I only drink wine sweetened with lead acetate and I'm incredibly healthy, pinch as much solder between your lips as you want
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
edited January 2018
Scott's life is like that episode of Last Airbender where Azula keeps chasing the Gaang all night long.
Just constantly trying to escape the terrible grasp of HQ.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Hm, helping the ubiquitous face of a multimedia megacorp escape his contract would be a pretty fun twist on a fairly the fairly standard personnel extraction cyberpunk "job"
Hm, helping the ubiquitous face of a multimedia megacorp escape his contract would be a pretty fun twist on a fairly the fairly standard personnel extraction cyberpunk "job"
Metal Gear Solid VI: Puns of the Patriots
Snake needs to infiltrate HQ HQ and find trivia answers hidden inside the building instead of keycards. Being able to answer the trivia helps maintain his disguise.
Hm, helping the ubiquitous face of a multimedia megacorp escape his contract would be a pretty fun twist on a fairly the fairly standard personnel extraction cyberpunk "job"
Yup, definitely putting this in my list of Johnson missions if I ever get around to Dming shadowrun again, it's perfect.
Ff8 is not good, but literally none of them have seen 5-7 so it starts woth them talking about how the movies shouldn't be about anything but cars and they shouldn't have continuity
This was my greatest fear for them doing this and why I instantly skipped it
Doing an episode about how "Fast & Furious is just so stupid!" could not be missing the point any more
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How do you lick a d battery? I was imagining just putting it vertically in your mouth. Would that work and if so would it be just a continuous shock until the battery is depleted. Cause that sounds bad.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
edited January 2018
yeah it is probably indicative of my warped psyche that I don't think it's that bad
hey can someone explain to me why "you've beaten your worst days" is actually Bad
I tried thinking about it on my own but I guess I'm broken or something because even in the context of Rigor it still seems pretty positive to me
In context it's basically "Hey, this endless servitude ain't so bad, after all, you've been through shit plenty of times. So get back to work"
Well I have no idea of the context but I find the statement to be incredibly helpful when going through anxious periods so fuck whoever said it and I'm keeping it
hey can someone explain to me why "you've beaten your worst days" is actually Bad
I tried thinking about it on my own but I guess I'm broken or something because even in the context of Rigor it still seems pretty positive to me
In context it's basically "Hey, this endless servitude ain't so bad, after all, you've been through shit plenty of times. So get back to work"
Well I have no idea of the context but I find the statement to be incredibly helpful when going through anxious periods so fuck whoever said it and I'm keeping it
I mean yeah, it sounding good is why it was used as a slogan by the demi god machine embodiment of capitalism to keep indentured servant workers complacent. It's all about the context
hey can someone explain to me why "you've beaten your worst days" is actually Bad
I tried thinking about it on my own but I guess I'm broken or something because even in the context of Rigor it still seems pretty positive to me
In context it's basically "Hey, this endless servitude ain't so bad, after all, you've been through shit plenty of times. So get back to work"
Well I have no idea of the context but I find the statement to be incredibly helpful when going through anxious periods so fuck whoever said it and I'm keeping it
I mean yeah, it sounding good is why it was used as a slogan by the demi god machine embodiment of capitalism to keep indentured servant workers complacent. It's all about the context
I sound harsh but that's because I forgot this was the podcast thread and figured this statement came from some real life scum bag so whoops
a common literary tactic to establish irony and meaning is to take a quote that would mean one thing if a good person was saying it, and then have a bad person saying it in order to twist things
take the classic sentence "dogs are great". said by someone petting a dog, completely agreeable. said by someone holding a knife and a fork, distressing
n...no? capitalism is all about built-in inequality and accumulation of surplus value by individuals
just saying a collectivist economic model could also let Rigor utilize his crushing influence
actually thinking about this more and in late stage capitalism this is even more untrue - your work is inconsequential compared to the value you accrue; in fact if you've managed to gain capital without having to partake in "petty" labour (like being born rich, hitting it big in the entertainment industry, etc.) you are celebrated and fawned over, while those who labour most in service and production are despised and looked down on - an evolution of the old puritan/Calvinist concept of predestination to heaven being mirrored by earthly success, with "divine" wealth being percieved as a mark of virtue, supposedly given to those worthy and denied to those that must toil
Rigor isn't the Divine of late capitalism, Splendor is
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rigour isn't emblematic of any specific ideology, though considering how divines change based on societal belief it probably could be/is capitalism at some point, I don't think it needs to be "ruled out"
but I think at its base level it embodies the idea that work in and of itself is worthwhile--more worthy than other pursuits, even--and the belief that, in the end, everything and anything can be defeated if you just work hard enough
an idea which is easily marketed and exploited (and which I think is easy for american posters to see and relate to through that ol american dream)
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Just constantly trying to escape the terrible grasp of HQ.
