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evilbob · May 2012

Captain Carrot wrote: »

Taking my 13-year-old doberman to the vet, because he can no longer control his pooping. I may need to do some digging when we come back. :cry: :cry:

D:

Thomamelas · May 2012

Thanatos wrote: »

Thomamelas wrote: »

Disco Terrier wrote: »

I've never played any P&P anything, other than Clue.

You should start out with some RIFTS. It's a great beginner system.

You are a terrible person.

I am. But RIFTS is actually a good beginner system. The rule system is so convoluted that players will quickly say fuck it and throw out large swaths of the rules. Which will serve them in good stead when they encounter a rules system that is designed by a sane person. They will learn it can still be fun if you throw out a dumb rule or two. And the setting is perfect for any damn kind of story you want. Heroic sword and sorcery? RIFTS has it. Giant Mecha unleashing hell? It's got it. Robot Cowboys? It's in there. It's a fucking gumbo of a setting.

No, if I wanted to really be an absolutely evil shithead I would have suggested a GURPS Mecha game. Which combines GURPS, GURPS vehicle rules, and the GURPS Anime rules.

desc · May 2012

Winky 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.

Wait, is this for real?

Because I noticed last night when I was getting close to waking up and I was fighting it that the world started spinning around me. Could be a coincidence?

Yes, I believe this technique is a few decades old at this point. I'm certainly not making it up.

This is your homey: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge

wazilla · May 2012

Eddy wrote: »

Waz i'm writing a paper about hybridity in poetry and just used an example of contemporary sonnets that deliberately refrain from the turn :shock:

*gasp*

surrealitycheck · May 2012

i have not yet executed the perpetrators

i am constructing the perfect crime

Tamin · May 2012

At the risk of being boring, Highwayman and The Lady of Shallot are among my favorite poems.

syndalis · May 2012

I don't want to derail the game of thrones thread any more than I have so I'll just post it here.

Erect penis.

That is the line between stuff HBO can get away with and "porn," pretty much, right?

They can show any and everything else on both genders, including a limp dude. Just not an aroused one.

Vanguard · May 2012

wazilla wrote: »

Eddy wrote: »

Waz i'm writing a paper about hybridity in poetry and just used an example of contemporary sonnets that deliberately refrain from the turn :shock:

*gasp*

That's an awesome subject. Do you talk about Ted Berrigan? You might want to look at Paul Legault's book The Other Poems. Both are books of sonnets.

wazilla · May 2012

matt has a problem wrote: »

wazilla wrote: »

Also I need to not spend $100 on a RAZOR NAGA because that thing just looks silly and I'd be silly if I did

Especially since you can get them from Amazon for $76 with free shipping.

Interesting! It seems that amazon thinks the Epic is just a color variant, but it actually comes with more stuff, thus the higher price. But I was unaware of the other 2 variants.... That will make things more complicated.

Also, syndalis' endorsement does help. I love my MX1000, but it is almost 6 years old at this point...

Winky · May 2012

Granted this lucid dream science shit isn't a bunch of pseudoscience

This is totally my jam

matt has a problem · May 2012

wazilla wrote: »

matt has a problem wrote: »

wazilla wrote: »

Also I need to not spend $100 on a RAZOR NAGA because that thing just looks silly and I'd be silly if I did

Especially since you can get them from Amazon for $76 with free shipping.

Interesting! It seems that amazon thinks the Epic is just a color variant, but it actually comes with more stuff, thus the higher price. But I was unaware of the other 2 variants.... That will make things more complicated.

Also, syndalis' endorsement does help. I love my MX1000, but it is almost 6 years old at this point...

I believe the difference between the EPIC and regular version is the EPIC is wired/wireless, while regular is just wired.

TheCanMan · May 2012

BREAKING NEWS: This just in, the world is an even worse place than originally thought.

South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

syndalis · May 2012

wazilla wrote: »

matt has a problem wrote: »

wazilla wrote: »

Also I need to not spend $100 on a RAZOR NAGA because that thing just looks silly and I'd be silly if I did

Especially since you can get them from Amazon for $76 with free shipping.

Interesting! It seems that amazon thinks the Epic is just a color variant, but it actually comes with more stuff, thus the higher price. But I was unaware of the other 2 variants.... That will make things more complicated.

Also, syndalis' endorsement does help. I love my MX1000, but it is almost 6 years old at this point...

The epic can be wireless if you want (or not, your choice), mouse buttons 4 and 5 are on the top below the scroll wheel as opposed to the top left near the tip of the left mouse button (which is a godawful place to put those buttons), and you get three "grip" chassis which allow you to alter the shape of the mouse into something that fits your playstyle.

I had a Naga before the Naga Epic, and its no competition; the Epic is better. But it is also 40 bucks more expensive.

matt has a problem · May 2012

TheCanMan wrote: »

BREAKING NEWS: This just in, the world is an even worse place than originally thought.

South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

In reality, when placed in water the babies in the capsules just grow 5-9 times in size.

Vanguard · May 2012

Disco Terrier wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Disco Terrier wrote: »

Poetry is completely unintelligible to me.

