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Title: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 23, 2021, 07:32:14 am
Share your quotes.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: George_Chickens on June 23, 2021, 07:40:17 am
Share your quotes.
I'm sharing this quote.
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 23, 2021, 07:53:04 am
"People can break anything."
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 23, 2021, 08:09:20 am
"The seas of the mind are icy"
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Post by: Frumple on June 23, 2021, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: Sophocles, 420 BCE, Athens
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: George_Chickens on June 23, 2021, 09:03:14 am
Quote from: Sophocles, 420 BCE, Athens
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
Quote from: Abraham Lincoln
Quotes on the internet may be misattributed.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 23, 2021, 09:30:30 am
I'm not a professional quotes maker but
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Post by: George_Chickens on June 23, 2021, 09:55:11 am
I'm not a professional quotes maker but
You are now. QUOTED.
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Post by: TamerVirus on June 23, 2021, 10:12:58 am
Quote from: Headless Kamikaze guy from Serious Sam
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 23, 2021, 02:35:06 pm
The web will make you a spider
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Post by: Loud Whispers on June 23, 2021, 03:48:41 pm
You are now. QUOTED.
QUOTED FOR TRUTH
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Post by: methylatedspirit on June 23, 2021, 04:34:55 pm
Quote from: Grace Hopper
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 24, 2021, 03:55:16 am
"Quotes are the formula of the mind"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: George_Chickens on June 24, 2021, 03:58:02 am
"Formula are the mind of the quote"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on June 24, 2021, 05:22:05 am
"Bla bla bla, profound statement, bla bla."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 24, 2021, 06:37:41 am
"The greatest evil is unacknowledged boredom; the greatest blessing realising it"
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Post by: scriver on June 24, 2021, 06:43:25 am
"I think murder is a greater evil"
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Post by: TamerVirus on June 24, 2021, 08:55:45 am
“I like turtles”
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Post by: Loud Whispers on June 24, 2021, 09:22:54 am
“I like turtles”
"Turtle saving is a hobby," - Woman right before throwing a tortoise into a pond
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 24, 2021, 09:39:34 am
Hellre härdad än aldrig hettad
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 24, 2021, 01:09:57 pm
Why be afraid of flying when 100% of all plane crashes happen on the ground?
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Post by: Loud Whispers on June 24, 2021, 01:45:50 pm
Why be afraid of flying when 100% of all plane crashes happen on the ground?
Mid-air collisions
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Post by: King Zultan on June 25, 2021, 01:20:35 am
Why be afraid of flying when 100% of all plane crashes happen on the ground?
What about that one time where that plane got stolen while it was in the air then slammed into a building and exploded.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: methylatedspirit on June 25, 2021, 01:42:16 am
"Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 25, 2021, 07:32:28 am
"Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain

Looks at pornhub
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 25, 2021, 07:32:52 am
"A quote is a mind flex"
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 25, 2021, 07:35:11 am
Hellre härdad än aldrig hettad

"Better hardened than never heated"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 25, 2021, 07:41:50 am
"I think murder is a greater evil"

"Greatness is all about exceeding expectations"

"Greatness is a
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 25, 2021, 09:35:53 am
Hellre härdad än aldrig hettad

"Better hardened than never heated"

in my mind I made it "better hardened than hardly heated" for the alliteration :D
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 25, 2021, 02:14:48 pm
"Wisdom floods the land. If you know of a brook or stream, swim it now while it may still be crossed; dive, before it grows deeper. And if there is a misty lake, that occupies your eye; swim it now, before the sands of time run dry."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 25, 2021, 04:11:03 pm
"The Mind is made to go at a light jog, much like the body"
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Post by: McTraveller on June 25, 2021, 04:24:13 pm
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Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 25, 2021, 04:59:09 pm
'
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Clever.

"''"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on June 26, 2021, 01:03:24 am
"&"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Bumber on June 26, 2021, 07:55:35 am
「」
『』
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: martinuzz on June 26, 2021, 12:02:20 pm
But why do we need a second quote thread?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Frumple on June 26, 2021, 01:47:46 pm
Pretty sure this is actually like the third or forth or fifth or something. OOCQ's just the one that's failed to sink into the depths of disuse.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: George_Chickens on June 27, 2021, 03:17:46 am
Quote from:
"But why do we need a second quote thread?" - Martinuzz, 27/06/2021
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 27, 2021, 03:32:06 am
Good to know.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 27, 2021, 03:35:17 am
"People limit thier idea of fun, and so they limit thier idea of life”
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 27, 2021, 03:58:00 am
But why do we need a second quote thread?

The other one is out of context. This is straight-up quotes.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on June 27, 2021, 04:18:13 am
But what are we straight-up quoting?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 27, 2021, 04:50:17 am
Context!

"Is it better to do what your designed for, or to do what's designed for you?"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 27, 2021, 05:34:01 am
"The biggest lie is being told you should stop having fun"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 27, 2021, 09:20:23 am
But what are we straight-up quoting?

Context!

This made me realize this is actually deeper then it sounds. What is WIsdom? Context
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 27, 2021, 09:28:37 am
Sleeping dogs can't learn new tricks
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Post by: George_Chickens on June 27, 2021, 10:05:25 am
Sleeping dogs can't learn new tricks
There's more than one new trick to skin a sleeping dog.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on June 27, 2021, 10:25:29 am
Don't cry wolf before you've cleared the brook
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on June 28, 2021, 03:34:40 am
"Why the fuck did you tell him it was a good idea to hit landmines with a stick, you guys do realize he's dead now."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on June 28, 2021, 09:33:52 am
"We'll burn that bridge when we come to it"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on June 28, 2021, 01:17:08 pm
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: None on June 28, 2021, 05:51:08 pm
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: George_Chickens on June 29, 2021, 02:35:26 am
‎‎‎‎‎
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 05, 2021, 10:48:47 am
Your direction is more important then your speed.
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Post by: Starver on July 05, 2021, 11:19:56 am
Your direction is more important then your speed.
...unless you're stood on a landmine.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magistrum on July 05, 2021, 05:40:09 pm
Your direction is more important then your speed.
...unless you're stood on a landmine.
"The man who stands in a landmine goes in many directions."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 06, 2021, 02:54:09 am
Words to live by.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 06, 2021, 05:17:58 pm
"Don't paint pain with a broad brush."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 08, 2021, 01:27:05 pm
"I am going to science the shit out of this."- Watney
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 08, 2021, 02:18:39 pm
"What is best in life? To trade with your enemies, to have their possessions at low prices due to economies of scale, and, to take their wives and introduce them into the work force."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 08, 2021, 03:12:53 pm
"Where in Hell do you put the bayonet?"
- Chesty Puller's (most decorated US marine) reaction to seeing a flamethrower for the first time.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 08, 2021, 04:19:13 pm
Just going to copy and paste this for the reaction it got out of me

I am me, this one may be harder to get but you can if you think (this is the one that touched me the most)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magistrum on July 08, 2021, 05:10:07 pm
"Oh yeah, I'll science any question I please. This is spacetime!"
-Matt O'Dowd, PBS Spacetime.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 08, 2021, 05:11:14 pm
"To get traction you need friction"
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Post by: King Zultan on July 09, 2021, 03:38:49 am
"Don't come a knockin' if the van's a rockin'."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 09, 2021, 11:44:40 am
(https://i.ibb.co/jZ1J0sb/ED820-E5-B-977-B-4365-898-C-D5-EF1-E1115-C8.jpg)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 09, 2021, 11:49:31 am
Matter is energy slow dancing
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 09, 2021, 03:39:47 pm
"I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 10, 2021, 09:39:07 am
(https://i.imgur.com/MEXjYLe.jpg)
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Post by: Bumber on July 10, 2021, 09:56:52 am
(https://www.rpgpub.com/attachments/5125veuie4l-_ac_-jpg.32786/)

Image doesn't work. Following the link says you have to be logged in to view it.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 10, 2021, 02:38:06 pm
Fixed
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Post by: Magistrum on July 10, 2021, 07:41:56 pm
"The man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one"
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Post by: King Zultan on July 11, 2021, 03:34:51 am
"Don't whizz on the electric fence!"
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 11, 2021, 06:55:39 pm
"If your bodies not hurting, it's not working"
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 11, 2021, 06:57:16 pm
"People love to package useful information in useless quotes. Like, "existence is pain." My version is so much better."
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 11, 2021, 07:12:03 pm
"Pleasure and pain is the bodies feedback loop. Of it doesn't get regular doses of both things go wrong"
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2021, 04:19:51 am
"There's nothing easier to beat then a rigged game" - Mr Wednesday
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2021, 04:27:23 am
My Mind is A Lot Like My Internet Browser;

19 Tabs Open 2 of them are FROZEN Where in the hell is that MUSIC coming from?

- missingaletter22 (reddit)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 12, 2021, 04:46:58 am
"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2021, 06:15:15 am
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on July 12, 2021, 06:47:27 am
"People love to package useful information in useless quotes. Like, "existence is pain." My version is so much better."

"A witty saying proves nothing" - Voltaire
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2021, 06:53:39 am
Flawed in some way but uh

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” ‒ Nelson Mandela
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2021, 06:56:43 am
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” - Alfred Austin
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2021, 08:27:54 am
"Evil can't survive a 10 mile run" - Joe Rogan
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Post by: Eric Blank on July 12, 2021, 07:53:28 pm
"You're a breasts- and an ass-man. Congrats on the sex change." - Kyle
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Bumber on July 13, 2021, 03:13:34 am
"The Secret to X that Y Doesn't Want You to Know!" -Clickbait
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Post by: King Zultan on July 13, 2021, 03:35:56 am
"X discovered the secret of Y and Z hate's him for it!" - Also clickbait
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 22, 2021, 04:42:00 pm
To have it all is to have no more then you need and no less then you want. In other words, find the perfect necessities.
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 24, 2021, 05:39:18 am
(https://i.imgur.com/0pRBi0d.png)
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Post by: Starver on July 24, 2021, 05:53:14 am
"There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who who understand trinary, those who don't and those who thought this was a joke about binary."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 25, 2021, 04:07:26 am
"There are two types of people in the world, those who are alive and those who are dead."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: MrRoboto75 on July 25, 2021, 10:04:58 am
Born to shit

Forced to wipe
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2021, 09:31:12 am
Power is exhausting
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Post by: McTraveller on July 27, 2021, 05:40:21 pm
Beware bare bear arms bearing arms.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 28, 2021, 02:18:21 am
I have the right to arm bears!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 12, 2021, 04:56:29 pm
"You never have just a hammer"
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Post by: Scoops Novel on December 23, 2021, 08:54:56 pm
"True genius keeps things so simple they merely think of themselves as smart. Those who call themselves such can be merely sophisticated"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 24, 2021, 02:13:47 am
"I need a bigger hammer."
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Post by: EuchreJack on December 24, 2021, 02:12:11 pm
"Love may make the World Go Round, but Hate pays the bills."
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Post by: Starver on December 24, 2021, 07:03:01 pm
"Merry Christmas!"
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Post by: King Zultan on December 25, 2021, 05:42:04 am
"It's Christmas where's the gifts?"
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Post by: Yoink on December 26, 2021, 10:44:45 am
"'You can rule me out,' I said. 'I'm not involved. Not involved,' I repeated. It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action - even an opinion is a kind of action."   
-Graham Greene, The Quiet American.   
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on May 05, 2022, 08:36:16 am
Surf the Throes of your Flow
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Post by: Scoops Novel on May 06, 2022, 11:02:32 am
Demand positivity - Use negativity
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Post by: Starver on May 06, 2022, 12:01:50 pm
I've had the following (maybe slightly paraphrased) going through my mind today, for no obvious reason...

Quote
I'd like to have enough money to buy an elephant.
(Someone asks "Why do you want an elephant?")
Oh, I don't, I just want the money.

Really not at all sure where it's from (at least a few decades old, might have been decades old even then). Maybe someone like Marx (i.e. Groucho or Chico, probably not Harpo!), Eric Morecambe, or just some random variety comedian/film-funnyman, but I'm sure it came from that sort of field.

