Posts by _LS_

Unfortunately I can't find any footage without some dumbass commentary. But yeah, Plague Knight DLC.

Goodness no. Do I seem socially acceptable to you?

List your physical aberrations!

Quote from Sardonic Pickle

QFT.

Kaynil, stop being hard on yourself. Art is art. Do it, start painting, even if you think it's poop, paint anyway. Paint 'badly'. Do whatever it is that fulfils you creatively, throw every thought about what people might think away. It's all subjective, the art you create that you may think is bad, someone might just like it. It's very possible. Do it because you enjoy doing it.

If you only have a bit of mud and a stick, you can create art. You actually have the luxury of paints, brushes, canvases and an easel. Try not to think about it too much, and just relax and do.

Can't stand when people restrict or put down people who paint, or sing, or make videos... let's just say express themselves creatively. I've been a victim of that. When I used to busk, a douche bag knocked me down (with words) and it shattered my confidence. I love songwriting and playing guitar/harmonicas. I can't stand singing my songs in front of people though, because of that one prick. It'll take time, and I'm glad I have still have my instruments to play music. Also youtube has given me that creative drive I need.

Anyway, the point is, fuck everyone else, just do what ever gets you through.

... and I work at Target.

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> A smile grows on Linkskywalker's face as he reads. He leans back in his chair, reaching for a moleskin notebook on a nearby shelf.
> The cover reads "Friends I can take advantage of." LS flips to a page labeled "Musicians," with no names at all on it.
> "Sardonic Pickle" LS mutters with a chuckle as he pens the name into the book.

No I don't have a target card. No I don't want a target card.

Quote from The Inhaling One

I don;t have a job yet, but my mom is making me work at Food City once I turn 15 (which is this November). I asked Game Stop what the minimum age requirement is to work there, and they said it was 16, so I may be trying to work there at the end of next year.

Good luck mang. The transition to getting your first job can be a little rough. I hope you don't mind if I offer some unsolicited advice: The system is unfair and it's bullshit. That's a true fact, and it's going to make you angry a lot. But you're ultimately impotent when it comes to acting on that justified anger. So you can either act out in impotent ways (showing up late, slacking off, etc.) which won't make you any happier, won't make you any less angry, and won't change your situation. Or you can be a model fucking employee. Don't kiss anyone's ass, but show up early, work hard, and take initiative. It's still bullshit. But bullshit is easier to deal with when your boss thinks you're a great employee.

Oh, also, here's a secret that took me 10 years in the workforce to learn. There will be a lot of times, in any job, when you don't know what the right choice is. But if you try to figure out what the best option is on your own, and ask your boss/supervisor about it next time you see them, they'll like you more than if you ask them for the solution up front.

It's all bullshit. But eventually we'll overthrow the capitalists and institute a social order made to benefit the proletariat. Until then, we must suffer through together, comrade.

Ho shit dawg, Dr. Mario!

Which, of course, leads right into this classic:

Also, how 'bout the Amazon level from Duck Tales?

The moon was pretty good too.

I suppose I would construct a contract which amounted to invulnerability + invincibility + the ability to kill myself.

QUESTION: There's a trolly heading down the tracks towards a group of five people. You're standing at a switch. If you hit the switch, the trolly will be diverted onto a new track where it will kill only one person.

Do you do nothing and allow five people to die, or do you become an active participant in the death of one person?

Because your family and friends are dumb.

We've created this ludicrous idea that you should only do a thing if you're good at it. Which is stupid, because the only way to be good at something is to do it. We've taken the idea of "talent," which is at most a head start on becoming good at something, and we've decided that it's the single most important deciding factor in whether you're good at something or not.

But all of that aside, being a great artist doesn't need to be the goal. The goal can be as simple as "I have a feeling or a thought inside of me that I want to get out." And anyone who discourages you from doing that is fucking wrong.

Well, as I said, PC Gaming Master Race. I didn't know that the PS3 had a similar technical issue. In that event, people should have been just as mad at them as I said they should be at Microsoft. Playstation still edges out MS though, because of the privacy issue. I also have some affection for Playstation, because the PS1 and the PS2 were good consoles, back when consoles were good. And I have a special dislike for the X-Box, for essentially being the ones who started the whole "Consoles as shitty gaming PCs" fad.

