The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Great, my parents are coming back.

    Always the last one to know, I am.

    And no, it’s not because of the decoy email address that I gave my parents that I don’t use. I checked it, they sent me mothing.
  • my order from DuckDown has finally been shipped.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    *attempts to fall asleep, for real this time*
  • 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
    In engineering ethics class yesterday one of my classmates said piña coladas should be considered a fundamental human right

    Naturally, another classmate suggested that getting caught in the rain should be a human right as well

    Then the first classmate admitted he didn't actually know what a piña colada was
  • edited 2015-09-18 06:28:29
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Do you know why drop % worked years ago? Because they werent RNG dependant, they were random drops. Random back then actually followed a set average, so you would approach the average (and actual drop chance) if you killed said mob often enough.

    What we have these days is a horrid system because average no longer applies to it. You could kill a mob a thousand times and never approach the average on its common drops. That is why people complain about RNG.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    law of large numbers and central limit theorem
  • kill living beings
    i'm trying to understand what they're trying to say, and failing
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    i'm trying to understand what they're trying to say, and failing

    i think they thought that random numbers in MMOs used to not actually be random but make sure that the drop percentages would actually track or something?
  • kill living beings
    nyaa
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    nyaa

    kittytaxis
  • kill living beings
    movement of an organism in response to kitties
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    i guess kittytaxis could also be @___ but lol
  • Today I was dreaming away and someone rang a doorbell in my dream. As soon as the rang the doorbell, my phone alarm went off and woke me up.

    Couldn't have timed it better if I tried.
  • Watched a few Family Guy clips.

    I'm beginning to suspect that the show's true purpose is to create unlikable characters, each unlikable in their own way, and then find different ways to hurt them for the audience's amusement. 

    Cleveland's almost likable, I guess?
  • Just waiting for my timetable session to start.

    Feel bored not having anything to organise.
  • Still trying to justify my recent adoption of raw, uncooked ramen into my diet.

    -looks down at half-eaten packet of uncoooked ramen in my hand-

    well
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    This is one of the two Family Guy jokes I like
  • I got fucking cancelled on.

    Again.
  • -spends the morning trying to write five pages double spaced on eight pages of a book-

    -checks the prompt and realizes that, not only is it five pages max, not average, but it's due 6 hours later than I thought-

    -celebrates-

    -also realizes that I managed to get the prompt wrong, so the three pages I've managed to churn out are now mostly useless-

    Should I just do a pratfall now? Because I feel like I'm playing someone's clown.
  • 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
    A mysterious option showed up in my Avast scan settings after the last update

    image

    I'm tempted to try it out but I don't know if it's safe...
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    This is still a classic reaction vid:

  • 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
    Any grammar nerds around?

    I have a professor who likes to remind us that certain assignments are to be done "in pen"

    And...that phrasing seems odd to me?

    Surely it'd be more natural to say "in ink"...
  • edited 2015-09-18 15:36:57
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.

    Any grammar nerds around?

    I have a professor who likes to remind us that certain assignments are to be done "in pen"

    And...that phrasing seems odd to me?

    Surely it'd be more natural to say "in ink"...

    Well, you don't say that pencil writing is done in graphite, right? :P
  • "In pen" is perfectly fine because you are doing whatever work you're doing with a pen.
  • It's like when you need to answer a question sheet or fill in an exam paper, it'll say "fill in the blank in pen".
  • edited 2015-09-18 16:13:20
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    So, people saying "Glinda the good is evil!  Why didn't she tell Dorothy at the beginning that her slippers could take her home".

    So, in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the good witch that Dorothy meets in munchkinland when she first lands in Oz is not Glinda the Good (of the south).  Dorothy meets the good witch of the North, whose name I cannot remember.

    But North-witch doesn't know that the slippers can take Dorothy home, she doesn't know what magic they can do or if they can do magic.  (The only reason Glinda the south-witch knows at the end is because she has a book that writes down almost everything that happens in real time.  She doesn't have the time to read everything, but she can use her book to learn almost anything she needs to know.  Things just need to be brought to her attention first.). 

    As for "Why didn't the good witches free the munckins and winkies from East-witch and West-witch respectively", North-witch answers that herself in the book, she says that when she was younger, she would have been powerful enough to defeat east-witch, but now she is old and all she can do is stop east-witch from invading the north, and grant magical protection to as many munchkins as she can.

    As for "Why didn't the Good Witches use magic to take Dorothy home".  DOrothy asks that, but no witch is able to do that.  North-Witch tells Dorothy to go to the Wizard because the Wizard originally came to oz from Kansas in a hot-air balloon, and is the only person to have ever made it between the lands of Kansas and Oz.

    As for "Why didn't the good witch use magic to protect Dorothy from the beginning".  She did.  She gave Dorothy a magic kiss on the forehead as a protection charm, which is why the flying monkeys were unable to kill her (West-Witch sent the monkeys to kill, not capture).

    Glinda learns about the slippers after the Wizard's balloon goes off without Dorothy.  After Dorothy is stranded, the people of emerald city tell her to go to Glinda.  Dorothy consults Glinda, Glinda consults her book, and the rest is history.

    At no point do the good witches lie to Dorothy, manipulate her, withhold
    help or information, or do anything less than their best to help Dorothy.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    "In pen" is a fairly common phrase, and afaik it's not non-standard.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Sorry, it just bugs me that characters who were nothing but helpful and kind in the books get remembered as being cynical manipulators withholding crucial information.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    The Wizard is a monster though, right?
  • I would like to live in the Emerald City.

