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Class3KillStorm posted:Charge your phone. don't do it. its a trick
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# ? May 10, 2021 05:18 |
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RFC2324 posted:don't do it. its a trick Get an axe
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# ? May 10, 2021 05:18 |
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Class3KillStorm posted:Charge your phone. No.
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# ? May 10, 2021 05:23 |
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MarcusSA posted:No.
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# ? May 10, 2021 05:47 |
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Also it’s not my phone! S/O is in bed and phone is charging.
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# ? May 10, 2021 05:48 |
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# ? May 10, 2021 06:10 |
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Rohan boys make do.
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# ? May 10, 2021 06:12 |
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I'm tapping and nothing is happening
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# ? May 10, 2021 06:14 |
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Fister Roboto posted:Rohan boys make do.
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# ? May 10, 2021 06:40 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:Gotta love america where you gotta tip for a bar server, who is literally paid to serve drinks, requiring a tip for the difficulty of doing their job. yeah, i only tip people who do important work, like eg. landlords
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# ? May 10, 2021 07:38 |
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tip them into the ocean which is extra acidic due to all the car batteries thrown into it, a perfectly safe and legal thrill
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# ? May 10, 2021 09:54 |
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Stexils posted:this is possibly the lowest bar ever And yes, as it stands most bad things are caused or exacerbated by bad people (and "bad" people) or incompetent people loving everything up, but that's because we effectively live in a post scarcity society with uneven distribution, and even then. I'll have fries and a double it's people the dollar menu is people, hold the sauce Facebook Aunt posted:That was always there in the background though, at least since the introduction of Harley Quinn. It isn't like he met some crazy lady in asylum and they fell in love. Splicer has a new favorite as of 11:07 on May 10, 2021 |
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I don't think I would want to read a book where people do everything right and things still go to poo poo. I already live in reality I don't need to spend my spare time consuming it.
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# ? May 10, 2021 11:12 |
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think I would want to read a book where people do everything right and things still go to poo poo. I already live in reality I don't need to spend my spare time consuming it. so you read only ya lit
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# ? May 10, 2021 11:45 |
OwlFancier posted:I don't think I would want to read a book where people do everything right and things still go to poo poo. I already live in reality I don't need to spend my spare time consuming it. For me the problem with a lot of post-apocalypse fiction is either that it is basically patriot fiction but instead of it being Obummer's racemixing FEMA troopers, it's zombies or cultists or something -- OR, it's like two hundred years later, and everything still looks like a complete shithole. It's understandable that you don't get stories about the long, boring stuff which would come from the dust settling and successor civilizations starting amongst the survivors. Not only is that going to involve a lot of tedium and very little cool action, it will rapidly become your own say-so, but without any exciting gun battles to conceal it.
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# ? May 10, 2021 12:11 |
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Old harley is the only valid harley. Her jester outfit was cute as hell and already skin tight, she didnt need to be turned into a juggalette. Is she even still a doctor?
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# ? May 10, 2021 12:11 |
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think I would want to read a book where people do everything right and things still go to poo poo. I already live in reality I don't need to spend my spare time consuming it. (because existing apocalypse fiction is just wank fantasies about how (author's in group) would be super capable and could trivially solve all the world's problems if it weren't for (author's out group) getting in the way) Nessus posted:It's understandable that you don't get stories about the long, boring stuff which would come from the dust settling and successor civilizations starting amongst the survivors. Not only is that going to involve a lot of tedium and very little cool action, it will rapidly become your own say-so, but without any exciting gun battles to conceal it. Splicer has a new favorite as of 13:06 on May 10, 2021 |
# ? May 10, 2021 12:16 |
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Splicer posted:That's what you have now though, it's just that everything goes to poo poo because bandits or the local religious cult show up or That Guy lets all the zombies in. Apocalypse fiction writers cannot seem to conceive of something challenging (not defeating, challenging) The Good Guys that's not Some Bad Guys.
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# ? May 10, 2021 12:21 |
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90s Cringe Rock posted:It's either Man vs Nature or Man vs Subhuman Demonrats, and they've prepped for the zombie plague/soviet first strike/emp/race war already so the author can't use the first one. e: but also they don't see man vs nature as an actual challenge because who's scared of nature? Nature is easy *sits in air conditioned home office wearing clothes made by slave labour thousands of miles away eating food grown with chemicals he can't even pronounce cheerfully handwaving away feeding hundreds of people in the dustbowl with "the nerds set up an irrigation system or something, so anyway I took up my m16 carbine and went after wild boar"* Splicer has a new favorite as of 13:04 on May 10, 2021 |
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Nessus posted:It's understandable that you don't get stories about the long, boring stuff which would come from the dust settling and successor civilizations starting amongst the survivors. Not only is that going to involve a lot of tedium and very little cool action, it will rapidly become your own say-so, but without any exciting gun battles to conceal it. The book "Station Eleven" is interesting because it's set just before, and twenty years after, a pandemic kills most of the population. Characters talk about or elude to the awful poo poo that happened in the couple of decades post collapse, but civilisation is already starting to bounce back to the point where it's dangerous but viable to exist as a band of travelling musicians that also act as a slow-motion postal service between settlements and at the end of the book, there's one settlement that's managed to bring their electrical grid back online. Its thesis is that yeah, poo poo would absolutely suck and some people would be murderous raiders but that's not sustainable forever. People are a) smart, b) work together, and c) always want to make their lives better with music and stories and art, even at the worst of times. whoops, this is the meme thread.
