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Cicada [chat] about Cicadas, with some [chat]

_J__J_ PedantRegistered User, __BANNED USERS regular
This is Ninjask
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He is a cicada. Cicadas are awesome. This is their life:
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Isn't that cute?

They also make an awesome sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqys8lKsu4s

Sometimes they are shy, but they come around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms

Sometimes they sit on themselves
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There are also hipster cicadas
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So pretty!!
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  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    Did you guys see this:

    http://geekologie.com/2014/10/family-has-to-abandon-house-after-1000s.php
    Apparently the spider problem got so bad they were "bleeding out of the walls,"

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    Pikachu hugging a sad caterpie is the cutest thing.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Next 4 nerds who poast are my Grimrock 2 party.

  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    IM SO GRIMROCK

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Cicadas produce the most horrible sound all summer in Japan.

    Didn't help there was a tree right outside my window.

    Moment the sun was up, reeeeee reeeeeeeee reeeeeee.

    Fuck you cicadas.

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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    i didn't know that Briannu Wu fled

    :(

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    Next 4 nerds who poast are my Grimrock 2 party.

    LET ME DIE HORRIBLY

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Next 4 nerds who poast are my Grimrock 2 party.

    Are there robots warforged?

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    How do you do the diceroll command?

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    edited October 2014
    I am making a grimrock party too!

    @arch is going to be a bug wizard

    he looks like a beatle it's pretty great

    what other guys should I make

    I was thinking a fighter and a knight for the front

    and then I can't decide on the last guy for the back line

    I kinda want a rogue who will punch people from the back with a knife cut cut

    but I also want an archer who will shoot mans

    but also there is the new alchemist guy and I want to fire all the guns

    skippydumptruck on
  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Also anyone know how I would go about making this .gif into a forum acceptable filesize?

    http://i.imgur.com/eKhr5Og.gif

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    also gamergate makes me mad

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    So Gamergate has pretty much escalated to domestic terrorism now.

    Good job, nerds.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    I am making a grimrock party too!

    @arch is going to be a bug wizard

    he looks like a beatle it's pretty great

    what other guys should I make

    I was thinking a fighter and a knight for the front

    and then I can't decide on the last guy for the back line

    I kinda want a rogue who will punch people from the back with a knife cut cut

    but I also want an archer who will shoot mans

    but also there is the new alchemist guy and I want to fire all the guns

    Can I be your ratling rogue?

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited October 2014
    Deebaser wrote:
    Did you see my other post? I have a friend that is an editor of a small town free newspaper that has received death threats. That's a lot closer to the mark of vidya game writer and probably has a much smaller readership than a lot of even small time bloggers

    I did. I don't know why it prompted you to post an even less analogous position but I don't find that one especially compelling either. Readership for their physical paper is at its lowest at 150k+ readers. That doesn't include their internet blogs. Sarkeesian only recently had as many subscribers as the newspaper alone in the last few months.

    Though out of curiosity how often was your friend's home address tweeted and retweeted by a movement totally not about misogyny hating journalists?

    Quid on
  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    I do not like cicadas when I am doing location sound

    they are nuisance

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  • rockrngerrockrnger Registered User regular
    imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftoronto.ctvnews.ca%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.82032!%2FhttpImage%2Fimage._gen%2Fderivatives%2Flandscape_620%2Fimage.&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftoronto.ctvnews.ca%2Fpesky-mayflies-come-to-ohio-s-lake-erie-shores-1.523438&h=337&w=600&tbnid=zOh2AUHvF8LtxM%3A&zoom=1&docid=u-dp_TbyhwBi6M&hl=en&ei=iNk-VJfgDpK0yASq5YCACA&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CI4BEDMoYDBg&iact=rc&uact=3&page=11&start=91&ndsp=9

    Seriously, mayflys are the worst.

  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    I guess I just don't want a technology magazine to tell me incessantly about how to binge watch TV series. Whilst noting the Gilmour Girls is a classic TV show.

    I just don't enjoy reading articles like that or TV. Worst part of the av clubbe for me really.

    Now, saucy blogs about scientists breeding spiders to stop online harassment, I'd binge read those all day long

    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    Sometimes I sell my stuff on Ebay
  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    Make me a grim rock guy you fascists

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    desc for you sure!

    Grimrock:

    Stacey
    SOTAR
    desc
    DarkPrimus

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    The short version: nerds think they uncovered this massive conspiracy because of relationship between game designers and journalists, specifically women game designers, and have used that to "root out corruption in game journalism, while not fully having an understanding of what corruption or journalism is, and if rooting out means organizing campaigns of harassment against said game designers and their friends.

