that kills me.
I would TOTALLY support the act of using bots to upvote posts on reddit that actually blow the minds of these bitches. For example, while I don’t listen to Lil’ Wayne I hate people who hate him and thus this thread is gold.
It’s not really a paradox because to be honest I just believe in logic. But it’s sort of paradoxical because I am willing to force a certain belief down people’s throats to get rid of the belief that’s already lodged in there. Dunno
So this is going to be a post about stuff I was going to do but didn’t and can’t remember anymore so instead I’ll write a ditty about what I do remember for… posterity’s sake. Er
First, this morning I woke up with an epiphany about how friends aren’t real friends. It was more legitimate than that I can promise you, maybe if you guys thought about it you’d come to the same understanding I undoubtedly have.
Secondly, I stalk my friend who reads my blog on her Threadless account occasionally (I have a lot of hours logged on the interwebs). One post she made was about my senior portrait and there was a girl there who said she wanted to hug me. The first time I found it (I don’t remember how. Shit happens the more time you spend on the internet. Literally, so don’t spend too much time on it.) I was completely exhausted and feeling shitty, and it totally made my day. I then tried to be nice to said friend except the real world makes you a bitter man and such a desired connection is never established in a timely fashion… only spontaneously. Anyways I felt like making myself feel good for once and found the post successfully (again, I don’t remember how I did it. History could tell me but I am not that interested in my Google skills). The girl who said I was cute is also, in fact, cute which makes this all the better. She’s a Design student and has a boyfriend who also looks sort of artsy. I was depressed for almost a microsecond before my ultra-super-high-tech-defensive-mechanism–inner4chan–kicked in. Anyways, I then found my friends new Threadless account where she posts blogs JUST LIKE I DO. With a few differences:
1. Her posts are either interesting things she’s doing or personal problems she needs help with.
2. She has friends.
3. She doesn’t post every fucking day with a 10000-word post (because of #2).
The issue at hand is this. I am seriously insulted that instead of consulting me she desired the compassion of her online artsy friends. By that I mean I’m insulted because she also probably thinks I’m TOO STUPID to solve her little problems. Little. That’s okay though, I get good enough test grades to not take too much of a blow from such an EXplicit and vile discourtesy. But on a serious note, you should never go to the fucking art people with your emotional problems. There’s a reason why artsy people are such emotional wrecks… it’s because they’re fucking emo.
Anyways I thought I’d note that this blog is amazingly well-thought out by myself. See, chances are she’ll never read this crap so I can say whatever I want. And if she does read it she’s a loser! So I win in both cases. I wanted to make a math joke about probability but I am not very good at it and haven’t read chapter 9 yet. C’est la vie.
So here I am looking at another AskReddit post about music. Generally the responses are pretty widespread but most of it is the same old overrated shit that 90% of reddit can’t get over. Surprisingly though, there’s some interesting stuff there I wanted to get into. Particularly Marquee Moon by Television seems like a pretty interesting album. Why? I can tell you exactly why. Wiki says it’s punk/post-punk. I like that genre a decent amount. And… so does Christgau. Unsurprisingly he gave it an A+. I listened to 5 or so tracks on the album and they are pretty good but, as with many great albums, hard to love on a first listen. They were easy to like, I guess, but not catchy enough to become instantly likeable (though I don’t have the ear… yet). I’m feeling pretty chill and unambitious currently so I haven’t opted to torrent it purchase it legally, but for anyone who is feelin’ it, I say, GO FOR IT!
Anyways, the user who posted it had some clearly intelligent posts (you see, I don’t believe that it is simply a correlation…). And then, a topic caught my eye. It’s worth the read, though it’s a slow start.
Long story short (even shorter than the summary in the post. Okay sorry, it’s not shorter but it’s clearer imo) is that MercurialMadnessMan, a popular mod on reddit was removed from the IAMA subreddit moderator list by Saydrah/32bit/maybe some other mods. Long ago he was demodded from AskReddit. When he gave IAMA moderator privileges to PhilXBefore he asked him to return the favor and give him back moderator privileges to AskReddit. PhilXBefore reports to the AskReddit moderators who freak out and ban MMM. MMM then reacts by threatening to release personal information he received when verifying IAMA posts (verification to limit trolling) if they do not remove some stylesheets or something (basically he coded the verification stars in IAMA and wanted them removed). He receives no response and spins it so that it is the other moderators who are implicitly willing to release private information (because they aren’t giving into his demands. On a side note, I feel like I do this a lot, but I think I’ve stopped since I’ve become less retarded). It’s pretty hypocritical and Saydrah correctly claims that giving into his demands wouldn’t have done anything really (think terrorists). Anyways, to be fair, Saydrah is some chick moderator and seems to be batshit insane too. Or at least as insane as girls generally are. In a private mod discussion about MMM she claimed that she had dealt with mental patients and that he was exhibiting signs of one… yeah. So basically whoever thought it was a good idea to let mods pick other mods was stupidly optimistic. GIVE ALL THE POWER TO ONE PERSON (OR PEOPLE) WHOOO DICTATORSHIP (OR OLIGARCHY OR SOME OTHER GOVERNMENT).
