All I Know About [chat]

Hahnsoo1

Neil Gaiman posted this yesterday on his blog. It was something he read at the wedding for a friend.

This is everything I have to tell you about love: nothing.
This is everything I've learned about marriage: nothing.

Only that the world out there is complicated,
and there are beasts in the night, and delight and pain,
and the only thing that makes it okay, sometimes,
is to reach out a hand in the darkness and find another hand to squeeze,
and not to be alone.

It's not the kisses, or never just the kisses: it's what they mean.
Somebody's got your back.
Somebody knows your worst self and somehow doesn't want to rescue you
or send for the army to rescue them.

It's not two broken halves becoming one.
It's the light from a distant lighthouse bringing you both safely home
because home is wherever you are both together.

So this is everything I have to tell you about love and marriage: nothing,
like a book without pages or a forest without trees.

Because there are things you cannot know before you experience them.
Because no study can prepare you for the joys or the trials.
Because nobody else's love, nobody else's marriage, is like yours,
and it's a road you can only learn by walking it,
a dance you cannot be taught,
a song that did not exist before you began, together, to sing.

And because in the darkness you will reach out a hand,
not knowing for certain if someone else is even there.
And your hands will meet,
and then neither of you will ever need to be alone again.


And that's all I know about love.

It made me miss... well, you know. Thank you for reading it.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2017/10/wedding-thoughts-all-i-know-about-love.html


EDIT:
Alright, you nerds getting Destiny 2 just now on PC. Here's a list of you Johnny-come-latelys, and everyone else, I guess:
PM or @ me or a mod to edit yourself into it:

Xbox:
Chanus: BluberryWerewlf
CB557: cZb557
desc: pylonsound
Element Brian: ElementBrian
Elki: Elkamil
Krathoon: RoboBuddy
LostNinja: LostNinja05
OnTheLastCastle: OnTheLastCastle
Preacher: Judasdubois

PS4:
Arch: Zinnar2
Atomika: Atomic_Atomika
Chanus: BlueberryWerewlf
Dynagrip: Dynagrip
Evil Multifarious: travysty
Hahnsoo1: Hahnsoo
Krathoon: RoboBuddy

Other platform:
Chanus: Chanus#11709
Havelock2.0: Havelock2#1768
Mazzyx: Mazzyx#1680
SniperGuy: SniperGuy#1752
SummaryJudgment: Summary#1449

So It Goes

kedinik

I don't think I've ever been able to enjoy Neil Gaiman's writing -_-

BeNarwhal

Hahnsoo, that is lovely.

...

[chat] I got this game called Bomber Crew and it's basically what it says on the tin. You manage the crew of a world war II bomber (Two gunners, a bomber, a radar op, a navigator, an engineer, and a pilot - 7 in total) while running various bombing missions into mainland Europe (you fly out of London).

Now, my first crew got into a spot of trouble returning from a mission over the Channel and went down in a field near Hastings, but I know that crew + plane #2 will do MILES better!

So who's with me? Recruiting for all positions! Taking all comers! I get to be the tail gunner 'cause screw you!

Hahnsoo1

kedinik wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been able to enjoy Neil Gaiman's writing -_-

He has his moments. It's a very specific writing style and voice that appeals to a specific kind of person. The kind of person that dyes her hair black with neon highlights and carries around a copy of "Through the Looking Glass" in her tattered camo backpack with many buttons on it that I totally did not have a crush on in high school. Erm.

redx

kedinik wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been able to enjoy Neil Gaiman's writing -_-

That's kinda a shame. He's done some pretty good stuff.

I got to seem him do some Q/A stuff and readings live a couple months back. It was worth the ticket price.

Hi I'm Vee!

Having Neil Gaiman as a friend to give a speech at your wedding feels like cheating.

ronya

I'll man the radar, narwhal

redx

I can't think of a clever catch-22 reference.

Hahnsoo1

I bought SO many copies of her 'zine. :redface:

Hi I'm Vee!

That was a much heavier conversation over the phone than I was expecting it to be.

I'm not sure how to feel about things right now.

MrMister

melatonin kicking in, time to become corpse

P10

redx wrote: »

I can't think of a clever catch-22 reference.

I'll be Lieutenant Scheisskopf

Orphane

BeNarwhal wrote: »

Hahnsoo, that is lovely.

...

[chat] I got this game called Bomber Crew and it's basically what it says on the tin. You manage the crew of a world war II bomber (Two gunners, a bomber, a radar op, a navigator, an engineer, and a pilot - 7 in total) while running various bombing missions into mainland Europe (you fly out of London).

Now, my first crew got into a spot of trouble returning from a mission over the Channel and went down in a field near Hastings, but I know that crew + plane #2 will do MILES better!

So who's with me? Recruiting for all positions! Taking all comers! I get to be the tail gunner 'cause screw you!

