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I read a collection of 20 Poe stories, and three of them were about the last son of a once-great family who drives their wife to death by being insane and weird, and still manages to make it all about themselves.
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Poe also has a racist novel of his own. It’s not very good.
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Nov 30, 2018 15:41
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Jocoserious posted:I agree. Lovecraft ranges from "interesting ideas smothered in purple prose" to "absurdly racist schlock". That's a quality horror writer name too. If you don't know it, you can't be 100% sure "The Willows by Algernon Blackwood" isn't the actual story title.
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Nov 30, 2018 15:46
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Poe is good you goobers
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Nov 30, 2018 17:44
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Poe has his moments, but this guy Jeff in my freshman English class was the best horror poet. He wrote a poem about how he knocked up his girlfriend.
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Nov 30, 2018 20:28
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knocking women up is indeed terrifying example: Eraserhead
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I recently learned that one of my old friends from school who I haven't seen or spoken to in years is having his first child. I suppose other former schoolmates must have children by now but since I'm not really in contact with anybody I was at school with, this is the first I've heard about. And it makes me wonder, why? Why does he want to have children? And I have to accept that it's something I will probably never be able to understand, which in turns makes me feel annoyed because it means there must be something wrong with me.
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Dec 1, 2018 02:35
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People want different things out of life. A lot of people in our generation are very anti-kid too...until they meet someone they care enough about and your priorities start to change. That doesn't mean you have to have kids once you find someone you want to spend life with, but a lot of people do and that's fine. It's also fine to just never have kids, if that's what makes you happy. The world would honestly be a better place if less people had kids, and preferably there should be a way to determine who can reproduce on top of that, but it's a natural urge to want a kid. Like when you get married, settle down in life and approach a stable lifestyle, it's natural to think the next step is having a baby. But that doesn't mean there's necessarily anything wrong with you if you don't feel that urge.
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Dec 1, 2018 02:47
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yeah I eat rear end posted:People want different things out of life. A lot of people in our generation are very anti-kid too...until they meet someone they care enough about and your priorities start to change. That doesn't mean you have to have kids once you find someone you want to spend life with, but a lot of people do and that's fine. It's also fine to just never have kids, if that's what makes you happy. The world would honestly be a better place if less people had kids, and preferably there should be a way to determine who can reproduce on top of that, but it's a natural urge to want a kid. Like when you get married, settle down in life and approach a stable lifestyle, it's natural to think the next step is having a baby. But that doesn't mean there's necessarily anything wrong with you if you don't feel that urge. Yeah I don’t feel weird about not personally wanting a child; rather I think it’s weird that people make that determination long before they meet someone they may want to have a child with. Same with marriage really. If you’ve never met someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, it’s weird to me that you could know you want that.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Yeah I don’t feel weird about not personally wanting a child; rather I think it’s weird that people make that determination long before they meet someone they may want to have a child with. Same with marriage really. If you’ve never met someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, it’s weird to me that you could know you want that. For me it's a desire I have but it hinges entirely on the conditional "if I find the right person" part. If I never find that person, that's fine, but if I do, great.
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More people need to just adopt if they want to clean turds and never have money even worse that bad.
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Velcro is a superior way of fastening shoes than shoelaces. -Velcro doesn't get undone like laces -Easier to adjust, apply and remove -Won't fray at the end or split due to friction with the shoe
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Dec 1, 2018 04:53
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Away all Goats posted:Velcro is a superior way of fastening shoes than shoelaces. There's a reason "being able to handle shoes with laces" is a common milestone in mental development. Besides, why embarrass yourself with velcro when loafers/slip-ons are superior in every way?
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Slip ons are great too but I'm also thinking of stuff like hiking shoes or cleats where you really need them secured to your foot.
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MizPiz posted:There's a reason "being able to handle shoes with laces" is a common milestone in mental development. Because dopes gotta have something to feel good about when nothing else will suffice. Velcro or straps are in fact superior.
