Random Thoughts Thread

[just Beamu]

You ask so many questions.
Is that a problem?

[Strife ❤️]

How good is your PC?

If you really want to know:


6 Core Intel XEON X5650 @ 4.0Ghz
24GB RAM
GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB
Samsung Evo 840 Pro Solid State Drive
1KW Corsair HX1000 PSU

1x 4K UHD 28" Monitor
2x 1200p 24" Monitors

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/11200956_10153337523992718_5005513406179158565_o.j pg


It's not completely insane but it's pretty good.

[Historia]

Is that a problem?

No, but why?

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And I like the orange lights or whatever you wanna call 'em.

[just Beamu]

No, but why?
I'm curious about many things.

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If you really want to know:


6 Core Intel XEON X5650 @ 4.0Ghz
24GB RAM
GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB
Samsung Evo 840 Pro Solid State Drive
1KW Corsair HX1000 PSU

1x 4K UHD 28" Monitor
2x 1200p 24" Monitors

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/11200956_10153337523992718_5005513406179158565_o.j pg


It's not completely insane but it's pretty good.
How much did it cost? Or did you build it yourself?

[Strife ❤️]

no prebuilts please

[just Beamu]

no prebuilts please
Did you or somebody say you're a programmer or something?

[Spinach]

no prebuilts please

plus 1

[Historia]

I'm curious about many things.

Yeah, I got that.

If you write them down in a notebook for... reasons, please erase anything that incriminates me.

[SeiKeo]

plus 1
@Leo-chan likes this post

[just Beamu]

Yeah, I got that.

If you write them down in a notebook for... reasons, please erase anything that incriminates me.
I can't erase the notebook that is my brain. Things just slip away on their own.

[Historia]

I can't erase the notebook that is my brain. Things just slip away on their own.

Fair enough.

Note to self: Don't answer anything GayBeamu asks that has the potential to be used for nefarious purposes.

[just Beamu]

Fair enough.

Note to self: Don't answer anything GayBeamu asks that has the potential to be used for nefarious purposes.
What kind of nefarious purposes are you thinking of?

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I don't use any knowledge for anything nefarious.

[Historia]

.

You bastard!

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Anyway I have to write three essays by Monday, so...

[just Beamu]

You bastard!
No.

[Historia]

Not counting the one due tomorrow

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and mah merge

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Bastard.

[just Beamu]

Bastard.
It was all part of my plan.

[Sesto]

wow canada's new minister of canadian heritage is cute

http://i.imgur.com/4laNHoD.png?1

[Historia]

.

will she be anime too?

[just Beamu]

will she be anime too?
Everything is anime with DaItalian.

[Historia]

Everything is anime with DaItalian.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-03/enhanced/webdr04/24/17/enhanced-8019-1395697780-1.jpg

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anime

[just Beamu]

pic
Is that supposed to be Putin in the background?

[Historia]

Is that supposed to be Putin in the background?

https://ragingscythe.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/putin-natalia-daki.png

maybe

[just Beamu]

maybe

If that image was real it would be amazing.

[Historia]

If that image was real it would be amazing.

this one is

http://i.imgur.com/toBGLYM.jpg?1

[just Beamu]

Putin confirmed 1/4 Zentradi.

[Snow]

Yes I love having connectivity issues in the middle of a game!

Yes I love to get shit for it despite it being in no way my fault! Bring it on!

[Historia]

then there's http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/5483984+_09faa871b8d49f783707d7b5b0cc1880.jpg

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putin did nothing wrong

[just Beamu]

then there's http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/5483984+_09faa871b8d49f783707d7b5b0cc1880.jpg
My eyes are burning.

[Janx]

Yes I love having connectivity issues in the middle of a game!

Yes I love to get shit for it despite it being in no way my fault! Bring it on!

I know right? Its bad enough feeling guilty for random chance messing up a good game.

[Historia]

My eyes are burning.


putin did nothing wrong

he is the good that come from anime.

he is anime.

[Snow]

putin go away

[just Beamu]

he is the good that come from anime.

he is anime.
Have you seen the manga with Putin in it?

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putin go away
At least you're not Ukraine right now.

[Historia]

Have you seen the manga with Putin in it?

http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr157/WakaLakaAlchemist/MYEEEEYES.jpg


he is the good that come from anime.

he is anime.

he is anime.

[just Beamu]

http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr157/WakaLakaAlchemist/MYEEEEYES.jpg


In this case he is manga.

[Historia]

Ah, well, that was fun. Off to my essays, which I've procrastinated over long enough.

http://i.imgur.com/GeZqmcc.jpg

(One more for the road)

[just Beamu]

(One more for the road)
You've reminded me of Toradora. Why would you remind me of Toradora?

[Snow]

the worst part is that there's most likely something wrong with my laptop's wireless adapter. And the laptop is not even a year old ugh.