But it's a quote, and so I commend it to you all. Ignore it at your leisure!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on May 16, 2022, 04:38:56 pm
A Story you can't tell will be told through you - Me
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Post by: King Zultan on May 17, 2022, 02:00:00 am
Potatoes are the perfect spy they have eyes allover.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on May 31, 2022, 07:59:56 pm
Feel as much as You can
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Post by: Loud Whispers on June 01, 2022, 09:43:59 am
"Tough time never last... Only tough people last. AAEEBLEBLEBLEBLEBLEBLE (https://youtu.be/RmkgBiM4D_U)"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 01, 2022, 03:50:42 pm
The ultimate War is between the Passive and the active.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on June 02, 2022, 12:51:57 am
"Do any of you have the time?"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 02, 2022, 01:01:50 am
"Do any of you have the time?"
Does anyone really know what time it is? (https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on June 02, 2022, 04:54:21 am
"Do any of you have the time?"
Does anyone really know what time it is? (https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes)
"What time is it, Eccles? (https://youtube.com/watch?v=ctM_Rvgjfpo)"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 15, 2022, 07:53:28 pm
"A Man's reach should exceed his grasp" - Robert Browning

And a Man's grasp can make him reach - Eccles
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Post by: brewer bob on June 15, 2022, 08:13:25 pm
"I don't have the answer to everything. I'm just a horse, you know."
-- Smith the Horse, Ultima VI
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 17, 2022, 09:31:52 pm
When Life sucks, life's good; when life sucks, Life's good
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Post by: EuchreJack on June 18, 2022, 12:06:15 pm
"I relish those moments when I'm too scared to act, too tired to continue, or too sad to function. For those are the moments I know that I'm human."
-Me
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on June 18, 2022, 12:18:41 pm
"We exist, and Existence is... involved, Yo."

- Me
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 18, 2022, 04:08:51 pm
The more sense you make the more nonsense you need
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Post by: Bumber on June 18, 2022, 04:32:22 pm
"Life is demanding without understanding. I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes." -Confucius (probably)
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 18, 2022, 05:17:24 pm
Confucius sings?
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Post by: King Zultan on June 19, 2022, 04:22:21 am
Probably from Confucius the Musical.
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 19, 2022, 06:26:44 am
I am... intrigued.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on June 19, 2022, 04:04:07 pm
Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night
You know you're right just to hold her tight
He soothes it right, makes it out of sight
And everything's good in the world tonight

When Confucious sings,
I hear violins
When Confucious sings,
I forget everything
As she's packing her things
As she's spreading her wings
The front door might slam
But the back door it rings
And Confucious sings, he sings...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: TamerVirus on June 24, 2022, 09:29:47 am
"Man who stand on toilet is high on pot" - Confucius
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 26, 2022, 07:41:37 am
Actions Beget Action
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Post by: Scoops Novel on June 26, 2022, 07:45:23 am
Put all your shit in the sun
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Post by: King Zultan on June 27, 2022, 01:00:26 am
Suddenly the sun became the toilet, just as god intended!
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Post by: Duuvian on June 27, 2022, 01:33:55 am
As long as it doesn't come back on fire I'm ok with this
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 01, 2022, 08:28:22 pm
Connection is Oft, Obvious
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Post by: Scoops Novel on July 02, 2022, 04:15:19 am
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 02, 2022, 04:36:53 am
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
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Post by: Starver on July 02, 2022, 04:51:58 am
Caesar adsum iam forte. Brutus aderat. Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic inat
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: brewer bob on July 02, 2022, 10:41:56 am
“Tis but a scratch.” - The Black Knight
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Post by: King Zultan on July 03, 2022, 01:26:48 am
So why do we suddenly need two quotes thread Novel, one you made and one one you necroed.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 04, 2022, 11:18:50 pm
Link to the old quotes thread (pretty good) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=20345.0)

Whatever you have to do to be You
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 07, 2022, 06:22:19 pm
Learn it AND Enjoy It
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 08, 2022, 12:49:03 am
Walk it off!
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Post by: Starver on July 08, 2022, 07:34:22 am
Din't wash thi neck in it!
- one of my old scoutmasters, old-soldier type almost certainly though I never ever asked, but can't quite get the accent right in pure text...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 08, 2022, 05:29:32 pm
Make your sword sharp
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Post by: Loud Whispers on July 09, 2022, 05:57:45 am
The pen is mighter than the sword, but paper cuts more people than both
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on July 09, 2022, 02:45:33 pm
"The pen is mightier than the sword… only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp." - As amended to honour the late Olaf Quimby II, one time Patrician, by the Ankh-Morpork Bureau of Measurements that he had founded exactly to ensure such degrees of accuracy in everyday metaphors.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 09, 2022, 03:59:31 pm
(https://d1kq2dqeox7x40.cloudfront.net/images/posts/20180930_GFNFHMBRn1X3oPo.png)

D&D item. Uses blood as ink.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 10, 2022, 02:08:28 am
Pensword, bad at being a sword, bad at being a pen, what is it good for nobody knows.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 10, 2022, 05:02:52 am
You have to admit, writing with it would be good exercise.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 10, 2022, 08:38:49 am
Your sources of strength should not be obverted
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 11, 2022, 02:55:33 am
You have to admit, writing with it would be good exercise.
Get swole by writing a book!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on July 11, 2022, 03:24:54 am
I imagine it's pen sized. The blood-for-ink comes from it constantly cutting into your between-thumb-and-pointy-finger flesh-flärps
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on July 11, 2022, 09:50:34 am
Pensword, bad at being a sword, bad at being a pen, what is it good for nobody knows.
Attaining supreme penmanship
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 12, 2022, 07:56:28 pm
Let Your luck
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Post by: EuchreJack on July 12, 2022, 07:58:52 pm
Let Your luck

Domino

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Luck is not enough of a strategy.

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Hypocrite!
 :P
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 13, 2022, 02:35:43 am
He's sending us mixed messages, what do we do?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 15, 2022, 11:45:07 am
Someone once said "Now I'm older I feel more, I hear more, I see more." Nah. The true reward is to see what your seeing
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 18, 2022, 07:13:57 pm
The forbidden fruit isn't actually one of your five a day, but... uh... there's got to be a better time period
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 19, 2022, 02:52:17 am
Telling me the fruit is forbidden just makes me want it even more.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on July 19, 2022, 12:55:59 pm
The Forbidden Fruit is the Banana.
It's vital source of Potassium and some Magnesium, which I desperately need.  Thus I continue to consume them. They're also quite cheap.

Why are they so cheap? Ah, now you can know why the Banana is the Forbidden Fruit.
For it is grown cheaply via exploitation of South American Countries. 
Their people live under death squads in abject poverty so my bananas can come regularly and cheaply.

God Bless America (by which I obviously mean the United States, since we actively are fucking with the other North & South American countries)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 20, 2022, 01:56:10 am
I thought bananas were the forbidden fruit because they remind some people of dongs....
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 20, 2022, 06:29:22 am
Know yourself well, but not too well
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on July 20, 2022, 10:32:46 am
I thought bananas were the forbidden fruit because they remind some people of dongs....
You're thinking of Cucumbers.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 20, 2022, 10:36:38 am
Just Do Something
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on July 20, 2022, 10:49:43 am
Just Do Something
NO.

I resist the tyranny of productivity! Toil no longer, wage slaves of the world!
Goof off on company time, and stick it to The Man Scoops Novel!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 20, 2022, 10:56:18 am
Hey, you did something.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 21, 2022, 01:23:37 am
In the act of telling others to do noting he himself did something, thus ending his nothing streak.


I thought bananas were the forbidden fruit because they remind some people of dongs....
You're thinking of Cucumbers.
I've heard people say banana as well, but the one I don't get is eggplant, pretty sure you'd have a serous medical problem if your dong looked like an eggplant.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Ziusudra on July 21, 2022, 01:28:57 am
I thought bananas were the forbidden fruit because they remind some people of dongs....
You're thinking of Cucumbers.
I've heard people say banana as well, but the one I don't get is eggplant, pretty sure you'd have a serous medical problem if your dong looked like an eggplant.
That's true of bananas and cucumbers too, though, whether we're talking color or shape.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 21, 2022, 08:39:50 am
"People, Fickle"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 21, 2022, 04:06:05 pm
Engage with it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 22, 2022, 01:22:49 am
Engage with it
How, I need to know what it is to be able to engage with it.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: TamerVirus on July 22, 2022, 09:28:03 am
Firmly grasp it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on July 22, 2022, 10:31:16 am
‹"“‘«"…"»’„''"›
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 24, 2022, 09:54:24 pm
Myth and legend opportunely
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 25, 2022, 03:12:02 am
Myth and Legend opportunity, inquire within.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 25, 2022, 07:53:34 am
Indubitably.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 26, 2022, 06:05:37 pm
Low volume is high volume
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 09:07:54 am
"Buggerance, millennium shrimp" - bastardised version

"Bugger it, millennium hand and shrimp!" - the Original
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on July 27, 2022, 03:50:18 pm
"Bugrit, millennium hand an' shrimp..."

"For sum muny I wont follo yu hom"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 06:07:38 pm
Actualize
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 07:30:13 pm
Currently, good and bad distract us from natural and unnatural.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 08:10:09 pm
Start Songs
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 10:21:24 pm
Blessedness Runs
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 11:34:25 pm
Find the Biggest Bad you can and Beat it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 27, 2022, 11:35:10 pm
Unmeme
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 28, 2022, 12:41:15 am
Find a focus
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 28, 2022, 01:35:57 am
I don't think one or two words really count as a quote.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on July 28, 2022, 03:50:59 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on July 28, 2022, 08:44:22 am
Quote
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 29, 2022, 04:09:35 pm
Nayeth giveth a fuck
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 30, 2022, 02:36:43 am
But you should giveth a fuck!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 30, 2022, 02:47:09 pm
See your wWrld
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Ziusudra on July 30, 2022, 07:50:11 pm
Skookum
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 30, 2022, 09:00:08 pm
Do something towards your goals. Now you have momentum
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on July 31, 2022, 02:28:59 am
But what if that something is nothing, do we still get momentum?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 04, 2022, 07:07:45 pm
Encourage zens
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 04, 2022, 07:38:39 pm
Encue zero nags
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 04, 2022, 08:29:02 pm
Take only what you're after
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 05, 2022, 02:02:31 am
But what if I want a spare?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 05, 2022, 01:11:11 pm
But what if I'm done taking shit?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 05, 2022, 10:03:04 pm
"The foolish man gives a shit, the wiseman takes it" - The Fart of War
Truth
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: bloop_bleep on August 05, 2022, 11:46:48 pm
"This quote is often taken out of context and also misattributed to Mark Twain."

- Mark Twain (also xkcd lol)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 08, 2022, 08:33:38 pm
Hack a Hack, a Slash, a Shield-Bash and... a Swipe
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 09, 2022, 01:20:46 am
RIP AND TEAR!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 10, 2022, 05:57:25 pm
Find nature
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 10, 2022, 06:05:42 pm
Find nature
Rant if nude
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 12, 2022, 01:11:16 am
It's all bullshit... so respect it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 12, 2022, 01:14:53 am
Life begins and ends in Shit
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 12, 2022, 02:07:37 am
No. That only really happens if you live shittily
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 12, 2022, 02:25:20 am
All lives are shitty even if you don't think your life is shitty it is.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 12, 2022, 03:47:24 am
Compared to the potential, yes, even for todays tippity top, but that's irrelevant. Fucking get something.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 13, 2022, 04:05:13 am
Work it in
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 13, 2022, 04:57:28 am
Work it in
Oink writ
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 13, 2022, 05:31:36 am
Limitations Valuable
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 13, 2022, 06:01:07 am
Limitations Valuable
Invite ball as I'm a lout
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 13, 2022, 06:05:37 am
When the mind's going the brains sleeping
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 14, 2022, 02:35:47 am
Achievement get: Gonorrhea
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 14, 2022, 05:32:43 pm
Weave your Web
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 15, 2022, 08:15:48 am
There is always Something to steal
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 15, 2022, 10:35:49 am
"I like pilfering I'm a sneaky poacher"

- Bars
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 16, 2022, 03:24:09 am
So I take it Novel is telling us that he is a criminal.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 16, 2022, 09:34:26 am
People who say pain is the best teacher have met experience but briefly
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 16, 2022, 09:34:58 am
Wisdom is a way to talk to yourself
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: bloop_bleep on August 16, 2022, 02:42:08 pm
When they make a tenner,
I make a dime;
That's why I poop
On company time.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 16, 2022, 04:51:20 pm
So I take it Novel is telling us that he is a criminal.

