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  • VanguardVanguard for the Night is Dark and Full of Big Areolas Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    I've always wanted to "get" poetry, but I always feel as though I'm on the outside of an inside joke.

    It's word art. You need to let yourself open up to impressions, rather than trying to study and understand it.
    Let yourself connect emotionally, and let the words shape that connection.

    I never thought about it this way, as unfortunately, all education regarding poetry was focused around it's "meaning."

    This poem. This fucking poem. And entire semester my senior year of high school was dedicated to "the meaning" of this poem. Fuck that poem.

    That poem is great! William Carlos Williams is brilliant too, and a major force in turning American poetry away from traditional forms and using the American vernacular as the basis for the line.

    That poem is terrible. That poem is an unemployed stoner's musings on shit that doesn't matter. Never have I hated 8 lines of text more than I hate those 8 lines of text.

    You shouldn't talk about things with authority when it's clear you're blowing smoke up our asses.

    The poem was written at the turn of the century by William Carlos Williams, a doctor who spent the majority of his life in New Jersey. That's right, he was a doctor, in addition to a poet. So, unemployed? Hardly.

    The rest of your post is subjective, and I can't argue with you hating it. However, a bad poem that does not make.

    Vanguard on
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  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Psych and English are lazy majors for people who don't know what to pick.

    This is pretty much completely bullshit. The rest of your post made sense, but this is nonsensical.

    In my experience, people who don't know what to pick will go with like Psych or English.

    It doesn't mean that there isn't value in these disciplines by themselves, just that some large portion of the people who pick them are aimless and not particularly interested in the field.

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  • TehSlothTehSloth On that ass like Charmin Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    I've always wanted to "get" poetry, but I always feel as though I'm on the outside of an inside joke.

    It's word art. You need to let yourself open up to impressions, rather than trying to study and understand it.
    Let yourself connect emotionally, and let the words shape that connection.

    I never thought about it this way, as unfortunately, all education regarding poetry was focused around it's "meaning."

    This poem. This fucking poem. And entire semester my senior year of high school was dedicated to "the meaning" of this poem. Fuck that poem.

    Oh God, this was just the poem I was thinking about.

    What's next English class? We dedicate a year to the meaning of Finnegan's Wake?

    My english teacher in my senior year of high school had a major obsession with Joyce, although we only covered finnegans wake briefly. Mostly it was portrait of the artist.

    Egret wrote:
    That's the same ratio of words/farts that come out of your mouth.
  • TehSlothTehSloth On that ass like Charmin Registered User regular
    wazilla wrote: »
    The main reason i'm considering the naga epic is that newegg is doing 15% off all razer products... IT'S A BARGAIN DON'T YOU SEE

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    Egret wrote:
    That's the same ratio of words/farts that come out of your mouth.
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Granted this lucid dream science shit isn't a bunch of pseudoscience

    This is totally my jam

    ... Well, I mean you're either lucid while dreaming or not. In this case it's like Crowley said and success is your proof.

    But if you mean "is shit measurable in a lab" then yes, they have devised signals -- I think the basic one was "once you're dreaming, just look left, right, back and forth over and over." Since your eyes move around in REM sleep it's pretty unambiguous when the person is successfully doing the signal within a dream. I think that one arose from them getting Eye readings off someone where they were doing that and when they asked the subject about the dream and he reported that he dreamt has was watching a tennis match.

    They've done stuff about how time elapses in dreams vs waking with that as well.

  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    That poem is terrible. That poem is an unemployed stoner's musings on shit that doesn't matter. Never have I hated 8 lines of text more than I hate those 8 lines of text.

    You shouldn't talk about things with authority when it's clear you're blowing smoke up our asses.

    The poem was written at the turn of the century by William Carlos Williams, a doctor who spent the majority of his life in New Jersey. That's right, he was a doctor, in addition to a poet. So, unemployed? Hardly.

    The rest of your post is subjective, and I can't argue with you hating it. However, a bad poem that does not make.

    I didn't mean Williams was an unemployed stoner, I meant it's something you'd hear come out of an unemployed stoner's mouth. It's useless. Congratulations. You saw something and wrote it down. Here's a book deal. Millions of students now hate your ever living guts.

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  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls Registered User regular
    Your life isn't complete until you read the really filthy poems Joyce wrote to his lover.

    I'm a published writer and have a very unique and interesting writing style. I'm also sharp and witty. My profile is well-written and hilarious. My messages are likewise brilliant. And I've been doing this stuff for...four or five years. I know what "works" in terms of good internet dating writing. "Works" in the sense of leading to a "date" with a human female.
  • DynagripDynagrip destroy everything you touch Registered User, ClubPA regular
    DaemonSadi wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    DaemonSadi wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    The assumption, the graduating et al, or the wager?

