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Toto 4th Man
Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 122
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:46 am Post subject: Rank your Day, GQites! |
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Because we love video games and stuff, let's assign the arbitrary systems of achievement found in video games to our very lives, but instead of things like combos and health lost being the judges, we use stuff like useful things done, or helpful, or ultra fun stuff.
Use any game ranking system you see fit to rank your life. I will use the Japanese system, with D through to S as the range.
I woke up, and it's holidays, so that's a point there.
My friend came over and we lasted the power outage together. He lives literally a 1 minute walk away. Nice!
Watched Dr. Phil and laughed heartily.
Here's the good stuff:
Washed the bathroom so hard it took 2 and a half hours. Scrubbed the tub, the sink, the toilet, the taps, the WALLS, the floor, and basically just cleaned the shit out of it (literally! haha I'm funny).
Washed the dishes.
Collected the clothing.
Went out and had a smoked salmon and ricotta cheese bagel, but was overcharged for it.
Bought Lebanese Bread.
OVERALL RANKING:
A.
(although minor improvements could have been made, on the whole a solid performance! 700 bonus points!) |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
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i score points when i finally remember to take out my trash.
but i like to think a multiplier goes up every day i leave it. _________________
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OtakupunkX .
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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MySpace = Tokimeki Memorial gone terribly, terribly wrong. |
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GSL .
Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 725 Location: Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a sucker for Tokimemo, but it would have to be very, very wrong indeed to even approximate the horror of MySpace. Explain yourself!
Now, about my day.
+ I had more than six hours of sleep
+ I had time before class to buy a scone and tea at the library coffeeshop
- I'm still coming down from being sick so I didn't get coffee
+ I stayed awake through 9am class
+ I finished Japanese homework before class
+ I obliterated the weekly Japanese grammar test
+ Finished classes at 2
- I have no groceries
+ I have a whole case of Lipton Green Tea with Citrus
Rank: B
The day was good, with not much that went wrong. If I wasn't sick and had food, or if something extraordinary happened, it may have gone up to an A. |
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 886 Location: Occupied Stalingrad
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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I woke up.
Talked with my mother
Watched a Russian movie that my mother bought me
Had a tuna sub for lunch
Then left for Manhattan and bought a few things
Then went back
And received a call from Shaper
5.5 overall. Talking to Shaper made me despair as usual; his horrible jokes caused me to groan through every second. _________________
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TheRumblefish .
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:46 am Post subject: |
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I woke up, started my research paper on Maya Angelou and Zora Nele Hurston. After turning into MLA format, I then started my other research paper for World Cinema, on Takashi Miike. It looks to go quite smoothly. My dad flipped out while trying to remodel the bathroom and claimed that "The world is fucking ending" and then threw soem tile around or something that crazy.
I go to Algebra in about three and a half hours. MY day is already over as far as I am concerned.
I won't rate this day, instead I'll leave that up to the professors who grade my research papers. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:47 am Post subject: |
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zora neale hurston is awesome. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: |
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seryogin wrote: | 5.5 overall. Talking to Shaper made me despair as usual; his horrible jokes caused me to groan through every second. |
Hey, screw you buddy.
See if I call you for 3 hours while I clean my hotel again. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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TheRumblefish .
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | zora neale hurston is awesome. |
Much respect for Zora. I love Angelou though, her work has really left an impact on me. "I know why the caged bird sings" when I read it in High School really helped me turn around. I mean, she's a force of nature if you ask me. Not to discredit Zora, she worked in the Harlem era with Langston Hughes, how cool could that be? She died alone and in poverty, but she still could write like a mad-woman. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:57 am Post subject: |
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all of the most brilliant women have died alone and unrecognized. _________________
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TheRumblefish .
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | all of the most brilliant women have died alone and unrecognized. |
This is the ultimate truth, I must admit. At least it makes you sound cool when people reflect on you. I mean this in a good way. Such as "Yeah Elly died alone, but she had touched the lives of so many...." What a bad ass Elly was. She was probably brilliant is the first thing that would come to my mind. The thing that sucks about Zora is that she was buried in an unmarked grave, a shame for such a powerful women. They had take up a collection just for a burrial.
What do they do if you can;t afford a burial? Burn you and then dump you into a trash bag? I suppose so... _________________
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Szczepaniak .
Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 770
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | all of the most brilliant women have died alone and unrecognized. |
Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side.
As for my day, I got up, did some work I was commissioned for, had lunch, did more work, spoke with my boss, and now I'm about to relax this evening by visiting my brother, then playing chess and drinking whiskey with him.
I'd give this day a 7.0 |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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except virginia wolfe - she died recognized, alone and quite soggy.
and flannery o'connor, who died with a lot of peacocks and her super pita mother while quite recognized.
