The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Hey guys

    The day after tomorrow is District 76's birthday
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I fear that my family will eventually read what I write
  • Yarrun said:


     "newscaster background music"

    I think that's a bit more insulting than "noise".

    But yeah, my family's more or less okay with my music. They're not falling over themselves to listen to it, but they've been willing to listen upon request. My sister calls most of my stuff "videogame music", which is understandable.
    I've had rappers (particularly Ant-Live) call my stuff video game music.

    Triple Post Post.

    you can't triplepost a doublepost.
  • edited 2013-05-23 20:51:50
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I remember this comic!  It was the first one I ever read, back when I was more little (can't say little, because I am little now).

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    I remember that it was this specific comic because I thought that the little plug-thing in the lower right-hand corner was a toaster; and I thought he was making a robot-hat.

    For some reason, littler Aliroz didn't realize that that stupid yellow outfit was a costume.  I thought it was just that guy's actual body.

    So, yeah, I went back to the school library and tried to find the comic about the yellow man with the robot-hat and the square toast.

    I also remembered Captain America in the rain accidentally throwing his shield at a little girl; and it made me think that Blueface Star-man (what I called him), was the bad guy.

    Also, there was a cat-lady.

    The librarian looked confused when I asked for the comic with the naked catgirl.

    image

    Man, it still looks like her hair is on fire.  I guess littler me was more perceptive than I previously thought.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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    I also remember reading this somewhere once.  It's strange the things you find on the internet.
  • edited 2013-05-23 21:28:29
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    image

    Man, I really want to read this book.

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  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    you read some weird stuff

    ...

    ...good for you!
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    It has just dawned on me that the Fox network doesn't seem like it should exist, it seems like the product of one of my fantasy worlds
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well, they come out of nowhere with the backing of a major movie studio, score a few hit shows, then grab football, then a bunch of the other networks' affiliates, solidify themselves, and their most-used name is not an initialism (the network's full name is "Fox Broadcasting Company", but they have called themselves "Fox" and not "FBC" for most of their existence)...
  • The sadness will last forever.
    Cake
  • I have a Blizard 
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Pie
  • Cowiest of them.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    Actually, building on Anonus's point about Fox, the existence of The Simpsons seems like something from a dream world too. I mean, just the fact it was an animated sitcom despite the fact that format hadn't been successful for anyone for about 30 years before they tried it is remarkable enough. On top of that, however, the writing staff managed to procure a degree of creative freedom that very few other television shows, past and present, have enjoyed.
  • edited 2013-05-23 22:28:28

    nvm
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    eh eh eh
  • edited 2013-05-23 23:10:56
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    What sort of cow is that?

    I've lived around cows my whole life, and I have no clue.

    Resurgam.
  • Neither do I

    The only link that I can find is a business website for a guy who breeds them...and sells their semen.

    I understand that selling semen is necessary for people who want to breed such cows without buying such cows, but I still don't want to be poking around there.
  • "The Other Line" is legitimately one of my favorite things I've ever done.

    America The Beat Tape needs a retitle but I don't know what to call it.

  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Good-Night, Yarrun.
  • Sometimes I think about peak phosphorus.
  • Hitagi, the main female character, is a weak-looking girl with an "incurable disease". She is in the same class as Koyomi, but he has almost never heard her speak. When she was in the first year of high school, she encountered a mysterious crab, after which she became weightless. Ever since, she has avoided contact with everyone else, threatening everyone who discovers her secret. She called herself a tsundere and always speaks in an abusive style.

    This is one of the weirder descriptions of a character I've ever heard.

  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    WAIT A GOSH-DARN MINUTE.

    WHO THE HECK IS LOADING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR KINDLES ONTO MY COMPUTER.

    ALMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOND!
  • Aliroz_ said:

    WAIT A GOSH-DARN MINUTE.


    WHO THE HECK IS LOADING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR KINDLES ONTO MY COMPUTER.



    ad servers.

    if you don't like it I would recommend getting adblock.

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    adblock protects me from such filth!
  • Hitagi, the main female character, is a weak-looking girl with an "incurable disease". She is in the same class as Koyomi, but he has almost never heard her speak. When she was in the first year of high school, she encountered a mysterious crab, after which she became weightless. Ever since, she has avoided contact with everyone else, threatening everyone who discovers her secret. She called herself a tsundere and always speaks in an abusive style.

