Random Stuff IX: Rogue Admins

[+Slowswift]

1 minute ago, bleeder said:

Guitar, piano, vocals, mandolin, ukulele, drums, bass... I dabble.

That's fantastic.  

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Slowswift said:

That's fantastic.  

Thanks! I want to learn banjo but it's hard to afford a banjo when you aren't old enough to drive yet.

[+Slowswift]

Just now, bleeder said:

Thanks! I want to learn banjo but it's hard to afford a banjo when you aren't old enough to drive yet.

Banjo would be fun! It's a cool instrument.

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Slowswift said:

Banjo would be fun! It's a cool instrument.

I've also been trying to find a glass bottle I can use as a slide for my guitar. I'm not a country fan, even though I live in Tennessee, but slides are just fun.

[Kobold King he/him]

Brother: "What kind of posts do you think you'd see if the Internet had been around at the time of the Black Death?"

 

Me: "'There's nobody here. Be the first to comment!'"

[Oversleep]

Any time I am reminded of Black Death, I think of the Mourning King from Wolsung.

EDIT: I went and read some of the Wolsung's history... and now I want to play it again. Sigh.

Edited September 18, 2016 by Oversleep

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

8 minutes ago, Kobold King said:

Brother: "What kind of posts do you think you'd see if the Internet had been around at the time of the Black Death?"

 

Me: "'There's nobody here. Be the first to comment!'"

THERE YOU ARE 

Oddly enough, that makes me think of some medieval peasant walking into an empty village and shouting "FIRST!"  

[Kobold King he/him]

47 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

THERE YOU ARE 

Oddly enough, that makes me think of some medieval peasant walking into an empty village and shouting "FIRST!"  

 

Whoops, forgot I was supposed to be lurking. Don't mind me, I'll just disappear again for a few months.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 minute ago, Kobold King said:

 

Whoops, forgot I was supposed to be lurking. Don't mind me, I'll just disappear again for a few months.

Medieval monks took vows of silence; modern Sharders take vows of lurking.  

[Kaymyth she/her]

4 hours ago, Slowswift said:

I can barely play the piano I have very little musical training why do I think I can arrange songs

Could I ask you all, both those musically talented and those not, to check this out and tell me what you think of it? Thanks.  

You're definitely finding most of the right chords. There is, however, a bit of a problem with too many open perfect fifths and fourths; it makes the chords sound unfinished.  And it could use a bit more movement in the left hand; shifting to different chord positions would help.  And I think there's a missing seventh or two.

(You should take some music theory classes if you get the chance.  There are a lot of chord and voice leading rules that you just haven't learned about when it comes to writing and arranging parts.  It's a lot more complicated than it looks.)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Night Vale, episode 73, "Triptych:" 

Spoiler

Wow. Serious feels. For Kevin. 

I….I was not expecting this.  

 

Edited September 18, 2016 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[+Slowswift]

2 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

You're definitely finding most of the right chords. There is, however, a bit of a problem with too many open perfect fifths and fourths; it makes the chords sound unfinished.  And it could use a bit more movement in the left hand; shifting to different chord positions would help.  And I think there's a missing seventh or two.

(You should take some music theory classes if you get the chance.  There are a lot of chord and voice leading rules that you just haven't learned about when it comes to writing and arranging parts.  It's a lot more complicated than it looks.)

Yes I did something right  Thanks for the tips.  I've printed it out so I can work more on an actual keyboard, so that should help.

I am planning on taking some music classes in college. In the meantime, I'll look online.

[Quiver he/him]

4 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Night Vale, episode 73, "Triptych:" 

  Reveal hidden contents

Wow. Serious feels. For Kevin. 

I….I was not expecting this.  

 

 

Yuuuup. Poor Kevin.

...I  spent a big slice of last weeks pay on L5R sourcebooks.

I should not make decisions while tired. I think I might regrets that.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Quiver

[Sunbird she/her]

7 hours ago, Kobold King said:

Brother: "What kind of posts do you think you'd see if the Internet had been around at the time of the Black Death?"

 

Me: "'There's nobody here. Be the first to comment!'"

We need more of this.

Imagine peasants starting to cough and getting boils and going to WebMD to diagnose themselves since nobody could really afford a doctor. "I HAVE THE PLAGUE?! NOOOOO--" *doubles over coughing*

Or, alternatively, they mis-diagnose themselves with something much more harmless and stay naively cheerful as they're obviously dying. Son: "Father, you've been coughing up blood for the past three days! You're obviously NOT fine!" Father: "It'll pass; WebMD said I just need lots of rest and it'll heal up on its own."

Clickbait ads: "Plague doctors are FURIOUS that a farmer discovered this one weird old trick to keep rats out of your hovel!" "Got plague? Try SAINT JEROME'S MIRACLE CURE-ALL! Guaranteed to restore your health and vigor in just 7 days or your money back!"

[Delightful]

27 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

We need more of this.

Imagine peasants starting to cough and getting boils and going to WebMD to diagnose themselves since nobody could really afford a doctor. "I HAVE THE PLAGUE?! NOOOOO--" *doubles over coughing*

Or, alternatively, they mis-diagnose themselves with something much more harmless and stay naively cheerful as they're obviously dying. Son: "Father, you've been coughing up blood for the past three days! You're obviously NOT fine!" Father: "It'll pass; WebMD said I just need lots of rest and it'll heal up on its own."

Clickbait ads: "Plague doctors are FURIOUS that a farmer discovered this one weird old trick to keep rats out of your hovel!" "Got plague? Try SAINT JEROME'S MIRACLE CURE-ALL! Guaranteed to restore your health and vigor in just 7 days or your money back!"

