WE CAN DO IT. WE CAN MAKE IT. HOPE. (NO)CHANGE. SUCCESS.
POST LADIES AND GENTS, POST, THE LUCKY NUMBER IS UPON US.
dubs
I'm just going to start rapid-fire typing and posting as I think. Maybe that would be more interesting than just spamming single words or whatever (probably not).
I guess what's bothering me most about the Bhagavadgita is that its three main prongs are 'act correctly to uphold the crazy regressive feudal social order,' 'Krishna is your personal lord and saviour,' and 'the cycle of rebirth is a clusterfuck of incomprehensible rules, good luck!' all of which are pretty unappealing.
The vocabulary is easy though, so there's that.
Almost done with a textbook on Old Irish. I get how the grammar works mostly, but my memory/intuitive sense of the conjugation and declension endings is really bad.
Last time there was a hurricane (Irene I think?) a stray dog wandered on to our porch. Parents left some food and water out there but didn't let her in and she wandered off afterwards. I really hope she found her way back home.
It's funny how the coming hurricane is being treated so breathlessly. Probably will be a fair bit of storm surge and random deaths from trees falling down and such, but not like a national catastrophe or whatever, just a handful of personal ones. Also like 30 people died in the Caribbean but they're foreigners so oh well.
Actually that's funny in general, major hurricanes can kill upwards of a thousand people in the Caribbean and Latin America and they hardly get any mention, but upwards of a hundred Americans and it's 24 hours for the next six weeks and a dozen documentaries get made out of it.
Not trying to be one of those social justicy types, don't have any strong feelings about it, just seems risible.
Breed differentiation in dogs is really remarkable. Would be neat if we could do the same with other domesticated animals. Obviously we do to an extent, but size isn't as variant.
Maybe that's just perception though, I'm familiar with dogs and cats so differences are more readily apparent. There are plenty of different bovine breeds but I can't notice the distinctions. Even size, some cows are incredibly bulky, some aren't.
It's pretty frustrating that consumers won the fight for DRM-free music but are totally indifferent to other media. Particularly since Blu-ray has probably the most cumbersome DRM in history, excluding maybe those old PC games that had dongles. Shit, I'm not even a pirate, I want to buy things, I just don't want to have to buy some shovelware Blu-ray playback software and constantly have to update.
eBooks also suck, but at least they're cracked easily. Finally got around to doing that after reading about lady whose Kindle got remotely wiped.
Patience and Perseverance
It's also frustrating since I don't want to buy any DRM-laden ebooks anymore but I also dislike having physical possessions. University library was great, but local small town libraries are pretty middling.
It's kind of weird to think that behind most small image and textboards are a group of people on IRC. Especially when you see personal references. It's like looking at shadows on the wall.
Wonder what the ratio of IRCers to strays is. And which ratio tends best to cultivating a good community.
I really like anonymous group communication. Not because I feel like I can get away with more, I have a pretty strong sense of internal guilt as opposed to external shame, but I really appreciate that things are judged discretely rather than bound up in social relations.
Or ideas of identity at all. I don't even like things like Omegle. I'd rather dissolve into an anonymous whole than be an individual thing.
When I have to I make up a new pseudonym on the spot. Don't feel any connections to any of them. I started corresponding with grey via e-mail recently and I realized I didn't even have a pseudonymous email.
IRC scares me. Anonymous message board users turn into annoying catchphrase spammers or uptight Nazis when they're given pseudonyms. See: 4chan.
Reading Euripides' and Seneca's Herculeses. The beginning is pretty brilliant, he's MIA in Hades and Lycus is going to execute his wife and kids because of some potential historical claim to the throne of Thebes or whatever, some you're holding your breath and waiting for him to show up and save the day. However, you also know that he's going to kill his kids later in the play.
I'm so uncreative with pseudonyms that one of the only pseudonyms I use is "pseudonymous".
>>383
I think 4chan has different problems than that--I would assume the mass base of posters are oblivious to IRC, except maybe on /jp/. On smaller sites the ratios are flipped.
Picking up a language after leaving it be for a long time is really frustrating. Constantly running into blocks and feeling like an idiot, but you can't ever get better without persevering.
Of all the comics that needed a gritty, Nolan-lite TV series...Green Arrow, really? It works a lot better when he's portrayed more "middle-aged", even when he's actually younger. The irony is that a show for adults comes off as a lot more dull and childish than the Y7 cartoons that actually handled him really well.
Being rich must be really weird. Lots of confusing decisions: is your job a valuable end in itself that you should continue in it? Once you're more or less sufficient is it really worthwhile to carefully manage your money to maximize it? Is that an end in itself? What's worth buying? What do you do with your estate after death? Do you/how do you fulfill your social obligations through charity?
The recent bout of media exploitation of comics IP is pretty fascinating. Wonder how long it will last? It's always been kind of an undercurrent, I guess.
The problem I would have with being rich is that I know my hedonic treadmill would turn up to 11, and I would end up more miserable than I am now. Well, after a month or two of happy spending.
