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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14946983 times)

Neonivek

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #86550 on: September 24, 2015, 10:49:24 pm »

I just realized how incredibly made up some of the Native American tribes names are. Kickapoo for example.

I only looked it up because I was looking at Native American tribe representation in movies and how they tend to be lumped together into one nation. Right down to how all the Native Americans seem to speak the same language in these films and shows.
It is pretty terrible. Imagine a Chinese movie about a native son going to Europe, and everyone from Portugal to Russia is Swedish.

I... need to watch that movie... now!
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« Reply #86551 on: September 25, 2015, 12:46:01 am »

Well... Between the Goth, Langobards, and the Rus, there's not much of Europe that hasn't been conquered by pseudoswedes at one time or another, so that definitely seems like a fair portrayal to me :P
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« Reply #86552 on: September 25, 2015, 01:12:13 am »

So, given that to die also meant to have an orgasm, when I say "everyone will die" it can also mean "everyone penis orgasm"?
Wrong will. The euphemism was for the noun, not the modal verb. You know, like "an iron will".

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I just realized how incredibly made up some of the Native American tribes names are. Kickapoo for example.

I only looked it up because I was looking at Native American tribe representation in movies and how they tend to be lumped together into one nation. Right down to how all the Native Americans seem to speak the same language in these films and shows.
It is pretty terrible. Imagine a Chinese movie about a native son going to Europe, and everyone from Portugal to Russia is Swedish.

I... need to watch that movie... now!

This idea should be crossposted to the "Original Storie/Movie Ideas" thread
« Last Edit: September 25, 2015, 01:19:49 am by Bohandas »
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« Reply #86553 on: September 25, 2015, 03:11:01 am »

I'm like, back home and stuff. And there are twelve new pages but whatever.
Also Australia is fucking weird. And I can't remember how to decipher my floor-based filing system. Shite.
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« Reply #86554 on: September 25, 2015, 03:18:41 am »

Also Australia is fucking weird.
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« Reply #86555 on: September 25, 2015, 03:23:13 am »

EVERYWHERE IS WEIRD

Nowhere really feels like home. :(
Man, this shit is getting all deep and existential and depressing all of a sudden. Whoaaaah.   
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« Reply #86556 on: September 25, 2015, 03:54:37 am »

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« Reply #86557 on: September 25, 2015, 04:31:59 am »

My brother was disappointed because he plays League of Legends and found out that Gold Rank players aren't actually any better then silver... they are just Silver players who read a tier list.

Also watched Vixen and her "Great feat of strength" to prove she has magical powers was to lift a wooden kitchen table with one arm... Yeah I am sorry unless that is solid oak (and unless it took place in Europe it will never be!) that isn't exactly difficult.
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« Reply #86558 on: September 25, 2015, 04:33:43 am »

I thought silver was full of Bronze players who read tier lists.
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« Reply #86559 on: September 25, 2015, 05:11:48 am »

The real secret of LoL is that everyone below high Diamond is more or less the same. Bronze -> Silver is a basic understanding of the game, ping <300, and <2s reaction times. Silver -> Gold is being able to CS half-decently. Gold -> Plat is slightly better mechanics. Plat -> High Diamond is a fundamental integration of all lesser skills, map awareness, active investment into maintaining and denying vision, objective focus and awareness, and sometimes the ability to admit that you made mistakes (or at least refraining from raging in chat).

Seriously, watch one of the streamers that do subwars. Silver teams beat Gold teams about half the time. Same goes for Gold vs. Plat. Meanwhile, watch a streamer in Master/Challenger or mid/low Diamond and you can see massive differences between relatively small gaps in rating. There's pretty much four tiers of player: Low Bronze, High Bronze -> Low Diamond, High Diamond, and Master/Challenger. Those are the big divisions, everything else is minor.
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« Reply #86560 on: September 25, 2015, 05:35:03 am »

I had a very strange encounter today. I tried out a new restaurant for the first time, and the price alone might get me to come back- 220 rubles (about $3.50) for half a liter of beer and three salmon bliny.

There was a strange drunk guy sitting with his vodka and some soup in a table in the corner, and he invited me to sit down while I waited for my food, so I did. He asked my name and where I was from (apparently I sound German; he and the barmaid were surprised I was American) and invited me to try some of his onion soup. I really should have found excuses to create a fake identity and not try his soup, but I didn't want to get into a fight with a weird drunk guy, so I didn't. Then he asked me the names of various birds in English, followed by some sort of discussion about Bill Gates and DOS. At that point, my food came, so I moved to the table where I had put my things. After about five minutes, he moved to my table and asked me if there was anything good in America. Finally, he decided to try to teach me how to block a punch by hitting someone's wrist sideways, at which point I pretended I had class and left. Unfortunately, I forgot my umbrella.

I'd really like to go back there again-the food is cheap and tasty-but I hope he isn't a regular...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #86561 on: September 25, 2015, 06:57:42 am »

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...Whoa. That's not the worst weird drunk guy encounter ever, but man. Chatty drunks, yeah?
I'm guessing that was in St.Petersburg? That sounds like a rather St.Peterburgish turn of events.
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« Reply #86562 on: September 25, 2015, 07:03:58 am »

Wait, what sort of clichés are there about St. Petersburg people?
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« Reply #86563 on: September 25, 2015, 07:20:17 am »

Wait, what sort of clichés are there about St. Petersburg people?
Sarcastic hipster intellectuals. Who are probably nonetheless drunk all the time, because the weather in St.Peterburg is incomparable to anything else.
I'm just guessing, really, off of the DOS thing and the fact that Footjob has a Finnish flag in their sig. It's a good chance, because where else would they be except Moscow (Default City) or St.Petersburg (Default City North)?
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« Reply #86564 on: September 25, 2015, 07:47:45 am »

That's where FootJesuit is studying, I think, so probably.

Although I'm pretty sure he's American, not Finnish.
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