(my wife is a big wolfe fan. she delivered a paper at the bloomsbury group conference in the uk, no less - on wolfe and her relationship to objects in her work. exciting stuff! i don't really care for female authors. ok, that's not true, i really like flannery o'connor too. she had the ability to make loathesome characters very funny. probably due to her mother, who by all reports was more or less malice on toast.)
my day: b- (i did a lot, but it was counterbalanced by the vcr eating my wife's video for class and that's bad, etc)
my evening: a+ ? (if i fix the vcr) _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Szczepaniak wrote: | dessgeega wrote: | all of the most brilliant women have died alone and unrecognized. |
Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
Not if you are in a bomb shelter with a bunch of other people when "the big one" hits. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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TheRumblefish .
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | Szczepaniak wrote: | dessgeega wrote: | all of the most brilliant women have died alone and unrecognized. |
Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
Not if you are in a bomb shelter with a bunch of other people when "the big one" hits. |
That made me giggle. Maybe I am disturbed. But still, that was quite funny for some reason. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Szczepaniak wrote: | Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
what if someone is standing by your side, though? or sitting?
also a lot of people die slowly. _________________
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 3725
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Szczepaniak wrote: | Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
What about death? He's always kickin' it with you when you die.
-Wes _________________
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TheRumblefish .
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:53 am Post subject: |
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SuperWes wrote: | Szczepaniak wrote: | Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
What about death? He's always kickin' it with you when you die.
-Wes |
Maybe he is, maybe he's to busy playing Animal Crossing Wild World in his DS to even notice you though. So you have to wait in Limbo for a while until he digs all the fossils up or shit like that. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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i thought death was a woman.
shaper will back me up on this one. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | shaper will back me up on this one. |
She caresses my shoulder on stressful nights and then visits my dreams. On lonely days she whispers sweet nothings into my ear. She is a wretched mistress. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Szczepaniak .
Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 770
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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SuperWes wrote: | Szczepaniak wrote: | Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
What about death? He's always kickin' it with you when you die.
-Wes |
I'm suddenly reminded of that foreign black and white film, the one I am always forgetting the name of.
All I can remeber fully, is the knight on the horse asks death, do you play chess? And he replies, "Of course".
We were drunk at the time, but I remember liking it. |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Szczepaniak wrote: | I'm suddenly reminded of that foreign black and white film, the one I am always forgetting the name of. |
The Seventh Seal, the Swedish film from the 50's. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey makes fun of that movie a lot. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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INGMAR BERGMAN _________________
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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i had a really great picture book of hell and a picture book of death (with various cross-cultural explanations and art) and the best part was that when chinese politicians die, they're consigned to a karmic waystation (my snarky shorthand for a buddhist theological concept to explain what happens to bad people before they're reborn as monkeys or whatever) where they were doomed to grab at paper money swirling around them in a neverending windstorm.
pretty fucking awesome. we have the technology - WE CAN BUILT IT. _________________
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OtakupunkX .
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Greatsaintlouis wrote: | I'm a sucker for Tokimemo, but it would have to be very, very wrong indeed to even approximate the horror of MySpace. Explain yourself! |
After giving it a lot of thought, I've decided that MySpace is not only Tokimemo gone terribly wrong (the communication aspects, mainly) but also Pokemon (gotta catch 'em all, unless they're those child molesters they always talk about on the news), WoW (groups = guilds), and maybe even a bit Animal Crossing (customizing your home page to your liking so other people can visit it and think it's cool or that it looks like someone vomited on it, etc.).
And yet, I'm logged on right now. My address is www.myspace.com/otakupunkx...
As for my day...
Woke up on time this morning
Took a shower
Drank Tea
Made it through 1st period without falling asleep
Go to 2nd period and find TGQ forums are down
Ate Marshmellow Peeps
Wrote the worst essay I've ever written in my life
Took Spanish quiz
Finished Physics lab before anyone else
Took PreCal test I missed due to an "unofficial off-day" I had last week
And it's still going.
So far, I'd give it an B+, mainly because of that crappy essay. I never realized I was capable of writing something so terrible. |
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TheRumblefish .
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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OtakupunkX wrote: | Greatsaintlouis wrote: | I'm a sucker for Tokimemo, but it would have to be very, very wrong indeed to even approximate the horror of MySpace. Explain yourself! |
And yet, I'm logged on right now. My address is www.myspace.com/otakupunkx...
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http://www.myspace.com/therumblefish
And yet....so am I. Touche. _________________
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GSL .
Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 725 Location: Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | Szczepaniak wrote: |
Doesn't everyone die alone, really? I know people talk about it and try and avoid it, but in the end, it takes you suddenly and no one is standing there by your side. |
Not if you are in a bomb shelter with a bunch of other people when "the big one" hits. |
Or if you go and do something like this. |
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Tablesaw .
