1. The term is, "closed minded", not ,"close minded." Is their mind close to something? No. Is the weather in their head feeling a bit close? No. A door is closed when it's not open and close when you're near it. The same applies to anything that can be open or closed. That's how English works, deal with it. 2. Gender is a linguistic construct to identify people. It's a way to identify someone in speech so that people will actually understand them. It's about creating a distinction based on visual cues and prior knowledge so how you feel is completely irrelevant to the matter. Do what you want, think what you want, but people don't try to make language less efficient because you take issue with it. 3. Fanfiction is a bad thing. It teaches people not to participate in the full experience of expository writing and overshadows original work in small communities because the readers are lazy. It can be an enjoyable medium, but it's cheap and weak. It's almost as bad as found art and readymades. The whole culture of taking the work of others and rather than using it to inspire your own creation and just desecrating the original is sickening. 4. The space program is one of the few worthwhile endeavors that the United States of America's governement ever did or ever will again participate in. People are too ignorant to realize it but lots of advancements in technology that are taken for granted are a result of research into rocketry and astronomy. 5. Something can be objectively a poor piece of entertainment while remaining enjoyable on some level. A movie isn't good because you liked it and it isn't bad because you hated it. Quality and your opinion are basically completely divorced. 6. Music has gotten worse over time. Since the pop movement began people have been trying to cater to the lowest common denominator. The producers have simply been realizing continuously that what they first thought was the lowest was not so. 7. Apple computers and OS's aren't even pretty. 8. Tablet computing is a step backwards. 9. Online fandoms are bad. They're echo chambers where people can hear only what they want to and can shout down people how disagree. It's a place where people can pretend to be the persecuted minority while maintaining the power of voice of a majority. People need to be able to like what they like as passionately as they do without losing sight of the fact that they are always open to criticism and should take each and every critique to heart and try to make themselves a better, more well rounded people through the efforts of other. 10. Multiplication tables are worse.
Wut up , J-dawg.
You think for a moment. Well, you were following red before and red is your favorite color. Well, pink is because that's the color of kitten and weasel noses and the plumes of blood erupting from people struck by lead moving at the speed of sound and a half. There are lots of reasons you like pink. Red is basically undilute pink, so it's more pink than pink is. But bricks are also red in a sense but a brown kind of red not a pure kind of red and that's a wall over there that the arrows are headed through. Better not follow them directly it seems. You survey the area where the arrows disappear. Maybe the thing i out of date and the building is new. You look up at it. Nope, not new. Well, that's non-ideal. You decide to walk around the building and see if any arrows leave. Not that you can tell, only way to know is to enter. You knock on the door. There's a rustling inside before the door opens. It's a person with a paper bag on their head. They clearly don't get much sunlight or much bathing. They stare out through two roughly cut holes in the bag. You frown at them and look back at the phone. Now that is interesting. On the phone the person is showing up as a rather fetching looking young woman in an adorable Victorian dress. She's smiling at you and waving you in. In the real world baghead is walking back inside already. You should... [] Follow. [] Double back. Green is also a nice color sometimes.
This is how we really see cockroaches.
I still think I could take most of the people in this thread with my level 1 shit. Ears and a kyu~un is all it'd take.
It's okay, we still love you platonically.
Read OP, you're level 3 if you roll 8.
I read a doujin about this once.
The spamzone spans all topics, it's everything in one place and everyone in one place. We don't have to be specialists here. We can let the conversation flow where it needs to be. We can post mixed media, discussion, debate, anything. There are no bounds. The lack of direction and rules is the strength of this section, it allows terrible dumb things to happen; it allows great epic things to happen. That's just it, without direction, we're free to do anything and when we're free of constraints and able to work in that idealized plane is where our best and worst ideas can come out. Say what you want about the spamzone. Say it's shit. Say it's stupid. Say it's "just spam". But to me it's where I can post a quest thread, a wish thread, a giveaway thread, anything. It's where we can really connect and get to know each other as members. So I love the spamzone above all other sections and I will continue posting all my content here. Thanks.
