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Post by Stark on Sept 25, 2009 20:48:30 GMT -5
[WARNING: Contains bad language. Sorry in advance.] God. Damn. It. And I mean... DAMMIT!!!! Damn it all! I was, like, about to compelte one of the longest posts ever, in Super Champions, in which I described what happened when the level 0 seal on Alucard is released. It was... awesome, if I dare say so myself. Full of gruesome details. Extremely precise. Over 80 lines of description if only to explain the way Alucard transformed, followed by so many other things. A single unlucky click with the f$&*ing mouse... ...and the goddamned "delay for the page has expired", or some similar bull$h1t. My apologies for the bad language. But damn it all nonetheless. Never once in my life have I felt such a strong desire to cut off one of my own fingers, for stupidly clicking when I didn't want it to. Why, in Heaven or Hell, does it always happen when I'm about to complete a freakin' masterpiece of a post, and never when I post, oh, say, "Hello everybody!" or something similar? Am I cursed or something? ........... Guess I'll just have to write it all over again. OUTSIDE the board, on a notepad or something, so it doesn't erase the entire thing for the sheer darn fun of it again. Stupid finger. And stupid delay for writing a post. Ok, I'm done. Sorry to have bothered you all with it, it helps getting over it. EDIT: No, really, sorry. It's not like me to get this angry at something. Let's listen to some ghostbusters music, it'll help me relax.
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Post by Dullahan on Sept 25, 2009 20:55:17 GMT -5
I don't blame you. I don't curse as a general rule, but even I have a couple of of obscenties sneak through when something like that happens.
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Post by Stark on Sept 25, 2009 20:59:02 GMT -5
I don't know enough cuss words to truly reflect how mighty pissed I was at the moment it happened. I was kinda looking daggers at my computer, shouting to myself "No. NO. HELL, NO! YOU DIDN'T JUST DO WHAT I THINK YOU DID, DID YOU?"
I think it'd be funny to see someone do that on a video or something, but it's no fun at all when you're the one doing it, lol.
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Post by Dullahan on Sept 25, 2009 21:02:48 GMT -5
Hey, if you computer ever misbehaves, just do what I do. Threaten salt water baths. It makes no difference, but it feels pretty good. I wouldn't reccomend actually doing it, but the threat is still pretty fun.
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Post by Stark on Sept 25, 2009 21:05:40 GMT -5
Usually, I punch the lights out of my punching bag. It helps. Although I can't do it right now, my parents are sleeping upstairs. By the way, I think you're going to enjoy reading the next post as much as I enjoyed typing it... without the "erase it and do it again" part, of course. lol.
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Post by Dullahan on Sept 25, 2009 21:07:45 GMT -5
I don't doubt it. I've been waiting for a post for Alucard for awhile now. I'm curious how he's going to react to Data's message.
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Post by Dullahan on Sept 25, 2009 21:10:07 GMT -5
Of course, that will come later, but hey, I can wait. I just want to see Dracula kick Dracula's butt.
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Post by Stark on Sept 25, 2009 21:13:55 GMT -5
That you can count on... muahahahaha. I'm also curious of what's going to happen to Blade. Anderson will survive, although he'll be mighty frightened and surprised (I explained why in OOC at the beginning of my post). However, I wouldn't bet the farm on Blade's continued existence, although you're the GM, so I guess it could happen somehow. lol.
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Post by takewithfood on Oct 3, 2009 11:47:53 GMT -5
I have no word count, and I must scream.
So, I'm working on this small paper due Monday morning, and the source article is long and complex, and yet we only have 1,000 words (we're penalized 10% for every 50 words over the limit). I'm usually great at being concise, but holy frack, my POINT FORM NOTES from the first 1/5th of the article are already OVER 9000 300 words! POINT FORM. ARGH.
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~TWF
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Post by dorkknight23 on Oct 3, 2009 12:32:13 GMT -5
I have no word count, and I must scream. So, I'm working on this small paper due Monday morning, and the source article is long and complex, and yet we only have 1,000 words (we're penalized 10% for every 50 words over the limit). I'm usually great at being concise, but holy frack, my POINT FORM NOTES from the first 1/5th of the article are already OVER 9000 300 words! POINT FORM. ARGH. </rant> ~TWF Well, maybe find some theme or elements of the article to explore in more detail. I can't speak for your professor, but I would prefer to see someone focus in detail on a few elements than go for a broad overview of the whole thing. Also, who in their right mind is going to wordcount if people go over the limit?! In my experience it's pulling teeth to get kids to keep from going under the limit.
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Post by takewithfood on Oct 3, 2009 12:51:58 GMT -5
We've been given the rubric for how this paper is going to be marked, and it's quite specific about what we're meant to address - I'd love to go into one segment in particular in great detail (one of the author's primary arguments is based on a false dilema) but I'd be willingly giving up a ton of marks. The trick is that the word count has been set not by what is reasonable for us to express our views, but by what is reasonable to mark. Given our class size, the TAs are looking at a half million words to mark in about 12 days, and by the time that's over, its mid terms, yay! ~TWF
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Post by Lord Zack on Oct 5, 2009 19:44:54 GMT -5
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Post by OurLadyWar on Oct 10, 2009 18:12:24 GMT -5
Having some wine in a Passion Pit! Hope everyone's having a good weekend. ;D
"Sleepyhead" - Passion Pit
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Post by Revan on Oct 27, 2009 2:44:36 GMT -5
okay, that video is some psychedelic (insert word here). You know that state where you are like so tired, yet you're fighting it, and eventually you get to that state of euphoria, almost like being high.....I'm in that state right now, and that video is screwing with my head.
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Post by OurLadyWar on Oct 27, 2009 6:53:03 GMT -5
"And everything is going to the beat! And everything is going to the beat! And everything is going to the BEAT!"
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