Oh, Susquehanna!

I'm going to make tripcodes for anon messages.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:00 -0500

He said about a Bomb song.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:39:35 -0500

He said about a Bomb song.

Orthodontics is kind of barbaric.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:32:36 -0500

When I was a kid I had six years of that shit and it’s pretty ridiculous. The whole field is based around devices that push and pull your teeth and jaw over time, like Herbst appliances and palatal expanders. A Herbst is just a metal jaw that forces you to close your mouth a certain way. The palatal expanders are basically racks (that torture device that pulls a person apart) for your jaw. Everything’s all held together with glue and metal and that’s it.

greatelsewhere: diacrit: i don’t get andrew wk do people like him he seems like a jackass he’s...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:25:57 -0500

greatelsewhere:

diacrit:

i don’t get andrew wk

do people like him

he seems like a jackass

he’s like if a happy puppy were a person

i’m pretty sure hating him would mean you hate joy

No one hates Andrew W.K. You must exist if you don’t like Andrew W.K.

Chrome should have an option for using regex to search a page.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:09:20 -0500

Chrome. Give me that.

greatelsewhere: the-squid-king: WAIT HOLY SHIT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THE LAPTOP SHOOTER’S...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:22:27 -0500

greatelsewhere:

the-squid-king:

WAIT HOLY SHIT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THE LAPTOP SHOOTER’S DAUGHTER SHOULD BE INSTITUTIONALIZED?

IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT?

WHAT THE FUCK?

the facts

the dad is a bad dad

people who think he is a good dad are probably bad parents or bad people

the teen is a teen

the facts

a single instance of dramatic and purposefully over the top parenting isn’t enough evidence to go on when making assertions like “the dad is a bad dad”
people who think he is a good dad should read 1., but I wouldn’t assume them to be bad parents or people for giving him the benefit of the doubt.
the teen is a teen

I am not very good at this game. Not at all.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:54:16 -0500

I am not very good at this game.

Not at all.

thelittlestdrunk: princessnecrophilia: really tho, it’s also unfair to make sweeping statements...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:46:02 -0500

thelittlestdrunk:

princessnecrophilia:

really tho, it’s also unfair to make sweeping statements like “shooting someone’s computer is traumatizing”

if it was to the point where my parents had to shoot my fucking computer to teach me a lesson

i would take that lesson.

i CLEARLY pushed my parents to the point where they did that. it would be MY FAULT, not theirs.

if they had a pattern of behaviour that was violent and unfair, then yes, traumatic. but since they have been fair with me my whole life? yeah. nah.

okay, i agree that she was a little brat…and i don’t know if it’s abuse but there is literally no rhyme or reason for that man to take A GUN (read: A FUCKING GUN) and SHOOT her computer

there are so many other ways this could have been handled! why the fuck did he feel it was okay to take a gun to solve a little dispute with his daughter? what the fuck kind of lesson does that teach her?

that’s not what a sane person would do. a sane person would take her computer away and hide/sell it.

not

shoot

it

He bought the damn thing, he can poop on it if he wants.

All this talk of procedurally generated whatsits on my dashboard...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:23:00 -0500

All this talk of procedurally generated whatsits on my dashboard reminded me of Spelunky. I downloaded it again and I had forgotten how much fun this game is. Even as accidentally killed myself on some spikes while trying to throw the damsel into the spider to kill it. And then when I accidentally got myself stuck in some web with my bomb. And when I realized that pots can contain spiders and opening a pot up in a small space is a bad idea. And when I ran out of ropes and got stuck in a hole. I hadn’t even gotten to the bits where yetis try to throw you off of ice cliffs and ghosts try to violate you for violating their burial grounds.

Spelunky is fun because the game actually feels like it’s trying to kill you however it can. Even the haplessly slithering snakes feel like they’re out to get you.

I want to get drunk and watch Hey Arnold.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:45:23 -0500

greatelsewhere: bradofarrell: jermtube: Hey Arnold had the...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:43:00 -0500

greatelsewhere:

bradofarrell:

jermtube:

Hey Arnold had the mailman too, though

The Office has two. Now it has three.

The Simpsons has at least 4 but has on two occasions noted how few there are by implying that they all hang out in some kind of secret society

While Hey Arnold! may not have had many visible minorities, I think they tried to create a cast of kids who accurate represented the demographics of a 1990s Brooklyn. If the issue with Hey Arnold! is the lack of minorities, the show definitely didn’t suffer there. The Sunset Arms and Arnold’s friends boasted invisible minorities, like Eastern European immigrants and Welsh-Americans.

Though whoever is putting heavy focus on the race of the kids in the show is just doing it wrong. The cast was diverse in home life and upbringing so that kids who watched the show would have someone to relate to.

Anyways, I miffed about The Office. There have always been at least two black guys on the cast since the show started.

Clip art comics are like the painting with numbers of humour.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:06:48 -0500

Like this popular Reddit comic. Someone just arranged the clip art faces and added text. There’s no real effort. It’s kind of neat that there’s a story telling format that’s easily accessible and widely accepted, but it sucks that it’s rarely used for worthwhile content.

