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the kawaiiest posted:Really, it's all about the Dunning-Kruger with these people. the kawaiiest posted:And since there are online communities for everything, the other crazy people will come to their rescue, validating their complete insanity (and their Dunning-Kruger) the kawaiiest posted:Yeah but there's a difference between being delusional because you have a bad case of Dunning-Kruger and being delusional through no real fault of your own... the kawaiiest posted:Correct. And also many of them have a bad case of Dunning-Kruger to begin with, so they don't think they need to improve or anything. the kawaiiest posted:Your usual Dunning-Kruger stuff. the kawaiiest posted:This isn't even Dunning-Kruger anymore, it's like it's worse somehow. the kawaiiest posted:Also I have managed to dig up the diaper fetish weeaboo with the terrible grammar and the worst case of Dunning-Kruger that I mentioned earlier. Hee hee  That Zander story was the craziest poo poo ever. I love this thread.
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Sloober posted:So, want to go down to McDonalds with me? They're having a special where cheeseburgers cost the temperature it was the day before, and it's been in the teens around here! I could get like, 5 burgers for a dollar. Look a sunflower posted:Hee hee
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Someone mentioned earlier that Rotty/Rottweiler should have a fedora. He does have one. Along with an even worse coat. At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn  I recently compiled for the tvtropes thread a critique by SA Goons of a terrible story about an anime club written by a troper (the hook: it's a deeply homophobic book about anime supposedly written by a gay man). You can find it here as Anime is the Tie that Binds Us. To make it more readable, I included a bunch of stuff about other tropers and their horrible opinions/writings. Rottweiler was one of them, and was highlighted in this page on how non-reproductive sex has no telos.
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Jan 26, 2012 04:08
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Ok, I've worn a trenchcoat for years now, and I had no idea it was considered such a terrible fashion mistake. Do I just need to throw it out? I just wear it like a regular coat, no katanas or fedoras or anything, and only when its cold enough to warrant wearing a coat.
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Jan 26, 2012 04:14
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The Bible posted:Ok, I've worn a trenchcoat for years now, and I had no idea it was considered such a terrible fashion mistake. Do I just need to throw it out? I just wear it like a regular coat, no katanas or fedoras or anything, and only when its cold enough to warrant wearing a coat. If you're from some parts of Europe or live somewhere that regularly gets cold enough to require one, you're probably doing fine. Just don't think it automatically turns you into dick tracy or a character from the matrix.
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Jan 26, 2012 04:18
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The Saddest Rhino posted:At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn 
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The Bible posted:Ok, I've worn a trenchcoat for years now, and I had no idea it was considered such a terrible fashion mistake. Do I just need to throw it out? I just wear it like a regular coat, no katanas or fedoras or anything, and only when its cold enough to warrant wearing a coat. If you wear it with a T-shirt you are an irredeemable waste, but as long as you only wear it with a dress shirt and tie, and only when it's cold or raining, go for it.
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Jan 26, 2012 04:55
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Antivehicular posted:The best part about this argument is that George Washington has no blood descendents; he had two stepchildren whom he raised with Martha, but he and Martha had no children, and Wikipedia tells me that smallpox might have rendered him sterile. There's something amazing in not just being an idiot monarchist but not even doing basic fact-checking in your proposed monarchic scheme. Actually, IIRC the guy made provision for that--if Washington's direct line died out, succession rights would move to the descendants of his relatives following primogeniture (siblings, uncles, cousins, etc). However, I don't think he expected Washington's line to, uh, never get started. Question for you, Antivehicular. What state does/did Rotty live in? King George Washington was in Illinois, I am hoping and praying I had an early encounter with him.
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Jan 26, 2012 05:01
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Wait, I can do that! He apparently lives in Portland or Salem Oregon.
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Jan 26, 2012 05:21
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Oregon is what he told me as well, although I don't remember exactly where. I also don't know if he's still living with his parents or not -- God, I hope not. If he is, he probably expects his mother to do his laundry, and I'd hate to be washing the clothes of someone who wears a trenchcoat and full suit in all seasons.
