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[GreyClock]

I wasn't born in the corner of a room you doofus. It's in reference to the ongoing talk about the remote corners of countries. The castle reference was about me feeling sheltered in a town surrounded by hills, at the end of a long road that goes through a dark tunnel of trees. As in, I can imagine having a similar feeling when you live in a castle and find yourself surrounded by thick walls and a moat or whatever. You feel me homeboy. Also, you might want to try and divulge those cool stories instead of merely stating that there are in fact cool stories.

Now excuse me while I go and cry myself to sleep over my own cool story.

[PhantomCatClock]

ok, so i've been searching for some N8's to buy for myself, and then i saw some K1 yoyos by magicyoyo, that were sold on ebay for just 2-3 bucks.
question: are they good/worth getting, or at they best used by a higher skilled yoyo player?
(whats the skill level requirement on N8's/K1's respectively?)

k1 is unresponsive, you might as well get an N8 since it'll be more stable and spin longer. Look up how to do a bind* and then you're basically ready for an unresponsive, but traditionally you learn the super duper basic basics on a responsive (ie comes back up when you pull on it/give the string any slack) yoyo, then get an unresponsive one when you need to do more advanced string tricks without accidentally giving it slack and hitting yourself in the face. Not that responsive yoyos are shitty or anythingâ€"you need REALLY responsive yoyos to do 2a, but... that's about it. I guess if you really like doing the Stop And Go and you're bad at snapstarting (which you should ALSO learn for unresponsive yoyosâ€"there are ways to quickly wind responsive yoyos too, that make it a lot faster/easier to learn).

BUT YEAH get an N8 once you're intermediate-ish. You don't have to wait super longâ€"if you can do a boingy-boing or even ...whatever the fuck you call it, the braintwister but side-style, you're ready for an N8.

*watching this again, jesus, don't bind it THAT close to your throw hand. Get the yoyo mounted as close to your other hand as you can and still pull off the bind

also i googled those magic flea yoyos, and they are not just tiny, they are expensive, wow
i guess they are small in size, and huge in their price...

this fucking thing

the Mighty Flea goes through strings like the Hulk goes through T-shirts. I have never broken a string in my life because I'm always paying attention to how frayed it gets, I just wasn't expecting it to be that frayed after only twenty throws. As how as how the Flea feels: terrible, but it kind of has to for what it is. It's too small to have any real weight distribution at all, much less a good one. It's just a rock at the end of the string. Starts spinning out of control the SECOND the gyro spin dies, and it does NOT spin for a long time at all, but I did notice that improves as I (quickly) broke in the (tiny) bearing. ALL THAT BEING SAID I was expecting this to be a frustrating piece of shit way above my skill level, but holy shit it's so tiny and so fun and I LOVE IT.



AND NOW BACK TO GREYCLOCK
I read your post on my phone at work and had something really relevant to add that would have made the conversation go on but now that I'm home I can't remember what it was, oh well.

Though shit-smearing is a time honored tradition amongst people who aren't all there. Getting kicked out of the Navy took like a month and they shoved me into this little room called SEPS ("Separations", but SEPS was all capitals because acronyms) which was like being in a live action episode of M*A*S*H for a month and getting paid for it. So many great stories from there, and we'd often joked about re-enlisting for four more years of SEPS until one day we walked in the bathroom and someone had smeared shit all over the walls. Oh, yeah, that's right. Some people are in here because they actually have things wrong with them. Haha, let's go the fuck home, guys, hurry my case the fuck up.





Yeah, stories like Skeletor and your two (-and-a-half) are pretty fucked up, but I can't help that they're the most fascinating shit and I really want to write a bunch of them down. I don't know where I heard it and it's not like I can check any sources, but I did hear that Skeletor was like actually kookoo but somehow got to live by herself even though her idea of taking care of herself was eating an apple and then running for six hours. I think I was young when I heard that part (though she didn't die until I was well into high school). I'm babbling.

[PhantomCatClock]

BRUGH I JUST DID THE HIDEMASA HOOK ON A FUCKING FLEA i should make a yoyo thread but fuck it, it's fun to type homogang.com

[PhantomCatClock]

this is impressive because the string is like three feet long and that's fucking not actually enough

(so much so that I actually didn't get to bind/rewind it in that throw, it fizzled out as soon as I whipped it)

[Slurpee]

B

[PhantomCatClock]

slurbee

[RobClock]

ISPs are the scum of the earth

[GreyClock]

Yeah, stories like Skeletor and your two (-and-a-half) are pretty fucked up, but I can't help that they're the most fascinating shit and I really want to write a bunch of them down. I don't know where I heard it and it's not like I can check any sources, but I did hear that Skeletor was like actually kookoo but somehow got to live by herself even though her idea of taking care of herself was eating an apple and then running for six hours. I think I was young when I heard that part (though she didn't die until I was well into high school). I'm babbling.

