Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
Debate and Discourse: AWESOME POST in "dbag [chat]", by Organichu
Irond Will
Super Moderator, Moderator mod
Super Moderator, Moderator mod
Irond Will has reported a post.
Reason:
Forum: Debate and Discourse
Assigned Moderators: Elki, ElJeffe, Irond Will
Posted by: Organichu
Original Content:
Reason:
Post: dbag [chat]it pretty much speaks for itself
Forum: Debate and Discourse
Assigned Moderators: Elki, ElJeffe, Irond Will
Posted by: Organichu
Original Content:
i had a few roommates but the two i grew kind of close to were sam and matt
anyway
matt was like, the son a mother would want
he was good looking, he ran every morning, he never skipped class, he had a 4.0, he went on to become an RA, a tour guide for the campus, and like a dozen other club things and all. we had a church right on campus and he even went into manhattan every week because he preferred a more traditional service, with latin. not my soulmate or anything, but a good, reliable guy.
...except he believed in santa claus.
i remember the day clearly because it was the same day the knicks went into triple OT versus the grizzlies. matt was sleeping because he actually cared about class, and everyone was in our room being incredibly loud and boisterous, watching the game. matt kept rolling around and all, and a few times i asked sam to keep them quiet but he was the king of boisterousness. and then then the knicks won and everyone was screaming and somehow liquified peanut butter went everywhere (including on the tv)
finally matt snapped and screamed at everyone to get out of his room, and all of them left except sam and i (sam now chastened and apologizing)
anyway
this is all a long and unnecessary prelude to this:
now matt can't sleep so he and i are talking and he eventually goes "i know you're not religious at all but you've been pretty tolerant of my stuff. i know i talk about it a lot. i want to tell you something."
and i'm trying to figure out what he's getting at and eventually it comes out that he believes in santa clause. he swears he saw him, while wide awake and alert, flying through the sky.
and i'm sitting there trying to digest this when he goes,
"i've wanted to tell someone that for a while. i know it sounds ridiculous- but santa claus is real."
and then he rolled over and went to sleep.
Irond Will on
Posts
PA Lets Play Archive - Twitter - Blog
This Matt dude is cool
I wish I could believe in Santa Claus and still have the presence of mind to not be fucking schizo as fuck (since Matt kept it a secret he obviously knew how crazy he sounded)
It would be pretty awesome to still have a childlike wonder of the world.
If he can believe in one magic man in the sky is it really a stretch to think he can believe in others?
this is exactly why my parents never told me Santa Claus was real
Easter Bunny, he just doesn't wanna deal with the mail, so he outsources it to the elves.
he brought it up a few days later, though i got the sense that he was kind of wary- expecting me to taunt him
and then one time i brought it up to him, before the school year ended
he basically was of the opinion: "i don't know how much of the mythos is accurate, but i know that he exists in some form. i'm not saying i believe in the magical lists or anything, but he's there and he can fly"
hmm
uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh
you are such a terrible person you gave Geebs a brain injury
a braincleft
Man that's terrible.
Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/BusterK/wishlist/3JPEKJGX9G54I/ref=cm_wl_search_bin_1
I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman
all I wanna do is
Thank god!