Randomness thread, part two.

[bikes]

Where's the deer?

at home fucking its wife probably. i wrecked the car avoiding it.

[a500lbgorilla]

Time for a new hobby.

http://www.bigwoodshunting.com/deerseasonsarchery.html

Let's get Katniss up in this bitch!

[a500lbgorilla]

Also, this image.

[bikes]

orcas are douchebags

[spoonitnow]

It is what it is.

[rong]

I'd try seal if I saw it on a menu.

[Chelle]

Power yoga ain't no fucking joke.

Braces might be coming off tomorrow. Fuckkkkyeah.

[jackvance]

I need more fun games for my phone like 2048.

[rong]

Cool game jv. Ty.

[rong]

Jv have you beat it?

[Savy]

Jv have you beat it?

Winning is easy.

Highscores and biggest number?

52284 and 4096

[rong]

I've only had about 8 goes but high score just shy of 6k and biggest number 512.

[jyms]

16K but haven't played in a while. Haven't beat it but had 2 x 1024's

[jackvance]

Jv have you beat it?

Yeah it's not too hard once you get the hang of it. I finished it after a day of playing while watching firefly and finished it again a few more times yesterday. It's remarkably clever for how simple the rules are, I love games like that.

I always collect the big numbers on the bottom row. Golden rule: once you have to swipe upward, you lose. Keep eliminating all the numbers 8 and higher that you can see above the bottom row. Never let a higher number be above (in space) of a smaller number. It'll happen quite frequently that this situation occurs so then you have to eliminate the bigger numbers as top priority. You can always do this with some left, right, down swipes once you get the hang of it.

I've had a bunch of 20k-30k scores, top being like 28k. I feel much higher scores are possible but it takes a long time and one small mistake can be fatal when the numbers get big. If more people are gonna play I can try to get some higher scores..

[Savy]

I always collect the big numbers on the bottom row. Golden rule: once you have to swipe upward, you lose. Keep eliminating all the numbers 8 and higher that you can see above the bottom row. Never let a higher number be above (in space) of a smaller number. It'll happen quite frequently that this situation occurs so then you have to eliminate the bigger numbers as top priority. You can always do this with some left, right, down swipes once you get the hang of it.

This is basically what I do. Getting rid of the smallest numbers is definitely the most important thing to do whilst making sure you're left with your big numbers next to each other. But it has such big limitations when you hardly go up imo. I have got to the point where I probably win >1/4 of the games I play but getting really high numbers is very hard, always get left with too many 256s and 512s lying about.

Highest number I've seen is 8192, apparently people were proving you can get absolutely ridiculous numbers if you get perfect number spawns.

[oskar]

Real men go for the lowest score.

[Luco]

Winning is easy.

Highscores and biggest number?

52284 and 4096

50432 and 4096

[Chelle]

braces did not come off. sigh. August is looking hopeful though.

[a500lbgorilla]

If porn has anything to say about it, braces are IN

[aubreymcfate]

rock that Lolita look yo, you got the youthful looks to match

[a500lbgorilla]

This is honestly pretty frightening. It walks on land, mind you. Low profile, moves slow and silently. One could be behind you right now.

[d0zer]

If porn has anything to say about it, braces are IN

*fast claps*

[BennyLaRue]

Accumulation by swiping down on 2048 is lol. It's the gaming equivalent to:

[jackvance]

I'm now working in IT/accounting. Adding numbers together is my bread and butter. Now working on setting up the accounting of the town I work in. Already did the Tourism and Naturecentre department, now working on the Crematorium. Adding the numbers together right = bigger bonus. Adding them wrong = problems.

But pretty much what Benny said yeah.

[Luco]

I'm now working in IT/accounting. Adding numbers together is my bread and butter. Now working on setting up the accounting of the town I work in. Already did the Tourism and Naturecentre department, now working on the Crematorium. Adding the numbers together right = bigger bonus. Adding them wrong = problems.

But pretty much what Benny said yeah.

Nice, I'm both finance manager and IT administrator for my current employer

[oskar]

Today I bought two large cream filled donuts. I just ate one of the donuts and now I am debating whether I should eat the other one right now or if I'd rather not have diabetes.