[just Beamu]

the worst part is that there's most likely something wrong with my laptop's wireless adapter. And the laptop is not even a year old ugh.

Did it go out for a long time or in short spurts?

[Snow]

short. just loses connection for a few minutes and I have to manually reconnect, and even then it usually takes a few tries before that works. I thought it was the provider's fault but the same thing is happening on two different providers.

[just Beamu]

short. just loses connection for a few minutes and I have to manually reconnect, and even then it usually takes a few tries before that works. I thought it was the provider's fault but the same thing is happening on two different providers.
All I usually have to do is reset my router. If that doesn't work it's usually the provider's fault.

[Snow]

Thing is I googled it and it's happening to a lot of people. Apparently the adapter they used in the entire series is complete junk. I could get a USB adapter or just put the cable in but kinda defeats the point.

[just Beamu]

Thing is I googled it and it's happening to a lot of people. Apparently the adapter they used in the entire series is complete junk. I could get a USB adapter or just put the cable in but kinda defeats the point.
Does it mention any other way of fixing it?

[Snow]

Does it mention any other way of fixing it?

this


Only fix is to use a usb wireless adapter or run an ethernet cable which defeats being wireless.

There is another fix that I didn't mention above, buy another brand of laptop.

[mAc Chaos]

662028477294641152

[Lace]

how do you even link your tweets in like that

[Strife ❤️]

mac pls

[mAc Chaos]

Write out [ tweet] TWEET ID HERE [/ tweet], without the spaces. Still testing it out.

[Seika]

Apparently we now have tweet BBCode.

659650258566291456

[Strife ❤️]

656219949384470528

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Well, that's interesting behaviour.

[mAc Chaos]

RIP locked twitter account

[Strife ❤️]

661301784019935232

[Kelnish]

662069346370473984

[Snow]

you tried

[just Beamu]

I still don't have a Twitter.

[SeiKeo]

662074178401619968

[just Beamu]

What is this madness?

[Snow]

661655260461670400

[2Bad]

What is this madness?

I told you before, shitposting is a social experiment.

[just Beamu]

661655260461670400
Post more doge.

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I told you before, shitposting is a social experiment.
Forgot about that.

[Janx]

wow canada's new minister of canadian heritage is cute

http://i.imgur.com/4laNHoD.png?1

Man, our government is hot.

[Lace]

661984301861478401

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661657001563394049

[Snow]

tfw all you ever do is retweet shibes

[Janx]

Its a cat. They do own the place.

[Lace]

643971079594201088

[just Beamu]

tfw all you ever do is retweet shibes

Sounds adorable.

[Janx]

662074178401619968

That's oddly like..the least offensive thing on that twitter acount.

[just Beamu]

That's oddly like..the least offensive thing on that twitter acount.
The rest is hilariously awful.

[2Bad]

I don't follow it but it's in my feed constantly because everyone retweets it.

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Also Lace that's an alright cat but worse than mine hth

[Kelnish]

Im a very boring twitterer

[Lace]

https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t34.0-12/12201018_671533479654273_1541649967_n.jpg?oh=71cff f379814a9a1518a2e7dc5d3a29c&oe=563D283D
what it looks like: a cute lil kitty with nothing wrong bout it just being happy n cute and sleepy
what it looks like in its head: human beings, crying. theyre on the ground and their skittles r landing in the dirt. they have anxiety

e: this would b like a rly good tweet i just need to work around the word count

[Strife ❤️]

how did you take the photo

[Snow]

twitter was a mistake

[Janx]

That cat actually resembles mine when she was a kitten.

[Lace]

you see when i was younger i ate the devil's fruit and now im super stretchy and can extend my back up to the other side of the room . its amazing rly and great for taking pictures

[Janx]

twitter was a mistake

Ikr? Like BL needed more ways to shitpost.

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you see when i was younger i ate the devil's fruit and now im super stretchy and can extend my back up to the other side of the room . its amazing rly and great for taking pictures

Judging by much modern art, that ability isn't too rare amongst women.

[Lace]

Also Lace that's an alright cat but worse than mine hth

yeah it's alright whoever's cat that is, its not mine tho i dont use twitter because i dont listen to the devil's seduction. but its really an alright kitty is what im getting at here

[Strife ❤️]

their skittles r landing in the dirt. they have anxiety

That's truly sinister, I think you are evil...

[Sesto]

464372274133749761

cool

[Snow]

yeah twitter is the actual devil

[just Beamu]

yeah twitter is the actual devil
This is why I never use it.

[GhostDIGIT]

"Sorry, Protagonist, but your artifact is in another dungeon."

Ugh.

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Sister: If I have a daughter I'll make her the prettiest princess ever.

Me: You'll probably end up having a boy.

Sister: Mmm, Yeah.

Me: Make sure to teach him that he doesn't have to be a manly man that keeps all his emotions on the inside and cries at night because he doesn't have a father.

Sister: Is that you?

