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Its sense of self and purpose seems a bit puffed-up, but I've been a fan of Grant Morrison for 17 years or so and so feel some affinity with it, or at least with how the community started out. I was also pleased to get one of their buzzword injokes, “Einstein-Rosen Bridge”.
I haven't actually looked at their discussions yet, just the front-end.
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Looks interesting, if a little politically predictable in the switchboard section and a bit too new-age everywhere else. The posters also seem quite detached from each other, but I'd probably need to read more to be sure.
Personally I prefer the plain speaking of TMO to all that fancy-pants smartarsery they've got going on.
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This is really good for anyone who likes the kind of comics I do.
I would like to see someone like London and/or Ben register on Barbelith and see how quickly they manage to carve out a niche, earn respect and establish a voice and territory -- if they did!!!!
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What percentage of people were actually "popular" at school: cool, attractive, well-liked by boys and girls. What do you reckon. 10%*? If so, it would make sense if most people in your life in general, not just on internet boards, were less than popular. I don't really think posting on boards constitutes geekiness anymore, or suggests that someone was bullied, bookish, shy or vulnerable at school.
*Of course, if it's anything up to 50%, you'd stil expect most people to have been less than popular at school. All-round popular schoolkids are surely in the minority.
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I wasn't popular but I am making up for it now!
This thread is great if you like Grant Morrison. Having loads of people post on a thread about the characteristic traits emerging thru-out his work, all sharing some kind of expertise and showing some kind of ability, is pretty rare.
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I want to join it too. It looks lovely. This feels like being in a long-term relationship and then suddenly catching a glimpse of someone else and realising that there could be another life out there for you.
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Yeah, I feel really disloyal saying it but it looks fucking nice. It looks like a pack of alcoholic Refreshers. Clicking back here felt like going on an exciting first date then returning to a flat that you wouldn't want your new girlfriend to see just yet.
Cheer up! Great thread on 2000AD and when it went tits-up/whether it's returned to form.
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I'm liking this site too but I don't think I have anything particularly significant to contribute to it. I feel ignorant and stupid.
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That board also appears to contain three (count 'em!) references to my music journalism pseudonym. SCORE! Also, I think I just spotted that bloke Matthew who runs that Fluxblog thing that hosted the awesome LCD Soundsystem track that I linked to and forced you to all listen to a while back. Exce. I mean. Joycore. Or something. Yeah.
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I'm still being welcomed as newest member on the forum homepage. Only namecheck I'm likely to get for a while.
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I like, but the length of the individual pages feels too long by a factor of 2. That's probably just me, but I need a change of page to stop my eyes from swimming.
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It's a bit solemn. I can't imagine myself laughing out loud at much of it, and that's one of the main things I get from tmo. Still, got to admire their lofty ideals - it's kind of reassuring that such a place exists.
Also: I hate seeing tmoer's "amusing japes" on another board. It's like some shit cinema version of a classic sitcom, (I don't know: Fawlty Towers: Manuel's European Tour or Rising Damp on Mars) where the characters you love are wrenched free of their context and flop about like landed perch.
And not wishing to be pissy, but plopping down into someone's community with the "Haha - it is I, Thorn Davis, from tmo" pose does strike me as pretty bad form.
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It is heartening to know that there are many other people in the world who think Preacher was atrocious bumcancer that thought it was clever. And that some of these people are Americans.
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I wonder how long it will be until London next links to a board that she thinks is much better than TMO. I have counted approximate 3 month gaps between the last instances, so I will hazard a guess at it being July.
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Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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What, you mean she's serially unfaithful?
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Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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Was wondering vaguely why there was such a dearth of HotPostingAction this morning. Then realised that it's one of your "weekend" things. I will be glad to encounter "weekends" again, and not have to get up to cook 18 people breakfast for 8am on a Saturday morning. Also make bread, cake, biscuits and lime curd.
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