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bringmyfishback posted:Hats 1, 2 and 4 That STDH was a lot more entertaining when it was about three numbered pigs released on a college campus.
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It's weird being old enough to remember when metal was popular among tough dirtbags and "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" types instead of being exclusively listened to by giant nerds I wonder how the bands from back then that are still touring feel about the change in their audience
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Hardcordion posted:That STDH was a lot more entertaining when it was about three numbered pigs released on a college campus. I liked it when not too long ago, Archie comics used it to sneak in a pretty surprising reference. Jughead brought in Goats labeled A, B, and D to school (they were abbreviations of names, not organized by letter) and the staff then spent the day looking for "Goat C" including Mr. Weatherbee bent over in the bushes with his rear facing us while talking about it.
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Sep 27, 2016 18:22
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tacodaemon posted:It's weird being old enough to remember when metal was popular among tough dirtbags and "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" types instead of being exclusively listened to by giant nerds Considering that Trey of Morbid Angel specifically thanks Simon Belmont and the cast of Ranma 1/2 in his liner notes I don't think this is as new a demographic shift at it may seem
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Sep 27, 2016 18:39
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Power metal bands have been writing fantasy themes into their songs since the mid-1980s. Topical STDH 
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tacodaemon posted:It's weird being old enough to remember when metal was popular among tough dirtbags and "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" types instead of being exclusively listened to by giant nerds As one of the people listening to metal in those days... we were massive nerds then, we were just overcompensating.
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Sep 27, 2016 19:40
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Everyone knows real badasses listen to ska.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As one of the people listening to metal in those days... we were massive nerds then, we were just overcompensating. You'd be hard pressed to find a kid in 1984 with an Iron Maiden collection that wasn't also a level 20 Magic User or Barbarian with a +5 broadsword.
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CannedMacabre posted:Oh boy! Hot drat, managed to show off her awesome nails, her huge diamond ring, her cool gun, and how badass she is all at once. This is one efficient STDH writer.
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CannedMacabre posted:You'd be hard pressed to find a kid in 1984 with an Iron Maiden collection that wasn't also a level 20 Magic User or Barbarian with a +5 broadsword. I like metal now, and I'm a nerd (said the sa poster, surprising nobody. However, Metal in its early days catered to a working class audience. The angsty teens came later.
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Dreddout posted:Everyone knows real badasses listen to ska. Thems fighting words.
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Studentquote:This troper is a 16 year old law school student and he routinely forgets to bring his textbooks to school and is also a Cloud Cuckoo Lander. He's also walked into the wrong class because he was on the third floor instead of the fourth. Award quote:This troper has, like many of the other tropers who posted before me, that peculiar combination of genius-level IQ and Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny. 4.0 GPA throughout high school, 1600 out of 1600 on the SAT. And yet... let me tell you a little story. I sang in the men's choir at my college, and this particular choir has an award called the "Bonehead Award". While many of the Bonehead Award nomination stories are... embellished for the sake of good storytelling, let us say... there remains a fundamental reason why anyone gets a Bonehead Award nomination. Did I get nominated often? Yes. Did I win the award often? Yes. But there's more. It has now been over eight years since this troper graduated from college and left the choir. But the choir's Bonehead Award now has a new name. It is now the ________ Memorial Bonehead Award, and that name has remained to this day. That's right, I've had an award for boneheadedness actually named after me. :-) (And I think I just gave enough information for anyone else from that college to identify me. If you just read this and know who I am, contact me at (myrealfirstname.myreallastname@gmail.com) — I'd be interested to know of other tropers who went to my college). Meows quote:Eddie Van Helsing: He plays the guitar and violin, can pick up new tunes by ear or from sight-reading, learns new programming languages with a week and a good manual, writes sci-fi to entertain his wife, has a head full of obscure references, reads 500+ page novels in a single night — and consistently misplaces