Well, telling mother about the fin aid went smoother than expected. Probably because I got all the paperwork I needed her to sign and didn't get upset. Somehow she reacts better to me turning in late tax return stuff for financial aid than she does me trying to take a bus to Seattle (because that happened only a week ago and she got really mad about it)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I remember when I realized that my parents weren't married until nearly a year after I was born...it's strange to think I was present at their wedding, even if I was a baby at the time.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Almost got my giant rewiring job for my entertainment center done, with room for a PC-Engine Duo-R and Neo Geo system to be added onto. Everything is almost damn near perfect except this ancient Audigy sound card, while it has digital output, it doesn't specifically do purely digital 5.1 which I guess these hotshot new PC video gaems use (regular stuff like 5.1 soundtracks and the like process correctly however.) Also, rewiring everything and running all the analog audio from the old CPUs and game consoles required two switchboxes, and an additional HDMI switchbox because of the ass-backwards fussy way the Sony home theater receiver wants to handle additional HDMI inputs. Anyway, I'm testing out how everything sounds with NES chiptunes using my Dragon Spirit cart which BTW is one of the best NES soundtracks bar none (but the game as a shooter is pretty ehh.)
The soundcard I plan to replace the old audigy is going to cost 2x as much as my entire audio system ran me, but should last me for a good long time.
I liked Tiny Toons myself, but yeah, the biggest problem it had was that the tone was all over the place. It couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a wacky, balls-out comedy like R&S or Rocko's Modern Life, a critic-pandering PC-fest like Widget the World Watcher or Cro, or a shallow nostalgia act that couldn't quite escapr the shadow of its inspirations. It wasn't really comfortable with itself until How I Spent My Vacation, and by then, Animaniacs was already in the planning stages.
That was the main thing A! fixed -- instead of constant mood whiplash, they made it an overt anthology and aimed for some sort of consistency within each sub-series.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Tiny Toons was also the first cartoon series that showed how dangerous the cocktail of fandom and internet could get. I really don't pay attention anymore but from what I understand the fandom polices itself better than what Usenet had going back in the day.
Yeah, and as many times as TTA made fun of media watchdogs, it sure seemed like they did a lot of episodes that were either demanded by them, or done to placate them. A! did that a lot less, and even when they did, it was obvious they put more thought into them.
AU: TTA was one of the first fandoms not related to to science fiction that generated a lot of porn. It also tied into early furry fandom, which just barely existed at the time. All of this was still considered pretty scandalous 20 years ago.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Anonus: My theory is only reason watchdog and social justice groups exist is to draw attention to themselves so the world can see what upstanding paragons of virtue that they think they are.
Anonus: a fan by the name of "Quozl". Very, very creepy fellow. Wrote epic poems about his unabashed love for Babs and that purple skunk character and posted them quite frequently on the tiny toons usenet group. He felt that their VA (I forget her name) would be impressed by his devotion by contacting her constantly over the phone and one time hopping the fence onto her property. A restraining order ensued, and he particularly was made fun of on one of the last episodes of TTA and later on Animaniacs.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
There are many aspects of our existences that we can't choose which others will object to.
It ultimately doesn't matter if your parents were bound because of love or because of obligation. What does matter is if they love you, and if you love them in turn.
Most of the geek's dialogue in that was taken pretty much verbatim from an old Usenet cultural references guide. The producers were actually so impressed with said guide that they invited several of the alt.tv.animaniacs regulars to the WBA studios in 1996.
So. I heard an ad for this band on Spotify and now I'm hooked. Most of their stuff is happier than this, but I had to put this one up because it's so... powerful.
I don't think I can sign off on that. I have a few friends that want to live there and this is AFTER spending a year or two in the country already. Not EVERYONE who wants to move to Japan is a weeaboo who's getting most their info from "their mangas and their animus". I think you guys are seriously discounting things like College students who go to Japan for a year on the JET program, learn a respectable amount of the language and decide they'd be happier in Japan after a year or more of living there.
I have no issues with people who want to move to another after doing research and whatnot. What I have issues with is the people who want to move only after seeing cartoons or comics about a place.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
sooo...had a dream i inadvertently flung an unintentified fungus in my gandmother's face with a feather duster
Social justice is a good thing; I hope this does not become our favorite buzzword (does anyone else remember that "apologist" nonsense?).
I'm pretty much completely blind in one eye. I have zero depth perception, stereograms are completely lost on me to this day, in boot camp the wall that you have to rush and jump over, well, I pretty much kinda just slammed into the thing. What the hell is 3D television? No idea what the fuss is there either.
Anyway a while back me and my friends were discovered this whole social justice thing and as we joked around I started to go on about "bivisual privilege" and how sick I am of all the damn "stereonorms". I made sure to rail accusations against anyone who I perceived (univisually of course) as them horrible "depthist pigs." This joking and carrying on stopped when we had the horrible realization that eventually someone in the social justice contest is going to pick these exact same terms up and run with them -- a good-humored deaf friend of ours explained that this exact same turnaround happened in the realm of his disability.
And that's just what "social justice" is, a contest to see who can be the most outraged in a blog -- and angry blogs are as far as these people go. These people don't do a damn single thing that warrants recognition of improvement in anything -- the only real accomplishment I've ever heard of the them making was harassing Hasbro to censor a few lines from that MLP cartoon, and that was more just to curb any controversy regarding a child's show than anything from what I understand.
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...If I put the dates together in my head, I think I'm an illegitimate child.
Huh.
I wonder why I never thought of this earlier.
It leads to troubling conclusions.
What's wrong with you?
^Didn't he inspire that "Please, Please, Please Get a Life Foundation" bit on Animaniacs?
It makes me feel guilty at times, even though I know I didn't choose to be born out of wedlock. :\
It ultimately doesn't matter if your parents were bound because of love or because of obligation. What does matter is if they love you, and if you love them in turn.
I should note that the opposite (Japanese people who think American television is an accurate reflection of life there) exist too.
needless to say, I'm awake now
It was fun. Got to flex that CSS muscle I sort of grew over the years.
The site as of 7:47 am today:
By comparison, the default mobile theme (shown with a different blog since I forgot to take a "before" picture of Trespeak):
An average reblog:
The end of the page:
Aaaaand when you click "fall further in":
seems legit
going on a trip today