[bikes]

Today I bought two large cream filled donuts. I just ate one of the donuts and now I am debating whether I should eat the other one right now or if I'd rather not have diabetes.

YOLO

[rong]

I am currently in the scummiest hotel in England. Tomorrow I will be in one of the nicest in London(maybe not really but really fucking nice), £300+ per night in one of Gordon Ramsay's hotel and restaurants. I'm looking on the bright side as the sweet ain't so sweet without the bitter.

[bikes]

if it weren't for only having 1 week left before the poker hall closes i would literally fire 3/4 of my staff -.-

[rong]

Solar freakin roadways

[Chelle]

Solar freakin roadways

From what I've seen about this - the money was raised.

[bigred]

if it weren't for only having 1 week left before the poker hall closes i would literally fire 3/4 of my staff -.-

Bikes is Tywin Lannister, amirite?

[Renton]

Solar roadways would be sweet. Unfortunately they'd also be fantastically wasteful, even next to other solar-based alternatives. From what I know about solar panel technology, if you don't provide them with a direct line of sight to the sun and at a perpendicular angle to its rays, they convert a pretty pathetic amount of power. As it is, it seems like there is a shit load of space on top of the roofs of buildings to put solar panels before it becomes worthwhile to build roads out of them.

And re: sustainability the amount of embodied energy required to pave roads with solar panels would be mega-colossal compared with concrete or asphalt paving which is a relatively tiny embodied energy. You'd create so much carbon in the process that it would take millennia to pay back the emissions with the resulting less fossil burning for energy.

[bikes]

Bikes is Tywin Lannister, amirite?

Oh you sweet summer child

[bikes]

Bikes is Tywin Lannister, amirite?

[aubreymcfate]

i went to mysteryland last weekend. it was hilarious. but i also chilled at the original '69 woodstock stage, and that was cool as shit.

[Chelle]

Finally cut out a toxic person from my life. I was respectful and compassionate, but after her continuing to belittle and ridicule me for things I posted on the book of faces - after her calling and screaming at me, and me saying that I love her and respect her for being Justin's Mother - I am finished. It's odd, I'm not exactly angry, and I know she's going to be attempting to slander who I am to whoever will listen to her - but oh well. I've spoke with nothing but love and respect towards her even after being stepped on constantly.

People are weird. I like them, but fuck, are people weird.

[aubreymcfate]

^ holy shit, i just checked your page out of curiosity and what in the goddamn hell. i feel for that woman - it sounds like her inner world right now is total hell. but that is the last thing you need. it's very difficult for me to judge people that are grieving, especially parents, but i can't help but feel disgusted by the obvious way she is using you as an emotional punching bag. and of course, that utterly inane religious zealot nonsense is just insufferable. sorry you had to deal with that. <3

[Chelle]

Yeah - she has been using me as one since it happened. I completely feel for her, but I also know how she is - and how she honestly thinks everything is 100000% attacking her, no matter what it is. I wish her the best and I hope she finds some true happiness, but, I honestly can no longer allow her to treat me the way she has.

[kiwiMark]

Barriers to entry of commune threads have fuckin' skyrocketed, eh? Hello randomness thread my old friend.

[wufwugy]

nobody will get your joke because nobody reads my posts

[kiwiMark]

seems like we complete each other then.

have ass gifs been banned while I was gone?

[wufwugy]

yes. unless they include a hammer and deadlifting

[Renton]

pfft its only 155 and she doesn't start at the floor. With that ass she should have a 5rm of like 295.

[wufwugy]

yeah but by my count she's doing 1000 rep sets. stiff-legged, no less

[d0zer]

[bigred]

The best part about that was the imgur caption "I love this desk!"

[rong]

I never get tired of this. I use it to calm the kids if they're upset/ill at night and I want to pacify them but keep them docile. Something about it is quite mesmerising.

[kiwiMark]

I've been using that to calm myself for, shit, must be nearly 4 years now since (ithink) bikes showed it to me. Mesmerising indeed.