When asked what their name was, they mumbled "...Taako"
and I don't even remember what their question was, but it was not a question, just a shitty joke, and they basically threw them out
and then the parrot question followed
Metal Gear Solid VI: Puns of the Patriots
Snake needs to infiltrate HQ HQ and find trivia answers hidden inside the building instead of keycards. Being able to answer the trivia helps maintain his disguise.
STOP TELLING THIS STORY
It is boring anyway.
Yup, definitely putting this in my list of Johnson missions if I ever get around to Dming shadowrun again, it's perfect.
This was my greatest fear for them doing this and why I instantly skipped it
Doing an episode about how "Fast & Furious is just so stupid!" could not be missing the point any more
Oh man I had forgotten about that
It was so bad
yeah same patrick
just the branches that survived!
I tried thinking about it on my own but I guess I'm broken or something because even in the context of Rigor it still seems pretty positive to me
In context it's basically "Hey, this endless servitude ain't so bad, after all, you've been through shit plenty of times. So get back to work"
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Well I have no idea of the context but I find the statement to be incredibly helpful when going through anxious periods so fuck whoever said it and I'm keeping it
I mean yeah, it sounding good is why it was used as a slogan by the demi god machine embodiment of capitalism to keep indentured servant workers complacent. It's all about the context
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
just saying a collectivist economic model could also let Rigor utilize his crushing influence
I sound harsh but that's because I forgot this was the podcast thread and figured this statement came from some real life scum bag so whoops
you get a nice read on the tenor of the relationship between austin and art on the last one
you really get to hear their friendship! it's nice.
I haven't listened to fatt but exactly as described that could easily also be a communist regime
I'm sure there's more to it, but not specifically from that statement
take the classic sentence "dogs are great". said by someone petting a dog, completely agreeable. said by someone holding a knife and a fork, distressing
I have a lot of terrible electric fence stories.
Once a friend was over and I told him not to pee on the electric fence. Later we got into a fight and he peed on the electric fence out of spite.
It didn't go well for him.
Didn't you guys watch Ren and Stimpy?
Just two friends talking about How I Met Your Mother, the German word for Ennui, and that one party where drifters showed up and broke things
actually thinking about this more and in late stage capitalism this is even more untrue - your work is inconsequential compared to the value you accrue; in fact if you've managed to gain capital without having to partake in "petty" labour (like being born rich, hitting it big in the entertainment industry, etc.) you are celebrated and fawned over, while those who labour most in service and production are despised and looked down on - an evolution of the old puritan/Calvinist concept of predestination to heaven being mirrored by earthly success, with "divine" wealth being percieved as a mark of virtue, supposedly given to those worthy and denied to those that must toil
Rigor isn't the Divine of late capitalism, Splendor is
but I think at its base level it embodies the idea that work in and of itself is worthwhile--more worthy than other pursuits, even--and the belief that, in the end, everything and anything can be defeated if you just work hard enough
an idea which is easily marketed and exploited (and which I think is easy for american posters to see and relate to through that ol american dream)