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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    "Sweet dreams" minus context is never good news.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    re: copyright

    Is it bad that I now take umbrage with the idea of big media to begin with? It just seems to revolve around rich people exploiting others' creations just to get richer...
  • I really really need to start reading the mouse over for links, because I really wish I hadn't clicked on that.
    CUTIES
  • Anonus said:

    re: copyright


    Is it bad that I now take umbrage with the idea of big media to begin with? It just seems to revolve around rich people exploiting others' creations just to get richer...
    no
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
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  • Naney said:

    i remember reading this essay by sartre about the relationship between the writer, the written work, and the reader that was pretty interesting

    Do you remember what the name of that article was?
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Anonus said:

    re: copyright


    Is it bad that I now take umbrage with the idea of big media to begin with? It just seems to revolve around rich people exploiting others' creations just to get richer...
    Copyright law is a morass which is ultimately determined, moreso than any other legal battle, by he who has the most money. Case in point: Disney 
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Anonus said:

    re: copyright


    Is it bad that I now take umbrage with the idea of big media to begin with? It just seems to revolve around rich people exploiting others' creations just to get richer...
    That seems a reasonable summary.

    i think the rise of things like the Internet has greatly reduced whatever benefits they might have had.

    i guess somebody more cynical than me might say that was the real reason they were so keen to censor it.
  • Naney said:

    i remember reading this essay by sartre about the relationship between the writer, the written work, and the reader that was pretty interesting

    Do you remember what the name of that article was?
    Why Write?

  • Naney said:

    I really really need to start reading the mouse over for links, because I really wish I hadn't clicked on that.
    CUTIES
    More like the things nightmares are made of.
    Naney said:

    Naney said:

    i remember reading this essay by sartre about the relationship between the writer, the written work, and the reader that was pretty interesting

    Do you remember what the name of that article was?
    Why Write?

    Thanks, man.
  • i have always had a weakness for arthropods


    Hence my unwillingness to eat shrimp or lobster or crab
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Hey guys, [cool thing]!

    It's funny because i referenced [cool thing]!

    If you don't know what [cool thing] is, don't bother asking, as i will snub your interest with a non-sequitur or in-joke, thereby reinforcing my credentials as an Informed Person while simultaneously throwing your ignorance in your face.

    [cool thing] may be difficult to search for, since the word probably meant a regular not-cool-thing before it became [cool thing].  Perseverence will turn up numerous references on blogs and social network sites, none of which explain what it actually means.  If you are very lucky you might find a series of contradicting Urban Dictionary definitions, or a sparse Know Your Meme page that only raises further questions.

    If you do find an explanation, bad news: this means [cool thing] is no longer [cool thing] and is now merely an old fad or an outdated slang expression.  You are no cooler than before, although you at least have the satisfaction of knowing you're cooler than the person who referenced last week's [cool thing].
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Naney said:

    i have always had a weakness for arthropods



    Hence my unwillingness to eat shrimp or lobster or crab
    Yous a silly kitty
  • edited 2013-02-23 20:22:23
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    That sounded unreasonably bitter

    but it is like 99% of internet in my experience

    (made up percentage)
  • a8 said:

    Hey guys, [cool thing]!

    It's funny because i referenced [cool thing]!

    If you don't know what [cool thing] is, don't bother asking, as i will snub your interest with a non-sequitur or in-joke, thereby reinforcing my credentials as an Informed Person while simultaneously throwing your ignorance in your face.

    [cool thing] may be difficult to search for, since the word probably meant a regular not-cool-thing before it became [cool thing].  Perseverence will turn up numerous references on blogs and social network sites, none of which explain what it actually means.  If you are very lucky you might find a series of contradicting Urban Dictionary definitions, or a sparse Know Your Meme page that only raises further questions.

    If you do find an explanation, bad news: this means [cool thing] is no longer [cool thing] and is now merely an old fad or an outdated slang expression.  You are no cooler than before, although you at least have the satisfaction of knowing you're cooler than the person who referenced last week's [cool thing].

    in this post, a8 does a spot-on impression of a Witch House fan.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Speaking of John Barthes, I read something about Karl Barth that seemed vaguely interesting.
  • dude Witch House is so five months ago.
  • I don't really find spiders scary, but I don't really dream of them much.

