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  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Aliroz said:

    If I could go back in time I would visit Franz Kafka and tell him that in the future he is a beloved author and regarded as one of the greats, and I would give him a hug.

    aww <3
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-06 21:25:09
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    NEA, NEH, IMLS, CPB:  defunded in new budget.

    School Voucher System, Military, keystone pipeline, NASA, Planned Parenthood, Highway System:  Still funded.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-06 21:25:20
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Of course, the things I dislike (or sometimes have problems with) are good things that need to exist, so it's probably for the best my views aren't the only thing represented in the government.  The world would be a mess if things were done only according to my limited understanding.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-06 21:30:01
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Gah, the knowledge that your ideal world would actually be a terrifying dystopia.

    @CentralAvenue:  How do I do self-indulgent fantasy without feeling guilty and stupid?
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    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 just say I hire competent people to do the actual governing and keep my subjects happy
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    Aliroz said:

    If I could go back in time I would visit Franz Kafka and tell him that in the future he is a beloved author and regarded as one of the greats, and I would give him a hug.

    List of literary greats that we need to go back and hug:

    Kafka, Poe, Plath, Owen...
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Also H. Beam Piper.

    Not so much, "Hug", as, "tackle to the ground and tell him not to be a dang fool and to wait just a little longer".
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Central Avenue said:

    I just say I hire competent people to do the actual governing and keep my subjects happy

    I got outsted (thus, becoming Librarian Rozzy).  Same Basic Principle.

    Kill the Paynes and become the absolute monarch you were always meant to be!
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-12 01:50:04
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    The Sea Will Claim Everything is utterly great.

    Man, that Bob the Spider.  He's making a rock opera under that rock, and he made a galleon under that mushroom.

    I could spend all day looking at the book titles.

    Das Kapital, volume IV, by Karl Marx In real life, there are only three volumes, so this is hilarious

    Oneiropolis University Dictionary of Nonexistent Terms (First Edition)  I need this book in my life.

    Cellular Degeneration in the Brain of the Objectivist by Dr Crustaceous McShellfish I wonder what Dr. McShellfish is a doctor of, or if Dr. is simply his first name.

    The Long Goodbye by Harper Lee would be an incredible read.  Somebody needs to write this as a fanfic.

    The Demon-Haunted World:  Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan This makes me imagine that in this world, Carl Sagan was, like, a mad-scientist witch-hunter or something, always finding demons and heretics with SCIENCE.
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Happy birthday, friend!
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Reconfiguring the Crocodile, by Frank Buaya ohmigosh I get the joke here!  Buaya/buwaya/buhaya is, in several polynesian languages, the world for crocodile.  How many games have Polynesian Crocodile Linguistic jokes in them!

    Between Odradek getting me this, and Yarrun getting me Sunless Sea, I've got hours and hours of mad fun and interesting lore to look forward to.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Crystal said:

    Happy birthday, friend!

    Awww, thank you.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I thought it seemed like an Aliroz game.

    Fun fact, the creator, Jonas Kyratzes, is Greek and the game was apparently partially inspired by the Greek debt crisis.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    This game has a weird obsession with Communism and it's hilarious.  Red diamond?  COMMUNIST.  Red Mushroom?  COMMUNIST.  

    Also, apparently this is a universe where there is a book that is The Complete Dark Tower by Steven King.  Can I have that.... can Steven King have that?


  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-14 02:00:16
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Hmm, I'll make a thread for this.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-15 02:04:36
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Anyways, it's strange to me that admins and mods can be muted here.  I always thought of admins as having absolute power in a forum, and mods near-absolute power, because that's been my experience elsewhere.  I know I'd be an utter tyrant if I was a moderator or admin in a forum.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I love Robert Fitzgerald's translations...

    While he spoke 
    an old hound, lying near, pricked up his ears 
    and lifted up his muzzle. 
    This was Argos,
    trained as a puppy by Odysseus, 
    but never taken on a hunt before 
    his master sailed for Troy. The young men, afterward,
     hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, 
    but he had grown old in his master’s absence. 

    Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last 
    upon a mass of dung before the gates— 
    manure of mules and cows, piled there until 
    field hands could spread it on the king’s estate. 
    Abandoned there, and half destroyed with flies, 
    old Argos lay. 
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    But when he knew he heard
     Odysseus’ voice nearby, he did his best 
    to wag his tail, nose down, with flattened ears, 
    having no strength to move nearer his master. 
    And the man looked away, 
    wiping a salt tear from his cheek; but he 
    hid this from Eumaeus. Then he said: 

    “I marvel that they leave this hound to lie 
    here on the dung pile; he would 
    have been a fine dog, from the look of him, 
    though I can’t say as to his power and speed 
    when he was young. You find the same good build 
    in house dogs, table dogs landowners keep 
    all for style.” 
    And you replied, Eumaeus: 
    “A hunter owned him—but the man is dead 
    in some far place. If this old hound could show 
    the form he had when Lord Odysseus left him, 
    going to Troy, you’d see him swift and strong. 
    He never shrank from any savage thing 
    he’d brought to bay in the deep woods; on the scent 
    no other dog kept up with him. Now misery 
    has him in leash. His owner died abroad, 
    and here the women slaves will take no care of him. 
    You know how servants are: without a master 
    they have no will to labor, or excel. 
    For Zeus who views the wide world takes away 
    half the manhood of a man, that day 
    he goes into captivity and slavery.” 

