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Lake Vostok surface reached by willebrord_snelliusin worldnews

[–]joeldavis -1 points0 points ago

You didn't, I was just correcting the public record.

These little bastards.... by _dustinm_in funny

[–]joeldavis 4 points5 points ago

Your smoothness has won reddit.

Lake Vostok surface reached by willebrord_snelliusin worldnews

[–]joeldavis -2 points-1 points ago* 

I was picturing some ancient alien life form to great those drilling. Something like John Carpenter’s The Thing. Too bad.

You realize The Thing is more or less just a diluted "mountains of madness" correct? I realize Carpenter's was a remake of the 50's movie, but if you watch the original movie it's pretty heavy on the Lovecraft references. (Arctic explorers are greeted by alien life form that thinks we're basically manure and tries to kill everyone).

The "Thing" movies are based on a book called "Who goes there?" written by John Campbell and published in 1938 in the "Astounding Stories" serial. Sounds pretty old, right? Except "At the Mountains of Madness" was first published in 1936 in the same serial.

The two plots are incredibly similar, were published around the same time in magazines both authors obviously read. If you want to correct someone, pick the original author

/Lovecraftian fanboy.

Lake Vostok surface reached by willebrord_snelliusin worldnews

[–]joeldavis 9 points10 points ago

This damn wind is too damn salty! Somebody shut that T-shirt up, I'm trying to think.

Lake Vostok surface reached by willebrord_snelliusin worldnews

[–]joeldavis 55 points56 points ago

Palin/Romney 2012

Lake Vostok surface reached by willebrord_snelliusin worldnews

[–]joeldavis 8 points9 points ago

since when are there 21 months in a year?

Lake Vostok surface reached by willebrord_snelliusin worldnews

[–]joeldavis 1 point2 points ago

I think you mean "Elder Things" or "Elder Gods." The latter is closer to what you wrote but the former is closer to what happened in Mountains of Madness.

Spoiler alert! by cirtaboyin funny

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

Nope, imagination is a function of an creative actor and so presumes the latter's existence. I actually did give this some thought after you posted this. If the premise is accepted that Tommy Westphall can imagine himself into existence using his god-like powers, then that makes analysis impossible, and an idea that makes analysis impossible is necessarily an idea that doesn't make sense and should be discredited because of that.

The reason analysis becomes impossible is because if we accept the premise that there is a god-like creature who is imagining it then what's to say that it's even Tommy Westphall to begin with? Why can't it be some other entity that is projecting these ideas into Tommy's mind? With an idea that vague we might as well ascribe them to the "writer" in which case we're left at a maze of circular logic. Without a distinct notion of exactly who the source of the ideas are, we have to discard the idea as "could be true, but if it is we would have no way of knowing" and proceed without your and Squirrelson's premise.

That does raise another possibility though, it's possible that, yes it is a multiverse (still unproven AFAIK) but the Snow Globe operates as some sort of mystical Lovecraftian device that allows Tommy to momentarily see through the veil that is pulled over everyone else's eyes. This may be a competing theory to the original premise (Westphallian creation theory versus Westphallian perception theory). But I would have to think about that one for a while to see if both theories at least start holding water. The perception theory is of course predicated on the assumption that it is indeed a multiverse.

Although now that I type it out, the perception theory could exist within a simple universe. He could himself reside in a multiverse and is using the Snow Globe's mystical powers to perceive an entirely different parallel universe.

It's food for thought I guess, but I'll have to add it to my notes and proceed from the idea that there may be two competing theories.

Spoiler alert! by cirtaboyin funny

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

I will, I'm going to add a link to this comment to my chrome bookmarks so I remember though.

Spoiler alert! by cirtaboyin funny

[–]joeldavis 5 points6 points ago

Impossible, all major Star Trek franchises are part of the universe/multiverse already, he can't be a product of his own imagination.

Spoiler alert! by cirtaboyin funny

[–]joeldavis 7 points8 points ago* 

Just walk away, I'm still reading about this kid. I'm about 60% sure it's a multiverse at this point, but I just need to draw up something concrete before I confirm that publicly.

EDIT:

Holy shit, if it is a multiverse, does that mean there's an epic "Crisis on Infinite Tommy's" that's going to engulf all of network television in the future?

Well... your an idiot then... by micoleslawin funny

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

They persisted because her first comment seemed to have a negative and dismissive tone so they could probably tell she was getting upset. People who are trying to push your buttons don't usually make statements that are likely to diffuse emotion (such as saying only that they didn't mean to offend).

Spoiler alert! by cirtaboyin funny

[–]joeldavis 34 points35 points ago* 

If "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" is the result of some autistic kid with no experience of the outside world, that is one fucking fucked up kid, fuck.

