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The Bard
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Say hello to chippy, our mouse. Silly bugger thinks he's an egg.
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This game is win.
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Profile Pictures are all fairly fail fraught.
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My name. It's embarrassing =p. Anyway, this is balls. Next year I'll go ahead and get accomodation with people I actually like.
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Asmar is Sean's girlfriend. They live with me and my girlfriend...I'm...(fuck, here's a confession I wasn't ready to make)...Saad. Basically Sean cheated on Asmar (this happened several months ago), and she wants to move out. So she is, but shes still our friend. The problem is, Sean wants to get some Japanese girl, that doesnt even speak english properly, and whom we don't fucking know, to move into the vacated room. Sucks.
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Well, today was entertaining. Our housemate is moving out, because she and her boyfriend have a "situation." So the two of us basically had a proxy war over our gf's msn accounts. She's moving out anyway, but since he blew it, we're the ones who should have a say in who moves in for the remainder of the year. My favourite part: I'm fairly angry right now.
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Ah...Decent list. You reminded me to go listen to more Major Lazer actually! Feelin a bit of Lady Gaga actually. That cunt is infectious.
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Oh yeah, I know that, I'm not denying it at all. Those are physiological differences and traits inherent in the genetics of their respective sex. However, they don't necessarily extrapolate to the socio-ideologies that are taken as so inherent to each sex these days. Those "gender" traits are pretty fuckin mutable. My point was, that your physiology has to do with the whole of your body. Not just whats in your Cranium.
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Er, am I mistaken or is Moogleviper operating under a very Cartesian assumption of the relationship between body and mind? Your body is your metaphysical "soul." Your emotions are generated through your sensory feedback. Your personality is formed through your bodies interactions with its surrounding environment. Of course, we could all abandon the idea of the CNS and go back to the good old days of phrenology. Also, there is no such concrete thing as "gender," really (unless you take the assumption that public consensus defines an objective fact), and what exists of it is just a system of archetypes developed through social interactions (and because people internalize behaviorisms, and morality systems, these moralities become seen as objective...and traditionalized...), to be assumed by members of the specific sex they are supposed to be a characterization of. You define yourself by your sexuality: "Social Identity Theory," the fact that people form identities based on membership within a group (much to do with the ego's tendancy to limit itself, but also to do with its tendancies to assimilate objects that share its traits) tells us about this. You "identify" with the parent with whom who share mutual sexual interests: if you like women, you'll take after a heterosexual male archetype (because heterosexuality is seen as the norm), regardless of whether you yourself are male or female, and vice versa. This whole morality of customs and archetypes is just because people are incapable of undertanding another's individualism, and experience some vague horror when another person acts in a way that could/cannot be predicted. Hence the whole ostentaion of our culture: Guys like trucks and hoes, Women like shoes and...whatever... Sorry about teh long post gaiz. Edit: Uh...goddamnit Chris. Holy shit, you said it before me . Yeah, I don't really think its a matter of "if," you stereotype, its definitely a phenomenon that occurs in every person (although with some to a more exaggerated extent than others). Why else were we so horrified when Rokhead dressed up in his frilly dresses? It was this whole thing of a gruff bearded giant, with incredible connotations of testosterone overload, juxtaposed with what we traditionally consider staples of a feminine gender role. It was strange. Unpredictable. We couldn't understand it, because we have no real understanding of the external circumstances that caused him to be the way he is. And then he just became a cunt. Everything is to do with Perspectivism.
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Being on Ian McKellens official site and his ominous voice booming "one ring to rule them all" sporadically, is fantabulously awesome.
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Well, we're having friends over on the day to our place for some drinks, I'm getting her a face cake, and I'll probably be cooking her something beforehand, although we cook together every other day anyway...so I doubt that would be considered anything special... unless she wants to go out for a meal...but I donno, its difficult to get a sense for what she would like, since my gift choices are so pragmatic most of the time ...and I feel as if she wouldn't really appreciate flowers/jewellery/chocolates since she's gotten it all before for birthdays/valentines day etc... Being a retard...I was thinking of getting her this face steaming deviceymajig that shes had on her amazon wishlist for a while...probably a bit misguided... ARGH. Rationality will not help me. I are doomed. Fuck it, maybe I'll go for teh flowers...although my brain may explode with the cliche of it all...
