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my bitter bi rival
Mar 21, 2011


Car posted:

justice for twisty & ruder. no justice no peace.

white face with little lipstick daub in the middle for solidarity

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Weed Death
Feb 3, 2011



Someone I Like Does Not Like Me
You'd think, as I got older, I'd become able to take that news more easily.

You'd think.

Jazzimus Prime
May 16, 2002

But seriously, do you really believe that Hot Rod deserved to become Autobot Commander? Yeah, right.

Monday, February 14, 2005
Valentine's Day Can Suck My Cock

Worst. Holiday. Ever.

No links, but I urge you all to amuse yourselves with booze and pornography.

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Thursday, February 14, 2008
On The Occasion Of The Day

To all the people in the world who have found happiness and contentment in romance, I offer this message:

gently caress you.

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Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Only Thing That Gets Me Through The Day

Remembering that St. Valentine was beaten to death with clubs and rocks, and then beheaded.

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Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Screw Lonely People Day!

To paraphrase Charlie Brown: I know no one wants to go out with me; why must we have a Valentine's Day to emphasize it?

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but seriously, i wonder why women don't seem to like him he seems like such a likable person

sausage paddy
Feb 25, 2009

"Really don't mind if you sit this one out." -Little Milton

"it is better to burn out than fade away" -shadow lowtax

moonshine
Dec 7, 2001

the holocaust literally never happened

jesus christ he got a pussy without any surgery.hes a loving tranny messiah



j

Bob NewSCART
Feb 1, 2012

that smell. its my posts

Hahahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahhahahahahha

sausage paddy
Feb 25, 2009

"Really don't mind if you sit this one out." -Little Milton

moonshine posted:

jesus christ he got a pussy without any surgery.hes a loving tranny messiah

Reborn This Way -Lady GaGa

Weed Death
Feb 3, 2011



moonshine posted:

jesus christ he got a pussy without any surgery.hes a loving tranny messiah

lol

Skylark
Apr 27, 2007



Night Turds posted:

Kelly Thompson, I Take Issue With Your Review of Wonder Woman #7

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

GaOwDaHkEeAnD

As Waylon Smithers once said,
In the words of Milhouse,
In the immortal words of Winston Zeddemore,
in the words of Dan Didio,
To quote Barry Ween:
There's a famous quote in fandom,

aarontxwl
Apr 20, 2003



TTMA Inaugural (In The Other Sense) West Wing Mini-Marathon Lineup
Because of the historic weight of the day, and because it's the Best. Show. Ever, I'm holding a West Wing mini-marathon in my apartment tonight, highlighting episodes from the first four years focusing on the various traditions and idiosyncracies of our political process. For those who are interested, the full list follows below.


Mr. Willis of Ohio (S1, Ep 6): A vote on a new census-taking method may come down to one man: The husband of a deceased Congresswoman serving the remainder of her term.

Let Bartlet Be Bartlet (S1, Ep 19): A scathing memo written by a White House insider sends the staff scrambling and prompts Chief of Staff Leo McGarry to give the President the ultimatum of a lifetime.

The Midterms (S2, Ep 3): As the staff decompresses after the events of the shooting in Virginia, the Congressional elections take the spotlight.

The Stackhouse Filibuster (S2, Ep 17): A cantankerous Senator's stalling of the vote on the Family Wellness Act may be more than just an old man giving the President the finger.

Isaac & Ishmael (S3, Ep 1): A security lockdown at the White House means an impromptu forum on terrorism for Josh and a group of high school students and an uncomfortable interrogation for Leo and an Islamic White House staffer.


Hartsfield's Landing (S3, Ep 15): Bartlet navigates an international crisis and a series of chess games as the Presidential primaries get underway.

Game On (S4, Ep 5): Bartlet engages his opponent, Gov. Rob Richie, in a winner-take-all debate that will determine the outcome of the election, and the future of his presidency.


