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[Tellemurius]

For all of you asshats with LMGTFY: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.2206.IS:/

[mastahcheese]

For all of you asshats with LMGTFY: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.2206.IS:/

...Did the government just admit that they are less efficient than the internet?

[Flying Dice]

Ahaha, comm classes are absolutely dreadful. I literally went with my university's Honors program solely because doing so as a BA let me dodge having to take one, as well as avoiding taking the vast majority of the terrible survey courses. I've only needed to do three of those; one was mediocre with interesting labs, a second was Reaganite propaganda, and the third was a perfect example of why people teaching outside their disciplines is a bad idea. :x

[Frumple]

I actually had a pretty great first communications class -- it was dual-enrolled with a pretty killer teacher, back in high school. We were occasionally threatened with a wooden prop sword. Then I had to withdraw from the second one (with the same teacher) because between its piece choices -- which were frankly making depression issues notably worse, and is largely what triggered my current general-distaste for "classic" literature* -- and other things I ended up switching over to the local adult school and more-or-less teaching myself the last half-semester of high school. Which was basically the best pre-college school experience of my life, but whatev'.

Later took the second course again and basically coasted through it because that first teacher was quite awesome. Continued to mostly carry me straight up through the bachelors, with a little bit of tweaking for some of the later philosophy assignments.

* I got really goddamn sick of "Poor sex, death, and bigotry." Which is how I summarize the majority of classic style literature. For all that the skill involved in great literature is pretty impressive, it gets boring** thematically bloody fast.
** And honestly frustrating, because no, I don't want to bury myself in conceptual sewage 24/7. You don't have to drown in the banal view of the human condition to get the freaking point. Give me happy sex, adventure, and interesting set pieces, plox.

[Flying Dice]

Geez, now you've got me thinking of Victorian-era poetry.

[Steelmagic]

Apparently, everybody in my apartment block is getting kicked out. They just left notes and didn't tell anybody why they were getting kicked out or anything. They gave a 75 year old lady a week to pack up and get out. The hell, man, the new managers are dicks.

[Rose]

They're demolishing the building to make room for some highrises, and it's up to a couple of small robotic ufos to unite all the tenants together to resist the buyout.

[Neonivek]

They're demolishing the building to make room for some highrises, and it's up to a couple of small robotic ufos to unite all the tenants together to resist the buyout.

I remember that movie.

Goodness aliens seem to be willing to risk their lives for the most mundane of human activities.

[Mech#4]

Aliens invade. Turns out they're just plumbers.

[Moghjubar]

Aliens invade. Turns out they're just plumbers.

Sorry, but your princess is on another Earth.

[hops]

A site I frequent appears to have been consumed by another site without warning beforehand and without any notice that it ever happened on the site it now gives me at the same adress.
I suspect (and hope) its just a redirection bug or something, but its still quite odd.

It begins

[Neonivek]

Don't want to start a new thread

But does anyone believe in using time travel to solve problems?

Everytime I see a "Lets go back in time and kill hitler" aspect in a show or a "why don't you just kill hitler?" I still never understood that line of thinking too much.

In some ways yes you are saving lives, but it always felt like creating an entirely different world. Why throw away your present and future for a different one that might not even be an improvement?

And even then, didn't the aftermath of that villain create many good things and lessons that we NEED to carry into the future?

[hops]

Don't want to start a new thread

But does anyone believe in using time travel to solve problems?

Everytime I see a "Lets go back in time and kill hitler" aspect in a show or a "why don't you just kill hitler?" I still never understood that line of thinking too much.

In some ways yes you are saving lives, but it always felt like creating an entirely different world. Why throw away your present and future for a different one that might not even be an improvement?

And even then, didn't the aftermath of that villain create many good things and lessons that we NEED to carry into the future?

I'm pretty sure there had been so many of the similar argument against that idea that the "Kill Hitler" thing is essentially a Dead Horse Trope.

So I don't understand why you haven't noticed that your line of reasoning is pretty much the consensus already.

[Draignean]

My brain has autocorrect when it gets tired. Bad autocorrect.

I wrote this in the rough of my RTD,

"(...) were the only thing keeping his brain from bleeding its way to flavor."

Should have been failure. Apparently my brain went "Oh, well, it's got most of the same letters, must be mostly the same word" and just skipped on its merry way. I think I brain my damage.

[miauw62]

If it's a cooking RTD that could be valid...