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[quote name='FriskyTanuki']It's part of the Thursday update, but may be up tonight.[/quote]

Sweet Zombie Jesus! If y'all see it up before I go to bed, please tells me so I can has. :)
 
[quote name='Liquid 2']What's 2.0 for that triple offer?[/quote]

kittens.

the biggest thing is if you have a PSP. remote start via psp and then remote play (if the game supports it).

i'm just a sucker for update though... ;)
 
Oh man.

Remote start?

I'm going to get a PSP Slim and wreck havoc on all the PS3 owners.

We can all sit outside TMK's room and TOTALLY mess with him!
 
[quote name='Strell']Oh man.

Remote start?

I'm going to get a PSP Slim and wreck havoc on all the PS3 owners.

We can all sit outside TMK's room and TOTALLY mess with him![/quote]
Doesn't work that way. You have to register it with that specific PS3.
 
That update seems kinda...underwhelming.

Strell, are you a fan of Asimov? Check out that short story I posted in the book recommendation thread (even if you're not, as the story is great).
Should take you about 15 minutes to read. I think you'll enjoy it.
 
Liquid, before I go, is it The Final Question? (Or Last Question?)

*goes to look*

Edit: Yep I was right. I read it a few weeks ago when it was posted on Digg.com. Really interesting. I especially liked the usage of "run down" with the two guys at the very beginning.

I tend to copy down phrases I like, to use for poems/stories/etc that I'll eventually write. "The Sun Also Runs Down" is one I'd like to write one day.






Of course, PR. Get the frageelay.
 
[quote name='Strell']Liquid, before I go, is it The Final Question? (Or Last Question?)

*goes to look*[/QUOTE]Last.

Howdya know?


edit: glad you liked it (even though you read it before...). The version I saw online had this preface by Asimov:
[quote name='Isaac Asimov']This is by far my favorite story of all those I have written.
After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I leave it to you as to how well I succeeded. I also undertook another task, but I won't tell you what that was lest l spoil the story for you.
It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything -- and I'm satisfied that it should.
[/QUOTE]I particularly like that last sentence he wrote. The ending really does stick with you.
 
[quote name='Liquid 2']Last.

Howdja know?[/QUOTE]

Apparently it's his most famous short story.

There's The Last Answer too, I believe. I haven't read that.

Sci-fi is one of those genres I feel like I need to read to fulfill my duty as a geek. There's all those famous stories I need to read - Snow Crash, Neuromancer, etc. Asimov is definitely in there on my to-do list, alongside Heinlein and Dick and the like.

Edit: It's funny. In terms of the final sentence, I must admit it sticks with you, for all the suggestions it makes. I really appreciate that Asimov is okay with the fact that those words are - in some sense - greater than him, since people tend to not remember him as the author. That's the sort of humbleness you wouldn't really expect out of someone who is so well known and revered.

For comparison's sake, Harlan Ellison is supposed to be a total asshole.
 
My greatest ally has turned in to my greatest enemy. Alcohol is preventing a drunk girl from driving over here for sexual favors. For the record I'm also drunk. I will not be going on any rants tonight so do not worry.
 
Liquid:

If you have any interest in gothic short stories, this book contains a lot of excellent ones. It's cheap, and it might even be in bookstores around UT.

Just a suggestion. I believe The Yellow Wallpaper is in it.

The Poe selection - The Black Cat - is good, but there were better alternatives.

There's one in there called Snow that is unbelievable. I'll try to find it online.

It also has a story by Shirley Jackson, and while it seems timid, when you finish it, you just have to sort of stare into nothing for a while afterward.
 
[quote name='Strell']Liquid:

If you have any interest in gothic short stories, this book contains a lot of excellent ones. It's cheap, and it might even be in bookstores around UT.

Just a suggestion. I believe The Yellow Wallpaper is in it.

The Poe selection - The Black Cat - is good, but there were better alternatives.

There's one in there called Snow that is unbelievable. I'll try to find it online.

It also has a story by Shirley Jackson, and while it seems timid, when you finish it, you just have to sort of stare into nothing for a while afterward.[/QUOTE]I'll definitely grab that next time I swing by the library.

Would you describe that Shirley Jackson story as emotionally brutal? I've had similar reactions to two movies that can be described as such: Oldboy and Requiem for a Dream.

edit: I'll look into your suggestion too, Ackbar.
 
[quote name='Liquid 2']I'll definitely grab that next time I swing by the library.

Would you describe that Shirley Jackson story as emotionally brutal? I've had similar reactions to two movies that can be described as such: Oldboy and Requiem for a Dream.

edit: I'll look into your suggestion too, Ackbar.[/QUOTE]

Jackson was all about misdirection in her stuff. Complete and total misdirection.

I wouldn't call it emotionally brutal.

What she tends to do is leave a bunch of clues and vague details, and at the end, doesn't sew them all back together. But they've already gotten underneath your skin by that time - you can't really let them go. And yet, you have nothing you can adequately do to resolve them.

What happens is that you'll start thinking about passages and sentences and what was in them, and start questioning what is real, what isn't real, is it all real, is none of it real, does this contradict that, etc.

You'll start debating with yourself endlessly about what you can and cannot believe, and this is even without someone else next to you to discuss it with. It's just total oblivion in your head after a while.

The short story in it (I forget the title) is kind of like a sampling of one of her novels - The Haunting of Hill House. Ignore any movies with this title or similar titles, as they tend to be pretty bad renditions.

In a way, it's all really...beautiful. And yet, it's so strangely horrific. You end up not being able to discern exactly why it's bothering you so much. You just know that it does.