    Mostly because emerald green is my favourite colour.
  • I'd probably volunteer for stable duty with the horse of a different color just for the sake of variety

    That horse was the best part of the film
  • edited 2015-09-18 16:26:33
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Odradek said:

    The Wizard is a monster though, right?

    Yeah, he's a jerk who deposed the king Pastoria of Oz and collaborated with a wicked witch to hide the princess Ozma where nobody, not even Glinda's book, could ever find her.  His potions are all basically placebos, and the emerald city isn't even green,he just makes everyone wear green glasses, ostensibly to protect them from the glare (The peopel of Oz really are quite innocent and gullible).

    He kinda reforms in some of the later books, and accepts that he has, in fact, been a very bad man, and needs to not cheat people.
  • geez, what a jerk
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Aliroz said:

    So, people saying "Glinda the good is evil!  Why didn't she tell Dorothy at the beginning that her slippers could take her home".

    So, in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the good witch that Dorothy meets in munchkinland when she first lands in Oz is not Glinda the Good (of the south).  Dorothy meets the good witch of the North, whose name I cannot remember.

    But North-witch doesn't know that the slippers can take Dorothy home, she doesn't know what magic they can do or if they can do magic.  (The only reason Glinda the south-witch knows at the end is because she has a book that writes down almost everything that happens in real time.  She doesn't have the time to read everything, but she can use her book to learn almost anything she needs to know.  Things just need to be brought to her attention first.). 

    As for "Why didn't the good witches free the munckins and winkies from East-witch and West-witch respectively", North-witch answers that herself in the book, she says that when she was younger, she would have been powerful enough to defeat east-witch, but now she is old and all she can do is stop east-witch from invading the north, and grant magical protection to as many munchkins as she can.

    As for "Why didn't the Good Witches use magic to take Dorothy home".  DOrothy asks that, but no witch is able to do that.  North-Witch tells Dorothy to go to the Wizard because the Wizard originally came to oz from Kansas in a hot-air balloon, and is the only person to have ever made it between the lands of Kansas and Oz.

    As for "Why didn't the good witch use magic to protect Dorothy from the beginning".  She did.  She gave Dorothy a magic kiss on the forehead as a protection charm, which is why the flying monkeys were unable to kill her (West-Witch sent the monkeys to kill, not capture).

    Glinda learns about the slippers after the Wizard's balloon goes off without Dorothy.  After Dorothy is stranded, the people of emerald city tell her to go to Glinda.  Dorothy consults Glinda, Glinda consults her book, and the rest is history.

    At no point do the good witches lie to Dorothy, manipulate her, withhold
    help or information, or do anything less than their best to help Dorothy.


    This actually makes a lot of sense. Also, I remember that the Good Witches had already expended a lot of power in their youth defeating two of four Wicked Witches who ruled the four cardinal dominions of Oz, the two remaining in the East and West being particularly nasty.
  • also real talk I have no clue why people like the wizard of oz movie
  • edited 2015-09-18 16:34:34
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    @Sredni:  Yeah!  I'd forgotten about that.

    I think a former Wicked Witch of the North/south (defeated, and with very little power) is the one who collaborated with the wizard to hide Ozma.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    naney said:

    also real talk I have no clue why people like the wizard of oz movie

    it has catchy songs
  • edited 2015-09-18 16:35:12
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    naney said:

    also real talk I have no clue why people like the wizard of oz movie

    People watched it when they were kids and thus associate the film with childhood.

    Nothing wrong with that, really.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It also has a curiously strong LGBT following for the simple reason that it is about being an outsider who goes on wondrous adventures, is accepted in this strange new land, and yet still manages to return to one's place of origin and be accepted once more. That is a powerful fantasy for some people. And, well, really sad.
  • The ASPCA refused to allow the horses to be dyed; instead, technicians tinted them with lemon, cherry, and grape flavored powdered gelatin to create a spectrum of white, yellow, red, and purple. They had to be prevented from licking the colored powder off themselves between takes.

    considering what happened with the Witch and the Tin Man, this is probably for the better
  • edited 2015-09-18 16:38:57
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    I'll add that the Dark Side of the Moon connection, however spurious it is in reality, has endeared the film to stoner/hippie types, too,
  • edited 2015-09-18 16:39:48
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^^ True point. And I am glad the horses were all right.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    It also has a curiously strong LGBT following for the simple reason that it is about being an outsider who goes on wondrous adventures, is accepted in this strange new land, and yet still manages to return to one's place of origin and be accepted once more. That is a powerful fantasy for some people. And, well, really sad.

    and is accepting of people she meets, however unconventional or ostracized

    on a more superficial level, the movie has a lot of camp which appealed to gay audiences of the time, and of course there's the image of the rainbow

    Judy Garland actually wound up being something of a gay icon
  • The ASPCA refused to allow the horses to be dyed; instead, technicians tinted them with lemon, cherry, and grape flavored powdered gelatin to create a spectrum of white, yellow, red, and purple. They had to be prevented from licking the colored powder off themselves between takes.


    considering what happened with the Witch and the Tin Man, this is probably for the better
    > says that cannibalism is the better option in this case
    > doesn't realize it until five minutes later
  • 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 forgot my earbuds.

    I have an 8-hour shift of folding boxes coming up.

    It's going to be a long night.

    ._.
  • 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 know The Hound of the Baskervilles is as much Watson's story as it is Holmes's, seeing as how Watson does a great share of the detective work himself

    Even if he remains as dense as ever
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