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cptn_dr: Sep 7, 2011; Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies

Which if the internet has taught me anything, is something to do with ponies

# ? Aug 14, 2017 06:48

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# ? May 21, 2024 01:14

Panamaniac: Jun 18, 2007; HEROES NEVER DIE

Tonight I noticed that if John Cena lost the majority of his muscle mass, he would look like James (who was always cool).

# ? Aug 14, 2017 07:14

MullardEL34: Sep 30, 2008; Basking in the cathode glow

Solice Kirsk posted:

Cole's phone wasn't plugged in for his call to Lucy. What could this mean?!

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the phone wasn't unplugged. Hotel phones usually have a "data" port on the side that a business/80's time traveler could use to connect a modem or portable fax machine without having to reach down and unplug the phone from the wall. They're basically useless now but almost every hotel phone I've used recently still has one.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 07:22

Eyud: Aug 5, 2006

Basticle posted:

http://i.imgur.com/lUU6QMh.gifv

Fantastic.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 07:37

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Basticle posted:

http://i.imgur.com/lUU6QMh.gifv

OB_Juan posted:

From facebook:

R.L. Stine posted:

# ? Aug 14, 2017 07:43

Perhaps a hamster: Jun 15, 2010

cptn_dr posted:

I thought she said "A Tulpa".

She definitely did.

And the shouting FBI guy was Stan the Man from Mad Men, who's great, and I hope he shows up again.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 07:58

Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Franchescanado posted:

It's still neat that Coop went through the outlet during episode 3 and the eyeless woman went through it on episode 15.

this was episode 14

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:00

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

I suck at memes. Can someone who is good combine Freddie with Fred Savage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AacoxHFYvZw
thanks.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:10

Cephas: May 11, 2009; Humanity's real enemy is me!
Hya hya foowah!

From what I've read, the "tulpa" thing is super Mark Frosty. In the 1800s there was a female French explorer named Alexandra David-N�el, who wrote about Tibetan Buddhist practices in a book called With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet. This old source seems to be where the more recent internet trend of "tulpamancers" creating imaginary friends comes from, and where the paranormal archetype of an "imaginary friend going berserk" comes from. As far as I can tell, it's a book that completely misses the point of vajrayana visualization practices, but makes for great fodder for supernatural thrillers.

quote:

I could hardly deny the possibility of visualizing and animating a tulpa. Besides having had few opportunities of seeing thought-forms, my habitual incredulity led me to make experiments for myself, and my efforts were attended with some success. In order to avoid being influenced by the forms of the lamaist deities, which I saw daily around me in paintings and images, I chose for my experiment a most insignificant character: a monk, short and fat, of an innocent and jolly type.

I shut myself in tsams and proceeded to perform the prescribed concentration of thought and other rites. After a few months the phantom monk was formed. His form grew gradually fixed and life-like looking. He became a kind of guest, living in my apartment. I then broke my seclusion and started for a tour, with my servants and tents.

The monk included himself in the party. Though I lived in the open riding on horseback for miles each day, the illusion persisted. I saw the fat trapa, now and then it was not necessary for me to think of him to make him appear. The phantom performed various actions of the kind that are natural to travellers and that I had not commanded. For instance, he walked, stopped, looked around him. The illusion was mostly visual, but sometimes I felt as if a robe was lightly rubbing against me and once a hand seemed to touch my shoulder.

The features which I had imagined, when building my phantom, gradually underwent a change. The fat, chubby-cheeked fellow grew leaner, his face assumed a vaguely mocking, sly, malignant look. He became more troublesome and bold. In brief, he escaped my control.

Once, a herdsman who brought me a present of butter saw the tulpa in my tent and took it for a live lama.

I ought to have let the phenomenon follow its course, but the presence of that unwanted companion began to prove trying to my nerves; it turned into a �daynightmare.� Moreover, I was beginning to plan my journey to Lhasa and needed a quiet brain devoid of other preoccupations, so I decided to dissolve the phantom. I succeeded, but only after six months of hard struggle. My mind-creature was tenacious of life.

This reminds me a lot of the way that MIKE and the Evolution of the Arm interact with Dougie, appearing to him somewhere between actually existing and only existing in his mind's eye.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:15

And More: Jun 19, 2013; How far, Doctor?
How long have you lived?

Cephas posted:

This reminds me a lot of the way that MIKE and the Evolution of the Arm interact with Dougie, appearing to him somewhere between actually existing and only existing in his mind's eye.

So, in a way, when MIKE helps Cooper, it's his way of saying "mea tulpa". :downsrim:

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:28

FSFunky: Aug 13, 2004; it's only falling in love because you hit the ground

And More posted:

So, in a way, when MIKE helps Cooper, it's his way of saying "mea tulpa".

Thanks, now we have to cancel Twin Peaks because this pun will not stand.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:39

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

andy is very booper

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:40

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

complete with solving poo poo by total accident and being 'tarded

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:41

MullardEL34: Sep 30, 2008; Basking in the cathode glow

Baloogan posted:

complete with solving poo poo by total accident and being 'tarded

You mean Dougie, right?