Like literally I try to read it and my mind draws a blank.

Let me attempt to change that:

e e cummings wrote:

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh … And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new

...I guess that's about having sex?

It's still mostly gibberish though.

Stop trying to "figure it out" and just enjoy the word play.

DoctorArch · May 2012

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."

Evil Multifarious · May 2012

Psych and English are lazy majors for people who don't know what to pick. There are people who really like those fields and get a lot out of their education but that's their own drive and interest.

I was a terrible student who never did any readings and my grasp of critical theory is both shaky and leavened with contempt for the entire field as it currently functions.

But talking about books for six years did make me better at understanding both books and writing, and writing papers made me better at thinking.

desc · May 2012

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.

Eddy · May 2012

Vanguard wrote: »

wazilla wrote: »

Eddy wrote: »

Waz i'm writing a paper about hybridity in poetry and just used an example of contemporary sonnets that deliberately refrain from the turn :shock:

*gasp*

That's an awesome subject. Do you talk about Ted Berrigan? You might want to look at Paul Legault's book The Other Poems. Both are books of sonnets.

My immediate inclination was indeed Berrigan. I branched out to Agha Shahid Ali's ghazals and Billy Collins' ... well, everything

Vanguard · May 2012

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 because less than 10% of the reading population reads poetry. High school teachers are required to teach a unit on it, and they themselves probably aren't very sure what to do with it. To people who don't read poetry and buy into the myth that the meaning is what you're after, all poetry is difficult. At its most basic level it is a celebration of language.

TL DR · May 2012

I think the question of whether the babies were dead because of their value in capsule form would decide whether that is a story about horrible infanticide or pragmatic upcycling.

DoctorArch · May 2012

Kitty wonders how easily he can climb the bookcase.

TL DR · May 2012

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?

matt has a problem · May 2012

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.

surrealitycheck · May 2012

i want hippy parents

wtb

Vanguard · May 2012

matt has a problem 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.

Winky · May 2012

TL DR wrote: »

I think the question of whether the babies were dead because of their value in capsule form would decide whether that is a story about horrible infanticide or pragmatic upcycling.

Still born? Still valuable!

Evil Multifarious · May 2012

Analyzing poetry is immensely rewarding and shouldn't be casually rejected as a way of reading.

wandering · May 2012

Thanatos wrote: »

My favorite poem is Paradise Lost:

Spoiler:

No, I did not post ten thousand lines of verse in here. Are you fucking crazy?

I laughed. Also I tried to post the entire poem in a spoiler but Vanilla wouldn't let me.

Winky wrote: »

I also find that when I try to force things to happen in my dreams they are "less real" than the things that are "naturally occurring". Like they tend to be like ghosts.

The same thing happens to me. I'll be like, okay I've realized this is a dream, so I declare that this will now happen! And then it sort of does happen but at the same time not really and I'm like "man I wanted that to happen in a vivid sort of way."

DoctorArch · May 2012

matt has a problem 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?

wazilla · May 2012

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

evilbob · May 2012

Apparently joining the 27 club is not an acceptable life goal.

matt has a problem · May 2012

Vanguard wrote: »

matt has a problem 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.

wazilla · May 2012

matt has a problem 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.

Wow... really? That's kinda silly. So what does it mean? I vaguely remember something about communism.

Winky · May 2012

wandering wrote: »

Thanatos wrote: »

My favorite poem is Paradise Lost:

Spoiler:

No, I did not post ten thousand lines of verse in here. Are you fucking crazy?

I laughed. Also I tried to post the entire poem in a spoiler but Vanilla wouldn't let me.

Winky wrote: »

I also find that when I try to force things to happen in my dreams they are "less real" than the things that are "naturally occurring". Like they tend to be like ghosts.

The same thing happens to me. I'll be like, okay I've realized this is a dream, so I declare that this will now happen! And then it sort of does happen but at the same time not really and I'm like "man I wanted that to happen in a vivid sort of way."

This is going to sound really weird and nerdy, but it is like controlling my lucid dreams feels like skiing in Tribes.

Like I have a limited amount of "thrust" and I have to kind of build momentum with the environment and the things I already have there.

Vanguard · May 2012

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Analyzing poetry is immensely rewarding and shouldn't be casually rejected as a way of reading.

It absolutely is, but you have to start somewhere. I don't think giving a student the theories of New Criticism or Deconstructionism is conducive to this. Again, to someone who doesn't read poetry, all poetry is difficult. A simp

AManFromEarth · May 2012

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

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.

Eddy · May 2012

The Red Wheelbarrow, truly the Mein Kampf of our times.

Dynagrip · May 2012

Leitner wrote: »

Ugh.

Friend and colleague is really trying to push me into being involved in a business he's trying to set up.

Going to be so hard to navigate this without lots of hurt feelings and resentment.

like asking for money, "investing", or what?

matt has a problem · May 2012

evilbob wrote: »

Apparently joining the 27 club is not an acceptable life goal.

Joining Club 33 is though.

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