    Well I AM a white person!

    I keed, I just don't like when the forums are slow.

    @Dynagrip

    Muay Thai is srs bizness. Just push your elbow back in their face! It's just kinda how it works!

    It was BJJ, so I was on my back and he was the instructor and my size or bigger so I was pretty much trapped. It was not a successful sales pitch of a session. Also, the place followed the Houston BJJ gym tradition of having no AC so the mats were covered in sweat, as were your classmates. Fucking disgusting. Lack of air conditioning doesn't build character. It grows ringworm and staph infections.

    The lack of AC is definitely a terrible thing.

    However, I'll give the instructor credit for showing you what it will be like when you roll with other students and not giving you any false ideas!

    I've already been introduced to that forearm bullshit. I still think it's shitty to do when rolling in a class setting and not competition.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Psych and English are lazy majors for people who don't know what to pick.

    This is pretty much completely bullshit. The rest of your post made sense, but this is nonsensical.

    it sounded less accusatory in my head. What I mean is that, if you are lazy and don't know what to pick, it will likely end up being English or Psych.

    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Your life isn't complete until you read the really filthy poems Joyce wrote to his lover.

    Someone link these to me, I've always wanted to read them.

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  • VanguardVanguard for the Night is Dark and Full of Big Areolas Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    That poem is terrible. That poem is an unemployed stoner's musings on shit that doesn't matter. Never have I hated 8 lines of text more than I hate those 8 lines of text.

    You shouldn't talk about things with authority when it's clear you're blowing smoke up our asses.

    The poem was written at the turn of the century by William Carlos Williams, a doctor who spent the majority of his life in New Jersey. That's right, he was a doctor, in addition to a poet. So, unemployed? Hardly.

    The rest of your post is subjective, and I can't argue with you hating it. However, a bad poem that does not make.

    I didn't mean Williams was an unemployed stoner, I meant it's something you'd hear come out of an unemployed stoner's mouth. It's useless. Congratulations. You saw something and wrote it down. Here's a book deal. Millions of students now hate your ever living guts.

    Define the use of art, poetry or any other.

    I also fail to see how this is about anything less significant than your average haiku.

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  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls Registered User regular
    Or maybe they're just letters. They're terrible.

    I'm a published writer and have a very unique and interesting writing style. I'm also sharp and witty. My profile is well-written and hilarious. My messages are likewise brilliant. And I've been doing this stuff for...four or five years. I know what "works" in terms of good internet dating writing. "Works" in the sense of leading to a "date" with a human female.
  • EddyEddy i ain't afraid of no ghosts Registered User regular
    The Red Wheelbarrow was important in an objective sense because it spurred heavy discussion on ... discussion. Meaning. Discourse. Language. Plus it placed some dignity onto the American vernacular.

    I know matt's being somewhat facetious, but I want to clarify that the art of human communication and the philosophy of language kind of inherently matters. I mean this is a place to chat, after all.

  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    That poem is terrible. That poem is an unemployed stoner's musings on shit that doesn't matter. Never have I hated 8 lines of text more than I hate those 8 lines of text.

    You shouldn't talk about things with authority when it's clear you're blowing smoke up our asses.

    The poem was written at the turn of the century by William Carlos Williams, a doctor who spent the majority of his life in New Jersey. That's right, he was a doctor, in addition to a poet. So, unemployed? Hardly.

    The rest of your post is subjective, and I can't argue with you hating it. However, a bad poem that does not make.

    I didn't mean Williams was an unemployed stoner, I meant it's something you'd hear come out of an unemployed stoner's mouth. It's useless. Congratulations. You saw something and wrote it down. Here's a book deal. Millions of students now hate your ever living guts.

    This seems uncharitable to the point of ludicrous uselessness. Like you are unenriching my life with these posts.

  • HerrCronHerrCron Registered User regular
    Your life isn't complete until you read the really filthy poems Joyce wrote to his lover.

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  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    I've been dreaming a lot lately.

    I've gotten to the point where I have a fairly consistent record of recognizing when I am sleeping.

    Then I exert executive control over the dream and turn it into a sex dream as soon as possible.

    But a few minutes later I almost always wake up.

    It is so depressing, I haven't figured out how to prevent myself from waking up once I've realized I'm dreaming.

    Spinning in circles is traditional to maintain dreaming. Do a pirouette and keep going at increasing speed.