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Jan 26, 2012 05:47
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Next time I'm in Portland you just point him out and I'll go all internet toughguy on him. I have a blackbelt in e-intimidation and carry a replica blunderbuss which I use to intimidate pilgrim cosplayers. His days of being a greasy, fedora-wearing supernerd are *over*!  (my days of being a greasy, stolen-fedora-wearing supergoon are just beginning!)
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Jan 26, 2012 05:57
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CuddleChunks posted:Next time I'm in Portland you just point him out and I'll go all internet toughguy on him. Hey now, that would violate the look-don't-touch policy.
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Jan 26, 2012 06:00
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The Bible posted:Ok, I've worn a trenchcoat for years now, and I had no idea it was considered such a terrible fashion mistake. Do I just need to throw it out? I just wear it like a regular coat, no katanas or fedoras or anything, and only when its cold enough to warrant wearing a coat. I will tell you this as the daughter of a seastress - most people can pull off any piece of clothing as long as it is tailored to fit them to a T. Rotty looks like a clown drowning in that piece. Take your coat to a tailor, and have them take it in where necessary. Hedera Helix posted:Hey now, that would violate the look-don't-touch policy.
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Oh my god. I just.... my brain hurts reading all these updates. Between Zandar and Rottweiler.... Though reading about creepers who are into anime, I am reminded again of people encountered in convention artist alleys. When I was a stupid teenager and before convention artist alleys were as hardcore business savvy as they tend to be now, I recall there being this fat 20-something year old dude who went around with wads of cash commissioning the same things from every artist who was willing to draw women. These things were: barefoot girls stuck in glue, and girls trapped in tight/restrictive clothing that they couldn't get out of. He would always stress to me about how the girls MUST be barefoot. My artist alley spoils as a teen were mostly in the commission area--- I was a fast (and not good, thus cheap) artist, and I'd take mountains of commissions over the course of the weekend. I rarely discriminated so long as it wasn't porn, and Glue Guy bought art from me for three years straight. He also tried to commission my girlfriend, who draws very cutesy things, and specified that it was okay if they looked underage. Anyway, I dropped out of the convention circuit for a multitude of stupid reasons (some of which related to Bird God friend), and laughed about the tales of Glue Guy for years. He kind of became a legendary joke story in my party conversation arsenal. Until I made some new friends from another art circle and discovered that not only was Glue Guy somewhat internet famous due to his weirdness and his youtube channel where he wanders conventions and talks to people, but also chased around naive underage cosplayer girls at conventions and often had them participate in his thinly veiled fetish videos. They're not sexually explicit and he doesn't touch anyone or anything, but the videos are pretty much girls going "oh help we're stuck! someone help us! ee!" and pretending to struggle. I was telling the story of convention crazies to my more recent friends and they had both looked at each other and looked back at me. One admitted when she was 13 or 14, was with her friend in a video he talked them into filming where they were "stuck" in glue. Claiming that it would go on his youtube channel with the rest of his videos, they were naive (and young) enough to go along with it. Same thing happened to the other friend, also very young. Videos never made it onto the channel, and it's creepy to imagine him getting his jollies to my then-underage pals. Apparently he also tried to pick up some of my friends as well (again, under age). Asked them out on dates. I perused his youtube account out of morbid curiosity, and found other videos of OTHER then-underage friends and acquaintances. He seriously tries to talk to like every underage girl he can get away with. Here's an example of one of his "shows", complete with opening animu sequence about Sakura or whatever her name is from Naruto being stuck in glue. on a funnier note, one year a guy at a con tried to hit on my girlfriend in the most awkward way possible. She's kind of dense sometimes and didn't realize it, but I was trying so hard not to laugh. Went like this: guy: hey, uh, I see you guys draw bishounen. You like bishounen, huh? gf: Oh, yeah, I guess so. guy: what would your ideal bishounen look like? gf: ... I dunno, um... guy: would he have black hair? Would he have glasses? *continues to describe himself* gf: *doesn't catch on until he starts describing his clothing* oh. OH. No! Um. No. No?
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Hey, trenchcoats have been fashionable for the last few years. Both the traditional ones that you wear over a suit and the new tighter, smaller ones you can wear as a coat. Hell, H&M sells them. The key is to not mistake one for the other, since the fit is totally different. Now, if it's a duster, that's a different story. The only possible place you should wear one of those is either as an extra on the Matrix or if you are actually a cowboy riding a horse.