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# ? May 10, 2021 12:31 |
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Splicer posted:That only sounds boring because western culture has forgotten what it's like to not be in control. A well written final act of dealing with the aftermath of a (properly foreshadowed) flash flood wiping out the settlement's crops is exactly what I want to read about. This, again, is life, an endless torrent of unpleasant things happening to you that you would really like not to happen but which you have no control over and you have to react to it.
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# ? May 10, 2021 12:39 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:The book "Station Eleven" is interesting because it's set just before, and twenty years after, a pandemic kills most of the population. Characters talk about or elude to the awful poo poo that happened in the couple of decades post collapse, but civilisation is already starting to bounce back to the point where it's dangerous but viable to exist as a band of travelling musicians that also act as a slow-motion postal service between settlements and at the end of the book, there's one settlement that's managed to bring their electrical grid back online. E: This IS the meme thread Splicer has a new favorite as of 13:02 on May 10, 2021 |
# ? May 10, 2021 12:43 |
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Bismuth posted:Old harley is the only valid harley. Her jester outfit was cute as hell and already skin tight, she didnt need to be turned into a juggalette. Is she even still a doctor? The adult cartoon version of her is great too and not much edgier than the TAS version.
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# ? May 10, 2021 12:51 |
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Splicer posted:Yup. See edit. and it's not officewear it's grey man camouflage
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OwlFancier posted:This, again, is life, an endless torrent of unpleasant things happening to you that you would really like not to happen but which you have no control over and you have to react to it.
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:07 |
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:13 |
I love the Gandalf memes.
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:19 |
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:26 |
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From living in lefty communes for a while I would 100% believe a post-apocalypse story where the survivors fall apart because of ideological infighting that keeps interfering with people who are actually trying to keep everyone’s needs met
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:36 |
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Kit Walker posted:From living in lefty communes for a while I would 100% believe a post-apocalypse story where the survivors fall apart because of ideological infighting that keeps interfering with people who are actually trying to keep everyone’s needs met My friend used to live in an anarchist commune, and one of the challenges they had to face one month in was trying to convince one of the members not to piss in the kitchen sink. Later they tried to vote him out, but he also supplied weed, so had many friends in the commune. Eventually, all capable members left, and the remaining troubled youth burned down the house in a drug-fuelled bender.
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:48 |
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Paladinus posted:My friend used to live in an anarchist commune, and one of the challenges they had to face one month in was trying to convince one of the members not to piss in the kitchen sink. Later they tried to vote him out, but he also supplied weed, so had many friends in the commune. Eventually, all capable members left, and the remaining troubled youth burned down the house in a drug-fuelled bender. bet they wished that the fascists hadn't banned pissing then
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:52 |
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Paladinus posted:My friend used to live in an anarchist commune, and one of the challenges they had to face one month in was trying to convince one of the members not to piss in the kitchen sink. Later they tried to vote him out, but he also supplied weed, so had many friends in the commune. Eventually, all capable members left, and the remaining troubled youth burned down the house in a drug-fuelled bender. lmao, that sounds about right. Communities that specifically try to avoid hierarchy often end up having one person who gets a lot of power by simply being popular, and then running the place into the ground over petty conflicts
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:54 |
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For what it's worth his next commune was much better and only broke up when the majority of members started families and moved out.
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# ? May 10, 2021 13:58 |
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Paladinus posted:My friend used to live in an anarchist commune, and one of the challenges they had to face one month in was trying to convince one of the members not to piss in the kitchen sink. Later they tried to vote him out, but he also supplied weed, so had many friends in the commune. Eventually, all capable members left, and the remaining troubled youth burned down the house in a drug-fuelled bender. ...was this in Massachusettes?
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:00 |
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Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:...was this in Massachusettes? No, Belgium. But I could see it being a common problem.
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:05 |
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Kit Walker posted:lmao, that sounds about right. Communities that specifically try to avoid hierarchy often end up having one person who gets a lot of power by simply being popular, and then running the place into the ground over petty conflicts This feels like the history of humanity in a nutshell. Fallout oddly enough comes to mind as being more optimistic for post-apocalyptic fiction, but mostly because the best thing that can happen is the kind of society that ended up destroying itself being completely forgotten and moved on past.
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:06 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This feels like the history of humanity in a nutshell. They don't clean up their skeletons in Fallout. Just leaving them for a hundred years laying on the bed in weird poses... Unless they are just posing them like that for fun...
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:17 |
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If I had an abundance of skeletons I would put them in silly poses.
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:34 |
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OwlFancier posted:If I had an abundance of skeletons I would put them in silly poses. You're already doing it with just the one.
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:36 |
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just lol if you don't carefully pose yourself to provide environmental storytelling in the event of your sudden death
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:37 |