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | See if I call you for 3 hours while I clean my hotel again. |
Hold up. Why were you cleaning the hotel? _________________ It's the saw of the table! |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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Tablesaw wrote: | Shapermc wrote: | See if I call you for 3 hours while I clean my hotel again. |
Hold up. Why were you cleaning the hotel? |
Because I don't trust the hotel, mainly. I have a lot of stuff in there that are things I don't want people moving around. I really only let them clean when I need the towels changed and the floor vaccumed. I mean, I do live there. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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so lessee.
i remember getting up last night and re-coding how walking is handled in my new (new) game. actually i spent twenty minutes or so staring at the screen wondering how i could possibily do it, and then i figured it out and earned a few points, with a bonus because zuntata was playing. i coded it, and that drained most of my stamina.
so then i hefted the chair over to where my consoles are set up (+1 to strength) and put in a few hours with shiren and the tower, which will keep my proficiency meter from dropping, though i skipped super hydlide because i was getting really hungry and wanted to finish and make some food.
i microwaved a burrito and then had to carefully balance my hunger timer against the cooling-down level of the burrito. i let it cool just enough, so it didn't lose too much health.
then i remembered that i'd wanted to take out the garbage that night, because it's full. it was morning by then, and my camoflage rating had dropped. so in the pail it remains.
i coded some more stuff in the game, hit a strange error, and made a workaround, though i'm not entirely comfortable with it, because i still don't really know why the problem occured. it's servicable, though. +5 EXP.
i played a bit of adam cadre's narcolepsy. that got me ready for a nap.
i went to bed and, uh, did things that aren't available in the T-rated version of this game. i raised my multiplier by looking at some porn first. so big points, but it wasn't that satisfying. i was using cheat codes, i guess.
then i realized i'd completely forgotten i had to correct some of the images for the print version of issue 5. i resolved to do so after the nap. the nap only lasted like an hour.
i got up and made some food. the "peanut butter and jelly sandwich" bonus was lit up, so i made that. the jelly was technically strawberry preserves, and the peanut butter was - peanut butter. mara natha peanut butter, so extra yumminess points.
after eating it, i decided to try and max out my yumminess by making another, but i had to be wary of overloading my tummy inventory, because if it gets too heavy my speed goes down. fortunately, i was able to just fill myself up enough. i spilled a cup of soy milk on my leg, but it was a tiny paper bathroom cup because that's all the clean cups i have right now, so i didn't take too much damage.
then i fixed the images, but my mother IMed me, and i am easily distracted and forget what i'm doing. but i managed to finish them. and now i am trying to send them, and gmail keeps spitting an error message back at me.
and i'm trying to think of something to write for the escapist's upcoming "girl power" issue, so i can have money. and buy an exorcist sickle +3, maybe. _________________
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Mr. Apol .
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 157 Location: a curiously familiar pit
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Umm... I got up, drove someone to school while listening to the new Sambomaster album, then drove to work.
I worked.
I posted on here. I sent some emails to the people I'm interviewing for the article I'm working on.
I had a sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub at Subway that was horribly made.
I went to a record store on my lunch break, bought an album by The Go! Team and let the record store owner listen to track 5 of previously mentioned Sambomaster album. He liked it. Thought it sounded like the Boredoms whoever they are.
Then I came back to work, posted some more on here, posted on IC, posted on digitalmzx, checked email and myspace.
I believe that I may have urinated a few times.
Read a lot of stuff on LPN, then sent some more emails.
And now, I'm here, posting agian.
I'll be leaving in 10 minutes, getting a shower and heading off to a rock and roll show. Hopefully it won't suck!
deesgeega wrote: | i went to bed and, uh, did things that aren't available in the T-rated version of this game. i raised my multiplier by looking at some porn first. so big points, but it wasn't that satisfying. i was using cheat codes, i guess. |
what kind of porn lol _________________
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:17 am Post subject: |
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boredoms is good for you. _________________
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
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I have the worst hangover ever. _________________
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Lackey .
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purplechair .
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Speed: 50
Firepower: 20
Technique: 30
Rank: C
Must try harder. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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spending easter at the in-laws: f-
my wife passed this along regarding female authors:
Quote: | Too many people have this misguided idea that women are only taken seriously as writers after they died and are therefore to be pittied; that somehow that there work was so poor in both subject matter and literary worth it takes critics mining for "new" writers to rediscover them. Nobody seems to realize that from the beginning of the rise of the novel in the 18th century and the (relative) mass production of books women were some of the core groups of writers for example: Eliza Heywood, Aphra Behn, Mary Robinson and Joanna Bailiee. Some of there work is a bit spotty and overly sentimental and melodramatic at times but it sold well and all four of those ladies were popular authors of their time and were able to live off of their incomes (the chronic debt causded by MR's illness and spendthrift habits not withstanding). If you go into the 19th century there is Charlotte Bronte (she didn't exactly like the limelight and was reclusive but except for her first novel published under own name), George Sand and George Eliot used psuedonyms but EVERYONE knew who GS was and she paraded around in pants and smoked cigars in "company" and was a very public figure. There is also Maria Edgeworth, Speranza (Oscar Wilde's mom), Lady Augusta Gregory, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf, Katharine Mansfield, Kate O'Brien, Ethna Carbury and a host of others. Some like O'Brien and Carbury were popular during their day and then faded from view for various reasons. If you go over to the US there is Harriet Beacher Stowe, who despite writing some horrible novels was very well known and commercially successful. Then you also have other writers such as Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, HD, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay
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a+ (but she's sleeping with the professor, so...)
