Comments on: Dang, Saturdays Are Ghost Towns Around Here

By: Kyle Maxwell

Kyle Maxwell — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:58:43 +0000

@Chuck: I've played it for something like 2.5 years, so clearly I like it fairly well. (Did you do some mission writing for them? I vaguely recall that's how I found you to follow, but I could be wrong about that.) FWIW, I write an EVE blog called Ecliptic Rift, including various fiction bits surrounding the game. *cough*

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:23:19 +0000

I… got nothing. No wit, no insight, no smug and superior comment about the Canadian schooling system. My mind’s a complete blank.

Can I borrow some of your synaptic diarrhoea? I seem to be lacking my own.

Err… on second thought, please just forget I asked that. It sounded better rattling around my empty noggin.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:57:39 +0000

@Rick:

Word. One day, the authorities are going to come crashing through the windows of this place. SWAT-style. Boosh.

The Washington image is my desktop, too. Heh. Nice.

@Kyle:

I know. Homeschooling is looking like a reasonable alternative these days.

(How do you like EVE, by the way?)

– c.

By: Kyle Maxwell

Kyle Maxwell — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:31:31 +0000

Also, I should really post with my regular email address and not my EVE Online email address to avoid getting my girly game avatar >.<

By: Kyle Maxwell

Kyle Maxwell — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:38 +0000

Hoo, boy. I may need to educate my kids via home school after all, just so the education system here in Texas doesn’t turn them into ignorant little gits.

Also, Boneshaker does indeed freaking rock.

By: Rick Carroll

Rick Carroll — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:53:04 +0000

I just want to say, that after mentioning man-boy and man-dude in the same sentence, you might want to put that warning up to the authorities again. It seemed to work last time.

That painting of Washington and the tiger is going to be replacing the painting of the JSA from Smallville as my desktop. That is rad with a capital kick-ass.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:48:14 +0000

I like how it wasn’t long before we got straight to venereal diseases.

By: filamena

filamena — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:47:10 +0000

I hate ‘writing is like…’ statements. They’re always twee.

So here’s mine!

Writing is like falling in love with a stranger. Every time you start it up again it’s terrifying because you could end up happy with it for the rest of your life, or it could cost you all of your money and leave you covered in venereal diseases.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:56:55 +0000

Out of all seriousness, the immaturity is fun, but I try not to let it affect… y’know, my adult life. I compartmentalize. The man-boy and the man-dude do not play together. When it’s time to man up, it’s time to man up.

And when it’s time to take the pants off, it’s time to take the pants off.

Wait, what were we talking about?

– c.

By: Reverend Snaggle Britches

Reverend Snaggle Britches — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:31:15 +0000

It dawned on me a while back as I watched many of my high school friends get married and start shooting out kids that they have a portion of their brains that has matured well beyond mine. I expect my inherent selfishness and passive tendencies towards self-destructive behavior will never allow me to mature beyond a mental age of 18.
Frankly, I’m fine with that.
I enjoy making odd noises at people who annoy me, joining profane utterances together in here-to-for unknown patterns, drinking well beyond my limit, and generally polluting the world with my opinions and attitudes. I have even managed to get my wonderfully tolerant woman to accept the fact that I will leave the house every Sunday morning to attend a morning meeting of fractured and excitingly diverse minds that become even more frenetic and unintelligible as we down pint after pint of highly alcoholic beer.
We are men-children (man-childs? boy-men? wait… this sounds like a NAMBLA brainstorming session… I’ll stick with ‘immature’)…
We are immature.
And it’s a good thing.
Well… for us.