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PoliGAF 2016 |OT6| Delete your accounts

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Hexa

Hexa

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Aaron Strife said:
I want to take that Fanfiction class taught at that university in Cali where the fanfic authors got really pissed off because "no concrit"

Final: Design your own Mary Sue self-insert, points deducted for every flaw (note: "her beauty is a curse" is not a flaw)
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To really do fanfiction right, you have to make a Mary Sue with flaws that make them seem deep and shit. Like some power they can't control so they have to stay away from everyone else to protect them or not being able to express feeling properly but shown in a way that doesn't make them look emotionally stunted.
 
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B-Dubs

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Crayons said:
thank you this helps me a lot
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You should be able to get away with using Ghost in the Shell and nothing else depending on what you need to write about. You could write a pretty good essay on the AI subplot and what it means to be human.

Crayons said:
lol I never went to this class drunk but I've been to other classes drunk and even drank beer while IN some of my classes

I blame my fellow students. They make me want to drink
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Who hasn't :lol
 
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TheLostBigBoss

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Crayons said:
it's funny until it happens to you and everyone in a room is talking about some weird ass moe anime and you're the only sane person there
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I mean, I'm in computer science program so my instant reaction would be

"omg there are more than two girls in this class holy shit this is great and they probably like games and shit too"

That is if they don't like Naruto, if they do, well some things are non negotiable!
 
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Aaron Strife

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Hexa said:
To really do fanfiction right, you have to make a Mary Sue with flaws that make them seem deep and shit. Like some power they can't control so they have to stay away from everyone else to protect them or not being able to express feeling properly but shown in a way that doesn't make them look emotionally stunted.
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Yeah but those aren't really flaws if they just endear the character more.

It's sort of like when an author gives a character negative traits that have shit-all to do with the story (Oh haha Bella Swan is so clumsy, she just dropped her keys at the front door, wacky! But all the guys want her in spite of that!)
 
Tarkus

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Crayons said:
thank you this helps me a lot



lol I never went to this class drunk but I've been to other classes drunk and even drank beer while IN some of my classes

I blame my fellow students. They make me want to drink
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I once went to a bullshit fluff class after having taken an extreme exam for end of rotation in med school with a covered coffee cup full of champagne. It was refilled several times. Class was 1-5:30.
 
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B-Dubs

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Aaron Strife said:
Yeah but those aren't really flaws if they just endear the character more.

It's sort of like when an author gives a character negative traits that have shit-all to do with the story (Oh haha Bella Swan is so clumsy, she just dropped her keys at the front door, wacky! But all the guys want her in spite of that!)
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That's the joke.
 
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Crayons

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TheLostBigBoss said:
I mean, I'm in computer science program so my instant reaction would be

"omg there are more than two girls in this class holy shit this is great and they probably like games and shit too"

That is if they don't like Naruto, if they do, well some things are non negotiable!
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actually there were lots of girls in the class

B-Dubs said:
You should be able to get away with using Ghost in the Shell and nothing else depending on what you need to write about. You could write a pretty good essay on the AI subplot and what it means to be human.



Who hasn't :lol
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yeah I think that's a prime example I could use
 
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Aaron Strife

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B-Dubs said:
That's the joke.
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Jokes? I don't get those. That's probably why I'm such a lousy fanfic writer. All my jokes go like this:

Serenity Moonflower decided to break the awkward silence (created by her because she's so lovably awkward) with a joke.

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" she asked innocently.

"Why?" Harry responded unassumingly.

"To get to the other side!" she said with a smirk.

Harry, Ron and Hermione laughed uproariously at their new friend's wit. Serenity knew she would instantly fit in with her peers and was crowned Queen of Hogwarts by Dumbledore himself for her hilarious joke.
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JesseEwiak

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http://www.aei.org/publication/what...the-gop-a-qa-with-journalist-greg-ferenstein/

Sentences like this in articles about how wonderful Silicon Valley is make me want to bomb Silicon Valley, "Silicon Valley is literally creating the tools that wipe them off the face of the earth, whether it’s through automation of manufacturing jobs or the rise of the gig economy which isn’t unionized."

Yes, in the future, it'll be a good thing when your child's "teacher" is a $12/hr minimum wage worker telling them to reboot their iPad when the video from Course 8, Chapter 7 freezes.
 
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Crayons

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JesseEwiak said:
http://www.aei.org/publication/what...the-gop-a-qa-with-journalist-greg-ferenstein/

Sentences like this in articles about how wonderful Silicon Valley is make me want to bomb Silicon Valley, "Silicon Valley is literally creating the tools that wipe them off the face of the earth, whether it’s through automation of manufacturing jobs or the rise of the gig economy which isn’t unionized."

