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  • BassFishingBassFishing
    "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    Earthlight_Ray wrote: »
    I like having good friends who I don't feel threatened by + a nice girlfriend who is as devoted to me as I am to her. It means I'm a decent person and deserving of love and some degree of attractive as well. I tend to prefer social circles these days where I'm not getting harassed and threatened into silence or shunned just for speaking up, and that is part of the reason my mental health is improving. I still talk to some people around here who like me because I still exist and will probably continue to exist for a long time. Love me and fear me, world. :3



    Nitpick: you are attractive, deserving of love and a decent person even if these external signs of validation disappeared into a puff of smoke tomorrow. Good to see your mental health is improving, nevar forget that this is your fortitude and victory not solely attributable to external factors. 
  • Earthlight_RayEarthlight_Ray
    Pika Girl
    Yes, you're right. ^_^
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Glad to hear things are looking up for you!  I was wondering how you were doing just a few nights ago.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Howdy. Glad to hear things are turning out fine.
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Buenas noches.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Technically I came by with something more inane to say, but instead of that I'll just join in with the wishes.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Today's my Birthday.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Happy birthday!
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Feliz Cumpleaños.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    Happy Birthday~!
  • BassFishingBassFishing
    "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    Okay, for all the fun I make of their ridiculous pseudo-Flemish accents, the Limburg folks do have George McCrae now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McCrae
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Huh, Wikipedia has a list of selfie-induced deaths.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Wikipedia has a lot of weird-ass stuff, plenty of which is what you wouldn't want to leave in the open for, say, your kid searching for some help with homework. Eheh heh.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2016-05-30 13:49:38
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Central Avenue wrote: »




    Mile Marker 23

    All Lanes Closed

    Because It's Flooded, No Seriously Please Don't Come Here Because We've Already Got Our Hands Full Fishing People Out Of The Water
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    I like how the second one is the wrong sign...you don't use "__ miles ahead, local traffic only" at the point of the road closure!
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Shit, I clicked Mark All Viewed.
  • Naas_HumanNaas_Human
    Now you have to check everything one by one!
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    What, you don't think it will be filled with new content in no time?
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    thank you for fixing school America

    My favorite is the Divergent one, Activity 3 literally just tells teachers to tell kids to just go buy Four already come on.

    also it's probably a bad idea to learn character development from two characters who basically flip flip around until one of them dies
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    I was about to crack some joke about American schools being looked at through fixed sights more often than being fixed, but then I realized I probably don't want to be so edgy. On a scale of edginess from Sunday School to 4chan, this would be somewhere around... I dunno, Something Awful? That seems to me about appropriate, at the moment at least.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Huh, I just learned about forced labour (and death through it) of millions of German after WWII, loads of innocent civilians included.

    I'm used to reading about bullshit that went on during the war itself, but I feel weird only now learning about post-war bullshit like that.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Yeah, a lot of really important pre and post-war context is lost in the simplified narrative favoured by popular media and throwaway History Channel documentaries. Australia's WW1 perspective on ethnically German and Austrian citizens is telling, for instance; they were considered "enemy subjects" of the English crown, despite usually having no political affiliation with their countries of ethnic origin. One might imagine that, given time to fester, such resentment could contribute to a backfire -- such as ethnic solidarity wielded as a weapon of brutal nationalism. 

    WWII in particular is disproportionately subject to narrative preference. Like how obscure that little resource blockade Churchill imposed on India was, resulting in millions of deaths via starvation, despite India being a territory of the Empire at the time.  And yet, positive results of WWII are nearly ignored (such as the establishment of the UN and the movement towards welfare states) in favour of nearly baseless moralising. 

    I find the irony of WWII to be how commonly accepted it is that there was a "good" side and a "bad" side, despite it being possibly the best example of how such total war destroys ethics, morality, and often law well before there are winners to twist the story. 
  • BassFishingBassFishing
    "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    Also, firebombings of civilian populations. Yes, yes, demoralize the population, end the war, but that only really works if enough of them are killed in one swoop, I'd wager. Otherwise it just galvanizes the lot. 
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2016-06-09 22:25:11
    On second though, I did know about all the rape going on, so I did know about post-war abuses, just not officially-sponsored ones.

    I never liked the civilians "paying for their crimes" thing, but learning that it was used as an excuse for that makes it downright bothersome. I'll wikiwalk some more to see what else I've missed. Maybe I'll find something on the Danish resistance?
  • KilgoreTroutKilgoreTrout
    edited 2016-06-09 23:00:25
    I'm afraid I can't concentrate as well as I normally could on the current subject, but it's nice to be in a place where people agree that killing civilians is both a bad thing AND a serious thing that you shouldn't just trivialize.

    Because I was just on fucking TV Tropes and the people I talked to there don't seem to think so. I'm sorry if this is importing drama, and if so I'll try to keep it to a minimum, but this counts as an update on me.

    It finally happened. I've been banned from TV Tropes, or as good as banned. I can't post, I can't access PMs, and I can't look at threads if I'm logged in.

    I'll go into what happened if that turns out not to be a problem. But for now, all I'll say is that this fucking sucks. Both because I can no longer interact with people I enjoyed interacting with, and because I discovered it was a mistake to put faith in certain other people.

    EDIT: I also have a request. If anybody here is able to still post and/or send PMs on TV Tropes, I was part of the Roll To Dodge thread there, in Forum Games. They just started up a new session before this happened, and people are likely going to be wondering where I've suddenly gone. So if somebody could either post in that thread or contact the person running the game and tell them I'll be gone for either the foreseeable future or for good, I would appreciate it a lot. I'd hate for people to post what they want their character to do and then be waiting around going "When the hell is Trout gonna post? Should we wait for him or what?"
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    With the number of users we have, we aren't going to produce much drama on our on, thus we have to import it. We must import the most exquisite of dramas from around the globe.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Send me a link by PM, I'd like to see what did they ban you for.

    Also, a grafitti I've seen recently (that I remember to have seen on that same wall like fifteen years ago): "MAN IS A PIECE OF SHIT AND THE WORLD IS A LOO".
  • KilgoreTroutKilgoreTrout
    edited 2016-06-10 17:27:49
    Sure, Irdgck. There are actually two, and I'll send them shortly.

    EDIT: Oh, I just saw that you relayed my message to the Roll To Dodge thread, Storm. Thank you. :)
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    No probs.

    ^^ The weirdest graffiti I've seen is socialist Adventure Times.
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