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One of my faves, she was also lucky and dated Annie Clark, another favorite.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I was in high school from 1999 to 2003.

High school things. I had a lot of fun back then. I played multiple sports and was active with a lot of friends.

I played lots of vidya games and took part in multiple faction wars, rping, and general hijinxs on gamefaqs.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I loved it.

I thought the platforming was really fun, it had a great look, and amazing soundtrack. Plus, I liked the story too.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

More tham 5.

Growing up, my grandmother lived two blocks from one. I went to like 40 consectutive exhibits and the gallery gave me some sort of of gift.

I spent a lot of weekends with my grandmother!
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Ottoman collapse and subsequent European colonial powers rush to carve it up destroyed the middle east.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I have the cart of the snes game.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

My parents never really perpetuated it, even though mom loves Christmas. Mom has always felt Santa is a great trasncendental concept about giving and kindness, but not much more.

I was three or four when they told me. I got a shoebox full of NES games or something. And it liked clicked that Santa did not make it, plus O remember asking why poor people did not get all the fancy things other kids got -- I had been facinated with the bell people, the Salvation Army. So I had that explained to me.

So I just outright asked if Santa was real, I was informed he was not, but was a symbol based off folk tales and a Saint.

I know all families are different as are kids, but I find it weird that some people perpetuate Santa on ther kids for so long.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

R zone

I saw a kid with one in youth league basketball. He lett me try it, garbage.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Sould Calibur used to have sweet single player modes.

SCII arcade had conquest mode which wad awesome 1 player mode. Although it supported vs.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Out of This World
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

furb posted...

Here's the things from my perspective. TLDR, Southern Pride is stupid and historically misplaced by many people that extol it as a virtue. You don't have to hate yourself or your history for the sins of your fathers, but don't hold them up on pedestals either for fighting for the wrong things.

My family came to the colonies in the 1660s. We had a plantation in modern day Delaware. My direct relative moved from the plantation to Western Virginia, now West Virginia. During the Civil War, our family lived in a massively Pro-Union county, not far from Wheeling. We owned a ton of property in the central part of the county though, which was remote. We aided and abetted the Confederates with both money, manpower, and helped smuggle supplies South. One of my great uncles served in the 46th Virginia Cavalry during the Valley Campaign.

This great-uncle was killed around 15 miles from his home, by the local home guard while returning on furlough. He was dumped in a shallow grave, but was later retrieved by his sister (who was married to the local prosecutor in the neighboring county where he was killed). So, he got buried in the cemetery where most of my family is located. We came out on the loosing side of the war, sold off most of our land, and became marginalized somewhat in local politics for over 100 years as a result.

I don't hate my progenitors, and some of my relatives did fight for the Union. But they were clearly wrong, especially by the Civil War, once it was largely apparent slavery was abhorrent. I can sort of respect them for fighting for what they believed in to a small degree, but it was still morally wrong and not worthy of pride.

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Here's the irony for me. In the same town my relative got killed for being a Confederate soldier, people now fly Confederate flags and talk about "history" and "pride" and "cultural identity". It stuns me, because doing that back before it was "history" got people killed there. Even funnier is when some of these people weren't even in the US when this "history" was even happening.

most of these people never owned anything. they were just poor and sooo uneducated that they could be proud pawns in a war that they had little stake in.

I can understand protecting what's "yours." even if it's wrong. it's pretty cool that you can acknowledge that and move on with your life. but many of these people just want to be part of something that makes them feel special. even if it's a delusion of a past grandeur that their family never actually had.

it takes a special kind of stupid to be in America, but not evolve as a culture in 150 years. some of these people have been on a continuous loop of failure for generations.

I think that's true, basically.

I think another poster hit the nail on the head. There are things about the South that are worth building pride around, like the food, music, do-it-yourself mentality, and strong community bonds. This all exists independent of the Civil War and Jim Crow, so why do so many Southerners feel compelled to use a symbol of a bunch of traitors fighting for slavery to be the be-all end-all of Southern pride and identity?
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Here's the things from my perspective. TLDR, Southern Pride is stupid and historically misplaced by many people that extol it as a virtue. You don't have to hate yourself or your history for the sins of your fathers, but don't hold them up on pedestals either for fighting for the wrong things.

