Jake, I was watching the Clips-Pelicans game in class
dude in front of me was watching Heat-Pacers
lul 3 hour classes
god law school is such a joke
;_; I'm having doubts u gais
So you're thinking of going to law school?
i had ruled it out before but now I dunno anymore
but i don't know nothing about nothing no more
also i work in a law firm and it drives me mad and I can't decide if the associates are like 100% miserable or like 50% miserable, which, you know, i guess i could live with 50% miserable
It's the difference between watching Star Trek and being a trekkie.
I don't see the difference. If you've watched just about every episode of Next Generation, you're more committed than most to the show and are therefore a Trekkie.
Well I am sorry but you are just flatly wrong on this.
Between Voyager, DS9, and Next Generation, I must have consumed two hundred hours or more of Star Trek fiction. The evidence says I am not casual but a committed fan. A Trekkie.
I said watching star trek, not watching every single last episode of star trek.
... and how many episodes/hours of Star Trek have you consumed? Could we have a conversation about Quark and Rom's unusual relationship as brothers or how Commander Riker looks better with a beard than without?
No.
But I have still watched Star Trek. I have seen all of the original Star Trek movies. I don't particularly remember them very well or care about them very much. But I have still watched Star Trek. But I am not a trekkie.
i'm sorry
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Jake, I was watching the Clips-Pelicans game in class
dude in front of me was watching Heat-Pacers
lul 3 hour classes
god law school is such a joke
;_; I'm having doubts u gais
So you're thinking of going to law school?
i had ruled it out before but now I dunno anymore
but i don't know nothing about nothing no more
also i work in a law firm and it drives me mad and I can't decide if the associates are like 100% miserable or like 50% miserable, which, you know, i guess i could live with 50% miserable
Yeah I mean you know as well as anyone that associates are not a happy bunch. My associate friends are, mostly, desperately hunting for a way into some other job and/or restrained from taking such jobs by debt.
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
Jake, I was watching the Clips-Pelicans game in class
dude in front of me was watching Heat-Pacers
lul 3 hour classes
god law school is such a joke
;_; I'm having doubts u gais
So you're thinking of going to law school?
i had ruled it out before but now I dunno anymore
but i don't know nothing about nothing no more
also i work in a law firm and it drives me mad and I can't decide if the associates are like 100% miserable or like 50% miserable, which, you know, i guess i could live with 50% miserable
Yeah I mean you know as well as anyone that associates are not a happy bunch. My associate friends are, mostly, desperately hunting for a way into some other job and/or restrained from taking such jobs by debt.
yeah yeah i know dammit
but working in a professional services firm where you are not doing the professional service is basically like being a 2nd class citizen
I am oppressed help i need $200,000 in student loans to escape this nightmare
My goal is definitely cushy NYU administrative position
The rents want a JD/MD which actually sounds somewhat interesting the more I think about it
Nah, there isn't much sense in MD + anything else.
There's only any kind of synergy with MD + PhD, but even there you just end up spending a bunch of time becoming both a below average doctor and a below average scientist.
kedinik on
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
Jake, I was watching the Clips-Pelicans game in class
dude in front of me was watching Heat-Pacers
lul 3 hour classes
god law school is such a joke
;_; I'm having doubts u gais
So you're thinking of going to law school?
i had ruled it out before but now I dunno anymore
but i don't know nothing about nothing no more
also i work in a law firm and it drives me mad and I can't decide if the associates are like 100% miserable or like 50% miserable, which, you know, i guess i could live with 50% miserable
i have known a fair number of people with JDs and most of them seem to not like their jobs (lawyering or being a lobbyist) but are often stuck because lol loans
BethrynUnhappiness is MandatoryRegistered Userregular
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When creating the Psycho-Pass anime, Motohiro wanted the series to counter current anime trends. As a result, the use of moe was prohibited within the staff.
Ahahhahaahahahah
Yessssssssss
This man is now my hero.
e: also the phrasing in that makes it sound like moe is some sort of drug the staff pass around and get high on, which is pretty funny too.
or are you just looking for more general recommendations?
pulp and horror specifically
i've read most of hellboy
the league of extraordinary gentleman
old ec stuff, creepy/eerie archives, and feel like i'm in a decent place
but i just want a refresher to ape ideas from for this game
Ok! Thumbs up on the EC stuff, by the way; most pepole today don't know about that.
I will do these horror first, then pulp, to help keep it straight in my head.
First off, Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing, which is now available in nice cheap Kindle editions. Probably one of the best lengthy, sustained horror stories in comics; I would argue tha this is basically Moore at his zenith. It's full of memorably horrific art by Bernie Wrightson, one of the premier draftsmen in comics, and it just keeps being great for like thirty or forty issues. It's often really beautiful and poetic in between moments of horror that haunt me to this day.
