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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:38 am
by LikeableRodent
Pokebis wrote:Any insight into that, LikeableRodent (or anyone else).
No clue. sorry.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:41 am
by Pokebis
Have you played it? Do you want to try?

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:50 am
by Riot
I wanna play Persona 4 Arena. I like Persona games and fighting games!

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:50 am
by LikeableRodent
Pokebis wrote:Have you played it? Do you want to try?
Passed by one earlier today. I kept on walking.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:22 am
by Merk
LikeableRodent I thought you were moving back to America!

Nani?!?!?!

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:34 pm
by Riot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESwCwUhO1E

Man I remember when I used to love wrestling in 6th grade.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:45 am
by Fluffyumpkins
The internet has always had a strange fascination with the notion that all pretty/popular people in high school manage to screw up later in life and all bullied nerds become CEOs for Fortune 500 companies.

Do stories like this make people in similar situations feel better? Do nerds get off on the idea of karmic justice? Is the notion of an unfair world too much for the nerd psyche?

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:19 am
by Merk
Are you talking about that dumb fucking (100% fake) photo that started floating around Facebook today?

Yeah it's totally about karmic justice. Everyone loves a story where someone who bullies the meek gets their comeuppance. I'm guessing that photo was made by a Reddittor who proceeded to cause a massive circle-jerk echo chamber after posting it.

Have you read the ugly duckling? It's the exact same story.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:39 am
by Pokebis
Please post the image. The Taiwanese kids are on Time-to-post-on-Facebook mode, so my wall is mostly anime drawings, photos of food, and comics.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:58 am
by SoDeepPolaris
Fluffyumpkins wrote:The internet has always had a strange fascination with the notion that all pretty/popular people in high school manage to screw up later in life and all bullied nerds become CEOs for Fortune 500 companies.

Do stories like this make people in similar situations feel better? Do nerds get off on the idea of karmic justice? Is the notion of an unfair world too much for the nerd psyche?
Last year a bully threw a little boy down a well after school. Thr boy's mom posted athis message on facebook and asked people to forward it to 10 people. every time someone forwarded it, thd bully lost $5 and is now homeless. That little boy is the nenxlt Mark Zuckerberg. THIS ACTUALLY WORKS REPOST TO TWENNY OTHA PEEPS AND SAVE HIS LIFE AND RUIN THE BULLY!

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:01 pm
by Fluffyumpkins
Merk wrote:Are you talking about that dumb fucking (100% fake) photo that started floating around Facebook today?

Yeah it's totally about karmic justice. Everyone loves a story where someone who bullies the meek gets their comeuppance. I'm guessing that photo was made by a Reddittor who proceeded to cause a massive circle-jerk echo chamber after posting it.

Have you read the ugly duckling? It's the exact same story.
People say that though the story wasn't true, it echos truth. How many awkward highschool nerds ended up being rich and successful, and how many ended up being awkward nerdy adults? I'd even go so far as to say the average popular kids in highschool that went to college probably ended up more successful than their average socially inept counterparts. Successful is, of course, subjective, but I think we'll use it in the same way the Facebook image describes it.

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Guy is Ryan Seacrest. Girl is some other celeb.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:48 pm
by Pokebis
hurrdurr.
Yeah, people are dumb.

Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:52 pm
by Potter
lol

also, just ordered a bunch of SSD's


can't wait 2flyyyy highhhh



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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:24 pm
by Riot
yo you guys watching any Olympics? I feel old watching all these 15-16 year olds competing.

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Re: [Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:15 pm
by Merk
Yeah I've been watching volleyball during the day and then whatever random swimming shit is on in the evening. That one Missy chick looks like your wife, Riot!