I'm taking a dumb but just saying that there ARE like dead moments in SW/like slow phases where nothing seemingly happens but funnily all kinds of bunch of types of idiot "oldies" (undies??) are frequentin' tarantinonin' dis every day anyways... (not saying this as a diss to frequenters)
life moves in different ways for everyone... you take the good with the bad... so yeah ive been thinkin that sometimes we are bunch of idiots but like GOOD idiots, like uh we are just human and i bet everyone lives in a different situation and is dealing with different shit and not possibly interested in making topics/posts. OR maybe is interested but is either a slow burner for actual posts/thoughts like me or then is hard to get around to make such posts.

so yeah i guess i'm saying that denquiz maroon etc all of you are cool fools but maybe it comes as a shock sometimes how little exciting happens here at times. okay ive said it. i like you folks but please dont take this as desperate plea, take your leave any time but there's lot of stuff not being said here sometimes (luckily its not negative type).

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Anyways!!! I was wondering about this, the summers is coming and we got this garbage world and everyone has different plans etc but how about showin some interest/like... what kind of topics are you guys been thinking of doing but not done/were planning to post later on/drawer ideas etc. and i'm not asking this as a general topic!

i was wondering if you guys had ideas but were unsure how others felt about participatin to it etc. i've got some ideas but i was unsure how did you feel about even blurtin' about those subjects etc. because zero to few replies might indicate that nobody is interested in the subject, ergo :^( / welp guess nobody posts in dis forum... MISUNDERSTANDINGS etc... so how about it!!

and i dont mean this as COME ON DO SOMETHING/MUSTER ENTHUASISM but i was thinking that we got this garbage 'hub' and a loose-close connections between different people here, and im nat kinda growin out of the idea of desperately upkeeping forum culture or identity in the face of imaginary audience observing our c00l \/\/3bs173 (gotta... gotta.)...   but i figured that maybe people don't want to promise anything they might not be able to keep at this age so maybe clearing up some treshold/confusion of 'am i gonna get interest in this subject' might be a good idea!

sorry for long-winded wack-ass crystal prison explanation. also sorry for strange inside-talk, i'm mostly trying to destroy my own post while on my way to my point (if it seems inclusive). dietcoke climbtree etc NON-DUMBTOPIC posts are welcome, they're a fireplace of goodwill...

never been good at sharing my life/feelings via cool art or journal type writings...

instead i just like to point at things that i've thought about a lot and say "hey what about that" & hope conversation picks up & doesn't go off somewhere where i don't know what to say any more...

your threads are excellent, by the way
 
I just never have much to say, although there are a few half-threads somewhere on here. I will think about those things a bit more & see if anything comes from it.
 
how much time do people have for new old games these days? I have a lot or a little, and I've been thinking of doing an Adventure/IF Game of the <set period> Club sort of thing

miscellanous games & bits of nerd ephemera from the past... the 1980s choose-your-own-adventureish life sim alter ego, maybe i could do a project thread on it, work out how to extract all the "vignette" scripts, compare the male & female editions, maybe try porting it to ren'py or twine or something (i know there is already an online version out there)... 

 
I am a ridiculously huge fan of alter ego and will post all up in an alter ego thread if you ever make one.

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i am really interested in mental models, nonfictional narratives, the Big Ideas that people use to make sense of the world... and especially, the history of these ideas, almost treating them like they are living things: where were they "born", what were their earliest successes and failures, how did they rise to be the top of the pack, what weird & unique behaviours/situations/artifacts came about through their quirks, what eventually killed them off.... this is i think the recurring theme in adam curtis TV stuff that i find really compelling...

 

This thread is now about Adam Curtis.
I think the dude's got a lot of his stuff pretty sound. However I think he does sink too far into, well, being dismissive of the concept of idealologies, leading some of his documentaries to be distant and machine-like, which is something he regularly targets as a main issue of modern life. It extends a bit far from journalistic neutrality and becomes a hypocritical judgement. Like when talking about the stupid idea of treatming of game theory, his approach towards it could be described as the same kind of cold logic he bemoans. There's kinda a half-liberal half-conservative kinda centrist viewpoint going on in there, but there's no real consistency.
 