Me:....I have no idea where I was going with that.

[Janx]

"Sorry, Protagonist, but your artifact is in another dungeon."

Ugh.

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Sister: If I have a daughter I'll make her the prettiest princess ever.

Me: You'll probably end up having a boy.

Sister: Mmm, Yeah.

Me: Make sure to teach him that he doesn't have to be a manly man that keeps all his emotions on the inside and cries at night because he doesn't have a father.

Sister: Is that you?

Me:....I have no idea where I was going with that.

*hug*

[GhostDIGIT]

Thank you, although I don't actually cry at night because of the father thing.

[Historia]

Thank you, although I don't actually cry at night because of the father thing.

Listen to some Smash Mouth--you'll feel better.

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And, dammit, if only I had the motivation to finish this essay.

[GhostDIGIT]

You'll get a bad grade if you don't.

[Historia]

You'll get a bad grade if you don't.

Well, yes. I'm going to finish it. But it's taking longer than usual. Usually I can write an A / B paper in an hour or two. It's going on four and writing earthquake statistics is boring.

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But, eh. Now I'm listening to The Killers.

E: And, ah, I'm that much closer to 1000 posts (only 78 to go). At 1000 I'm leaving Beast's Lair.

[Janx]

What? Why?

[Historia]

What? Why?

After 1,000 it's the point of no return and I don't want to be sucked in any further than I already am.

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which is why I'll post here for as long as possible

[just Beamu]

After 1,000 it's the point of no return and I don't want to be sucked in any further than I already am.
That seems dramatic.

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Wasn't there some other member who said they would quit after a certain amount of posts and wound up going past it anyway?

[SeiKeo]

Hi Snow

('On The Museum's Ruins' (Crimp 1993))

Background for book: essays contained were mostly written throughout the 80s.


What actually forms art? Institutional structures, specific the museum. Its functions: public education, national representation, de/recontextualization, defining un/acceptable art, placing art in historical narrative, secularization. Is: an idealist institution, ostensibly public collection, fundamentally elitist. Enables art as a commodity because without the museum there's no way to add value such that the current market commands.


Placing art in the museum makes it in relation to other art and not in relation to its time and place. Dephilosophizes, neuters.


Mid 70s: photography rethought as not just a journalistic/mechanical recording method but as an independent art medium. Photography then gets folded into the art market. Photographers ex Ed Weston have photograph prices go from 25 to 100k. Becomes collectible.


How does the institution of the museum deal with art critical of it?
Institutional critique has been accepted as an art genre. To some degree allowing it into the museum and genreizing it co-opts the critique but that's somewhat inevitable. Museums also tend to invite artists who're going to end up criticizing them.


What's the ideal future for the museum? Possibilities for reform?
At the time of writing, it appeared as if the future could have been artist-run institutions (ex PS-1 which ironically later got bought out by MOMA). Ideally now it seems better to just change the regular museum instead of trying some kind of revolution which appears impossible. And regardless the alternates are still institutions so it doesn't really get you away from the problem of framing art in the first place.


Surging art market encouraging less political art that can be easily decontextualized. Needs to go from studio to auction to any home in the world to museum.


Fantasy of the sovereign romantic self. Art not pure self-expression.


Interesting how all authoritarian regimes censor art and artwork - seems to prove that art has political power, even though describing how art influences politics can be difficult. Mostly working on shifting perceptions.


How to reconcile the use of both Benjamin [Walter] and Foucault?


Functions of photography. Originally thought of as mechanical reproduction only and therefore not art. Was elevated to art partly on the basis that it constituted self-expression of the artist. Also recognition that the mechanical process of photography itself contained artistic choice and wasn't objective.


The possibility of photography to co-opt other art. Photographing statue, painting, and representing it in different ways.


Early relationship of photography to painting. Photography as originally thought of as just painting (ref posing for old photos).

[Seika]

Wasn't there some other member who said they would quit after a certain amount of posts and wound up going past it anyway?
We had the series of accounts made by one person who was really hung up on the number 666. He was weird.

[just Beamu]

We had the series of accounts made by one person who was really hung up on the number 666. He was weird.

Sounds apocalypteriffic.

[Aekami-ran]

If you made it past 50 or so posts, I would say that's the point of no return...

You passed that point a looooooong time ago, lol.

[Seika]

Can anyone see this post (http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/5025-Fate-Hollow-Ataraxia-PS-Vita?p=1753356&viewfull=1#post1753356)?

[GhostDIGIT]

So many cold wights, so little skull trap castings.

[SeiKeo]

lol why

[just Beamu]

Can anyone see this post (http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/5025-Fate-Hollow-Ataraxia-PS-Vita?p=1753356&viewfull=1#post1753356)?
Maybe. Which post on that page were you asking about?

[Seika]

Maybe. Which post on that page were you asking about?

Begins "Nicovideo video list of Fate/hollow ataraxia PS vita".