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Hmm, it feels as if you're being a woeful apologetic to me . I have no problem winning within the ruleset prescribed by the game (ie. without hacks etc). Saying you feel guilty because of your class choice in MW2 is like saying you feel guilty being more proficient at Basketball because you're 7 feet tall. There are some variables that just can't be perfectly balanced; don't handicap yourself, and don't feel bad for winning. Thats mah POV teebs brev.
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Ok, so my girlfriends 20th Birthday is coming up, and I want to get her something really fucking awesome. Unfortunately, I have no idea what would constitute a really fucking awesome/sexy gift. Please help. I am hopeless =(.
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Winning is fun though. Come on, you can't say you don't play multiplayer for the thrill of ousting another human being in some abstraction of skill...unless you're being incredibly disingenuous.
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Ah, brilliant. That seems like a fairly logical thing to do actually. Otherwise they'd need to utilise some kind of rubber-band enemy AI toughness to compensate for the disparity between player levels on starting the game. I succumbing to the latent geek within me when the first game came out and really getting into the lore, but for the life of me, I can't really remember anything outside the main sticking points of the story. Might have to wiki it. Also: What kinda bonuses?
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Hahahaha. Thoroughly amusing, Danny.
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Kinda wishing my playthrough of the first game had been as a vanguard rather than a soldier class. The biotic powers in ME2 look insanely cool. Anyone know if you can change class at the beginning of the second game? Although...that seems kinda impossible since it would require you to reassign all your skill points. FEH!
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Transmetropolitan: First two issues didn't do that much for me, Spider is a pretty clear Hunter S. Thompson derivative, right down to every idiosyncratic mannerism, for example, his habit of continuously narrating every aspect of his own existence, and the speech was a bit contrived initially. But, the third issue hit it out of the park. Getting into it, loving the gaudy atmosphere of the city, the art is cool, even though I much prefer Charlie Adlards less flashy character depictions. "There's one hole in every revolution, large or small, and its one word long - People." I am loving the writing, though the aesthetic of it is at times more engaging than the subject matter, but I'm hopeful that it'll get better as it goes along. I'll probably finish this before I make a move on Invincible and Wanted. Good shit.
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Aight, got myself Invincible, Transmetropolitan and Wanted. Probs enough to keep me occupied for a while. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute to this discussion for the first time after I get a good way into them. What I really loved about TWD was the assonance between the art style and the subject matter. Not a fan of the school of comic book art that aspires to 500 rows of teeth and muscled out dudes standing in vaguely warlike poses lol. I haven't heard good things about Grant Morrison through friends though .
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The Materialism Thread (a.k.a Things I Want)
The Bard replied to chairdriver's topic in General Chit Chat
This thread is the most succint definition of Wahjah I can think of. -
[facetious]Except that I'm right. And if you are willing to argue your points, then please do so, but I would point to the fact that your wanting to join the police force presents as an anachronism in your mental development as a rational human being. Of course, this is whats known as "affect heuristic" in psychological terms, so perhaps I'm misrepresenting your entire character through your career choice/ who am I to judge? All I was writing down was my own views/ taking the piss. Which is always fun.[/facetious] No offence intended. I'm sure you're a fine human being.
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I like Walking Dead and Preacher. Reccommend me some books plz. Kthxbi.
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The Materialism Thread (a.k.a Things I Want)
The Bard replied to chairdriver's topic in General Chit Chat
You could argue, with relative ease that the fetishisation of commodities extends to human objects. As Karl Marx, and this being a thread clearly structured around my Economic and Philosophic manuscripts, I would say that in the same way in which an ego defines itself through objects that it assimilates into its everyday existence, so too is ones political and social status affected through the procurement of a "girlfriend." Hence a spouse, or significant other, is indeed a plausible constituent of ones material needs. What I want: Mastodon Tickets for their Feb Crack The Skye gig A New guitar. -
Oi...I was just going to say! Yeasayer are great. So vibrant.
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I ain't mad, its just that me and Shiekah have...ideological differences. TBH. Also, the social context of a forum does inspire a disconnect that isn't there in real life. Anyway, I'll take that post as a compliment. As for Danny: Capital punishment won't solve anything, what needs to change is the entire social structure, but to be honest, holding out for this kind of overhaul is fairly idealistic. I probably won't go into it here, since my views are fairly polemic, as always.