EDIT:

Apparently there are people with WAY too much time on their hands and all of 1990's and early 2000's television from "Malcolm in the Middle" to "Party of Five" to "Dr. Who" was all taking place in the imagination of the same autistic kid

EDIT #2:

I'm now about an hour into researching the Tommyverse (you should probably save yourself at this point) and not only did "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place" occur in the universe, apparently Arrested Development is also in this autistic kid's head

I'm also starting to come to the belief that with so many different story lines over so many decades, there are bound to be conflicting narratives, in which case the Tommyverse wouldn't be a universe but a full blown multiverse all taking place in the brain of some autistic kid looking into a snow globe.

EDIT: #3

Over an hour and a half into it, I'm going to call it a night, but I have a new chrome bookmarks folder called "Studies in Tommyverse Sciences" (chrome truncates it though) so I think i'm going to go in this one for the long haul.

EDIT #4:

Shit, I just realized that grid is also in the link you gave, I found mine doing a google image search. Oh well, all the more reason to put this on hold and start fresh in the morning.

Well... your an idiot then... by micoleslawin funny

[–]joeldavis 2 points3 points ago

The person was calling her out on a public forum where all her friends could see

A) they obviously weren't 'calling her out' any attempt to read that into what is going on in the picture is purely projection.

B) The mistake they were talking about was in the picture being commented on. They didn't rent billboards, or post on their wall or anything, they commented on the picture that they were probably already looking at. To me it would be worst if someone took the effort to go out of their way in pointing it out.

At the end of the day they didn't say "LOL, you have a permanent fuck-up on your body" didn't insult her calling her ignorant or an asshole, they just pointed something out that any sane person should want to know, and then tried to let them know that they didn't want to offend her.

not to mention the person kept prodding her about it.

No they didn't. They just tried to communicate it to her that they're not trying to be a dick. When she read that she realized that being a dick was something undesirable for them, so guess what her next insult was?

She isn't the only one displaying classlessness here.

Yes she is. She's the one turning the conversation into a fight. If she didn't like them pointing it out she could have ignored or deleted the offending comment.

Well... your an idiot then... by micoleslawin funny

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago* 

I mostly agree, but for most people, the instinctive response is to interpret it as an attack on their ego

The reason they take it that way is because people let them get away with it when they go on the attack like that, instead of pointing out that they're just adding "asshole" after "idiot" in the list of undesirable traits to possess. They need to have it pointed out that they're the only ones who think that they come out ahead in those kinds of "arguments."

It's not just an admirable trait to possess, it's a trait anyone over the age of 16 should be expected to have. People who can't take criticism at all are in a state of extreme arrested development. You won't get anywhere in life if you're stuck pretending the shit you came up with when you were 16 was right after all (which is what will end up happening if you resist any conflicting perspectives).

Well... your an idiot then... by micoleslawin funny

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

If they add an 'e' to the end and just add a speck of something in the middle somewhere between the 'u' and 'r' people will just assume that's how the typeface is supposed to be.

So punctuation is easy to fix, the difficult part is getting a whole new letter in there when it's not the last word.

Well... your an idiot then... by micoleslawin funny

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

I know you're joking, but O'Reilly actually does have this tattoo on the small of his back.

Well... your an idiot then... by micoleslawin funny

[–]joeldavis -2 points-1 points ago

And a guy wouldn't get this kind of tattoo

Regarding your post about pity sex... by nomcowin AdviceAnimals

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

shouldn't this be in private message form? Seems a little embarassing to have it follow them around like this...

I only have 9 of 10 virgins I need to sacrifice before the Superb Owl arrives tonight. What do? by phoroforin fifthworldproblems

[–]joeldavis 3 points4 points ago

Virgins must be unwilling. It's in Chapter 4 of "Glorious Apostolic Revelations of the Superb Owl"

you can't order it anymore, but I think you'll find that I've embedded my memory of having read it into your long term memory store.

OK, What the Fuck is this doing on my News Feed??[NSFW] by doremiabc123in WTF

[–]joeldavis 0 points1 point ago

I know it's not what you meant, but this caused me to read both klix's and OmegaArcadia's comments in Christian Slater's voice...to horrifying effect.

OK, What the Fuck is this doing on my News Feed??[NSFW] by doremiabc123in WTF

[–]joeldavis 3 points4 points ago

If you're curious if you should read such a long post: yes.

Regarding your post about pity sex... by nomcowin AdviceAnimals

[–]joeldavis -1 points0 points ago

I find it hard to believe pity sex on that level exists, though.

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