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Twilight of the [Hesher] Gods: 5th Anniversay PA Metal Thread

autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
edited November 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
The other thread was getting long again, so I started this one. If a mod could be so kind as to lock the other.

Let the debacle continue!

(En)chained to a shadow of the past, he walks the path of life, carrying that old story like a cross, on which he will, on which he may, nail another star.
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  • frank as fuckfrank as fuck __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Woo! New Thread!

    I can now bring my iPod into work. This means only good things. Today I listened to Anaal Nathrakh for hours and I was stunningly productive.

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    grim and frostbitten kingdoms. goozex referral. steam.
  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    So I've wanted to ask this for a while.

    What's a hesher?

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    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • Liquid GhostLiquid Ghost DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?! Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    *waits for samples of the new Suidakra to be released*

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    behold the half-baked scribbling and scratching of a so-called "writer"
  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    So I've wanted to ask this for a while.

    What's a hesher?
    Please to be answering people.

    Quid on
  • NarianNarian Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    So I've wanted to ask this for a while.

    What's a hesher?

    My favourite Urban Dictionary explanation of "hesher":
    Reebock-wearing, mulleted person in acid-washed jeans and a Judas Priest T-shirt who, at the age of 28, still lives in his/her parents' basement and swears that he/she can really rock out on his/her Ibanez Stratocaster copy guitar and probably owns a Nova that hasn't run in 5 years but you just wait, that fucker is gonna smoke those fuckin Japanese rice burners once I put a new head gasket on it.

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  • frank as fuckfrank as fuck __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    GIS says:

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    grim and frostbitten kingdoms. goozex referral. steam.
  • yakulyakul Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Being a hesher is undesirable, but I wonder if it is more or less undesirable than being a xCore kid i mean your music is worse but at least you have the excuse of still being in high school

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  • BlakoutBlakout Lordran's SpookylandRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    frank as fuck wrote: »
    Woo! New Thread!

    I can now bring my iPod into work. This means only good things. Today I listened to Anaal Nathrakh for hours and I was stunningly productive.

    The cd player in the back room at my job is a godsend. Well except for when the scene kids there play Bring me the Horizon, but I get to counter with some Nathrakh of my own so it works out okay.

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  • autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    So I've wanted to ask this for a while.

    What's a hesher?

    Kind of a cheesy old school metal head / hard rock fan. Often with a mullet. I forget who it was that edited one of our previous thread titles to read [Hesher] but we've continued the tradition out of irony.

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    (En)chained to a shadow of the past, he walks the path of life, carrying that old story like a cross, on which he will, on which he may, nail another star.
  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2008
    Let's just do the normal 100 pages thing and the thing about having respectable OPs.


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    And now, the winners of the We're Right Awards.

    # 3. Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker

    Much was said about the game's unorthodox representation of the much beloved Link, and no one would say that it wasn't a startling move. This might have been important if the game were a series of non-interactive slides, like a family vacation, but as it turns out there was actually a videogame associated with it. A good one. How good? Oh, let's call it Number Three.

    # 2. Knights of the Old Republic

    Kotor did a lot of things, but aside from being a good RPG, with a great story that twists right up to the end - things which we can all appreciate - it reminded me that Star Wars was actually kind of a good thing. I hadn't realized to what extent my estimation of it had been degraded. To my mind, giving Star Wars back to us is grounds for beatification. You like that word? I learned it in Italy.

    # 1. Prince Of Persia

    It looks and plays brilliantly. It has a good story that ends extremely well. The combat is siphoned directly from adolescent ninja fantasies. Shit, it's even funny. How they managed to capture the spirit of classic platformers - not just the original Princes, but the entire play concept - is simply beyond me. More games should be this good, we should demand it of developers and they should demand it from themselves.

    We had a couple of high-profile defections into 2004, namely Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. 2003, in my opinion, proved the necessity of having a console around - like you would a Spare Tire - strictly for emergencies.

    Since I got home, I've done little else but watch this Firefly DVD boxed set. I never watched the show when it was on television, though I would demand that Gabriel recount each episode for me in exacting detail. Understand me when I say that I could regale you for hours, hours, regarding minute details of this science fiction western, which is from the Buffy guy. How they swear in Chinese, which M.G. assures me is a language uniquely capable of withering a person. How they combine geisha tradition and prostitution into a sort of bizarre respectability. I've always liked Westerns, and I've had to tolerate the Old West setting to get my fix of frontier living hardasses that shoots them's what looks at 'em. It's the best television program in recent memory, and there were three episodes that never aired due to series cancellation - the set has those, too. I must admit that the whole cancellation scenario really indicts the system we've got set up to produce our television shows. I propose an indistinct alternate system with hazy details that I will never fully define.

    They say that when God closes a door he opens a window, which is nice I guess, but if it's all the same to him maybe he could just leave the fucking door open? He's omnipotent, and presumably this state allows him to open a door and a window simultaneously. Or maybe this is some Myst bullshit where when you open one the other closes automatically, in which case he shouldn't get the credit anyhow. At any rate, the most recent example of this phenomenon is this - we don't get to have the show anymore, but we do get a movie. What that has to do with God exactly I'm not sure.

    (CW)TB out.

    nothing soothes quicker than complete despair

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