kissekatt posted:

On a scale from 1 to 14, how White Power are you? Only half-joking.

TetsuoTW posted:

Hooplah posted:

The first post in that A/T thread is also pretty good

PhancyPants posted:

Now there's 2 things on my time-machine list:

1) Kill Hitler
2) Show Ayn Rand "Tyler Perry's Atlas Shrugged Part 2: Madea goes Galt". It's what the market wanted.

toanoradian posted:

Why not show Hitler Atlas Shrugged?

PhancyPants posted:

If there's one thing that guy didn't need it's more bad ideas.

SIGSEGV posted:

Should have been from 14 to 88 but it was pretty golden.

Kaboom Dragoon posted:

I get the 88, but what's the 14?

Clockwork Sputnik posted:

"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children"

TontoCorazon posted:

Really?
Jesus racists are stupid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words posted:

Because the beauty of the White Aryan women must not perish from the earth.

Skylark posted:

It Ain't Ova Yet (2009)
This heartbreaking documentary chronicles the hardships of a ward of children suffering from leukemia and an eight-year-long beef with entertainer Eminem, who frequently taunts them in his visits and parodies them in his music videos.

Mortal Sword posted:

What you don't realize is that, in order to accomodate the years-long coloring cycle, comic books run on about a decade of backlog. Comics you read now were originally written and penciled around 2001. Topical references are left blank, akin to mad libs, so that they can be filled in just before going to print. Of course, sometimes this results in issues where the nouns are all "fart" and current politicians are all named "Penis McSlapcock", but that's the price the industry pays.

oldpainless posted:

Does anyone have the post that was in the paranormal forum where the OP had a long-rear end list of conspiracy stuff? I remember one was about the oceans being man-made to cover up something underneath them and just lots of cool poo poo I thought was pretty interesting.

shortprsn posted:

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

This is actually a cover up of a tattoo of a dude molesting a kid.

prefect posted:

I think you want this one: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3478575

Apology posted:

Why can't people doing steampunk ever smile? Is there something about gears and blimps that forces them to be painfully pretentious?

Baron Snow posted:

Clearly they're wound too tight.

Putin It In Mah rear end posted:

Don't you think such backhanded complements directed at a kid who was 13 at the time are a bit beneath the dignity of this esteemed forum?

emfive posted:

your username dilutes the message here

El_Elegante posted:

Holy poo poo who would gas that thread

quote:

The next time you make a purchase, hand the clerk a $1 bill and ask her to make change. She will hand you back a number of coins, several of which bear the likenesses of long dead historical figures.

brainfizz posted:

Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, invented soft serve ice cream. Just think about that the next time you're at the beach, wrapping your tongue round a Mr Whippy.

Wampus42 posted:

Oh yeah? Well Al Gore, the American Vice President, invented the Internet. Just think about that the next time you're in your room, wrapping your hand round a Mr Whippy.

Captain Payne posted:

I'm about to fly up to Alaska and work in a cannery out in the middle of nowhere. I'll be cutting up fish for sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for five weeks (assuming the season is good). [Not sure if anybody remembers but I originally talked about getting hired there--despite the misgivings of many goons--in another E/N thread and was planning on bumping that one. Unfortunately it got archived.]

I figure I'll have plenty of time to think as I won't need to devote much brainpower to whatever task I'm doing so I'm looking for interesting things to think about--philosophical concepts, cool daydream scenarios, mysteries of the universe, routes to self-betterment, etc.

I'm also looking for motivation to get through the season. I'll hopefully make a decent chunk of money so I'm making a list of things I'll buy once I'm done to motivate me to push through. So far I've got a fleshlight, maybe a nice vaporizer, and the Game of Thrones 1st season dvd, which leaves me with a lot of leftover money. So I'm willing to take suggestions on what to buy too.

But the primary focus of this thread is to enlist goons' help in coming up with good thinking topics. And if people are interested, I might be able to post updates on my cannery experience once I start working there (depending on what the internet situation there is).

Ambiguatron posted:

I said this in the troper thread a few times, but it bears repeating. There's two things you need to understand about TVTropes, their approaches to fiction as readers and as writers.

As readers, they've created this weird school of anti-analysis that cribs from death of the author, auteur theory, and Robert Heinlein's pantheistic solipsism, although I doubt any of them have any idea what those things are. What it comes down to is that they treat all fiction as some sort of historical record of a parallel universe. You can't criticize a work or its author for the inclusion of surprise sex or pedophilia because that's how it happens in the work, any more than you can attack historians for writing about the surprise sex of Nanking or the Holocaust; to Tropers, these fictional events have the same level of validity. They have killed the author, not in the sense of letting the work standing by itself but in the sense of acknowledging the work as fictional at all. They refuse the assumption that the whole thing is made up and every word is a deliberate choice by the author.