    This is one of the weirder descriptions of a character I've ever heard.

    The first series is ok, but it gets really really fanservicey in the second.


    Which is not to say that there isn't any in the first, but there's really cool dialogue and shit that makes it worthwhile
  • There is something that fascinates me about ereaders, the way they make what was once tied to a physical form ethereal and indestructible.


    because like i guess you could break an ereader, but like you could have all those ebooks like on a flash drive or upload them to a server somewhere and access them whenever.


    It's like they're free!


    if that makes any sense >_>
  • Naney said:

    Hitagi, the main female character, is a weak-looking girl with an "incurable disease". She is in the same class as Koyomi, but he has almost never heard her speak. When she was in the first year of high school, she encountered a mysterious crab, after which she became weightless. Ever since, she has avoided contact with everyone else, threatening everyone who discovers her secret. She called herself a tsundere and always speaks in an abusive style.

    This is one of the weirder descriptions of a character I've ever heard.

    The first series is ok, but it gets really really fanservicey in the second.


    Which is not to say that there isn't any in the first, but there's really cool dialogue and shit that makes it worthwhile
    I do not actually know what series this person is from, that's just the first result I got when I did a reverse image search.
  • She's from Bakemonogatari.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    It's like a falsity, an image of the real thing.  Like comparing a rose to a digital photo (not even a film photograph) of a rose.

    Where's the texture, the scent, the taste of the air around it, where's the sound?

    You've robbed an omni-sensory experience of every sense save sight; such sucks.
  • books < the things written in them

    the way things are written has changed throughout the ages--from the adoption of clay tablets, to scrolls, to hand-illustrated manuscripts, to the first printed books, to the modern age--and will continue to change into the future. What will never change is the value of the written word. It is that, and not what it is written with, that defines the value of a book.

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I rather like books as physical objects, although the content is ultimately the most important thing.
  • there's nothing wrong with preferring one to the other but the general nerd attitude of treating books as some kind of sacred object really irritates me. The book itself is nothing more than ink, paper, binding, and whatever was used to make the cover. Books have no particular value unless they're sole copies.
  • What is text but an image?


    A book, like all forms of art, is an image of what an author wishes to convey. By reading you take the image and reconstitute it in your head, filling the framework laid out in it with your mind using your life, viewpoints and experiences. That is what makes everyone see a piece of art ever so differently. The object itself is just an empty shell, a method through which a meeting of minds takes place.
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Ray Bradbury allowed his book Fahrenheit 451 to go on e-readers because he understood that the meaning behind the book and not the paper and ink is what matters
  • Ray Bradbury is still alive?

    That's rather surprising to me for some reason.

    I'm also surprised he's that receptive to ebooks, I thought he was sort of a luddite.

  • edited 2013-05-23 23:59:02
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Personally, I like the feel of an actual book with a cover, pages, binding, etc. I think it lends a sense of physicality to the work.

    ^he died not too long ago
  • edited 2013-05-23 23:59:49

    geez that was rather flowery of me, but you get my point.


    That said, i do definitely prefer physical books a lot of the time. There's nothing quite like a friend loaning you a thoroughly loved book.


    ^ also this.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    there's nothing wrong with preferring one to the other but the general nerd attitude of treating books as some kind of sacred object really irritates me. The book itself is nothing more than ink, paper, binding, and whatever was used to make the cover. Books have no particular value unless they're sole copies.

    Well I don't care what you think and there's nothing you can do about it.

    Mostly because you're right and I'm wrong; if I was going to be convinced, I would have been convinced a long time ago.
  • My favorite sort of book has to be one that was used by a college student with dog eared pages and cryptic notes in the margins.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    ^yes!
  • I actually have never had a Kindle, Nook, etc. and thus cannot really compare the two, but given the number of advantages ereaders have (adjustable text and lighting come to mind) I can't imagine why I wouldn't prefer one.

    Not that I read much anymore, I don't.

    Naney said:

    My favorite sort of book has to be one that was used by a college student with dog eared pages and cryptic notes in the margins.



    I had to do a report on the red scare once and used a book like that as a reference.

    Most of the notes seemed to compare it to another, similar book that I could not find.

  • I used my grandfather's Kindle once or twice, it was ok.
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