tangy yet delightful posted:

hooking up my buttplug to my next page button on SA

MC Crammypants posted:

i apologize if this is an issue already dealt with but i'm all hot for the palying of games i couldn't before and don't have archive access...
so anyways to the point: i just found out about the dreamcast that iv'e owned for 5 years or whatever being capable of playing the games in CDR. I bugged my friend who in a roundabout way told me last week to get me his games so i could burn them at the radio station where we both have shows. I used roxio to get images that i saved to desktop of all games i was interested in (ikaruga, puzzle fighter, a nes emulator) and then burned them to play later in the day only to find that it didn't work. so a phone call later and a day's worth of suggested reading material has lead me to find that noone seems to have done anything since 2001 and that most people have the games already wrapped handy-like into a nero or discjuggler image. i know that i have all the info needed for self boot cds (1strun.bin, amillionotherwords.bin..) but can't seem to find any advice on how to construct those files into a readable format for a readable cd image for a readable game burn.
so anyone who has burned the discs for games they actually got to play on their dreamcast i would appreciate vastly any input. as a further not i just found the discjuggler image for the dcnester emulator and can play the pantheon of the NES library but still slobber at the bit for my ikaruga, puzzle fighter, japstreetfighter3alpha and soulcaliber.

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zedprime posted:

That feeling when your brain is on reading autopilot but suddenly wakes up and needs to figure out what thread you're in because of what you read

Byzantine posted:

In the middle of the eighth century, as the Empire's grip on Italy weakened because of the Arab conquests, the Bishops of Rome decided to snuggle up to the Frankish kingdom instead. To justify this, the "Donation of Constantine" was created, a fake document supposedly written by Constantine the Great himself in 315 AD, before moving his capital to the east.

In it, 'Constantine' gives the entire Western Roman Empire to the Bishop of Rome, declares that the Bishops of Rome are the head of the Christian faith and superior to the other four holy cities of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Constantinople despite Constantinople not having been founded yet in 315, and surrenders all imperial power over the church by giving pope Sylvester his ('Constantine's') own crown, scepter, robes, and palace.

While the original intent was to convince the Frankish King to give what would later be called the Papal States to the Bishop of Rome, the document was later used to justify (among other things) crowning the Holy Roman Emperors, and the Popes' absolute authority over christendom that characterized the medieval period. In 1054, part of what finally caused the Great Schism between Western and Eastern Christianity was the Pope demanding that the east submit to the authority that 'Constantine' had given him.

christmas boots posted:

Not surprised that Byzantine would give a biased view on the subject

Platystemon posted:

SMH at this illiterate greek that doesn’t speak the Lᴏʀᴅ’s tongue and doesn’t know that Anno Domini precedes the year.

Adding to his sins, he used the heretical numerals of the Arabs.

Platystemon posted:

SMH at this illiterate greek that doesn’t speak the Lᴏʀᴅ’s tongue and doesn’t know that Anno Domini precedes the year.

Adding to his sins, he used the heretical numerals of the Arabs.

Tree Bucket posted:

What's the name for those small capitals there? The LORD ones?

zedprime posted:

That feeling when your brain is on reading autopilot but suddenly wakes up and needs to figure out what thread you're in because of what you read

Skwirl posted:

What kinda loving psychopath feeds Canadian Geese? I live where they are common and most people who have an opinion about them are pissed that it's illegal to shoot them.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I mean, people appeased Hitler so I guess it makes sense they'd try to appease the avian equivalent.

Heath posted:

Is that what goose-stepping means?

The Bloop posted:

Performative Ruralness

The bridal tractor will be rolling coal

Sham bam bamina! posted:

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/SenorTren/status/1387623368107626499

Two houses, both alike in dignity

Paladinus posted:

Stoatbringer posted:

Which house is "transparent.png"?

Piell posted:

None, Rowling is a TERF, she would never allow a trans parent in her books

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Spiny Norman posted:
I was perusing My Documents the other day, looking specifically for a paper I did a semester ago. As usual, I found a graveyard of half-conceived ideas, stories I'd forgotten about, successful papers, failed papers, mediocre papers, and child pornography. No, wait, scratch that last part. However, while I was skimming through the bullshit, I noticed one file labeled simply "joshdig."

This confused me. What the gently caress was this? It sure didn't sound like a paper, and it sure didn't sound like a good name for a half-finished story.

My confusion was increased tenfold when I opened the file and began to read.

