February Chat Thread: chat in this thread, during February

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Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

redbackground posted:

Hi-five fellow '79-er!

Care to join me for Senior Dinner at 4pm?

Bob Evans as usual?

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:13

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 07:57

redbackground: Sep 24, 2007; BEHOLD!
OPTIC BLAST!; Grimey Drawer

Rhyno posted:

Bob Evans as usual?

As long as there's some banana pudding for dessert!

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:14

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Lurdiak posted:

The acedemic cutoff is 1981. Rhyno just barely escapes. Hence my annoyance at 21 year olds cussing out 17 year olds for being no-good millenials.

Wait, I was born in 1982, that makes me a millenial? Nooooooooo I don't wanna have to snapchat the vines

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:19

Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

I've seen as many things that include '82 in the generation as don't. It's the most ambiguous year. The Miliminal. Just use cultural touchstones, like you should be doing anyway. :colbert:

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:26

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

CapnAndy posted:

Wait, I was born in 1982, that makes me a millenial? Nooooooooo I don't wanna have to snapchat the vines

You will install the Facevinespace app on your phone right this instant mister.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:28

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

CapnAndy posted:

Wait, I was born in 1982, that makes me a millenial? Nooooooooo I don't wanna have to snapchat the vines

Maybe you should try Tout!

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:39

Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

CapnAndy posted:

Wait, I was born in 1982, that makes me a millenial? Nooooooooo I don't wanna have to snapchat the vines

Same. We're not.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:43

CharlestheHammer: Jun 26, 2011; YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Generational dividing points are arbitrary so who cares.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 19:53

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

CharlestheHammer posted:

Generational dividing points are arbitrary so who cares.

Advertisers, content producers, the health system, budgets, governments.

Basically everyone.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 20:07

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Everything is arbitrary.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 21:40

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

Mid 80s makes me feel like a man without a country. Too old to rock 'n roll, too young to die.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 23:08

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Squizzle posted:

Almost exactly like comics "Ages" (Golden, Silver, etc.), pinning that poo poo down to years isn't actually useful. The real tests are all about culture and influences.

If the Cold War was a huge influence on your childhood, and it was socially unacceptable for someone your age to live with their parents after finishing college—you're Gen-X.

e: Also, if your youthful impression of New York was Scorcese Scary, you're probably Gen-X. If it was Giuliani's cleaner, touristy city, you're almost certainly Millennial.

Were you an adult when 9/11 happened? Probably not Millennial. Looking for (or lost) your first job during the financial crisis? Probably a Millenial.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 23:32

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Were you an adult when 9/11 happened? Probably not Millennial. Looking for (or lost) your first job during the financial crisis? Probably a Millenial.

I was 19 when 9/11 happened, but in my first job during the financial crisis (I didn't lose it though, but it was a close goddamned thing when it looked like all the car companies were going to collapse). I'M UNCLASSIFIABLE

# ? Feb 22, 2016 23:55

claw game handjob: Mar 27, 2007; pinch pinch scrape pinch
ow ow fuck it's caught
i'm bleeding
JESUS TURN IT OFF
WHY ARE YOU STILL SMILING

You moderated an internet forum, as in an older BBS and not a Facebook group or similar. You're pre-Millenial. I solved it, you're welcome.

# ? Feb 22, 2016 23:59

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

END ME SCOOB posted:

You moderated an internet forum, as in an older BBS and not a Facebook group or similar. You're pre-Millenial. I solved it, you're welcome.

My dad used to get into flame wars with a German man on a local BBS.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 00:04

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

I met my first roommate on a BBS.

It was as awesome and as terrible as you're imagining.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 00:23

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Ghostlight posted:

I met my first roommate on a BBS.

It was as awesome and as terrible as you're imagining.

I'll be roommates with you! I can't pay rent but I'll be the cutest home decor sitting around on my laptop all day,

# ? Feb 23, 2016 00:28

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

WickedHate posted:

I'll be roommates with you! I can't pay rent but I'll be the cutest home decor sitting around on my laptop all day,

Mods???????????

# ? Feb 23, 2016 00:30

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

I met my college roommates (post-dorm life) on a forum. They were super cool and we're still friends.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 00:34

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

WickedHate posted:

I'll be roommates with you! I can't pay rent but I'll be the cutest home decor sitting around on my laptop all day,

So basically my last gf.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:39

purple death ray: Jul 28, 2007; me omw 2 steal ur girl

Ghostlight posted:

Everything is arbitrary.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:58

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Ghostlight posted:

So basically my last gf.

Way cuter. In fact, getting paid for the privilege of letting people look at me is the only job I'll ever accept.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 05:22

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I think that's how Jessica Nigiri makes a living.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 05:25

Decius: Oct 14, 2005; Ramrod XTreme

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Were you an adult when 9/11 happened? Probably not Millennial. Looking for (or lost) your first job during the financial crisis? Probably a Millenial.