both his glasses and his hairbrush. And he meows at telemarketers. Message quote:At one message board, a new user pretended to be a female porn star. As you can probably imagine, this ploy wasn't exactly believed as credible and at best the other users merely humored "her" believing it to be akin to a somewhat creepy fantasy role play - except for some reason "she" managed to convince the board administrators who then pretty much decided to enforce their belief into "her" authenticity upon everyone, and assured new users that "she" was the genuine article. Until yet another new user, claiming to be a "friend" of the "real" porn star persona came on and the two started duking it out. Neither persona was validated and both were banned, but the damage was done, the admins were mocked and made total fools of, and the message board pretty much imploded from that point. Forum quote:This was inverted on a fan forum dedicated to The Matrix that I used to frequent. A woman started posting under a male identity (unknown to most users), then eventually joined the forum as herself, but continued to post (and even roleplay on the local forum RPG) under both nicknames. Eventually "he" became an administrator, but I suspected something was amiss long before The Reveal, given that "he" was conspicuously absent from all real-life administration meetings while she was present, and not much was known about him, not even his real name, while the other administrators were quite open about their names and appearance - not to mention how he was gushing over her when she first joined). Finally, the administrators revealed the deception, causing some users to leave in disgust. Woman quote:This troper has had a reliably good track record detecting GIR Ls (but possibly not perfect,) and anytime I've confided that I suspected, it's always come back to me that it was confirmed. But I don't get hung up on it really; RL is irrelevant to good RP, and if the RP sucks it doesn't matter what their gender is anyway, so I simply treat them as the character they present. One girl confessed when it was too soon for me to tell that she was actually pre-op transexual, and yet I couldn't see her as anything other than a girl, nor could my gf at the time, who she also confessed to. Not once did she register on our radars as a GIRL, so maybe she really was a woman trapped in a man's body. I later met her irl and she certainly looked, moved and most importantly smelled like a woman.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Thems fighting words. Beat it, nerdlinger! Ska 4 lyfe! *toots horn at you*
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Khazar-khum posted:Student OK  Khazar-khum posted:Meows I prefer to sleep.
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quote:Forum This one actually happened on an RP board I used to frequent years ago, though not with admins. There were two users who purported to be a lesbian couple from Ireland, and posted pictures of "themselves" in the selfie thread. They often went on the chat at the same time, with the girls "switching off" at the keyboard when necessary. Eventually, some suspicious behavior got noticed (they always went offline at the same time) and someone did a search on the pictures they posted of themselves. The staff found that the pics were taken off an unrelated girl's Myspace. More digging into usernames and the names of the characters "they" used found connections to the Gaia profile of a man, and they talked to Gaia users and found that content was stolen off other Gaia profiles and RP characters for the ones on this board. The girls got questioned about it via PMs, and the staff noticed how both used the same IP address from Washington DC and were switching off too fast to plausibly be two people. Eventually they were able to identify exactly which person was pretending to be a lesbian couple, since he had connected his Facebook to Gaia, and gave him a permaban. Everyone generally felt really skeeved out, since they had formed friendships with "these girls".
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Sep 28, 2016 13:48
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That's a great troper impression you got there
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Reminds me of this episode a few years back:quote:In the guise of Paula Brooks, Graber corresponded online with Tom MacMaster, thinking he was writing to Amina Arraf. Amina often flirted with Brooks, neither of the men realizing the other was pretending to be a lesbian. http://gawker.com/5811566/lesbian-editor-who-published-fake-lesbian-blogger-also-fake
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Found the thread. This is where the staff made the announcement that the "pair" were banned. I haven't been active on there in probably 4 or 5 years? It was surreal coming back after a long period of inactivity and looking at the announcements of all the people who got banned, allowed back in, and banned again while I was gone.
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Khazar-khum posted:Woman  jesus christ tropers
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jesus christ tropers [/quote] We don't know the author's sex in that story right? The troper says "girlfriend" but there aren't more clues that I've missed? Asking for a bizarre research reason...
