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Pretentious

VorpyVorpy
edited 2011-08-11 13:10:04 in Media
☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
It is an adjective. It is a perception based assumption. It is subjective, and one person's attempt to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed, is another man's good story.

I have never liked this meaningless buzzword, and am medically incapable of thinking something is pretentious.

Comments

  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    There's that word again!
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    You think using the word is...

    Pretentious?
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I agree with Vorpy.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM IS PRETENTIOUS
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I think the world has valid uses, but it's been over-relied on.
  • MoeDantesMoeDantes
    no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    I'm honestly not surprised. Many of us growing up in America have been so spoon-fed on pretentious, self-righteous shit that we've kind of gotten used to the taste and are no longer capable of spotting the problem.

    It's like growing up in an area that smells like dog farts. You get so used to it, that if you ever smell something that isn't dog farts, that will smell strange to you even if its clean, open air. And you'll think something is wrong with that, and not the other way around.

    "Pretentious" does have a real meaning, but like everything else on the planet Americans have diluted it.
  • BobBob
    ...I want to agree with Dantes, but those first two paragraphs just make it so hard...
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I disagree on the grounds that it's an internet culture problem and not an American culture problem.
  • BobBob
    I've learned to just substitute "Americans" for "people in general" when I see one of Dantes' posts.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Ah. 

    Welp, that's not much better, you misanthropist sexy thing, you.
  • BobBob
    :3c
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Words have their meanings spewed out Ad infinitum until their meaning is equatable to absolutely nothing.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Words that no longer mean anything:

    Epic
    Pretentious
    Self-insisting
    Pandering
    Fallacy
    Moe
    Role Playing Game
    Contradiction
    Elitist
    Otaku
    Implications
    Hipster
    Deconstruction
    Prospective
  • BobBob
    ^Awesome
    Kawaii
    Perfect
    Deep
    Meaningful
    Artsy
    Creepy
    Fetish
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    >Self-insisting

    Never heard that one before.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    It's what people use when they can't spell pretentious.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington

    You want pretentious? The Haus of Gaga.


    /thread

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Wait, how does rpg no longer have meaning?
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^There are people who use it for any game in which you "play a role."
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    ^Holy fucking Odin! This argument could ruin my marriage if it ever comes up again. My wife and I believe our side very hotly. I believe an RPG is an RPG and my wife thinks an RPG is any game where you "play a role."
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    edited 2011-08-12 15:18:06
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington

    ^^Also, Yuji Naka confused the whole videogame media and Sonic fandom because he is an idiot.


    Before the Dreamcast came out, there were reports of two Sonic games coming out. Sonic Adventure and a Sonic RPG. Turns out, people thought there was a Sonic RPG coming out because that's what Naka referred to Sonic Adventure as. The dumbass made an RPG and apparently he doesn't know what an RPG is.

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