I have to explain what I think are the groggy circumstances of this composition. If memory serves (maybe?), I wrote this paper sometime around Christmas last year when I came down with a diabolical case of walking pnemonia. The dubious campus doctors prescribed several things that were supposed to fix it and didn't work, some things I don't think were meant for pnemonia but did work, and then finally something that worked. For example, they prescribed cough syrup with codine at first, and then amped it up to cough syrup with vicoden later.

gently caress if I've ever taken such drugs before. I had heard of them, of course, and had even had friends who mixed them with alcohol and even marijuana, but I wasn't willing to take a trip that might wind up with me losing every possible cavity's virginity I had, depending on how hard the trip was. I guess I'm just not hardcore.

I really don't remember much about how well the drugs worked, because those days are nothing but a mire of suffering and pain to me. Fundamentally, I don't know if they fixed anything, or if they were even prescribed for something.

I vaguely remember starting this paper. I think this was the first time I took the vicoden cough syrup, and I'm basing this on how the thing seems moderately plausible at first, and then degenerates into a stream of consciousness ride of utter madness and lunacy. Apparently I thought the idea of "burying" and "digging" as a hobby was downright hilarious. To be honest, isn't vicoden a sedative, so I should've been asleep by the end, and not a chimp with down syndrome?

Of course, maybe I just went literally insane for a while, and now I'm just blaming it on the drugs. Or maybe I was just plain drunk.

For the record, I wrote this when I was still in LAC, and I didn't get kicked out, I just stopped showing up. I only know Josh as a vague acquaintance, and haven't seen him in close to a year. He probably doesn't remember my name. I think he's an engineer or something, and he wouldn't even have anything to do with LAC, much less volunteer for it. Also, I'm pretty sure his hair isn't blonde, and since when are his forearms "rippling?"

And I did edit the misspelled words, grammar problems, and real names out of the thing. I think it makes it funnier, and also, there were surprisingly few. (!) But, no, his last name is not "Brewster," nor is mine actually "Norman." I should've made it something funny like "buttfuck," though.

I mean his name. Not mine.

Okay, whatever. Read at your own risk.

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In the Fall of 2004 I signed up for what was called the "Liberal Arts Committee," a collegiate organization of Liberal Arts students devoted to campus projects and school-wide events so that they can distract themselves from the fact that they have no useful skills to offer society whatsoever. Or at least, that was the pretense. At the time I was an idealistic young man who foolishly thought that, maybe, with the right effort, courage, and willingness to engage in devious acts on the most nefarious of levels, I would be able to maybe, just maybe, plant the seeds of my future into the fertile manure of college, and water it with daily with the fluid of dreams until it sprouted into the growth of promise, after which it would mature into leaves of success which could be smoked by the bong of retirement, and LAC seemed like just the lovely star to hitch my lovely wagon to. For you see, words like "committee" look good on a resume (or as the French call it, "the el resume"), and, if you follow Dungeons and Dragons rules, add + 4 to credibility and charisma. But then again, words like "liberal" and "arts" both subtract 3 points from reknown. But then you would be forgetting that the involvement the Liberal Arts Committee has with the Student Government adds a whopping +3 to all Universal Saving Throws. In the end, everything balances out, provided you have a respectable strength modifier and shower regularly.

Sadly, I was mistaken. LAC was not about engaging in campus events to distract ourselves from our painfully, painfully obivous worthlessness. Rather, it was a committee set up to talk about distracting ourselves from our worthlessness, and then make petty compromises about the most mundane and ridiculous of topics. Sometimes I wasn't even sure who people were arguing with. Sometimes they were arguing with themselves, making deals with their own self-worth, reducing such activites as fixing up homes for the elderly and poor to simply driving by the homes of the elderly and poor at a very high rate, and then maybe donating some petty cash to a small and dysfunctional charity, such as Debtor's Anonymous or The Molested Parrot Shelter of Greater Ohio, which would also be a pretty good band name.

Now, I am not an idealist, even though I just told you I was. That was a bold-faced lie. I also told you I was "young" and a "man," and I think I might've said thrown something in there about being the Herald of the Rapture, too. But, regardless, the truth is, I am not a determined, idealistic person. No, these here hands have spilled blood in every state from Colorado to Connecticut; sometimes my own, sometimes other people's, sometimes a mix of the two in what the Eutaw, Alabama Daily Times called "easily the most repulsive Easter Sunday in American history." But, still, I would much rather do something than just sit on my rear end talking about how I should be doing something, or sit on my rear end talking about how I am sitting on my rear end and scheduling later hours to come in and sit on my rear end and talk about doing something, which was usually the case. But that was exactly what we did all day, or at least what we were supposed to be doing. I mainly sat in the back of the room drawing pictures of monkeys in cowboy hats engaging priates in ruthless knife fights. If there's one thing those pictures taught me, it's never to trust a monkey who's skilled with a knife. Or a pirate. They truly are the scum of the earth. Also, cowboy hats are funny, especially if you add a jaunty feather.

