ethics
- Baruch de Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise
- Brian Coleman - Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
- Christopher Paolini - Inheritance
- Dave Grossman - On Killing
- David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
- David Oglivy - Oglivy on Advertising
- D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
- Edward R. Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows
- Ira Levin - The Stepford Wives
- James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
- James Joyce - Ulysses
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on Inequality
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
- Jeff Chang - Can't Stop Won't Stop
- John Litweiler - The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
- John Locke - Two Treatises of Government
- John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- John Milton - Paradise Lost
- Jon Savage - England's Dreaming
- Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Joseph Machlis - The Enjoyment of Music
- Howard Mittelmark - How Not to Write a Novel
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Karl Marx - Das Kapital
- Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture
- Luo Guanzhong - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Lloyd Bradley - Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
- Michael Azerrad - Our Band Could Be Your Life (purchase)
- Naomi Klein - No Logo
- Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
- Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
- Plato - The Republic
- P.C. Hodgell - God Stalk
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- Ralph Koster - A Theory of Fun for Game Design
- Scott McCloud - Understanding Comics
- Simon Reynolds - Bring the Noise
- Simon Reynolds - Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
- Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up and Start Again
- Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
- Stieg Larsson - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
edited 23rd Mar '12 7:18:31 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
DUMB
Wicked, you're going to kill yourself that way.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
Fluid: Damn it! This aaaaalways happens.
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THEN SO BE IT
Bunny
I'm having like the nerdiest weekend ever.
Playing a few games of Archenemy tonight, going to a New Phyrexia release party tomorrow, and playing a bunch of Scion tomorrow night.
Yeeeessssssss
edited 13th May '11 4:36:09 PM by Deathonabun
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
Embrace the mindscrew
There are worse ways to die.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Bloody Fossil
Aaaargh...
-snap-
Alright, fuck this. I hate everything now.
I'm out.
A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
There are also better ways to die :P
Bunny: Hey being nerdy is perfectly cool.
Who watches the watchmen?
Dove:
Yeah, it ain't easy being on a Mac. The only way to play Windows games would be running a virtual Windows, which is a problem in itself.
Permanently Banned
@Zudak: Haha wow, how do they cook all that in conventional ovens?
Needs more bacon.
Requiem ~ September 2010 - October 2011 [Banned 4 Life]
Bunny
No, I'm saying that I absolutely love it and wouldn't have it any other way.
...Well, except for maybe like a Super Smash Bros Brawl party on Sunday. That would be the shit.
...Maybe I should do that...
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
ALMSIVI
What. The. Fuck.
I've been playing Assassin's Creed 2 all day.
It autosaves.
I got off to like eat dinner and watch some youtube videos and shit.
I got back on a moment ago, and it put me where I was this morning.
I'm a little extremely pissed.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Bibliophile.
@Tzetze: You can commit suicide via quality literature! Best. Suicide. Ever.
@Wicked223: Why not read Milton's Paradise Regained while you're at it?
@Fluid: Oh. That makes sense.
Anyways, in unrelated news, I think that Anita from West Side Story is secretly an evil Manipulative Bastard. She tells Maria several times in the show to never even think of dating outside her race, she sings with anticipation at how tired and sweaty Bernardo will be after a gang-fight, and when Maria is at her most desperate in in greatest need of help, Anita says that she'll give Tony that all-important message, but when she actually gets there, she tells Doc that Maria is dead, thus betraying her daughter's trust and crushing Tony's spirit.
^ That is a great game. Seriously, it involves the friggin' Pazzi conspiracy, the Borgian machinations, Leonardo Da Vinci, and everything else that we love to read about in our early renaissance centred history books.
edited 13th May '11 4:42:42 PM by AlirozTheConfused
Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.
@Fluid: It isn't! ...Is this the part where I whine like a little brat?
Honestly, with all the stuff you're missing out on I'd say it's justified.
ALMSIVI
@Aliroz: I know. I've beaten it already. Playing through it again.
Still incredibly pissed. Fuck this shit.
Maybe I'll just buy Brotherhood and start playing that.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
@Shichi: They have access to commercial-grade stuff. I mean, they have a deep fryer. Who has a deep fryer in their house?
OK!
—Whines and moans in the corner about having trouble/not being able to play his video games—
With the wealth of emulators available, any console is probably fine though.
I love multiple choice.