My family came to the colonies in the 1660s. We had a plantation in modern day Delaware. My direct relative moved from the plantation to Western Virginia, now West Virginia. During the Civil War, our family lived in a massively Pro-Union county, not far from Wheeling. We owned a ton of property in the central part of the county though, which was remote. We aided and abetted the Confederates with both money, manpower, and helped smuggle supplies South. One of my great uncles served in the 46th Virginia Cavalry during the Valley Campaign.

This great-uncle was killed around 15 miles from his home, by the local home guard while returning on furlough. He was dumped in a shallow grave, but was later retrieved by his sister (who was married to the local prosecutor in the neighboring county where he was killed). So, he got buried in the cemetery where most of my family is located. We came out on the loosing side of the war, sold off most of our land, and became marginalized somewhat in local politics for over 100 years as a result.

I don't hate my progenitors, and some of my relatives did fight for the Union. But they were clearly wrong, especially by the Civil War, once it was largely apparent slavery was abhorrent. I can sort of respect them for fighting for what they believed in to a small degree, but it was still morally wrong and not worthy of pride.

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Here's the irony for me. In the same town my relative got killed for being a Confederate soldier, people now fly Confederate flags and talk about "history" and "pride" and "cultural identity". It stuns me, because doing that back before it was "history" got people killed there. Even funnier is when some of these people weren't even in the US when this "history" was even happening.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

But they are optional. U can just turn the screen off during ads guys.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I would, or would like to think so. People have sacrificed their lives for far less.

I'm in my 30s, and I've had a pretty OK life so far. I could go out happy in this scenario.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Goldberry is the best waifu
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

hamster dance


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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Research and Methods 602
I did not do well in it, to say the least. Math was not my strong point, but I needed 12 hours of research and methods in grad school. This was my ninth hour course.

I learned some basic Microcase and SPSS in undergrad -- one of my research and method classes transferred into graduate school.

In my first grad level methods course, 601, I got a B. I worked my tail off in it! It just focused on learning OLS Regression and things like ANOVA and probabilities. We also learned about the basics of hypothesis testing.

602 as another beast. It was take what you learned in 601 and apply it to actual research, while learning how to use STATA. Only a handful of systems on campus had STATA and a private license was extremely expensive. STATA is like using a DOS prompt to do high end statistical analyses -- similar to SASS. For somebody like me, that struggled with the math side of the house to start with, adding on this extra layer of learn to code, pretty much broke me. The course only had 4 grades too. So, I was pretty much out of the game by grade 2.

Vomit

One weekend, I spent 20 hours working through what amounted to 15 math questions with the STATA line inputs along with it. I hated it. It was so over my head and skill set, I couldn't really even ask the professor the right questions for extra help (I tried -- the prof was pretty much a newly minted PHD and whiz and this sort of thing, which likely didn't help).
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I have too. The more I learned and interacted with various people and experiences, I found a few conservative tendencies I had in my younger days misplaced.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Did you Americans get to watch it?

Ran on disney channel. I watched it.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Kazi1212 posted...

furb posted...

Bullet_Wing posted...

This graph explains it all

Do not think that is fair. Nazism was also quite reactionary

Extreme politcal idealogies tend to resemble each other on the poles. I had a theory professor describe it as a warping line, where extreme left and right politics bend towards one another on a line. In pure distance along the line, very diffrent, but in realtiy, the results look very much the same. The who whys and wheres are different, but the outcomes produce oppresive regimes.

You mean like horseshoe theory?

I do not know it by that name, but could be.

I took a ton of politcal theory in undergrad and grad school, so I sometimes just remember concepts.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

A good example is consider Euro style nationalistic parties. Many want to keep the welfare state in place, but highly regulate immigration and expect members of thr nation-state to adhere to traditional social values in so far as social mores and religion.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Bullet_Wing posted...

My post was a joke mocking that graph made by a moron

Ok good!
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Bullet_Wing posted...

This graph explains it all

Do not think that is fair. Nazism was also quite reactionary

Extreme politcal idealogies tend to resemble each other on the poles. I had a theory professor describe it as a warping line, where extreme left and right politics bend towards one another on a line. In pure distance along the line, very diffrent, but in realtiy, the results look very much the same. The who whys and wheres are different, but the outcomes produce oppresive regimes.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Facism can resemblea form of state socialism, with a mixing of public and private interests. The issue is who gets to be a member of the state. In the case of Nazism, there is an organic conception of the state, with membership limited to those of certain ethnic origins and psychological qualities.

Do note they were killing Marxists and Lenninist, which call for the destruction of traditional social structures, religion, and ethnic lines, to form a new soceity. This was anathema to facism that Nazism advanced. Socialism is also not the endgame of Marxism and Lenninism. It it a stage in the historical dialectic prior to communism.

