My condolences, Null.

Jvcc: Cool, cool. Would you be interested to know how many guys you have fucked who have made similar comments amongst friends? Above one . Oh come on, what's that meant to achieve? Is it meant to prove a point (it doesn't), or are you just attempting to hurt JVCC's feelings (unnecessary)? You two ...

Well it can't have done that much damage, then. Good luck for your next meeting!

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Hahaha, cool.

I'm immeasurably cool and attractive, and resoundingly dateless, but that's because of my adherence to the "do nothing at all" school of romance procurement. The prospect of signing up to a dating website is an interesting hypothetical I occasionally entertain, purely in the abstract, but ...

Oh, I've heard about Processing, but never given it a go. It's targeted at artists, right?

You should capture some video of your glitchy thing. That sort of thing is cool.

Anyway, thanks for the info. I'll give something a go.

That's cool. It's fascinating to me when compressed video breaks in such a way that the transformation data is applied to the wrong base frame (I believe it's caused by a dropped I frame) and it looks like the shapes of one scene moving around under the image of another. How involved is messing arou...

I'm glad things are going well for you, Ian. The poetry one still makes me laugh out loud.. which is a testament to both Neil.(?) Daniel. (?) and Jmz. http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=41660293339338281783 Overrated. (It was Dan who wrote it. Neil isn't weird like that. He's an actuary.)

I never said you would. I said "that's a pretty mean-spirited way to look at things." It's great that you wouldn't say it to their faces, but that wasn't what I was talking about. I was talking about it as an outlook. Maybe I'm acting like thought police or something, but you chose to shar...

Fine, whatever. It's totally good that you have secret disdain for the newly pregnant, and that you hate small children. It's entirely great that your mind twists someone sharing their joy with their friends to an act of showing off that you have to internally tear down as if it were some kind of co...

So I'm mean spirited because I don't like kids and think it's that big a deal that you pregnant? You're mean spirited because you're belittling and being snide about something that matters to people a great deal. It'd be like telling newlyweds divorce statistics or something. Can't you just be happ...

Probably not the only person in the world, but I imagine you're the only person here. It seems a pretty mean-spirited way to look at things, but I guess I can't command you to start liking kids or whatever.

All I can find to say about that is that if I'd been there I would have told you not to do it. I guess I'm a spoilsport.

At least they happened in that order so the fun exchange could lift your sprits a bit!

Secretly, though, this is what he actually needed them for.

The clincher was the succinct clarification: 'The device was an enormous fish.' Long florid prose followed by unflinchingly prosaic description: a joke I like so much I employed it twice in my description. On reviewing the results a second time, it seems like EJ was daring Nick to read "fish c...

Not to be undone, EsBe asserted: The underlings figured out the Clone-o-Matic--AGAIN--so we had to put them down. or Captain of curiously compact countenance commands crowd of contented cadets. Courageous cavalier, cutlas crimson, corners the congregation in castle court. Connotation: coming carnag...

Ha!

Sorry. I'm sorry too. I'd had a few drinks and was less cautious than I should have been. I don't think you're "more than depressed," though, honestly. I wouldn't trust these occasional "I can tell" feelings, as they seem to be pointing you in the wrong direction. But you have n...

You all think I'm insane and in need of therapy. a) Depression isn't what most people would call insanity. b) There's nothing wrong with mental health issues. Someone wouldn't be ashamed of having to go to the doctor for a physical health problem, so why should they be ashamed of going to a therapi...

Video games and anime are for kids. Action films are for cretins. Rock music is for reprobates. Novels are for the intellectually unrigorous. Music is decadent. I mean, if you want to go out of your way to alienate people, go for it, but at that point you revoke your right to complain about it, part...

I don't buy the horrible person thing, but even if it were true, there's no reason that should continue to be the case. People go through all sorts of changes throughout life. Sometimes I look back on things I've said and ways I've been and I cringe, because I'd like to think that I know better than...

Do they request that? Like, you can only say it if you yell it (I'm not gonna type it because it's night and I don't want to yell)? Not even God gets all caps. It's how they always present it in their own materials (or at least it was during the PS3 era; not sure if it still is), but I don't rememb...

On an unrelated note, it's odd to see my username in all-caps, because it reminds me of the acronym it stands for: Junior Varsity Cross Current. The name of my middle school youth group. "Cross current" sort of meant "counter culture," "junior" referred to the fact tha...

You know our past, he hates my guts for some bizarre reason. If this were ever actually the case, I see absolutely no evidence that it still is. It's possible for people to move on and get over things (I even came to kind of tolerate Chrono Crow after a while!). If you keep viewing things through t...

Happy birthday Ian! Sorry I missed it by a little over an hour!