Does this actually have online coop because then i would consider it

Or are you just going to name crew after us and send them to their deaths

simonwolf

P10 wrote: »

redx wrote: »

I can't think of a clever catch-22 reference.

I'll be Lieutenant Scheisskopf

major major major reporting

BeNarwhal

ronya wrote: »

I'll man the radar, narwhal

Ronya P. Dog will have the important mission of calling out targets, enemy aircraft, and assisting the engineer in keeping the plane in the air!

BeNarwhal

Orphane wrote: »

BeNarwhal wrote: »

Hahnsoo, that is lovely.

...

[chat] I got this game called Bomber Crew and it's basically what it says on the tin. You manage the crew of a world war II bomber (Two gunners, a bomber, a radar op, a navigator, an engineer, and a pilot - 7 in total) while running various bombing missions into mainland Europe (you fly out of London).

Now, my first crew got into a spot of trouble returning from a mission over the Channel and went down in a field near Hastings, but I know that crew + plane #2 will do MILES better!

So who's with me? Recruiting for all positions! Taking all comers! I get to be the tail gunner 'cause screw you!

Does this actually have online coop because then i would consider it

Or are you just going to name crew after us and send them to their deaths

The latter, admittedly >_>

Evil Multifarious

@Abdhyius I was suggesting more that an immortal population, exploding in number at a staggering rate and consuming resources without establishing new, effective ways to manage scarcity would be much more likely to cause major conflict. Demographic problems wouldn't solve themselves anymore. Could lead to total warfare, which would be apocalyptic. I wasn't suggesting that we'd strip our planet of all resources and die out; that seems less likely and easier to control or deal with.

Orphane

@milski on advanced, surely

milski

Orphane wrote: »

@milski on advanced, surely

Orphane I have not played EO games before aside from Persona Q. The deep end could be scary!

simonwolf

I think I liked some of the Sandman stuff I read, and his take on Black Orchid was good for its time

I hated American Gods, though

BeNarwhal

Private Pea Ten will join me in the gun turrets, while Simon Wolf will be in charge of navigation and sighting for both the pilot and the gunners!

simonwolf

My grandpappy was a navigator in Lancasters back in the war so that suits just fine

milski

But since there are only two options sure advanced is cool

Hi I'm Vee!

I wish it didn't feel so good to eat the stuff I shouldn't eat.

It makes it really hard to keep from slowly killing myself, even in the face of knowing how that would crush my family and friends.

This slow suicide...

Arch

visiblehowl wrote: »

I wish it didn't feel so good to eat the stuff I shouldn't eat.

It makes it really hard to keep from slowly killing myself, even in the face of knowing how that would crush my family and friends.

This slow suicide...

Tragic yes, but candy is delicious

Arch

(plz no die vh)

BeNarwhal

Finally, I'm conscripting Orphane Q Porpoise to be the bomber, Evil Multifarious as engineer, and the honour of piloting this rickety sky-boat goes to ... [chat] creator himself, Hahnsoo One!

RonTheDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzw4QvE2Do

Hi I'm Vee!

Arch wrote: »

(plz no die vh)

I really really don't want to, like, ever, but I also really really want to do all things that would lead to that happening much sooner than anybody would prefer.

Delmain

What game are you playing Narwhal?

BeNarwhal

The seven of us, naturally, will be known as Narwhal's Nerds, and the squad name will be spray painted in bright white paint on the side of our plane because I'm a genius.

Sir Landshark

VH are you just straight up back to your old eating habits?

BeNarwhal

Delmain wrote: »

What game are you playing Narwhal?

Bomber Crew. You manage a crew of seven onboard a bomber during WWII. It usually goes about as well as you'd expect.

porp

visiblehowl wrote: »

I wish it didn't feel so good to eat the stuff I shouldn't eat.

It makes it really hard to keep from slowly killing myself, even in the face of knowing how that would crush my family and friends.

This slow suicide...

Fucking! Eat right! Don't make come over there! I mean it!

Sir Landshark

Porp if you yell at him he will just hide it from us we have to try a different tactic

Sir Landshark

*opens parenting book*

Powerpuppies

does anybody want a peanut

Elendil

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Abdhyius I was suggesting more that an immortal population, exploding in number at a staggering rate and consuming resources without establishing new, effective ways to manage scarcity would be much more likely to cause major conflict. Demographic problems wouldn't solve themselves anymore. Could lead to total warfare, which would be apocalyptic. I wasn't suggesting that we'd strip our planet of all resources and die out; that seems less likely and easier to control or deal with.

we're already stripping the planet of resources

porp

No. I'm done with nice porp.

syndalis

Lettuce, tomato, red onions and pickles are good standard sandwich veggie fare.

when you get into cooked veggies you can truck in artichokes, caramelized onions, eggplant, portabello mushrooms, etc.

Depending on regions olive spreads, cucumbers, etc. also play nice.

Veggies on sandwiches are good!