    Eumaeus crossed the court and went straight forward 
    into the megaron among the suitors; 
    but death and darkness in that instant closed 
    the eyes of Argos, who had seen his master, 
    Odysseus, after twenty years. . . .
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    For some reason, nobody ever seems to study the environmental degradation done by communist nations.  Considering China and Soviet Russia, I'd say that communism is probably worse for the environment than capitalism is.  In the alternate universe where the right, rather than the left, took environmentalism, this would probably be talked about more.
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    the aral sea is one of the more famous examples of environmental destruction.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    This is probably the reason for Sam Kriss's nature phobia
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    as for a reason it's the whole iron curtain thing in large part, i imagine. people might defect in response to a massacre but probably not to an extinction, you know?

    otherwise western propaganda would have been super environmentalist
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Klinotaxis said:

    the aral sea is one of the more famous examples of environmental destruction.

    yep
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    My thoughts on Sovereign Citizens:  Roads, hospitals, and the internet exist because of society, because of people operating under some form of the rule of law, or some sort of civilization.  Some people, like me, can only function with medication, which only exists in civilization.  To be a Sovereign Citizen, you need to give up the benefits of government and taxation and bureaucracy or else you're a hypocrite.  It really galls me how these people who benefit from infrastructure are so negative about said infrastructure, especially when it is the only way I can live and function.

    Taxation isn't theft!  It's the only way society can work!  Please stop advocating for societal change which would collapse the bureaucracy and infrastructure of the world and leave people like me dead!
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    A fair and understandable opinion.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Aliroz said:

    My thoughts on Sovereign Citizens:  Roads, hospitals, and the internet exist because of society, because of people operating under some form of the rule of law, or some sort of civilization.  Some people, like me, can only function with medication, which only exists in civilization.  To be a Sovereign Citizen, you need to give up the benefits of government and taxation and bureaucracy or else you're a hypocrite.  It really galls me how these people who benefit from infrastructure are so negative about said infrastructure, especially when it is the only way I can live and function.


    Taxation isn't theft!  It's the only way society can work!  Please stop advocating for societal change which would collapse the bureaucracy and infrastructure of the world and leave people like me dead!
    Click here
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    That is a good question. Everything I've read about ultra-libertarian types indicates that they at least expect functioning courts, since they lurve contracts to death, but with no government and no rule of law, how would you enforce it? Do what the Mafia did and whack anyone that doesn't comply? Assume good faith, hope for the best, and get milked for all you're worth? Or do you put your ideology aside, do what's best for you and your friends, and, well, form some sort of government?

    We've been seeing this in real life with SIlicon Valley types. First they invent a completely LIBRE currency, then they learn why we have banks and financial regulations after they've been robbed a few times (or had the equivalent of a stock market crash, sometimes multiple crashes). Then they try to re-engineer food with LIBRE ingredients, and find out why food safety regulations exist when they end up with spoiled ingredients, or the end product is full of lead or mercury.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    What is LIBRE?
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    It's Spanish for "free", but here I'm using it to mean "without restriction", much like how some Free Software and Open Source advocates use it. 
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-24 23:04:54
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    With hacking and leaks, it seems that the adoption of digital communication and information was mistake. Harder to falsify paper, harder to get classified documents when they are stored in microfilm in a locked safe.

    Clearly, we need to go back to stone carvings.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    image

    You wanted to know what my cat looked like
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    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
    black 'n' white
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-04-25 22:28:09
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Yo, commies. Soviet Russia's Breadlines, 60-hour workweeks, and seven-day workdays.

    Communists plz explain why this is an improvement to the working man.

  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    most modern communists aren't so hot on the dictatorship of the proletariat and command economy bits, though i'm not always clear on the preferred alternative
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Klinotaxis said:

    most modern communists aren't so hot on the dictatorship of the proletariat and command economy bits, though i'm not always clear on the preferred alternative

    What else even is there to Communism once you remove those?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Aliroz said:

    Klinotaxis said:

    most modern communists aren't so hot on the dictatorship of the proletariat and command economy bits, though i'm not always clear on the preferred alternative

    What else even is there to Communism once you remove those?
    Well
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    i don't know what socialism actually is
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    "Is The Alaska Permanent Fund A Socialist"-the greatest thread in socialist wonk Twitter history, locked by a moderator after 42069 pages of heated debate
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    the funniest part of that joke is the idea of moderation on twitter
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I just hope you are alright.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    :(

    I am sorry
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Sorry to hear about your breakup.
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    -hugs the gator-
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    :(
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    :(
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Unrelated:  I love this time of year.  Going on hour-long walks, listening to birdsong, climbing trees.

    Today is a good day.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life

    I forget do you live in Utah, or somewhere else in the Southwest USA?
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Northern Utah.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Ah

    It is cold and rainy right here now
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Aliroz said:

    Northern Utah.

    Are you in Chaffetz's district, perchance?
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