[jyms]

55K and 4096Attachment 711

[bigred]

55K and 4096Attachment 711

Can we ban this spammer already? Where are the mod forums?

[Chelle]

So, went downtown last night to have a smoothie at a Tropical Smoothie store place. Sitting there doing my own thing just enjoying my time alone, then some RANDOM ass mother fucker walks up in the store, comes over to me and says "Hi, I knew if I didn't come up to you and talk to you I'd regret it." - to put this in short, he was trying hard, and I was not having any of it. He kept putting ideas of who I am on me, TOUCHING MY FUCKING HAIR, and gave me a god damn nickname. "Buffy" - the vampire slayer lady. MOTHER FUCKER AINT KNOW ME. HE TOUCHED MY FUCKING HAIR. AND MY ARM. HE TOUCHED MY HAIR AND ARM. Mother fucker kept trying to showboat fucking hard about all these places he's been and how he loves to wear suits. OH, and about how he LOVED how I was able to have a conversation. MOTHER FUCKER DID YOU THINK I WAS DENSE BECAUSE I WAS SITTING ALONE ENJOYIN' MY MOTHER FUCKIN SMOOTHIE?!?!?!?!!?

I literally cringed on the way home, and ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS ENJOY MY FUCKING FIRST TROPICAL SMOOTHIE EXPERIENCE. Next time I'm taking my book ABOUT being an introvert in an extroverted world, so maybe mother fuckers will fuck the fuck off. Oh, and I'm too nice, because I gave this mother fucker my phone number. However, there is a reject list, and guess what mother fuckkkkerrrrrr - you AIN'T GONNA TOUCH MY HAIR AND WE AIN'T GONNA MEET UP AT THE GOD DAMN MALL SO YOU CAN PUT SOME MORE MOTHER FUCKIN LABELS ON ME AND TOUCH MY HAIR.

I told my Mom all this, and she was laughing so hard she wasn't making noise. Fucking. Fuck. FUCK. TOUCHED. MY. HAIR. myakjeflkawejflakwefj CRINGING TAKING PLACE.

[Chelle]

OH! OH! AND THIS MOTHER FUCKER SAID HE CAN KIND OF FEEL FOR ELLIOT RODGER. MOTHER. FUCKER. WHAT?!

My reply was, "Well, on the mental illness standpoint, yes, otherwise, no."

[bigred]

Can we ban this spammer already? Where are the mod forums?

Ha, I got word switcheroos

[wufwugy]

can you blame him for just wanting to get destroyed by sunshine and kittens?

[spoonitnow]

cliffs: some guy ran down the pua checklist with a weak frame and still got michelle's number

[a500lbgorilla]

cliffs: some guy ran down the pua checklist with a weak frame and still got michelle's number

Are you jarring this jelly? 'cuz I'm looking for a bitter peach.

[Chelle]

can you blame him for just wanting to get destroyed by sunshine and kittens?

Where you have a valid point, I was not having any of it. It was like talking to the most try-hard dude ever. I showed my friend a picture of him on FB, and friend was like OMGHESCUTE, and I was like "Yeah, talk to him for 30 fucking seconds, you'll be cringing."

cliffs: some guy ran down the pua checklist with a weak frame and still got michelle's number

lol fuck you. I've already blocked the number. It was terrible. I need to become more of a cunt VS feeling like I have to be nice to random mother fuckers.

Mom was laughing so hard when I told her about it this morning that it was the laugh where there's no sound. I still cringe. Just, holy fuck.


Also, rofl:

Are you jarring this jelly? 'cuz I'm looking for a bitter peach.

Doubtful on that taking place with spoon, but roflroflroflrofl nice.


In other news I went hiking for a couple hours today and read some of a book beside a huge ass waterfall. I pretty much speed walked all the way up, which was about idk, a mile or 2 up, and then did the same on the way down, whilst singing whatever came on my playlist. Singing + speed walking = good lung workout. I got kinda down this morning and said NOPE FUCK THAT IM BADASS MOTHA'FUCKIN' MICHELLE, I GOT THIS SHIT.