"Everyone engages in conduct that could be considered to violate some law somewhere, but only some people get labeled criminals."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 16, 2022, 08:12:14 pm
Get elemental
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 16, 2022, 09:26:47 pm
Stay positive
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 17, 2022, 03:15:55 am
Stay negative
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 17, 2022, 11:37:13 am
Stay positively cynical
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: bloop_bleep on August 17, 2022, 01:27:19 pm
Make like a proton, and leaf.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 18, 2022, 05:01:45 pm
Veni Vidi Vicious
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 18, 2022, 09:30:06 pm
It may be kinky to use a feather, but it is perverted to use the whole chicken.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 19, 2022, 02:27:12 am
But what if the chicken wants to be kinky with another chicken is it still perverted?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 19, 2022, 05:39:13 am
Yes. Next question?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 19, 2022, 07:02:20 am
Guv, give away all the style you can share
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 20, 2022, 02:07:26 am
That sounds like an issue to talk to your doctor about.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 20, 2022, 02:11:52 am
That sounds like an issue to talk to your doctor about.
That is a great quote, and the perfect end to any conversation!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 22, 2022, 04:49:34 pm
Don't write what you know. Compare to what you know
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 22, 2022, 05:22:35 pm
Break
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 24, 2022, 03:17:56 am
Find provocation
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 24, 2022, 03:56:53 am
Novel none of the things you've been posting seem like quotes.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 24, 2022, 07:08:48 am
Novel none of the things you've been posting seem like quotes.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: bloop_bleep on August 25, 2022, 11:45:25 am
He's speedrunning the forum leaderboards.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: MrRoboto75 on August 25, 2022, 11:59:44 am
Quote from: a fanfic
Deep dish pizza is just lazy lasagna
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 26, 2022, 03:24:51 am
He's speedrunning the forum leaderboards.

I wonder what he'll do when he gets first place?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 26, 2022, 04:07:26 am
He's speedrunning the forum leaderboards.

I wonder what he'll do when he gets first place?

Unlikely. Roseheart, at least, won't go down that easily.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 26, 2022, 08:06:56 pm
'Jesus on a web'
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 26, 2022, 11:21:10 pm
Your truer self is indeed your truer self
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 27, 2022, 01:20:07 am
He's speedrunning the forum leaderboards.

I wonder what he'll do when he gets first place?

Unlikely. Roseheart, at least, won't go down that easily.
Sounds like the showdown of the year right there.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: bloop_bleep on August 27, 2022, 03:42:04 pm
Bay12 as a ravaged wasteland after the Scoops Novel-roseheart shitposting war:
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 01, 2022, 07:24:48 am
Start a fight
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on September 01, 2022, 08:18:20 am
Start a fight
First tag a hat
A fart at sight
Sigh at fat rat
That is a graft
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on September 01, 2022, 10:46:30 am
Bay12 as a ravaged wasteland after the Scoops Novel-roseheart shitposting war:

Hmmmmm...

Fanart potential.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: TamerVirus on September 01, 2022, 10:56:31 am
Start a fight
Why are you advocating violence on this forum?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on September 01, 2022, 10:58:48 am
Start a fight
Why are you advocating violence on this forum?

Because we are bored. And because a fight between Rose and Novel would be legendary.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 02, 2022, 01:56:17 am
Start a fight
Why are you advocating violence on this forum?

Because we are bored. And because a fight between Rose and Novel would be legendary.
You guys are forgetting the most important part of any legendary fight and that is the music that plays during it!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on September 02, 2022, 04:39:04 am
Start a fight
Why are you advocating violence on this forum?

Because we are bored. And because a fight between Rose and Novel would be legendary.
You guys are forgetting the most important part of any legendary fight and that is the music that plays during it!
Megalovania.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: MrRoboto75 on September 02, 2022, 08:09:49 am
doo doo deet doot
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on September 02, 2022, 09:26:41 am
doo doo deet doot

dad dud dud da du da
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 03, 2022, 01:20:40 am
doo doo deet doot

dad dud dud da du da
dun, dun, duuuun!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 05, 2022, 12:14:35 pm
You're never the only one... on some level
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on September 05, 2022, 04:57:10 pm
You're never the only one... on some level
At least not today.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 06, 2022, 07:36:16 pm
Break the script
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on September 06, 2022, 07:37:00 pm
Fuck the World
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 07, 2022, 12:42:32 am
Pull the lever!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 09, 2022, 09:59:56 am
Sometimes no-one's right and sometimes everyone's right
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on September 09, 2022, 10:37:37 am
Start a fight
Why are you advocating violence on this forum?

Because we are bored. And because a fight between Rose and Novel would be legendary.
You guys are forgetting the most important part of any legendary fight and that is the music that plays during it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvyY4zCMTas
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 09, 2022, 06:10:22 pm
Someone said God kills us when we're boring. It's better to say be Interesting.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on September 09, 2022, 10:59:50 pm
Someone said God kills us when we're boring. It's better to say be Interesting.
They were lying, because they refuse to understand the truth.

God in fact kills us when we're happy and contented.  Misery is longevity.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 09, 2022, 11:08:58 pm
The God in the body half says that, but the God in the brain says you better damn well amuse me. Brain wins...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 10, 2022, 01:01:43 am
Someone said God kills us when we're boring. It's better to say be Interesting.
They were lying, because they refuse to understand the truth.

God in fact kills us when we're happy and contented.  Misery is longevity.
I thought god killed people whenever he felt any emotion do to his not really giving a shit about us and it being something for him to do.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 10, 2022, 04:28:36 am
I thought god killed people whenever he felt any emotion do to his not really giving a shit about us and it being something for him to do.
I mean the whole Sodom and Gomorrah stuff was the mandems going up to his angels and being all ayyy baby wan sum fuk

And before JC everyone else he sent got murdered. And then JC got executed anyways. It's only human at that point to wonder if you're dealing with lost causes xD
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 10, 2022, 12:11:00 pm
Words limit
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 10, 2022, 01:36:12 pm
Civilization runs on stress
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on September 11, 2022, 01:47:18 pm
Blood, stress and tears
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 11, 2022, 04:05:52 pm
Eh, the other two are just a means to facilitate stress. If you run on stress you're going to look for war. It makes it easier to control people and keeps the work flowing, I'm not being figurative about it running on stress.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Ziusudra on September 11, 2022, 11:21:33 pm
Thought this was just a thread for sharing quotes - since when are we critiquing them? You hav an  argument thread for that.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 12, 2022, 04:29:44 am
Novel has made it seem like a anything goes as long as it's related to quotes thread.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: TamerVirus on September 12, 2022, 04:39:28 pm
Quotes thread: a legally distinct alternative to the Out of context and funny quotes thread.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Eric Blank on September 12, 2022, 06:07:48 pm
Can we post quotes about crotch, ass and boobs in this one?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 13, 2022, 03:25:46 am
I don't see why you couldn't, I doubt Novel will stop you if you do.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on September 13, 2022, 07:52:53 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robert_Crotch#Quote

https://www.allgreatquotes.com/king-lear-quotes-96/

(No easy link for the latter, but the direct quote is: "Not having an ear for music it annoys me to hear the boobs squeal.")

Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 14, 2022, 12:36:12 am
It takes a fuck to not give a fuck
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 17, 2022, 12:38:53 pm
Sometimes you've got to scream.

(Genuinely - some life advice that went over my head)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 17, 2022, 07:09:47 pm
Man can Manifest
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 18, 2022, 01:21:54 am
The manifest can contain a man.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 18, 2022, 07:45:31 am
Amass Magic
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: MrRoboto75 on September 18, 2022, 08:07:08 am
Amass Magic
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 18, 2022, 08:49:31 am
Power denies Strength
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 18, 2022, 08:50:34 am
Amass Magic

Magic is the ass of the universe.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 18, 2022, 10:09:09 am
Reality... unfolds
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 18, 2022, 11:52:11 am
Work, out, the charge, return to baseline
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 19, 2022, 01:04:28 am
Amass Magic

Magic is the ass of the universe.
So magic is just farts?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 19, 2022, 10:48:57 am
What you like guides
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 19, 2022, 10:52:52 am
Slay Styles
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 19, 2022, 01:25:37 pm
It's not about forcing yourself, it's about finding force
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 21, 2022, 10:45:38 pm
Do what you love, or else
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on September 22, 2022, 02:40:36 am
Do what you love, or else
This sounds like a threat.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 22, 2022, 08:28:24 am
Let it rhyme
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on September 22, 2022, 01:54:07 pm
It's time to rhyme? Oh, how sublime! I'm in my prime to this task climb (watch as I mime the bells I chime) 'cos it's no crime to spit my 'grime'. Though one enzyme, in this 'ere clime, now means there's slime. All dayglow lime...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 25, 2022, 06:01:41 pm


"The blood is rushing in his ears, the song of the world." - Treasure from the AI Dungeon
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on September 26, 2022, 05:06:44 am

"He is standing at the edge of the cliff now. He has jumped. He is soaring. He is the eagle. The river is the sea. The rocks are the mountains. The earth is the wheel, and the wheel is his foot." - My treasure from the AI Dungeon
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on October 01, 2022, 08:14:34 pm
My current signature:
Quote from: Fallen London, one Unthinkable Hope
This one didn't want to be who they was. On the Surface – it was a dull, unconsidered sadness. But everything changed. Which implied everything could change.
Obviously I love this quote a lot.  It sums up a lot of feelings for me, in a way I think is probably easy to interpret.

I remember it to myself as "Everything changed.  Which implied ANYTHING could change."  It truly was an unthinkable hope, until everything changed.  All the comforting barriers fell away and I was left, much against my will, with nothing but radical freedom.  (The Liberation of Night faction/project, in the game's terms). 
Suddenly there no walls, no rules of politeness.  Terrifying.  DEEPLY terrifying.  The institutions I thought had value were revealed as meaningless, dust on the wind. 
But as consolation, there was nothing stopping me from pursuing my heart's desire.
(it's HRT, I'm talking about biologically transing my body instead of dreaming and whispering)

"Everything changed.  Which implied everything could change."
It's not exactly tautology, but it's obvious isn't it?  We like to pretend it isn't, that we can build monuments which will last forever.
Last forever without becoming ironic, OZYMANDIAS KING OF KINGS.
Maybe it's better that we can't do that.  That everything we do will, one day, be a grain of sand on the beach.
Or a tear in the rain, heh.

Maybe I'm just freaking out because my power was out a whole 12 hours and the dark was very spooky with my dwindling battery.  But I still feel happier these days.  Perhaps if one seeks reassuring restrictions they should look to a loving and accepting partner, not polities and family.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on October 02, 2022, 02:01:53 am
12 hours without electronic devices...the horror!

Like seriously, my preferred tactic of sleeping through power outages doesn't work so well for the long ones.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 02, 2022, 02:51:53 am
Longest power outage I've ever been through was a week no sleeping all the way through that, but then again that was years ago and I was little and battery powered stuff wasn't thing I cared about.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on October 07, 2022, 03:02:02 am
Signature updated, and I'll put it here for posterity:

They/them
No justice, no peace.
Quote from: Fallen London, one Unthinkable Hope
This one didn't want to be who they was. On the Surface – it was a dull, unconsidered sadness. But everything changed. Which implied everything could change.

I was happy with my gender stuff, but I sorta missed when my signature had "black lives matter".  My gender stuff is one thing, but I rate my egalitarianism higher.

And I've seen so much injustice, lately.  Even justice delayed.  I think my problems with that can be simplified into a very simple slogan:
No justice, no peace.

