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This is a thread for people who will not be or have not been on the site for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.

Generally, expect the following from this thread:

  1. People announcing their departure or return.
  2. Moderators announcing a significant forum ban — not trolls or vandals, but someone people will notice and miss.
  3. Inquiries about an absent troper.
  4. Responses to inquiries about an absent troper.

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Not that I'm going anywhere, but this is a thread for people who will not be on the forums for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 10th 2023 at 3:48:36 AM

Malph (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#17051: Aug 25th 2012 at 10:54:55 PM

And then Malph returned!grin

Yeah, I moved and didn't have internet access for a bit. I didn't bother to mention it because I didn't think I'd be missed (because I didn't think I'd be gone 17 days).

Oh well, I'm back now.

Let the age of darkness begin! evil grin

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#17052: Aug 25th 2012 at 10:56:09 PM

I always found the beginning of a semester to be the lightest workload (except finals in lower level classes). The first week is all orientation stuff.

Fresh-eyed movie blog
LibrisDedita Vivé la cuddlevolution! from A land of queues. Still. Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Vivé la cuddlevolution!
#17053: Aug 26th 2012 at 4:31:21 AM

Stay safe, AHR.

"We are Libris. We will add your literary distinctiveness to our own. Collection is imminent. Resistance is futile." -Tuefel PM box ope
DiurnalBrocolli Something... from Somewhere... Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Something...
#17054: Aug 26th 2012 at 4:40:28 AM

Later, AHR.

Just floating around...
Ironypus from Australia Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#17055: Aug 27th 2012 at 4:15:28 AM

Right, so I'll be gone maybe for a few days+ while my laptop gets tinkered with, but fear not as I shall return greater and more terrible than before.

HopelessDaydreamer Since: May, 2012
kay4today Princess Ymir's knightess from Austria Since: Jan, 2011
Princess Ymir's knightess
#17057: Aug 27th 2012 at 8:10:40 AM

See you later, Irony-san! Don't stay away for too long! sad

Hydronix I'm an Irene! from TV Tropes Since: Apr, 2010
theweirdKiddokun What a Wonderful World! from Last Place in the Race Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
What a Wonderful World!
#17060: Aug 27th 2012 at 1:36:42 PM

Irony is gone thank god.....um I mean let do another theater Irony.

The Reaper Games starts anew.
Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
Nemesis
#17061: Aug 27th 2012 at 6:27:54 PM

If irony is gone, does that mean hipsters are out of luck?

A brighter future for a darker age.
Hydronix I'm an Irene! from TV Tropes Since: Apr, 2010
I'm an Irene!
#17062: Aug 27th 2012 at 6:30:52 PM

Nah, just thought we were out of pus. How ironic.

...I got nothing.

Quest 64 thread
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17063: Aug 27th 2012 at 6:32:33 PM

Gee, last time irony was dead was just after 9/11

Zersk o-o from Columbia District, BNA Since: May, 2010
o-o
#17064: Aug 27th 2012 at 6:35:27 PM

Hairene:

ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓈᒻᒪᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ
PadurKaril Bile Connoisseur from San José, CA Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Cigarettes and Valentines
#17065: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:06:30 PM

What did I miss?

I'd rather the world betray me, but I won't betray the world.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#17066: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:11:26 PM

Out of pus?

.... ewww.

Be not afraid...
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#17067: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:13:05 PM

Nooo, Irony! The only other Australian!sad

DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#17068: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:14:45 PM

@Loni: Wouldn't that be a good thing though?

"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#17069: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:23:04 PM

Well yeah, but I'm just wondering why we're collecting it in the first place, because 'out of X' seems to imply that X is something you're deliberately keeping...

edited 27th Aug '12 7:23:15 PM by LoniJay

Be not afraid...
theweirdKiddokun What a Wonderful World! from Last Place in the Race Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
What a Wonderful World!
#17070: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:24:08 PM

People can't keep cats?

The Reaper Games starts anew.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#17071: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:26:44 PM

That would be 'puss', not pus, surely?

Be not afraid...
DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#17072: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:26:48 PM

@Loni: Maybe they're trying to set up shop in Diagon Alley.

"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian
theweirdKiddokun What a Wonderful World! from Last Place in the Race Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
What a Wonderful World!
#17073: Aug 27th 2012 at 7:29:23 PM

Oh pus......gross.

The Reaper Games starts anew.
deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
Grimview Catalytic from British Columbia Since: Mar, 2012
Catalytic
#17075: Aug 27th 2012 at 9:43:40 PM

I return from Montreal!

I... drank. A lot.

The manifestation on August 22nd was incredible, and thanks to the general Canadian habit of "Hi, I don't know you, but I'm [x] and I'm here for [y]," I met a ton of people and had an amazing time.

As to student protests being violent; there was only one single (unconfirmed) arrest, out of an estimated (by best estimates) 50 000 people marching. Some news sources claimed 12 000; CLASSE itself claimed 100 000+. Less state-biased news sources cited figures in the middle, tending towards 50 000. So, yeah, there were a ton of people in the streets. Peacefully.

A pair of pictures from the event. More to come when I upload more off my phone. Probably tomorrow. (The latter picture's sign says "I vote for love," and was one of many different signs like it. There were organisations present at the march's start site handing out material encouraging people to get out and vote; signs like that among them. Most of them had something like "I vote for my country," "I vote for education," "I vote against corruption" or other things along those lines.)

More to come in a bigger post somewhere else. tongue

But yeah. I'm back. I'm alive.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

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