Also note, the communists war against each other too, see Trotsky and such. Nazism can still have aspects of socialism and yet fight against other ideologies with socialistic tendencies.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Seo Winters and table top tactics are my favorite

I have a 2000 point grey knight army and some random inqusition peoplem
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Yes
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Yeah, i was super into this girl last year. We dated for several months and were super close. I care about her a ton even now.

I broke up with her though. I didnt leave her f9r someone else or because I stopped having feelings for her.

But there were one or two big life things. She def wanted kids and did not want to move. I have always been on the fence about both. I thought I could make it work.

Then I realized I didnt have the heart to ask her to change and I was afraid I couldnt. We were getting really serious, so I ended it before things hit a point of no return without badly damaged feelings.

I was 33 and she was 27, so this was not playing around teen stuff. We just were not right for each other, even though I sometimes wish were still together.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Election day should be a holiday anyway. Whether it replaces Columbus day or not.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I think it creates an ecosystem where games that would otherwise be normal games, with earned equipment, gear, and progression, are not or made. Instead, we games with mechanisms that reward gambling or deliberately long grinds/stamina systems.

I loved the Fire Emblem game. I would have paid 30 bucks for a full game with non-gambling mechanic and no stamina system. Instead, I played it for a week, and stopped. And because people spend huge amounts of money, me opting out of the system doesn't really do anything.

Personally, I don't care if people spend hordes of money; my rub is more how this impacts the overall gaming ecosystem.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Yes, but I was never informed of the results.

My parents knew, of course
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Toddler easily

It is a person.

It is a simple act of empathy. The dog is replaceable. I have had 4 in my life. Losing my toddler niece would be horrid.

I would not want another person to feel that way if they lost a toddler, knowing I could prevent it.

I think your dogs would understand. They are selfless creatures.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

ENFP

I know it is basically pseudoscience, but this feels about right.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

It it was obvious this woulf be the outcome.

This case always reminded me of the Skokie case.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Middle hope posted...

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

A robot does it in .38 seconds. Im unimpressed with our race

We created that robot

Checkmate

Wait until a robot makes a robot. Get fucked human race

We made the rovot that could make the robot tho
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

SSJGrimReaper posted...

yeah I wish characters like Lee/Neji/Kiba/Shikamaru didn't get sidelined so hard

I had only a passing interest in this show, and this is a major reason why. I loved the weirdo supporting cast, but the mains were boring to me.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Rock Lee is the best character in the show.

Would have been more interesting seeing a guy outclassed without any special gifts triumph with heart and effort over a world of demi gods imo.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I love the dancing kid in alien ant farm

Obviously, Michael is the superior act here, hands down. But the alien ant farm cover is legit.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Fez

I loved the first

Sad the second is never coming out
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

this was how all boomers were raised.

it's clear when they talk about anybody younger than them.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Corporation era? Sure

Nation of Domination? nah
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I have one older brother. He's 6 years older than me. I'm really close with him and was the best man in his wedding. He was very influential on my life although it was annoying as a teen. He would try to act our parents to me sometimes. However, I learned a lot from him. He would bring me his books home from college and have me read them so we could talk about things. We don't see eye to eye on several things, but that's ok.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Sakaki posted...

ProfessorKukui posted...

Nah.
A friend ruined it.

What happened

Like, I'm curious too. It's not like there's anything to really spoil in this show. Unless you count the fact they all finish high school a spoiler.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

just get some liquid plumber or drano

I've always had good luck with it.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

It's one of my all time favorites. It was a slog downloading it episode by episode my freshmen year of college on DC++ and Ares. This was 2003, so it was still pretty new and not in print in the US yet.

i think it is extremely charming without being needlessly pandering. I usually hate slice of life stuff, but I found the pace of the show outstanding. Likely, due to its 4 panel origin.

I would love a Yotsuba anime too. It will never happen however.

***

I always liked Yomi the best.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Yes, I have some white hair in my facial hair.

My hair as changed colors several times. I had golden blonde hair until I was around 16. Then it turned strawberry with flecks of blonde, brown, and red. My primary hair is now a mix, primarily, of a brownish blonde and red. With some white hair mixed in.

My last girlfriend said my facial hair looked a bit like a calico cat.

I'm in my mid thirties for reference.

I've yet to see any on my head. My facial hair is like 10 percent white now though.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane