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Howdy doody MrSchnieke! Most of my favourite things in the world are German... :3

^ Not that I'd question anybody's potential medical and therapy history here, but I think you lot are being rather hard on yourselves. I know replying in-kind to the digital equivalent of prosthetic presence is completely different to actually meeting or knowing someone in real life, but the last three people to post here have never struck me as being "assholes" or hateful individuals in the slightest. Being of a slightly pessimistic bent I won't try to offer you any irritating consolation or unhelpful recommendations to cheer up, because I know how utterly despondent false feel-good vibes can make me feel. All I can offer is that for all of your self-professed failings and weaknesses, I happen to like you and everyone else on the forum.

Have you ever been so exhausted that you can see actual people and not understand them? After being stupid enough to forgo having a break in three of the six 10 hour shifts I've done this week, people start to look less like individuals and begin looking more like obstacles. You stop noticing subtle differences such as age, race, gender, etc. Everybody just blurs together into an indistinct mass of genocide.

Man am I glad this week is over! I'm officially on holiday for the next ten days. On a related note, I'm beginning to think Asda has ceased to be a legitimate business and has instead become a death cult. Yesterday (a Sunday) at half eight in the morning me and my friend/work colleague were rather up against it due to two other bumbags who were supposed to be there calling in sick - and there being an obscene amount of stock due to the engineered laziness of night staff. The tannoy sounds off to announce that we are having some sort of "huddle" at the front of the store before we open. As annoying and time consuming as they are huddles are a necessary evil in retail, as the management can use the opportunity to make sure every department has some kind of rough plan for the shift, and to generally share figures and news with the shopfloor staff who might not be aware of where the company's status. That is, that's what we would of been doing if retail in England had anything even remotely resembling dignity or sanity. The duty manager and the bakery manageress said that they had some important news about last week's stock-take inspection, but first we would be having some sort of "warm-up" in order to get us into a "positive" frame of mind. The very worst excesses of team-building people-resources guff didn't prepare me for the hideous cringe-worthy spectacle we were subjected to and expected to partake in. The managers in question told us to "loosen-up", and the duty manager then instructed his captive audience to follow his lead as he made a rolling gesture with his arms and leant backwards, snapping back up to shout the stores name in some kind of exaltation or war cry. What depressed me utterly was the nervy and insincere participation of almost everyone there - think at least forty plus grown men and women copying two peoples pseudo-Gangnam mince without trying to reject or deny it. Utterly gobsmacked by this performance and horrified by most of the other workers compliance with it, me and about seven other people from various departments stood a little off to the side, staring at the crowd and managers with a peculiar mixture of genuine horror, abject moral disgust and incredulity. Eventually, after about five minutes of this protracted ritual humiliation we learned that we had failed the stock-take inspection, by quite an enormous margin. What in the sweet living fuck was all of that about?! Did they figure that the news was so indefensible and demonstrative of our stores utter incompetence that they had to shoehorn-in some willfully forced positivity to the revelation that the company is falling apart at the seams. If they cared as much as they claimed to, wouldn't some grimly determined rhetoric have served the purpose much more aptly? Apparently this nonsense is going to happen every Sunday morning now. I've made it abundantly clear to anybody with seniority that if they want me to waste my time this badly, that they can expect me to attend but certainly not participate in it.

nX88RyZ-sxs

As much as I appreciate the material and symbolic qualities of stone, I feel obliged to pick metal - both in the literal and metaphorical sense. Paul Landowski's Christ the Redeemer (the big statue of Jesus in Brazil) OR Michaelangelo's David (that naked Italian statue guy)

They came, they saw, they closed the landing gear of the UFO, flew away and never spoke of or acknowledged the human race ever again.

I hope you're enjoying yourself! I want to see if you truly are a spitting image of Data - as I unconditionally imagine you to be :3 I just looked at a map detailing where the festival has been held since it's founding in the 80's, I'm quite surprised to see that there hasn't yet been a host city in Britain.

