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#15726 Sky Strike Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:24:45 PM from Trottingham

I should really start reading Homestuck. I read the entirety of Problem Sleuth on one sick day, but Homestuck will probably take substantially longer.

I feel like I could touch the heavens, and sock angels.

Element of Indecision.

#15727 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:25:42 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

If you can read Homestuck in a day I will be quite amazed. But yeah, everyone's reading it now, you should too! PEER PRESSURE!

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#15728 Sky Strike Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:27:27 PM from Trottingham

MOMMA TOLD ME NEVER TO GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE

I have a lot of schoolwork right now, but once it dies down, I might start reading it. I've been really into TF 2 lately though.

I feel like I could touch the heavens, and sock angels.

Element of Indecision.

#15729 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:29:02 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

Well alright then, DONT read Homestuck, see if I care.

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#15730 condottiera Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:29:41 PM from Chicago

I was led to expect that kids would be offering me free pot left and right. I started get pretty exited about it, like, wow, high school, bring it on.

No one has ever offered me drugs, ever.

And... that's a good thing.

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#15731 Turtlebutter Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:30:26 PM from A Marshy Pond

Ive just had a really long and boring weekend at work so I did a good bit of it since Friday.

I do intend to read through it a second time, and peruse the Wiki when I have more time.

Im sure I get a lot more than I think I do... at least the surface stuff. If theres an undercurrent thats probably going over my head.

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#15732 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:44:13 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

Playing Dark Souls and reading the Pony thread, just like the old days. Except Ginger isn't around...

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#15733 Sky Strike Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:44:50 PM from Trottingham

We can summon him using the Necronomicon. I'll get the candles if you get the goat blood.

I feel like I could touch the heavens, and sock angels.

Element of Indecision.

#15734 Turtlebutter Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:45:46 PM from A Marshy Pond

I got the PC version of Dark Souls but Im so terribly bad at it that I gave up.

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#15735 Japanese Teeth Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:48:07 PM from Meinong's jungle

I read it through once, then read the trope page, then read it again, and then I felt like I had a good idea of what was going on. It's tough the first time through because there's now way of telling what's important and what's just a joke.

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#15736 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:49:45 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

@Turtlebutter: Ah, don't give up it just takes perseverance. How far did you get?

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#15737 Super Gex Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:50:12 PM from Connecticut

Dear Princess Celestia, I learned never to spray AXE body spray directly into your face. It stings like the dickens, and it doesn't make your family pay that much more attention to you.

-Your faithful student, Tank Buster

Back in Black, and by black I mean BLU.

#15738 storyyeller Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:52:39 PM from Appleloosa

We can summon him using the Necronomicon. I'll get the candles if you get the goat blood.

All you really need is some toothpicks and 4cc of mouse blood.

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#15739 condottiera Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:54:12 PM from Chicago

Yeah, but that's no fun.

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#15740 Sky Strike Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:55:04 PM from Trottingham

We gotta do it like in the old days, for nostalgia.

I feel like I could touch the heavens, and sock angels.

Element of Indecision.

#15741 storyyeller Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:56:36 PM from Appleloosa

I read it through once, then read the trope page, then read it again, and then I felt like I had a good idea of what was going on.

Sounds a lot like Primer.

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#15742 condottiera Wed, 12th Sep '12 6:58:09 PM from Chicago

I like Primer. Time travel is one of my favorite story telling devices when properly implemented.

And for something completely different:

I was browsing a tumblr devoted to pictures of famous people smoking, and I found this.

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I love the internet.

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#15743 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:13:50 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

I read a Cracked.com article today pointing out how completely f-ed up the romance in Primer is. Other than that I know little.

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#15744 condottiera Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:15:35 PM from Chicago

Well, yeah, obviously.

That's the point, isn't it?

That the power and the greed goes to their heads till they find themselves unable to trust even each other.

Their relationships with other human beings deteriorate as does their relationship with time.

The ultimate irony is that they cannot even trust themselves— they have the doubles running around.

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#15745 storyyeller Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:20:53 PM from Appleloosa

Since when did Primer have romance? I think you need to get your Shipping Goggles calibrated.

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#15746 condottiera Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:24:57 PM from Chicago

One of the guys is married and has a kid.

The fact that they are hardly alluded to in the film and are treated mainly as obstacles to be overcome, tricked, deceived, what have you, really goes to show.

I'll check out that Cracked article later maybe.

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#15747 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:27:03 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

I haven't seen the movie. But according to Cracked.com the main guy hooks up with the girl at the end...despite the fact that he's actually a totally different mind just controlling the corpse of some random guy, and he has none of the dude's memories. Meaning he doesn't even know where he lives, let alone who he knows.

EDIT: No matter how many times I do it, fighting Smaug and Ornstein is never not epic.

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#15748 condottiera Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:29:03 PM from Chicago

What?

That's not what happens.

The doubles were not different people from themselves, they were just themselves in the past. When the Stable Time Loop is broken they become separate from each other, but you are still you, plus Character Development, which happens anyway.

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#15749 storyyeller Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:33:14 PM from Appleloosa

Bluespade you're thinking of Source Code. I just read the article and Primer isn't even mentioned. Anyway, one of the characters is married, but it never comes up in the movie.

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#15750 Bluespade Wed, 12th Sep '12 7:33:41 PM from Fort Worth, Texas

Indeed, I was thinking of some other Time Travel movie.

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