    When you stop you will probably be somewhere else do to the brain going ADHD mode in dreams, but whatever.

    Desc I am regularly jelly of your hippie upbringing

    It ain't all quinoa and roses, Learothy

    Gotta guard the family's ancestral pot farm from the McCoys with nothing but a dusty Chinese AK

    My Mom's side of parenting was more second wave feminist hippie eating avocados and California farm labor background. My dad's side was breeding pit bulls and working on motorcycles and Ohio poverty.

    It is a weird combo perhaps but I guess I turned out okay.

    Hippies and Ohio poverty...

    ...brother?

    *dap*

  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Your life isn't complete until you read the really filthy poems Joyce wrote to his lover.

    Someone link these to me, I've always wanted to read them.

    http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce72385-b146-4bf2-9d2e-0dfa6ac7142d

    here is how it starts
    Spoiler:

    I'm a published writer and have a very unique and interesting writing style. I'm also sharp and witty. My profile is well-written and hilarious. My messages are likewise brilliant. And I've been doing this stuff for...four or five years. I know what "works" in terms of good internet dating writing. "Works" in the sense of leading to a "date" with a human female.
  • EddyEddy i ain't afraid of no ghosts Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Your life isn't complete until you read the really filthy poems Joyce wrote to his lover.

    Someone link these to me, I've always wanted to read them.

    Well to get the full effect you need some bastard with a heavy Irish brogue reciting them, possibly while eying your "cunt".

  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Ah, the last refuge of an art lover. "Define art". Not falling into that trap.


    Honestly my dislike of most poetry comes from the teachers attempting to justify their useless degree by ascribing a greater meaning to something when one doesn't exist. Poetry analysis should be an executable offense. Too many young minds have been destroyed by it.

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  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls Registered User regular
    I cannot bring myself to copy paste the part where he talks about his face between her fat thighs.

    I'm a published writer and have a very unique and interesting writing style. I'm also sharp and witty. My profile is well-written and hilarious. My messages are likewise brilliant. And I've been doing this stuff for...four or five years. I know what "works" in terms of good internet dating writing. "Works" in the sense of leading to a "date" with a human female.
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    That poem is terrible. That poem is an unemployed stoner's musings on shit that doesn't matter. Never have I hated 8 lines of text more than I hate those 8 lines of text.

    You shouldn't talk about things with authority when it's clear you're blowing smoke up our asses.

    The poem was written at the turn of the century by William Carlos Williams, a doctor who spent the majority of his life in New Jersey. That's right, he was a doctor, in addition to a poet. So, unemployed? Hardly.

    The rest of your post is subjective, and I can't argue with you hating it. However, a bad poem that does not make.

    I didn't mean Williams was an unemployed stoner, I meant it's something you'd hear come out of an unemployed stoner's mouth. It's useless. Congratulations. You saw something and wrote it down. Here's a book deal. Millions of students now hate your ever living guts.

    This seems uncharitable to the point of ludicrous uselessness. Like you are unenriching my life with these posts.

    I'll be honest, it feels a lot like you're saying that a jackson pollock is just some retard throwing paint on a wall.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    Langston hughes 4ever

    @nealcm @faynor
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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    That poem is terrible. That poem is an unemployed stoner's musings on shit that doesn't matter. Never have I hated 8 lines of text more than I hate those 8 lines of text.

    You shouldn't talk about things with authority when it's clear you're blowing smoke up our asses.

    The poem was written at the turn of the century by William Carlos Williams, a doctor who spent the majority of his life in New Jersey. That's right, he was a doctor, in addition to a poet. So, unemployed? Hardly.

    The rest of your post is subjective, and I can't argue with you hating it. However, a bad poem that does not make.

    I didn't mean Williams was an unemployed stoner, I meant it's something you'd hear come out of an unemployed stoner's mouth. It's useless. Congratulations. You saw something and wrote it down. Here's a book deal. Millions of students now hate your ever living guts.

    This seems uncharitable to the point of ludicrous uselessness. Like you are unenriching my life with these posts.

    I ain't owe you nothin!

    *snap snap snap*

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  • EddyEddy i ain't afraid of no ghosts Registered User regular
    Let's not equate Jackson Pollock, that retard throwing paint on a wall, with WCW

  • DynagripDynagrip destroy everything you touch Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    it was a cute comic and was clever

    you dudes need to lighten up

    liberal arts majors am i right??

    As a liberal arts major, I found that comic hilarious.

    As one who studied lyrics both iambic and pentameter
    I found the comic well within my comedic parameters!