The internet makes me grumpy sometimes.

Internet culture sucks these days.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:51:40 -0500

I blame clip art comics and advice animals.

himynameiscarl: all the stupid shit people say about justin bieber and skrillex now, like how...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:34:48 -0500

himynameiscarl:

all the stupid shit people say about justin bieber and skrillex now, like how they’re ruining music or like how our generation’s music is the worst and so on, are the same things people were saying in 05/06 about like green day and shit

and also rap and dance music and nu metal and hey wait a minute

maybe there’s always been shitty music that a lot of people won’t like! maybe every time some new “ruining our generation” “oh my god my brain cells” type of artist comes around, they actually AREN’T violating the sanctity of music itself, which is how fucking everyone seems to act when this sort of thing happens

I’ve wondered for a while now who that artist/what that genre was for different periods. Who in the Baroque period, was that artist? Did the pretentious early 17th century classical music fans think Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber because he looked like a girl and that he was ruining music forever?

greatelsewhere: Mike I just don’t buy many games I like to feel like I’m helping I’m just...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:54:36 -0500

greatelsewhere:

Mike I just don’t buy many games I like to feel like I’m helping

I’m just saying that the company is always crowdsourcing its funding. In the standard model, the project is retroactively funded. In a Kickstarter model, the projected is being funded before production. Either way, the company needs people to buy the game to continue to make games.

greatelsewhere: ohsusquehanna: greatelsewhere: ohsusquehanna replied to your post: Imagine if Tim...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:38 -0500

greatelsewhere:

ohsusquehanna:

greatelsewhere:

ohsusquehanna replied to your post: Imagine if Tim Schafer just said “Psychonauts 2 if…

Notch basically already said he’d fund Psychonauts 2.

I’d prefer a kickstarter just because crowdsourced is so much nicer

It literally makes no difference.

I mean, you’ll probably pay ten or fifteen bucks for the game anyways, why does it matter if the initial capital is invested by one or one thousand people?

because it feels nicer this way

if notch just paid schafer 100% of the money for the point-and-click game i probably would’ve forgotten about it and maybe gotten it a few weeks after it came out and tried it out

but now i’m getting access to a beta and a copy of the game and it’s a way to make the fans feel like they’ve contributed something worthwhile

the difference lies entirely in sentiment

So you’re more interested in how the game is produced than the game itself?

I think the Psychonauts fans would prefer secure funding as well as this thing called pre-ordering. I pre-ordered The Orange Box and got to play TF2 Beta and that was pretty neat. Having been genuinely excited for the games to come out, I definitely didn’t forget the release date for months, even though it was funded 100% by someone else and not by a crowd.

greatelsewhere: ohsusquehanna replied to your post: Imagine if Tim Schafer just said “Psychonauts 2...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:38:51 -0500

greatelsewhere:

ohsusquehanna replied to your post: Imagine if Tim Schafer just said “Psychonauts 2 if…

Notch basically already said he’d fund Psychonauts 2.

I’d prefer a kickstarter just because crowdsourced is so much nicer

It literally makes no difference.

I mean, you’ll probably pay ten or fifteen bucks for the game anyways, why does it matter if the initial capital is invested by one or one thousand people?

himynameiscarl: when you think about it though there really are a lot of rap songs i think in any...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:51 -0500

himynameiscarl:

when you think about it though there really are a lot of rap songs

i think in any given high school there’s at least three or four white dudes who think they can make it

or at least that was my experience

in any case that alone is a lot of rappers, that’s not even counting the inner city kids, the dudes who pick up rapping in college, and the current proteges of popular rap artists

shit, even just in terms of popular music, there are already SO MANY rap songs!

god so much rap

when you think about it though there really are a lot of bluegrass songs

i think in any given high school there’s at least three or four asian dudes who think they can make it

or at least that was my experience

in any case that alone is a lot of bluegrassers, that’s not even counting the rural kids, the dudes who pick up bluegrass in college, and the current protoges of popular bluegrass artists

shit, even just in terms of popular music, there are already SO MANY bluegrass songs!

god so much bluegrass

Philip Seymour Hoffman looks like a fat Matt Damon

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:33:39 -0500

ittasteslikedeath: fluorescent-grey: i think the idea of film...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:44:00 -0500

ittasteslikedeath:

fluorescent-grey:

i think the idea of film and it’s imagery is such a major part of our culture that most kids (of our generation) will know what it is. Also, you could just teach your kids about it.

it’s surprising how many people pretty close in age to me don’t know what film is. it hurts my soul.

Just like how my generation has no idea what a record is!

But seriously, even though film is an iconic and immediately recognizable data storage medium, that doesn’t mean kids will know what it is. Every once in a while the topic of the save icon comes up somewhere and at least one person has a horror story about a friend not knowing what a floppy disk is.

I think the sad thing is that, going forward, there won’t be many iconic symbols. No icons immediately come to mind when I think of MP3s, AVIs, or JPGs for example.