^ "I've got paws of steel." :3

Hurry! by Paradise

The band members consist solely of two yous. They arrive onstage via a Lockheed U-2. Next: Saint Pepsi

W_dTWGtXnu8 I'm not sure why, but this song's mixture of sugary adorableness and unfettered rage made me think of you... :3

A thread that isn't about getting angry with your fellow forum users, we've been in serious need for one of these. Thanks Meelis! :3 I have pretty awful recollection of my childhood and of life in general, I can barely remember much of sixth-form in high school, let alone anything before it! The earliest proper memory I have of an actual event that my parents and siblings also can recall was when we visited Cheddar Gorge, a kind of tourist trap place in Somerset nestled in the areas hills, most notable for it's caves that are open to the public. We went into one cave that had some of "crystal adventure" set-up and I slayed a dragon by touching a glass ball - cue clever use of lights and smoke machines. Maybe that experience says a lot about my current adult predilections. A presumably much earlier (but vaguer) memory I have in the barely accessible recesses of my mind involves being on the path to my primary school/nursery (next to some housing for elderly tenants) with my mum who was pushing my two younger twin sisters in a pram. I remember being small, because my perspective was skewed from the ground-up, so I was probably too young to be in school at this point. I think I was eating a Jubbly - one of those frozen fruit juice lollies that we always seemed to have in abundance in our household. I'm sorry if you were hoping for something more harrowing or intriguing, but on reflection I've had a rather decent childhood.

@ curt+wraithpantz: Thanks mate! I believe that fungus that you mentioned is called cordyceps. Cordyceps infected zombie bugs would definitely spice the occasional Bloatfly and Radscorpion encounter. The "Crazy Cat Lady" concept is rather terrifying... @ BidetoftheDead: I appreciate the faction angle you went with, I was secretly hoping you post some more idea on here You could call those fungi people Myconids, and I'm imagining some sort of specialist agricultural community that can grow abundant crops in extremely hostile environments. Your "Dead Walkers" idea is very inspired, both from a uniquely tribal and morally ambiguous perspective. I can imagine them being highly reviled and misunderstood by both non-feral ghouls and other human settlements, the Dead Walkers might even believe that non-feral ghouls are somehow transient semi-divine figures, avatars of their "shadow-covered gods".

A bag of gone-off Doritos.

Looks like we have the main antagonists for the next Stargate series. Wraith and Goa'uld ain't got shit on Spiderbot and his techno-jungle filled with alien monsters, nor Spiderbots fanatical (and probably mutated) human followers. Ross Scott could guest star as Spiderbot Pope, maybe. I like the idea that if a highly advanced race arrived and forcibly colonized our planet, our greatest weapon wouldn't be our humanity or resilience in the face of adversity, but it would simply be our magnificent capacity for idiocy. We might not be prepared for the consequences of alien contact but I also suspect that they aren't even remotely prepared for the collective mental illness that is the oft-cited human condition.

You don't have to. I grabbed them from that thread and placed them in my secret volcano lair for Ross to peruse when the video chat happens. I do like the idea of having a separate thread like this for future video chat sessions. I'll make one for September's video chat directly after August's video chat is over. Place your questions for September's video chat in that forum post when I make it. Thanks folks! I thought you might of been compiling them Daniel :3 Thanks for the confirmation though. Soon after I made that post I noticed the "End of June" thread and realized that the questions posted therein had been on the July videochat.

Listening to deep house.

^ That's a very prettiful picture Jeb. Did you illustrate it?

Mainstream Belief by Grant

"Awards... Godfist"

Thank you BTG I haven't seen thee around these parts for a little while. Sometimes I simply cannot rein-in my inner Theodor Adorno. ARTWANK ACTIVATE

"I actually credit this game as the reason why I don't do drugs..." I starting to garner a whole new facet of appreciation for you Ross, which I certainly had no shortage of before. Whilst I accept your claim to having little interest or obsessive fascination in the idea of aliens, I must say (as someone who regards himself as an avidly amateur exobiology enthusiast) I'm pleasantly surprised by your thoughtful reflections on the likely nature of alien life. You seem to grasp how ill prepared humanity is for contact with alien beings. I also reckon that if and when we ever come across extraterrestrials (whether as visitors to another world or as recipients of visitors from elsewhere) we would be forced to reconceive all our cherished notions about biology, taxonomic classification, and even our cherished notions about culture, morality and sapiency.

[/not a question for the videochat] If we've already posted our questions on the Videochat July 2016 thread, should we repost them here or will you only be answering the questions contained therein?

nX88RyZ-sxs I discovered the amazing teutonic techno of Ancient Methods about a month ago and now I can't sleep.