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Dec 1, 2018 08:36
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yeah I eat rear end posted:People want different things out of life. A lot of people in our generation are very anti-kid too...until they meet someone they care enough about and your priorities start to change. That doesn't mean you have to have kids once you find someone you want to spend life with, but a lot of people do and that's fine. It's also fine to just never have kids, if that's what makes you happy. The world would honestly be a better place if less people had kids, and preferably there should be a way to determine who can reproduce on top of that, but it's a natural urge to want a kid. Like when you get married, settle down in life and approach a stable lifestyle, it's natural to think the next step is having a baby. But that doesn't mean there's necessarily anything wrong with you if you don't feel that urge. I suppose it just seems like a bit of a waste of time and money to me.
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Yardbomb posted:Because dopes gotta have something to feel good about when nothing else will suffice. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I suppose it just seems like a bit of a waste of time and money to me. tbh pretty much everything is a waste of time and money in an objective sense, so spend it on what you enjoy, whether it's video games, building a business, starting a big family, who cares, in 2000 years nobody is going to care/remember what you did.
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Dec 1, 2018 13:24
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Away all Goats posted:-Velcro doesn't get undone like laces Shoelaces are more secure than velcro, unless you are bad at tying your shoes Away all Goats posted:-Won't fray at the end or split due to friction with the shoe Stuff gets caught in velcro, slowly reducing it's ability to cling together.
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Dec 1, 2018 13:32
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yeah I eat rear end posted:tbh pretty much everything is a waste of time and money in an objective sense, so spend it on what you enjoy, whether it's video games, building a business, starting a big family, who cares, in 2000 years nobody is going to care/remember what you did. What if I’m the next Augustus or Alexander the Great though? It could happen.
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Dec 1, 2018 13:37
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Tubgoat posted:Frankly, I'ma say "his tribe" or nearest kin, who may opt to share him with archaeologists for purposes of research, but this is hell and his body would mysteriously disappear in transit and the site would be deliberately destroyed by colonists. I know this is from ages ago but to be honest I think this is sort of bullshit. When the body is almost 9000 years old the nearly incomprehensible distance in time mean that he's almost certainly got an extremely tenuous connection to living people, at least on things like a cultural or linguistic level. Suggesting as much without evidence plays into a conception of pre Columbian America as a place that was static and unchanging which itself is a bit of an offshoot of the idea of American natives being noble savages whose ways of life have remained fixed since the beginning. I'm not saying that the tribe shouldn't have say over what gets found on their land and there certainly is a complex history around archaeology and colonialism, but it's a bit like a random European talking about a proto indo European body as one of "their people".
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Dec 1, 2018 14:10
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yeah I eat rear end posted:tbh pretty much everything is a waste of time and money in an objective sense, so spend it on what you enjoy, whether it's video games, building a business, starting a big family, who cares, in 2000 years nobody is going to care/remember what you did. The truth is that I have no real affection for other people and I know that this is abnormal, and this bothers me.
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khwarezm posted:I know this is from ages ago but to be honest I think this is sort of bullshit. When the body is almost 9000 years old the nearly incomprehensible distance in time mean that he's almost certainly got an extremely tenuous connection to living people, at least on things like a cultural or linguistic level. Suggesting as much without evidence plays into a conception of pre Columbian America as a place that was static and unchanging which itself is a bit of an offshoot of the idea of American natives being noble savages whose ways of life have remained fixed since the beginning. I'd at least check if any Indo-Europeans cared first. 
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PHUO: It is fine to talk about the bad things a public figure did, regardless of how close it is to their death.
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The US and Canada should have a schengen-style arrangement. Mexico and Central America to join once we figure out what to do about los carteles (end the war on drugs) Also a single currency, but call it the loving dollar, not “amero”. It will be based on the USD but formatted like canadian coins and bills.
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I think we're maybe 50-100 years away from that, but that's still pretty close all things considered.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:PHUO: It is fine to talk about the bad things a public figure did, regardless of how close it is to their death. Indeed so; one shouldn't feel obliged to be polite about someone who's died. I remember when I was told that Martin McGuinness had died, the person who told me gave me a hard time when my immediate reaction was, "Fine. I never liked him that much."
