Back around when I was in high school I decided I needed to have a consistent signature for signing official stuff and so I practiced one out, which I've been using for the last 20 years or so. Because that's the kind of nerd I am.
I bet cheque forging is one of those old fashioned crimes that you can get away with for a shocking amount of time just because nobody thinks about it any more like robbing post offices
I think I remember the handwritten --> typed conversion for assignments happening around grade 11
I'm very happy using cursive because it lets me write a lot quicker than printing. But I definitely don't expect any other poor fucker to have to read it nowadays. The biggest challenge for school exams was hitting that sweet spot of fast+neat and hoping to god the examiner had put their glasses on.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
god remember school-organised pen pals
remember having to write to some weird kid in an entirely different country for like six months or something until you both forgot
what a psychotic attempt at forced socialisation (... but I bet there are a ton of type-A's out there in society who somehow managed to get matched together and still correspond 25 years later)
What are forums if not a community of pen pals
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
god remember school-organised pen pals
remember having to write to some weird kid in an entirely different country for like six months or something until you both forgot
what a psychotic attempt at forced socialisation (... but I bet there are a ton of type-A's out there in society who somehow managed to get matched together and still correspond 25 years later)
What are forums if not a community of pen pals
I think of it more like microblogging meets reality TV.
I'm generally against the kind of random sadism perpetrated by teenagers so it's rare that I will say someone didn't get beaten up enough in high school.
but when it comes to Shapiro I'd say there's a definite debt owing.
for a while in high school I wanted to make my signature an ambigram (a thing that you can read right side up or upside down) because I bought this dvd of the princess bride where the title was an ambigram and if fuckin blew my mind
I never really got it to a point where I was satisfied with it though, for one thing it was pretty hard to write
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I had a friend in college who was briefly obsessed with ambigrams and tried to do some similar things
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I know that Ben Shapiro has many and sundry loathsome qualities, but the pejorative I most-frequently find myself applying to him is "twerp"
Dude's a fuckin' twerp
as a recovering twerp myself I find this to be extremely accurate
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I know that Ben Shapiro has many and sundry loathsome qualities, but the pejorative I most-frequently find myself applying to him is "twerp"
Dude's a fuckin' twerp
Twerp is good.
I am also partial to dingus.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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He's not a weenus, but only because he's the kind of kid that would call you a weenus and then smugly inform you that it means the skin on your elbow when you try to tell the teacher on him.
god remember school-organised pen pals
remember having to write to some weird kid in an entirely different country for like six months or something until you both forgot
what a psychotic attempt at forced socialisation (... but I bet there are a ton of type-A's out there in society who somehow managed to get matched together and still correspond 25 years later)
I have posted about this repeatedly but the one pen pal I got was a kid in Florida who drew a picture of what he thought my igloo looked like
god remember school-organised pen pals
remember having to write to some weird kid in an entirely different country for like six months or something until you both forgot
what a psychotic attempt at forced socialisation (... but I bet there are a ton of type-A's out there in society who somehow managed to get matched together and still correspond 25 years later)
I have posted about this repeatedly but the one pen pal I got was a kid in Florida who drew a picture of what he thought my igloo looked like
Fuck you, kid
screw that you draw his hillbilly ass right back, big picture of him being eaten by an alligator while his junkyard hovercraft sank into a swamp full of battered manatee corpses.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I don’t think we had pen pals from school, my parents did try to encourage pen palling with camp friends
Oh the halcyon days before instant messenger
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god remember school-organised pen pals
remember having to write to some weird kid in an entirely different country for like six months or something until you both forgot
what a psychotic attempt at forced socialisation (... but I bet there are a ton of type-A's out there in society who somehow managed to get matched together and still correspond 25 years later)
I have posted about this repeatedly but the one pen pal I got was a kid in Florida who drew a picture of what he thought my igloo looked like
I actually had a totally organic pen pal experience, I put a letter in a bottle and threw it in the drink in Pinkney's Point and it washed up in Portugal
I don't wanna be too doom and gloom but I have a hard time seeing what the future of Giant Bomb is at this point
Gerstmann wanted it to be about bringing in a younger crowd so it had people to move onto, but now only 1 person on their staff is under 40 and over half of their current staff are still people who were there at the beginning
I don't think it's gonna be the kind of thing that can move on anymore, once Jeff or Vinny are done with it, it's done
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Two of those younger voices are now or have already left the industry entirely, at least for the time being
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I have a feeling they have to be on the hunt for a new young person / young people. I think the pattern has to be that they hire young people and then those young people leave after a few years, because not everyone wants to talk about video games for the rest of their lives and there's no upward mobility unless the old guard leaves. If they don't hire any new young people then yeah that's a problem.
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yeah because otherwise someone's gonna forge all your CHEQUES
no but look I
by the time I got to high school teachers were already insisting that every paper we turn in was typed
Oh no......
I'm very happy using cursive because it lets me write a lot quicker than printing. But I definitely don't expect any other poor fucker to have to read it nowadays. The biggest challenge for school exams was hitting that sweet spot of fast+neat and hoping to god the examiner had put their glasses on.
What are forums if not a community of pen pals
I think of it more like microblogging meets reality TV.
I'm gonna do drugs and stagger around a bog and listen to the worst book in the whole world
But Clive Cussler does suck! you say and you're right he does but what if he SUCKED though
Dude's a fuckin' twerp
but when it comes to Shapiro I'd say there's a definite debt owing.
I never really got it to a point where I was satisfied with it though, for one thing it was pretty hard to write
as a recovering twerp myself I find this to be extremely accurate
Twerp is good.
I am also partial to dingus.
I have posted about this repeatedly but the one pen pal I got was a kid in Florida who drew a picture of what he thought my igloo looked like
Fuck you, kid
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screw that you draw his hillbilly ass right back, big picture of him being eaten by an alligator while his junkyard hovercraft sank into a swamp full of battered manatee corpses.
Oh the halcyon days before instant messenger
I've said it before and I'll continue to say it.
WHERE IS THIS DRAWING?
Took care of like 75% of Harmony House’s yearly funding goal in one go. Last years Candlenights live show earned around $45k from what I’ve seen.
I’d be willing to bet they do this again next year even if they are able to do an in person live show.
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Sounds like he kinda got fed up with video games being his job.
Gerstmann wanted it to be about bringing in a younger crowd so it had people to move onto, but now only 1 person on their staff is under 40 and over half of their current staff are still people who were there at the beginning
I don't think it's gonna be the kind of thing that can move on anymore, once Jeff or Vinny are done with it, it's done
Dan and Abby are on Twitch all the time, I wouldn't be surprised if Ben does that eventually.