    The trick, you know, is not just matching syllables on every line.
    You have to match the metric feet; mis-emphasis is asinine.

    this post gave me an erection

    It's always such a pleasure pumping blood into your nethers, Chu;
    Erections, though, I'm sad to say, to your chair often tether you.
    For who would dare reveal a telltale bulge that throbs for all to see,
    Especially a bulge provoked by metric virtuosity?

    yeah, work that liberal arts masters degree

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  • VanguardVanguard for the Night is Dark and Full of Big Areolas Registered User regular
    Ah, the last refuge of an art lover. "Define art". Not falling into that trap.


    Honestly my dislike of most poetry comes from the teachers attempting to justify their useless degree by ascribing a greater meaning to something when one doesn't exist. Poetry analysis should be an executable offense. Too many young minds have been destroyed by it.

    Man your reading comprehension sucks. I did not ask you to define art. I asked you to define the use of art.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    I cannot bring myself to copy paste the part where he talks about his face between her fat thighs.

    "Hams to the left of me... hams to the right... salmon in front of me..."

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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    You are sucking the color out of my life as we speak!

  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Ah, the last refuge of an art lover. "Define art". Not falling into that trap.


    Honestly my dislike of most poetry comes from the teachers attempting to justify their useless degree by ascribing a greater meaning to something when one doesn't exist. Poetry analysis should be an executable offense. Too many young minds have been destroyed by it.

    Man your reading comprehension sucks. I did not ask you to define art. I asked you to define the use of art.

    6/half dozen

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  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls Registered User regular
    oh god, he talks about her farting constantly while they have anal sex. i hate you james joyce. i hate you so much.

    I'm a published writer and have a very unique and interesting writing style. I'm also sharp and witty. My profile is well-written and hilarious. My messages are likewise brilliant. And I've been doing this stuff for...four or five years. I know what "works" in terms of good internet dating writing. "Works" in the sense of leading to a "date" with a human female.
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    i want hippy parents

    wtb

    Surreality parents are BoP

  • EddyEddy i ain't afraid of no ghosts Registered User regular
    oh god, he talks about her farting constantly while they have anal sex. i hate you james joyce. i hate you so much.

    i'm masturbating to the thought of you masturbating to james joyce masturbating

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    Poetry rules, matt

    Sorry ur a corporate drone vOv

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  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    Psych and English are lazy majors for people who don't know what to pick.

    This is pretty much completely bullshit. The rest of your post made sense, but this is nonsensical.

    it sounded less accusatory in my head. What I mean is that, if you are lazy and don't know what to pick, it will likely end up being English or Psych.

    Ah, yes, that is certainly true.

    My BA programmed drummed out so many of those people Freshmen and Sophomore year.

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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Anyway I don't know poetry very well, and in some instances I find I dislike it, but I can dig what that guy was doing. I appreciate the communication of a simple beauty such as that of a red wheelbarrow and some chickens. I see value in taking a moment to see that image.

    I also never really thought of poetry like that, so that poem kinda made me reevaluate my opinion on poetry.

  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls Registered User regular
    James Joyce was really into talking about sweaty buttocks.

    I'm a published writer and have a very unique and interesting writing style. I'm also sharp and witty. My profile is well-written and hilarious. My messages are likewise brilliant. And I've been doing this stuff for...four or five years. I know what "works" in terms of good internet dating writing. "Works" in the sense of leading to a "date" with a human female.
  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck Registered User regular
    r u srs

    you mean i have to destroy my old parents and then find some expensive boe ones on the ah if i want new ones?

    wtf

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  • VanguardVanguard for the Night is Dark and Full of Big Areolas Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Ah, the last refuge of an art lover. "Define art". Not falling into that trap.


    Honestly my dislike of most poetry comes from the teachers attempting to justify their useless degree by ascribing a greater meaning to something when one doesn't exist. Poetry analysis should be an executable offense. Too many young minds have been destroyed by it.

    Man your reading comprehension sucks. I did not ask you to define art. I asked you to define the use of art.

    6/half dozen

    Nope, they are not the same.

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  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    James Joyce was really into talking about sweaty buttocks.

    I find James Joyce to be a sweaty buttock most of the time.

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    wazilla wrote: »
    The main reason i'm considering the naga epic is that newegg is doing 15% off all razer products... IT'S A BARGAIN DON'T YOU SEE

    get yoself a blackwidow ultimate dawg!

    EDIT:
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    I love my Blackwidow Ultimate so much. It's a typing dream.

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