marvel's biggest bone-liner

[PhantomCatClock]

we played d&d too so maybe chick was right

[VCRClock]

sit in each of these chairs until one feels warm

the one that's warm is--no, that's my seat

[PhantomCatClock]

you chose the girl chair you fucking idiot welcome to magic

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

I skimmed like the first hundred pages then gave up, is that thing about the goat true or are u havin a giraffe

no the goat part is true. though the official explanation from the school is that they were  being taught how animals live and die and where food comes from. and the robes were to prevent blood splatter on the adults.

the police found the kids roaming a park covered in bug bites and incredibly filthy with a couple properly dressed adults.that was when the kids told them about the goat shit and how they only get to eat if they're "good". and what they eat is raw potatoes and fruits.  the police station got calls telling them they were gonna kill the kids. not the cops, the kids. the adults were uncooperative. it's all part of a police report in the document. there's multiple points in the document where the CIA is inexplicably trying to spread meaningless or false information to keep anyone off the case. 

I'd respond to the rest of your post but holy crap that is a lot of individual points to address and I'm tired. then again I did more for nier so maybe I'm just a lazy sack of hypocrisy. it's a really good video game though.

we played d&d too so maybe chick was right

my uncle got in trouble in high school back in the 80s because he was playing dnd and the teacher said it was satanic and took his shit away.

turns out that counted as religious discrimination because the teacher said "satanic" instead of just "class disrupting" and he had to give it back.

What makes cults so damn fascinating anyways? In fiction there's often a very real supernatural element to them. In reality it's like a weird fantasy football league or something. You can sacrifice all the goats you want and draw pentagrams over all your tunnels, you're not going to summon Beelzebub. It boils down to grown men and women playing make-believe and doing bogus rituals in basements (religion). I wonder what the percentages are with regards to cult leaders and them believing their own bullshit. Mostly it just feels like a tool meant to subjugate and bind underlings to them through shared secrets. Or an attempt at mythologizing and otherwise elevating banal urges (let's have an orgy y'all), or truly ugly desires and crimes (child abuse). A broken person with a very particular blend of narcissism, abandonment issues and charisma leading other broken people and them doing whatever. You know?

I wanted to mention the X-Files episode Die Hand Die Verletzt, but I couldn't work it in there.

people like to feel like they belong, that they're in a group that loves them, that they're part of something bigger, or that they're even accomplishing anything at all. you'd be surprised how easy it is to manipulate a lonely disaffected person lacking confidence with some nice words and bland generalized acceptance. you gradually add conditions to that love and acceptance and eventually you've got someone who will do whatever you want.

[Slurpee]

no the goat part is true. though the official explanation from the school is that they were  being taught how animals live and die and where food comes from. and the robes were to prevent blood splatter on the adults.

the police found the kids roaming a park covered in bug bites and incredibly filthy with a couple properly dressed adults.that was when the kids told them about the goat shit and how they only get to eat if they're "good". and what they eat is raw potatoes and fruits.  the police station got calls telling them they were gonna kill the kids. not the cops, the kids. the adults were uncooperative. it's all part of a police report in the document. there's multiple points in the document where the CIA is inexplicably trying to spread meaningless or false information to keep anyone off the case. 

do we know what became of these kids? :[

also

I'd respond to the rest of your post but holy crap that is a lot of individual points to address and I'm tired. then again I did more for nier so maybe I'm just a lazy sack of hypocrisy. it's a really good video game though.

no sweat boba fett
I was just doing whatever the posting equivalent of thinking out loud is (because I didn't want to study)

[RenegadeClock]

i joined a coven just to pork a lady with a wolf tattoo but i left because the leader was a dickhead and they were pretty cringy

Invite her to your all-new coven. Now with less cringe and free pizza!

[PhantomCatClock]

the star symbol is pretty cool i'll give them that



speaking of symbols, aren't the oldest things we have like super phallic? humans have been making art of our donguses that have been surviving for millennia and I'm just super glad that, during my lifetime, we have a new symbol for the phallus: the eggplant emoji. I really feel like historians, art or otherwise, are going to make note of this in a hundred+ years if it doesn't die out as a fad

[GreyClock]

people like to feel like they belong, that they're in a group that loves them, that they're part of something bigger, or that they're even accomplishing anything at all. you'd be surprised how easy it is to manipulate a lonely disaffected person lacking confidence with some nice words and bland generalized acceptance. you gradually add conditions to that love and acceptance and eventually you've got someone who will do whatever you want.

Yeah, I get that. My main point is that I don't get my own (and other people's) fascination with cults. I only skimmed a few pages, but somehow it's cool. Maybe that's the fiction element, like deep down you're expecting the reveal of some terrifying ancient secret. An infinitely-limbed salamander god from beyond space will come and drown us all in a sea of its own beautiful opalescent piss if properly appeased. Whatever. There's no salamander god, it's just a bunch of degenerates, lowlifes, fuckups, maniacs, users, usees... people. People who happen to mix bogus shit into their criminal shit cocktail. People who do some heinous fucking things. Or people who get together and play d&d and have phantomcat over and draw runes in glitter ink on their ballsacks. I don't know... I got a little lost there, but what I mean is that it kinda seems cool (as a subject) but when you unpack it, it's dumb as hell. Kind of like life in general.

[k9]

is the clock crew technically a cult?

[VCRClock]

is the clock crew technically a cult?

I could tell you, but it'd cost you $30.

[RobClock]

is the clock crew technically a cult?

[RobClock]

Netflix’s new Henry V adaptation ‘The King’ is actually really good holy shit

[Slurpee]

is the clock crew technically a cult?

*squints at the word "technically"*






nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno?

[k9]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIInUc2Cn80&feature=youtu.be

[k9]

Sad one today boys, NG is down for maitenance. Guess I'll go outside.

[PhantomCatClock]

it was down for like twenty minutes

[zl]

it was down for like twenty minutes

It's too late, PCC. He's already outside.

[PhantomCatClock]

ZLC sounds like a video player, but a sexy French one

[Slurpee]

things I a 30 year old man do not understand about the stock market:
1) if everybody knows to buy low and sell high, who are you buying from and selling to? just some absolute moron who does the opposite for no reason?
2) if the stocks are low why would you sell them? like why would that even be bad? just don't sell them when they're low...
3) how is it money? I'm pretty sure it's not. like how are you losing anything when stocks go down in value? you lost the money when you exchanged it for stocks. I lost money when I exchanged it for a copy of clayfihter sculptor's cut, and clayfight scultpror's cut went up in value. if it suddenly goes down in value, I haven't lost anything, I still have a game cartridge I never play. what's the difference between that and this except that stocks are made up and you couldn't put them into a nintendo 64 even if you wanted to
4) did I hear right that stocks become more valuable the more people want them? how does that even make sense? you SELL HIGH, why wouldn't they stop being wanted as much when their price goes up? and then you'd want the other stocks that are low because no one wants them. basically how is every single stock not the same price?
5) everything. everything man idk wtf is the stock market? how is it a thing? it seems so stupid and pointless and confusing and those dudes yelling at each other in the place and that
why is there a market? what lunatic decided people should be able to play pretend buying something that's not real, and it somehow became the most lucrative enterprise in human history like what the fuck is even happening why do we all act like this is normal? is it one of those things that was actually completely insane at first but eventually everybody who remembered the time before it existed died off, like cars, or did everybody just immediately start pretending it was normal for no reason, like the department of homeland security?

[PhantomCatClock]

you can easily say "Slurpee's thirty" three or so times fast, but the fifth is when it falls apart