So, towards the end of the Fall semester, I was disillusioned with the promise of success LAC had promised me. The whole thing just didn't look right to me anymore. Maybe it was the squabbling. Maybe it was the disorganization. Maybe it was the fact that I had gone legally blind from drinking too much. But either way, I would not stay. And, given the choice between either quitting or staying in for the long haul and trying to change LAC for the better, I chose option C, which was Going Down in Flames and being kicked out. I thought this was a great idea, namely because I'm too much of a coward to tell people I hate them, but never not enough of a jackass to miss out on inspiring their hatred and contempt on a massive scale. You might say that there's some flaw in that logic, or that there's just something gramatically wrong with that sentence, but then again you might also say that gravity doesn't exist and the force we perceive is just millions of invisible hands holding us down on the face of the earth every hour of every day. But if you said that, you'd be an idiot, and people probably wouldn't want to give you a home loan or something. I rest my case.

So when it came down to me to participate in interviewing new volunteers for LAC, the opportunity seemed too fat and plump to pass up, like a Wendy's or a Taco Cabana, but not like an Arby's because their roast beef is weird and they charge too much for their other sandwiches. They scheduled me to meet a Josh Brewster in one of the conference rooms in the Student Services Building. The board was set, and the pieces were moving, and there was nothing to fear but fear itself, and something about an iron curtian and drinking tea with glass in it.

"Dress nice," they said. "Act friendly. Ask personal questions. Get to know them."

Following the Geroge Costanza method of success, I showed up wearing a gin-soaked KISS ME I'M SHITFACED T-shirt and a pair of jeans a family of possums had recently vacated when conditions had become too awful for their lofty standard of living. I also stole my friend's sports coat at the last minute, just to class things up, but being that he was a giant fat guy it looked like I was wearing a very sombre circus tent. I figured that would add the perfect je ne sais quoi (German for "shattered feces") for the meeting. I took the volunteer dossier with me, along with plenty of crayons and a sharpie so I could draw a face on my hand and perform a puppet routine in front of the bathroom mirror should the whimsy take me.

As I waited, I read over the form this "Josh Brewster" had filled out. I immediately noticed the lack of headshots, and I noted this by writing "PIX PLZ" on the top of dossier and drawing arrows randomly pointing all over the paper indicating places where said pictures could conceivably go. I decided to rectify the situation myself, and made sketches of what I considered Josh Brewster might look like.

When he showed up, he immediately lost points for refusing to conform to the standards I set. Not only was he not 90 feet tall, but he also lacked the required scales, prosthetic limbs, and the ablitity to spew rich, creamy Hershey's chocolate. Instead, he was a tall, scrawny kid with golden curls, rippling forearms, and eyes you could get lost in for hours. Unstatisfactory.

"JOSH: 0," I wrote. "NORMAN: A BILLION."

"Come in," I said.

He smiled at me. What a fag.

"Are you Josh?" I asked.

"Yes," he said.

Too trusting.

"Take a seat," I said. As he did so I wrote "ICHIRO SUZUKI SUCKS BALLS" in the "date" portion of the dossier.

I glanced up.

"Are you sure you want that chair?" I asked.

He blinked and smile a little. "What?" he asked.

I looked at him for a moment, letting the silence slowly pregnante, and then smiled coldly, like the smile you give a lover just as you're leaving after sex, because you know you're going to take all the pizza with you on the way out the door and then not call.

"Nothing," I said. "It's nothing."

"I WOULD LIKE SOME PIZZA," I wrote in the "major" portion.

"Is that your shirt?" I asked him.

"Um," he said. "Yes."

I smiled and nodded sagely. "Good. Cool. All right." I stared at him for a moment, letting it go on just a little too long. I counted his blinks. There were seven.

"I tell you what, Josh," I said. "Can I call you 'Josh,' Josh?"

"Uh-"

"You seem like a straight shooter, Josh, so I'm gonna shoot straight at you."

"Okay," he said.

"Great," I said. "You look like a digger," I said. "Do you dig a lot, Josh?"

"What?" he said.