Yes, in the future, it'll be a good thing when your child's "teacher" is a $12/hr minimum wage worker telling them to reboot their iPad when the video from Course 8, Chapter 7 freezes.
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That's a really frightening thought
 
Kibbles

Kibbles

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Trump backing off his previous comments in support of transgender rights on Kimmel right now, using the typical republican response "leave it to the states" and wouldn't clarify his own position only the party's.
Not surprised he's floppin around as usual, but smh
 
Hexa

Hexa

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JesseEwiak said:
http://www.aei.org/publication/what...the-gop-a-qa-with-journalist-greg-ferenstein/

Sentences like this in articles about how wonderful Silicon Valley is make me want to bomb Silicon Valley, "Silicon Valley is literally creating the tools that wipe them off the face of the earth, whether it’s through automation of manufacturing jobs or the rise of the gig economy which isn’t unionized."

Yes, in the future, it'll be a good thing when your child's "teacher" is a $12/hr minimum wage worker telling them to reboot their iPad when the video from Course 8, Chapter 7 freezes.
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Considering half of what I learned in high school/college I learned from Youtube and MIT Open Courseware, I wouldn't be opposed to the idea.
Humans in general are bad at pretty much everything. Automation is inevitable. Embrace it.
 
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User 463088

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There's a kid in my writing class I'm teaching this summer who asked if he could draw a mange instead of writing only. I said sure even though I know fuck all about anime. The only anime I ever watched was called I My Me Strawberry Eggs. Oh, and Tokyo Godfathers. But that's a movie....
 
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Poodlestrike

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Man now I'm regretting that I used up most of my BoKs on stuff like Art History and American Politics. I could have been taking Fanfic 101 and History of the Beatles*!

*Actual class at my college. Most of my friends are taking it, lol.
 
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Aaron Strife

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B-Dubs said:
Oh you :lol
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Maybe I should actually write it. The only fanfics I've actually written are a couple of Harry Potter short stories, an ongoing Pokemon fanfic I haven't updated in years, and that PD/kev slashfic I haven't shown anyone yet, but am in talks with a publisher to release a version that changes all of PoliGAF's names.
 
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Emarv

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Would Warren not want to be Secretary of Treasury? Put her in charge of that? Seems like that would be more in line with her mission statement and passions rather than just Hillary's VP.
 
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User 463088

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Poodlestrike said:
Man now I'm regretting that I used up most of my BoKs on stuff like Art History and American Politics. I could have been taking Fanfic 101 and History of the Beatles*!

*Actual class at my college. Most of my friends are taking it, lol.
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I took the most oddball shit possible. For my science credit, I took space studies. The professor was from the engineering department and thought we needed to learn to calculate orbital exit velocities and shit. For my technology requirement, I took a course on video game history. For one of my humanity credits I took a seminar course that ended up being about Tim Burton films.

I was an English/ creative writing major so I took a ton of weird literature classes. I managed to never take a literature survey class. Took an awesome class on queer fiction. Weirdest was a self designed course I took on Sentai as Literature.
 
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Maengun1

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What...the fuck?

Bernie Sanders ‏@BernieSanders 26m26 minutes ago
Game on. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7 primary.
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Is he actually nuts? Yeah let's just have a Bernie/Trump shit-on-Hillary fest --- er "debate."

GO AWAY.
 
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Wilsongt

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Maengun1 said:
What...the fuck?



Is he actually nuts? Yeah let's just have a Bernie/Trump shit-on-Hillary fest --- er "debate."

GO AWAY.
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I was just about to post that. Debating Trump? Why?

You know what? Fuck it. Let Trump set his laser on Bernie. He needs it. Trump has ignored him for too long.

This shit reeks of Romney speaking about Benghazi before Obama did.
 
Tarkus

Tarkus

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Wilsongt said:
I was just about to post that. Debating Trump? Why?

You know what? Fuck it. Let Trump set his laser on Bernie. He needs it. Trump has ignored him for too long.

This shit reeks of Romney speaking about Benghazi before Obama did.
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No. Trump and Bernie would team up and shit on the absent candidate. It would be amazing TV.
 
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Maengun1

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Lol didn't know this was a Kimmel thing, just came in my twitter feed. Seriously though I can already see Hill becoming the presumptive nom and Bernie still doing things like trying to get a 1v1 debate with Trump going. He is raising my blood pressure by the day at this point.
 
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TheLostBigBoss

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Oh what's that Sanders? You're going to debate Trump even though you have zero shot at being the nominee and you know it?

Cool, I guess that means we can officially tell you to fuck off at the convention and completely remove any semblance of olive branch you had going for you

there isn't going to be a Trump/Sanders debate
 
Hexa

Hexa

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I for one would love to see a Bernie vs Trump debate and as this seems like the only chance of it happening I'd love for them to go for it.
 
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eBay Huckster

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i'd love to see a bernie vs trump debate where both candidates are equipped with a shock collar that will electrocute them if they mention or cast innuendo toward clinton in a negative way
 
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