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[Bauglir]

Oh, hey, you might pass me on the road, then. I'm heading Champaign-ward this weekend. I'll make an effort not to jackknife across the divider in a misguided attempt to hug you with my car.

[GiglameshDespair]

Repeat after me: "Let me hug you with this speeding vehicle" is not a good excuse for vehicular manslaughter.

[Pnx]

So I'm looking for articles to do my big paper on (I have to have the subject by next week), and I decide to type "politics" into the library psychology search engine. I find a mish-mash of sociological papers on politics, then right in the middle of the first page I find an article titled *takes deep breath*: Drawing disability in Japanese manga: Visual politics, embodied masculinity, and wheelchair basketball in Inoue Takehiko’s REAL.

That... that was not an article I was expecting to find.

[majikero]

You have a manga drawing guide in a psychology database?

[Flying Dice]

... Read the title again. Unless you're not familiar with the level of intentionally wordy bullshit in the titles of academic papers, that is, in which case: someone thought they were being cute with a little punny alliteration in their title.

[Aklyon]

Its a guide about the disability in said manga of a drawn character. Or miscategorized.

[Flying Dice]

If I had to guess based solely on the title, it's something relating to how the author of the manga portrays the mental processes of handicapped men, particularly in relation to their masculinity and how disability affects their perceptions of their worth as men.

[penguinofhonor]

I thought I stopped getting creepy emails. No, instead they're going into my spam filter.

I have several that are from various emails like 53694@penguinofhonor.net except the number is different every time. The title is " on all of them. Just one quotation mark.

The text in each is hundreds of lines each containing two words. The last word of each line is the same as the first word of the next.

Spoiler: small sample (click to show/hide)

penicillia carlen
carlen endoss
endoss  photoglyptic
photoglyptic boras
boras deallocation
deallocation decumbently
decumbently uncommensurate
uncommensurate caetano
caetano alidada
alidada  conral
conral competitorship
competitorship juckies
juckies triflorous
triflorous gastraeal
gastraeal  breezewood
breezewood asqueal
asqueal crackloo
crackloo mundane
mundane undejectedness
undejectedness  lienculi
lienculi unafflictedly
unafflictedly scutellar
scutellar inagile
inagile necrotomy
necrotomy  sublett
sublett madeiran
madeiran defats
defats habitally
habitally unremembrance
unremembrance phillipsite
phillipsite masculineness
masculineness  nutrify
nutrify crackback

The end of the email has a link directing me to some pages for if I want to unsubscribe from their emails. I entered my email in this site, so I'm assuming either they'll stop, I'll get way more spam email, or I've completed the final step in some terrible ritual and my soul has been claimed by an eldritch god.

[Pnx]

If I had to guess based solely on the title, it's something relating to how the author of the manga portrays the mental processes of handicapped men, particularly in relation to their masculinity and how disability affects their perceptions of their worth as men.

It's an analysis of the manga "REAL" which is a manga about wheelchair basketball players. It... actually looks really interesting, I might have to pick it up.

If that article actually qualified, I would totally do my paper on that, but unfortunately it doesn't.

I thought I stopped getting creepy emails. No, instead they're going into my spam filter.

I have several that are from various emails that are from emails like 53694@penguinofhonor.net except the number is different every time. The title is " on all of them. Just one quotation mark.

The text in each is hundreds of lines each containing two words. The last word of each line is the same as the first word of the next.

Spoiler: small sample (click to show/hide)

penicillia carlen
carlen endoss
endoss  photoglyptic
photoglyptic boras
boras deallocation
deallocation decumbently
decumbently uncommensurate
uncommensurate caetano
caetano alidada
alidada  conral
conral competitorship
competitorship juckies
juckies triflorous
triflorous gastraeal
gastraeal  breezewood
breezewood asqueal
asqueal crackloo
crackloo mundane
mundane undejectedness
undejectedness  lienculi
lienculi unafflictedly
unafflictedly scutellar
scutellar inagile
inagile necrotomy
necrotomy  sublett
sublett madeiran
madeiran defats
defats habitally
habitally unremembrance
unremembrance phillipsite
phillipsite masculineness
masculineness  nutrify
nutrify crackback

The end of the email has a link directing me to some pages for if I want to unsubscribe from their emails. I entered my email in this site, so I'm assuming either they'll stop, I'll get way more spam email, or I've completed the final step in some terrible ritual and my soul has been claimed by an eldritch god.

Just so you know, there is every chance it's some kind of unusual email harvesting operation. They may actually be trying to get you to unsubscribe so they can say there exists someone on the other end that reads and responds to the content of emails.