"You've got digger's shoulders, right there. Well-toned triceps and meaty deltoids, yessir, that's digger's shoulders. We have a lot of need for a man who can bury things around here. I'll be honest, the last four didn't cut it. They couldn't bury a dead cat, let alone a live one. I know, I followed them around for days in my van. They don't dig for pleasure or for sport. They don't even own their own shovel. Not even a pickaxe. You know, you can tell a lot about a man by the way he buries something, Josh. It's a crucial thing."

I leaned back in my chair and took out a highlighter. I cracked it open, removed the ink filter, and proceeded to smoke it like a cigarette. It might've looked odd to old Josh, what with how my face was dripping with pink ink, but I was deep in the heart of Flavor Country, headed for the local Flavor Saloon and then, more than likely, the Flavor Brothel to nail some Flavor Whores in their Flavor Asses, and then I'd probably try and skip out paying them the Flavor Money, which is pink, like everything else is there, and on the one Flavor Dollar bill is a picture of a woodpecker, but I don't know why. Josh wouldn't understand, what with his snooty, lack-of-chocolate-spewing attitude.

"Yeah," I went on. "Every once in a while a man has to go out in the woods and bury something. Sometimes a man buries a thing, sometimes a thing buries a man. Sometimes you're the thing, and sometimes you're the man, and I suppose sometimes you're the shovel, if the digger had managed to fashion a crude shovel of some sort out of your bones. It's the circle of life, that's what it is, Josh. I suppose if you were really determined you could 'bury' your way out of the hole the thing buried you in, but wouldn't that just be digging, Josh?"

"Uh-"

"Yes, yes it would, Josh. And I will not tolerate digging here. That's one thing we have to get clear. I will not. Tolerate. Digging," I said, forcefully tapping the desk with each word.

"Didn't you just ask me-"

"No," I said. "I don't ask. I never ask. Instead, I 'put a question to you.' There's a difference. One's more aggressive. For example, what's the difference between me saying, 'I want to put the wood to you' and 'I'd like to ask you to gently caress me?' The difference, Josh, is that one doesn't translate well into Welsh, while the other is downright delightful. That's the difference, Josh, and that's what makes LAC different. You have to think outside the box, think about the tone of questions. Always think outside the box, Josh, especially if you're burying it, because the dirt's what's outside the box. Just you and the dirt and the shovel. Also, you probably don't want to look inside the box, because more than likely you were told specifically not to, and it's probably all freaky and crazy anyway. And if you do, then what do you do when that big fat Hawaiian guy finds out and comes after you by the side of the road with a beretta?"

Josh stared at me so hard I thought his eyes were going to fall out. If that happened I was going to jump over the desk and punch him right in the face, because there's no better time to punch a guy than when he's got no eyes. He won't see it coming, unless his eyes are still capable of relaying thoughts to his head even when they're separated, like they're little wireless cameras or walkie talkies or something, and that's just plain nuts.

"I'll tell you what you do, Josh," I said, "You lead him into the woods with a series of deceptive bird calls and then you wait for dark, and then you kill him with a shovel. Then you've got two things to bury, Josh. All because you wanted to look inside the box. And what did looking inside the box get you, Josh? Did knowing that that Hawaiian guy wanted to bury a severed clown's head make you a better person? Huh, did it, Josh? I don't think so. Not at all. Now, I'm not saying I have a problem with clowns, Josh. I love clowns. Do you love clowns?"

"gently caress, yes," Josh said. I noticed he was breathing hard and quivering slightly. "I love clowns."

"Hmm," I said, and wrote, "M-O-O-N, THAT SPELLS EAT poo poo" in the line that read "applicant's signature"

"I love clowns," I went on when I was done. "I love them to death. Not physically, mind you. I don't care for the greasepaint. No, I love them for the entertainment. I just think they should get taxed more than regular folk, because they terrify children, and dammit, that's my area of expertise. I don't see why they should get paid to terrify children and I shouldn't. Why, if I had my way, I would lead them all out into the woods at night with a series of deceptive bird calls and them kill them one by one, BANG!" I said, hitting the table with my fist. "RIGHT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD!". I'm fairly certain that at that moment Josh poo poo his pants. If he didn't then, he sure did later. I demonstrated the edge and angle of the shovel with a chop of my hand. "Not a lot of people can take a shovel in the back of the head, Josh. You think a clown might be able to, what with all the big curly red hair, but that's no cushion. Maybe it would be, if the hair was made out of steel wool, but who would want that? The hair would scatch up the other clown's crotches when they sat on each other's shoulders! And that's just awful, isn't it, Josh?"