Man reddit drama is fucked up. The thing is that it’s actually fascinating because I have no idea what to think about this. What would I have done? What side is there to pick? Is there any solution to this ridiculous moderator problem? Karmanaut receives control of all subreddits? Sounds reasonable to me.
On a more serious note I think the problem is that these moderators were all fucked up. The reason why certain redditors are popular is generally because they were fucked up. This reminds me of 4chan really. But apparently Saydrah was a teenage slut and some other mod (kloo4–something?) was abused by his alcoholic family. I’d put money that MMM is f’d up too. It’s sort of impressive that karmanaut hasn’t really shown any flaws imo. He just seems really addicted to reddit and can somehow post on it obsessively and still display traits of a normal person. So yeah, thereinlies my decision.
I feel bad about posting something new because I like my “Iron Man” post. Or at least I spent time writing it so it deserves its time in the spotlight. TOO BAD.
This bitch gets served. The thing is that if he knows he enjoys “cutting off blood flow” why isn’t he actively restraining himself from that pleasure? You know? Why do these assfucks have to be so painfully self-indulgent. That’s all I’m asking. I hate smugness… so much.
I just watched “Iron Man” finally. Before I get into the movie, it is worth mentioning why I decided to watch it. First of all, I had recently read a large part of an article about Robert Downey Jr. in a magazine. But what directly caused it… I have no idea. What I do know is that I was reading reddit. So I checked my history and I honestly have no idea why I suddenly looked up “Iron Man”. As far as I can tell, I was reading a post where someone quoted some lyrics to a song. And then I skimmed it a bit more and then looked up the full song/wiki page on the band. Three minutes elapsed and then I looked up “Iron Man” on wiki. Then once I decided to watch the movie I flipped back to reddit and saw that the song was in “Iron Man”. Did I subconsciously see “Iron Man” in a post and decide to watch it? Or is my memory so painfully bad that that post (I have no recollection of reading it) actually triggered it. I think what actually happened was that I did glimpse “Iron Man” and then had a random sexual impulse (I remember seeing some teaser video where he shows off his dbagness and then bags the hot reporter girl) that led me to want to find a clip again. Then I just decided to watch the movie. Oh well, boys will be boys.
So the movie was pretty good. I have some mixed feelings about it, but I’m satisfied. No–that’s really the wrong word. What is of real interest in this movie is how little it satisfies the audience. I’m surprised it was received so well by the general public considering how little release it had. But before I get into that let’s just glaze over the movie.
“Iron Man” is an awesome hero and I’m surprised I never saw the cartoon or something on TV. To be honest I thought the acting was sort of corny, even for an action movie. Also, I couldn’t help but be extremely bothered by some random loops holes (you know, how he can do statistics in his head). But what actually bothers me is why it’s bothering me. I’m pretty sure that shit never bothered me before, maybe I just wasn’t paying attention. But really I think it’s that my roommate thinks I’m this logical robot freak (I sort of am) and I can’t be satisfied with an illogical movie. I’m proving him right for god knows what hilariously ironic reason. Anyways, moving on, what the hell was up with SHIELD. Why did they focus so much on that guy? What the hell are his super powers? Why is there a random close-up of him when Pepper and Tony go out to the balcony for fresh air? I was so confused.
Now to get to the issue of satisfaction. I really didn’t think there was that much fighting. Maybe it’s just because “Transformers” was so over the top, but there’s very few action sequences and the last fight is so tooth-and-nail that there was no “YEAH KICK-ASS DOMINATION” factor. I mean maybe that’s what makes it good, but honestly I was dreading the fact that he would have to fight with his old power source thing. I was like, “Mmmr he’s going to have to fight with his shitty power source… great.” I’m not sure why, but I imagine it’s the natural impulse of most people. Then there’s the fact that he never kisses Pepper and there’s not much at all in terms of the relationship’s progress; just a short and sweet “you’re the only one I have.”
And then, of course, if I haven’t mentioned her enough already, Pepper. Oh-em-gee why the hell does every girl in a movie have to be so interesting. The thing is I can’t even elucidate what qualities she had that make her so interesting. Maybe it’s just how easy she fell for the protagonist and how she was so fake. You know? Real girls (I just laughed at that) would scream, “What the hell is wrong with you?” after being forced to dance. Pepper, on the other hand, embarrasingly blushes, falls in love with Tony instantly, and then stumbles all over herself on the balcony. But maybe there’s still something else. Thankfully, real life is always there to give you a kick in the ass–Gwyneth Paltrow is married to Chris fucking Martin (I meant that derogatively) and is some religious retard (she’s the one with a kid named Apple. Also I don’t actually know if she’s religious I’m just tempted to use it due to some words in the wiki article that are sticking out).
Oh well; another dame, another night of soft-weeping.
Like all amazing reddit posts, the best ones are nestled in the middle of a bunch of boring shit (but are good because of the boring shit).
The meme (maybe?): ”Programming is hard. Let’s go shopping!”
Someone who plays music using their hands. This is the greatest thing ever:
Found it here. Don’t get rickrolled…
Needless to say since the only things I do are read reddit and do homework I enjoy living vicariously through other people. I’m not alone though… that’s why askreddit is becoming a hub for asking people about their personal lives. Unfortunately for the redditors who couldn’t give a shit about other people’s lives this is a major contributing factor to reddit’s “decay” or I guess it’s departure from its original form. Oh well, I don’t really have an opinion on it, but I have to say I enjoy reading that crap.
Anyways, funny comment found in this post by a girl who can’t get laid:
[deleted] 100 points 3 months ago[-]
One time in college, a cute Indian girl sat down at the table with me and my roommate. She started talking to us and then she asked me if I was free later that night, and if I wanted to go see a movie. I said “well I have this study group to go to and work on my physics homework”.
I fail at life.
JasonDJ 55 points 3 months ago[-]
Moments like this is when I’d ask myself…WWP-DD? Or, What would P-Dub do?
For those who don’t know the meme. P-Dub, I believe, started a post asking reddit to help him stop procrastinating homework and subsequently a meme was born where everyone reminded him to do his homework no matter what he was posting. This meme has mostly died out except for some opportune moments… like this. And in this case it rings true–always ask yourself, “What would P-Dub do?”
It took someone as blunt as a professor at East Illinois University (I’m an asshole, lest you forget) to give me at least some coherent viewpoint on approaching poetry.
Check it out. The article is on the line “over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield” in “Cabin Essence” on SMiLE. The conclusion (about how a writer’s intention is not often meaning… which I guess validates that type of literary criticism I talked about previously and increases the probability that Jenny Lewis doesn’t even think about her music like Christgau does) also reminds me of that Faulkner quote (which is apparently his review… of his own book):
I wrote this book and learned to read….I had gone through all that I had ever read, from Henry James through Henty to newspaper murders, without making any distinction or digesting any of it, as a moth or a goat might. After ‘The Sound and the Fury’ and without heeding to open another book and in a series of delayed repercussions like summer thunder, I discovered the Flauberts and Dostoievskys and Conrads whose books I had read ten years ago. With ‘The Sound and the Fury’ I learned to read and quit reading, since I have read nothing since….This is the only one of the seven novels which I wrote without any accompanying feeling of drive or effort, or any following feeling of exhaustion or relief or distaste. When I began it I had no plan at all. I wasn’t even writing a book.
It’s sort of froofy and I’m having problems digesting it. It borders very closely to the dumb shit that comes out of Thom Yorke’s mouth, but I think I just don’t know what he’s talking about.
So there’s little technique that you often see reviewers using where they have some analogy which is thematically significant (though the actual emphasis put on that analogy significant). And then at the end of their review they bring up the analogy again to close it. It’s my natural impulse to dislike it now that I’ve acknowledged it exists. Curious as to a good argument for why it’s good… here’s an example. The first post there references (not really an analogy, I guess) Humpty Dumpty and then finishes with “For this effort at least, Humpty Dumpty truly has been put back together again.” Hum
On another note, I’m sort of enjoying SMiLE a bit more on repeated listens (as expected), and attempted to read the lyrics. I’m 100% sure they have some significant meaning, I am 90% sure I see some semblance of that meaning, but the percentage of that significance I actually understand is almost nonexistent. But I guess this is what separates hipsters and smart people. I think a lot of the difficulty is that this album is a concept album and is tied together very tightly. And so all of the sounds and lyrics that are supposed to be a pointer to some other song in the album are difficult to grasp. Not to mention that I don’t have any cultural knowledge and this album is supposed to be about America or something. Lol. Also, it’s funny that songs that are actually hard to understand have no comments on songmeanings.net, but I guess, well, the demographics of that website…
