The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • > Politics is a video game

    Curiously, I'm trying to design a politics video game.

    Not one of those election campaign simulators where you play a candidate and try to get elected.  No.

    One where you play for control of the policymaking process.  Where you play to control the legislature the way you'd control territories in a game of Risk.
  • Because, let's be honest, that's more like how it really happens.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    sounds like an interesting concept
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
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  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    yup yup
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Miko said:

    larry the cherry and bob the knob

    Are you making a mockery of ABC Inc characters
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    UPWHERERASTHAYWLKA
    UWPERWHERTHEYRUN
    UPERWEWERERERETHERERETEYSHAYALLDAYINNNTRHESUN
    WANDASEREKOMGFREEEWOSJJICOULDBEPARHTOGFTHATWAORLDS
  • edited 2014-01-11 18:34:55
    More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    Anonus said:

    Miko said:

    larry the cherry and bob the knob

    Are you making a mockery of ABC Inc characters
    I'm being original and making my own characters. }:<
  • i now have soup
  • Oh noes, Puppies ate the lawn gnomes, now the Cat crusaders are revving up their politic war machines to overthrow the bathroom treaty.

    Without the bathroom treaty, the Furnished couch pillows will enact land donations to further the Armchair empire, thus guaranteeing them a spot on the Kitchen sink's council.


  • Do you even know what that means for the port cities of Refrigerator and Drying Machine? The FCP have been trying to limit those ports ever since the Beanie Baby Boomers.

    The KSC has enough pull with Queen Mop and King Broom to do that sort of thing, the only other thing that could do that is Sire Toothpaste and the Madam Hairdryer.
  • The Dogs must've been paid off by someone to have desecrated the Cat's Lawn Gnome sanctuary.

    But I can't think of anyone on good standings with the Dog leader Squeakims that this kind of outcome... Unless, could it be from the Grass kingdom of the west, the Red Rose of Garden?

    Perhaps, why didn't Bar of the Chocolate clan warn Squeakims of the dangers?

    Someone must've diverted his attention, quickly, you must find the Bar of Chocolate, he will calm down the Cats. vs. Dog debate in the Halls of TV. maybe then we'll stop the ensuing chaos, or at least slow it down.
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    If I had any musical talents I would make a mashup of this song and Call me maybe just for the pun

  • I am now in a position where I consistently get only Youtube ads in languages I don't speak.
  • I don't even speak Dutch, which like half of my family speaks fluently.

    Nor Ukranian, which I learned in gradeschool.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i wish i spoke languages other than English

    ou, je voudrais parler toutes les langues comme une langue

    fluently
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    not toutes les langues fluently

    that would be ridiculously ambitious

    but like, i wanna be able to switch between ways of speaking seamlessly and without mistake
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I just saw Frozen at the theater.

    Good movie, I like it.

    But, ugh, those trolls and that song.  Waaay worse than Hunchback's gargoyles.
  • I would like to be able to speak, really, any of my ancestral tongues (Dutch, German, Belgian, Russian...) you feel real isolated at family gatherings when you're one of like five or so monoglots there.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    sometimes i wonder if it's impolite to want to learn Welsh

    often people speak it when they're out in public because they want to limit the number of people who will be able to listen in

    that's not why i want to know it, but still

    it's not like it's the most useful language to know, after all; i just feel it's important to take an interest in the language of a country if you're spending time there
  • edited 2014-01-11 21:31:24
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Saesneg braint
  • I think at worst it would be seen as a little Welsh-weaboo-ey (welshaboo-ey?). Even then, I kind of doubt it.