"Yes," Josh said, but his voice was very hoarse.

"Do you think you can take a shovel to the back of the head, Josh? Because I can guarantee you can't. I've had people bet me they can take a shovel to the back of the head, but they never can. They never bet me with 'words,' so to speak, but they bet me with actions. By, say, cutting me off as they merge onto the highway, or being female and fairly attractive and not giving me any attention. It's the abstracts that matter, JoshShovel. It's the abstracts that matter in life, and it's the abstracts that matter here at LAC. At least I think they matter, but to be honest, I'm not sure what LAC does. When I joined I thought it was a lifeguard training organization, or maybe an elite Burying Things Organization, but instead all they do is get all red when I yell and then they ask me to leave. I think I was supposed to ask you some questions here, Josh, so I guess I better get down to that. First off, where do you live, and how many windows does it have that are accessible from the street?"

But when I looked up, Josh was long gone. All that was visible of him was his non-scaly backside fleeing into the neon corridors, running at a full sprint. That was a shame, because I wanted him to watch my puppet show. I would've even paid him in Flavor Dollars.

Within two weeks, Josh was safely concealed in a police safehouse, and I was dead.

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What the gently caress. I think we can all consider ourselves lucky, because parts of the thing suggest that I planned to go on much longer.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I was thinking of this one from the Era of Huge Posts (and it definitely has some stuff that flew then but not now) today, and drat if it still doesn’t make me laugh.



It’s weird but it doesn’t really feel like monkey cheese bullshit to me. Everything comes from what came before it but it just keeps going in weirder directions.

Matlack Radio posted:

Full on, 2 in the morning . The internet was a mistake.

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MarcusSA posted:

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

It's upside down. But it doesn't really matter that much, you can just tell the time by where the hands are pointing

redgubbinz posted:

Maybe it's just a grandfather clock owned by Alessandra Mussolini

Yestermoment posted:

Joshdig is hellagood.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I've definitely had writing sessions while I was drinking that started normal but got progressively more unhinged as my BAC increased. Nothing like what that dude wrote, sadly.

Outrail posted:

When's thale last time we had a proper drinking thread? Have we done that before? Goons all over the world doing one shot every 15 minutes and desperately failing to post anything funny or clever.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I was thinking of this one from the Era of Huge Posts (and it definitely has some stuff that flew then but not now) today, and drat if it still doesn’t make me laugh.



It’s weird but it doesn’t really feel like monkey cheese bullshit to me. Everything comes from what came before it but it just keeps going in weirder directions.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

freeedr posted:

This is a pretty boring derail but don’t pull the ripcord on your emergency dildos just yet. I can explain why Jerry was confused. Jerry Cotton is a babbling toilet gorilla that gained an unreasonable facsimile of sentience over 40 years ago. The day that he crawled out of the sewer is remembered as the day that all theistic religion was proven incorrect, because he is a bigger mistake than any god could ever make. His primary language is nationalism, but he also speaks fluent dipshit. Studies suggest that it is the greatest desire of all conscientious beings that Jerry set himself alight and gently caress off forever, but as of yet there is no sign that this will ever happen. He has the endurance of a fart in the wind and assumes all other people do too. He could be run down by a lethargic snail. Bless

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

null_pointer posted:

Mother *fucker* you beat me to it

Gaius Marius posted:

Anyways if were talking about things that'll make Euros lose their mind, my school only did away with it's Marskmanship class two years before I attended, they moved it to a park and held signups in the lunchroom. We did still have Archery though

RapturesoftheDeep posted:

Ours had riflery in regular gym classes up though my senior year (1992). They used the weight room for the football team for it-- a big, long, dark room underneath the pool. They did it until they made a pacifist hippie chick take it and out of revenge she shot at the ceiling instead of the targets. She took out the bottom of the pool and the whole thing emptied out into the rifle range. She didn't get into a lick of trouble either, because her dad was a teacher at our school.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Paladinus posted:

Jerry is my evil posting twin, and I'm appalled at how he's being treated here!

BOOTY-ADE posted:

this is on par with those old heebie-gbs & Infrateal threads from years ago

Toaster Beef posted:

This just reminded me of "the return of the ultimate hustler," which culminates in maybe one of the greatest posts ever made on this whole goddamn forum

Platystemon posted:

Hell of a way to find that Microsoft employs child labor.

Captain Hygiene posted:

We need an / combo

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

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