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[Vattic]

Woke to the sound of thunder. I love a good thunder storm. It's only a shame I can't see the lightning.

Yeah, but it was very interesting, what with Jerry

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having picked up those lines from a sappy romance movie.

I honestly thought the android had achieved original thought, but sadly no.

GiTS is pretty good, although I don't understand why Section 9's droid army are all modeled after the same young woman (I would've made them an army of gas-mask wearing mooks with deep voices)... aside from eye candy of course

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It turns out that's a real film albeit one I've never seen.

Having them all identical makes sense for cost and identification reasons. Being modelled on a young woman really could be an eye candy thing considering how obscene some of the camera angles are in that series.

[MaximumZero]

My daughter has learned a new trick: Ninja Vanish.

Earlier, I half-awoke from deadsleep to check on her, as she had crawled into my bed because of nightmares. She was tucked under my arm and fast asleep. When I woke up an hour or so later, I had a blanket stuffed under my arm, and she was nowhere to be found. It's a good thing her nana was home, and happy to watch her.

[Itnetlolor]

GiTS is pretty good, although I don't understand why Section 9's droid army are all modeled after the same young woman (I would've made them an army of gas-mask wearing mooks with deep voices)... aside from eye candy of course

No, keep the voice youthful and childish, and have their battle cry something simple, yet chilling to the bone.

Spoiler: Oh, and it would be a good idea to have this posted in the offices where they work as a forewarning. (click to show/hide)

[freeformschooler]

I'm happy that my ability to draw (when I do it seriously) has improved some over the summer. I used to get jealous because my brother has an incredible talent for drawing, it just comes to him naturally, whereas I have to work hard to learn and understand each thing. But it's all making more sense now.

[Darvi]

On a boat motherf*ckers!

[freeformschooler]

HAPPY THREAD 2X COMBO! I'm getting my pseudo gaming laptop tomorrow! Oh, computer games, how I have missed ye so.

Also I'm happy because I had another chance to bug Darvi about something meaningless and trivial again.

[Realmfighter]

I made a community fort.

[Vector]

Pray tell, Lady Vector, enlighten this poor rube.

What is said book about?

Mostly, it's about the appropriation of various diseases to make rhetorical points, often with some sort of moral judgment involved on the sufferers.  First leprosy (to a lesser degree, scrofula), then tuberculosis (consumption) and syphilis, now cancer.  The romanticization of insanity, instability, and sickly frailness.  Emotional projections based on an inability to determine the source of a disease and prevailing economic fears of the time.  The private and public natures of sickness.  Cancer as a call to genocide, in the excision of tumors requiring the destruction of a small amount of healthy flesh as well.

Anyway, it's pretty good, for something written in 1970 and only 90 pages long.

[Ochita]

I made a community fort.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Mindmaker]

Just finished reading Illness as Metaphor!

You need to stop bending time.
It's not fair that you're the only person, who has 48-hour days.

[Vector]

Haha, well, I burned pretty much all of yesterday on one little 90-page book >_<  That and a little German homework, a hike in the woods, and tea with my parents, but... mostly that book and taking notes on it.


Today's happies: went to a yardsale and I now own some German books!  I can understand a few sentences, so now if I seriously study my German and Russian, things should keep going smoothly.  I'm kind of looking forward to finding out what they're about.

[Solifuge]

Good luck with that! If you even need good suggestions for German texts, or a hankering for some extra tutelage, I do have a friend who is majoring in the language, who expressed an interest in tutoring folks for practice.

Anyway, speaking of the aforementioned fellow, he and I will be livestreaming some stuff soon; namely a game called "The Stanley Parable," which is apparently a postmodern deconstruction of what it is to be a video game. I'm really looking forward to it!

Before that, though, my friends and I decided to eat Taco Bell... and remind ourselves of why we don't eat fast food anymore. I wish our digestive systems the fortitude to see it through this ordeal.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

The Stanley Parable is pretty awesome.

[Jopax]

Remeber the guy who made the machete firing slingshot?

He made a gattling slingshot now

[Vector]

Good luck with that! If you even need good suggestions for German texts, or a hankering for some extra tutelage, I do have a friend who is majoring in the language, who expressed an interest in tutoring folks for practice.

For practice?

Well, well, well!  I may have to take advantage of that.  Thanks for the tip <3