I don't make the rules, liberals.  It was you who test the natural law.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 08, 2022, 09:49:09 am
You've got to let it breath if you want to be grand
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on October 08, 2022, 10:00:54 am
Signature updated, and I'll put it here for posterity:

They/them
No justice, no peace.
Quote from: Fallen London, one Unthinkable Hope
This one didn't want to be who they was. On the Surface – it was a dull, unconsidered sadness. But everything changed. Which implied everything could change.

I was happy with my gender stuff, but I sorta missed when my signature had "black lives matter".  My gender stuff is one thing, but I rate my egalitarianism higher.

And I've seen so much injustice, lately.  Even justice delayed.  I think my problems with that can be simplified into a very simple slogan:
No justice, no peace.

I don't make the rules, liberals.  It was you who test the natural law.
The "Memory of a Much Lesser Self" has a good one too.

"You cannot begin to measure the length of your journey unless you recall the person you once were. How much weaker, how much more fragile."

On an unrelated note, Red Mars (and Kim Stanley Robinson in general) uses a saying I quite like:

"Kick the world, break your foot."

Or, if you fight against the world it's gonna fight back, and the world can throw hands.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on October 08, 2022, 11:02:18 pm
Too true, too true.

And I may have poorly quoted "No justice, no peace" because I mostly know it as a chant at protests.  It might be better quoted as "No justice?  No peace." or "No justice: no peace".  It's conditional.  I also don't consider it a threat, just a warning about a law beyond my control.  Those why deny justice have kicked the world's population.

Edit: You're also right about the Memory of the Much Lesser Self, too.  It's... tragic.  But at the same time, it's a good thing to be improving, and learning from the past.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on October 09, 2022, 12:33:54 am
Oh no, that's unrelated to your quote, it's just a saying (and warning) that I like. If you're gonna fight, it's never going to be easy and odds are you'll suffer for it.

Doesn't mean it's the wrong decision.

In RM it's often used in the context of fighting against corrupt institutions, and in Aurora it's used when a (semi-paralysed) character tries to fight back against the Earth's desire to keep sending out generation ships despite the fact they keep failing and the children of the first generation don't get a choice in the matter, where she's told "In the meantime kick the world, break your foot. And your feet are already broken, my dear."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on October 11, 2022, 07:00:05 am
Signature updated, and I'll put it here for posterity:

They/them
No justice, no peace.
Quote from: Fallen London, one Unthinkable Hope
This one didn't want to be who they was. On the Surface – it was a dull, unconsidered sadness. But everything changed. Which implied everything could change.

I was happy with my gender stuff, but I sorta missed when my signature had "black lives matter".  My gender stuff is one thing, but I rate my egalitarianism higher.

And I've seen so much injustice, lately.  Even justice delayed.  I think my problems with that can be simplified into a very simple slogan:
No justice, no peace.

I don't make the rules, liberals.  It was you who test the natural law.
The "Memory of a Much Lesser Self" has a good one too.

"You cannot begin to measure the length of your journey unless you recall the person you once were. How much weaker, how much more fragile."

On an unrelated note, Red Mars (and Kim Stanley Robinson in general) uses a saying I quite like:

"Kick the world, break your foot."

Or, if you fight against the world it's gonna fight back, and the world can throw hands.

Cornered, the boy kicked out at the world
The world kicked back a lot fucking harder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzK5d4jXKM)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 12, 2022, 10:45:39 pm
Let it grow.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 13, 2022, 02:13:31 am
What are we letting grow?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on October 13, 2022, 02:27:54 am
No, What's on second. (https://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 15, 2022, 07:39:40 am
“With great power comes great ammunition.”
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on October 15, 2022, 07:57:11 am
The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the sword is small and the pen is very, very sharp.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on October 15, 2022, 08:47:21 am
It's actually a misnomer to say that the Pen is mightier than the Sword, since it's really the Paper that is being signed by the Pen and the Hand holding the Pen that matter.

Like, say if my Hand is signing for a Gun, perhaps...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 16, 2022, 03:03:00 am
You know the pen doesn't need to be super sharp to stab some one with it.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 29, 2022, 06:44:51 pm
Be right on the edge of style over substance
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on October 29, 2022, 09:33:30 pm
"It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers."

- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 07, 2022, 02:42:02 pm
If you can't tell who's right, look at the most wrong
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 07, 2022, 09:44:38 pm
See the Oppressiveness
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 08, 2022, 01:53:22 am
Hey Novel I don't think your quotes count if you made them up, or are you just quoting yourself?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 08, 2022, 09:02:04 am
"I just said this!"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on November 08, 2022, 02:13:50 pm
Quote from: Verizon
Please allow 1-2 billing cycles for updated to appear on your bill.

Yay "updated", just what I wanted!  (Such quality control! Instills confidence...)

Also... seriously WTF, you are going to take 30-60 days to give me credit I'm due?  I bet they aren't going to give me interest on that.  Need to figure out how to bill them for it... can you imagine if I told them it might take 1 or 2 billing cycles for me for my payments to update to their new higher costs when they raise them?  ::)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on November 08, 2022, 07:45:09 pm
"Your Pistol Permit Interview will occur in October 2023" - Latest Gun Rights case in New York.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 09, 2022, 06:30:14 pm
Weakness makes you see the truth, Strength makes you see the lie
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 09, 2022, 07:54:52 pm
Respect a state
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 10, 2022, 02:23:12 am
Respect a state
What if I don't want to?
Title: a
Post by: Rolan7 on November 10, 2022, 07:54:00 am
Respect a state
What if I don't want to?
Right on!  In that case
Quote
Humans will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
(This only applies to nobility.  Short kings and titular kings are good (Noble queens are not))

Apparently that was inspired by a Denis Diderot but it's not what he actually said. 
Solidarity forever~
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 10, 2022, 09:15:09 am
Your daily reminder that the worst time in (European) history was not under kings and nobility or even priests but under the yoke of the burghers

Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Robsoie on November 10, 2022, 09:41:41 am
Your daily reminder that the worst time in (European) history was not under kings and nobility or even priests but under the yoke of the burghers
Yeah, down with McDonhald !
:D
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: MrRoboto75 on November 10, 2022, 01:33:16 pm
You either cum in the sink, or sink in the cum.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 10, 2022, 09:20:58 pm
Oh, i meant a mental state.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 10, 2022, 10:35:50 pm
Oh, i meant a mental state.
<insert territory of your own favourite disparagable population here>
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Travis Bickle on November 11, 2022, 12:05:26 am
Quote from: Will Knowland
High IQ combined with secular liberalism results in bluetooth dildos.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 11, 2022, 04:11:15 am
Quote
Humans will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Man I hope I'm not the kind of king that gets strangled with some dudes entrails.

Quote from: Will Knowland
High IQ combined with secular liberalism results in bluetooth dildos.
What would the bluetooth part of the dildo even do?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Mech#4 on November 11, 2022, 04:42:00 am
Quote from: Will Knowland
High IQ combined with secular liberalism results in bluetooth dildos.
What would the bluetooth part of the dildo even do?

Social media updates?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Travis Bickle on November 11, 2022, 06:21:40 am
What would the bluetooth part of the dildo even do?
I imagine it works much the same as the sort which vibrate by remote control but with a smartphone as the control.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on November 11, 2022, 07:07:23 am
Quote
Humans will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Man I hope I'm not the kind of king that gets strangled with some dudes entrails.
I was trying to exclude you but I guess I don't know your heraldry xD

I've been in DC the past few days looking at monuments to American Greatness so I've had some cynical sentiment to express. On the other hand a few things have really impressed me. Last year it was the Lincoln Memorial (not that the guy was perfect or even a hero, but...) and this year it was the mostly undeveloped, simple, monument to Teddy Roosevelt. I was particularly touched by a plinth of his thoughts on a Good State.
Large photo (https://imgur.com/a/ycQ0sG4)
"If I must choose between righteousness and peace I choose righteousness." Sounds familiar...

(I also wept in a corner while going through a certain museum but in a good way. It was a sad subject and I was able to feel that properly this year)
Quote from: Will Knowland
High IQ combined with secular liberalism results in bluetooth dildos.
What would the bluetooth part of the dildo even do?
There's a neat and non-pornographic (I hesitate to call it safe for work) DefCon presentation about this! I only got halfway through apparently. It's largely generic Bluetooth and XML hacking stuff. It does go into the expected utility of such a thing though. https://youtu.be/RnxcPeemHSc

Short answer: online sex, usually stream for pay but also just multiplayer.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 11, 2022, 07:25:18 am
What would the bluetooth part of the dildo even do?
...perhaps more (depending highly upon your own pecadillo, and/or for who has actual control of it) than a blueballs-equipped fleshlight?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Mech#4 on November 11, 2022, 07:59:46 am
What would the bluetooth part of the dildo even do?
...perhaps more (depending highly upon your own pecadillo, and/or for who has actual control of it) than a blueballs-equipped fleshlight?

Cheating at chess?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 11, 2022, 10:23:13 am
Speak morse to my butt
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 11, 2022, 07:04:23 pm
Everything good about the bad is what's bad about the good
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 12, 2022, 03:10:13 am
Short answer: online sex, usually stream for pay but also just multiplayer.
It is terrifying.

Is this kind of thing why Novel is afraid of the future?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 12, 2022, 07:34:46 am
I dunno I think the idea is pretty novel
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Grim Portent on November 12, 2022, 08:22:26 am
Short answer: online sex, usually stream for pay but also just multiplayer.

Twitch Plays the vagina.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 12, 2022, 08:58:02 am
You can get creams for that, apparently.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 12, 2022, 08:56:48 pm
Derive, ya'll
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on November 13, 2022, 12:08:16 am
Your daily reminder that the worst time in (European) history was not under kings and nobility or even priests but under the yoke of the burghers


I dunno, proportionately it was the 30 years war. Some areas of Germany lost 1/3 of their total population from war, disease and famine.

Since it's the quotes thread, there's an appropriate one too:

"As there was no compulsion towards a conflict which, in despite of the apparent bitterness of parties, took so long to engage and needed so much assiduous blowing to fan the flame, so no right was vindicated by its ragged end. The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict. The overwhelming majority in Europe, the overwhelming majority in Germany, wanted no war; powerless and voiceless, there was no need even to persuade them that they did. The decision was made without thought of them. Yet of those who, one by one, let themselves be drawn into the conflict, few were irresponsible and nearly all were genuinely anxious for an ultimate and better peace. Almost all—one excepts the King of Sweden—were actuated rather by fear than by lust of conquest or passion of faith. They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war."

-Cicely Vivienne Wedgwood
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 13, 2022, 03:18:59 am
Quote
"They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war."

Wrong line to end on. They were clearly stupid because they tried to read the fine print from the sound of that description.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 13, 2022, 08:49:34 am
Your daily reminder that the worst time in (European) history was not under kings and nobility or even priests but under the yoke of the burghers


I dunno, proportionately it was the 30 years war. Some areas of Germany lost 1/3 of their total population from war, disease and famine.

Since it's the quotes thread, there's an appropriate one too:

"As there was no compulsion towards a conflict which, in despite of the apparent bitterness of parties, took so long to engage and needed so much assiduous blowing to fan the flame, so no right was vindicated by its ragged end. The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict. The overwhelming majority in Europe, the overwhelming majority in Germany, wanted no war; powerless and voiceless, there was no need even to persuade them that they did. The decision was made without thought of them. Yet of those who, one by one, let themselves be drawn into the conflict, few were irresponsible and nearly all were genuinely anxious for an ultimate and better peace. Almost all—one excepts the King of Sweden—were actuated rather by fear than by lust of conquest or passion of faith. They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war."

-Cicely Vivienne Wedgwood

Death toll alone would leave the Dire Death the worst time, probably, but there are more things that need to be weighted than that alone.