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ANSWER: I suppose the proper answer is "African or Eurpoean?"

QUESTION: Are our actions ultimately all the result of brain chemistry? Is free will merely a comforting lie we tell ourselves?

The idea that a person should only do art if they're skilled at it is one of the great sins of modern education.

Everyone has an inner self that needs to be expressed. The value of art is not in its technical quality, but in its ability to connect us with one another.

PC Gaming Master Race.

But if you're going to force me to choose, the Playstation. Not so much for the things that it does right, but for the things the XBox does wrong. The whole "Red Ring of Death" thing is un-fucking acceptable and we should have stormed Microsoft HQ with torches and pitchforks. Not to mention their creepy fucking attempt at invading privacy and adding weird DRM to games when they announced the XBOX One. The fact that they caved to public outcry doesn't absolve them of the fact that they tried to do it in the first place.

QUESTION: What is the meaning of life?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat this is pretty good. You've got some good shadows and color blending. The mask is all colorful, and the red spots in the back are pretty evocative.

Dan Harmon's Community.

QUESTION: RPGs, or RTS games?

Hooooooooo shit! That might be the hardest you've ever made me laugh. I'm stealing that joke.

Wendy's. Hands down. No real contest.

At some point in your life, I assume you've attempted to pick up a hobby, and then gave up on it. Somewhere in your home are probably some discarded tools you purchased to work on that hobby. You probably tell yourself that someday, you'll pick it up again.

What is that hobby?

I really want to like this game, but I don't think I'm smart enough.

I first bought it about a year ago I think. I spent 2 hours trying to play it, but couldn't make any sense of things. I gave up.

But lately, I've been getting really into Civilization V. Originally, I thought this game was super complicated and difficult to play as well. But I've gradually begun to grasp the intricacies of the game. I'd rank myself "competent." So since I'd 'leveled up' at playing complex map based games, I figured I'd give CK2 another try. It also helped that a buddy of mine made a pretty helpful tutorial, which explained some of the gameplay for my weak brain:

I'm doing a whole lot better at the game now. I manged to play to the third generation of my dynasty. (My founding patron lived into his 70s! Although that meant his heir was already like, 50, so that generation didn't last long. But then the third generation was headed by a 10 year old boy, so I figure I had a good chance at making it a long one.)

But damn the game is labarynthine. The whole thing is menus within menus within menus. And I don't know how big or small the dev team is, but it certainly lacks a lot of polish that would make it easily much more playable.

Combat is also weirdly difficult. Even when I think the two sides of a battle are fairly evenly matched, and my morale is high, I have a bitch of a time actually winning anything. I think there are perhaps some micromanaging choices I could make to win a little more often. But I'm having a bit of a difficult time figuring them out. Since you have to declare war before you raise an army, I never seem to be able to get my forces together before I'm already under attack. And by then it's too late for me to attempt a bunch of micro-managed tweaks.

I'm holding out hope that I'll be able to figure this game out eventually. It seems like a deep, rewarding experience. I'd love to spend a thousand years slowly expanding my nation to encompass the whole of Europe.

I'd also love to begin the game pre-1066; but I don't want to buy DLC for a game that I'm not sure I'll keep playing.

Yes. You need to show us your paintings. Promptly.

Is this it?

I like that Brad Davis guy, but whose the loser he's co-hosting with? That guy is a loser. =P

Yes. I actually worry more about forum games being too slow. I think it's a bad thing if every other post is Linkskywalker. Then everybody else is just answering my questions, instead of having fun with each other.

Do you use Q-Tips in your ears? You know you're not supposed to.

I've discovered, actually, that I'm alone on a continent with them. It's a pretty small continent, so I will probably end up killing them. Then I can fill the whole continent with my own cities, and become a naval superpower.

Unfortunately, China has decided that we're best friends forever. So if I attack them, everyone will think I'm a dick.

I think I'm going to try to surround China's territory with my own cities, so they have nowhere to expand. That will probably make them want to attack me. Once they declare war, I can wipe them off the face of the earth and nobody will blame me for it. Mwuahaha.

Yeah, the Plague Knight campaign is coming out right around the same time as the DLC launch.