I was looking at nice watches recently and they all seem hideous. Don't see the appeal of precious metals and jewels at all. I don't believe it's a matter of sour grapes. I really like complicated and ornate movements like in Patek Philippe's, but I'd like them in a simple pilot's watch.
Sometimes when I look at things I like to imagine how much energy went into their creation. Like a book was a tree that grew by photosynthesis with energy from the sun and matter extracted from the ground and then harvested by lumberjacks who needed food and equipment which was constructed by people in the past in a long recursive spiral to the beginning of civilization, ink was I guess a mineral or something that was extracted in the same way, factory same way, then you have an author who was supported by civilization in a similar manner. Obviously a lot of that is amortized over huge quantities of each object. Still nuts.
How the hell did baseball catch on in Japan and Cuba anyway?
Christianity in Korea too. Seems like a really odd outlier.
List of interesting historical thingies:
Writing is pretty nuts when you think about it. You're receiving the thoughts of someone given physical form and transmitted across time and space.
Pass me another joint, dude.
400 GET next.
>thinking in words
You know what is nuts? That there is no evidence for the existence of time and space.
>there is no evidence for the existence of time and space.
>1993-09-6999 01:29
>401
21.5 hours until impact.
The only "evidence" is that everything depends on its existence; but that's faulty reasoning, begging the question
>>700 will be the third impact, and "VIPs" will descent
Our only hope lies in the DQNHELLIONS
We'll never make it.
brap
Well, you know what they say: fruit, fruit, the more you toot!
If we make it, it could be the greatest achievement of DQN since Title.
When I get back home, I'll spam AA of my waifu. That should get us a fair way.
I only get back home tomorrow, though.
The thread title states ">>700 on the 7000th" though, so it should be okay so long as we get there by 23:59 tomorrow.
I said "though" too many times there.
In other news,
Last night I had a dream in which I stole somebody's pantsu.
They were all purple and stripy.
Anyway, then someone mistook me for a girl and wanted me to engage in a bout of naked lesbian wrestling.
But I was neither naked nor a lesbian nor a wrestler. (Nor a girl, for that matter).
So I ran away.
I ended up in a cave of some description, with various machines and things in it.
Then I got distracted by a magic Rubik's cube.
One of the sides was a puzzle involving dwarves trying to make copper arm thingies. You know, the bits of armour that go over your hands and wrists.
I was on the verge of completing it, and then I woke up!
How frustrating.
Anybody know any fun family friendly Halloween games?
My subconscious must hate me.
>>427
Well, I would not recommend naked lesbian wrestling. It can be very distressing to those caught up in the game who are not in fact naked lesbian wrestlers.
Fully clothed lesbian wrestling is not much better.
What I'm really trying to say here is that you, >>427, should just stick with pumpkin carving or apple bobbing or hide and seek or something like that.
Magic Rubik's cubes would also suffice, if you happen to have any lying around.
My captcha is threading. That's pretty great. If posting is making posts, then threading must be making threads.
I sure am running out of things to say here.
I guess I'll talk about how to do Subterranean Animism's extra stage.
First things first: choice of shot type.
My personal favourite is Reimu A; she does plenty of damage, has what is probably the best bomb in the game and the ability to jump to the opposite side of the screen is pretty damn useful as well.
Reimu B is just like a not-so-good version of Reimu A.
Less damage, less effective bomb, less useful special ability.
Reimu C is pretty effective if you can get used to her. She more than makes up for Reimu A's lack of range.
I never got anywhere with Marisa A. Just... no.
Never even tried Marisa B, now that I think about it.
Marisa C is literally the most fiddly shot type I have ever seen. If you can master it then well done to you, you probably deserve a medal of some kind.
Anyway, on to the stage itself.
Start off in the bottom left corner. You should be shooting the fairies as soon as they arrive, and catching their power items straight away.
Stream slowly right, killing the fairies from the other side as they come towards you.
If all goes well, you should end up dead centre with 1.00 power just as the first of the huge fairies shows up.
The huge fairies with their radiating rings of bullets can be a little overwhelming at first, but don't worry about it.
Being at full power at the midboss will make things much, much easier. For this to happen, though, you cannot afford to lose any power items at all.
Grazing the rings of bullets is tricky, but sort of necessary.
There'll be a couple of easy enemies and then, just before the midboss, a sequence of large fairies with very quick strings of bullets which limit your movement.
I'm sorry to say, you pretty much have to memorise where they show up.
And then Sanae shows up.
Her first spellcard isn't too bad if you know the trick.
Don't fire them
During the waves of lasers, stay at the absolute bottom of the screen, just above the Enemy marker.
Sorry, had a phone call. Where was I?
Yes, the lasers always fall in the same way, but the bullets don't.
Her second spellcard isn't too bad, provided you don't make any sudden movements.
Her third spellcard is pretty nasty. Stream the strings of bullets and be very careful when turning back on yourself.
Don't let yourself get caught against the bottom of the screen. I usually play about half way up.
The wave of fairies immediately after Sanae is tricky as well.
You can graze their attacks, but it's very risky.
If you're playing as Reimu A, you can swap sides half way through this attack. Otherwise you'll have to bomb.
The next few waves are fairly trivial, until you get to more of the huge fairies with the radiating bullets.