The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Reyndersstraat 53, 2000 Antwerpen
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    naney said:

    i honestly

    don't actually care about gaming journalism

    Better send your application to Kotaku then :^)
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Gaming journalism

    noun

    the process of selling toys to children
  • (*low pitched thrumming sound*)
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    archive.moe/tv/thread/48317244/
    This thread died too young
  • I don't understand why people think Kotaku are hilarious.
  • kill living beings
    the class about building robots is the most boring. what the fuck, educational universe
  • edited 2014-09-03 18:53:38
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    naney said:

    i honestly

    don't actually care about gaming journalism

    I'm starting to think that the fact that "games journalism" is seen as a valid term at all (as opposed to games criticism, which is definitely a valid concept) says a lot about gaming culture.

    After all, nobody within film culture would seriously claim that there is such a thing as "film journalism", although there certainly is film criticism. They don't need the sort of self-validation that the term "journalism" implies like gaming culture does."
  • naney said:

    i honestly

    don't actually care about gaming journalism

    I'm starting to think that the fact that "games journalism" is seen as a valid term at all (as opposed to games criticism, which is definitely a valid concept) says a lot about gaming culture.

    After all, nobody within film culture would seriously claim that there is such a thing as "film journalism", although there certainly is film criticism. They don't need the sort of self-validation that the term "journalism" implies like gaming culture does.
    I dunno man, I watched the sundance channel one day.
  • im starting to think thoughts
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    What's wrong with thinking thoughts?
  • > do not trust this magazine's review scores

    Wait, why would I ever trust review scores, from anyone?
  • > do not trust this magazine's review scores

    Wait, why would I ever trust review scores, from anyone?

    because they are knowledgeable on the subject and/or their tastes are similar to yours
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    trust no one

    everyone is part of an organisation opposing you

    make your own organisation

    oppose those you don't trust
  • 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
    Good news: My copy of Phoebe and Her Unicorn arrived!

    Bad news: Stupid UPS bent it all up in shipping :(
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Scott McCloud in his time suggested some things to make webcomics better (way before they got big), like using paywalls. Eventually he would be proven wrong about this as public opinion completely turned against paywalls. I forget what other bad ideas he had about webcomics.

    However I think what he illustrates about emotion and action in comics, about how comics are read to be really spot-on. The man is nothing if not highly technically proficient.
  • 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
    worldsspiciestchef reblogged mnxmnkmnd:
    matlab is basically the same thing as literary criticism
    #it's so true #right waiterman?
  • kill living beings
    the ironic thing is that i actually retweeted that post about how science is basically literary criticism earlier
  • so science is matlab

    hmm
  • matlab = literary criticism?
  • kill living beings
    yes
  • edited 2014-09-03 20:44:14

    but isn't the problem with matlab the fact that it requires overly specific answers/syntax/whatever?
  • kill living beings
    nah the problem is that it's horrible shit mainly
  • edited 2014-09-03 21:01:40

    I strenuously object to the characterization of literary criticism as horrible shit!
  • 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
    naney said:

    but isn't the problem with matlab the fact that it requires overly specific answers/syntax/whatever?

    I think you're thinking of MyMathLab

    MATLAB is a programming language used by engineers
  • ah yes i am

    herpaderp
  • kill living beings
    naney said:

    I strenuously object to the characterization of literary criticism as horrible shit!

    oh i forgot about that conversation. i just despite matlab. litcrit is fine probably
  • and i just pointed out that the professor was accidentally letting us out half an hour early >_>

    im on a roll tonight
  • 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
    Caroline: Lindsay! What’s up, sister-of-mine?

    Lindsay: Caroline? Wait, how did you get in here?

    Caroline: Oh, is the library closed or something?

    Lindsay: No, but I told security not to let—never mind. What is it you want?

    Caroline: Oh, nothing really, I just thought I’d stop by and see how my favoritest sister is doing.

    Lindsay: I’m your only sister, Caroline.

    Caroline: I don’t see how that makes my statement any less true.

    Lindsay: *sigh* I’m working, Caroline. Did you come here all the way from Queen City?

