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fat thread edition
Fun fact: Atlanta is the best city in the world
What should you do when someone painstakingly explains a concept you already understand really well? Is it rude to say "I know, you don't need to tell me"? Happened to me today.
LinkinPark-Why don't you fucking kill me(with lyrics)
>>582
Unfortunately most people will find it rude if you shut them down directly. It's much less abrasive to ask a question which indicates your knowledge of the subject, for example:
"Oh yes, I think I've heard about that. What do you think about X?"
or
"Ah yes, isn't it also true that X?"
Where X is something that indicates deep understanding of the concept.
Of course there are many variations on this, the main point is not to directly shut them down with "I know." If you want to change the topic, make X something only tangentially related. If they don't take the hint after multiple attempts to indicate your knowledge, turn the tables by painstakingly explaining the concept to them. Or you can always just make an excuse to end the conversation.
Who knew the world was capable of such oxymoronic, paradoxical juxtapositions?
>>587
I thought we all mutually agreed to stop with the political shitposting. People were complaining about my political posts in /req/ and now you're starting up. Just stop.
Let's talk about something else. I just found out that there are some alcoholic drinks that have caffeine in them. This both intrigues and worries me. It could be interesting but I could see it going horribly wrong, as it would mask how drunk you are, or possibly lead to elevated risk of cardiac arrest because of the uppers and downers stressing out your heart. But it could also be fucking awesome.
Man, some Beer Advocate writers write so beautifully. Extremely evocative. It's a shame they only write about booze.
I'm fucking trashed
I'm really drunk and don't remember how I stumbled across these pages but this shit is fucking weird and gives off some yeongrak-ish vibes
https://www.deviantart.com/2010tamala
https://yakrell.bandcamp.com/album/meirmote-raining-moth
people who listen to experimental breakcore are the most powerful race in the world
nivt ducj
>>582 I think it's okay to interrupt in a friendly way, like smile and say "it's cool man you don't have to tell me, I'm well-versed in this :)"
>>588 How did you just find out about this, did you just turn 21 last week?
Alcohol + caffeine drinks are banned, at least as premixed drinks, in a lot of places for exactly that reason though. They all had names like "jolt" or "jaguar" and teenagers kept drinking 30 of them at a time and dying, so they're even banned in Russia now.
Take it from a pro narkoman, don't mix uppers and downers. Good way to die or at least end up very sick. Benzos go well with just about everything though, takes the paranoiac edge off of weed or uppers and makes downers even more comfy.
>>597
benzos seem cool until you're addicted and then everything sucks
>>598 yeah, they're an insidious little thing. Goes well with anything, one of the comfiest highs ever even on its own, especially if you're a naturally jittery and anxious person already like me. Comedown and withdrawal is the worst shit I've ever had though, like being wide awake for 3 days at a time having a panic attack thinking your heart is exploding. If you take em on the regular, don't take them before bed no matter how tempting it is, you'll come to rely on them to fall asleep and then when they're gone you will know true suffering.
What a rush!
>>586
Oh, that's a quote, it's not meant for anyone here in particular.
*Wh'oms'td
captcha: stackilb, some kind of data structure library for dyslexics
Never give a girl a straight answer unless that answer is "no".
My lily...
My ligma
>>602
The art lady when commenting on a portrait made by an excon with his own feces on who is america
Hold on baby, it's the DQN
So if a wizard has sex, does he lose his powers, or are they permanent?
>>612
you temporarily lose them, but you get them back over time
frumpy
>>615
I think there are gradients of wizardry, not just all or nothing
you can be 60% wizard, and getting more wizardy
or maybe less wizardy
a person who doesn't get laid very often is closer to a wizard than a normie
I put on my robe and wizard hat
I cast magic missile
I wish I was being torn in half by a giant scorpion...
pls b in Atlanta
nasushit is even more normalfag now
i press the gun against my temple and summon my persona
It all makes me sick.
I'm gonna get drunk again tonight brb going to the liquor store
who /lonely/ here
4 drinks in an hour
LIT
I
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I don't want to...
maybe in the future we'll get groceries via apps and drone deliveries so we won't have to go to the store anymore
the virgin weak dynamic typing vs. the chad strong static typing
My ongoing feuds with inanimate objects
Life shouldn't be this painful.
Being sad on the Internet is sad
hurry up
( ⌒-⌒) I'm having a grand old time by myself!
😄
New Year's Eve 1969
Because it's dead, mom, and it's threatening the house.
People who use long and fancy synonyms for simple words often do so solely as an attempt to obfuscate their message and seem smarter than they actually are, but in doing so they are making their message less clear, and that's not an effective form of communication. People who do this think they're the only ones who do this, but I've seen it time and time again from English majors. Awkwardly shoehorning GRE vocab into your writing looks bad and it doesn't fool anyone.
Some people just love language... you can tell when someone's just learned a new word and want to show off, but I like speaking to people with big vocabularies, especially with broad accents. People maybe often do do it to sound smarter, but sometimes a less common word is more precise, or has nicer connotations, or is just better alliteratively ^___^
international house of buddhism
otherwise known as 仏ーキ屋
Clear communication is key. Sure, some synonyms sound spectacular, but bluntly blurting bogus words won't win a... word... war. (???)
Death to false denpa
Is this really all there is to life?