[Kirby]

I can see it.

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http://puu.sh/la05K/8dc4cc66d5.png

[just Beamu]

Begins "Nicovideo video list of Fate/hollow ataraxia PS vita".
I can see it. Were some people having problems seeing it?

[Historia]

If you made it past 50 or so posts, I would say that's the point of no return...

You passed that point a looooooong time ago, lol.

No, it's not true!

Noooooo!

[Seika]

Cool. The admins voted on that before the latest promotions, but it fell to me to carry it out. And I managed to run the necessary maintenance cycles without blowing up the forums either!

[Historia]

Cool. The admins voted on that before the latest promotions, but it fell to me to carry it out. And I managed to run the necessary maintenance cycles without blowing up the forums either!

"Fu, fu, fu..."

[just Beamu]

Cool. The admins voted on that before the latest promotions, but it fell to me to carry it out. And I managed to run the necessary maintenance cycles without blowing up the forums either!
What was causing it not to be seen?

[Kirby]

So is he no longer on universal ignore or something?

[just Beamu]

No, it's not true!

Noooooo!
You've been engulfed by the madness that is BL. It's too late.

[Seika]

So is he no longer on universal ignore or something?
Yeah. We're going back to the normal rule of law here: if he spams and makes garbage posts, he'll go up the ladder like normal. But the occasional useful comment, like links to voice-acting for the VA project, is now visible.

[Historia]

Yeah. We're going back to the normal rule of law here: if he spams and makes garbage posts, he'll go up the ladder like normal. But the occasional useful comment, like links to voice-acting for the VA project, is now visible.

He's still active?

[KorsaBlade]

He's still active?
Last post was early October of this year.

At least, last one visible to non-mods/admins.

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Merge pls

[Historia]

Last post was early October of this year.

Oh. Well. Then... I'm looking forward to it.

[Historia]

Merge pls

denied, bitch

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And it's almost the end of the week and my Miyu Matsuki tribute ends.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNz74zRlkI

E: dem feelz

[Ivan The Mouse]

Welp, they told me I failed to get the job as a factory worker. I'm out of options again. ;_;

[just Beamu]

E: dem feelz
They're playing the original Zelda.

[Historia]

They're playing the original Zelda.

Hisuiiiii!

[just Beamu]

Hisuiiiii!
Not even joking.

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Is it sad that I can tell what game they're playing?

[Aekami-ran]

No?

[Ivan The Mouse]

I have nowhere to go for a job opportunity. Back to doing nothing.

[mAc Chaos]

What if you tried taking up various odd jobs.

[Ivan The Mouse]

What if you tried taking up various odd jobs.

No openings for that either.

[Aekami-ran]

願はくは花の下にて春死なむその如月の望月のころ
Would that I could die beneath the cherry blossoms in spring, on the 15th of the second month

西行/Saigyou

O.o

[GhostDIGIT]

Yxunomei was a bitch but I made it through by the skin of my teeth.

[Skull]

Trying to set up a Skype account, can't think of a cool name.

Any suggestions?

[GhostDIGIT]

Skullz The Great?

[Dullahan]

god, the twitch chat for the bob ross stream is the most fucking hilariously stupid thing ever

[Historia]

Trying to set up a Skype account, can't think of a cool name.

Any suggestions?

Skullzy

[Skull]

Skullzy
Already taken I'm afraid. As have all the cool names like Barbatos, Sleipnir, Pazuzu and Arsène.

I've been staring at the "create account" screen for over an hour now.

[Historia]

Already taken I'm afraid. As have all the cool names like Barbatos, Sleipnir, Pazuzu and Arsène.

I've been staring at the "create account" screen for over an hour now.

Skullzinzki

[Skull]

Skullzinzki
Eventually managed to get Skullzinsky.

Really wanted to use "Strahl" though but that was taken as well.

[Peanut-007]

Im alive still.

[Fel]

god, the twitch chat for the bob ross stream is the most fucking hilariously stupid thing ever

It's amazing.

[Dullahan]

it's like some meme-fueled black hole of ambiguous sincerity but definite stupidity

I can't take it anymore, I'm switching back to Japanese ASMR audio over CoD gameplay

[Seika]

god, the twitch chat is the most fucking hilariously stupid thing ever

There, I helped.

[Snow]

Hi Snow

Oh thanks! You make good notes.

We partly covered institutional critique from a less philosophical standpoint in Arch Theory, particularly in the context of the French Revolution and the mass seizing of classical artwork in the 18th and 19th century. Theorist de Quincy called the museum 'the end of art' (1815.), and posited that when art is removed from its original context it loses meaning and becomes a dead artifact, since it can no longer speak from and for the time and place that formed it.