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:47

hepscat: Jan 16, 2005; Avenging Nun

I didn't read the spoilers last week but imagine how insane they must have sounded. Andy visits the White Lodge and takes charge of making the eyeless lady safe. Sarah Palmer pulls her face off and eats a guy in a bar. Some new dude has a rubber glove he can't take off that can smash anything. What the gently caress.

CJacobs posted:

lol

This subtle masterpiece made me laugh out loud.

hepscat fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Aug 14, 2017

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:50

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

MullardEL34 posted:

You mean Dougie, right?

well, dougie jones went into the waiting room and turned into a little sphere

# ? Aug 14, 2017 08:52

MullardEL34: Sep 30, 2008; Basking in the cathode glow

Since James is still presumably a Bookhouse Boy, do you think that his reason to ask Freddy about his glove and super-strength was because he already realized that Freddy was special and wanted confirmation?

# ? Aug 14, 2017 09:05

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

Amazing episode, but the FBI guy in Vegas just screaming at his assistant absolutely loving killed me. :xd:

Basticle posted:

http://i.imgur.com/lUU6QMh.gifv

loving incredible.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 09:27

Erata: May 11, 2009; Lipstick Apathy

Never in a million years would I have ever began to predict that Sarah Palmer was a Junji Ito. :suspense:

# ? Aug 14, 2017 09:43

strap on revenge: Apr 8, 2011; that's my thing that i say

wowee

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:23

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

http://i.imgur.com/XkyQZcX.jpg :nws:

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:40

Turdfuzz: Jul 23, 2008

Solice Kirsk posted:

Only issue I had with the episode is Tammy is the worst. Just the worst. She walks pretty, but other than that she sucks the life out of absolutely any scene. Does her actress not speak English? Because it seems sort of like she's saying the words but thats about it.

i think shes a musician or something?
i agree tho shes real bad

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:41

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

She's BFFs with Lynch, that's why he put her in the show.

And she's from Texas so she should know English.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:45

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

having her act across from albert is a pain
i really hope we see more of the mortician

god drat u albert why did you have to die...

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:47

Turdfuzz: Jul 23, 2008

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

She's BFFs with Lynch, that's why he put her in the show.

And she's from Texas so she should know English.

when she was acting opposite albert it was like she was looking past him it was real goofy

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:48

Turdfuzz: Jul 23, 2008

also was that lady in the jail cell who fell outta lsd land doin echo location or something

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:48

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Turdfuzz posted:

also was that lady in the jail cell who fell outta lsd land doin echo location or something

I think that was a homage to the first episode of twin peaks when bobby and james and shark (or whatever his name was) were in, i guess, the same jail barking at each other.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:50

Turdfuzz: Jul 23, 2008

Baloogan posted:

god drat u albert why did you have to die...

smokin

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:51

Turdfuzz: Jul 23, 2008

also alberts actor is related to george clooney
i did not know this

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:52

Turdfuzz: Jul 23, 2008

Baloogan posted:

I think that was a homage to the first episode of twin peaks when bobby and james and shark (or whatever his name was) were in, i guess, the same jail barking at each other.

idr this at all

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:57

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Turdfuzz posted:

idr this at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUm6YvNm5dg

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:58

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

one of the last scenes in the pilot, right before sarah palmer screams and we catch a glimpse of BOB in a mirror

p much the first scene in twin peaks that says "this poo poo is weird yo"

# ? Aug 14, 2017 10:59

And More: Jun 19, 2013; How far, Doctor?
How long have you lived?

Turdfuzz posted:

when she was acting opposite albert it was like she was looking past him it was real goofy

There is something really wrong with Tammy, and it's not just the actress. The entire time Albert was talking to her, she was sitting like this:

Is she trying to form a question mark or something? I mean, that can't be comfortable. Maybe it's like someone suggested and she is actually, literally a snake person.

Baloogan posted:

one of the last scenes in the pilot, right before sarah palmer screams and we catch a glimpse of BOB in a mirror

p much the first scene in twin peaks that says "this poo poo is weird yo"

Yeah, the scene definitely reminded me of this. So, is Chad our new James?

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:08

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

I'm beginning to wonder if tammy is gonna open her face up too at some point

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:10

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

And More posted:

Yeah, the scene definitely reminded me of this. So, is Chad our new James?

James has always made me laugh because of how loving melodramatic he is. Chad just makes me want to punch him in the face and the nuts every time he�s on screen. God, what an intolerable douchebag.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:14

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

how did the twin peaks team figure out chad was bad ?

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:16

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Baloogan posted:

how did the twin peaks team figure out chad was bad ?

They said they had his phone tapped for months.

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:19

lament.cfg: Dec 28, 2006; we have such posts
to show you

James was always cool

with dating women who weren't single

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:22

And More: Jun 19, 2013; How far, Doctor?
How long have you lived?

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

James has always made me laugh because of how loving melodramatic he is. Chad just makes me want to punch him in the face and the nuts every time he�s on screen. God, what an intolerable douchebag.

It's true, Chad is exceedingly punchable.

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

They said they had his phone tapped for months.

Truman didn't get that specific. He just said they'd been watching him. Presumably, Lucy found the letter Chad tried to get rid of?

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:23

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# ? May 21, 2024 01:14

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

They said they had his phone tapped for months.

wait really? when?

# ? Aug 14, 2017 11:25

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