>>645
tbh i sound like this fairly often because i cba to remember which of the synonyms is normal, just put the first word that comes to mind out there and if anyone hasn't memorized the dictionary well fuck em
and there does come a point where it's not worth worrying about whether you sound condescending because you are using words people don't know or sound condescending because you are using plain language, because some people are determined to shit on you no matter what
>>651 Yeah, sometimes the effort isn't to pick a fancy word and sound smart, it's to pick a simpler word and not get called a university wanker
why the fuck do i always like the anime's Worst Girl
like not the obviously bad or tsundere one but the one that gets memed on and liking clearly means i'm basic af
>>651-652
You're missing the point. I didn't say vocabulary is bad in general, it's just that some people try to use words they don't really understand, so it seems awkward and forced, and you can tell that they're doing it to sound smarter than they really are. If you actually know a word, then by all means use it.
You can tell when someone is using a word they don't really understand though.
Drifting away.
>>651 yeah same i do this too but because i'm a fucking autist sperglord, not because i'm consciously trying to sound pretentious
Complicated language is often about the writer. It's self-centered. YOU want people to know that YOU are smart. YOU want to express yourself in a way that makes the most sense to YOU, even if it makes less sense to your audience. YOU want to show off what you learned over the years, even if no one else cares.
Simple language is about prioritizing the listener over the speaker. Try to make the message as easy for them as possible. The point of communication should be ensuring that the audience understands.
It's not condescending, it's about efficiency. People might be able to understand a 5,000 word essay from a very articulate person who likes to show off their personal lexicon, but a 500 word essay with easier-to-digest words is preferable because you get the same message across with less time and effort for the reader.
>>658
Unless there's actual information in the 4,500 words you're throwing away. There often is.
>>659
But you can condense that same info into fewer words. Most of the time, anyway. Old school media like TV and books used to try and make things as long as possible, because they didn't have much content, and wanted to drag it out as they could in order to meet some minimum page or time length, such as 300 pages, or 30 minutes for an episode.
Now? Things are different. There's so much media that nobody has time for that shit. Too many posts on social media timelines to read everything. Instead of having a small amount of content and trying to make it as long as possible, you have a lot of content and need to try and make it as brief as possible.
Ergo Proxy, more like Ergo VPN
came across a youtube channel about traditional life from a family of people who are claiming to live more traditional lives
they have enough views to make money from youtube, and they also have an amazon affiliate thing and an etsy store and an ebook and a pinterest page
do they not see the irony
Gantz vs Antz
>>662
There's no irony. All those things you mention are superficially modern. Etsy us just another face of the idea of a marketplace which has been around for millenia. They're (I'm assuming) using their time and effort to produce crafts and artisanal goods. The only thing is the marketplace they sell it at isn't a physical one. This is partially out of necessity and partially out of convenience. All of the things you listed that are supposed to run counter to living a "traditional life" are updated formats of preexisting things. Saying "they use the internet so that invalidates the fact that they are living traditional lives" while they are in effect artisans living off their product and physical work is absurd. More importantly how is their family structure? What is their outlook on life? What values do they put emphasis on? These are much more important things to look at than when evaluating them than "well they have a Pinterest account" and other things that are essentially modern wallpaper on age old concepts.
oh god, stewart himself saying the new trek is going to be "much needed in these dark times" and it's about "the next chapter in Picard's life"
it's going to be geriatric picard sitting around in a retirement home IN SPAAAAAACE trimming a bonsai tree and listening to mozart, PS refugees welcome. calling it now it's gonna suck so fucking bad
>>658 There's more to language than communication and efficiency! I'm reminded of that Fry & Laurie Tricky Linguistics video again. I appreciate when a writer has faith that I have read a book before and doesn't need to spoonfeed me, but we agree it's obvious and annoying when a fancy word is forced and misused. But, I don't believe it's always as forced as you imply, I don't think that's why people become writers. Wait, after I typed that I realised maybe you weren't talking about books, when you say "writer" are you talking about online journalists? Cos that's different, those guys are nincompoops
> online journalists? Cos that's different, those guys are nincompoops
oh god, don't tell me you're one of those "gamergate" types
>>667 Absolutely not, all that shit passed my by, but it's a lot more often I read an article or review and think, that was a completely worthless misinformed opinion I regret wasting time on, I wonder what made them decide to pursue this line of work
>I wonder what made them decide to pursue this line of work
probably wanted to have a voice or to make a change in the world
but in reality, a lot of articles are just "10 avocados to shove up your ass"
then again, people who study other professions end up in the same dilemma: delusions of grandeur met with mundane and disappointing reality (like code monkeys thinking they'll be the next bill gates)
I wonder how much rap is just larping. For every rapper who mentions gangs and guns and shit, how many of them are real vs. just playing pretend because it sounds cool?
>>670 What was it they said, east coast was rappers pretending to be gangstas and west coast was gangstas pretending to be rappers
Black people are all criminals
I keep going to look up some english set phrase in japanese and finding out that there's no concise translation or similar-meaning idiom(but there often is one in chinese, weirdly enough) and the best way to describe that thing is by just literally describing it
examples I've had recently:
"benefit of the doubt" - best translation is basically the definition = (証拠ないから)有利に解釈 = judge(someone) favorably (because there is no evidence)
"middle of nowhere" - best translation = 人里離れた which also just means "far away from human habitation"
captcha: unkon
ah ay row
dee nah meek
听不懂
bank robbers wearing anime kigurumi outfits and fursuits
> 10 avocados to shove up your ass
link?
Energy...to feel my body!
it hasn't been that bad actually
>>673
I suppose a lot of times that is more like trying to translate cliche for cliche than really getting at the thought behind what was said. The entire thing can become contentious to say the least.
For instance, "middle of nowhere" can be meant with contempt for rural areas and this might be better expressed as ど田舎 despite referring to actual habitation.