Also it should be noted that as occurring in the 17th century the 30 years war lies in the beginning of the burgher takeover of power, even if they still compered with the aristocracy at that time.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on November 13, 2022, 09:21:05 am
The burghers didn't exactly take power. They supplanted the lesser nobility in a lot of cases, but it wasn't until much later that they were on par with the upper aristocrats. Obviously despite the term "Absolute monarchy", the monarch's power wasn't absolute because it required a whole class of bureaucrats and aristocrats to exercise it and upsetting them could result in the deposing of said monarch, but they were by and far the most powerful individuals within the nations.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 13, 2022, 02:56:49 pm
A Male Man's a messenger
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 13, 2022, 03:53:11 pm
Absolute monarchy didn't come into existence until well into the struggle between the burghers and the nobility, since they explicitly on that struggle and leveraging it to move power from the aristocracy to themselves.

Gustav III, widely considered the most absolutely monarch I'm European history ("widely" meaning at least in sweden, which admittedly might just be Swedish blowhardness) and hailed as the epitome of the "Enlightened Despot" ideal by Voltaire, secured his power by being great at manipulating burghers and nobles against each other, favouring the burghers class and disempowering the nobility.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: MrRoboto75 on November 13, 2022, 04:37:53 pm
I had a burgher for lunch once.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on November 13, 2022, 05:23:04 pm
Quote from: Fallen London
No chatter from upstairs this time; only the usual stack of banknotes, sent down minutes later. You stare at the stack of pounds sterling on the dumbwaiter: is this a lot of money on the Surface? You can't recall.
My character likes to pretend that they can return to the surface at any time since they haven't "died" even once.  This quote, earned while shipping impossible things up a non-euclidian dumbwaiter to the surface world, was an uncomfortable indication that they can not.  There are many easily-rationalized-away reasons the surface world of 1900 1899 would reject them, but this hits different: This is an indication that my character has rejected the surface in turn. 

No- has forgotten it, lost hold of some nugget of reality that was supposed to lead them back up someday.  Why did they plan to return?  Which trip to the Nadir stole, unnoticed, that guiding purpose?

(and no, it is not a lot of money.  This is an extremely unprofitable endeavor, the only reward being to troll the surface with the unthinkable freedoms of the Neath)
(This wasn't a trans thing but I suppose it's getting trickier to fully hide my HRT effects.  Interesting!)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 14, 2022, 04:08:53 am
I feel like I'm missing something what is Fallen London, is a book or a game?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on November 14, 2022, 04:28:52 am
Heavily story-based browser "game", a term I hesitate to use because the gameplay consists of percentage chances and button clicks.

Not to detract from the story, mind. They're bloody good, as are a lot of the descriptions. One of my favourites is the infamous "Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name" storyline, which is a fun adventure into cannibalism, depravity, self-destructive obsession, autocannibalism, suicide, terror, and ultimately bricking your account.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 14, 2022, 04:12:06 pm
It's not As they say but How they say
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 15, 2022, 04:18:20 am
It's not As they say but How they say
Is this a variation of do as I say not as I do?

ultimately bricking your account.
How does it brick your account?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on November 15, 2022, 04:39:40 am
The ending of the story's a sort of closely kept secret, but from what I know it moves you to a new area where you can't do anything but move stuff around your inventory, and you can't leave said area.

The game does warn you at every step of the way that the storylet will lead to permanent changes to your account as well as probably permanently killing your character, which in the setting is really difficult because the laws of life and death don't really hold too well.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 15, 2022, 07:35:22 am
It's not As they say but How they say

But what about be that as it may?


The ending of the story's a sort of closely kept secret, but from what I know it moves you to a new area where you can't do anything but move stuff around your inventory, and you can't leave said area.

The game does warn you at every step of the way that the storylet will lead to permanent changes to your account as well as probably permanently killing your character, which in the setting is really difficult because the laws of life and death don't really hold too well.


I haven't played in a long long time but now I'm getting a bit curious about it again.

Do the game still rely on a lot of inter-player interaction and social media stuff? Because that's why I originally stopped playing in the way back when
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on November 15, 2022, 08:19:11 am
They don't seem to put lore stuff and codes on Twitter so much if that's what you're referring to.  As for player interaction, it's still a good source of Making Waves if you're grinding Notability but I haven't bothered for like a year or two.  There are more convenient ways to ease menaces for advanced players.  Related:  Parabola is open, along with a railway project which opens up various towns west of London which each have their own stuff going on.  There are also a lot of new ports at zee, most notably the Khanate where intriguers can do spycrafty things.

For new players:  It's a Victorian-era story set in a London that has been relocated underground to a place where laws and Judgement are weaker.  That's both a good thing and a bad thing, depending on who you ask, and the city is (for now) under control of a group of hooded capitalists from... elsewhere.  They require love stories, lots of them, queer included.

I personally think the writing is really good which is why I keep getting tempted to quote it.  Checking my journal (you can save entries you like to a personal journal, it's a neat tracker of my character's journey):
Quote from: Cashing in some criminal favours
You arrange matters so that it is you who presents the condemned man with his final drink. As he drains the tankard you see a tattoo on his wrist. You know that one: it's a map! He gives you a wink and tells you that he'll be seeing you. You hope not. The gemstones are in Tyrant's Gardens as his map indicated. There's a note in the hoard asking you to share them with his mistress.
Quote from: The traitor empress outlawed 1900
There is, of course, disagreement and deliberation. Is the interference with the accounting of time another intolerable repression of the imperialist state, or is it just a meaningless distraction from the Great Work? If it is to be opposed, how, exactly?

But the Revolution acts organically, and theoretical debates are set aside as soon as '1900' graffiti starts appearing throughout London. The machinery of Empire strip-mines meaning from the world, leaving behind chasms between the real and the official. Soon, clandestine presses are printing runs of forbidden calendars. Cumaean Canal smugglers are bringing over turn of the century-themed paraphernalia from the Surface along with the usual boxes of sunlight. If the powers that be dictate that the sun must be shining, someone will take it upon themselves to make rain.
Quote from: Don't let nightmares get too high
You've cast yourself down a pit and into a vast cavern full of monsters and madmen. And you may very well be one of them.
Quote from: Yet there are valuable clues in dreams
The albatross is a mass of wings, beaks, and necks; every so often it grows a new appendage, adding to its weight. Every one of its many eyes stares at you in accusation. Every one of its necks is a grasping cord trying to wrap around your own neck. Every one of its wings is flapping, pushing the air against you, trying to pull you back and knock you to the ground. Every one of its legs flails in angry futility, scratching you with webbed talons.

Still, you walk on, almost climbing rather than walking. You couldn't let go of the tangled thing if you tried. There's light ahead; cold, uncaring light.
Quote from: 'Melancholy' is a stat and I seek a high score
The clouds evaporate. Once more you are in the dim light and still air of the Neath. Will all this be worth it, in the end? Perhaps.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 15, 2022, 09:47:10 am
I absolutely adored the writing, it hits right in the right spot for me.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on November 15, 2022, 10:03:24 am
While we're on the subject of FL and SMEN:

Quote from: A Bad End
You are always and still a moth to folly's candle.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 15, 2022, 09:19:55 pm
The main problem with people is that they don't fucking Realize
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 15, 2022, 09:41:09 pm
The problem is the solution
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 15, 2022, 09:41:25 pm
Get rid of, wisdom
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 16, 2022, 02:31:34 am
Get rid of, wisdom
But you can't be a mage if you use wisdom as a dump stat.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 16, 2022, 07:09:23 am
Don't confuse your Mind with your Soul
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 16, 2022, 07:09:47 am
Get rid of, wisdom
But you can't be a mage if you use wisdom as a dump stat.

The trick is dumping it even when it's high.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 17, 2022, 03:20:30 am
Get rid of, wisdom
But you can't be a mage if you use wisdom as a dump stat.

The trick is dumping it even when it's high.
So what your saying is if you roll high when finding your stats you'd reroll a high wisdom stat, are you trying for a fighter or something, because you don't want to be a squishy mage?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 17, 2022, 10:17:29 pm
Don't forget about Chemistry
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 20, 2022, 06:26:38 am
The problem with evil isn't the evil; it's the weakness
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 21, 2022, 04:22:17 am
The problem with evil isn't the evil; it's the weakness
But what if the evil is Godzilla, can't find much weakness in him.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 23, 2022, 09:23:23 am
It doesn't matter how good it is, people will find a way to fuck it up.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 25, 2022, 05:25:17 pm
Style Exposes Thine!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on November 26, 2022, 09:10:50 am
Heroism takes hope.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 27, 2022, 02:58:22 am
Style Exposes Thine!
Hex petty lionesses!

Heroism takes hope.
Heather spook is me.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Eric Blank on November 27, 2022, 03:07:54 am
Hex petty lionesses!
Alternatively, sex pretty lionesses, which is how i read this the first time around.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 27, 2022, 04:28:22 am
sex pretty lionesses
This sounds like a bad idea and I wouldn't recommend it.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2022, 07:45:32 am
sex pretty lionesses
This sounds like a bad idea and I wouldn't recommend it.
wow Zultan I guess you really are the Lion King
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 02, 2022, 05:57:59 am
sex pretty lionesses
This sounds like a bad idea and I wouldn't recommend it.
wow Zultan I guess you really are the Lion King
I was not speaking from experience when I said that, also I can't be a lion king as I'm not a lion.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 02, 2022, 05:59:18 am
I was not speaking from experience when I said that, also I can't be a lion king as I'm not a lion.
Idk kinda sus sounds like you're lion to me
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 02, 2022, 08:11:53 pm
Only the spammers survive
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 03, 2022, 02:49:35 am
I was not speaking from experience when I said that, also I can't be a lion king as I'm not a lion.
Idk kinda sus sounds like you're lion to me
Nothing sus here, no lion only rat.


Only the spammers survive
I see, this means you will out live us all.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 03, 2022, 04:08:12 am
Only the spammers survive

NOVEL! This is out of topic but hear me out.

If you make three more topics, you surpass Roseheart in topics! GO GO GO!

And if you try to reach seven hundreds, you may even surpass Toady... And become a god yourself
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on December 03, 2022, 06:04:00 am
I was not speaking from experience when I said that, also I can't be a lion king as I'm not a lion.
Idk kinda sus sounds like you're lion to me
Nothing sus here, no lion only rat.
Spoiler: this u? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: becaus (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 04, 2022, 02:27:34 am
Yes that is me but I've since been promoted to rat king.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 04, 2022, 03:53:44 am
Yes that is me but I've since been promoted to rat king.

I think we are missing the part in between now then, when you get two more heads for no apparent reason?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 04, 2022, 03:56:49 am
Yes that is me but I've since been promoted to rat king.

I think we are missing the part in between now then, when you get two more heads for no apparent reason?
I've always had three heads, but they aren't shown because it's hard to draw three headed rats so they just skip two of them.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 04, 2022, 08:33:05 am
If you want to know what you should do, look at what you do do
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 08, 2022, 09:19:15 pm
Great is your Guardian against good
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 09, 2022, 06:11:43 pm
Man was made to fight something
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on December 09, 2022, 06:13:12 pm
Man was not made to be alone.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 10, 2022, 01:58:40 am
Man was not made to be alone.
This is why god made women.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 10, 2022, 09:44:38 am
That is why God made random groups of people
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 10, 2022, 09:51:07 am
The Shocking truth is... the world's not random enough
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 10, 2022, 09:31:17 pm
Literalism is wise
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on December 10, 2022, 11:06:10 pm
"The closer we are to danger, the further we are from harm."

Originally from Lord of the Rings movies, Pippin.  I just saw it in Borderlands 3 for Amara the brawler; she tends to excel at close range.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 11, 2022, 10:01:22 am
Personify rather then signify
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 11, 2022, 10:45:10 am
Men magnify and men reflect
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on December 12, 2022, 08:38:23 pm
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 12, 2022, 08:41:28 pm
One didn't live in the 21st century.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on December 12, 2022, 08:44:18 pm
It's a breaking down of life from an absurdist perspective. Like Sisyphus, we're doomed to pointless, repetitive tasks where we do one and move onto the next, and yet despite that we find joy in them. And here's a person, doomed to nothing but a repetitive, pointless task. There must be joy in there, as he's simply doing the same thing as everyone else here.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 12, 2022, 11:53:19 pm
People have no respect for their opportunity to win for the first time in human history.

