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Quote from: Sowelu on December 17, 2010, 06:53:03 pm

I get the feeling that Pokemon training is kind of like professional wrestling, and that you and Gary are the only people in the world who don't get the joke.

So we're the hardcore In It To Win It jackasses at a worldwide LARP convention.  Just trashing everyone else's party, so we can hold up the trophy for a game no one is supposed to actually be trying to win.

That actually sounds remarkably intentional.

Quote from: ToonyMan on December 17, 2010, 12:35:14 pm

1984 is a horrible book.  Why is this turning into a romance novel.  I already know there isn't going to be some badass war against Big Brother now since I'm like half way done with the freakin thing.  That really sucks.

:|

The hell's wrong with you? It's a great book. The Black Dossier version is better, though. :3

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Tijuana-bible-esque "Pornsec" pamphlet in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, produced by the INGSOC regime, and included in the titular "Black Dossier" because O'Brien found it funny (because now the LoEG includes some form of every piece of fiction ever written in its cannon, including 1984 and Shakespeare ):

(Takes place on an assembly line; Caption: "COMPULSORY ENJOY! YOU READ NOW! WORKBELT CRIMEPOKE!")
Winston-analogue: "Damn them Jane, I must non-proc you now!"
Jane: "Waste-crime! Make do and mend!"
W: "Aah! Ahh! Yes! In this moment of timeless animal lust we cast off our shackles!"
J: "Info-req: is it in?"
W: "Oh! Our sacred, shameless act of desire defeats them! Their oppression is meaningless before out lust! Oooough. Jesus..."
W: "Unngh! Unngh! Unngh! See how we... HURRRGH... See how we celebrate life! This sweet defiance shows that they can't take away our dignity!"
W: "We are free, Jane! Free! Oourrngh! Oh god, yes, take it, you dirty, blank-faced robotic bitch..."
J: "We are the dead."
J: "Thinkpol! He non-procked me in worktime! Long live Big Brother!"
O'Brien: "Doubleplusgood work, informant Jane."
O: "Take him to miniluv for re-ed."
(Takes place in room 101; Caption: "YOU NOT DO THIS!")
W: "AAYEEEEEGH! MY EYES!"
O: "Imagine a patent leather boot grinding on a human tongue forever."
J: "Mmn."

It makes more sense if you remember that Alan Moore wrote it.