The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout
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^^^^And that's precisely the shit I have to deal with, all the time.But of course it's just me being whiny because fucking everyone has it way worse than me.I wish I had a gun.
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2012-05-12 01:41:28Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."I'm running out of steam for tonight. I should probably go to bed. Good night.
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2012-05-12 03:36:21
i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch>As utterly stupid as this is going to sound, it's hard being both depressed and an attention whore.
>A difficult life you lead.
Depression isn't exactly a joke.
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2012-05-12 03:42:43i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch:(
Good night, Forest.
(optional *hug*)
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2012-05-12 04:04:05I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boatI guess I am. Are you alright?
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2012-05-12 09:16:42You 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*stays out of Fluttershy's shed*
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So apparently the 360 port of minecraft is a port of version 1.6.6 of the game.
Of a game that's now on 2.0.0
this pisses me off so much.
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2012-05-12 10:29:03Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."Good morning, everyone.
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Well, they had to have been working on it at the same time as the normal version, right?The 360 port, that is.
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Yeah, but they seem to not have updated it at all since then.
Some things you can't do in 360 Minecraft:
- go to The End
- go to The Nether (the game apparently crashes)
- see Endermen at all
- see any villagers/villages.
these are some pretty significant differences
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2012-05-12 11:38:56Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."I'm starting to get worried that I'm hogging the Pokémon thread again. I went back and counted my posts. I have 29% of all the posts in the thread. This isn't too many, is it?
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2012-05-12 13:50:06 edited 2012-05-12 13:57:28Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."Oh yeah! Doesn't Megaman Zero 2 or 3 have several different levels of "Hard Mode"? I think there's one where Zero turns teal and another one where he turns black.EDIT: Upon further research, it appears that every game except the second has Hard Mode and Ultimate Mode. Gotcha.
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Any permutation of "Mega Man Zero" with a number attached to it is kind of an oxymoron grammatically, now that I think about it.
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2012-05-12 14:34:11Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."That reminds me of how the second season of the Digimon animé was called "Digimon Adventure Zero Two." It was apparently supposed to reference the fact that it took place in 2002. But a few people (not very many though) got confused and started calling the other seasons Zero One, Zero Three, and so on.
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2012-05-12 14:46:42You 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, 2022Apparently my subconscious is tired of grocery aisle signs that hang from the ceiling and wants to come up with different ways to mount them.Last week I dreamed about a store with aisle signs mounted on the aisle's endcaps. The store in today's dreams had some of their signs (but bizarrely, not all of them) hanging from a sort of cantilever thing bolted to the top of the shelving unit.
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Target does a variation of that; the grocerymarket section more often than not has hanging signs but there are signs on the endcaps in the rest of the store and sometimes in the grocery too.
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2012-05-12 15:34:04My dreams exceed my real life
Avatar presents a vision wherein Pandora/Digital Media/Entertainment Industry is supplied with unobtainium by natural right and wherein it is a monstrous interplanetary crime to ponder a challenge to its monopoly on its sources of wealth (we can easily see the plea for intellectual property protection here as well). At the same time it takes a seemingly “dissident” stance by condemning its assigned culprit (humanity depicted as the US/imperial earth military) for the actual way real concrete Pandora/Avatar The Commodity and the Enterprise has accumulated capital. It is a less noble other, humanity, that seeks to attain it violently; the noble Na’Vi (entertainment industry moguls) declare their innocence of this process of imperialist conquest and expropriation and capitalist exploitation. In the fantasy it is easy to recognise the flattering self image of Cameron and Speilberg and Jobs, these California supermen, fit and youthful, dressing down every day, in these blue cats, natural rulers of a magically abundant planet, an elite which very special individuals, with unique gifts, may join even if not born into it.
It’s also a plea for the ideological efficacy of infantile genres – Pandora=Digital Media. In Avatar, Digital Media is presented as it is figured by childish fantasy products, blue elves stuff, and celebrated in this form, so that this form itself the childishness of it, becomes (and we can hear all the fasho echos) the redemption and purification of the proprietor class, and the arrangements of property, positioned as if opposed to all its own evils (concentrated in the earth military and the damaged, diverse, vicious and weak humanity that operate it). Notice the fasho themes about the body after which the movie is named, the Avatar, the Na’Ci body, in contrast to the vast robot casing that the weak and depraved species/race – ours – requires. It seems hippie dippy yoga stuff, but there is a familiar elitist fasho tradition that has always borrowed from imagined others…”oriental” and “traditional”…to sell its white supremacism.
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2012-05-12 15:38:27READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis"the noble Na’Vi (entertainment industry moguls) "
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2012-05-12 15:41:16Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."I'm wondering how exactly this guy came up with the word "fasho." I'm assuming it comes partly from "fascist," but what else?And for that matter, why am I particularly interested in the random buzzwords used by angry people on the internet?
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2012-05-12 16:11:44READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --KlinotaxisYeah, but people are actually being civil and proving to be well informed and not attacking each other like douche bags.I'm loving it. We can use a break from the silliness every now and again. :P -
AAAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME!!! (*Murderous rampage*)Civility is overrated. :P
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The planet Pandora is as you say plainly an allegory of the telecom and entertainment industries. Plug in to this abundance. The two levels of allegory collapse and divide continually. Avatar=the avatar.
Pandora’s proprietor species has superficial features of “indigenous” cultures…(Margaret Laurent has detailed the borrowings from Vodun)…but the Na’Vi tribe is a fantasy of a superior race, natural lords of the entertainment and telecom industry/Pandora (and Pandora has always been the trope of technology), a fantasy self- image of the proprietors of our actual entertainment industry (Cameron, Jobs, etc), a Nietzschean self portrait as they imagine themselves in their natural state, as they ought be, before they were taxed or dragged down by modernity, democracy, slave morality – strong, homogenous, the blond beasts of Nietzschean dreams, blue, healthy, natural aristocrats. On horseback and dragonback. Flying their private jets.
This allegory of a *specific industry* (Pandora= Digital Media, the allegory collapses as avatar/avatar, nature-in-film/spectacle) is central to the film’s principal ideological mission, a self-justification: this industry is presenting itself as innocent of imperialism and capitalism. It is reinforcing an increasingly precarious commodity fetishism, repairing a threadbare veil on itself.
This industry – spectacle – is offering itself, its commodity entertainments, as the compensation for and redemption of the real planet earth and our species humanity (foils to the Na’Vi natural supermen in several too familiar ways – depraved, unhealthy/disabled, and diverse) it destroys. This thing – Avatar, the enterprise – destroys nature and humanity to produce itself, but one ought be pleased, it seduces its audience to think, because it offers a virtual substitute for what it has taken (the common, human health and – very significantly – freedom and leisure): it dresses its capitalist imperialist destruction up as its opposite for a wired elite to enjoy, to be compensated by (the pleasure of watching Avatar is offered a small elite of the planet’s population in exchange for the lost leisure of life without the need to sell labour power) and it reminds that elite (invited to identify with the Na’Vi and indeed to inhabit as their avatar the Na’Vi’s newest member and leader) of its real superiority and virtues and natural rights to this spectacle produced by the expropriation, enslavement, destruction of the not tall and blue not monogamous not homogenous not supermen and the earth they/we live on.