Different note:

It's not the Matrix, it's the Matrices IN the Matrix
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 13, 2022, 03:11:57 am
We're all glitches on the Matrix.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 14, 2022, 09:20:48 am
Anticipate the Extraordinary
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 14, 2022, 12:02:27 pm
Stories Stalk
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 14, 2022, 02:42:58 pm
Power surprises, Strength Shocks
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on December 15, 2022, 05:23:40 pm
"My dad had wet sidewalk last week and we carved our initials with his wife.
In the other corner, later, I carved something else ⚧"
-Me, last month.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 15, 2022, 05:24:46 pm
When your right, your right
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on December 16, 2022, 12:33:24 am
I gotta get more sleep.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 16, 2022, 02:29:51 am
I can sleep when I'm dead!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 16, 2022, 10:03:24 am
People Value Space more then they value Time
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 16, 2022, 12:10:15 pm
People Program
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 16, 2022, 01:24:24 pm
You have to keep connection with yourself
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 16, 2022, 07:01:18 pm
Internal becomes External
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 17, 2022, 02:01:16 am
Internal becomes External
In most contexts internal things becoming external is usually a bad thing.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 17, 2022, 07:54:05 am
Cool causalizes
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 18, 2022, 02:12:22 am
The real reason people ask what the meaning of life is is they don't know what to make of it all. It's not chaos, it's not order, and it's not really bullshit either. It's frustrating, primarily. Life is all the things it currently can't live out, because after all, you're living in more ways then you can count.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 18, 2022, 09:06:42 am
Shit Sinks In
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 19, 2022, 07:29:36 am
You know so much already, it's really only a matter of using what you already know
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 19, 2022, 11:35:21 am
A way with words is absolutely a gift
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on December 19, 2022, 11:47:40 am
A way with words is absolutely a gift
Yup! All the thingies can definitely be more wotsitted if you use all the doodahs like one of 'em who know how to go all blah blah blah, right?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on December 19, 2022, 12:23:13 pm
Why use many word when few words good?
Evidently ridiculous, however.  Exaggerated diction, simultaneously verbose and like unto a thesaurus, is an entertaining and improving method for signalling oneself as extraordinarily intelligent and definitely not a dickhead.  fun too.  And grammar can suck an egg, it's all about knowing gooder words.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on December 19, 2022, 01:34:25 pm
There is no replacement for experience.
Too bad it takes so much time to earn!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 19, 2022, 09:12:29 pm
Quicker to learn

(The substitute)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 20, 2022, 10:34:09 am
Conquer Your Philosophies
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 20, 2022, 06:07:41 pm
Mind imitates Action
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 20, 2022, 10:30:09 pm
The problem with people is that they take nothing seriously, and people do their best thinking when they take nothing seriously
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 20, 2022, 11:54:00 pm
If you can't find your Ideal friend, find your Ideal enemy
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 21, 2022, 12:07:50 am
If you can't be Evil, try being Negative
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 21, 2022, 03:14:44 am
Who the hell needs to be positive when you can be negative.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 21, 2022, 03:22:02 pm
Characters Count
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 21, 2022, 06:44:10 pm
Everything looks better in Motion
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 23, 2022, 02:59:26 pm
Goods Exceeds

Evil Reflects
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on December 23, 2022, 06:38:08 pm
Quote from: Benoit Blanc, Glass Onion
It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 24, 2022, 03:28:21 pm
If you can't do it Better, Do it again But Worse

Quote from: Benoit Blanc, Glass Onion
It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.

But a useful thing
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 24, 2022, 03:31:07 pm
Perfection is well-used flaws
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 24, 2022, 09:11:51 pm
Hell's a habit, Heavens a hobby
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 25, 2022, 09:34:44 am
Break connections to find connections
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on December 25, 2022, 03:28:44 pm
Quote
Merry Christmas
And also enjoy other Winter Holidays.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on December 25, 2022, 04:07:24 pm
Quote
Merry Christmas
And also enjoy other Winter Holidays.
And Summer ones, for them that habitually stand on the underside of the planet.
(And whatever it is that those who stand sideways around its middle bits might have, too.)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on December 25, 2022, 04:51:23 pm
I think they have rainy seasons?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 26, 2022, 02:41:21 am
Why don't we just replace all holidays with christmas then no one will for get about it and we won't have to wonder what holidays other places are celebrating.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on December 26, 2022, 06:17:15 pm
Quote from: Fallen London, listening to abandoned golems
The Calcified Man trembles with the movement of Underclay. Its eye-sockets erode with lime-water, deposits of pale minerals crown its head and shoulders. It speaks in fragments, almost mirroring how its form crumbles away, year by year.

It is unsure it has made good choices. It did not wish to be disobedient. The problem was that it wished to be. It does not require your absolution. Only that you listen, until, at last, it is silent.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: methylatedspirit on December 27, 2022, 02:18:16 am
Quote from: Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, Realism, and Knowledge Production in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, as formatted by Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft
The key feature of the actual world which virtual worlds must share with it in order to become compelling is not its visual and sonic "realism", but the fact that it is a forum in which we give our lives meaning by entangling them in projects we undertake with others.

Worlds become real when we care about them,
not when they look similar to our own.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: bloop_bleep on December 28, 2022, 09:13:41 pm
I think they have rainy seasons?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The first thing that came into mind is "from out of the sky

Sideways

No need to ask why

Just open your mouth, and close your eyes

It's raining sideways buh buh buh bum bum buh buh buh bum"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 29, 2022, 09:10:31 pm
Don't Fight The Evidence
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 29, 2022, 09:22:00 pm
"The mind wants peace, but needs conflict" - Gurwinder
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 30, 2022, 12:42:36 am
It's not just what it means, it's what it implicits
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on December 30, 2022, 04:01:59 am
It's not just what it means, it's what it implicits
It'd make more since if you swap implicit for implies.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on December 30, 2022, 11:09:26 am
It's not just what it means, it's what it implicits
It'd make more since if you swap implicit for implies.
Since I don't think you're writing as a Kiwi, I suspect the Pedant's Curse struck the sense of your reply. ;)

("...what is implict" might also work, but with a slightly different skew of the poetry invoked...)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 30, 2022, 07:29:24 pm
People know Everything kind of
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on December 30, 2022, 07:35:42 pm
Serendipities Stack
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 01, 2023, 03:42:36 am
Give people a god and they'll kill it and find a better one
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on January 01, 2023, 10:01:01 am
Give people a god and they'll kill it and find a better one
Teach people to god and...?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 01, 2023, 10:06:41 am
Nothings so limiting as the Core

Give people a god and they'll kill it and find a better one
Teach people to god and...?

I'm not going to sleep on this one, just keeping it floating for someone else.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Bumber on January 01, 2023, 10:52:27 am
Give people a god and they'll kill it and find a better one

Godberry, King of the Juice!!!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 01, 2023, 05:26:12 pm
Neutrality is the only way to escape balance
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 01, 2023, 10:08:59 pm
Coolness is contained
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 02, 2023, 04:53:51 am
You can't contain coolness!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on January 02, 2023, 04:12:36 pm
"After 30 years in the Church, I learned that if you want a stairway to heaven you don't call a priest, you call a carpenter."

Spoiler: Source (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 02, 2023, 05:26:59 pm
"After 30 years in the Church, I learned that if you want a stairway to heaven you don't call a priest, you call a carpenter."

Spoiler: Source (click to show/hide)
"Having a drink doesn't make you an alcoholic, just as making a chair doesn't make you a carpenter. You have to practice that everyday. The more good you do, the easier it is to do good. The more wicked you are, the easier it is to be wicked."
-The coolest American I ever knew. I've lived my life like that, and I've found there's a lot of truth to it. Myself and all the people I work with all self-sacrifice by second nature, but then some of my friends and acquaintances would like to help others but do not know whether they would in a crisis, whereas some of my acquaintances say they know for sure they wouldn't even try help others in a crisis unless they knew the guy. But you can be any of these guys. It just takes practice
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 02, 2023, 06:27:14 pm
You should be the guy you are in your fullness. You need to use everything. If you're nothing but a creature of habit your limited.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 03, 2023, 04:27:29 am
You need to use everything.
Does that mean I gotta push all the buttons?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 03, 2023, 07:34:01 am
You need to use everything.
Does that mean I gotta push all the buttons?
Use everything
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on January 03, 2023, 11:32:20 am
Buttons, press-studs, velcro... Push or pull them all. Except zips, those you gotta sliiiide...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on January 03, 2023, 12:08:25 pm
If you don't know carpenter this could reference, I'm sad.

I will shamefully admit to not catching it until you called attention to it ;)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 03, 2023, 10:10:25 pm
Unnatural prices for unnatural prizes
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 03, 2023, 10:22:43 pm
Balance is Subversive
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on January 03, 2023, 11:41:21 pm
Liberals actually believe this
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 04, 2023, 03:27:52 am
9 out of 10 Dentists approve of this.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on January 04, 2023, 02:45:50 pm
8 Out Of 10 Cats Do Countdown
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 05, 2023, 03:25:18 pm
Find the Beauty
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 06, 2023, 08:06:42 pm
To beat Limbo all you have to do is Balance
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 06, 2023, 08:09:16 pm
Bizarre is Boss
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 06, 2023, 11:19:15 pm
Be the Guy
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on January 07, 2023, 02:42:02 pm
To beat Limbo all you have to do is bend over backwards
FTFY
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 08, 2023, 05:24:39 pm
"Life can only be lived as a moving target"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 09, 2023, 03:26:31 am
"Life can only be lived as a moving target"
^Anti-veg propaganda
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 09, 2023, 03:59:04 am
Veganism is a mistake.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 09, 2023, 05:21:40 pm
Veganism is a mistake.
Think of the poor unprotected plants!

They give us oxygen!
Killing them is killing ourselves!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 10, 2023, 03:44:33 am
Veganism is a mistake.
Think of the poor unprotected plants!

They give us oxygen!
Killing them is killing ourselves!
Exactly, this is why we gotta eat meat, because those damned animals are eating the plants which we need to breath!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 10, 2023, 07:16:08 pm
Your not a leader until you've lost
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on January 10, 2023, 10:16:58 pm
Your not a leader until you've lost
My what?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 11, 2023, 02:05:21 am
Your not a leader until you've lost
That doesn't make since.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 11, 2023, 09:07:27 pm
Humanity is a hammer, because you must hammer.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 12, 2023, 01:37:57 am
Aw crap guys we've broken Novel he's making even less since than normal.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on January 12, 2023, 04:07:20 am
If we clear the cache and reboot it, will it still retain its prior running data?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 13, 2023, 04:29:45 am
I say go for it even if there's a small risk it might make the problem worse, we must try.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 13, 2023, 05:06:57 am
Your not a leader until you've lost
Alexander the Great, notoriously bad leader
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on January 13, 2023, 11:56:59 am
What about Pyrrhos, the leader so good even his loss was a won
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 13, 2023, 09:55:41 pm
Humanity is a hammer, because you must hammer.
No wait, I got this!
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 15, 2023, 11:10:44 am
What is Reality? Perception
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 15, 2023, 02:19:45 pm
My perception:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 16, 2023, 02:23:49 am
I was expecting to find skookum under that spoiler.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 16, 2023, 04:04:51 pm
I was expecting to find skookum under that spoiler.
You didn't?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 16, 2023, 08:01:04 pm
Neutrality Nets
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 17, 2023, 01:41:29 am
I was expecting to find skookum under that spoiler.
You didn't?
Nope just some hammer time.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 20, 2023, 11:12:52 pm
The only difference between good and great is distribution
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 21, 2023, 01:58:51 pm
Reality is something you yell at, the Universe is something you stare at
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 22, 2023, 02:40:37 am
Reality is something you yell at, the Universe is something you stare at
Why can't I also yell at the universe?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on January 22, 2023, 10:26:31 pm
It got a restraining order on you and you'll be arrested.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 23, 2023, 03:22:58 am
Damn it, you go outside naked one time and the universe never lets you forget about it.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Jrleebus on January 24, 2023, 12:38:47 pm
Transcend the crass demands of ego and identity and become one with the shitpost, this is the meaning of anonymity; to never take credit for even the greatest of your works.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 24, 2023, 03:12:13 pm
The problem with evil is you get used to it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Eric Blank on January 25, 2023, 02:26:05 am
Don't get used to it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 26, 2023, 10:00:46 pm
Damn it, you go outside naked one time and the universe never lets you forget about it.