apparently this meme aggrevates her far more than i ever knew. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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I'm gonna give a shoutout to HD here, whut whut.
Additionally, the best Gertrude Stein moment is from Hemingway's "A Movable Feast"* where Hemingway realizes that Stein is a lesbian and throws up in his mouth and runs out of her apartment. If it were set contemperaneously, Papa would have been wearing a baseball hat and a pre-faded Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirt.
I'm knocking around the house, preparing for an afternoon bout of cleaning and wedding logistics, which will be followed by a dual birthday bash held by a friend who delights in cooking multi-course meals starting with a molten wheel of brie. We are preparing for this by not eating anything except for a light breakfast.
* - Which is full of great moments, including a conversation between Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald while they're at the urinals in a bar where Fitzgerald breaks down about how his wife thinks his dick is too small and Hemingway tells that you have to use pillows, man, it's all about the angle. |
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
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I don't remember the lesbian moment, SM. Can you tell me approximately what page it's on.
I do, of course, recall Fitzgerald bitching about his small cock. I particularly liked it when he took him to see some sculptures and told him: "See they weren't that big back then. And, you know, it's all about how big it gets, amirite." _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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seryogin wrote: | I don't remember the lesbian moment, SM. Can you tell me approximately what page it's on. |
Unfortunately I haven't read Feast since high school and I don't think I still have a copy of the book. I'll snoop around and see if I'm wrong though. |
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GSL .
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I'm taking a modernist literature class right now that is heavy on both the Stein and HD. I'd have beat Hemingway out of the room just to get away from the horror of her writing. A friend once told me of some intentionally banal Photoshop edits that I showed to her, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." Photoshop is entirely irrelevant in this discussion, but the spirit of her comment remains: it's cool that you can do weird and interesting things with the language, but what good does it do if a reader can't even make out what in hell you want to say? (I have The Making of Americans firmly fixed in my mind as I write this.) I could just not be 'literary' enough to appreciate her genius; I prefer to think of it as another case of the Emperor's new clothes.
And is it just me, or are so many female authors regarded as great in the current canon startlingly formulaic? Mix equal parts odd stylistic choices, vague undercurrents of sexual abuse, and thinly-veiled dislike for The Establishment (parents, religion, etc.) and voila! Sylvia HD Woolfstein. Though I'm sure there are some delightful exceptions that are, you know, FUN to read, the big names all strike me as trying too hard to be the black sheep in the traditionally male-dominated herd that they only succeed in making themselves irrelevant by sheer virtue of being utterly inaccessable.
But I digress.
Today is a firm C-. I arose early to assist my housemates in putting together a nonmovable Easter feast; my contribution being an experimental ham recipe involving brown sugar, honey, and apples. However, I am currently three hours into work while the housemates, girlfriend, and various other aquaintences partake of the fruits of our labors. It's cold leftovers for me when I get home, followed by a delightful evening of finishing taxes and writing reports. At least I have internets here. |
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OtakupunkX .
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I will be going to bed with a stomache. A-. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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my knee has been inexplicably aching for the past couple days whenever i move it. boo! _________________
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Pijaibros .
Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 342 Location: Mistake by the Lake
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: |
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I forgot it was Easter and discovered that everything is closed for the day.
I have no food aside from assorted spices and a jug of milk.
Luckily the Chinese place down the boulevard is open on holiidays. I ordered a soda with my food, but they forgot to give it to me when I went in to pick up my order.
I still need an iron and a board. Couldn't find a Cadbury Cream Egg to brighten this boring holiday. Alone in my apartment.
Grade: C- |
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OtakupunkX .
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Pijaibros wrote: | Couldn't find a Cadbury Cream Egg to brighten this boring holiday. |
Those things were difficult to find this year.
I got a box of Marshmellow Peeps rabbits. All their eyes were on the side of their faces so they all looked paranoid. It was bizarre... I took a picture of it before they met their sticky, delicious death. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: |
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i finished the best game i have ever made.
so, SSS. _________________
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 3725
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | i finished the best game i have ever made.
so, SSS. |
Which game is that?
-Wes _________________
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