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loquacius posted:Speaking as a guy who's had like four Homestuck avatars I don't think there's a whole lot of overlap between Homestuck fans (largely Tumblr snowflakes) and bronies (largely Reddit neckbeards). It's a coincidence, in other words. I always thought bronies sprung from the deepest depths of 4chan (then again there's plenty of overlap between the two sites).
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What's cool about the guy is that he did a kickstarter for some game and then was able to divest his worthless fanbase of about $2 million before disappearing into the aether.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:37
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can someone post like a cool or funny Homestuck. Like the Loss of Homestuck.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:39
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I always thought bronies sprung from the deepest depths of 4chan (then again there's plenty of overlap between the two sites). Don't kid yourself, TVIV had a very active ponies thread until everybody got sick of bronies being unable to shut the gently caress about ponies even in other subforums and threads.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:39
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I'm so sad I'm late to VT chat. I'll just add that I shook Pat Leahy's hand in 1974. One of us had a tie-dye shirt and hair like Mr. Kidd from "Diamonds Are Forever." (I was 9)
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Jul 15, 2014 17:40
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Pope Guilty posted:Don't kid yourself, TVIV had a very active ponies thread until everybody got sick of bronies being unable to shut the gently caress about ponies even in other subforums and threads. It had a very active thread for like two days until a literal child molester decided it was too creepy for even him and banned ponies forever.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:41
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euphronius posted:can someone post like a cool or funny Homestuck. Like the Loss of Homestuck. There was the one where the fans got really mad that the creator let slip that his apparently-aracial characters were actually white, and he responded by having one of them say "I FEEL SO CAUCASIAN" in big flashing block letters and then he got Tumblred at so hard that he had to change it in the archives, does that count? No individual Homestuck panel is really particularly funny without context, either in-comic context (since it's incredibly self-referential which is a large part of why I liked it) or horrible-fandom context. zoux posted:It had a very active thread for like two days until a literal child molester decided it was too creepy for even him and banned ponies forever. Wait, Aatrek was behind the ponyban? I did not know that. That's hilarious.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:46
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Oh, andzoux posted:What's cool about the guy is that he did a kickstarter for some game and then was able to divest his worthless fanbase of about $2 million before disappearing into the aether. The game is apparently still happening and it's apparently why he hasn't made any comic in like a year. He signed on a real honest-to-God game developer company and everything. No news on whether it's any good or will be delivered on-time or under-budget or whatever, but it's still moving forward.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:47
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zoux posted:What's cool about the guy is that he did a kickstarter for some game and then was able to divest his worthless fanbase of about $2 million before disappearing into the aether. tell me more
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Jul 15, 2014 17:47
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loquacius posted:LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK
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Jul 15, 2014 17:51
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loquacius posted:The game is apparently still happening and it's apparently why he hasn't made any comic in like a year. He signed on a real honest-to-God game developer company and everything. No news on whether it's any good or will be delivered on-time or under-budget or whatever, but it's still moving forward. Even if the game is decent, expectations will be so disproportionately high that people probably won't care for it anyway.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:52
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Thanatosian posted:Wait, what? Yeah, that requires some more tumblr.txt to satisfy my curiosity.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:55
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Chantilly Say posted:Yeah, that requires some more tumblr.txt to satisfy my curiosity. In retrospect, that might have just been rumor from the goons in the MSPA thread in BSS trying to figure out why he was taking a break to move to a new place for a second time in like three months. Sorry guys 
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Jul 15, 2014 18:03
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Someone posted a crying Palestinian kid who lost his whole family in the D&D Images thread and I've been super depressed ever since I saw it. 
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Jul 15, 2014 18:03
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loquacius posted:The "search" page on the site is literally just a dump of all the text in the comic with links to the pages it's from, so you can CTRL+F through it to find what you're looking for. It had to be split up into multiple pages because it kept crashing people's browsers with the sheer quantity of text. This is one of the changes we're making to improve server stability.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:08
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razorrozar posted:Someone posted a crying Palestinian kid who lost his whole family in the D&D Images thread and I've been super depressed ever since I saw it. I hope you at least don't have Facebook friends who constantly put up Hasbara bullshit. I'm taking a break from confronting them simply because I'm otherwise not getting anything done and I've already exhausted all my arguments.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:22
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I hope you at least don't have Facebook friends who constantly put up Hasbara bullshit. I'm taking a break from confronting them simply because I'm otherwise not getting anything done and I've already exhausted all my arguments. God they keep having Ron Dermer on NPR in the mornings and he drives me up the wall. 20 million people in bomb shelters, yeah I bet.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:24
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I hope you at least don't have Facebook friends who constantly put up Hasbara bullshit. I'm taking a break from confronting them simply because I'm otherwise not getting anything done and I've already exhausted all my arguments. I don't use Facebook at all anymore, anyone I really want to keep up with has my phone number. Part of the reason I don't is because of idiots like that posting stuff they don't understand and won't even try to understand. That picture just really brought how bad the situation over there is home to me. I wish there was some kind of Palestinian relief effort I could join.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:28
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zoux posted:It had a very active thread for like two days until a literal child molester decided it was too creepy for even him and banned ponies forever. Lol I would love to see that.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:33