The course I took with that book had a professor who was all about Gothic writing, and especially liked Jackson as well. The word he used was liminal. We've all heard of the word subliminal, which is a message or idea that tends to go into our subconscious, and we don't know we're thinking about it until some period after it's intruded within.

Liminal is sort of the start of conscious understanding right before that. Basically, it's when you reach the threshold of determining what is real and what is not.

The problem, of course, is that once you reach that state, you aren't able to honestly trust yourself anymore. Your senses, your thoughts. It's all being adversely altered in such a way that any sense of internal logic you have can't be followed, because you might already be gone.

Jackson works best in that manner, and is best described in that manner. You're simply gone before you know it, and you have no way of bringing yourself back.
 
[quote name='Temporaryscars']Oh what, you aren't even going to ask about my finger?[/quote]

i assumed, since you haven't asked for more advice and also have not screamed at me about needing to go to the ER for a massive systemic infection/gangrene, it is healing nicely.
 
Strell,

I was wondering if you would like to combine efforts and create the greatest OTT title of all time. PM for details.

Cordially,

Future Strell
 
[quote name='Pancake Rabbit']Strell,

I was wondering if you would like to combine efforts and create the greatest OTT title of all time. PM for details.

Cordially,

Future Strell[/quote]

this has the potential for being epic. EPIC.
 
[quote name='Strell']
Jackson was all about misdirection in her stuff. Complete and total misdirection.

I wouldn't call it emotionally brutal.

What she tends to do is leave a bunch of clues and vague details, and at the end, doesn't sew them all back together. But they've already gotten underneath your skin by that time - you can't really let them go. And yet, you have nothing you can adequately do to resolve them.

What happens is that you'll start thinking about passages and sentences and what was in them, and start questioning what is real, what isn't real, is it all real, is none of it real, does this contradict that, etc.

You'll start debating with yourself endlessly about what you can and cannot believe, and this is even without someone else next to you to discuss it with. It's just total oblivion in your head after a while.

The short story in it (I forget the title) is kind of like a sampling of one of her novels - The Haunting of Hill House. Ignore any movies with this title or similar titles, as they tend to be pretty bad renditions.

In a way, it's all really...beautiful. And yet, it's so strangely horrific. You end up not being able to discern exactly why it's bothering you so much. You just know that it does.

The course I took with that book had a professor who was all about Gothic writing, and especially liked Jackson as well. The word he used was liminal. We've all heard of the word subliminal, which is a message or idea that tends to go into our subconscious, and we don't know we're thinking about it until some period after it's intruded within.

Liminal is sort of the start of conscious understanding right before that. Basically, it's when you reach the threshold of determining what is real and what is not.

The problem, of course, is that once you reach that state, you aren't able to honestly trust yourself anymore. Your senses, your thoughts. It's all being adversely altered in such a way that any sense of internal logic you have can't be followed, because you might already be gone.

Jackson works best in that manner, and is best described in that manner. You're simply gone before you know it, and you have no way of bringing yourself back.
[/QUOTE]Way to pique my interest. ;)

I might stop by the library tomorrow to see if they've got a copy. I also need to pick up Atlas Shrugged, as my Environmental Philosophy teacher recommended it to me.
 
[quote name='Chika']i assumed, since you haven't asked for more advice and also have not screamed at me about needing to go to the ER for a massive systemic infection/gangrene, it is healing nicely.[/quote]
But his user title now says "zombified".

Maybe the fucker is a gangrenous zombie now.
Gangrenous%20Zombies.jpg


Thanks a lot, nursegirl. :razz:

Edit: Now with reference photos!
 
[quote name='corrosivefrost']But his user title now says "zombified".

Maybe the fucker is a gangrenous zombie now.

Thanks a lot, nursegirl. :razz:[/quote]

where's plume and pixie when you need them? :whistle2:k
 
[quote name='Pancake Rabbit']Strell,

I was wondering if you would like to combine efforts and create the greatest OTT title of all time. PM for details.

Cordially,

Future Strell[/QUOTE]

To Future Strell,

Yes, ok, but what about the coffee? Can I drink the coffee?

Sincerely,

Present Past Strell
 
[quote name='Strell']To Future Strell,

Yes, ok, but what about the coffee? Can I drink the coffee?

Sincerely,

Present Past Strell[/quote]

how philosophical.
 
[quote name='Chika']i assumed, since you haven't asked for more advice and also have not screamed at me about needing to go to the ER for a massive systemic infection/gangrene, it is healing nicely.[/quote]

Hmph...know it all!
 
Call of Duty 4 is that chroo shi'.

You gonna be on later, zewlittle?
 
Future Strell,

BUT WHAT IF I DRINK IT IN THE FUTURE, AND TODAY IS THE DAY I START DRINKING IT? HUH? HUH? YEAH. DIDN'T THINK YOU HAD AN ANSWER.

SO PONY UP ON DEM CLOOZ, BITCH. IS IT SAFE TO DRINK IT?

Your buddy,

Past Strell

P.S. Why am I mean to myself? :[
 
[quote name='Strell']Past Strell,

You don't even drink coffee, dumbass.

Cordially,

Future Strell[/quote]
STOP fuckING WITH MY HEAD!
 
[quote name='Liquid 2']Past Strell,

The coffee is poisoned.
More instructions to follow.

--Future Strell[/QUOTE]


Future Strell,

Oh good. I'll stick to the frogurt.

Sincerely,
Past Strell
 
[quote name='Strell']Future Strell,

Oh good. I'll stick to the frogurt.

Sincerely,
Past Strell[/quote]

Present Strell,

The frogurt contains potassium benzoate.

Sincerely,

Mysterious Benefactor
 
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