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General chat thread

Discussion in 'General' started by Nanimani, Dec 27, 2015.

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  1. TheMidnightRook

    TheMidnightRook Well worn.

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    Protip: The Creative Writing and NSFW Creative Writing subforums have Ideas and Discussion threads. USE THEM!
     
  2. A simple world

    A simple world Not too sore, are you?

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    Not looking to writing mate.
     
  3. TheMidnightRook

    TheMidnightRook Well worn.

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    That's not just discussion of fanfic ideas
     
  4. A simple world

    A simple world Not too sore, are you?

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    Okay, you okay now? Are you okay, sir? Would you like to sit down?
     
  5. Ragnarok

    Ragnarok Well worn.

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    I see reading comprehension is not your strong point.
     
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  6. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Sadly... it might actually be his strong point.

    Abysmal though it might be, he hasn't shown any other trait that's better.
     
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  7. TheMidnightRook

    TheMidnightRook Well worn.

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    He's demonstrated a lot of talent with one other trait: being a nuisance
     
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  8. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    He really hasn't. Proper nuisancing requires people not being 100% certain the nuisance is doing it on purpose.

    He's just an attention whore who can't handle the idea he's not important enough to hate.
     
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  9. vyor

    vyor Oh that's cute

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    Never had any dreams like that, closest one was me spitting out an endless stream of teeth. Which honestly left me more confused than anything else since, you know, humans aren't supposed to have a literal mouthful of teeth.

    I woke myself up when I realized that there was really no point to the dream.
     
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  10. Hatless Nuance

    Hatless Nuance Versed in the lewd.

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    "Follow your dreams!"
    "Including the dream about a city burning?"
    "Okay, maybe not that one."
     
  11. MadGreenSon

    MadGreenSon Verified Devil Tiger, The Childish Yandere

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    I had a dream like that once. I was happy during it because at the time I was waiting on an appointment to deal with what turned out to be a nasty abscess. Waking up to realize I hadn't spit out all my teeth was very sad.
     
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  12. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    My weird dreams almost invariably have me trying to do math.

    You ever done math in your sleep? Let me assure you: you don't.

    Oh, you can think you did it, well enough to beat a cursory glance, but the second you 'check' your 'work', everything goes straight out the window. Lots of 'wait, did this number change?' to go around.


    That, and the many, many times I've dreamt of writing pictures. No, not drawing. Writing. Pictures. But those happen so often to me that I don't even notice, anymore. Hazard of the job, I guess.
     
  13. TheMidnightRook

    TheMidnightRook Well worn.

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    [​IMG]
     
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  14. Guardian Box

    Guardian Box Theocratic Capitalist

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    Yeah they do. I had a chance to do an experiment on this phenomena while half-asleep last morning.

    If you keep just skimming around, the words change all the time. Read one word, go to the next, the previous one changes, unless you pay attention. Same with sentences, but much worse.

    So I got myself a piece of paper in my dream, with a few words scribbled on, and get to testing.

    Sure enough, flip your eyes from one word to the next and then back, the first one changes to something different. So, I pay special attention to this one special word, keep it in mind, and then from the corner of my vision I can see all the other words on the page flipping like crazy. I turn attention to one of them, it solidifies into the first word. I flip back, the first word stayed the same. I flip to third word, it becomes a copy of the other two, but with a single randomly added letter. I do it a few more time, and the first word kept the same, while most of the words only slightly mutated.

    Was fun experiment.
     
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  15. Autocorruptor

    Autocorruptor Corrupting Innocent Grammar

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    I finally got around to installing an adblocker on my web browsers, and HOLY SHIT the internet is more tolerable now. No more 2 ads in a row on youtube. I can actually read new sites without half the fucking screen covered in ads.

    If you don’t already have an adblocker, O recommended you get one. I personally use uBlock origin.
     
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  16. Guardian Box

    Guardian Box Theocratic Capitalist

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    Welcome home child. Nice to see another larva finally pupating into its better form.

    Now install SponsorBlock to get rid of even more ads.

    No more several minutes lost when your youtuber of choice starts talking about Raid Shadow Legends or Hello Fresh.
     
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  17. Autocorruptor

    Autocorruptor Corrupting Innocent Grammar

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    Ooooh, that sounds like a shiny piece of software. But I can do that manually, and sometimes the youtubers bring up a product I am interested in buying, so I will decline on that front.
     
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  18. Guardian Box

    Guardian Box Theocratic Capitalist

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    Well, I understand.

    It took you this long to install the basic adblock after all.

    You will learn, in time.
     
  19. otoshi17Good

    otoshi17Good Lurker

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    Quick question for those that might care, I have written a lot of basic power fantasy(trash) stories that I have never published, they are pretty much only prologues that never reached chapter 1, my question is: should I publish them on my trash dump thread?
    a lot isn't finished or misses sections of story that I would write in one or two-liners.

    Should I do it?
     
  20. heralding_bubble

    heralding_bubble Liar and Hypocrite

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    Why not?
     
  21. otoshi17Good

    otoshi17Good Lurker

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    I don't know, its just that a lot is unfinished stuff that don't complete even a single chapter.
     
  22. Hatless Nuance

    Hatless Nuance Versed in the lewd.

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    If you post a string of ideas and half-formed plots and openings, then that is fine. It would be a possible inspiration, or warning, for others. Unless there is material in there that actively embarrasses you, it shouldn't be a big deal to publish online.
     
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  23. SerpentEmperor

    SerpentEmperor Not too sore, are you?

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    Can anyone recommend me a CYOA or something similar that helps me build an alien species? The more comprehensive the better.
     
  24. otoshi17Good

    otoshi17Good Lurker

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    No offense but I think this question should be more for the General CYOA Thread.




    Now general question if you were sent to one of the next verses which would you select? Warhammer 40k, SCP Universe, Worm, Earth-0 Gotham(DC Comics), Earth-616 New York(Marvel Comics).

    I think I would choose between Hotham and Warhammer 40k.
    In Gotham with enough luck I might be able to get enough money for a bus to any city, in Warhammer I might be lucky enough to fall in a World without war and live my life there.
     
  25. GhostHaxStomp

    GhostHaxStomp I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Earth-616 New York, I’d either immediately get flattened by a bus or I wouldn’t. I might get cool powers, or I won’t. Plenty of heroes dealing with shit too.

    This is a trick question anyways, we already live in the SCP universe. Thank god the Foundation does good work.
     
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  26. Smurfpapa

    Smurfpapa Verified Blue

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    One of my favorite stories started off when the author posted a one shot and everyone bullied them into continuing.
     
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  27. SerpentEmperor

    SerpentEmperor Not too sore, are you?

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    I keep having flashbacks to bad or weird events and memories on my life. Does anyone know how to stop this?
     
  28. Hatless Nuance

    Hatless Nuance Versed in the lewd.

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    You probably need to see a mental health expert. Sorry to say, but most of the time, for things like that, asking random people on the internet will net little useful advice (hypocritical as that statement is).
     
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  29. evildice

    evildice (emotionally stable clown posse)

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    Find inner peace through meditation (or medication).

    Reduce depression symptoms through activity.

    Get off the internet and become wealthy.
     
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  30. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Flashback as in 'remember embarrassing memories'? Because if it's that, them I'm sorry to inform you that disease is known as 'life'.

    Good news: it'll stop, eventually. Bad news: it's terminal.

    Flashback as in 'actual hallucinations'? Seek expert help.
     
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