I like what he does and find it refreshing that the BBC actually comission shows like The Power Of Nightmares (which I would recommend everybody watch as it's a good crash course in the myth of the 'terrorist' situation), but he kinda falls victim to his own trap. Saying that people who don't believe in anything fear anyone who believes in something, yet Curtis has openly admited, he has no firm beliefs. Some people take his word as gospel truth, but I think you've got to have some understanding of a subject before watching his shows on it so you can appreciate the fine points you may have not realised, within a bigger picture that you're already aware of.
 
Also on an asthetic level, the frequent use of Brian Eno's ambient works as well as Chaplin's score for The Great Dictator really work wonders and match the visuals/themes to a suprising accuracy. Also the minimalist post-Barbara Krueger BLOCK TEXT and straight-foward no bullshit visual style is really pleasing in a time where documentaries generally go way over the top with flashy graphics to hide the fact that they've got nothing much to say. He doesn't shut up or pause for dramatic effect, or allow some CGI dildo to fly around the screen for a minute after every point he makes, and thankfully he doesn't treat the shows like a 'personal journey' (Looking at you Horizon) it's just constant information, which is how I prefer my docs.

alotta people on here would have to feign an interest in conversation on somethin other than the new farcry or fuckin goblins 3 or some dumb tv show in order to do that. Which is why this place is and has been pretty stale, people refuse to talk about anything out of certain fetishisms.

 
this isn't true at all sorry

it's not that we don't want to talk about other things, it's that it's hard to get people to TALK.  people don't wanna put themselves out there and start topics about what interests them (which was discussed in this very topic) but videogames and w/e are incredibly safe topics that people feel comfortable making.  it has nothing to do with what we're interested in discussing but thanks for being incredibly condescending

we need to get more people active in the artistry/music/game design etc forums the creative ones and that sort of thing because that will buzz interest in people both to post their creative projectes (hint: we have a very talented community, it just seems like nobody gives a shit about each other) and can lead to other discussion things

you don't have to garden when it's hot out, you can do it on a nice day or wear a big straw hat and drink ice tea

I don't really find anything rewarding in planting gaudy annuals, but beyond that I think gardening/planting is a good recreational activity, and believe it or not there's been a lot of research essentially proving this is true

in terms of creating threads: I dunno, it's kind of hard to work up the motivation to put real effort into a topic when you have a feeling it's only going to get a couple joke posts or some worthless one-line criticism, and a couple lukewarm/compensatory attempts at showing interest. obviously that's not how every thread is, but there's precedent of this and I feel like it's been moving more in that direction for a while. if you're gonna say "we need more threads" I think you should consider whether you've been contributing anything to the threads people have been creating. that's not um, a dis towards anyone or anything.

besides that, what's happening here isn't too dissimilar to what a lot of smaller cities face. an obvious part of the problem is the fact that we just don't have enough people to support a great variety of threads. with our limited user base, it's not super easy to come up with something that anyone else will be interested in and isn't the same garbage we already know. but how can we attract people with only a handful of threads?? the death and life of great internet forums, invisible messageboards...clearly, what this place needs is any sort of attraction, and I think that can come in many other forms than more threads. but it can't hurt I guess!
 
 
 
 
btw, I was thinking of starting a series of threads about specific bands. just like well-established bands that at least a few of us would probably be into, or obscure bands that one of us obsesses over, and talk about how good or bad they are and rank their discogs and post videos or covers or whatever. real basic stuff. but music, while very accessible, is also a kind of tired subject that a load of other sites focus on more comprehensively than we ever could. I guess one way we could do it is to try and make it distinctly saltw (Keep Saltw Weird), but I'm not sure I'm competent enough about music to do that.

I want to do proper song/musical analysis to 1) help improve my own skills and 2) try and deconstruct/maybe improve songs i like/dislike.