proximoception (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
proximoception) wrote2012-12-01 07:33 am
proximoception) wrote2012-12-01 07:33 am
(no subject)
What are some things you like but tend not to admit liking out of fear you'll be castigated?
Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?
Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.
I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.
Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.
Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?
Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.
I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.
Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-03 04:17 am (UTC)(link)Other rappers are weak like window unit ACs
Once I had "Pump up the Jam" in my head for a week.
Ok, here's the most embarrassing of my video game habits. My lack of compulsion control makes my prey to a certain sort of MMO. (That's massively multiplayer online game for you.) Not Warcraft, I would never Warcraft (half my family plays warcraft), mostly because I don't believe in paying for anything on the internet. What i get sucked into are really terrible foreign MMOs that are free and are boring and poorly translated. Any excuse to gain meaningless levels for doing repetitive tasks. And yet, I have no desire to do repetitive things if it sn't multiplayer. there has to be at least the pretense of the social in it, even though I spend precisely zero time interacting with any other humans on it.
I've been so busy lately that when I got a free weekend I just locked myself in my room and played a game which amounted to pressing three buttons in sequence to pretend-kill thousands of easily-killed monsters. For like two days. and got to level 35.
I got to ride around on a fluffy alpaca.
It was just as stressful as my weekdays.
no subject
And it is addiction. We usually stick to karaoke or kids games, but we bought Fallout 3 last year because Julie remembered the 90s ones fondly. She soon lost interest but the targeting system did something to my brain stem and all I could dream or think about was having to shoot "super mutants" in the head for months. Still sometimes daydream about it despite hating it. Some kind of perfect mixture of threat adrenaline and reward pathway stimulation was hit upon. It was not good when brain science met the profit motive.