Dongicus posted:

someone post the smarxisat meltdown post i remeber it being funny

AnimeIsTrash posted:

nope

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really queer Christmas posted:

Coward poo poo

ArfJason posted:

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Smythe posted:

son of thunderbeast, i hope u l;earned a valuable lesson about the pitfalls of "democracy" or whatever itt. i would suggest u lock this thread and return it to its original purpose, or tis destined for the 'chamber.

FormaldehydeSon posted:

Free taintrunner

Dongicus posted:

someone post the smarxisat meltdown post i remeber it being funny

smarxist posted:

Hi mods, please ban me you bootlicking thugs!

I love CSPAM and because of that I'm doing my best to save it from the completely lovely junkyard that it sprang from before the literal child-brained owner flushes either the community here, or the entire website down the toilet

the events that occurred on the night of the stream with the "livebans" were really beyond the pale and basically killed any appetite I had to post here or spend money here, at the behest of a nazi chud peanut gallery, a man in his 40's banned some of my favorite people from their favorite place and seriously upset them, if you can countenance that poo poo, be my guest

i've been workin' hard (thank you!) to capture as many disaffected, displaced and banned posters as I can, and have literally hundreds trickling into the new hotness.

so come check us out!
https://breadnroses.club/register/

if you register with your SA account name, I can track you down and approve you (we're doing manual approvals for now) and you can come check out the new joint, which despite being a work in progress is already REALLY loving solid.

if you can't be bothered, or if all of this is "dumb online bullshit" or you don't care, then I bid you good posting friend, it was nice making content with you!

hasta siempre,
Smarxist

ArfJason posted:

Shogi posted:

Great idea for a thread! Forgery adds the spice of mystery and controversy to art and livens up any artist's record.

My forger of the day is Zhang Daqian, who had a backstory most GMs would turn down and an S-tier beard.



That scholarly affectation with the flowing beard and flowing robes helped him build an almost cultic sense of myth around himself, so you might be wise to take his backstory with a pinch of salt here and there:

Sichuan, 1899: a painter, heavily pregnant, dreams of a white-bearded man giving her a black gibbon. She gives birth to Zhang Zhengquan the next day. This is an ink-blooded family - her older son Zhang Shanzi's tiger paintings will be famous in their own right. She teaches the kid to paint from a young age and by the age of 12 he was getting commissions to paint fortune-telling cards. Now at 17, he was at boarding school in Chongqing but didn't have the money to get home. While making the 120-mile trek home with a few friends he was abducted by bandits and told to write his own ransom note. His calligraphy convinced the bandits' leader to make him his secretary and Zhang proceeded to spend the next three months slinging that impeccable brushwork, robbing houses, studying poetry from looted books and practicing copying stolen paintings until the group were busted by police.

Somehow his family talked him out of this situation and sent him and his brother over to study shibori in Kyoto a couple of years later, separating Zhang from his fiancée Xie who died soon after. After attending her funeral Zhang decided to step back from the world - probably to avoid an arranged marriage rather than any sudden religious conviction - and become a Buddhist monk, taking the new name Daqian. His reclusion didn't last as his Roman Catholic family sent his brother - who had joined a republican precursor to the Kuomintang while in Japan - to drag him away, but it added the touch of classical flair which Zhang would play to his advantage for the rest of his life.



From there Zhang went to Shanghai to take instruction in traditional painting and had the chance to study the work of old masters in close detail. He became obsessed with mastering the styles of great artists such as Shitao and would copy their paintings over and over. The accidental bandit became, by his account, an accidental forger as connoisseurs simply refused to see his copies as anything but the real thing. Zhang began to amass a huge collection of seals of authentication, faking them if necessary. His success as an artist and con artist took him to Beijing where he fell in with Pu Xinyu, an artist who happened to be related to two (2) emperors and was able to supply Zhang with colophons to mark his fakes as genuine. Zhang would read up on the descriptions of lost paintings and then forge them on antique silk, age them with tea and a hairdryer and apply one of his dubious seals.



Through all this Zhang was becoming a prodigious polygamist with a crowd of hangers-on and a pet gibbon (prophetic dream remember, he was a gibbon reincarnated) and constantly producing paintings at an industrial rate, averaging maybe 500 a year. His style became more and more varied, blending elements from different masters and creating something strangely original. He left China as the CCP closed in on victory and began to drift around the world from Sao Paulo to Nice building pavilions and bamboo gardens and his myth as the last great intellectual of classical China without ever learning a Western language. Having injured his eyes in an accident he added an impressionistic flourish of splashed-colour to his repertoire, enlivening his style even further.



Zhang kept painting up to his death at the age of 83. He was decadent and brilliant, some kind of agent of chaos. Paintings attributed to him routinely sell for millions to art-as-investment psychos while curators are warned to be mindful that any given classic that resurfaces might be one of his forgeries. Now of course the circle of grift is complete - the forger has become the forged, and that eclectic style makes the forgeries hard to pick from both directions. You can only imagine him being happy with that.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Sorry, multiple ultra-tall images aren't extremely good posts

OctoberCountry posted:

Yes they are

Augus posted:

As requested,

LegoMan posted:

thanks I needed a laugh today that comic is fuckin perfect

Mokelumne Trekka posted:

aaaaand theres my daily crack ping

Larry Parrish posted:

Get rid of whichever dipshit keeps doing this as the coward android app doesn't show names.

Smythe posted:

son of thunderbeast, i hope u l;earned a valuable lesson about the pitfalls of "democracy" or whatever itt. i would suggest u lock this thread and return it to its original purpose, or tis destined for the 'chamber.

Augus posted:

As requested,

xtal posted:

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chairface posted:

how the gently caress is arf not perma'd every time he posts here. The gently caress are the mods doing?

chairface posted:

how the gently caress is arf not perma'd every time he posts here. The gently caress are the mods doing?

olives black posted:

South Park only appeals to budding right-wing dickheads. The cool kids all knew Adult Swim (ATHF, Sealab etc.) was better

Stabbatical posted:

wait, if data is the new money then why do companies buy data and sell data for money instead of more data

ArfJason posted:

TheSlutPit posted:

lol

chairface posted:

how the gently caress is arf not perma'd every time he posts here. The gently caress are the mods doing?

Lawman 0 posted:

https://www.govtrack.us/

GrAviTy84 posted:

Depends on the coffee at costco. The used to sell these fresh roasted 2 lb bags, single origin (SO). It was pretty decent coffee. I stopped buying roasted coffee though when I started roasting .

I'm kind of unsure of what you're asking though. I think you're asking if the quality of the coffee is so bad and all other brew variables are bad, is optimizing grind worth it? I think it depends on who's drinking it. If you are on a crusade to get your parents into good coffee but they couldn't care less, I think you're destined to fail and I wouldn't even bother. If you think they could be swayed, I wouldn't even bother with baby steps. I'd show up with a modded skerton or mini mill, some fresh roasted coffee, and a CCD and do a good coffee full assault on the senses. Then when they at the enlightening experience of a proper cup of coffee, getting them to get a 100bux grinder is a lot easier.

Edit: even if you get the cheap Costco "Jose's" brand, this coffee is still miles better than preground folgers/maxwell/yuban/whatever. I think proper grind treatment will still be noticeable.

ArfJason posted:

chairface posted:

how the gently caress is arf not perma'd every time he posts here. The gently caress are the mods doing?

AnimeIsTrash posted:

chairface posted:

how the gently caress is arf not perma'd every time he posts here. The gently caress are the mods doing?

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Crusty Nutsack posted:

reversal of fortune?

lumpentroll posted:

queue up a real perma, coward