De Quincy was a royalist, so his critique can also be looked at in relation to that. He witnessed the demolition of historical circumstances that successfully brewed art for centuries, even if it was reserved for a limited audience and thus unable to reach its full potential (arguable how many pieces actually had that potential to begin with, but some certainly did). Any connection art had to this stratified society was, after the Revolution took place, forcefully cut. Architectural monuments got brutalized because, unlike a painting or a statue, they couldn't be transported out of their context. Certain revolutionaries did recognize the importance of art and sought to preserve and present it to all audiences using the museum.

Which in time basically came to define presentation of visual art and, since (most) artists now create with this particular method of presentation in mind (museum, gallery and so on), its character as well. Art that is not institutionalized is not seen as serious, in a way, so it can be said that what was created as means of fighting class differences became the propagator of class differences in art later on.

Architecture is a form of art that always had to have public perception in mind, and it's interesting to see how different its means of speaking out became as consequence, less subtle in some aspects and much more so in others.

As for the seizing of Roman art, quite a few still-revered names in architecture and arch theory were against it and petitioned the authorities to instead contribute money to the papacy for protecting art and knowledge in original context, which was vehemently refused. I don't think classical art ever got the delicate treatment classical architecture did when the wave of restorations took place.

[Dullahan]

not really, that sort of elides the subtle distinctions

you've got the bob ross chat, which is just 30,000 idiots being idiotic

you have twitchplays chats, which are the same as above with a minority taking it seriously

some streamers can have pretty civil chats, though usually only if the viewer count is sub-500

big streamers can have good moderation, but this is something that really depends on what game they're playing - some fanbases are worse than others

and then you've got the bro team chat, in which the comedic potential of Secretary-chan is exploited to the most perfectly deranged ends possible

[Janx]

Snow knows her art.

[Lace]

Some Very Feminist Magazines: Look At Adele Saving The World Defying The Male Gaze By Having Wet Hair, When Will Your Fave? In other news, Godiana Grande is still the savior of The Gays with her amazing LGBT song Break Free, while Amy Schumer

[mAc Chaos]

Snow, what made you so into architecture?

[Snow]

Snow, what made you so into architecture?
The devil himself.

Jk, I wasn't that into it before I started studying it, but being in the field for almost seven years now (specialized hs + 3 years of uni) mixed with it being actually engaging and fun at times and a dash of Stockholm syndrome made me structurally unable to study anything else really.

[Mattias]

Some Very Feminist Magazines: Look At Adele Saving The World Defying The Male Gaze By Having Wet Hair, When Will Your Fave? In other news, Godiana Grande is still the savior of The Gays with her amazing LGBT song Break Free, while Amy Schumer

While Amy Schumer what? Falls off Jennifer Lawerence's Seado again? Seriously I want to know. Amy Schumer is great.

[Lace]

While Amy Schumer what? Falls off Jennifer Lawerence's Seado again? Seriously I want to know. Amy Schumer is great.

The joke is that these type of magazines are obscurely obsessed with her, but I guess I can think of some typical Very Feminist Amy Schumer headline

while Amy Schumer saves women all over the world with her new sketch about pubic hair

while Amy Schumer teams up with Amy Poehler and Lena Dunham to show that these white women Do Not belong in the kitchen

[2Bad]

I care very much about print media in 2015

[Lace]

same

[Snow]

magazines are trash really

[SeiKeo]

The joke is that these type of magazines are obscurely obsessed with her, but I guess I can think of some typical Very Feminist Amy Schumer headline

while Amy Schumer saves women all over the world with her new sketch about pubic hair

while Amy Schumer teams up with Amy Poehler and Lena Dunham to show that these white women Do Not belong in the kitchen
literally who cares about these

[Snow]

Poehler was good in Parks and Rec

[2Bad]

literally who cares about these

They don't have the internet in Germany yet you see

[Lace]

yes, those german print magazines have me rumbling, y'all, that's exactly what i was talking about

meanwhile in about every liberal online magazine that's trying to be feminist http://noisey.vice.com/blog/Adeles-rolling-stone-cover-destroys-the-male-gaze

[SeiKeo]

y'all,

excuse me

[2Bad]

WE ARE A CULTURE, NOT A COSTUME

[Spinach]

y'all

Uhm...

[2Bad]

WHY NOT JUST START STRUTTING AROUND IN A POWDERED WIG LACE!?!?!?

[Rocket Burrito]

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/0d/Button_Gwinnett.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120228144141
^lace

[Lace]

sorry if i offended any southerners by appropriating their culture

[Rocket Burrito]

please continue
this is the freedom they love
give them more freedom

[Snow]

Test tomorrow. I'm a nervous wreck.

[Rocket Burrito]

What kind of test and how much did you study in the past month for it

[Snow]

Traffic regulations for driving school. I kinda did study but not too much. It shouldn't be that difficult but I'm still stressed.

[Rocket Burrito]

Go draw things, that tends to take your nerves off of stress.

Or go to cat hell and listen to sick tunes for an hour.
That tends to lobotomise you long enough that you can't think about stress.