Inauguration (S4, Eps 13 & 14): As Bartlet prepares to begin his second term, a crisis in the African nation of Kundu prompts a drastic change in his address, and in US foreign policy. Leading the way: New staffer Will Bailey.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

GaOwDaHkEeAnD

Sunday, April 16, 2006

What Do I Have In Common With A Child-Killing Cannibal?
I mean, other than home state, hobbies, and psychological problems?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191879,00.html

So, this guy killed, dismembered, and was probably going to eat his ten-year-old neighbor.

But wait, there's more: http://futureworldruler.blogspot.com/

Scroll down past the "News Of The Weird" links, and you begin to see a disturbing picture: Lonely, socially awkward nerd, with strange interests, depressed, apathetic, uncertain. At my worst moments, I've had some of these same feelings.

And there's more than a few posts that chill me with how close they are to thoughts I've had?

quote:

I've never understood what's supposed to be fun about getting drunk. What's fun about slurring and stumbling and acting like an idiot? Or, even worse, falling down, vomiting, and passing out? ... Because I can't handle the social interaction, and I get pissed off. Pissed off at myself for not being able to be social, and pissed off at the other people because they can, and pissed off at God for making me be this way. If there is a God. Pretty much the only time I believe in God is when I want to blame Him for something. Or, when I'm really depressed, to cry and beg him to make me better, to make whatever is wrong in my brain go away, so that I can live like a normal person.

quote:

I guess I'm just too nice, women all want to be friends with me. Even girls I don't like have told me what a nice guy I am, and, as if that wasn't bad enough, I've even been told that "I actually forget you're a guy, I don't even think of you as a guy, you're like one of the girls to me."

That loving hurts.

quote:

I'd always been shy around people, even though I was always goofing off and being the class clown in the past, I was still shy in certain situations, especially when it came to one-on-one human interaction. Goofing off for a class full of people I could handle. But trying to talk to just one person made me nervous. It had never really been much of a problem before, though, but when I went to college, it got out of control. As time went by, I kept getting more and more nervous and scared. ... I was very in love with [a girl], but, like always, I never said anything to her, I never told her I liked her, or asked her out. We were friends, and talked to each other a lot at work, but that was all we were. Then, she started dating a guy ... This made me even more depressed, but I didn't give up hope that maybe they'd break up or something, and someday I'd have a chance with her. ... I was such a coward. I was too afraid to talk to people, too afraid to ask girls out even after being in love with them for months. I was even too afraid to kill myself even though I wanted to.

Over time I started getting a little better, but I battled depression for a couple of years. I still have the social phobia, and very occasionally small bouts of depression, but I'm much better than I was then, at least when it comes to the depression.

There but for the Grace of God go I? It haunts me that the basic difference between me and this guy might boil down to I went to a shrink, and he didn't.

You may think I'm overreacting, but, well... none of you knew me "before." Before I was properly diagnosed. Before I got on the right medication. Before I had a handle on my anger and my anxiety. I was not a pleasant person to be around. If you could travel back in time and see me in elementary school, you would never guess that kid would grow up to be me. Hell, that kid would have been lucky if he'd grown up to be iwarrior. And if he hadn't gotten help, that kid might very well have grown up to be this guy.

Even "after" (I divide my life like an alcoholic, "before" and "after"), I've dealt with depression, social phobia, feeling like I'm somehow set apart from everyone else. That I've had such love and support from my family and friends, I give massive amounts of thanks for every day.

But Jesus, this is like looking into a mirror made by Stephen King. I don't know whether to feel fortunate or frightened. Is the line between sanity and madness really that thin? Was it just a medical role of the dice that made me a published author and Managing Editor, and him a psychotic killer?

I don't know. I'm not sure I want to know. But I do know that I'm gonna take my pills today.

Bunny Cuddlin
Dec 12, 2004


moonshine posted:

jesus christ he got a pussy without any surgery.hes a loving tranny messiah

lmao

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No Hephaestus
Aug 7, 2010

im fucking furious.