[Chelle]

Are you jarring this jelly? 'cuz I'm looking for a bitter peach.

I've seriously thought of this a few times today and laughed. Just randomly. It's seriously the most perfect saying to someone if they are actually jealous. Rilla, I hope you don't mind, but I might use this on someone at different points during my life.

[boost]

I don't get the bitter peach part. Like, the jealous person is bitter, but why peach? Is this some sort of southern phrase? What am I missing?

[bikes]

I don't get the bitter peach part. Like, the jealous person is bitter, but why peach? Is this some sort of southern phrase? What am I missing?

+1

[jackvance]

Yeah Chelle that's the kind of seduction they teach you on the internet he tried to pull. These people tend to lack in some basic people reading skills that's probably why it became so uncomfortable don't worry about it.

[spoonitnow]

Yeah Chelle that's the kind of seduction they teach you on the internet he tried to pull. These people tend to lack in some basic people reading skills that's probably why it became so uncomfortable don't worry about it.

@bold, that's not really an accurate description imo. While the individual things he did do have their place in PUA-style seduction (though there are other styles "from the Internet" that are often lumped in with PUA tactics that aren't really), the context for them is so much more important. I'd bet about anything that he just skimmed a couple of approach posts and then tried to throw 50 things at the wall hoping one would stick, and that's not really what's being taught. It's like a guy skimming a couple of poker posts and decides that continuation betting, 3-betting and stealing blinds are good moves and then just does them every chance he gets without any context for when or why. It's not going to usually turn out well.

I'll have to say this though. As horrible as it sounded, he's still got an infinitely larger chance of success than a guy who doesn't approach. I'll give a more thorough breakdown of what he did vs. what he would have done if he understood the context if there's interest.

[spoonitnow]

Okay I'm bored waiting for Game of Thrones to download and for supper to be finished so I'll run through some of this real quick. Generally speaking, PUA-style game circa late 1990s is very tactic-heavy because it was created by guys with low natural social skills randomly trying things and seeing what worked and what didn't. It was built up basically through experimentation, and it pales in comparison to guys now who actually learn how social dynamics work and go from there. I'm not personally a fan of PUA-style game because it doesn't actually help guys to learn any social skills aside from getting over approach anxiety. Anyway, here are some quick notes (all within the context of PUA-style game):

"Hi, I knew if I didn't come up to you and talk to you I'd regret it."

This is a bad opener because it immediately puts the girl on a pedestal and puts the guy in the chasing role which is the exact opposite of what PUA-style openers are supposed to do.

He was trying hard

If you ever seem like you're trying hard, then you're doing it wrong, and this is one of the first things that is drilled over and over again if you're learning that particular type of pickup.

He kept putting ideas of who I am on me

This is a real giveaway on what type of information this guy is getting. Using truisms and cold reading was one of the hallmarks of late 90s PUA-style game, and it can still be effective if you haven't already turned the girl off by being a tryhard. It's much easier and effective more often to just pick on the girl a little though.

TOUCHING MY FUCKING HAIR...HE TOUCHED MY FUCKING HAIR. AND MY ARM. HE TOUCHED MY HAIR AND ARM

Escalating to physical touch is an extremely important part of any type of game framework. However, it should only come after the girl is demonstrating that she's interested in you/attracted to you. PUA-style game uses the term "indicator of interest" or IOI for short (which I think looks gay), and they have a list of actual things that you can look for to help socially inept people figure out if she's flirting back. A lot of the time, you're taught to actually count the IOIs and not to escalate to physical touch until you get X number of them (something like 3-5?). This guy is obviously doing it wrong because [as she says] she wasn't interested, and that's why she had this kind of reaction to him touching her.

...and gave me a god damn nickname. "Buffy" - the vampire slayer lady...

The random nickname thing, and the example of Buffy in particular, is cookie cutter late 90s PUA-style schtick. This particular tactic in this particular situation fails to do this guy any favors because he's not been building attraction on any level.

Mother fucker kept trying to showboat fucking hard about all these places he's been and how he loves to wear suits.

