The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Well it is, you avatarless withoutanavatarperson
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    then i will get an avatar
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Because avatarlessness is still a kind of avatar, or something.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice
  • 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
    you already have an avatar

    a white silhouette of a man against a blue background
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i never chose anything.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    But this one will do for now.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    More to the point, the "I have no choice but to do it" mentality seems to show up in artistic fields a lot. I've seen it suggested that this may be because such fields have such a low success rate (having a breakthrough and making big money is rare) that only such irrational devotion would cause such things to get created at all. That is, artists have to be bizarrely compelled to their art or else they'd do the smart thing and become lawyers or something.

    This is just some idea
  • It's really quite hard to succeed in any field that isn't just a generic service/labor job, to be completely frank.

  • say what you might about success rates, but you are not more likely to become a doctor than a professional singer. The former might bring in more money, but it's not exactly a cakewalk to become one.
  • edited 2013-02-23 02:15:52
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Things like making music and writing don't seem very comparable to being a lawyer or a doctor, to me.  The latter seldom seem to inspire the same passion as the former.

    Although some doctors and lawyers are really passionate about their jobs i guess.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Not necessarily a lawyer or doctor. Just any sort of practical career.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Anyway that was just somebody's suggestion, I don't even remember whose
  • edited 2013-02-23 02:19:22
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i get what you meant.

    i'm just saying, people usually seem more passionate about artistic occupations, or research ones.  Less so about service jobs or whatever.
  • i have made myself a milkshake
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    What flavour?
  • chocolate


    i am rather good at it if i do say so myself
  • edited 2013-02-23 02:22:23

    speaking of making music, shortly i shall subject the lot of you to my latest atrocity-against-things-with-ears / WIP
  • 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
    Fun fact: it's illegal to have a sofa on your porch within Columbus, Ohio city limits, because college students would set them on fire during football riots.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    college students love beer
  • edited 2013-02-23 02:26:26

    ^ ^ ^ i will in a tad once i upload this puppy


    my new thing is a nice slice of Critical Recordings inspired d'n'b, including an intro and part of a first drop (then i ran out of ideas), fully mixed to the best of my ability
  • I don't know what Critical Recordings is but I'll listen to it as soon as I'm finished giving my album another once-over for errors.

    It's almost finished at this point, I just need to tie up a few loose ends and get the "Dark Forest" remix from Sam Truth.

  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Now I'm wondering, out of sheer boredom, just how convoluted a processor that'd be the equal of the Sandy Bridge in my laptop would be if you built it on late-1980s semiconductor technology. My guess is that at least one equipment rack would be required.
  • Naney you should bonp the music people's thread also this is a good track.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis

    ahahaha this is fucking great


    so this guy took a picture of himself and appended his own quote to it: 

    image

    ....and shared it with reddit and they all ripped into him and made fun of him because I guess he wasn't famous enough. How classist.

    so a few months later, someone takes this same quote and puts it with a pic of Neil deGrasse Tyson and likewise attributes it to Neil with replies like this:

    He nailed it. I posted this to Facebook and my conservative friends are trying to tear me down. Sorry, but a quote like this just needs to be heard.
    Anyway someone pointed out the real origin of that quote and now most of the first awe-struck replies were deleted by their authors:  http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/15y8f5/powerful_quote_from_neil_degrasse_tyson_wow/?sort=old
    Is no one going to mention the Sonic the Hedgehog t-shirt? 

    This is like some sort of train carrying a load of bad judgement got hit by a plane that was carrying smug.
    Anonus said:

    hello


    sometimes i feel ashamed of liking sonic the hedgehog
    OK timing aside, what's wrong with Sonic?

    I'll admit I'm way out of the loop having become abandoned my hardcore Sonic love when I grew out of the Archie comics, but I wasn't aware their was any issue with liking him...

    Provided you don't wear him on a t-shirt while trying to establish just how damn smart you are...
  • actually IIRC the pic is of just some random twit in a fedora, Aalewis just like made up a quote out of thin air and posted it saying "i know i'm not a professional quote-maker but..."


    but the  Neil deGrasse Tyson bit is real
  • what's wrong with Sonic?

    the literally worst fandom
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    That doesn't sound like anything wrong with Sonic, per-se. 
  • also as i said the characters are ugly and the games are not fun


    though those are both my opinion
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    I haven't played anything since 3D blast, so I wouldn't know...

    Though, if you're referring to Sonic 1- Sonic and Knuckles, you are literally Hitler. 
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Also, Sonic CD.

    You can change time in that one.

    And you race Metal Sonic.

    Literally Hitler.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i found the games to be fun, although it has been ages since i played one.

    i like the character design because it reminds me of older American animation.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Yeah, Sonic suffers from nutty fans (including our old pal Chris-chan), combined with Sega's apparent mismanagement of the franchise.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    That T-shirt prompted my saying that
  • edited 2013-02-23 03:43:38

    that shirt is the worst part of his ensemble
  • edited 2013-02-23 03:48:09
    Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Sonic isn't bad at all, he just had a huuuuge fucking dip in his career.

    The Genesis games are all hella good, as is Sonic CD.

    Some people don't like the adventure games, but I think they're great, as is Sonic Heroes.

    And after all the shit in the middle, he has Colors and Generations, which are both fantastic.

    (Also I personally like the character designs. Though I hate shit fanart with the recolors and the porn and all that crap)
  • edited 2013-02-23 03:55:15
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    The 3D games, as far as i've played them, were flawed but enjoyable.

    i remember Adventure 2 with particular fondness.

    i had mixed feelings about the move away from traditional 3D platforming in favour of extremely linear high-adrenaline levels in more recent titles, but it seems to have pleased most people.
  • 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
    ughhh i have a desire to design a parking lot

    why
  • The sadness will last forever.
    Abba 2.0
  • becauuuuuse


    you

    are

    a

    DORK
  • The sadness will last forever.
    Little Red Hood
  • The sadness will last forever.
    oh muh moo
  • edited 2013-02-23 04:07:54
    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 was trying to think about the traffic engineering aspects of converting a former retail building to some other purpose, like a charter school.

    When you think about it, the kind of parking lots used for both applications are very different: Retail establishments (esp. "big-box" styles, like grocery stores) have large, wide parking lots designed to accomodate customers moving in and out all day.

    K-12 schools, on the other hand, usually have very deliberately-designed parking lots: some sort of area for students to be picked up and dropped off by parents, an area for buses to load and unload, and a parking area for employees and/or high school students.

    I thought it would be kinda fun to sketch out some ideas on how to convert the former into the latter...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
  • 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
    ugh, for some reason i feel like spending time on this would mean I have no life

    even if i have nothing better to do and it's related to my desired career anyway
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