#joehoofer

[sorreleater]

bernie says he tried smoking pot once in college, and that it made him cough a lot and feel dizzy. so he doesn't smoke weed, but he strongly opposes the war on drugs and is pro-legalization.

ok thanks i guess my hotboxing dream will never happen but thank u for the info lol

[tyrantisterror]

well, nigeria is kinda neither central nor west africa. it could be either, depending on who you ask.

I see.

[tyrantisterror]

jsyk, the igbo live in the lower right corner of nigeria

So Now You Kno done fucked up something more than the spelling of the word “know”.

[tyrantisterror]

the funniest thing about sonic.exe imo is the author's strange obsession with describing exactly how long events last in minutes and seconds. and btw who would press right on a d-pad for 5 minutes straight without the background changing?

A person who loves Sonic way too much, that’s who.

[tyrantisterror]

imo if you're renaming slasher to social, you should rename atomic, too.

Nah, I’m pretty satisfied with Atomic Horror’s name.  It has no problems that Gothic and Cosmic horror don’t also have, and as a genre it was born in the Atomic age, and mainly out of fear of Atomic power.  That name is pretty solid.

[tyrantisterror]

i binged the entirety of twisted kaiju theater several years ago. i was confused and intrigued by it. i was not and still aren't part of the godzilla fandom (for lack of a better word), so it was sort of like reading a really crude modern-day voynich manuscript. there were so many terms and things to decipher, the tone was confusing and jumbled, and i didn't understand the humor... it was madness.

I was in the Godzilla fandom when TKT was… I dunno, “big” probably isn’t the right word, but it was… uh… at the height of its fame, I guess?

I was also in, like, middle school, so there’s that.

I enjoyed it at the time, because it was basically watered down South Park but told with Godzilla toys instead of paper cut outs.  Despite having Godzilla figures play the characters, the plot of most comics had very little if anything to do with Godzilla - it was mostly poop jokes and half baked “satire” of current events.

Eventually the creator decided his poop joke comic needed to get serious, as many webcomic creators do, and that’s when TKT really got bizarre.  I believe that a lot of the limits we put on story telling are bullshit, but no one’s ever going to feel pathos for a photoshopped image of a chibi plastic Godzilla cry.  Nobody.  And yet there were entire arcs trying to do just that.

And once it hit that “serious” phase, it basically completely jettisoned the pretense that this was ever a comic about Godzilla, instead being about… I dunno, King Kong trying to help Dick Cheney invade Iraq for oil or something?  It was weird.  It was really weird.

There’s also a comic that uses the n-word a lot, which the white creator justified by saying his black friend wrote it.  So there’s that for you.

[tyrantisterror]

You really should get a book or two published. How to Analyse Horror. On Retrosaurs. Analysis type stuff.

Thank you!  I’ve considered making a website for my analytical writing.  It’s something I’m definitely going to do if/when I get a job that allows me to pay for such a luxury. I’d have to start citing sources and stuff if I did so, but it would be nice to provide a more official resource for other people who want to write/analyze horror in depth.

And maybe if it took off I’d eventually try to self publish it as book.  Analytical writing is a hard sell when you don’t already have an audience built up.

[tyrantisterror]

idk what xanga is but it sounds old. like, kazaa-old.

It was post-livejournal but pre-myspace.