I recently finished The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Next up comes A Theory of Monads, a lovely first edition from 1922 on Liebniz's theory of monadology. I think monads are but part of philosophy is knowing what's and why so you can know what's not .
Finished das kapital, think i will reread the first 3 chaps again next year just to hammer it in, now doing discipline and punishment, holy what a brutal way to begin a book
I'm rereading The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam which is maybe my favorite book, but I don't expect there's much overlap between Java mafia forum posters and people interested in the Kennedy administration in the lead up to Vietnam
If there is though, read it, Halberstam is fantastic
i just finished "the curious incident of the dog in the night" which has no capitalization on the front cover, although it doesn't have quotation marks there either. it's about a kid with autism investigating the murder of a neighborhood poodle.
The writing was p idiosyncratic all the way through, appropriately. i kind of don't associate it with all the other books I've been planning to read but hey it got me reading again, so that's a step.
"The Things They Carried has received critical acclaim and has been established as one of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature.[33] It has sold over 2 million copies worldwide[34] and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010. It has received multiple awards such as France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.[35]
"O’Brien has expressed surprise at how the book has become a staple in middle schools and high schools, stating that he "certainly hadn’t imagined fourteen year-old kids and eighteen year-olds and those even in their early twenties reading the book and bringing such fervor to it, which comes from their own lives, really. The book is applied to a bad childhood or a broken home, and these are the things they're carrying. And in a way, it's extremely flattering, and other times, it can be depressing."[36]
"In 2014, the book was included in Amazon.com's list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime[37] and credited as the inspiration for a National Veterans Art Museum exhibit.[38]"
Doesn't sound like it needs any bodyguards but I'm sure it appreciates the sentiment
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things they carried is a good book imo and i will stand with it in the face of annoying tv tropes users who dislike it
I like reading big books like really big books with really big words for people with really big IQs like yeah big big smart stuff
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one time lebowski cost me a bronze lobby medal so in return i slowrolled him for 45 minutes in a dlyv game. we were both pathetic losers but that day i won
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anyway silver lobby > bronze lobby > no games lobby
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whoever let falconpunch out of /v/ simultaneously brought back all of 2011 epicmafia with him
my fav books are to kill a mockingbird , speak , the outsiders, of mice and men , harry potter sorcery stone ,
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Well Arlian, to address your first point, I'm afraid that is biased on the very few VERY FEW games I saw you in, and downright wrong. We aren't all egotistical pricks, if we were, and games really were all , then why do so many people in gold tier want it back? And tell me this, if you hate gold so much, and will not play in it if it is refunded, then so what? Just don't play in there, join Supers club'o'one/two if you join (Fading is on my side Super sorry, so is Grinder).
To address your second point, not very man games were trolled in the Gold Lobby, some people, like myself, got on alts and played so that people couldn't get easy reads on them (although thinking back that was pretty cheap and lame), but mostly didn't troll. However to reasure this, I encourage Lucid to make it so that ALTS CANNOT JOIN LOBBIES UNLESS THEY HAVE THE POINTS ON THAT ACCOUNT TO DO SO. 1 petition at a time though, I'm a rebel, but I'm not that bold.
Your third point, is implying that 90 minute waits was part of the whole quote. You quoting me wrong and that is downright wrong. Lobby waits lasted up to 90 minutes, and were well worth the wait to me and the countless others who have posted in this thread with approval of my petition. You don't have to wait, seriously this lobby doesn't even effect you since you don't play in it man. Also if you were to of read the part you quoted, you'd realize that in fact after the game, the same group would play 5-6 more games together. Someone left? No problem, someone else would take thier place, we often had 2 groups playing games at the same time. And if we were short one and really needed someone, we all have contacts to people in gold tier that we can call.
Sorry if you disagree - I think it's fun to read Hegel, you can find a way to cope with that fact, I hope. Obviously he appears to constantly contradict himself, uses an intricate personal vocabulary, and uses many paragraphs to produce a very small comment. Hegel is nonsense, but he is fun.