Yeah, let her rip.

[BilliardBall10]

I wasn't born in the corner of a room you doofus. It's in reference to the ongoing talk about the remote corners of countries.

ah yes. i understand.
yes, frontier-towns have a certain charm, i really like visiting them+exploring new, ''undicovered'' areas.
(or underappreciated (small) areas in general)

As for the castle reference, it was about me feeling sheltered in a town surrounded by hills, at the end of a long road that goes through a dark tunnel of trees. As in, I can imagine having a similar feeling when you live in a castle and find yourself surrounded by thick walls and a moat or whatever. You feel me homeboy.

yeah, i know what you mean.
natural enviroments can form a nice ''castle'' of sorts, its beautiful.
in my land we have many hills+mountains, along with large forests and many (wheat) fields, so i can totally understand this feeling...

also:
in regards to awesome birth-locations, do fortified-towns count?
i was born in a bastion, with had many castles+fortified walls around it. (since the byzantine years).
ofcourse, i wasnt born inside a castle; i was born in a hospital, one that exists within the area of the fortified town.

as for my house, it was a simple house, (not a castle by any means), but after many jobs, travels and adventures,
i now live in a (small) cozy stone house, which is the next best thing. (my new place is located on a different town tho; this is a small town/a ''large'' village, and it is a more rural place, full of large forests and nearby beaches.)

Also, you might want to try and divulge those cool stories instead of merely stating that there are in fact cool stories.

i would, but they are mostly ghost stories about haunted houses+old deaths, so it wouldnt be very pleasant.
i need to ask some of the older people tho, they know many of those stories.

I was once at the inception of something that could very well have become a myth. After school one day we walked past this small forest and some other kids came out and told us they had found something weird. So we went in and found these clumps of what looked like white fur all over the place. So our imaginations kicked into overdrive and pretty soon we had convinced ourselves that a sheep had been killed there. That subject dominated our conversations for weeks. In retrospect somebody probably brushed their dog there. OR AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT THE SERIAL SHEEP KILLER WOULD HAVE ME BELIEVE.

damn, thats an awesome story, grey!
a sheep-killing machine is on the loose! protect your sheeplings! LOL

do you have more stories like this? ^^^^^^^

I grew up in a town of about 3000 people, but there were some fucked up things going on. I remember a few more from back when I was in elementary school: this family of French immigrants lived not too far from me, a mother, a daughter and a son.[...]At one point they were evicted from their house for just shitting all over the place, which was discovered after neighbors complained about the stench. Come to think of it, we used to throw rocks at the guy, so now I've made myself feel bad. Some of these stories are very cruel

damn, this made me feel sad.
disabled people+cases of evil acts within a family (as in your attic rape story), such things always make me feel awful, so i am depressed now.

as for the skeletor lady, it saddens me to see ppl fall into the torment of anorexia.
(same thing applies for bulimia/compulsive eatings/extreme dietary habits, and any other mental condition that includes not-eating or excessive eating.)

however, it is surprising that ''skeletor lady'' lived long enough(for years) with such a harsh (daily) regiment of 1 apple+6 hours of constant running...

@phantomcat: you should write some of the best folk-stories/tales of your town, they sound interesting.

also @phantomcat: thanks for the yoyo info, i will try the N8 as soon as i will raise my yoyo-skill level...

[Slurpee]

I would probably resent molly and arthur weasley irl it's fucked up to have that many kids

[PhantomCatClock]

bruh wizards are going extinct don't you read pottermore

[PhantomCatClock]

famb.

[PhantomCatClock]

plus the spell to simulate the ol' snip involves shoving a wand down your urethra by about your dick length plus two inches so that's probably another major factor

[pop-tart]

https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/

Jokes on them. Been dead for years.

[Slurpee]

bruh wizards are going extinct don't you read pottermore

good. dreadful creatures

[Slurpee]

https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/

Jokes on them. Been dead for years.

poor tom

[BilliardBall10]

bruh wizards are going extinct don't you read pottermore

good. dreadful creatures

plot twist: slurpee is a warlock.

[PhantomCatClock]

Was this longer, but trimmed because the new software has shorter post limits? I feel like I already asked this but I saw it again in my bookmarks and forgot if I did

[PhantomCatClock]

My name is Billiard Ball 10 Clock and I am a victim of net neutrality. Please consider my plight when doing your dumb unimportant vote, senators.

[RobClock]

Tom has done a couple of interviews about flash's "end of life" and the news post on NG right now is addressing it

Worth reading if you give a heck