    Also it's gamergate because people are fucking stupid.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    This article Pony linked p much sums it up:

    http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Gamergate remains a bunch of internet bullshit to the highest degree. That article is right, it is basically a culture war, except I don't even really see what the goal is. Political culture wars are about getting voters to get angry about nonsense so they vote against the nonsense even though the nonsense doesn't exist.
    What exactly is the goal of gamergate, to make the internet a miserable place for women? (moreso?)
    To free videogames from dealing with social/political/cultural issues because it hurts when you have to think? (Newsflash: Just about nothing with a story is completely apolitical/acultural). You can even talk about Pacman and Mrs Pacman as a shorthand for portrayal of women in media.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    also gamergate makes me mad

    As a gatekeeper of gaming, I'm 100% for gamer gates.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I think gamersgate like most of these things is just the excuse assholes are using to be assholes.

    There have been a few folks who actually used it to exam the "gaming media" both the good and the bad aspects. And thought, maybe we should make this less awful.

    But stuff like that isn't exciting or news worthy or the same group who are looking for an excuse to target and make people's lives miserable.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    Deadspin can have some surprisingly good writing for a Gawker site.

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    Because we need it in this new thread:

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  • ChelleYeahChelleYeah Mrs. Ludious Living it up in Cinderella's CastleRegistered User regular
    LUD YOU IDIOT, YOU MISSED YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO POST ABOUT SMOKE MACHINES AND SOMEHOW RELATE IT TO BACK TO BILL MURRAY!

    I post Makeup stuff and Schnauzers on instagram.

    Ludious wrote: »
    I react like a dyslexic crash test dummy. Hit the wall then the brakes.
  • rockrngerrockrnger Registered User regular
    Gamer's gate however remains a upstanding organization as far as I know.

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    zoe quinn's ex boyfriend gave her game a good score

    this enraged the internet because she has a vagina

    also her game was free so who the fuck cares

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    Does grim rock have fantasy corgis?

  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    Zoe Quinn made a game.
    Her ex-boyfriend said she cheated on him, maybe with some guy from Kotaku.
    4chan did some really quite horrible things.
    People outside of 4chan did some even more horrible things.
    Now all men who play video games are sexist.

  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    rockrnger wrote: »
    Gamer's gate however remains a upstanding organization as far as I know.

    Bad website design, only rarely has unique deals, 7/10 because videogame scoring systems.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
  • DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote:
    Did you see my other post? I have a friend that is an editor of a small town free newspaper that has received death threats. That's a lot closer to the mark of vidya game writer and probably has a much smaller readership than a lot of even small time bloggers

    I did. I don't know why it prompted you to post an even less analogous position but I don't find that one especially compelling either. Readership for their physical paper is at its lowest at 150k+ readers. That doesn't include their internet blogs. Sarkeesian only recently had as many subscribers as the newspaper alone in the last few months.

    Though out of curiosity how often was your friend's home address tweeted and retweeted by a movement totally not about misogyny hating journalists?

    150K? Internet blogs? What? Dude, im talking small. The town in question has a population of 50,000. The paper is basically the pennysaver with articles. The point of both anecdotes is that if you are a public figure in any capacity some asshole is going to send you a threat. It sucks, but it's sadly the way shit has been for a long while and it's not news. There's always going to be some asshole.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    _J_ wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    Zoe Quinn made a game.
    Her ex-boyfriend said she cheated on him, maybe with some guy from Kotaku.
    4chan did some really quite horrible things.
    People outside of 4chan did some even more horrible things.
    Now all men who play video games are sexist.

    A decent post up til the bolded.

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    the gamersgate assholes are the same coterie of lunatics that drove that writer out of bioware because she had the gall to say in public "I wish games had a story only mode where you could skip the gameplay"

    because you know, her having that opinion clearly meant that no game would ever have gameplay again because one writer at bioware was more into story than gameplay

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    _J_ wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    Zoe Quinn made a game.
    Her ex-boyfriend said she cheated on him, maybe with some guy from Kotaku.
    4chan did some really quite horrible things.
    People outside of 4chan did some even more horrible things.
    Now all men who play video games are sexist.

    as always, we can count on _J_ to provide nuanced commentary

  • cptruggedcptrugged I think it has something to do with free will. Registered User regular
    God I hate bugs so much.

  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Quid wrote: »
    _J_ wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Could someone give me a brief explanation for what's going on a gamers gate?

    ...also what is gamersgate?


    I am literally the worst gamer.

    Zoe Quinn made a game.
    Her ex-boyfriend said she cheated on him, maybe with some guy from Kotaku.
    4chan did some really quite horrible things.
    People outside of 4chan did some even more horrible things.
    Now all men who play video games are sexist.

    A decent post up til the bolded.

    Now all men who play video games, except Quid and Pony, are sexist.

    Fixed.

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