DoctorMonarch
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DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Warped_Tour_lineups_by_year 2001 or 2002 looks particularly fun. Wonder if it will be brought back successfully next year.
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Second adaptations weren't nearly as common back then, and I think part of the satisfaction with Brotherhood is because the first adaptation didn't land properly at all. It's been ~20 years, but the whole
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Designed 1904, https://my.wlu.edu/communications-and-public-affairs/publications-and-design/graphic-standards/the-trident
Best guess is that half are extremely dismissive of the suggestion of a resemblance, half secretly agree but find it hilarious and just another eccentric quirk of the school.
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Well, hope this Jared character has more fun at W&L. When he puts the decal that every alumnus is mandated to put on their car, I sincerely hope people don't confuse it for a swastika, as has happened to guys I know.
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
One of my mom's best friends was a sorority mom at Bama from ~2010-2020. Happy to forward her any questions I can't answer myself. I graduated from Bama around 10 years ago, but like George_E_Hale did not join a frat. He mentions The Machine, which is very interesting if you're into Alabama politics. I haven't seen any comment mentioning test banks of xeroxed/scanned copies of tests, notes, assignments of previous students- this would have actually interested me at the time. Dark grey moral choice in a previous era of education, but probably light grey at this point.
As far as the conservative Christian father's concerns about paying a shitload of money to put his daughter in this environment, being a promiscuous alcoholic drug addict dropout is trivially easy for any American woman over the age of 16 or so. The sorority actively polices both pledges and members so that they do not get a reputation of a bunch of dumb drunk sluts, and in a way that is fanatically more authoritarian than what he could ever hope to get away with.
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Heh, I participated in a previous discussion where "only women really say watashi" came up here (I still can't speak or read Japanese) https://www.themotte.org/post/149/friday-fun-thread-for-october-28/23892?context=8#context
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Just once, I'd like to see a protagonist with a game overlay try to clip through a corner by repeatedly crouch jumping.
DoctorMonarch
2mo ago
As far as History of the Peloponnesian War, maybe make that the first half of your Friday class or similar? Also, Landmark Thucydides kicks ass as an edition.
Maybe try and force consistent translations for the epics? Fagles did a great job.
It's a bit unorthodox, but you could try to teach the kids to skim read properly, the funeral games in the Aeneid and also some of the same-y parts in Italy.
In the medieval course, I'd throw in Beowulf or Song of Roland. Going from Boethius to Dante is too much of a historical gap imo. Maybe also selections from Canterbury Tales or Decameron?
Open class discussion or even brief personal essay on "Why Bad Things Happen To Good People" before tackling Job might make the text more interesting, having articulated their personal beliefs.
DoctorMonarch
3mo ago
For what it's worth, I thought the 2014 Sony Pictures hack was hilarious and saw it as a vague fargroup vs vile neargroup.
DoctorMonarch
3mo ago
Thanks! I've done it correctly on reddit dozens of times, thought that was what I had done here, and was impotently raging about it. I'll keep this moment to be patient when doing tech support for my elderly relatives.
DoctorMonarch
3mo ago
That's what it looks like I've done to me...
DoctorMonarch
3mo ago
Having tried to edit, I have no idea why that link isn't formatting correctly.
So, there's Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People and then there's my question of what if it's not really an "online" problem- maybe in the old USSR insane believers were writing for Pravda in offices and insane nonbelievers were writing samizdat on smuggled typewriters in various dachas and basements.
So how should we react if political enthusiasm in years past was pretty much "astroturf" as well? 1776 was kinda a masonic plot, was a bad mood in Boston about stupid bullshit taxes by foreign assholes and their quartered thuggish troops carefully managed lest it turn against a local landlord or obnoxious priest or any other problem or cool over time?
DoctorMonarch
4mo ago
Epyon, probably.
I didn't see 08th MS Team as a kid c. 2000, but asked for Gundam model kits for birthday and got a Gouf Custom, first kit I put together more patiently in one sitting. Fond memories of the kit. Didn't actually see the scene of it in action until a few years ago https://youtube.com/watch?v=q4kEuNfbTWc
DoctorMonarch
5mo ago
Yeah, same here. Mayflower Society?
DoctorMonarch
6mo ago
Identity based progressivism, usually recent aggressive illiberal status seeking strains.
DoctorMonarch
7mo ago
Forces outside my control or understanding can determine my entire life- my parents certainly did when I was little! But if I have no actual agency ever then I'd like to petition a higher power to turn my consciousness off forever.
DoctorMonarch
7mo ago
Marked, just because I'd assume it's a lie or demonic scam so I'd walk out on it.
DoctorMonarch
7mo ago
Just remember he's doing all programming, art and music alone for this one too (or at least that's the current plan, with porting and translation help).
DoctorMonarch
7mo ago
Coffee-caramel ice cream can be pretty good, but frankly it makes more sense to put caramel sauce on coffee. I'm probably going to go to a different shop and get a sprite + sherbet freeze though.
DoctorMonarch
8mo ago
From personal experience, going to jail for a very brief period was useful in confirming my edgy teen high school suspicions- "This place is bullshit, I bet jail is literally better than this."- jail was substantially better than a similar amount of time in high school. If you don't start shit with anyone and are vaguely polite to guards (don't be an ass kisser or snitch though), you can spend your time lying down on a shitty mat, read {Bible} or other provided material and just kinda chill.
P.S. Cumulative Uber/Lyft/Taxis over decades are almost certainly cheaper and easier to deal with than any given best-case first-time-offense DUI deferral/diversion program and eventual expungement. If you must be arrested, preferably do something cool or brave or sexy with near zero chance of harming innocents instead of something lame and stupid.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
It only takes 25 years to have posted since the 90s.
What's your opinion of the rules on this forum and do you think your quoted remarks are good to go, with no particular citation?
Even though I think the world would be a better place with him dead and he goes against basically everything I value I am begrudgingly astounded and impressed by the sheer volume of vitriol in his heart to be able to keep posting pure hate for 4+ decades.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
Phonetically, such that we get "Daenerys Targaryen 丹妮莉丝·坦格利安 (Dān nī lì sī·tǎn gé lì’ān)"
https://ltl-school.com/game-of-thrones-in-chinese/
But the article talks about how the translation uses some classical and literary Chinese for flavor.
You could try watching 3 Kingdoms from 2010 or other adaptations? Putting a unique face, costume and demeanor to a character helped me a lot.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
I don't think I opted out of the automatic nitter conversion when I created account, entirely possible I did.
Is the poem "Ozymandias" familiar to you? If so, did you first encounter it in one place, but it became more memorable later in a different circumstance?
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