The Gamer's Quarter

[dhex]

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[sawtooth]

I <3 perry bible fellowship

notice the time, too!

[sawtooth]

I should get a tripod. I'd love to get more night shots and try out some of that high dynamic range trickery, but my hands are generally too shaky to hold a camera straight most of the time.

[dessgeega]

[ryan]

This is a placeholder for the image of thatbox and myself playing Doom on a 3D0 at the last E3. Where have you gone, photo?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart.

[dhex]

i thought i'd tossed up some snow pics before?



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[sawtooth]

wonderful. mysterious machinery in the mist is so awesome... I wish I had taken some pictures of the power station in the snow, but I couldn't get it without flash. And flash pictures that are both in the dark and taken while snowing suck.

[Lackey]

Hm, those pictures really reflect my understanding of the North American landscape. Maybe it's just my experience of it, but I find gray rectangles to be characteristic.
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[dhex]

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[seryogin]

Oh, come ON!
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[sawtooth]

okay as long as we're posting ridiculous culture wars-related things:



the inside of this book is full of comic sans.

[dhex]

i saw this book in strands with art like that yesterday, it was 50 women who are wrecking the world (or something bland like that) with hillary et al.

but that shit i posted is from a real children's book. scary.


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[dessgeega]

i hate the new cover for this book. the original showed heather with her mothers, whereas in this edition they're relegated to the back cover.
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[dhex]

heather also has a dog that dances incredibly well. she is thrice blessed.


http://wiredforbooks.org/kids/beatrix/sn1.htm

the amazon reviews for liberals under my bed are probably far more entertaining than the book itself.




apparently the children's book market is going through some interesting times.



unrelated:


[note the french in the last panel!]
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[dessgeega]

[sawtooth]

[Shapermc]

[dhex]

squirrel trivia: the little bastards are actually quite violent towards each other. and birds. and bugs. and the occasional child.

they are truly god's creatures.

agit-prop is almost always juvenille. you just notice it more when you disagree with the props being agitated. that said, i can't quite bring myself to buy the liberality thing.

and while yes, it is just a plant, i don't really know if that's appropriate for children.

edit: i was not buying the whole squirrel thing above being real until i saw the links to the actual book's site. it seems too much like some sort of badly-drawn plant, you know? a hoax. no one could be that paternalistic. manichean farce made flesh.
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[sawtooth]

even if liberality for all's creator is playing a joke (he probably is), chances are nobody will take it as such. Sean Hannity approves of it, and anyone that listens to him will take the book's message at face value.

My first attempt at sewing a panorama together (real picture is much higher-res):

[dhex]

[sawtooth]

[dhex]

one of the key components of manicheanism (which gets misused by a lot of secular literary critics trying to, for example, analyze the internal religious strife of "wise blood" by flannery o'connor [no relation]) is that not only is the world a black and white moral field, but all actions taken by one side are backed by the force of that side. in other words, not only am i doing god's work, but my enemies are slaves to the devil. every action is a part of this grand battle between good and evil, which makes for some shallow characterizations, to say the least.

now, i speak of manicheanism as a rhetorical analysis, and it's largely not applicable to most modern religious folk, even really crazy ones. it's unlikely that an imam who sees the hand of satan behind the actions of america, india, china and the various wickednesses of the world afflicting his community would see the entire world as completely fallen and only the soul as a small light in a sea of wickedness. nor could they separate the notion of the person who sins from said influences. too much reliance on the body politic, ya know?

anyway:

[sawtooth]

Oh. You're right. I'm aware of the fallacy involved in that. I meant "listen" in a sort of "taking orders" sense, rather than "hear on the radio" sense. However, I think that the majority of people that would take Hannity's word as the word of truth most likely fit one of several types, and you described one of them. And I see far too many people who fit that type.

I think "Manichean tendencies" become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the midwest.

unrelated: hah, is this still a thread about photos?

The surrounding marshland (where I was standing when I took the photo) is full of mosquitos during the summer. The hill itself, not so much.


Bokor hotel in Cambodia. My brother took this picture a couple of years ago.

[TheRumblefish]

Here's a pciture of me after my haircut. Before the haircut, it was down past my jawline, and growing out of control.





A dynamic lighting pose included with mafioso style shades. Too bad I didn't take it in some beaten down alley in night or something.
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[Persona-sama]

Looking at those two pictures, I can't tell if you're a man or a woman.

You should start a visual kei band!
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[TheRumblefish]

[Persona-sama]

I suggest wearing lip gloss and wearing make up that accentuates your cheek bones if you ever consider a career in the visual kei.

Also, it might help if you looked good in a dress. And were a 300 year old vampire or something.
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[TheRumblefish]

[Mr. Apol]

ha!



Suit-tastic.
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LJ -- Profile

[Lestrade]

My magnetic tile Mario:

[Lackey]

Nice use of negative space. It's like he's jumping into the void!

But also: he's going the wrong way.
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[dessgeega]

[Lestrade]

[dessgeega]

for matt.



field report from agent sultry snake!
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[dessgeega]

well, i cut my hair.



not that you can really see my hair in this photo, but who cares. i look uncharacteristically gorgeous.



buzzy the bumblebee appears courtesy my current love interest.



the hottest picture you'll ever see. you might as well kill yourself now, nothing's ever going to top this.

(thank you, "monday morning violet".)
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[Lackey]

Nice bloom filter.
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[dessgeega]

it's called monday morning violet. i'm obsessed with it.
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[Shapermc]

Is that the old style or new style 6 button genny controller?
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“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!"

[dessgeega]

neither. it's a ps2 saturn pad!
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[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

told ya.
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[kirkjerk]

I know I'm kind of barging in to these boards like I know what I'm talking about, but there is one photo of me I'll use whenever I can...


Sometimes I don't use the negative version but I think this one looks like a piece of scifi agitprop.

[simplicio]

Dess, that's one of the most vertical tongues I've ever seen.

[dessgeega]

*wink*
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[Shapermc]

[kirkjerk]

[Shapermc]

[kirkjerk]

[Wilkes]

lol

[Shapermc]