There's universe in the women, there isn't women in the universe.

Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 27, 2023, 03:12:47 am
Damn it, you go outside naked one time and the universe never lets you forget about it.
There's universe in the women, there isn't women in the universe.
Shouldn't that be the other way around because I'm pretty sure there are women in the universe.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 27, 2023, 07:47:54 am
If I said it's a man world but a women's universe it wouldn't be true.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 27, 2023, 08:49:17 am
Transcend the crass demands of ego and identity and become one with the shitpost, this is the meaning of anonymity; to never take credit for even the greatest of your works.
How the hell did you find this lmao

This gives me such a nostalgic smile on my face
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Jrleebus on January 27, 2023, 11:46:02 am
Transcend the crass demands of ego and identity and become one with the shitpost, this is the meaning of anonymity; to never take credit for even the greatest of your works.
How the hell did you find this lmao

This gives me such a nostalgic smile on my face

I searched for something, but i don't remember what
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on January 28, 2023, 02:01:34 am
If I said it's a man world but a women's universe it wouldn't be true.
Not quite sure what you're trying to say here, it feels like a few words were misplaced.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 28, 2023, 02:10:14 am
Scoops Novel: Apparently a Women's Dream about a World without Women.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on February 04, 2023, 09:08:21 am
Quote from: The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Fray Felipe: This is the house of God!
Captain Harrison Love: Don't worry Padre, we'll be gone before he gets back.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on February 20, 2023, 08:45:11 am
(With regards to trying to work out why r/tumblr has banned certain words, but appropriate elsewhere)

"We live in the ruins of drama we can only begin to guess at."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on February 22, 2023, 06:38:47 am
What words are banned there?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on February 22, 2023, 09:58:00 am
I think gender was banned in titles, but sex wasn't, which lead to people mentioning all sorts of other banned words.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 23, 2023, 06:59:29 pm
I was expecting to find skookum under that spoiler.

Well, do I have some good news for you!
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on February 24, 2023, 02:34:53 am
Oh man invisible skookum the rarest of all the kinds of skookum, where ever did you find it?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 02, 2023, 07:46:32 am
Style something
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on March 02, 2023, 09:25:17 am
<div class="quote">Style <span class="something" id="thing1">something</span></div>
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 04, 2023, 01:25:37 pm
Be stable even if nothing else is, and be stabilized if you can't be stable. Be a balancer!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 04, 2023, 01:28:10 pm
"And even when life's not good, Your Great."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 05, 2023, 02:27:23 am
Seems like a lot of what Novel say on this thread are things that sound like they came from a cheap self help book.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 05, 2023, 08:16:28 am
Cheap and effective (you moaner).

The only difference between a good and a bad self help book is how deeply it penetrates your brain.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 06, 2023, 03:22:24 am
I'm not a moaner, also what if I'm one of those people that doesn't find self help books helpful?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on March 08, 2023, 08:55:47 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/YC2xm4A.png)
The offerings are diverse and fascinating.
"Memories of light" are interesting here.  They're a reference to the piscarian lights in the deep dark zee, but they're typically used by revolutionaries like me to advance [redacted].

They're different from "visions of the surface".  Nostalgia about the open sky is different from the luminous glows deep underwater or through a mirror.  Through, not across-
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on March 08, 2023, 10:48:10 pm
Quote from: I SHALL RISE.
Even the aged leader of the Unfinished approaches this one with caution. The Mutinous Clay Man gazes at you with eyes of emerald, and when he moves, stone scrapes against stone. "THEY SHALL NOT FORGET US," he says when your proposal to help him reach London is explained. "TO ALL THINGS, AN ANSWER." He grinds his stony teeth.
I will help yet another, yes.
The clay people will rise.
I will pave their way with lies
They will be remembered in truth.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on March 09, 2023, 10:48:03 pm
Cheap and effective (you moaner).

The only difference between a good and a bad self help book is how deeply it penetrates your brain.
That sounds weirdly sexual.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 10, 2023, 02:48:06 am
I would be scared of a sexual thing like that.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 12, 2023, 09:04:17 am
Don't ride the gift horse twice
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Jrleebus on March 12, 2023, 10:39:25 am
Don't ride the gift horse twice
That sounds weirdly sexual.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 15, 2023, 06:41:41 am
Sometimes you really do have to laugh and move on

Don't say it
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 16, 2023, 01:34:11 am
Don't say it
IT
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 17, 2023, 11:56:06 am
If all you've got is a pigeon, be a pigeon.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 17, 2023, 12:04:33 pm
True wisdom is annoying.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on March 17, 2023, 01:28:13 pm
True wisdom is annoying.
I'm sure we don't mind you very much.

(: Shhh... Don't say a thing!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 18, 2023, 01:17:39 am
If all you've got is a pigeon, be a pigeon.
What if I lack the proper spells to turn myself into a pigeon?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 18, 2023, 06:55:22 am
Pigeonmorphing is a practical and persuasively prognosticated science, with it's own journal.

I suggest you start there.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on March 18, 2023, 06:13:52 pm
Pigeonmorphing is a practical and persuasively prognosticated science, with it's own journal.

I suggest you start there.
Doesn't that hurt the pigeon?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on March 18, 2023, 06:28:02 pm
don't you pidgeon hole me
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on March 18, 2023, 07:40:46 pm
Get pidgeonholed, you pidgeon!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 19, 2023, 02:11:37 am
That sounds like dark magic and I shan't mess with such devilry!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on March 23, 2023, 08:18:33 pm
This one really stuck with me, though I struggled with it for years.
Quote from: http://indepos.comicgenesis.com/d/20050621.html
They tell you that the system is broken, that in time it will be fixed, and you will receive your due -- but you know in your heart that you never shall!

For the system at work in this world is not broken.  It does exactly what it was designed to do.
(CW: offscreen sexual violence, violence, taboos and body horror)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 24, 2023, 05:58:37 pm
So it is broken. Sub-optimal.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on March 24, 2023, 06:50:36 pm
The point is that it's not broken, it's evil.

For a long time I believed the system was good but fallible.  That it "fails" people because it's broken, but we can help improve it and assist it.  Help it help more people.

The "failures" aren't failures at all.  It was designed to keep people in poverty, to twist them against their interests, and to feed on the effort of good-natured individuals.  It does that job very well, and it does it better every year.

This is actually a hopeful message!  Instead of eternally struggling under a system that mysteriously always hurts and uses people, we can at least imagine a hypothetical future where the system is replaced.  Not fixed- replaced.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on March 24, 2023, 07:01:25 pm
NO COMPROMISE!

Only violence...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on March 25, 2023, 05:34:26 am
This is actually a hopeful message!  Instead of eternally struggling under a system that mysteriously always hurts and uses people, we can at least imagine a hypothetical future where the system is replaced.  Not fixed- replaced.
yea boi

I often face this problem talking to people where they immediately oppose any attempt to replace some fucked up system because they need it, e.g. "I need this shite job that doesn't pay enough because times are tough, I need this shite car to drive on shite roads to so I can get to my shite job" without realising "what if you didn't need to"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 25, 2023, 11:55:50 am
The system being dumb is more important then the system being evil.

Separately, if you want to change the system change the context.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 25, 2023, 12:01:15 pm
People are fun and that's the truth, but people are great and that's the point.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on March 25, 2023, 07:01:17 pm
the system

Trouble is there is not one "the system", there are many systems interacting. It's sort of futile to try and replace/fix "the" system.

I'm also not convinced that all present social systems are intentionally evil, I think it's more an emergent phenomenon.  I am also not convinced that a replacement system would remain immune from evil for more than about the 15 minutes it takes before such a system has to address some real-world situation which involves tradeoffs.  Put another way, I don't know how you'd make a rule that would only impact exactly the "evil rich people in control" and spare everyone else.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on March 25, 2023, 08:05:25 pm
You know they say all men are created equal but you look at me and you look at Somoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true! See normally if you go one on one with another wrestler you got a fifty-fifty chance of winning! But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a twenty five percent at best at beat me! And then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, you- the chances of winning drastic go down! See the three way at sacrifice you got a thirty three and a third chance of winning, but I! I got a sixty six two thirds chance of winning because Kurt Angle knows he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try! So Somoa Joe, you take your thirty three and a third chance, minus my twenty five percent chance, and you got an eight and a third chance of winning at Sacrifice! But then you take my seventy five perce- chance of winning if we was to go one-on-one and then add sixty six two third cha- percents, I got a one hundred fourty one and two thirds chance of winning at Sacrifice! Señior Joe! The numbers don't lie and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice!

- Scott Steiner
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 26, 2023, 11:12:45 am
Foster a fire.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on March 26, 2023, 01:57:43 pm
Adopt an inferno.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on March 27, 2023, 01:45:31 am
I bet adopting an inferno from a pet store would be an interesting experience.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on March 27, 2023, 06:34:28 am
Raise a blaze!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on April 01, 2023, 08:23:40 am
Have exactly the style you need.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on April 03, 2023, 10:23:21 pm
Break conditioning.

Break conditioning.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on April 03, 2023, 10:32:18 pm
Achieve aware
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on April 04, 2023, 01:46:46 am
Take hold of reality!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on April 04, 2023, 09:42:08 am
Vibes blow out the positive
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on April 04, 2023, 04:25:21 pm
Quote from: Mallory Moore, paraphrased
Our revenge will be the laughter of trans children.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on April 05, 2023, 11:12:52 am
Not reassuring.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on April 05, 2023, 11:18:48 am
Being a Young Republican is easy, because society naturally tends to liberalize. My values are likely to be predominant when I am old and powerful. I worry for Young Democrats.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Robsoie on April 05, 2023, 12:46:53 pm
Quote from: ancient british philosophers from the eighties
Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on April 06, 2023, 04:19:05 am
Quote from: ancient italian-american philosopher from the eighties
Shaddap you face
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Bumber on April 07, 2023, 09:43:00 pm
Choose deliciousness™
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on April 08, 2023, 01:57:23 am
Embrace the flavor!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Travis Bickle on April 08, 2023, 02:23:24 am
Quote from: Scott Locklin
Once upon a time, we dreamed about giant stately space dirigibles to bring us to strange new worlds. Drexler dreams about inventing mechanical bacteria.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on July 30, 2023, 08:18:27 am
Correct beats right. And unwrong is the most succinctly done.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 01, 2023, 03:27:45 am
SKOOKUM!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 03, 2023, 04:28:22 pm
Electricity grounds you, one way or another.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on August 03, 2023, 04:45:44 pm
Electricity grounds you, one way or another.
big if true
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on August 03, 2023, 10:52:59 pm
Honestly makes me think of my comments on using locks on people with weapons.

Either they let go of the weapon or they don't, you're disarming them either way.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 04, 2023, 09:59:45 pm
Honestly makes me think of my comments on using locks on people with weapons.

Either they let go of the weapon or they don't, you're disarming them either way.

It only works if you put locks on all the people using weapons, and even then you're still putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

It also bans the use of automobiles, cutlery, and pretty much anything.  People started killing one another with their bare hands, then moved on to rocks and sticks, then sharpened those rocks and sticks, then figured out how to use the sticks to make the rocks go further, and only very recently figured out how rub the rocks and sticks together to make a spark that projected one or more rocks along the stick.  Dude, people just suck.  It ain't the weapons.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on August 04, 2023, 10:10:21 pm
I mean armlocks, not bans.

Although putting Chubbs on people would probably weigh them down so much they can't fight.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: EuchreJack on August 04, 2023, 10:15:30 pm
I mean armlocks, not bans.

Although putting Chubbs on people would probably weigh them down so much they can't fight.
Police already do that. They apply their arms around the necks of people they suspect might possibly think of handling a weapon in the future.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on August 08, 2023, 06:34:51 am
I mean armlocks, not bans.