I.....well......there'd probably be a fair few sites/comments "proof the Jews are poisoning the wells! Black plague is a zionist conspiracy!"

......

[marsoupial they/them]

4 hours ago, Delightful said:

I.....well......there'd probably be a fair few sites/comments "proof the Jews are poisoning the wells! Black plague is a zionist conspiracy!"

......

Those are gonna be around regardless, dear. Despite the unfairness of it all, Jews have been scapegoats since forever ago.

"Are your crops not growing like they should? No need to appease your gods by some blood sacrifice ritual! Just blame those Semites next door!"

It's the way it was. But it's different now, so that's something to be thankful for.

[Delightful]

20 minutes ago, bleeder said:

Those are gonna be around regardless, dear. Despite the unfairness of it all, Jews have been scapegoats since forever ago.

"Are your crops not growing like they should? No need to appease your gods by some blood sacrifice ritual! Just blame those Semites next door!"

It's the way it was. But it's different now, so that's something to be thankful for.

I don't know how you intended it but that came across as very patronising. I know my own history. "You've always been the punching bag" doesn't make it any more ok.

Some is different now. Mostly it's just morphed, not gone. Plenty anti-semitism is still around, a lot of Jews now are leaving Europe because it's unsafe. Now it's not "you poisoned the wells" it's "you have dual loyalty and your country is colonialist/oppressors/racist/insert slander here" and the haters don't care that they're talking to a Jew who isn't Israeli we're all the same to them. It's pretty bad on college campuses too, particularly in America. People get beaten up, silenced, kicked off committees for "not being impartial".......it's not new but it's not gone either.

Oh and in some middle eastern countries people still believe the "children's blood in the matzah" literal blood libel. and use classic anti Semitic imagery of Jews as large noses Devils and monsters and money pinchers and child eaters. I can easily find you examples if you don't believe me. 

And let's not get started on the Holocuast didn't happen/it was faked for sympathy/let's finish the job Hitler started all said in one breath. Or on 'Jews run all the banks and the media and the world and they're so powerful and privileged and hey have you read this great book about the protocols of the elders of Zion?"

and it was never just "let's shove the blame onto the Jews", that was always always accompanied by mass rape and mass murder and destruction of property and European earth was soaked in Jewish blood long before the holocaust. 

Just in the past couple days there have been something like 6 "lone wolf" terror attacks in Israel, we're being targeted for death just for daring to exist and breathe. 

And arab sportspeople refuse to play against Israelis at the olympics purely out of hate. Theyde rather forfeit the match. 

So don't make out like anti-semitism is inevitable and not a big deal and a thing of the past. It is very much alive and kicking as ever. 

[marsoupial they/them]

1 minute ago, Delightful said:

I don't know how you intended it but that came across as very patronising. I know my own history. "You've always been the punching bag" doesn't make it any more ok.

Some is different now. Mostly it's just morphed, not gone. Plenty anti-semitism is still around, a lot of Jews now are leaving Europe because it's unsafe. Now it's not "you poisoned the wells" it's "you have dual loyalty and your country is colonialist/oppressors/racist/insert slander here" and the haters don't care that they're talking to a Jew who isn't Israeli we're all the same to them. It's pretty bad on college campuses too, particularly in America. People get beaten up, silenced, kicked off committees for "not being impartial".......it's not new but it's not gone either.

Oh and in some middle eastern countries people still believe the "children's blood in the matzah" literal blood libel. and use classic anti Semitic imagery of Jews as large noses Devils and monsters and money pinchers and child eaters. I can easily find you examples if you don't believe me. 

And let's not get started on the Holocuast didn't happen/it was faked for sympathy/let's finish the job Hitler started all said in one breath. Or on 'Jews run all the banks and the media and the world and they're so powerful and privileged and hey have you read this great book about the protocols of the elders of Zion?"

and it was never just "let's shove the blame onto the Jews", that was always always accompanied by mass rape and mass murder and destruction of property and European earth was soaked in Jewish blood long before the holocaust. 

Just in the past couple days there have been something like 6 "lone wolf" terror attacks in Israel, we're being targeted for death just for daring to exist and breathe. 

And arab sportspeople refuse to play against Israelis at the olympics purely out of hate. Theyde rather forfeit the match. 

So don't make out like anti-semitism is inevitable and not a big deal and a thing of the past. It is very much alive and kicking as ever. 

I wasn't meaning to sound patronizing or rude, and I apologize. 

I was not aware of these attacks, and I probably should have been before posting.

It was an ill-advised post and I'm sorry.

[Delightful]

2 minutes ago, bleeder said:

I wasn't meaning to sound patronizing or rude, and I apologize. 

I was not aware of these attacks, and I probably should have been before posting.

It was an ill-advised post and I'm sorry.

It's impossible to know everything about everything and, well, I can't fault ignorance even though it hurts. So, apology accepted, let's be friends? 

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Delightful said:

It's impossible to know everything about everything and, well, I can't fault ignorance even though it hurts. So, apology accepted, let's be friends? 

Yeah, let's. 

I will try to be more informed of what I say before I say it. 

 

Now back to your regularly scheduled Random Stuff IX: Rogue Admins

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

3 minutes ago, bleeder said:

regularly scheduled Random Stuff IX: Rogue Admins

Sacribleur!
IS IR POSSIBLE??

[marsoupial they/them]

3 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Sacribleur!
IS IR POSSIBLE??

Ye boi!

[The Sovereign]

Oh Lunker...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

This comic deserves universal praise for its true-to-life depiction of the lives of retail workers. 

[Silverblade5 he/him]

In band today, we realized that a band class can sound a lot like a language arts class. This led to jokes on MLA formatting for solos.