[RedWarrior0]

If I had to guess based solely on the title, it's something relating to how the author of the manga portrays the mental processes of handicapped men, particularly in relation to their masculinity and how disability affects their perceptions of their worth as men.

It's an analysis of the manga "REAL" which is a manga about wheelchair basketball players. It... actually looks really interesting, I might have to pick it up.

If that article actually qualified, I would totally do my paper on that, but unfortunately it doesn't.

I thought I stopped getting creepy emails. No, instead they're going into my spam filter.

I have several that are from various emails that are from emails like 53694@penguinofhonor.net except the number is different every time. The title is " on all of them. Just one quotation mark.

The text in each is hundreds of lines each containing two words. The last word of each line is the same as the first word of the next.

Spoiler: small sample (click to show/hide)

penicillia carlen
carlen endoss
endoss  photoglyptic
photoglyptic boras
boras deallocation
deallocation decumbently
decumbently uncommensurate
uncommensurate caetano
caetano alidada
alidada  conral
conral competitorship
competitorship juckies
juckies triflorous
triflorous gastraeal
gastraeal  breezewood
breezewood asqueal
asqueal crackloo
crackloo mundane
mundane undejectedness
undejectedness  lienculi
lienculi unafflictedly
unafflictedly scutellar
scutellar inagile
inagile necrotomy
necrotomy  sublett
sublett madeiran
madeiran defats
defats habitally
habitally unremembrance
unremembrance phillipsite
phillipsite masculineness
masculineness  nutrify
nutrify crackback

The end of the email has a link directing me to some pages for if I want to unsubscribe from their emails. I entered my email in this site, so I'm assuming either they'll stop, I'll get way more spam email, or I've completed the final step in some terrible ritual and my soul has been claimed by an eldritch god.

Just so you know, there is every chance it's some kind of unusual email harvesting operation. They may actually be trying to get you to unsubscribe so they can say there exists someone on the other end that reads and responds to the content of emails.

It's probably nothing, just another one of those random people trying to wake up Xantalos. Hell, we've got a Lovecraftian monster-awakeners' support group. People aren't kidding when they say college has a group for everyone.

[Skyrunner]

Planetside 2 is so confusing o.o

[Siquo]

Planetside 2 is so confusing o.o

Yay, another convert!

[Erils]

Planetside 2 is so confusing o.o

Not really, just use this guide:

Spoiler: Guide (click to show/hide)

All you have to do is make an account with SOE, put in some information,  download the game, entertain yourself while it downloads, open the game, wait for it to update, make a character, pick the team that looks coolest, look at the server list, minimize the game, look up what benefits server population has, re-open the game, pick a server, enter the server, wait for it to load, pick a class, wait for the graphics to load, watch as it crashes, buy a new graphics card, try to install it using a guide you found on google, call a repairman to fix your computer, open the game again, wait for the new update to install, go back into the server, test your weapons out, instant-action into a battle, die immediatly, re-spawn, attempt to fly a mosquito/reaver/scythe, crash, take a flash instead, join a squad, partake in tactical manauvers, pretend you know what you're doing, google what flank means, join another squad, realize there are multiple continents, attempt to decide which continent to battle on, get thrown back to Indar by the instant-action anyway, attempt to join an outfit, visit the outfit's website, create an account on the website, file a submission, wait for a response, buy a headset with a microphone, download teamspeak, re-enter the game, wait for it to update, meet-up with your outfit, choose a vehicle to drive, try a liberator, decide to stick with ground vehicles, enter a battle, learn about generators, de-stabilize a generator, shoot people, wonder why the base isn't capturing, find the SCU, destroy the SCU, realize that sunderers can re-spawn people, capture your first base, get promoted, try to decide what to spend your credits on, forgot to buy the cheap scopes for your guns, try to defend the base, use your first MAX, and thats it.

...Okay maybe its a bit confusing...

[LeoLeonardoIII]

No basically just log in and do the VR training to test out all the guns and see what you like. Then go out and join a squad and go where they are, stick with someone who seems to know where they're going, and shoot whoever is not your team.

They could have called it Gun Mans like every other shooter. Maybe Gun Mans: On Planet.

It's got cool things, but it's not that complicated.

[miauw62]

Yeah, joining a squad with people that know what they're doing is a good idea. Try to find a squad with a leader on voice chat or a squad belonging to an outfit. Use (voice)chat yourself to communicate with the leader, too, they'll probably apreciate it.