[Fel]

Test tomorrow. I'm a nervous wreck.
I also have a test tomorrow. But I'm not a nervous wreck because It's an English test and those are like really easy.

[Snow]

http://i.imgur.com/p5OxfH3.jpg

[Fel]

Memes work well to make you less stressed.

[Dullahan]

six hours to write 3000 words

slit my throat and pour brandy in the hole, what the fuck am i doing

[Rocket Burrito]

Memes work well to make you less stressed.
bad memes dont

[Janx]

Traffic regulations for driving school. I kinda did study but not too much. It shouldn't be that difficult but I'm still stressed.

Just be chill and relax, it'll help you logic out anything you don't remember better.

[SeiKeo]

Drive your heart out.

[Janx]

On the topic of driving, today was my first day driving myself to work without any supervision.

I lived!

[Skull]

Speaking of driving, I was eyeing up the mopeds on my way home.

Oh how I want one...

[Snow]

Drive your heart out.

I get to drive only if I pass this.

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Speaking of driving, I was eyeing up the mopeds on my way home.

Oh how I want one...
I want a car, and a big one at that to compensate for me being a hobbit.

[Fel]

bad memes dont
there are no bad memes

[Rocket Burrito]

Speaking of driving, cars are fucking expensive here in my country and buying a CoE to own one is insane.
That's why I take a bus.
Or walk.

[Sesto]

speaking of driving, i hate it and still only have my beginners

i feel like such a non-adult tbh.

[2Bad]

It is my fondest wish to one day neither drive nor even own a motor vehicle.

[Rocket Burrito]

It is my fondest wish to one day neither drive nor even own a motor vehicle.
Come to my country, you'll never own a vehicle if you even wish to rent a housing.

[Sesto]

i wish i would never need to drive, but canada's public transportation sucks. it's too big

it's part of the reason i loved japan so much, their public transportation is insane

[2Bad]

i wish i would never need to drive, but canada's public transportation sucks. it's too big

it's part of the reason i loved japan so much, their public transportation is insane

I mean it's the same in Canada or the US, it's impossible to not own a car unless you live in an urban center. I am always so jealous of those Québécois fuckers on the Super Best Friendcast talk about how they've never gotten licensed because they live in Montreal.

[Snow]

you know nothing guys. i need to get my license and become a real man.

[just Beamu]

you know nothing guys. i need to get my license and become a real man.
Have you grown the mandatory hobo beard?

[Snow]

my beard is in my heart

[mAc Chaos]

I mean it's the same in Canada or the US, it's impossible to not own a car unless you live in an urban center. I am always so jealous of those Québécois fuckers on the Super Best Friendcast talk about how they've never gotten licensed because they live in Montreal.

but driving is fun

[Fancy Face the First]

I should really shave my beard before it gets worse but it's a pain in the ass.

[just Beamu]

my beard is in my heart
Good. Your veins pulse with the necessary man hair. Go forth young man and conquer the world.

[Skull]

*Scratch* *Scratch*

Hmm, I'm getting pretty scraggy as well. I'll shave tomorrow, too lazy to do it today.

[Snow]

Good. Your veins pulse with the necessary man hair. Go forth young man and conquer the world.

http://i.imgur.com/4VchmjH.jpg

[just Beamu]

mulan pic
Now let's get down to business.

[Skull]

Now let's get down to business.
Now I can't stop hearing Jackie Chan's singing.

[just Beamu]

Now I can't stop hearing Jackie Chan's singing.
You should be hearing the singing voice of Donny Osmond.

[Fancy Face the First]

You should be hearing the singing voice of Donny Osmond.

>not watching Mulan in the pure original Chinese

Kill yourself foreign devil

[Snow]

Now let's get down to business.
to defeat
http://i.imgur.com/PP4ZrMd.jpg
the huns!

(jk Altera kicks butt)

[SeiKeo]

(jk Altera kicks butt)
oh is that what we figured we'd call her

[Snow]

I called her Attila before I saw everybody in the GO thread calling her Altera so I caved.

[just Beamu]

I called her Attila before I saw everybody in the GO thread calling her Altera so I caved.
I mean I'm pretty sure it would be somebody other than the Huns that Mulan would be fighting. Maybe the Xiongnu? Though I think the Xiongnu would have been earlier,

[Snow]

Well it was Huns in Mulan!

[Dullahan]

I thought it literally was the xiongnu in mulan, they just called them the huns because it's a kid's movie and children are bad at pronouncing things

also you can't get good English rhymes with xiongnu

[SeiKeo]

I called her Attila before I saw everybody in the GO thread calling her Altera so I caved.
Altera sounds like some kind of new pharma drug. Is that cute?

[just Beamu]

Well it was Huns in Mulan!
That's because when much of America thinks of Nomadic conquerors we tend to think of the Huns and Mongols.

[black1blade]

Would anyone else say that random thoughts has got a bit more serious?