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Astrology is good
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Gripweed posted:Astrology is good Makes comfortable white people easier marks, agreed.
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Gripweed posted:Astrology is good as long as you aren't a true believer and treat it like most people treat fortune cookies (just silly lighthearted fun), fine. If you really believe that kind of stuff matters, you might as well believe everything else magical in stories like harry potter is true too. Calling an astronomer an astrologist though is one of my bigger peeves. I don't care if you call me "dr", in fact I'd prefer that nobody would, but telling everyone you have an astrologist in the family and being asked poo poo about constellations and relationship advice pisses me off. I can't even tell you which star is the north star, asking me to point out scorpio or whatever and telling you what house mercury is in is hopeless.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:as long as you aren't a true believer and treat it like most people treat fortune cookies (just silly lighthearted fun), fine. If you really believe that kind of stuff matters, you might as well believe everything else magical in stories like harry potter is true too. A part of my inner child died when I learned that real astronomers spend more time doing boring math and computer poo poo than being crazy mountain hermits in observatories.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A part of my inner child died when I learned that real astronomers spend more time doing boring math and computer poo poo than being crazy mountain hermits in observatories. Can't they just do the math in the hermit mountain observatories?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:as long as you aren't a true believer and treat it like most people treat fortune cookies (just silly lighthearted fun), fine. If you really believe that kind of stuff matters, you might as well believe everything else magical in stories like harry potter is true too. They're doing it on purpose
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A part of my inner child died when I learned that real astronomers spend more time doing boring math and computer poo poo than being crazy mountain hermits in observatories. there are ones that still go on long observing trips spending several days getting drunk on a mountain observing, but the more modern telescopes are generally operated by staff and you just send them instructions on where to point it, which is pretty boring. I was never very interested in the night owl aspect that draws a lot of people to astronomy though, I'm almost always in bed before 10 so in college the night labs were always a challenge. Getting people who think space is really cool after watching shows like cosmos etc to not experience that inner child dying thing in their first real course was always a challenge. Makes you feel like a dick when you are disappointing more than half of the class, but it is what it is.
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I don't understand the appeal of bands like Dream Theater. Specifically, I don't really understand the appeal of John Petrucci. It's weird but I just don't think there's anything interesting about a guy who can play literally perfectly. As guitarists go, I can't think of anyone in the rock field who has better technique than him but listening to the playing of guys like, say, Jimmy Page or Gary Moore or Billy Gibbons or even that ageing gently caress Ted Nugent is more rewarding to me, because nothing they do ever sounds effortless to me. I have similar feelings about guys like Satriani and Vai. Does that make sense?
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Wait'll weed is legalised in your state, then you'll see. I dunno, I really like a couple of their songs, even when not high, though hearing their music for the first time while high was loving amazing and a feeling everyone who isn't a war criminal should have at some point.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't understand the appeal of bands like Dream Theater. Specifically, I don't really understand the appeal of John Petrucci. It's weird but I just don't think there's anything interesting about a guy who can play literally perfectly. As guitarists go, I can't think of anyone in the rock field who has better technique than him but listening to the playing of guys like, say, Jimmy Page or Gary Moore or Billy Gibbons or even that ageing gently caress Ted Nugent is more rewarding to me, because nothing they do ever sounds effortless to me. I have similar feelings about guys like Satriani and Vai. Does that make sense? I mean it’s really common to dislike them for that reason but not understanding the appeal is weird.
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websites doing some unavoidable annoying overlay you can't turn off like "lol look at this dumb poo poo" is lame, that's some 4chan poo poo.
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I wish it was socially acceptable to wear those "communist dictator chic" button down suits as sported by Kim Jong Un here:  They look so much cooler than regular suits, even on him. yeah I eat rear end posted:websites doing some unavoidable annoying overlay you can't turn off like "lol look at this dumb poo poo" is lame, that's some 4chan poo poo. lol my laptop made it so that as I saw this post, the overlay was directly over your name/avatar
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