Now, trying to psychoanalyze an author through his work is enormously flawed, and as a practice it's extremely selective- people who write conceptually similar things are often arbitrarily labeled as supporting or being aroused by the material they've written whereas others are somewhat arbitrary placed in a literary of canon of some kind and given a pass on weird poo poo they've put in their stories. Yet, when you are writing or drawing or producing pornography that is explicitly porn and is right on the bleeding edge of the Miller Test, if not on the other side, and you're involving animals and children and other weird poo poo, it is appropriate to question the author and analyze their motivations. Tropers refuse that; if Character A rapes Character B, that's because that's what happened, not because the author chose to write it that way.

On the other hand, they effectively embrace the auteur theory. Virtually every page has a Word of God tab, or makes references to the Word of God trope. The author is the absolute authority of the meaning of their work, what takes place off screen, character motivations that aren't revealed. It is a sin to think about the meaning of the work if what the author has to say about it contradicts your theory. If you presume to try to do any kind of substantive analysis you'll be forced to put it on a page that no one reads or stick it in a "Wild Mass Guessing" tab where it will be drowned in an endless sea of jokes that amount to memes like "Character X is a Time Lord and Item Y is his Tardis" and "The Plot of Work Z takes place during the Instrumentality sequence of Neon Genesis Evangelion". These "theories" are repeated on every loving page.

The only way to reconcile these disparate outlooks -the author as totally unrelated to the work, and yet as a "god"-like authority on it- is to frame works of fiction as historical treatises. The author is no more responsible for the content of the work than a historian is for historical events, and yet speaks with the same authority as a historian or chronicler who actually observed the events in question. In effect, the theory of TVTropes is that authors do not create, the observe something that exists out in the aether and transmit it to we plebians who simply receive the transmitted revelation.

The writing theory of TVTropes is simpler- there isn't one. They think the entirety of the human imagination can be broken down into a set of variables, and if they plug them into a formula, entertainment pops out. The underlying current amongst the TVTropes community of writers is hatred of the written word. They don't take an interest in writing because they enjoy language or the craft of tapping into the human imagination with words, they do it because they don't have the skills, technical, social, or otherwise, to break into another artistic medium. Besides being riddled with cliches, their works all read like scripts from films or video games or comic books translated into flat, uninteresting prose. That is in fact the entire point- they want to produce visual media, but they can't, and so commit in my mind their greatest crime, the mutilation and debasement of the written word as a poor alternative to visual media.

Their works, in turn, are universally terrible because none of them read, or read anything of any complexity or quality. They consume purely visual media in a very narrow range of genres and do nothing but parrot and imitate what they see. TVTropes is a blank void that goes on forever, the cold death of imagination.

Also they have lots of people that want to gently caress little girls and that's pretty uncool, too, but I blame that on the moderation staff. There's something about the Internet that draws people like that out of the woordwork and any form of social communication must make a deliberate effort to chase them off.

leovinus posted:

I just want to watch her defense in court. What could she possibly come up with?

boom boom boom posted:

Well, the baby was making her life terrible, and the dad din't care about it, and it's apparently really fun to abuse.

Scurvy posted:

rivid posted:

She retweeted "I want to poop in your butt and pass it back and forth like a subway train." I think everyone can pack up and head home early today.

Saint Darwin posted:

Why? Why is she retweeting our poo poo?

reflir posted:

So it can go back and forth like a subway train.

Volume posted:

poop!

RentCavalier posted:

Context?

RentCavalier posted:

Context?

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Al Jazeera is one of the most credible journalistic entities in the world and has won multiple international awards for its unbiased and well researched reporting.

Earwicker posted:

But they have an Arabic name!

etalian posted:

So it's no coincidence that Al-Jazeera and Al-Qaeda begin with the same word?

Saint Darwin posted:

Not to mention Al-Gebra (math is for terrorists and against God's plan)

Ambiguatron posted:

What do you think he's going to do, jump up on a table and start shouting "Oh look at me, I'm a great big bugger! I love to bugger boys in their buns! Look at me, I'm the bugger fairy that lives on bugger lane!"

plaidboat posted:

From the GBS "Arafat Assassinated" thread

Boomer The Cannon posted:

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kidcoelacanth posted:

Chamale posted:

I get all my news from PYF

Seeing Eye Duck posted:

Continuing to study German, also Chemistry and Calculus. My professor is giving us a test on the 5th of July.

Barudak posted:

Remind your German professor that if not for the good ol' US of A he wouldn't have a job teaching German because we'd all be speaking it.

reflir posted:

Well I learned something new today: It was much easier to get Mad Scientist grant money in the 1920s. "You wanna shoot chimp cum up a woman's snatch? Head on over to the colonies!"