Millenial is mostly defined as being born 1980-2001. Some define it as late as 1984 (Strauss/Howe) to 1992 as end-point (Canada), but generally around 1980 seems the more common starting point. If you want make yourself feel better you can claim being from the similarly made up Generation Oregon Trail if you are nearly a Gen Xer. I'm born 1980 and never played Oregon Trail, so I claim being just another stupid Millenial rear end in a top hat.

Decius fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Feb 23, 2016

# ? Feb 23, 2016 09:20

Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

I'm happy I was born pre internet and remember what it was like to be bored and actually have to use my memory for things. I was born in 82.

What the gently caress happened to gen Y? That what everyone called my generation when I was younger.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:19

Flight Bisque: Feb 23, 2008; There is, surprisingly, always hope.

Endless Mike posted:

I met my college roommates (post-dorm life) on a forum. They were super cool and we're still friends.

Yeah but that was because of a buff lesbian.

I'm a 1982 babby so I'm a Willenial tyvm.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:23

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Norns posted:

What the gently caress happened to gen Y? That what everyone called my generation when I was younger.

The 'Y' was a placeholder until the 'characteristics' of the generation became known.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:52

Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

Ghostlight posted:

The 'Y' was a placeholder until the 'characteristics' of the generation became known.

K so how do you explain Gen X still being gen X?

This is real stupid and makes zero sense.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:02

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

They had to keep it, Triple H and Shawn Michaels did so much under that name.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:24

Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

Aphrodite posted:

They had to keep it, Triple H and Shawn Michaels did so much under that name.

lol

# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:34

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Norns posted:

K so how do you explain Gen X still being gen X?

This is real stupid and makes zero sense.

Ghostlight posted:

Everything is arbitrary.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:36

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

I should email Douglas Coupland about this pressing issue.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 22:00

RevKrule: Jul 9, 2001; Thrilling the forums since 2001

Norns posted:

K so how do you explain Gen X still being gen X?

This is real stupid and makes zero sense.

Because Gen X'ers are lazy good for nothing slackers who can't even be bothered to name their generation something hip and 'with it.'

# ? Feb 23, 2016 22:01

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Norns posted:

K so how do you explain Gen X still being gen X?

This is real stupid and makes zero sense.

Because Generation X was a specific name given to that generation and not a placeholder. Generation Y was a placeholder and comes off as a post-script to Gen X.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 22:39

Chinaman7000: Nov 28, 2003

STAH thread makes me wonder, what's the actual best/most clever use of GL or any GL style power in comics. So you can create anything you think of, that's cool, there should be like a million great stories using that cleverly. Instead, the most iconic GL stuff seems to be more about being space cops or emotional warfare. I like Kyle and designs given to him were more interesting to look at but still feels like it hasn't been tapped that much as a concept.

Basically,

Lurdiak posted:

Dude, asking Green Lantern of all things to rise above chronic mediocrity is a pipe dream.

How is this so true about a character with powers like that

# ? Feb 23, 2016 23:07

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

It's the Bizzaro Comics strip where Alan Scott makes a boxing glove to defeat a bank robber and then the boxing glove has an existential crisis.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 23:25

purple death ray: Jul 28, 2007; me omw 2 steal ur girl

My favorite was when Kyle would use it to make French curves for his graphic design business.

# ? Feb 23, 2016 23:47

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

You just made me remember the guy from Smallville who got slight nerve damage in his hands from a car accident that made it harder for him to paint, but also gained telekinesis from the same incident, and he felt that was apparently a bad trade and went on a murderous revenge spree.

Keep in mind he could use his telekinesis to paint effortlessly.

# ? Feb 24, 2016 00:34

TwoPair: Mar 28, 2010; Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta; Grimey Drawer

Chinaman7000 posted:

STAH thread makes me wonder, what's the actual best/most clever use of GL or any GL style power in comics. So you can create anything you think of, that's cool, there should be like a million great stories using that cleverly. Instead, the most iconic GL stuff seems to be more about being space cops or emotional warfare. I like Kyle and designs given to him were more interesting to look at but still feels like it hasn't been tapped that much as a concept.

Not in comics, and totally not the way the ring works, I know, but I just finished playing Lego Batman 3, and all the Lanterns basically make portals to warp from one end of the galaxy to the other... shaped like regular doorways. I thought it was cute.

As far as comics go, I like when people kind of forget that the ring is only supposed to make constructs and instead just make GL rings do what-the-gently caress-ever because hey they're basically magic rings that work on willpower/wishing really hard. Like a couple of years ago, Simon Baz, the most recent GL that everyone immediately forgot, was getting a crash course in ring-wielding, and his trainer (a GL who is a squirrel because hey, comedy) told him through a very poor choice of words that the ring could do anything he willed it to do. Baz took it to a hospital where brother-in-law was in a coma and (through great effort) woke him up.

# ? Feb 24, 2016 04:37

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WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Hal turned Lex Luthor into a giant dollar bill in Superfriends.

# ? Feb 24, 2016 04:47

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