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If you look closely, you'll see why this very smart scholarly LARP from King Bazinga pisses me off so much. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a former English teacher. You don't need to be an English teacher, however, to know THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY ARE TWO DISTINCTLY SEPARATE STORIES.

This lying fuck did a wikipedia search of "the classics" and wants smart people points for name-dropping THE WRONG FUCKING NAME.

He hasn't read either. At best he's seen a bunch of bleached Hellenistic statue avatars on the internet and nodded along to their RETVRN prattling. biggus-dickus

Ever meet that annoying kid in grade school that said "I am very smart. I know that E Equals Em Cee Squared!" young-sheldon Fifty years later, one of those became my-hero

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

melon-musk "I love this new genre of music I've invented called 'Hustlegrindcore' which is just audiobooks played back so fast that they become a background whine. But you can still say you read the book! Like, I read Infinite Jest in 3.5 minutes last night, it was great!"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck I'm actually interested

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine it would pretty much just turn into extratone/splitter but without any underlying rhythmic structure since the sentence lengths would all be different

Wait so it would just be noise probably since extratone is pretty much all about converting rhythm to pitch by going extremely fast and not having regular rhythms undergirding it would just make noise

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a guy who goes by CHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOP and he hooks up a bucket full of metal objects and smashes it through some kind of audio equipment. You're not making it sound bad to me

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Like, I read Infinite Jest in 3.5 minutes last night, it was great!"

I swear I get allergic reactions just hearing the name of that book. The most insufferable douchebags I ever met in college used it like some sort of magic trinket to seem both smart and to try to get laid.