Lumpy the Cook posted:

I've never understood what's supposed to be fun about getting drunk. What's fun about slurring and stumbling and acting like an idiot? Or, even worse, falling down, vomiting, and passing out? ... Because I can't handle the social interaction, and I get pissed off. Pissed off at myself for not being able to be social, and pissed off at the other people because they can, and pissed off at God for making me be this way. If there is a God. Pretty much the only time I believe in God is when I want to blame Him for something. Or, when I'm really depressed, to cry and beg him to make me better, to make whatever is wrong in my brain go away, so that I can live like a normal person.
lol if you can't even interact with other humans when drunk.
I just don't like to lose control of myself,y ou know? Too many bad experiences...

Weed Death
Feb 3, 2011



1. You have the right to comics that meet the basic standards of artistic and literary quality.

2. You have the right to a healthily diverse range of genres and formats of comics to choose from.

3. You have the right to have any and all comics available for sale from a healthily diverse range of venues.

4. You have a right to hospitable, accessible and professional venues of sale.

5. You have a right to honest, clear advertising from comics publishers, and to expect any and all promises made in such advertisements to be met.

6. You have a right to broad-ranging, unbiased and professional comics journalism and criticism from a healthily diverse range of sources.

7. You have a right to discuss, intelligently and politely, any and all aspects of comics you have read in the venue of your choice, and to expect intelligent and polite discussion from others.

8. You have a right to read those comics you enjoy, and to refrain from reading those you do not enjoy.

Jazzimus Prime
May 16, 2002

But seriously, do you really believe that Hot Rod deserved to become Autobot Commander? Yeah, right.

moonshine posted:

jesus christ he got a pussy without any surgery.hes a loving tranny messiah

halleys comet
Feb 29, 2012



Avatars I Have Used

Beginning at the beginning, this is my first avatar, and the only one I used for roughly two years. I got this one via request, asking for a Mark Bagley Peter Parker picture. I was hoping for something from his early Amazing Spider-Man days, but this image from Ultimate Spider-Man works as well. I lacked image manipulation software in those days, so stuck with this one for quite a while due to simple laziness. Therefore, when I finally did change it, I got a lot of random people saying to me "Holy crap, you changed your avatar!"

This is the first one I changed to, after I got Spock as the result in some Internet quiz or other. At the time, I was stressing over post-collegiate job-searching, so I used the tagline "Will Mind-Meld For Food." Later, when "beards" was the subject of a weekly avatar contest on the Comm board, I used an avatar of the evil bearded Spock from the mirror universe, with the tagline "Will Agonize For Food." (As an aside, I want my own portable agonizer, like Troi had in Diane Duane's "Dark Mirror." That would be 1337.)

Now we get into some of the Avatar Contest entries. This one was "Jewish Cartoon Characters." I chose this mainly out of my love for Transformers, which overcame my hatred of Family Guy. For the tagline, I got Morts to translate "'Til All Are One!" into Hebrew for me. Good egg, that Morts.

Bun-Bun from Sluggy Freelance dressed up as Pikachu. Note that the little dots on hsi cheeks are a skull-and-crossbones. This is my standard Halloween avatar.

Cartoon sidekicks. Bartleby from Bone. This one's notable because the tagline I used was "Shake that rear end, Bartleby!"

Robots. Came pretty close to winning with this one. I sat out the next week's, Rock Band Frontmen, but when I posted in the thread, and someone commented that he didn't know Asimov had been in a band, I did an impromptu riff about him and Stephen Hawking being the guys who really came up with "She Blinded Me With Science." No, I'm not proud of that pun.

I wore this for several weeks after Mark Millar killed off Hornet in Wolverine. The bastard.

My current default av, which I use when I'm not entered in the weekly contest. I like it, not just because it's a monkey in a dunce cap, but because of the little sad face he has. Poor monkey.