    But I am not a descendent of Rhodri's subjects, so I wouldn't know, really.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    maybe that should be Sais braint, not sure
  • I will say (and I don't mean any offense) that I have always found Welsh a very odd language. It doesn't really sound like any other European tongues I've ever heard.
  • edited 2014-01-11 21:34:54
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^^ it feels kind of welshaboo-ey, tbh

    but like if someone came to England and didn't take an interest in the language and culture i'd be kind of annoyed, tbh

    so i don't know

    ^ maybe because it's Celtic?  are you familiar with Gaelic (Irish or Scottish)?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    touhou
  • The United States has no real pan-regional culture to speak of, so I can't really identify with that unfortunately.

    I suppose I could understand someone being annoyed by someone who's very obviously not a Pennsylvanian around here--Southerners and in particular people from New Jersey tend to stand out like a sore thumb--but on the other hand I feel like holding that against a person is rude, especially if they're just passing through (which is probably more common between states of the US than between European countries though I wouldn't really know for certain).
  • edited 2014-01-11 21:38:21
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    oh, i wouldn't be annoyed by somebody for being obviously non-English

    it's fine to display your heritage, and take pride in it

    but if somebody was living in England but regarded England with disdain and didn't bother to learn the language, that would bug me
  • Minnesota! It's not just for Lutherans Anymore
  • Tachyon said:

    ^^^ it feels kind of welshaboo-ey, tbh

    but like if someone came to England and didn't take an interest in the language and culture i'd be kind of annoyed, tbh

    so i don't know

    ^ maybe because it's Celtic?  are you familiar with Gaelic (Irish or Scottish)?

    I have never heard either spoken, no.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    incidentally, i wondered about what you said about Texan accents, so i looked up videos of people speaking with Texan accents on YouTube and they sounded pretty normal to me

    then i looked up Pennsylvanian accents and they sounded a lot less familiar, somehow
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    I think at worst it would be seen as a little Welsh-weaboo-ey (welshaboo-ey?). Even then, I kind of doubt it.

    But I am not a descendent of Rhodri's subjects, so I wouldn't know, really.

    What's wrong with an enthusiasm for Wales?
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Minnesota! It's not just for Lutherans Anymore

    Darn it!  I like single-religion places (places where everyone is the same religion).
  • 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
    Centralian Princess Spends Entire Weekend in Bedroom; Government Accomplishes Nothing
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I also like religious diversity, but I really think it's cool to have a place where a religion is dominant because I like religion.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Centralian Princess Spends Entire Weekend in Bedroom; Government Accomplishes Nothing

    except interrupting the Konungr of Rozburg's triplepost.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Seriously, stop doing that.
  • Tachyon said:

    incidentally, i wondered about what you said about Texan accents, so i looked up videos of people speaking with Texan accents on YouTube and they sounded pretty normal to me

    then i looked up Pennsylvanian accents and they sounded a lot less familiar, somehow

    I have heard that southern accents are essentially British accents but much much slower, so that could be why.

    I have a pretty standard Lancaster / Pennsylvania Deutsch accent myself.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I have no accent.
  • edited 2014-01-11 21:50:11
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ never heard that before... wouldn't have thought it, but i guess it might be true

    ^ everyone says that, and it's never true
  • also speaking with an exaggerated Lancasterian accent is a great way to agitate Southerners and people who wish they were Southerners.

    "hwo wantz some schufly pie?"
  • 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 think I have a pretty standard Midwestern accent...the kind that Americans think of as the "default" accent (since it's often used by newscasters and the like)
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Actually I kinda wonder about it. I lived almost all of my childhood in upstate New York, so I must've grown up speaking like however they do up there. But now I've lived more than a decade in Pennsyltucky, so I wonder if my speech has changed any.

  • this is so surreal

    you have to go up further north before you get people with accents this thick tho
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I have a slight Southern accent, perhaps inherited from my dad
  • Actually I kinda wonder about it. I lived almost all of my childhood in upstate New York, so I must've grown up speaking like however they do up there. But now I've lived more than a decade in Pennsyltucky, so I wonder if my speech has changed any.

    You live near Pittsburgh don't you? You probably have what people around here would call a Steelworker accent.
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