[Dullahan]

That's because when much of America thinks of Nomadic conquerors we tend to think of the Huns and Mongols.

to be fair much of Asia probably thinks of the Mongols too

[just Beamu]

I thought it literally was the xiongnu in mulan, they just called them the huns because it's a kid's movie and children are bad at pronouncing things

also you can't get good English rhymes with xiongnu
I thought that too, but I also thought that I read the Xiongnu were earlier. Not sure though.

[Snow]

I was just going by the lyrics christ.

Altera sounds like some kind of new pharma drug. Is that cute?
Ask the GO thread I dunno.

[just Beamu]

to be fair much of Asia probably thinks of the Mongols too
Well it's not like there isn't good reason to do so. Just that they often don't think of much else.

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I was just going by the lyrics christ.
Then you must attain te strength of a great typhoon.

[Snow]

Then you must attain te strength of a great typhoon.

With all the strength of a raging fire
http://i.imgur.com/2Prme9L.jpg


wooops

[Skull]

Would anyone else say that random thoughts has got a bit more serious?
Give it time, it'll go back to being silly soon.

[SeiKeo]

I was just going by the lyrics christ.

Ask the GO thread I dunno.
I don't want to ask them whether it's cute or not.

[Skull]

Goddammit, I forgot it was the 5th of November.

I'm gonna be hearing fireworks all night now. :mad:

[Snow]

I don't want to ask them whether it's cute or not.
Well I think Attila is cuter.

[just Beamu]

wooops
It was you who burned down my old elementary school wasn't it?

[Leftovers]

today went from middleton and snooze to antiquities and chill, all for the cost of yet more wasted sleep deprivation

[SeiKeo]

Well I think Attila is cuter.
good

[Dullahan]

It was you who burned down my old elementary school wasn't it?

i've been on fire my whole life

[Snow]

i've been on fire my whole life
wow
http://i.imgur.com/CCz0vaO.jpg

[just Beamu]

i've been on fire my whole life
Did you happen to run though a Southeast Texas elementary school while on fire?

[Snow]

well tbh even he wasn't on fire his whole life

[just Beamu]

well tbh even he wasn't on fire his whole life
I'm shocked.

[black1blade]

Fire is good for cleansing evil.

[Dullahan]

Did you happen to run though a Southeast Texas elementary school while on fire?

i am texas

[Fancy Face the First]

A shave and shower later, and I am reborn

My cheeks haven't been this smooth since birth

I can't stop feeling them


i am texas

It all makes sense now.

[just Beamu]

i am texas

I should have realized.

[2Bad]

Scholars believe that the Xiongnu and Huns are the same confederation.

[just Beamu]

Scholars believe that the Xiongnu and Huns are the same confederation.
How confident are they in that? I thought I recalled there being some argument as to the relation between the two.

[2Bad]

I mean of course there's debate with the limited sources we have.

[Vagrant]

So self-safari is awesome. So much more fun when you're searching for animals yourself and arguing about what exactly it is rather than having a guide point it all out for you.

[just Beamu]

So self-safari is awesome. So much more fun when you're searching for animals yourself and arguing about what exactly it is rather than having a guide point it all out for you.

Where in Africa are you right now?

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I mean of course there's debate with the limited sources we have.
What I meant is are there more that support the theory of them being related or more against it?

[Strife ❤️]

today went from middleton and snooze to antiquities and chill, all for the cost of yet more wasted sleep deprivation

what

[Leftovers]

football and post-game celebrations resulted in 3 hours of sleep and a 5am wakeup to shower and catch a bus, only to find that it's once again time for students to fight for their rights by locking down the building and handing out flyers, so instead of sleeping through jacobean drama i got to tour the archaeological museum and feed pigeons until afternoon class

Things went better than expected.

[Janx]

Altera just sounds like a nickname for Saber Alter.

I mean, the L isnt even the same general place as Atilla.

Are they going by voice over? Atilla might sound liek Atirra in japanese.

[Aekami-ran]

All right, awesome, no more stupid Skype ads. Hopefully this'll significantly reduce the crashing, lol.

[just Beamu]

For some reason my glasses take too long to defog.

[Rocket Burrito]

I thought that too, but I also thought that I read the Xiongnu were earlier. Not sure though.
Xiongnu were earlier, Mulan - according to various accounts - took place at some point between 420AD-589AD and she lived during the Tang Dynasty, Xiongnu were 93AD.
The enemies were probably the Turks.

[just Beamu]

Xiongnu were earlier, Mulan - according to various accounts - took place at some point between 420AD-589AD and she lived during the Tang Dynasty, Xiongnu were 93AD.
The enemies were probably the Turks.

It's been so many years since I've seen the movie that I forget, did they ever give any indication how far to the west they had to go to fight them?

[Rocket Burrito]

It's been so many years since I've seen the movie that I forget, did they ever give any indication how far to the west they had to go to fight them?
I can hardly remember, it's been at least a decade since I last watched that movie and about two years since I watched any other movie than John Wick.

