pubic works project posted:

No work for me today!

Kalli posted:

The Nixon tapes showed just how loathsome a president was when the cameras weren't on.

But even still, could you imagine Trump saying something as eloquent as even:

"You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates. Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags....You know what happened to the Popes? It's all right that Popes were laying the nuns, that's been going on for years, centuries, but, when the Popes, when the Catholic Church went to hell, in, I don't know, three or four centuries ago, it was homosexual."

Man I had also forgotten about :

(Billy) Graham: "This stranglehold (of Jews in the media) has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain."
Nixon: "You believe that?"
Graham: "Yes, sir."
Nixon: "Oh, boy. So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it."
Graham: "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something."
"You know, it's a funny thing. Every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists."
"You know, the big Jewish contributors to the Democrats.
Could we please investigate some of the cocksuckers? That's all."

Intruder posted:

Hm a president who wants to start recording everything

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

We have nothing to do today except wait for the ice to kill us all and then we may get sent home a bit early?

pubic works project posted:

Ice came in for us early this morning. Called my GM and he said "gently caress no just stay home."

So I'm playing Battlefront 2 right now and loving up some battle droids.

pubic works project posted:

Ice came in for us early this morning. Called my GM and he said "gently caress no just stay home."

So I'm playing Battlefront 2 right now and loving up some battle droids.

Kalli posted:

By us, it went from single digits to 50 the last two days, so there's just a thick fog.

It's gonna drop to 15 tomorrow night after it rains some, so there's going to be amazing black ice tomorrow night.

Intruder posted:

It's currently 35 degrees in Houston wtf is going on

SHOAH NUFF posted:

It’s almost 70 degrees in DC

Cheesemaster200 posted:

This is what happens when it is 60 degrees outside, but there is still ice on the harbor. The warm moist air condenses and creates a plume of fog that is being blown into the city.

quote:

Dear Animorphs Readers:

Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story. There are a lot of complaints that I let Rachel die. That I let Visser Three/One live. That Cassie and Jake broke up. That Tobias seems to have been reduced to unexpressed grief. That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That there was no happy celebration. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending.

So I thought I'd respond.

Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don't end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones.

That's what happens, so that's what I wrote. Jake and Cassie were in love during the war, and end up going their seperate ways afterward. Jake, who was so brave and capable during the war is adrift during the peace. Marco and Ax, on the other hand, move easily past the war and even manage to use their experience to good effect. Rachel dies, and Tobias will never get over it. That doesn't by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it's a start.

Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war.

I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war.

So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? You don't like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.


If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers.

K.A. Applegate

Kalli posted:

Kalli posted:

The Nixon tapes showed just how loathsome a president was when the cameras weren't on.

But even still, could you imagine Trump saying something as eloquent as even:

Kalli posted:

No Butt Stuff posted:

As someone who read a lot of animorphs in middle school, I didn't know it ended, nor did I ever hear of this letter, but lol.

a neat cape posted:

No we just didn't like that you bastardized your own characters and made them do poo poo they wouldn't normally do in order to wrap up your good book series in order to move onto your lovely book series that no one ever read.

God that ending still pisses me the gently caress off

Intruder posted:

It's currently 35 degrees in Houston wtf is going on

Mel Mudkiper posted:

there was also that time one the characters got PTSD from watching an alien slowly die as she gutted it and she spent the rest of the night washing herself until she bled

Mr. Nice! posted:

I’ve been in a waiting room at a va hospital for two hours after a two hour drive. The surgeon i’m supposed to see for a consult isn’t here and i’m seeing a resident instead (who probably can’t make surgical decisions) so i’m likely to have to come back in 3-4 months when they have another appointment for me. I closed the taco truck last night and today as a result foregoing around $500 in my pocket to very likely waste my time today.

a neat cape posted:

That was Jake actually

Cash Monet posted:

I'm glad I had Harry Potter so I didn't have to read that trash.