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^^This specific incident didn't have anything to do with problem users so much as regulars having clashing views and tons of moral outrage all around.
Linkie to specific thread(if it hasn't been nuked yet)?
Also, several drinking games for the frat's lustrum year competition: got the cup flipping in one turn, but really sucked at the board-games+booze. Hopefully I'm still a credt to the team.
Edit: Shared last place. Lame. Even lamer that I'm not even drunk yet.
^^ That much I learned, having just checked all this out, but most of the drama is still from people who shouldn't have been let in in the first place, whether or not those people had already caused problems on other forums.
This most recent incident is still damn stupid in a couple of ways (I say this only partly because of my own views, but mostly because of how the whole debate occurred), but there seems to at least be honest repentance. Not that I plan to return, or anything.
Ninjaclown: I see it as a good stepping stone to making my resume looking better for grad school, plus it's a job where my degree actually has some merit, plus it's close to my house so god forbid something happens to my father I can get over quickly.
In the case of BTL, it's a case of a whole bunch of artificial moral outrage so it's a veritable stewing pot of drama.
On a brighter note, my Criterion collection copy of Videodrome came in.
Malk - Yeah, for the second time I'm wondering whether I should carry on there myself. I always liked Anne a lot as a poster, but I'm not sure I have much confidence left in her as an admin.
And, other than as a subject for snark, I'm not really interested in TV Tropes any more. I'll sleep on it.
I came close to deleting my account there, but apparently if you do so someone can just go and re-register it later. So no.
^Yeah, I realized that after deleting mine, so I reregistered it and changed the name to make it obvious that I was gone.
Hee, the Videodrome cover is made to look a video tape.
I post a thread about how The Last Story would get a US Release. Nobody notices it.
Strange, since this is big news elsewhere.
I don't even know what that is.
Other than a JRPG.
Okay now I feel bad for this game so I'm going to pretend I know what it is so it doesn't feel unloved. So disregard my previous post.
I do know what it is, so.
I don't know what it is either.
TBH, I kinda wonder how many Westerners would have even heard of it if it weren't for Operation Rainfall...:/
Okay, I have at least heard of The Last Story, even if I don't know what it is.
Have never even heard of Operation Rainfall though. -looks it up- Oh, hey, alright. Getting JRPGs localized is always nice.
In truth, I posted that because of Op. Rainfall's efforts.
It's by Hironobu Sakaguchi.
> set up new computer
> screen powers up
> so does computer
> screen doesn't receive communication from tower
fuck
Define "set up." Did you build it, or buy it?
Bought it.
Thing is, the monitor has three inputs, of which I connected two (not the HDMI). The tower and the monitor are working independently.
I feel like having a nice whinge about nothing worthwhile.
I need my modem back.
So, I'm watching the Prisoner, right?
And lemme just say that Free For All might be one of the best hours of TV I've ever experienced in my life. Between Pat McGoohan's acting (Which comes across as both over the top and yet small and charming) and Portman's Number Two (My favourite Two so far apart from maybe that fat guy in the second episode), the episode's central plot manages to be basically a battle of wits between the two as they run for election and six is slowly and surely losing his sanity.
I love how this episode, unlike the previous episodes has six battered down to the very end, whereas in the otehrs he manages to outwit the previous Number Twos and their plots, here he tries to get ahead of the village's administration and fails so badly at it simply because he did a mistake that most people do and it's to forget that there's such a thing as too good to be true. He runs for Number Two expecting to somehow get control of the village when it has been shown through and through that these people are tamed and under control, and even he, who is exempt of the Village's most powerful techniques, can't possibly override that.
Another thing that caught my eye is that this episode definetly emphasized the man vs community aspect of the show, where Six is trying to make people assert their own individualistic free will and escape whereas Two is trying to retain them under the Village's control. Of course, these people are brainwashed and under control, so they decide to remain. Which is interesting, because it makes you reflect on how much value does choice have, even after an affected mental state.
so, yeah, stop watching whatever average shit you're watching and go watch the prisoner
You've never seen the Prisoner, Juan? Huh, I thought you had.
In any case, I genuinely think it's the best television show ever created.
If this were a TV show, I'd totally watch it.
I don't think it's quite there yet for me, simply because I refuse to believe in the concept of a best or worst TV show, but it's definetly one of the best I've ever watched.
I'd give up Lent for Lent!
...Wait...
Lent starts today? I dunno what to give up.