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The Triumphant posted:If you wear it with a T-shirt you are an irredeemable waste, but as long as you only wear it with a dress shirt and tie, and only when it's cold or raining, go for it. I only really wear it to work in the winter and spring, and yeah, I'm in a white button-up shirt and tie. The tie is occasionally red or striped, if that matters. Wearing that thing in the summer or fall would be horribly uncomfortable. If it matters, its not a normal brown trenchcoat. It's black with gold buttons and a purple collar (that can be removed, if that is recommended.) I'm not sure what the material is, its a bit course and fuzzy. It does have a belt, but this being Korea, my wife always wants me to tie it behind me like a ribbon (Korean men's fashion is very... feminine), which I usually undo the moment I'm out of the house. On that note, I'm not Korean, but she is. If this is just atrocious, however, I'd like to know. I had my goony fashion years and am well past that now. The Bible fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Jan 26, 2012 |
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I thought Rottweiler swore up and down that his parents were... you know, that Batman thing?
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Jaded Mandarin posted:I thought Rottweiler swore up and down that his parents were... you know, that Batman thing? Dead? Nah, they just live upstairs.
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Jaded Mandarin posted:I thought Rottweiler swore up and down that his parents were... you know, that Batman thing?
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Fascinator posted:Actually, IIRC the guy made provision for that--if Washington's direct line died out, succession rights would move to the descendants of his relatives following primogeniture (siblings, uncles, cousins, etc). However, I don't think he expected Washington's line to, uh, never get started. Haha, I'm related to George Washington (through his brother). Unfortunately, I am a female so I will never be kinged. I guess it'll have to be my father. At least I'll get to be a princess!
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Antivehicular posted:I suppose it's not impossible that they might have gotten shot outside a movie theater sometime in the past decade -- I am very blessed in that I haven't talked to Rotty for almost ten years -- but when I knew him, they were very much alive, he lived with them, and he was pathologically angry at them for no reason he ever bothered to offer. Has he ever elaborated on his choice of username? I'm surprised it's not something like Antigonus Plautus John Paul XVI.
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The Bible posted:Ok, I've worn a trenchcoat for years now, and I had no idea it was considered such a terrible fashion mistake. Do I just need to throw it out? I just wear it like a regular coat, no katanas or fedoras or anything, and only when its cold enough to warrant wearing a coat. If you look more like this:  and not this:  You're fine.
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Oh my god I am/was one of the people who'd get written about in one of these threads. I... there... but... Is there a smiley for "I would give my left arm to go back in time five to ten years, slap the poo poo out of myself and my parents, and drag my rear end kicking and screaming to a psychiatrist"? Or how about one for "Holy poo poo, I live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere now and am poor as poo poo. Am I supposed to hitchhike my rear end to a shrink's office Edit unrelated to my apparent psychotic tomato in the mirror moment: I feel like I should tell the story of Researcher Sam, just to make myself feel better by comparison. Would that be lovely of me? girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jan 26, 2012 |
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Colon V posted:Edit unrelated to my apparent psychotic tomato in the mirror moment: I feel like I should tell the story of Researcher Sam, just to make myself feel better by comparison. Would that be lovely of me? Seriously, how many loving times do people have to post "Just tell the goddamn story"?
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Jaded Mandarin posted:Has he ever elaborated on his choice of username? I'm surprised it's not something like Antigonus Plautus John Paul XVI. A generic, meaningless handle sort of suits him well, though. I've been skimming the TV Tropes thread to catch up on his more recent "adventures," and it strikes me that he holds all sorts of Deep Convictions now that he never held when I knew him; obviously, these things can change for someone over time, and even in my day he had some uncomfortable White Man's Burden ideas going on, but a lot of the beliefs he espouses now are a 180 from what I knew about him. (For one thing, he certainly wasn't fixated on sex being only for procreation; for God's sake, he ran a soft-SF sex roleplaying room set at a resort where every employee was also a sex slave. Pretty sure nobody there was makin' a baby!) I lean towards the theory espoused in the TV Tropes thread at one point that Rotty really has no core personality or convictions, just a set of fetishes and prejudices that he dresses up in different coats to seem smart or become popular. A more specific handle would tie him down, but "Rottweiler" can be all things to all people, and in his time on the Internet he's probably come close to managing it. (Well, minus the things that rely on you not being totally slimy, of course.)