    My dreams are much more occupied by this:

  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    a8 said:

    That sounded unreasonably bitter

    but it is like 99% of internet in my experience

    (made up percentage)

    Anyone who acts like what you're talking about (I know the type) aren't worth your time. I just ignore those folks. 
  • the church of the immaculate preconception
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger's_Version It's amazing how fast my interest for this novel got killed after the sentences following the first sentence of this article.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I will never understand the obsession famous Mimetic Fiction authors have with professors banging.
  • Naney said:

    dude Witch House is so five months ago.



    it retreated back to the underground from which it came.

    the only Witch House artist I know by name is OOOooOOOOoooo, and I almost certainly got the number of O's wrong, but I don't care.

    chillwave kinda fell off the map too which is sad cuz I liked that genre.

  • You wouldn't look so damned surrealist 
    If you didn't have an apple on your face 
  • Odradek said:

    I will never understand the obsession famous Mimetic Fiction authors have with professors banging.

    well people banging is a pretty universal interest unless you're asexual. And I mean there's no particular reason for those people to not be professors unless they're like old or something.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Odradek said:

    I will never understand the obsession famous Mimetic Fiction authors have with professors banging.

    well people banging is a pretty universal interest unless you're asexual. And I mean there's no particular reason for those people to not be professors unless they're like old or something.
    But it is professors SO OFTEN
  • I want to PUMP you FULL of BURNING LEAD
    Cause six million casualties
    Well I gave you a lot of slack - but all I get from you is FLAK
    I'm gonna put CASE WHITE into effect
    Prepare yourself for a conflict baby
    Passing information to HIGH COMMAND
    We have ways of making you TALK
    Today is the FIRST of SEPTEMBER
    See you at your FUNERAL, baby
    I'll meet you in Poland, baby

    I hear you got a six inch guarantee of unilateral security
    Well me and Stalin, we just signed a mutual non-aggression pact
    I'm gonna put CASE WHITE into effect
    Prepare yourself for a conflict, baby
    I'll cook you a stew you'll choke on
    I tore up the VERSAILLES TREATY
    TODAY IS THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Anyone who acts like what you're talking about (I know the type) aren't worth your time. I just ignore those folks. 


    Probably the best response.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Odradek said:

    But it is professors SO OFTEN


    How many Mimetic Fiction authors are also professors?

    Is the question this appears to raise.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    a8 said:

    Anonus said:

    re: copyright


    Is it bad that I now take umbrage with the idea of big media to begin with? It just seems to revolve around rich people exploiting others' creations just to get richer...
    That seems a reasonable summary.

    i think the rise of things like the Internet has greatly reduced whatever benefits they might have had.

    i guess somebody more cynical than me might say that was the real reason they were so keen to censor it.
    well, that's because it's true
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i guessed correctly!
  • TreTre
    edited 2013-02-23 20:53:35
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    So, I got a new D-Link router last night to replace our dinky Linkcisco one from 2005.

    It's been pretty good to us so far.
  • edited 2013-02-23 20:55:14
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i think it's more likely that they are simply concerned over content they own being shared without their getting a profit, though.  They probably aren't worried about original content so much.

    Hi Tre.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well, they are, also they do that thing barons do whenever their traditional business model is threatened and try to sink the boat instead of hopping onto it.

    And hi Tre.
  • TreTre
    edited 2013-02-23 20:56:26
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    Helloooooooo Fouria.

    And Anonus. :P
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Anonus said:

    Well, they are, also they do that thing barons do whenever their traditional business model is threatened and try to sink the boat instead of hopping onto it.


    And hi Tre.
    i don't think they've quite figured out how to make a profit off the Internet, though.  They've tried different models with mixed successes.
  • edited 2013-02-23 21:07:46
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i am being overly naïve i begin to suspect.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^They haven't

    Which is why they want to slow its growth down
  • Anonus is on the nose here.

    Excepting the cases of things like Google, which already own half the internet anyway.

  • edited 2013-02-23 21:23:43
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ That makes a great deal of sense.  i guess you're right.

    idk, i guess the idea of using underhanded tactics to eliminate online competition instead of competing with it just seems kind of... cartoonish?  It's the Dick Dastardly approach to business, quite opposed to any notion of a free market.
  • edited 2013-02-23 21:25:23
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    ^^ Besides, Google makes its money by being an advertising company, so they're not really a model other Internet companies can feasibly follow.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    And also by tax avoidance.
  • a8 said:

    idk, i guess the idea of using underhanded tactics to eliminate online competition instead of competing with it just seems kind of... cartoonish?  It's the Dick Dastardly approach to business, quite opposed to any notion of a free market.

    "Unrealistic" doesn't necessarily mean "unreal". Unfortunately.

    ^^ Besides, Google makes its money by being an advertising company, so they're not really a model other Internet companies can feasibly follow.

    They're also a data broker, which incidentally, is what makes them dangerous.
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