Next up is Marvel's Tomb of Dracula, from the 1970s and mostly written by Marv Wolfman (with that name he was obviously born to write horror). I was only vaguely aware of this book until I read a long critical essay about it by Douglas Wolk in his excellent book Reading Comics, which caused me to seek it out. It is fucking wild and in some ways it's hard to believe it was published under the Comcis Code. Where Swamp Thing is literary, allusive, and meditative, Tomb of Dracula is pure, addictive pulp horror, like a TV show you can't stop binge-watching. The premise is that Dracula exists in the modern world (actually the modern Marvel universe, but superheroes show up only occasionally) and a descendent of Van Helsing has put together a team of earnest 70s kids in Afros and headbands and hippie skirts to end Dracula's menace once and for all. And then Dracula kills all these people horribly, or drives them to suicide, or turns their loved ones into vampires and forces them to kill them, or whatever. Dracula is a real son of a bitch. One of the things I like about this portrayal is that he isn't the refined aristocrat a lot of fictions give us; he is a thuggish, feral dude; he's only as refined as some Eastern European dictator, fooling no one. The charm of this comic is how incredibly overwrought, but also genuinely dramatic, it can be. Every issue ends with some grisly cliffhanger or a character swearing a blood oath to the moon or something.
In a completely different vein (hehehehehehehehehe) is Strangehaven, by Gary Spencer Milledge. This is small-town horror and paranoia horror, very much in the vein of The Prisoner or Twin Peaks. An ordinary man, a schoolteacher, is driving down a lonely English country road and has a car accident; he awakes in the chirpy, pleasant countryside village of Strangehaven, a nice-seeming place where everyone is very friendly, but which he doesn't seem able to leave. The series goes in some interesting directions; a lesser story would have the town be really pod-people malevolent, but the residents of Strangehaven are real people with real problems (a kid acting out against his overbearing father by shoplifting from the local store) as well as occult problems (girls being ritualistically sacrificed). Some people seem to understand the nature of their improsonment; others may even welcome it, using the place as a refuge from the world outside. I have to give a qualified recommendation for this one, because it went on indefinite hiatus in 2005 and is unlikely ever to be finished, but what is there is magical and beautiful (his art is tremendous) and haunting.
Now for pulp:
The Shadow (Howard Chaykin) - a gorgeous, stylish book from the mid-80s that does the pulp character justice with dark, serious stories brimming with 30s period detail. It didn't run for very long but what there is is absolutely worth tracking down as the art is just phenomenal.
Sandman Mystery Theatre - one of my favorite comics ever, this follows the adventures of the Golden Age Sandman - one of DC's original superheroes, who rocks a trenchcoat, gas mask, and fedora and fights crime with the help of a gun that sprays sleeping gas. This comic turns the 30s-style pulp meter up to 11, pitting him against both supernatural and occult enemies as well as a rogue's gallery of real-world 1930s villains, from corrupt factory managers to crooked policemen to warring gangs of Irish and Chinese. This comic ran for 80 issuesl, all of them painstakingly well-researched both in setting and art, and Guy Davis's sketchy pencil style is one of the hidden treasures of comic books. The series was also noted at the time for its well-rendered heroine, a plucky, realistically-proportioned socialite who avoids a lot of the "strong female character" traps, as well as its unconventional main character, who in his secret identity is a scholar with a passion for Chinese literature and en Buddhism. The other notable feature about the comic is its gorgeous covers, each of which are done in the style of a 30s thriller magazine, often with an overwrought quote, like "the shadowy figure leapt at me, a knife clutched in his massive hands...!"
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
i had ruled it out before but now I dunno anymore
but i don't know nothing about nothing no more
also i work in a law firm and it drives me mad and I can't decide if the associates are like 100% miserable or like 50% miserable, which, you know, i guess i could live with 50% miserable
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hmm
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
a fishyer
a lawish
pole dancer
NNID: Hakkekage
not bad
but not especially fantastic
it's good eating though
and I still have the whole huge pie left I've eaten the four tiny tiny pies as second dinner and evening food
1. Kyle Lowry
2. DeMar "big boy" Derozan
3. Amir Johnson (?!?!)
4. Jose Calderon (!?!?1?!?!)
5. ???
the fuckin' Eastern Conference
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
except minus the paycheck
a trekker
yes eddy do this
PE Fund manager
Angel Investor
Broker (fuq those gais)
NYU President
NNID: Hakkekage
"Abdhyius plays it by ear"-pie
much the same as last time - chicken curry soup as a sort of base for it
mainly because I found some cheap chicken filets
chicken browned in curry, onion, can or two of tomato, cream, vegetable stock
and then add a few eggs to give the pie a little more hold
and also I added rice purely to bulk it out
FLASHDANCERS IN TIMES SQUARE SEEKS EXOTIC KOREAN BEAUTY TO DIVERSIFY LINE UP
MUST ENJOY POKEMON, STARCRAFT NOT REQUIRED BUT DESIRED
NNID: Hakkekage
Yeah I mean you know as well as anyone that associates are not a happy bunch. My associate friends are, mostly, desperately hunting for a way into some other job and/or restrained from taking such jobs by debt.
I hurried the making of the filling a bit too much and failed to apply the proper touch at every turn and so it turned out indescribably worse
still p good tho
The rents want a JD/MD which actually sounds somewhat interesting the more I think about it
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
yeah yeah i know dammit
but working in a professional services firm where you are not doing the professional service is basically like being a 2nd class citizen
I am oppressed help i need $200,000 in student loans to escape this nightmare
NNID: Hakkekage
Any video-centric site that isn't just a youtube embedding relay always disappoints me
A pleasant exception is porn for some reason
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
hooroo
hu...hulu
NNID: Hakkekage
Nah, there isn't much sense in MD + anything else.
