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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91410 on: December 06, 2015, 05:26:41 pm »

You want to call things pretentious without calling them pretentious?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91411 on: December 06, 2015, 05:27:33 pm »

Bay12: Old World and Bay12: New World could certainly be a thing. The Australians would probably be screwed and so would the Africans and East Asians, too spread out and few in number, but European and American Bay12ers could probably get together in as little as a month if the people who know how to drive went around collecting the people who didn't.
I looked it up and it turns out that there's no railway running the length of Africa. What gives?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91412 on: December 06, 2015, 05:33:08 pm »

There almost was one, but the British pulled out before it was finished. That was one of the major reasons the Empire was so invested in Rhodesia, if I remember right. Just filling out the route.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91413 on: December 06, 2015, 05:40:21 pm »

It would have been so sexy too, fuck you transiberia D:<

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91414 on: December 06, 2015, 05:51:26 pm »

I need a word that isn't Pretentious for whenever something is "too smart for its own good"

Or rather where it spends far too much time waddling in its "deep surreal storytelling" to the point where it just feels aimless, lost, and sort of bad.

Like... it was all pretense without substance... pretentious one could say.
Navel-gazing.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91415 on: December 06, 2015, 05:52:02 pm »

You want to call things pretentious without calling them pretentious?

Kind of.

I know what I am watching is "too pretentious" but that word has too many connotations involved to get out the meaning I am going for, as "pretentious" often means "terrible artsy garbage"

But I want to say that something I am watching spends too much time highlighting its premise and themes to the point of becoming trite. It isn't vague but it never says something.

Or rather... A piece of fiction that would be drastically improved if it stopped trying allude and actually just outright said something. That it stopped trying to be vague and actually spelt things out. Not because the audience doesn't know what is happening but because it is so attempting vague and alludes so much that it stops being solid. Vague to the point of being trite.

I need a word that isn't Pretentious for whenever something is "too smart for its own good"

Or rather where it spends far too much time waddling in its "deep surreal storytelling" to the point where it just feels aimless, lost, and sort of bad.

Like... it was all pretense without substance... pretentious one could say.
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That works, thanks!

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What I need to attribute this to is.. well...

Basically imagine if I am going to a store and I need to tell you.

Yet I don't say "I am going to the store" I instead say I am going out and I take money... It is kind of obvious I am going to the store because I have a grocery list.

I eventually get to the store but instead of saying it is a store... the angles hide that fact... even though it is obviously a store.

People ask me where I was and I say "Somewhere" while holding a grocery list with items marked off.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91416 on: December 06, 2015, 06:05:29 pm »

It was Friends & Family night where I work, were people who could be described as "Friends & Family" would essentially get the same discount I did. Additionally, there was a contest where we were all put into teams to see who would bring in the most donations(it's a thrift store). Winning team gets lunch. I managed to get together 2 bags of my old clothes(more than I expected to). All week, my mother has been trying to get people on it, and indicated she wanted to go. It's supposed to be going from about now, for the next two hours. I'm expecting to have to get ready any minute now.


Nope. My mother decides to start drinking instead.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91417 on: December 06, 2015, 06:33:46 pm »

I need a word that isn't Pretentious for whenever something is "too smart for its own good"

Or rather where it spends far too much time waddling in its "deep surreal storytelling" to the point where it just feels aimless, lost, and sort of bad.

Like... it was all pretense without substance... pretentious one could say.
Navel-gazing.

That works, thanks!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91418 on: December 06, 2015, 06:39:50 pm »

I need a word that isn't Pretentious for whenever something is "too smart for its own good"

Or rather where it spends far too much time waddling in its "deep surreal storytelling" to the point where it just feels aimless, lost, and sort of bad.

Like... it was all pretense without substance... pretentious one could say.
Navel-gazing.

That works, thanks!
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Yo dawg, we herd u liek pretentiousness, so we put pretentiousness in a word for pretentiousness, so you can be pretentious while criticizing pretentiousness.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91419 on: December 06, 2015, 06:44:32 pm »

'A weirdly specific disease has instantly wiped out all humans except people who have an active account on [current forum]. What do you do?'
Do it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91420 on: December 06, 2015, 07:34:18 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91422 on: December 07, 2015, 12:23:34 am »

WTF? We actually won the congress? Hell yeah, and if we get 12 seats more we'll fire Maduro's ass in a cannon to the sun the next year!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91423 on: December 07, 2015, 12:49:24 am »

With a bit of effort we could probably get everyone on Eurasia and Africa into one place.

Well, Africa would be easy. It's me and one other (AFAIK), and I haven't seen him around in ages. :P
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #91424 on: December 07, 2015, 02:38:40 am »

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