No Hephaestus
Aug 7, 2010

im fucking furious.


1. Nothing wrong with me

moonshine
Dec 7, 2001

the holocaust literally never happened

the right to comics



j

Deep Space Hitler
Apr 21, 2011



InternetSuperqueero posted:

1. Nothing wrong with me

never has there bee na thread where this applied less


my bitter bi rival
Mar 21, 2011


Deep Space Hitler posted:

never has there bee na thread where this applied less

actually, its funny, becase its the content of every one of whiny blog posts, Hitler

No Hephaestus
Aug 7, 2010

im fucking furious.


nightwheat stalker posted:

actually, its funny, becase its the content of every one of whiny blog posts, Hitler
its true, Hitler

NovaPolice
May 9, 2006


I Am A Good Smart Person Who Respects Human Females In And Outside of Graphic Novels,
here's thousands of words to comic companies and to celebrities I want to gently caress

moonshine
Dec 7, 2001

the holocaust literally never happened

for thousands of years the common man has fought bravely for their right to read the funnies



j

No Hephaestus
Aug 7, 2010

im fucking furious.


My point, and I do have one, is that you're Kevin f*cking Smith. That doesn't mean something to everyone, but it means something to smart people in the business, and it should mean something to you.

Plumtree
Jul 11, 2011


hahahahaha he wrote a huge post about two and a half men

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Quote My Ass
Jul 17, 2006

i can handle this but i can't handle anything else

nightwheat stalker posted:

actually, its funny, becase its the content of every one of whiny blog posts, Hitler

actually, its funny, because of what hitler said, in addition, with out excepting the reasoning which you as well provided, Hitler

Bunny Cuddlin
Dec 12, 2004


NovaPolice posted:

I Am A Good Smart Person Who Respects Human Females In And Outside of Graphic Novels,
here's thousands of words to comic companies and to celebrities I want to gently caress

http://talestomildlyastonish.blogsp...-johansson.html

Jesus christ

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Plumtree
Jul 11, 2011


I have a confession to make. It's a confession that's been a long time coming, with a lot of rationalization and avoidance along the way. "I don't really have a problem," I've been telling myself. "I only watch it during commercials. And it's only syndicated episodes, not first-run. They don't even show the whole episode in syndication. It's only because that one woman has great breasts.

"Anyway, I can quit whenever I want."

Recently, though, I hit rock bottom, in way that made the nature of my problem undeniable. I was flipping channels, and came upon an episode I had already seen.

And I put down the remote.

I'm ashamed to admit it even now. I feel unshriven, leprotic. I have failed both the community of good taste and myself as a human being. But I don't have to stay that way. I can choose to take the first step and admit, to myself and the world, that I have a problem.

Hi. My name is Michael, and I watch "Two and a Half Men."

I have no excuse for my behavior. It's unforgivable. The show is misogynist, hackneyed, poorly-acted, misogynist, terribly written, over-reliant on tired bodily non-humor, misogynist, incurably Californian, and misogynist. And I don't think the creators are too fond of women, either.

I can't think of a single redeeming quality to any of the characters, recurring or one-shot. Charlie Sheen plays himself fifteen years ago, and John Cryer plays an older, more pathetic Ducky. The housekeeper character is latest in a long line of classist domestic cliches, best summed up by this Onion quickie. She's actually the best-portrayed female character in the show; all the other women are shrewish, stupid, slutty, psychotic, or some combination of the above. And did I mention this show seems to have huge problems with women?

All of this can be laid square at the feet of the show's writing team, Satan's hands on Earth if ever he had any. Sheen and Cryer sure didn't come up with the idea to name the harpy ex-wife Judith. (And if they did, shame on them.) The idea of "The Odd Couple, but they're brothers, and Felix has a kid" is a typical Hollywood ourobouros masquerading as creativity, but not terrible on its own. No, it takes a special human touch to revolve pretty much every script around their mirror-image objectification of women, wistfully chide "boys will be boys," and add a laugh track. That this facile excuse for characterization has made the show America's Number One Comedy does not surprise me, but it does remind me why I never considered a career in television.

