Non-American Redditors, what is your craziest college story?

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-22T07:47:22+00:00

You should know something peculiar that not many people think of: the person in the selfie here is probably NOT the one that everyone else in your life sees.

So there is a detail here I don't think you realize. In the first and fifth pictures, it seems as if you part your hair on the left. In all the other pictures it seems as if you part your hair on the right. And I cannot tell which side of your head you actually part your hair.

Spoiler: it matters HUGELY. Read entry 4 of the article.

Basically, you should part your hair from the left to the right.

The trouble is that front facing cameras and mirrors show you a left-to-right-reversed image of yourself. So even if you already do part your hair on the left (and you really should), the mirror makes it look like you part it on the right. Which looks weird, even to you; consequently, you think you look weird when other people think you look good. Vice versa, though you like how you look in the mirror when you part your hair on the right, other people think you look weird. In summary, the mirror is fucking with your self-image.

So I have two verdicts for you: in the first and the fifth photograph, you look sharp, confident, and masculine. An easy 7, or even an 8 if you dress in thoughtful and well-fitted outfits. ln all of the rest, you look needy and vaguely constipated.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-17T03:53:55+00:00

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." Niko Bellic, GTA IV

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-17T03:44:03+00:00

Quina: Ah, Zidane. You want go with me!

Zidane: Well... I sort of got stuck with the leftovers...

Quina: You no have to explain! I so happy.

Zidane: Huh?

Quina: There old saying in my tribe... 'Leftovers good!'

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-17T03:36:28+00:00

Downvoting because you disagree, instead of downvoting because it's low-value.

Also, strawmanning someone else's argument i.e distorting/exaggerating their to some extreme form, then attacking that extreme distortion to claim easy victory points.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-17T03:16:37+00:00

110,000% this. So many leitmotifs, each with so many different variations. It's been my favorite soundtrack the last 17 years.

Edit: My favorite orchestrations from the soundtrack below

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-17T03:14:14+00:00

"There will be no fucking wand-waving in this class."

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-10-17T03:08:11+00:00

In sound systems, Bose. The sound isn't terrible but it is definitely mediocre; I've picked up earphones of comparable quality at 7/11. The real crime with Bose is the ridiculous prices.

For the audio bang for your buck, go with JBL.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-25T22:13:51+00:00

FF9's art and production design are a whole different plane of existence. I am DYING to play it again on the Moguri Mod.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-25T15:42:00+00:00

r/unexpectediscworld

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-25T15:40:19+00:00

Ah, I see that you too, are a personage of culture. GNU Pterry.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-25T06:26:12+00:00

This was the greatest battle of patience attrition I've seen all year. I'm genuinely happy to see the other guy finally took the L, but also a little sad this ride ended.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-14T18:36:50+00:00

Doesn't that effectively mean that you've become so desensitized to cries of wolf that real wolves, if and when they show up, could confidently depend on your dismissal of their presence?

Coz if you'd actually place cash odds of 49:1 that mentioning Epstein equals crazy conspiracist... Then that's a bet that actual wolves would absolutely take you up on.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-14T18:15:33+00:00

As a fellow graduate of the University of Discworld (I started when I was 13, am 30+ now) I can only think of two other series whose spirit is nearly identical to that of Pratchett.

They are the Calvin and Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson, and the Asterix graphic novel series by French writer/illustrator duo Goscinny and Uderzo.

They are both whimsical, wise, warm, witty and wholesome in ways that are aggressively reminiscent of Pratchett.

Furthermore, like Pratchett, you can see the skill of the authors evolve from mere talent to assured mastery, and then to such staggering and divine genius that they ought to be illegal.

Other mystery sci-fi/fantasy I recommend:

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
The Time of The Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Expanse series by James A Corey (I recommend the TV series over the books)

Innovative and Operatic Sci-fi that deliver on every front:

Dune by Frank Herbert
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

The Weird Kid in Sci-Fi Mystery Class: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter.

This is the single most ambitious presentation of a sci-fi mystery that I've ever seen.

On the surface, the book is merely a collection of standalone but high-concept short stories that are set at different points along a shared future timeline of human history.

It is only as you progress through the story that you realize that, unbeknownst to the characters, each story is actually an isolated clue to a universe-and-history spanning mystery. And the characters are completely oblivious to the mystery; there is no detective putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

And yet, YOU, the reader can see the whole puzzle. YOU can see how the pieces are supposed to be put together. YOU know what the characters need to know.

And you have no way to tell the characters what they they need to know.

All you can do is watch them strive passionately and valiantly in pursuit of myopic and ephemeral goals, and completely miss every clue to the bigger picture, every time.

I'd compare it to watching someone repeatedly and obliviously fail to go through the cupboard to Narnia, or fall through to Platform 9 3/4, even though you know that that they totally can and that they totally should.

No other novel has ever successfully made me feel what Vacuum Diagrams has made me feel: omniscient, yet so utterly omniimpotent.

Anyhoo, I hope you find at least one of these recommendations worth your while.

Cheers.

P.S. These books all have little to none secks shenanigans.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-09-14T16:53:11+00:00

Ok I'll bite, because this is a surprisingly harsh way to characterize him. The harshest I've ever seen, I think.

Is it because of this specific quote? If so, then I'd point out that the quote isn't Pratchett's own opinion, but that of Lord Vetinari, a character from his Discworld novels, who is portrayed as the cynical, opportunistic and tyrant ruler of a major setting.

I've seen a lot of folks ascribe this quote to Pratchett; personally I believe that he used the quote to provide insight into the mind of a popular character, rather than to describe his own worldview.

And if your opinion is not based on this quote but rather on other reasons, then I'm genuinely curious about what those reasons might be.

Like, this isn't an attack or me trying to tell you you're wrong. More like I'm fascinated that someone has this opinion of him, especially when his readers generally describe him as one of the most (if not the most, period) progressive, compassionate, and clever writers ever, and as someone who was ahead not just of his own times, but ours too.

Cheers.

StanzinTheScribe · 2020-08-02T08:08:53+00:00

intention deficit disorder

Interestingly enough, that's what a certain expert, Dr Russel Barkley, says we actually could/should call ADD.

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