There's only any kind of synergy with MD + PhD, but even there you just end up spending a bunch of time becoming both a below average doctor and a below average scientist.
jose calderon is gooooone they replaced him with similarly swarthy point guard Greivis Vasquez
at no. 5 i'd probably put a tie between the 2nd most random 50 point game scorer terrence ross and my name is jonas valanciunas
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
*this user has been banned*
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
NNID: Hakkekage
i have known a fair number of people with JDs and most of them seem to not like their jobs (lawyering or being a lobbyist) but are often stuck because lol loans
Shit, man.
Yessssssssss
This man is now my hero.
e: also the phrasing in that makes it sound like moe is some sort of drug the staff pass around and get high on, which is pretty funny too.
baker
bike messenger?
take every class you can with practical skills
all the clinics
Ok! Thumbs up on the EC stuff, by the way; most pepole today don't know about that.
I will do these horror first, then pulp, to help keep it straight in my head.
First off, Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing, which is now available in nice cheap Kindle editions. Probably one of the best lengthy, sustained horror stories in comics; I would argue tha this is basically Moore at his zenith. It's full of memorably horrific art by Bernie Wrightson, one of the premier draftsmen in comics, and it just keeps being great for like thirty or forty issues. It's often really beautiful and poetic in between moments of horror that haunt me to this day.
Next up is Marvel's Tomb of Dracula, from the 1970s and mostly written by Marv Wolfman (with that name he was obviously born to write horror). I was only vaguely aware of this book until I read a long critical essay about it by Douglas Wolk in his excellent book Reading Comics, which caused me to seek it out. It is fucking wild and in some ways it's hard to believe it was published under the Comcis Code. Where Swamp Thing is literary, allusive, and meditative, Tomb of Dracula is pure, addictive pulp horror, like a TV show you can't stop binge-watching. The premise is that Dracula exists in the modern world (actually the modern Marvel universe, but superheroes show up only occasionally) and a descendent of Van Helsing has put together a team of earnest 70s kids in Afros and headbands and hippie skirts to end Dracula's menace once and for all. And then Dracula kills all these people horribly, or drives them to suicide, or turns their loved ones into vampires and forces them to kill them, or whatever. Dracula is a real son of a bitch. One of the things I like about this portrayal is that he isn't the refined aristocrat a lot of fictions give us; he is a thuggish, feral dude; he's only as refined as some Eastern European dictator, fooling no one. The charm of this comic is how incredibly overwrought, but also genuinely dramatic, it can be. Every issue ends with some grisly cliffhanger or a character swearing a blood oath to the moon or something.
In a completely different vein (hehehehehehehehehe) is Strangehaven, by Gary Spencer Milledge. This is small-town horror and paranoia horror, very much in the vein of The Prisoner or Twin Peaks. An ordinary man, a schoolteacher, is driving down a lonely English country road and has a car accident; he awakes in the chirpy, pleasant countryside village of Strangehaven, a nice-seeming place where everyone is very friendly, but which he doesn't seem able to leave. The series goes in some interesting directions; a lesser story would have the town be really pod-people malevolent, but the residents of Strangehaven are real people with real problems (a kid acting out against his overbearing father by shoplifting from the local store) as well as occult problems (girls being ritualistically sacrificed). Some people seem to understand the nature of their improsonment; others may even welcome it, using the place as a refuge from the world outside. I have to give a qualified recommendation for this one, because it went on indefinite hiatus in 2005 and is unlikely ever to be finished, but what is there is magical and beautiful (his art is tremendous) and haunting.
Now for pulp:
The Shadow (Howard Chaykin) - a gorgeous, stylish book from the mid-80s that does the pulp character justice with dark, serious stories brimming with 30s period detail. It didn't run for very long but what there is is absolutely worth tracking down as the art is just phenomenal.
Sandman Mystery Theatre - one of my favorite comics ever, this follows the adventures of the Golden Age Sandman - one of DC's original superheroes, who rocks a trenchcoat, gas mask, and fedora and fights crime with the help of a gun that sprays sleeping gas. This comic turns the 30s-style pulp meter up to 11, pitting him against both supernatural and occult enemies as well as a rogue's gallery of real-world 1930s villains, from corrupt factory managers to crooked policemen to warring gangs of Irish and Chinese. This comic ran for 80 issuesl, all of them painstakingly well-researched both in setting and art, and Guy Davis's sketchy pencil style is one of the hidden treasures of comic books. The series was also noted at the time for its well-rendered heroine, a plucky, realistically-proportioned socialite who avoids a lot of the "strong female character" traps, as well as its unconventional main character, who in his secret identity is a scholar with a passion for Chinese literature and en Buddhism. The other notable feature about the comic is its gorgeous covers, each of which are done in the style of a 30s thriller magazine, often with an overwrought quote, like "the shadowy figure leapt at me, a knife clutched in his massive hands...!"