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zoux posted:Everytime I hear some politician or public official use the term "disconnect" as a noun as in "there's a disconnect between thing a and thing b" I literally gnash my teeth. Orwell's essay on politics and the English language should be etched into the inside of the eyelids of everyone who talks or writes about politics. In short, write like a normal human, don't use fancy new words for existing concepts and avoid passive voice. Unfortunately, about 80% of all political bloggers and writers would be fired if these rules were instituted, so the bad habits proliferate.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:36
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ReindeerF posted:Optics is mine. What a stupid loving word. Also every lazy, clubby loving Aussie type nickname for something like "lege" (legislature), "spox" (spokesman/woman) and so on. Aussies are the worst about dumb slang. My favorite is AC/DC, the only Australian band, is referred to as Acka Dacka, or just Dacka.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:42
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ReindeerF posted:Optics is mine. What a stupid loving word. Also every lazy, clubby loving Aussie type nickname for something like "lege" (legislature), "spox" (spokesman/woman) and so on. I actually like "optics". Anybody uses that term, and they're basically signalling to you most helpfully that they don't care about substance, only about how things are perceived.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:43
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It's almost like jargon is a part of every field ever everywhere.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:43
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XyloJW posted:Aussies are the worst about dumb slang. My favorite is AC/DC, the only Australian band, is referred to as Acka Dacka, or just Dacka. I dunno, I learned eskie lidder a few weeks ago and that one's kinda cool.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:47
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Are they the ones that call everything Legend or is that Kiwis. I was sour on Australia for a while but then all that Gary the Goat poo poo started coming out and well
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Jul 15, 2014 18:51
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for the longest time ive been wishing there was a thread where in one page i could read people complaining about both homestuck AND hasbara. thank you, debate disco, for obliging.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:52
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XyloJW posted:Aussies are the worst about dumb slang. My favorite is AC/DC, the only Australian band, is referred to as Acka Dacka, or just Dacka. what the gently caress this is almost as great a crime as their policy on asylum seekers e: zoux posted:Are they the ones that call everything Legend or is that Kiwis. i work with an australian guy and he's said "thanks mate you're a legend" to me several times so it must be the aussies
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Jul 15, 2014 18:55
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Hahah I've never seen this before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvu0WEYNGiY
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Jul 15, 2014 18:58
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zoux posted:Hahah I've never seen this before. Literally wish our public sector unions were more like that.
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Jul 15, 2014 19:02
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Pope Guilty posted:It's almost like jargon is a part of every field ever everywhere.  Every time John Dickerson opens his mouth I want to die inside is what I'm saying. XyloJW posted:Aussies are the worst about dumb slang. My favorite is AC/DC, the only Australian band, is referred to as Acka Dacka, or just Dacka. ARVO PRESO DEFO MATE EDIT: ME AND SHAZZA ARE LISTENIN TO BARNESY AND ACADAC THEN I'M TAKIN' ER BACK TO MY UTE FER A ROOT. EDIT EDIT: Actually it's not fair to pin bogan slang on the whole country, but that poo poo about hacking off everything after the first syllable and replacing it with an O is a national shame. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 19:04
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ReindeerF posted:You're not in the field, that's the thing, and neither are the reporters. They just want to sound XyloJW posted:hey soag, i appreciate the slang lessons, but i've already learned all australian slang, because i've been listening to you morons talk for like a year now Sulla-Marius 88 posted:hey sooooag i appreshiate the slang lessos mate but oive alreddy gorn and lerned all da ozza slozza cozzoive bin listnin to youse morans tork fu a fuggen yeeer now mate Sulla-Marius 88 posted:nah m8 lemme tell youse a little somefin about aussie slang orrite
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Jul 15, 2014 19:25
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XyloJW posted:The last time I discussed slang with auspol: I refuse to believe that this is anything but the absolute truth about Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA
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Jul 15, 2014 19:34
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This is the best British making fun of former colonies video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZjwCmJrnlY
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Jul 15, 2014 19:38
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All the Francophone word endings in English got added during the Victorian era, which is why Americans don't write "centre", "colour", "labour", etc.ReindeerF posted:Optics is mine. What a stupid loving word. Also every lazy, clubby loving Aussie type nickname for something like "lege" (legislature), "spox" (spokesman/woman) and so on. How do you feel about "lede", "graf", and "hed"?
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Jul 15, 2014 19:38
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I refuse to believe that this is anything but the absolute truth about Australia: my favorite australia fact is that they just sort of lost a prime minister. misplaced him. he went swimming and never came back. and australian reaction to this was to the tune of "well i told bruce those rips down bargywallo would be the death of him, but see if he ever listened."
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Jul 15, 2014 19:44
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I refuse to believe that this is anything but the absolute truth about Australia: Joementum posted:All the Francophone word endings in English got added during the Victorian era, which is why Americans don't write "centre", "colour", "labour", etc. Joementum posted:How do you feel about "lede", "graf", and "hed"?
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Jul 15, 2014 19:46
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Wait is lede short for something?
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Jul 15, 2014 19:47
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Not in any meaningful way, no. Even if you just said "lead" it would make sense. It's the worst kind of jargon.
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Jul 15, 2014 19:48
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paranoid randroid posted:my favorite australia fact is that they just sort of lost a prime minister. misplaced him. he went swimming and never came back. and australian reaction to this was to the tune of "well i told bruce those rips down bargywallo would be the death of him, but see if he ever listened." Haha quote:No official federal government inquiry was conducted, on the grounds that it would have been a waste of time and money. Neither was an inquest held at the time because Victorian law did not provide any mechanism for reporting presumed or suspected deaths to the Victorian Coroner. However, the Commonwealth and Victoria Police compiled a 108-page report into the disappearance, including statements from all eyewitnesses and details of the search operation.[10]
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Even the Warren Commission put in more effort than that.
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