Although putting Chubbs on people would probably weigh them down so much they can't fight.
Police already do that. They apply their arms around the necks of people they suspect might possibly think of handling a weapon in the future.
LOOK OUT HE MIGHT HAVE A GUN AT SOME POINT

Real post 9/11 "military aged male = potential enemy combatant"  mindset
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 09, 2023, 07:20:47 pm
Integrating the Energy: necessary
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 09, 2023, 07:22:08 pm
Be like a boiling ice cube.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on August 09, 2023, 07:56:14 pm
Be like a boiling ice cube.
I wish I could be a boiling ice cube.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 10, 2023, 02:38:53 am
Setting fire to an Igloo.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 13, 2023, 10:33:29 pm
Step 0: Get angry
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 15, 2023, 09:28:22 am
"Your thinking too high"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 15, 2023, 09:43:55 am
"Just use the style."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on August 15, 2023, 10:12:07 am
"Your thinking too high"
"Your grammar too bad"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on August 15, 2023, 11:23:44 am
"Your thinking too high"
"Your grammar too bad"
"You're Winner!"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on August 16, 2023, 03:05:24 am
"Your thinking too high"
"Your grammar too bad"
"You're Winner!"
"Successful is you!"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on August 16, 2023, 05:18:08 am
Con garter lesions!
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on August 16, 2023, 07:39:42 am
Con garter lesions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22_DuaoHCU
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 16, 2023, 08:21:24 am
Be comfortable. Truly
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on August 16, 2023, 11:03:03 pm
A notorious lazybones, he watches tv but does not know it is not real.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 18, 2023, 03:18:08 pm
"Work in the intelligence, don't make it intelligent."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 21, 2023, 07:30:49 am
"It avails you to be smart, but it behooves you to be cunning."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on August 26, 2023, 10:44:06 am
"Vibes are just as big a problem as feels are"
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on September 11, 2023, 11:34:01 pm
“He that feedeth the worm called Doubt must tend it all his days,
But he that ignoreth the worm called Doubt doth permit it to swell until it feedeth upon his very heart.”
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 06, 2023, 06:38:33 pm
I'll up your crystal ball with a crystal mirror
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 08, 2023, 02:37:52 am
But what if I offer crystal glass ware?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Bumber on October 08, 2023, 10:32:34 pm
Crystal meth?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on October 09, 2023, 10:52:22 am
Let me demonstrate my new weightloss diet, the crystal method
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on October 09, 2023, 12:15:34 pm
Quote from: Durandal
Two hundred years ago, during the
Marathon's maiden voyage from Earth to Tau
Ceti, Tycho accused me of being too
sarcastic. I didn't communicate with him
for six years after that, which left him
with only Leela to talk to. I think he
still holds the grudge. You don't think
I'm sarcastic, do you?

Never mind.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 12, 2023, 08:41:27 am
Fight perversity with absurdity
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 13, 2023, 02:35:47 am
I don't really see how you can fight a pervert by being absurd.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on October 13, 2023, 10:56:10 am
Quote from: Durandal
Two hundred years ago, during the
Marathon's maiden voyage from Earth to Tau
Ceti, Tycho accused me of being too
sarcastic. I didn't communicate with him
for six years after that, which left him
with only Leela to talk to. I think he
still holds the grudge. You don't think
I'm sarcastic, do you?

Never mind.

 :-*
Spoiler: My nostalgias (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on October 13, 2023, 12:05:25 pm
Why would you want a lustrous troll account?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 13, 2023, 01:13:51 pm
Things are smart enough it's about the right kind of stupidity.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 14, 2023, 02:14:47 am
Novel where do you get these quotes, are they AI generated or something because most of them don't make since.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on October 14, 2023, 05:03:33 am
Novel where do you get these quotes, are they AI generated or something because most of them don't make since.

Zultan, Zultan... They are A.I generated.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on October 14, 2023, 10:03:39 am
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on October 14, 2023, 01:13:01 pm
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989

Fake or real?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on October 14, 2023, 02:35:02 pm
Composite. It's not actually from Nintendo, but (at the very least[1]) it is what this guy said (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Brigstocke).

It is framed as a ""I think there's a world market for maybe five computers. (Head of IBM, 1943)" sort of thing , but it was told as a deliberately ironic retrospective to the already experienced acid house/rave scene/etc, not an inadvertently disprescient and short-sighted statement.

[1] As in that he might not have originated it, and he (or someone else) might have said it earlier than stated there with that being just a later example. But it aint gonna be 1989.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on October 15, 2023, 02:30:03 am
Novel where do you get these quotes, are they AI generated or something because most of them don't make since.

Zultan, Zultan... They are A.I generated.
Guess with AI like him we have no need to fear the AI uprising.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on October 18, 2023, 11:10:52 am

 :-*
Spoiler: My nostalgias (click to show/hide)
Yeah, it was a big influence on me...  And I didn't play it until college, when I found the second game's Windows version as abandonware.  That gave me a really different perspective on Durandal than what most people probably had.

maybe a bit worshipful... enough to start using "Rolan7" as my new online handle...
Even having played the original, I still like what he became.  Interesting to see a god form out of such a wretched situation.  I can understand his anger, and other stages of Rampancy.  It's a very human process...

There's such beauty in that.  A powerful mind grows a soul, and we get to function as its body.
or something.
Point is, I feel like that painful adolescence is what made Durandal a person rather than a tool or a demon (daemon~).  He talks about actually caring for humanity, recognizing it as irrational but accepting it as part of Him.  Presumably regretting what he caused, but endeavoring to honor their deaths by becoming humanity's guardian.

It's hard to imagine a deity going the other direction- experiencing humiliation and weakness after having been (and continuing to be) powerful.  But I guess some deities never grow, they're simply defined to be perfect.

Heh, unrelated, but I was nearly to the end of Marathon 2 when I remembered a game a mac-using friend had talked about in Scouts.  He described these AIs arguing with each other, and very little about the Phfor.  I was astounded to realize it was the same game, and then astounded to discover Durandal hadn't always been so... benevolent.  It was an interesting Path I think.

Infinity is fucking weird though.  It's very poetic and beautiful, but it contradicts its own plot points constantly (and I don't mean the time travel).  But some of the dream levels and terminals feel like a return to the "Gheritt White (https://marathon.bungie.org/story/gheritt.html)" story.  It's like a collection of dreams where Durandal processes His trauma:

Fear:
Quote
The schoolyard was usually a place where Gheritt and his friends would play football or foursquare or something, but today, there was an edge. Maybe everyone had eaten cereal with milk that was about to go bad, or maybe there was too much smoke in the air from the wheeling hubcap factory.
Rage:
Quote
Everyone was a murderer, but Gheritt couldn't remember his reason for why that was so. He thought it was something about hands, the passion for justice.
Transcendence:
Quote
Gheritt White had been floating six feet off the floor for three weeks. His feet and hands tingled, and his eyes burned with the flames of a dying fire... but then his ears began to tingle just like his hands...

He looked at his hands, but the fire in his eyes made him blink. Tears came, and when he opened his eyes again, his hands had been melted into fleshy pancakes that wafted in the ripples flowing over the fire in his eyes...

He blinked hard to made out his hands again. They had disappeared; his arms connected at the wrists...

His hands and feet had begun to tingle, and he was floating farther off the floor...

But now he levitated farther up, his hands still tingling. He began to float through the bars, he expected the instant of safety as his hands found footing, but that moment did not come, the bars squeezed his body. His chest tingled. As he fell through his cage, his legs tingled. The fire in his eyes had become a cold wind, he blinked away tears...

He escaped into the waves.

The waves.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Magmacube_tr on October 18, 2023, 01:03:56 pm
"If it looks stupid, but it works, then it isn't stupid."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on October 21, 2023, 11:08:58 am
This huge cat has been assigned to you. You must accept this situation, and find joy in it.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on October 31, 2023, 06:50:40 am
‘if you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming, ask for Wild Bob’
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 31, 2023, 12:12:22 pm
"Coolness is similar to goodness."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Scoops Novel on October 31, 2023, 10:56:34 pm
"Free and fleet"

"Every bit bends"

"You can always be expansive..."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: King Zultan on November 02, 2023, 12:17:01 am
Feels like most of the quotes in this thread are made up nonsense.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Bumber on November 02, 2023, 01:08:06 am
"Feels like most of the quotes in this thread are made up nonsense."
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on November 02, 2023, 03:04:04 am
Feels like most of the quotes in this thread are made up nonsense.
I mean, all my quotes are from sources — they can still be made-up nonsense, of course, but someone else made them up, at least.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 02, 2023, 04:27:52 am
"This entire thing is the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [Quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. —Ed.]

https://xkcd.com/1942/
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Rolan7 on November 05, 2023, 03:33:22 am
We try things. Sometimes they work.
-Erfworld, paraphrased
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on November 13, 2023, 01:05:21 pm
Quote from: not mine, but I don't know the source
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on November 17, 2023, 08:24:34 am
Bellende Hunden beißen nicht.
(Barking dogs don’t bite).
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: scriver on November 17, 2023, 11:55:03 am
Bellend hounds buys an night
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Starver on November 17, 2023, 04:14:58 pm
La nuit, tous les chats sont gris...
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Eric Blank on November 20, 2023, 11:38:49 pm
Quote from: Nathan Yaffe, Drawfee program on Youtube, 2019
It's important to know, just like, that there's more than one way to be upsetting in art. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Just because your art isn't upsetting the way someone else's is doesn't mean it's not upsetting on its own.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Loud Whispers on November 21, 2023, 05:01:36 am
Quote from: TG station scholar on SS13
Why is the dark knight rises flight scene in the religious texts section?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: McTraveller on November 21, 2023, 05:02:44 pm
Quote from: northernlion
Where did society go wrong, that we need tech support for Christmas trees?
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Laterigrade on November 23, 2023, 09:23:32 am
If I die, fire my bones from a cannon.
Title: Re: Quotes thread
Post by: Great Order on November 23, 2023, 03:07:49 pm
Quote from: northernlion
Where did society go wrong, that we need tech support for Christmas trees?

Quote from: Northernlion
When you start milking poop for red hearts, you have to ask yourself: what separates us from the beasts?
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Post by: Laterigrade on December 03, 2023, 07:55:22 am
“Okay, the consent part of this genocide plan makes it a bit better.”
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Post by: Great Order on December 03, 2023, 10:49:04 pm
If life transcends death
Then I shall look for you there
If not, then there too

(Bonus points for the character's wife then realising that his potential last goodbye to her is a haiku because he has a one track mind for poetry)
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Post by: Laterigrade on December 04, 2023, 10:12:17 am
‘Remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.’ — Alexandre Dumas
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Post by: Great Order on December 04, 2023, 11:04:41 pm
Half of me was chilling in my mum's... ovaries I think. I dunno which one. I kind of think I'm a left ovary sorta guy, I dunno about you. I just get the vibe that I'm a left ovary egg. Left ovary right ball? Honestly I think I'm a left ovary left ball sorta guy. That's just my guess, there's no way to verify but if we could I think you'd find that I'm right.

-Northernlion
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Post by: Rolan7 on December 07, 2023, 07:11:58 am
"You are not God, the machine is!"
(Brennan on Game Changer)
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Post by: Rockeater on December 07, 2023, 08:26:33 am
PTW
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Post by: King Zultan on December 08, 2023, 02:55:13 am
Does PTW count as a quote?
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Post by: Starver on December 08, 2023, 03:46:30 am
Clearly it is a classical quote from that most ancient of sources, Ibid. (A much wiser interlocutor, it is said, than either of Op and Loc, both of the Cit dynasty...)
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Post by: Laterigrade on December 08, 2023, 04:33:49 am
‘Ahh, you were at my side all along… my true mentor… my guiding moonlight.’
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Post by: Quarque on January 27, 2024, 06:15:06 pm
Don't believe every quote you see on the internet -- Albert Einstein
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Post by: EuchreJack on January 27, 2024, 07:40:18 pm
"Anyone that quotes me is always right, and always an asshole" - Winston Churchill
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Post by: King Zultan on January 30, 2024, 02:35:04 am
"Why can't we all just get along?" - Adolf Hitler