[black1blade]

So colours popped up in a play list and I realised I knew all the words/vague gibberish to sing along...

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Part of me thinks I'm a boring person tbh because I don't have much interesting shit to talk about outside anime and shit. Even my friends often don't give a shit about what I'm on about.

[GhostDIGIT]

Isn't that what having friends is or have I been away from the social circle for too long?

[Rocket Burrito]

Friends are people you drag to raids, they're people who you know you can trust to heal your party and not screw up the puzzle.
Anyone else is a mongrel.

[black1blade]

I mean we just sorta hand around awkwardly with each other at lunch.

[Rocket Burrito]

I enjoyed spending my lunch time in school walking in circles around a pillar theorycrafting builds and designing weapons on a note pad while thinking up buildings and how I was going to sleep upside down efficiently.

I enjoyed my lunch times.

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I actually used to eat lunch in a garden, then it got closed down thanks to rumours of a drug addict there or some nonsense. Quite ridiculous that they did that when they could've just sent a teacher to investigate.

Quite frankly as someone who had been there all day, it was just this senior who had a smoking problem in a corner smoking where he shouldn't have.

Thanks to that dick I had to claim a pillar for myself.

[just Beamu]

I enjoyed spending my lunch time in school walking in circles around a pillar theorycrafting builds and designing weapons on a note pad while thinking up buildings and how I was going to sleep upside down efficiently.

I enjoyed my lunch times.
I spent my lunch in the first three years of highschool talking with a friend during lunch. Then in my senior year My friends had a different lunch period so I would actually spend a few minutes talking to my English teacher before I went outside to eat. I would then stand by the doors and wait for the bell to ring.

[black1blade]

The problem I have that even if I want to be friends with certain people, I don't like being in circles where I don't know everyone. Makes me feel nervous.

[Rocket Burrito]

I spent my lunch in the first three years of highschool talking with a friend during lunch. Then in my senior year My friends had a different lunch period so I would actually spend a few minutes talking to my English teacher before I went outside to eat. I would then stand by the doors and wait for the bell to ring.
I liked eating by myself since it started to get irritating when I ate at the table with others, if they didn't insult me in Chinese which they thought I didn't understand because of my autism, they would instead poke fun at the fact that I only ever ate plain food.

Of course, the real tipping point was when a girl asked me how I had fair skin as a guy and I plainly told her that my way of achieving it was breaking my arm and being stuck in a hospital for months and being stuck at home for even more months without sun. Obviously, she thought I was insulting her or something and made a bit of a din of me being a dick.

So I just offered her a piece of plain bread.

Did not work out.

Then I started eating at the garden.

Then I claimed a pillar in a semi-abandoned area in the school, where no one would go.

Edit: Apparently girls do not appreciate it when a guy has fairer skin than them without having an insane diet like them.
Neither do they appreciate plain bread as an apology.

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The problem I have that even if I want to be friends with certain people, I don't like being in circles where I don't know everyone. Makes me feel nervous.
That's pretty normal, stalk them and then speak to them when you've memorised their movement patterns and you know they're free.

[just Beamu]

That's pretty normal, stalk them and then speak to them when you've memorised their movement patterns and you know they're free.
This concerns me.

[GhostDIGIT]

I got an A on my narrative essay. Kinda thought I'd get a B but I guess since I actually bothered to write about something that actually happened to me I got an A.

[Rocket Burrito]

This concerns me.
It's actually perfectly fine, it's observation and exploitation of patterns.
I did that all the time to my teachers so I knew when I could bother them.

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I got an A on my narrative essay. Kinda thought I'd get a B but I guess since I actually bothered to write about something that actually happened to me I got an A.
Congrats! What's the standard for an A in your school?

[GhostDIGIT]

Congrats! What's the standard for an A in your school?
I'm not quite sure actually. 90% and up like public highschool I guess.

[Skull]

My school lunches were pretty boring.

[black1blade]

I guess it depends on how good you are not the school. My personal standard that A is good, A* is great ,B is meh and C is bad.

[Rocket Burrito]

I'm not quite sure actually. 90% and up like public highschool I guess.
Excellent!

[black1blade]

Btw I eat my lunch at break.

[Rocket Burrito]

I guess it depends on how good you are not the school. My personal standard that A is good, A* is great ,B is meh and C is bad.
My personal standard is that anything below 90 needs work, anything above 90 needs even more work, anything above 95 is solid, anything at 100 must be maintained and improved consistently.

[just Beamu]

My school lunches were pretty boring.
What made your lunches so boring?

[GhostDIGIT]

I actually feel terrible about writing the essay since it was all based around my grandfather's cancer and how I came to believe that you should value everyone around you, except that I don't because I became quite a lot more cynical due to the events that happened.

[Snow]

Uh, remember to have fun in highschool kids!