    Caroline: Sure did! I took the last train to Colerain…and hey, that almost rhymes!

    Lindsay: Indeed it does. You’re here ‘cause you want money, aren’t you?

    Caroline: Of course not! I just thought we could hang out for a while, sister-to-sister.

    Lindsay: So you decided to come interfere while you knew I was at work?

    Caroline: Well, you wouldn’t answer my texts, so…

    Lindsay: *sigh*

    Caroline: So, since I’m not gonna make it back to Queen City for the night, can I crash at your place?

    Lindsay: I live in a dorm, Caroline.

    Caroline: So?

    Lindsay: So no.

    Caroline: Ah, right…ok then. Well, Colerain’s a big city. I’ll just find somewhere to hang out until morning…say, is this library open 24 hours?

    Lindsay: Not to you.

    Caroline: Oh. Ok, then. So, uh, wanna go out for coffee or something once you’re done working?
     We’ve got a lot of catching-up to do, sister-style.

    Lindsay: Please stop saying “sister”.

    Caroline: Right. “Sibling” it is.

    Lindsay: Whatever. I’ll meet you at The Late Night Bean at 11:30.

    Caroline: Late Night Bean! Where is that?

    Lindsay: Ask Siri, Caroline. I’m busy!

    Caroline: Right! See you at 11:30 then.

    Lindsay: I’ll be there…probably.

  • This post applies to all situations.
  • 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
    (Fifteen minutes later, at the library’s front desk.)

    Lindsay: Jimmy, why did you let Caroline in here?

    Jimmy: That was Caroline?

    Lindsay: Please don’t say what I think you’re about to say.

    Jimmy: I thought she was you.

    Lindsay: Did you think I just went in the back room and changed my clothes for the hell of it?

    Jimmy: I don’t know, I didn’t think about it!

    Lindsay: I know you didn’t!

    Jimmy: So would you rather I risk turning away our most valuable employee just because her identical twin happens to be an obnoxious freeloader?

    Linday: If you ever see me come in here with grimy hair and stained t-shirt, feel free to turn me away.

    Jimmy: Are you sure about that? I’ve seen you during finals week.

    Lindsay: Not funny, Jimmy.

    Jimmy: Look, I know you can’t stand your sister, but this isn’t the way to go about it. You just gotta be honest with her. You won’t always have campus security to fight your battles for you, you know?

    Lindsay: I dunno, if I eventually get a tenure position…

    Jimmy: Not the point, Lindsay. Look, just go out and have that coffee or whatever with your sister and face whatever issues you two have. At worst, you’ll have something new to gripe about when you get here tomorrow.

    Lindsay: *sigh* Fine.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    “WORDS. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO WORDS YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD WORDS WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE WORDS I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. WORDS. WORDS.”

    ...how many people who quote this actually have read "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"?
  • not a single one
  • rump shaker
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    butt meat
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I read the comic version of I Have No Mouth.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    “WORDS. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO WORDS YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD WORDS WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE WORDS I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. WORDS. WORDS.”

    ...how many people who quote this actually have read "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"?

    I read I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Good. Reading Harlan Ellison is generally a good thing.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    (I will also assume the same of Fossilmaiden because she seems pretty clued into that sort of thing.)
  • kill living beings
    i thought it was kind of boring honestly

    i liked his i robot though
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I liked that story.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    To be completely honest... I have read dozens of Ellison stories, and I still haven't finished it. Although in terms of Ellison stories I need to finish, I give "The Deathbird" higher priority.
  • My school had an anthology of comics written by Harlan Ellison.

    My favorites were the one with the painter that exposed the town's indelicacies and the one with the rats.
  • 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
    image
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    is it bad that I like (some) games but tend to dislike gamer "culture"
  • kill living beings
    yes give me your copies of Advance Wars
  • Okay, so that anthology was called Dream Corridor, and the rat story was, in fact, called "Rat Hater". 

    I may have just bought a copy that was only six dollars on Amazon. Maybe. You can't prove anything.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    ^^no
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