truth bombs

If someone on a messageboard posts that a thing I think is good is actually bad, I don't question my taste at all, I just assume the other person is normal.

i have been playing loads of roleplaying games over the last decade-ish trying to recapture the way i felt when i was 12 and despite lots of cool stuff being out there i am happy to report that feeling is ephemeral and tied directly to the powerlessness, imagination, time, and friendship that was only available at 12yo, it can never be recaptured alas.

― Mordy, Friday, January 31, 2020 6:05 PM

Is this about ILX's halcyon days again?

Snark aside, that is incontrovertibly true, although in the process of chasing nostalgia in recent years I did end up discovering a few CRPGs (some old, others new) that fleetingly recaptured my teenage fascination with the Infinity Engine games. My natural inclination towards single-player CRPGs and continued willingness to suspend disbelief as a deliberate corrective to the killjoy that is academia no doubt helped lower the bar (I got my multi-player kicks from RTS's back in the day), as I've never experimented with tabletop campaigns (too demanding and too gregarious, not to mention my group of friends at the time wasn't interested anyway).

im the same, but with reading books

i'm the same, but with the entirety of day-to-day existence

Tbpf I'm the same, but with everything.

Fuck, beat me to it. Payback for hijacking your signature phrase, I'm sure.

ffs

the halcyon days of ffs

great revive

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f
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These are the voyages of the FFS Enterprise

Great connive

great revive

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, February 3, 2020 9:03 AM bookmarkflaglink

Doesn't feel the same reading this thread again though.

y'all are being super annoying

Did you forget where you are?

U thing?

even if every conspiracy theory was true it doesn't do anyone good any good to whinge about it

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.)

Did you forget where you are?

― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, February 3, 2020 11:23 AM (yesterday)

I was making an obvious reference to the first post in this thread, as well as engaging in customary nostalgia for when this thread was better.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert 'Nostalgia' Camus.

I’ll be your mirror
Forget where you are

that dog is america

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:20 PM

Except likeable.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:05 PM

Karl Malone
Posted: 25 March 2020 at 19:05:28
(getting older thoughts)

when i hear "30 years" i still automatically think of 1980. oof

Oh damn I made a very similar error just a couple of hours ago (how old is a person born 1984 vs 1994).

best thing about being a sports fan is having these realisations early and often

claudio reynas boy looks a player, in other news

ffs

every minute listening to a podcast is time i could be listening to music instead

― sleight return (voodoo chili)

Let me introduce you to music podcasts

voodoo chili otm, listen to podcasts

xp that sounds like a special level of hell to me

VC OTM

Don't you be coming at me with your spoken words, I got me some meeuuusic to be listening to.

no one cares what shit music you listen to, but you should learn to read a room

― here 1st (roxymuzak), Sunday, May 31, 2020 2:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

think it's an old ilxor trolling tbh, in which case he is reading the room pretty well

As noted essayist Michel de Montaigne once put it, 'When I play with my troll, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?'

well as Forsythe and Ford put it "life is the name of the game, and I want to play the game with you"

fuck whoever the troll is, obviously. but just as much, fuck these people.

oscar bravo
groovemaaan

this is the daily ilx poster shitlist

had no idea roxy was back!

Suggest the mods introduce a “it’s time to stop posting” timeout, cos some of you are really spending too much time here.

― beef stannin’ (gyac), Thursday, August 20, 2020 4:59 PM

Guilty as charged btw.

I wasn’t thinking about you but it definitely applies :)

Suggest the mods introduce a “it’s time to stop posting” timeout, cos some of you are really spending too much time here.

― beef stannin’ (gyac)

gyac you wouldn't say that if you saw what i get up to when i'm _not_ posting here

It is one of the great fallacies of our time to expect people who have good political views to have good views in other domains (or for that matter to be good people in their personal lives)

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, September 20, 2020 5:40 PM

ILM: where being a professional musician who thinks stalkers are bad makes you an asshole

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Sunday, October 4, 2020 7:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

conversion therapy is like fracking yourself

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map)

it is so fucking wild that a man can become President of the United States and literally not change in any way or learn a single thing

― frogbs, Sunday, November 8, 2020 6:44 PM bookmarkflaglink

enter, beeblebrox! enter the vortex!

personal animus towards wrongthinkers is certainly a lot more accessible than meaningful solidarity in a hyper atomized society there's no question about that

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 13 November 2020 21:28 (forty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

(see also message boards)

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 13 November 2020 21:28 (sixteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i would fucking shit my pants if any of the people i was yelling at today would, just for once, admit they were wrong on anything at all, rather than dodging everything by asking questions that don't have answers. and i will note that this kind of behavior is very common among people with rightwing brainworms. the first step toward brainworms is not being able to tell yourself that you're wrong. the second step is to find someone else who is the same way, and to make a pact to never be wrong, together. so perhaps it's not that strange that conflate the two - i am absolutely exhausted with "debating" with people who will never, ever, ever EVER admit they're wrong about anything, and will bend time and space itself in order to avoid doing so. it's one of the the things that makes me really mad these days.

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, November 24, 2020 4:48 PM

for most people choosing between "giving up" on biden or "pushing biden" left just means what type of tweets they are gonna write

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 30, 2020 2:36 PM bookmarkflaglink

For most people who express literally any opinion on any political tactic there is little more consequence than what kind of tweets they are going to write. Most of the people I know who talk regularly about "pushing Biden" are active in organizations like DSA that get actively involved in canvassing for candidates and issue campaigns.