Power: Tanuki Physiology Level: 1
Nigga, stop tryna steal mah cuteness.
He's a little bit perturbed by the terse quality of your response, but you're not exactly in a caring mood, you're kind of done here. It's always like this with guys, they have this thing where they think that if you stay the night, they bloody own you. Well, no. No caging this badass, no commitments-- barring financial ones-- and most importantly no relationships. That's why Leadfoot is you best friend forever forever, he knows what's up. In a few minutes Travis is mousing through some map pages and explaining how this particular geotag is tied to an AR app released in Germany four years ago. That little app is apparently the go to program for most tourists and businessmen for guided tours, directions and whatever else the traveler needs. There are even some people who use it to drop each other messages and play weird geotag games. The app, ARigato, was initially conceived by Edwin Braun and Naoki Fujimura while they were at an Oktoberfest event and the rest is history. You ask him why that matters and he just says that it's good to know. You shrug and ask if he's found it yet. It's not a properly listed geotag he says. It follows the format to a tee and it gives you a directional arrow towards it from the detected location but it doesn't have a destination set. Tags like this one are the kind used in those games he mentioned earlier. So someone is playing a game with Sheephead. No, they're playing a game with you now. And they should learn that you're not to into games. You snatch his phone and tell him you might give it back later as you rush out of his apartment. A few minutes later you're following what appears to be a path of red arrows overlaid onto reality via the phone's built in video camera. Oh, how you hate this day and age. What you wouldn't give to have been born a century ago. Well, maybe not that long ago. Anyhow, the path is doing something stupid. The red arrows keep going up one direction and a new set of green ones go the opposite way. You should... [] Follow green. [] Follow red.
Sax, Chinese has Simplified and Traditional because of Communism. Mao was highly anti-education and thought that the old script was too complex for people since he was only barely literate as I recall and as such he put the writing system to the sword much like he did with other cultural artifacts that he viewed as, "holding China back." In short, Mao was a ****ing incompetent leader and should have stayed a general.
There will never be a khv themed SnK theme video. Calling it now.
That's funny, because I also write about why it's a good idea not to wear shirts as pants.
Does this mean I'm the only one who has enough ego to think, "Yeah, I got this one?"
You wake with a start and sit bolt upright whipping your head around for a moment. You've never been so disoriented before in your life, he must have been better than you expected. You're starting to remember now. You ended up leaving with Travis and getting kind of physical. You told yourself you wouldn't, but he was too hot. You just had to, it's like a feather in your cap for the rest of your life and he was actually a lot more polite during and after than before. You glance over at him, he's sacked out on the couch and you realize that you're on the reclining chair. In the next room the bed mattress is sitting upturned against the wall. You guys went wild, apparently. Your memory is still kind of hazy, probably because you're still kind of drunk. That was probably a bad decision. Well, while you're making bad decisions at least they were the kind that feel real good at the time. You retrieve your clothes from the ceiling fan, the minifridge, the cat and the television. When you've showered and feel in general half decent about yourself again you find Travis again and nudge him awake. He's still got the orange shades on, he never takes those off it seems. He mumbles something about his favorite show and stares at you for a second. His jaw drops and he does the internal dance of joy, you've seen a lot of guys do that after scoring with you. You then take the opportunity to remind him that he's still on the clock until he hands over the retrieved text message on that damn phone. He scrawls something out and hands it to you. He says that's all he found. You ask what it is and he tells you that it's a passcode probably. That or a geotag. Geowhat? (Self Note: Don't say these things aloud.) He laughs and gives your bottom a sound grope. He explains that a geotag is just a location signature that gets put at certain locations to identify them in various programs. AR stuff is getting popular and a good way to know where a thing is, is to check the geotag. Okay, so it's a map thingie. No sweat. You... [] ask if there's anything else. [] smack him upside the head and leave. [] tell him to put some pants on.
While beauty is subjective, I think those around you will thank me for my changes.
That's why hope is crueler than despair.