Everything about this show is a cliche, and a bad one at that. Everyone in it is a taker: utterly self-centered, completely without empathy. It's great fodder for horror fiction, I suppose, but played for laughs, it becomes grotesque. Especially when they try to get us to feel sympathy for any of these people, which is all too often. A saying about bedmaking comes to mind. Charlie's drinking himself to death, and Alan's mommy fetish guarantees he'll never know the touch of a woman again? Good! Sounds like a happy loving ending! Have the house collapse in one of those California mudslides with everyone inside, and we can all go watch something more aesthetically palatable, like videos of eye surgery.

It's also infuriating, to me at least, that the show has gone to the "Charlie wises up" well at least five times, by my counting. It's the show's "they get off the island," except on Gilligan's Island, they at least dashed those hopes in the last few minutes of the episode. On this show, Charlie has the epiphany, then everything's back to normal next week. That's like showing them being picked up off the island by the Coast Guard, and starting the next episode with them sitting around the Minnow looking at the hole in the side.

I will admit one softening of my opinion: I feel pretty bad for Angus Jones, the kid who plays Jake. I mean, he's going to have to go through life being remembered as "the fat, dumb kid from Two and a Half Men." Nobody should have to live with that albatross around their neck. As I pointed out above, it's not like he's writing this crap. And, given the way Hollywood parenting works, I doubt any of this was his idea in the first place.

So, the show is poo poo. I think we've established that. But there I am, tuning it in, willingly subjecting myself to it and bumping the audience statistics up by one. Why? Laziness seems to be the primary reason. An affection for fiction about fraternal relationships is second, but Jesus, I've got East of Eden on my bookshelf, so there's no real excuse for eating at McDonald's when there's filet mignon to be had.

But I gave up McDonald's, and I can give up the TV equivalent of the Filet o'Fish. All it takes is discipline. Discipline, and the fact that in no way do I ever want to end up like either Charlie or Alan Harper.

Still, Melanie Lynskey does have a great rack.

No, no! Bad Michael! Bad!

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Firmy Shoyombo
Apr 3, 2010


Car posted:

also, gently caress you ozma, you fat unfunny idiot

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Volte
Oct 4, 2004


Plumtree posted:

hahahahaha he wrote a huge post about two and a half men
which ones?

NovaPolice
May 9, 2006


Car posted:

lmao

No Hephaestus
Aug 7, 2010

im fucking furious.


Stanos
Sep 22, 2009

The best 57 in hockey.

halleys comet
Feb 29, 2012



NovaPolice posted:

I Am A Good Smart Person Who Respects Human Females In And Outside of Graphic Novels,
here's thousands of words to comic companies and to celebrities I want to gently caress

Dear Mr. Eastwood,

I read your recent comments in Esquire where you referred to today's generation as "Generation Pussy." As a member of said generation, I feel obligated to respond.

Volte
Oct 4, 2004


About Me

Michael
I came into the world in 1981 and have been expressing my disapproval with it ever since.

Volte
Oct 4, 2004


make this man a mod of the GBS comedy forum immediately, is something that someone literally said one time

Plumtree
Jul 11, 2011



 
   
      
        
            

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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

GaOwDaHkEeAnD

Monday, August 03, 2009

Die, Mario, Die
Behold rear end in a top hat Mario, one gamer's journey into the depths of his friend's ability to hack the Super Mario World ROM and construct levels of nearly Sisyphean difficulty. Munchers on every available space, enemies that have to be used as platforms, coin blocks where coin blocks just should not be... This is some of the most sadistic poo poo I've ever seen, and I've been to junior high school.

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May 26, 2008



Night Turds posted:

what if someone were to post an image, with 3 or 4 people at a table, without context

absolutely nothing. loving post it

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