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This made me think of Al Pacino's character as a poo poo poster on some anime forum. Thank you for that,since it was a hilarious mental image.
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Non Serviam posted:This made me think of Al Pacino's character as a poo poo poster on some anime forum. Thank you for that,since it was a hilarious mental image. Nothing so cinematic, I'm afraid. A friend is doing some research related to this: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/npe/9/2/89/
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Sep 28, 2016 18:33
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Hot drat, managed to show off her awesome nails, her huge diamond ring, her cool gun, and how badass she is all at once. This is one efficient STDH writer. Don't forget a little bit o' hip for the sex appeal.
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Non Serviam posted:I like metal now, and I'm a nerd (said the sa poster, surprising nobody. You're ignoring Iron Maiden's love of Doctor Who, and references to other sci-fi and Led Zeppelin's referencing Tolkien.
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This is like if the 700 club started talking about deep web hacking. All that would be needed would be the OP finding Jesus and giving it all up afterwards.
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Sep 29, 2016 01:44
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shit_that_didnt_happen.txt: Former Deep Web Hackers ITT
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It's really hard to tell because it's written by such a total ninny, but let me see if I have this straight. This guy was browsing the And then he decides the best course of action, when he finds out that he might be hunted by one or more professional killers, is to hack their mainframe, backtrace their IP, and show up at their house to demand an explanation? With two friends and a pocket knife as protection? What kind of imaginary heavy poo poo is this guy imaginarily into? Does he have any idea how much a contract killing costs?
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Just add a few "no wait, actually..." self-corrections and this would read almost exactly like those guys who verbally make up STDH on the spot.
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Dreddout posted:Everyone knows real badasses listen to ska. "It's like a bunch of crows. SKAAAAAAAAAAA!"
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Mr. Belpit posted:Just add a few "no wait, actually..." self-corrections and this would read almost exactly like those guys who verbally make up STDH on the spot. The last part with the car, knife, mailbox, window and slashed tires is completely incoherent. It's like he wanted a movie ending, with a car chase, gunshots and cops, but couldn't figure out how to make it seem plausible.
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He couldn't figure out how to make the start plausible either.
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I guess it's not surprising that a "deep web hacker" wouldn't know the difference between the deep web (websites that aren't indexed by search engines) and the dark web (networks that are only available via "alternate" browsers, like Tor).
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Whenever you have people bragging about being hackers and doing a lot of illegal activity, you can pretty much discard the whole thing. Turns out a criminal that doesn't want to go to jail doesn't engage in the whole "let me confess" thing.walrusman posted:Does he have any idea how much a contract killing costs? I will match prices.
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Non Serviam posted:Whenever you have people bragging about being hackers and doing a lot of illegal activity, you can pretty much discard the whole thing. Turns out a criminal that doesn't want to go to jail doesn't engage in the whole "let me confess" thing. To be fair, there are two kinds of criminals: those who play it close to the chest and don't get caught, and those that think a lengthy rap sheet is a list of references. This "deep web hacker" is neither for sure.
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Non Serviam posted:Whenever you have people bragging about being hackers and doing a lot of illegal activity, you can pretty much discard the whole thing. Turns out a criminal that doesn't want to go to jail doesn't engage in the whole "let me confess" thing. Right now, I am running a BOGO special. And ask us about our spacial FAMILY RATE! (Customer's choice - Katana or Desert Eagle .50 on all hits.) Also, for our discerning customers, we have the "Over-Elaborate Ironic Death Trap Club".
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I've been really disappointed with professional killing recently. It just seems like most hitman lost that creative spark (if they even had it) and only do it make money. I get that people have to eat, but they should be doing it because it's what they love to do.
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pssshhht! A romantic!
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MizPiz posted:I've been really disappointed with professional killing recently. It just seems like most hitman lost that creative spark (if they even had it) and only do it make money. I get that people have to eat, but they should be doing it because it's what they love to do. You should read the modesty blaise story currently running in the comic strip megathread.
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