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[Orange Wizard]

You want to call things pretentious without calling them pretentious?

[Graknorke]

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?

[Baffler]

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.

[Loud Whispers]

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

[scrdest]

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.

[Neonivek]

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.

Navel-gazing.

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.

[Akura]

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.

[Il Palazzo]

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!

Omphalosceptical!
It's superior, because it ain't got no hyphen.

[scrdest]

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!

Omphalosceptical!
It's superior, because it ain't got no hyphen.

Yo dawg, we herd u liek pretentiousness, so we put pretentiousness in a word for pretentiousness, so you can be pretentious while criticizing pretentiousness.

[Amperzand]

'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.
Tomorrow, so I can participate too.

Up!

NOOOOOOOO!

You devil, curse you and your sleep schedule wrecking forum games!

I felt that a partial sig of this was both necessary and relevant.

[hops]

~Not really, iirc. But one of the main characters is.

Spoiler: Epilogue spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shadow is a god, according to the epilogue story. Namely, his real name is Balder Moon. Balder is the Norse god of peace, which is appropriate looking at how he resolved the plot. He's also probably the most good god in the novel seeing how Kobold require human sacrifice and Wednesday orchestrated a massacre.

[Loud Whispers]

Sometimes I wonder if people are seeing the same things; and just how different we see things. Different colours, different viewpoints; different degrees of sanity. I wonder if some people see the macabre and grotesque as something beautiful, just as a guro anon sees flensing death as something to be celebrated. Whatever your viewpoint... Thread title is relevant.

*EDIT
I can't even make this up, modern art is indistinguishable from a murder attempt.

[LordBaal]

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!

[Arx]

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.

[IcyTea31]

Sometimes I wonder if people are seeing the same things; and just how different we see things

Relevant.

*EDIT
I can't even make this up, modern art is indistinguishable from a murder attempt.

Honestly, if I saw someone get stabbed without context (e.g. not on the stage of a theatrical play), I'd offer help, even if it's possible it were a show. And not just because the art show could be about how unhelpful people are.