Again with him looking like he's trying hard to impress her. These are (again) cookie cutter talking points that can be effective within a properly-managed situation using this particular style of game. The problem is that it's very delicate and comes across and trying to prove his worth to her if it's not handled the right way.

OH, and about how he LOVED how I was able to have a conversation. MOTHER FUCKER DID YOU THINK I WAS DENSE

A "neg" is a tactic from the same style of pickup that I've been mentioning over and over again that is a compliment that could also be taken as an insult, and if it's executed properly within the right context, then it allows you to compliment a girl without making it seem like you're of a lower value than her. The implication with [yet another cookie cutter] example here is that he sure is glad she can carry on a conversation because either she looks dumb or her looks aren't sufficient to keep him interested or whatever. He probably told her that he liked her hair and then immediately asked if that was her natural color too.

Next time I'm taking my book ABOUT being an introvert in an extroverted world, so maybe mother fuckers will fuck the fuck off.

A better opener would be, "What kind of nerd sits around reading in a smoothie shop?"

OH! OH! AND THIS MOTHER FUCKER SAID HE CAN KIND OF FEEL FOR ELLIOT RODGER. MOTHER. FUCKER. WHAT?!

This is a hot topic in pickup and game communities right now, so once again this guy probably just spouted out some talking point that he skimmed over when he really should have just kept that shit to himself because the context wasn't right and he probably didn't know enough about what he was talking about to discuss it intelligently anyway.

This deserves a quick explanation as to why this is a hot topic: Elliot grew up with a really fucked up world view (thanks primarily to his father who, among other things, refused to acknowledge him as his son) which turned him into a massive narcissist, racist, misanthrope (not just misogynist) who couldn't reconcile the values he had been taught from his upbringing (money > *) with his lack of social status. A large portion of the game/pickup and red pill communities believe that there's a good chance that Elliot could have become a fairly decent person if he would have had positive male leadership in his life and a way to improve his inept social skills which led to him having a total meltdown that ended with him killing the people he did.

Something that's interesting is that Elliot was very vocal on forums expressing the viewpoint that his family's money and his looks (he wasn't a bad-looking guy despite being small) should have been sufficient to have success with females and that he shouldn't have to learn social skills. Almost all media outlets are saying that he was a part of the relationship red pill community because of his rants on the PUAhate forums, but that's not true. He was on the polar opposite end of the spectrum.

[Savy]

People take this shit far too seriously. Surely if you have to try so hard it's fairly pointless unless you're just trying to get off with them.

[Chelle]

Yeah. Don't care. Shit ruined my wanting to enjoy a fucking smoothie and chill the fuck out, alone.

[d0zer]

TIL spoon is a PUA. I also learned what a "PUA" is. enlightening.

[bikes]

TIL spoon is a PUA. I also learned what a "PUA" is. enlightening.

how did you not know what a pua is?

[bikes]

all hail glorious /r/redpill obv.

[bikes]

[spoonitnow]

TIL spoon is a PUA. I also learned what a "PUA" is. enlightening.

I'm not a PUA but I'd be considered solid on the conservative end of relationship-minded red pills.

[Chelle]

My thoughts on PUAs are as follows:





If you manipulate someone for your own personal[sexual] gain, you need to be taking care of other aspects in your life, like your corrupt views of how to treat humans. If you want to seduce a woman, or man for that matter whatever floats their boat, do it with honesty.

Idk, that's just my opinion, and we all have opinions.

[spoonitnow]

all hail glorious /r/redpill obv.

That subreddit tends to be more on the PUA end of the spectrum and is generally a circlejerk of bros doing bro shit while 4-5 guys sell ebooks

Before I get asked, no I'm not an MRA either

[d0zer]

Before I get asked, no I'm not an MRA either

The lady doth protest too much ldo

[Chelle]

Man, fuuuuuuuuuuuck sunroofs. Without thinking, because sometimes I have the dumb, I drove everywhere today with the thing that covers the sunroof open, so the sun was coming through while I was out. My right arm, top of my back, and left arm = dark pink. I'm shivvering, and feel sick. Fucking what even.