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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:35 am

"The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." - Samuel Johnson
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Wed May 04, 2016 3:04 pm

Random, fun: happy Star Wars Day!

And, uh, live long and prosper.

EDIT: Hey, maybe May's great-granddaughter can be May the Fourth.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by gkscotty » Wed May 04, 2016 11:22 pm

I'm sorry Fernie, but I have to be grateful that you guys are having an Olympics.

Because it made this happen
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Mon May 23, 2016 11:20 am

Just found out that one person in the office next to ours has just had a baby, who has been named "Esme Adora".

Think the parents *might* possibly be Discworld fans.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by archonix » Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:16 pm

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Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.
— Piet Hein - Grooks
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:31 pm

^... that hurt. :doh:

Best thing I've seen all week.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by Meteorite » Wed Oct 19, 2016 2:47 am

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<gkscotty|drawing> most people play Pokemon games with GameFAQs or a Pokéwiki open
<gkscotty|drawing> you seem to have TVTRopes :P


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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:50 pm

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Re: Random & Fun

Post by archonix » Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:52 pm

I've read books written exactly like that.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:00 pm

Good point.

It sucked then too!

I guess a lot of this could be averted if writers could just realise that 99% of people aren't going to be mentally describing their own ebon locks and massive breasts and taut abs all the time. (Of course, you could have a character who actually thinks like that because they're narcissistic or really focused on their looks for some other reason. That might be interesting.)

Good grief, don't get me started on the "Mass Effect" sex scene where we get a bunch of fanservice shots of Shepard even though she's the *viewpoint character*, my head is still hurting from facepalming so hard.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by SirMustapha » Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:35 pm

But... but I don't write like that! And that's relevant, because everything that's published on the Internet is necessarily, specifically about ME.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by archonix » Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:53 pm

Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by c_nordlander » Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:07 am

Now there's a zombie apocalypse I could get behind!
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by gkscotty » Sat Nov 05, 2016 1:34 am

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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do bad things. - Jingo, Terry Pratchett
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Re: Random & Fun

Post by Meteorite » Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:38 am

What you say?!
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<gkscotty|drawing> most people play Pokemon games with GameFAQs or a Pokéwiki open
<gkscotty|drawing> you seem to have TVTRopes :P


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