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zoux posted:People used to name black cats and dogs that all the time back in the day. I didn't realize they made memorials for war dogs, I guess it isn't really a surprise but 
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Oh, that's right, there's one in Call of the Wild too. I never really made the connection.
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Jul 24, 2014 21:53
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zoux posted:People used to name black cats and dogs that all the time back in the day. Back in the day? My neighbors across the street from us named their dog that back in the mid 90's. Then again, this is still rural Maryland.
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StandardVC10 posted:I didn't realize they made memorials for war dogs, I guess it isn't really a surprise but Careful some of those dogs are racists.
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zoux posted:People used to name black cats and dogs that all the time back in the day. i was reading an HP lovecraft story a few days ago and the main character's cat was named friend of the family Man 
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Jul 24, 2014 22:05
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razorrozar posted:I know, but I don't have to agree with his ideology to enjoy his work. zoux posted:People used to name black cats and dogs that all the time back in the day. baw posted:i was reading an HP lovecraft story a few days ago and the main character's cat was named friend of the family Man
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Jul 24, 2014 22:08
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baw posted:i was reading an HP lovecraft story a few days ago and the main character's cat was named friend of the family Man That is literally exactly what we're talking about. Pay closer attention, please.
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Jul 24, 2014 22:08
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There 100% will be a "dear black people" article at the very least.
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Jul 24, 2014 22:12
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pangstrom posted:There 100% will be a "dear black people" article at the very least. Or you could just watch more or less every piece of art or media about black people created by white people. But that article will end with "and pull up your pants".
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Jul 24, 2014 22:13
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well i guess the chat thread has run its course
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Jul 24, 2014 22:22
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razorrozar posted:I do love me some HP Lovecraft. The first thing I downloaded for my Kindle Fire was The Complete HP Lovecraft, since it's public domain. Most of the stuff he wrote is terrible. I mean, there are some diamonds in the rough there, but it was a slog getting through the first third or so of it, which is all I could manage.
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Jul 24, 2014 22:49
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:There's this one professional critic on RT that always starts every review off with "Well I'm a conservative and here's what I think". I'm sure there are a ton of people that do that but she's the only professional critic I've seen review movies completely through a political prism. The best review I ever read on Rotten Tomatoes was for The Expendables, and it was "it's like if Soldier of Fortune Magazine made pornography." For some reason, RT counted that as a negative review.
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Jul 24, 2014 22:50
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Thanatosian posted:The first thing I downloaded for my Kindle Fire was The Complete HP Lovecraft, since it's public domain. Was it in chronological order? His early stuff isn't what he's famous for at all (although I can totally understand why someone would hate even his best material) I also once read a book about pugs that talked about a 19th-century black pug named friend of the family, and I was shocked that something so offensive made it into a book published in the 90s.
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Thanatosian posted:The first thing I downloaded for my Kindle Fire was The Complete HP Lovecraft, since it's public domain.
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R. Mute posted:lovecraft has the same problem as many other famous writers - he had good ideas and knew how to get you interested, but the writing itself? eeehhhh. i haven't read tolkien, but supposedly it's the same with him Tolkein's problem is more that 5 million things have ripped him off since the books were published, so anyone going back to read them quickly gets frustrated or bored by things that come off as super-cliche and overdone simply because every hack attempt at fantasy uses it.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Tolkein's problem is more that 5 million things have ripped him off since the books were published, so anyone going back to read them quickly gets frustrated or bored by things that come off as super-cliche and overdone simply because every hack attempt at fantasy uses it. Seinfeld has the same problem. Groundbreaking humor then, old hat now.
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Jul 24, 2014 23:14
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Also, Lord of the Rings was written over a very long time and its tone at the beginning is significantly different from how it is at the end.
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You can basically only tolerate the full weight of a Tolkein-esque fantasy set up and story a few times in your life before it gets repetitive, and so actual Tolkein tends to make you want to skim by if you've grown up after like the 50s.
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Nintendo Kid posted:You can basically only tolerate the full weight of a Tolkein-esque fantasy set up and story a few times in your life before it gets repetitive, and so actual Tolkein tends to make you want to skim by if you've grown up after like the 50s. My dad made sure I read Tolkien very young, so I managed to escape that trap, at least.
