there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

did silby just name the new thread?

this one is only ~1100 posts long, we have plenty of room for meta bitching and unrelated pedantry

every lol thread has like 3 phases of those, it's like geology

i don't know how much we really need to tease out the appeal of shooters--like, at what point in human history were games not about violence (some games, that is. maybe most)? we just have the tech to do it better now.

really i feel like the dominant mode of "smart" game criticism draws too much from pop psychology (like my point immediately above) (but we don't have a critical vocabulary with which to properly tackle these topics) (yet). like bissell is not far removed from gladwell in terms of intellectual rigor. that's my main objection. also his face.

― adam, Monday, July 16, 2012 1:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have a yen to read that nutbag Sim tbh but if you think Nostromo is shit you crazy

shorter/snappier: the end of an EXCELSIOR and the dawn of a new LOL

EXCELSIOR: funny shit or nblol?

Nostromo - the X-Men spinoff...?

lol @ idea that any of that shit is better than peak Cerebus

well that shatters my preconceptions about art

EXCELSIOR is a LOLmix (with some edits)

Mods, can we please put the LOL-filter on the word "EXCELSIOR" as a means of increasing the overall level of intelligence around here?

I was just confused by the Nostromo ref - Conrad? Alien? comics? whut?

Mods, can we please put the LOL-filter on requests to mods as a means of increasing the overall level of EXCELSIOR LOL LOL ROFL EXCELSIOR LOL around here?

I probably need to reread it, I found it to be kind of a hollow treatment of a bunch of themes that I'd seen done to death a hundred times before the novel finally came into my hands. One of those times being from Sim, who doesn't approach the desired natural resource exploitation angle, and who of course includes 30s comedic figures and Marvel/DC parodies but the underlying sociopolitical infrastructure seems about 10x deeper and more convincingly rendered (tho tbf he did have about 1500 more pages in which to develop said infrastructure

High Scoiety and Church & State are early, before the nuts stuff and probably the series' high point

I like p much every other earlier Conrad novel (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Typhoon, the novel about the Narcissus) more than Nostromo btw

And...I'm done feeding the derail

(xp to NV, first 'it' refers to Nostromo)

it was sad when he got shot

Nostromo becoming a grouchy old has-been was genuinely pathetic, yes, but I had lost interest by then

a good deed hidden in silence dies

Lol. As I said I need to read it again.

Man, it turns out I really remember nothing of The Jungle outside descriptions of men cutting their hands into pulp and getting pussy gangrene in their bleeding eye sockets.

― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.)

Um, by "pussy," i mean "having puss."

― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.)

And by "puss," I mean "pus."

― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.)

Pussy Gangrene was really the worst Bond girl

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP)

IRL LOL

omg

love it

Excellent return to form.

lol @ Dan, but good typos can never be beat!

beautiful.

guys just take your parents' computers away and give them iPads, they will be so much happier.

― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Saturday, July 14, 2012 7:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oddly, my mom gave her laptop to my sister as hers died, so my mom really does have just an iPad now!

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Sunday, July 15, 2012 4:42 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is not interesting

― jabba hands, Sunday, July 15, 2012 8:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

=D

i always think that's a cup of sideways coffee

oh it is

no that would be

≈D

8≈≈≈≈≈≈≈D

immanent tea bagging ^^^

it also looks like one of those WAAAAP WAAAP WAP WAP aliens from Sesame Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fQaj31Wtko

the yipyips

in a better world than ours there are several full-length yipyip movies, and they're constantly playing on every network tv station, literally.

yes! those!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgEJZ1dFCog

my parents pretty much let me play whatever but once i was playing wolf3D and my dad stood behind me and watched me shoot nazis for a while and then launched into this impromptu dramatic scene where he played both the dead nazi's wife and the dead nazi's son, who was waiting up that night for his father to come home because he'd made him some kind of present but his father was late coming home and it was way past his bedtime and his mother was saying just go to bed dear you'll see him in the morning etc

parenting

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, July 16, 2012

hahahahaha

"Then he started barking like the puppies awaiting their German Shepard father to come back to the kennel."

Man, it turns out I really remember nothing of The Jungle outside descriptions of men cutting their hands into pulp and getting pussy gangrene in their bleeding eye sockets.

― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.)

this is just such a great post

what is actual money? like dollar bills?

― Mordy, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:32 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know money you can use it to buy things, if youre poor and you get some youre not poor anymore

― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:23 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always love to see an old fashioned barber's pole. but the novelty would wear off pretty quickly if i had one tattooed on my face.

― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:08 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel the same way about boobs

― mookieproof, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here's another clue for you lames
the table was james

― da croupier, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:44 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:D

wau

that is outstanding

also pleasing synergy btwn post + M@tt's dn