Your pointless thoughts & observations

  On 10/13/2019 at 10:32 PM, marf said:

I loathe the "what do you do" question. I don't do much, I work for money. I don't really have a career. What do I do? Lie through my teeth or get a career?

Yeah man I hate that shit too. It can either be a cliche "getting to know you on a date" question or some arbitrary neo-Victorian small talk. Why can't we all just agree that we're doing what we can to get by and call it a day?

Yesterday I spend the day in a seaside resort town. For lunch I went to a local pizzeria, and the waitress who served me looked oddly familiar. After a moment of pontificating, it donned on me that she looked like the Cake Farts girl. (NSFW if you've never seen the vid) She was super friendly tho.

Afterwards I visited the aquarium/marine life conservation center in the same town. And I watched a ringed seal face me upside-down and shit in the tank whilst submerged. Pretty sure it's not the first time he's done it.

u talkin bout seward?

  On 10/13/2019 at 11:25 PM, Salvatorin said:

u talkin bout seward?

bingo

  On 10/13/2019 at 10:40 PM, ambergonk said:

Yeah man I hate that shit too. It can either be a cliche "getting to know you on a date" question or some arbitrary neo-Victorian small talk. Why can't we all just agree that we're doing what we can to get by and call it a day?

I'm in the same boat. It's nice to hear other people on here dealing with the same thing. 

  On 10/14/2019 at 12:22 AM, ambergonk said:

bingo

went to that aquarium summer 2018 on MDMA. highly recommended

  On 10/13/2019 at 10:40 PM, ambergonk said:

Yeah man I hate that shit too. It can either be a cliche "getting to know you on a date" question or some arbitrary neo-Victorian small talk. Why can't we all just agree that we're doing what we can to get by and call it a day?

  On 10/13/2019 at 10:32 PM, marf said:

I loathe the "what do you do" question. I don't do much, I work for money. I don't really have a career. What do I do? Lie through my teeth or get a career?

  On 10/14/2019 at 1:43 AM, yekker said:

I'm in the same boat. It's nice to hear other people on here dealing with the same thing. 

going to cross reference all of you and make sure you didn't post in this thread:

:D

  On 10/9/2019 at 10:14 PM, zkom said:

That's what I've found weird about monotheistic religions since teenage years. The god is supposed to be an omnipotent and omniscient being but yet he goes pestering mortal people and insisting they worship him. What does he/she/it gain from that? Is the god just a massive egotistical asshole?

Also why does my phone's autocorrect know words like fist fucking but not asshole?

More than a simple limited praise to some "god" as we wrongly understand, what it is said in religions, in reality it is concieved to be an adoration of some sort which aims an absortion in the timeless, infinite source self which is at the same time everything and everyone at once. It is a concious union or connectin with that higher energy while still here in our current lives on earth in order to develop our highest states and possibilities, but of course the method to attain that are not just fake praises to some conceptual god. Mainstream understanding of religions are only the superficial and erroneusly understood conceptions of this idea. When you seek for deeper sources like freemasonic stuff, rosicrucians, kabbalah, the 4th way, sufism, jnana and bathki yoga, etc.. you get a glimpse of what is all about, and to what extent "the big monoteistic religious orgnizations" come from and what does their work should serve for the individual today, which sould be the aim of questioning the sources and deepest roots and contents from which they were originated

There is a fly literally breakdancing next to my laptop

  On 10/12/2019 at 5:30 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

C0ngr@tul@ti0ns

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I'm surprised I could hear that tone.  Last I checked I couldn't hear anything above 6kHz.

  On 10/12/2019 at 5:30 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

C0ngr@tul@ti0ns

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I played that on my phone and it fucked my ears. Then i played it again and i couldn't hear it... 

  On 10/13/2019 at 10:54 PM, ambergonk said:

Yesterday I spend the day in a seaside resort town. For lunch I went to a local pizzeria, and the waitress who served me looked oddly familiar. After a moment of pontificating, it donned on me that she looked like the Cake Farts girl. (NSFW if you've never seen the vid) She was super friendly tho.

Afterwards I visited the aquarium/marine life conservation center in the same town. And I watched a ringed seal face me upside-down and shit in the tank whilst submerged. Pretty sure it's not the first time he's done it.

I used to spend a lot of time at that aquarium as a kid.  Actually, I think I slept overnight there on a field trip once.

Looks like I'm the third one ITT who's been there.  Sealife Center most IDM 2019.

  On 10/13/2019 at 10:32 PM, marf said:

I loathe the "what do you do" question. I don't do much, I work for money. I don't really have a career. What do I do? Lie through my teeth or get a career?

I have a decent job in a good industry and I  also hate this question, because even that isn’t good enough around where I live.

Them: What do you do?

Me: *I’m fine, you yuppie prick*

Them: My rich, connected parents are definitely NOT still wiping my ass with $100 bills, and I am better than you. Harvard. MIT. And you?

Me: I can’t imagine you actually working. You look like you have about 40 hours a week to groom yourself, like a poodle in an Ivy League sweater. Get fucked. 

I always let out a long, exasperated sigh before answering. Because I work in the same industry that every other goddamn nerd works in in San Francisco.

It just doesn't sum a person up. And if it does, that is sad. 

I used to live in a rural area and everyone just did what they had to do. I never really heard the question much. 

I went the doctor and I think the nurse liked me. The doctor asked me what I do I feel on behalf of the nurse. You know. To see if I'm not a loser./ Ive had some health issues so I really didn't know what to say. 

Then I had an old couple ask me in this city and I said cyber security cause I know the majority of old people are computer phobic. 

Barney looks like Jay Leno.

What I do for money has never comprised the majority of my waking hours.  That's why I'm poor/occasionally happy.

Girl talk hasn't released an album since 2010 

The label I'm working with is taking forever and will probably hold off on releasing this year. I like to put out at least one thing a year so I'm thinking of banging out a few tunes in a weekend just to put something out

I just realized that Blade Runner and Koyaanisqatsi came out the same year (1982). Both have that similar gritty, dystopian vibe before the 1980s turned corny.

We can make exceptions for Aliens and Akira though, although the latter had corny dialogue in the English dub.

  On 10/26/2019 at 9:45 PM, ambergonk said:

I just realized that Blade Runner and Koyaanisqatsi came out the same year (1982). Both have that similar gritty, dystopian vibe before the 1980s turned corny.

We can make exceptions for Aliens and Akira though, although the latter had corny dialogue in the English dub.

  On 10/26/2019 at 10:30 PM, zkom said:

 

 

From the same year also Death Wish II, The Dark Crystal, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood, The Thing and Tron. All have a kind of early 80s grittiness. Even fantasy movies were kind of dark and brooding when you compare to later movies like LotR.

 

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I remember watching The Dark Crystal back when I was about 9 years old. It was definitely darker than other fantasy movies I've seen at the time, and not just because it says "dark" in the title. I also heard that there will be a sequel or remaster soon...can't remember which.

  On 10/26/2019 at 10:30 PM, zkom said:

From the same year also Death Wish II, The Dark Crystal, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood, The Thing and Tron. All have a kind of early 80s grittiness. Even fantasy movies were kind of dark and brooding when you compare to later movies like LotR.

 

There's a special kind of mood that comes from the classic special effects that sets '80s fantasy films apart.  I've always thought those felt much more magical and more faithful to the fantasy genre.  The limitations engendered by the technology (both in terms of FX and low resolution) also made the characters' struggles seem more grave and helpless.

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Sure anything is anything, but what is anything really.