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Jul 24, 2014 23:30
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Don't forget the dog from The Dam Busters. Which is basically preventing the movie from being remade, because A: it's historically the dog's name, and B: you know the end scene from the trench run in Star Wars.
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Every time I see this thread title I imagine that "experimental chat" refers not to an experiment where we have a general chat thread in D&D, but is a thread where new ground is being broken in the study of online conversation, like you're inventing advanced forms of Socratic Seminar or new Dialectics.
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I don't know whether this Israel-Palestine polling should make me happy or sad, given the influence of AIPAC in American politics:  Also interesting to note how people are more pro-Israel, the higher the level of education. Blame Alan Dershowitz.
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ufarn posted:Also interesting to note how people are more pro-Israel, the higher the level of education. Blame Alan Dershowitz.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Every time I see this thread title I imagine that "experimental chat" refers not to an experiment where we have a general chat thread in D&D, but is a thread where new ground is being broken in the study of online conversation, like you're inventing advanced forms of Socratic Seminar or new Dialectics.
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Nice jump there for baby booming white men.
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Dreylad posted:
Mark Twain posted:The old vagrant 'Bummer' is really dead at last; and although he was always more respected than his obsequious vassal, the dog 'Lazarus,' his exit has not made half as much stir in the newspaper world as signalised the departure of the latter. I think it is because he died a natural death: died with friends around him to smooth his pillow and wipe the death-damps from his brow, and receive his last words of love and resignation; because he died full of years, and honor, and disease, and fleas. He was permited to die a natural death, as I have said, but poor Lazarus 'died with his boots on' - which is to say, he lost his life by violence; he gave up the ghost mysteriously, at dead of night, with none to cheer his last moments or soothe his dying pains. So the murdered dog was canonized in the newspapers, his shortcomings excused and his virtues heralded to the world; but his superior, parting with his life in the fullness of time, and in the due course of nature, sinks as quietly as might the mangiest cur among us. Well, let him go. In earlier days he was courted and caressed; but latterly he has lost his comeliness - his dignity had given place to a want of self-respect, which allowed him to practice mean deceptions to regain for a moment that sympathy and notice which had become necessary to his very existence, and it was evident to all that the dog had had his day; his great popularity was gone forever. In fact, Bummer should have died sooner: there was a time when his death would have left a lasting legacy of fame to his name. Now, however, he will be forgotten in a few days. Bummer's skin is to be stuffed and placed with that of Lazarus.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Nice jump there for baby booming white men. Was going to point that out. "gently caress Boomers" seems to come up a lot in DnD.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Every time I see this thread title I imagine that "experimental chat" refers not to an experiment where we have a general chat thread in D&D, but is a thread where new ground is being broken in the study of online conversation, like you're inventing advanced forms of Socratic Seminar or new Dialectics. So wait is this Advanced D&D or D&D Next?
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VikingofRock posted:So wait is this Advanced D&D or D&D Next?
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razorrozar posted:Was going to point that out. Well yeah boomers in general are a bunch of greedy, hateful poo poo wads.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Well yeah boomers in general are a bunch of greedy, hateful poo poo wads. #notallboomers
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DemeaninDemon posted:Well yeah boomers in general are a bunch of greedy, hateful poo poo wads. I was merely observing, not disagreeing.  My parents are both tail-end Boomers and they're good people so it's not universal, but by and large, gently caress Boomers. e: ABSURD 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:#notallboomers Agreed. Anything more than 5' 10" or so is just asking for trouble at that age.
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razorrozar posted:e: ABSURD  Joementum posted:Agreed. Anything more than 5' 10" or so is just asking for trouble at that age.  (My Dad is tall and has back problems.  )
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I never was really sure about where to classify my parents on the generational spectrum like they were born in the mid-late 50s, but only came to the U.S. in the 1980s, dad graduated from university in 1984 and then grad school in 1988 so I was never sure whether to call him a Boomer or X-er
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Boomer or X-er What is his position on ratty flannel shirts?
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Captain_Maclaine posted:What is his position on ratty flannel shirts? he wears a polo and jeans every day
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Captain_Maclaine posted:What is his position on ratty flannel shirts? This is not an effective determinant of age for Mainers.
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