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Doot do doot do doot, molestor gadget OK, I honestly laughed out loud on that one. Nothing much to add to this thread, except for the fact that a local news site picked the elf portrait as the picture for someone who died in a "detox" mishap. I guess it's a good thing most weirdos mentioned in the thread have no entrepreneurial skills.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn Ho-lee-poo poo. When I saw his username I thought 'Why does that sound so familiar?' And then I realised - I actually know this guy. About 9 or 10 years ago, I was big into Yuu Yuu Hakusho, and I'd draw pictures of the main characters (g-rated, mostly just head-shots or full body shots with weapons and things) and post them on deviantart (all deleted now - it was terrible stuff from my notebooks when I was 13) and he would favourite and comment on every single one, saying how good they were. I went to his page, and boy was it a mess. This guy couldn't draw at all. I mean, I'm hardly an artist myself, but at 13, I was better than him, and that's saying something. Keep in mind that, back then, this guy was in his 20s, so he must be at least 30 now and he's still drawing like this. He hasn't improved in 10 years. I saw him a lot on livejournal as well, as he was often on the Yuu Yuu Hakusho community page posting his latest Sensui/Itsuki  fic and then complaining about yaoi fans in the same post. I never actually read any of his previous fics, but if they're anything like this story, then I'm quite glad that I haven't.
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Cream_Filling posted:Hey, trenchcoats have been fashionable for the last few years. Both the traditional ones that you wear over a suit and the new tighter, smaller ones you can wear as a coat. Hell, H&M sells them. The key is to not mistake one for the other, since the fit is totally different. Or if you're Harry Dresden.
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Corridor posted:Sorry, but where's the tvtropes thread? Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate (Also people should check out that first post, a veritable cornucopia of social maladjustants; chances are you'll recognize someone.
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Jaded Mandarin posted:I thought Rottweiler swore up and down that his parents were... you know, that Batman thing? They were born after 1950, so they're dead to him.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I can't help but see Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 
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FewtureMD posted:Or if you're Harry Dresden. No hats though.
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Grope-A-Matic posted:I can't help but see Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I personally saw Arthur Slugworth, but Judge Doom is a good match as well.
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FewtureMD posted:Or if you're Harry Dresden. But it's mentioned frequently that he dresses like a horrible nerd stereotype, with a duster and sweatpants, of all things. And he is given a fedora on the cover of a lot of these books, which just makes things worse.
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the kawaiiest posted:I said handsome prince. My heart is broken but I will forever be watching you. From over there, in the bushes. I really don't get the whole fedora/trenchcoat thing. What exactly is the appeal for it? Is it something that is a common enough trope that people think it turns them into some sort of stylish, debonaire loner?
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Sloober posted:My heart is broken but I will forever be watching you. From over there, in the bushes. Humphrey Bogart and pretty much every hard-boiled, rough-around-the-edges-but-still-badass detective from film noir are responsible for this. I can't find the picture, but there's a particular image of a horrible, fat nerd wearing a fedora with a tie, a shirt, jorts and sandals and it just epitomizes the whole thing in one single, horrible illustration. (other than Rottweiler's pictures, obviously)
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Hedera Helix posted:But it's mentioned frequently that he dresses like a horrible nerd stereotype, with a duster and sweatpants, of all things. And he is given a fedora on the cover of a lot of these books, which just makes things worse. I think its a massive stetson he has on the front of some of the books. Which confuses the heck out of me cause the character is constantly saying he would never wear a hat. Dresden IS a massive nerd, also. His magic comes from tons of boring study, he's bad at quick magic, he plays DnD, loves the big coat because he thinks it makes him look cool and swishy. The author also being a massive nerd probably doesn't help people realize this though. Dresden is cool, but super awkward and your average stereotype loser nerd, deep down. This, plus his attitudes to women, would probably make him perfect for this thread, thinking about it.
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