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Intermittens written submissions / Dagney Shrugged
« on: May 13, 2013, 07:39:30 AM »
“I’m after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men’s minds, we will not have a decent world to live in.”

“What man?”

“Robin Hood. He was the man who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Well, I’m the man who robs from the poor and gives to the rich – or, to be exact, the man who robs the thieving poor and gives back to the productive rich.”

Dangney looked over Ragnar’s frenzied features and raised an eyebrow.

“What are you,” she said in an unimpressed, crisp clear tone, “some kind of asshole?”

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Intermittens written submissions / A few Dingo Works
« on: May 13, 2013, 01:17:10 AM »
All credited 'Placid Dingo'


I Heart Intangibles

You used to get your sausages from the person who killed the pig. They lived down the road, and you knew them, and you knew their kids were in school and you’d have conversations with them when you were buying your sausages. You had an emotional connection.

Industrialisation meant that you could then get your sausages and everything else from a supermarket, maybe from a company miles away full of people you didn’t know. You didn’t have an emotional connection with any of them. Go to the person you know, or get your sausages from a paper bag. It’s hard to make friends with a paper bag.

So, they gave it a face.

Now you didn’t know the person whose face was on the bag, so they made sure you met them before you even saw the product, through advertising. Suddenly it wasn’t your local butcher or your local paper bag, it was the butcher or farmer Joe.

People can form emotional connections to intangible concepts. Sports teams, religions (some religions in some sense), political groups… all form a sense of unity and community through a focus on a third thing. People are being brought together through a shared relationship with a TV show or a religious figure or a sports team.

This isn’t a problem as long as you don’t let the map become the terrortory. While we treasure and adore the ideas we form emotional connections with, we need to remember they’re ideas. They’re concepts. They can’t love us back.

The people that become part of our community can. Our fellow Broncos supporters, our Game of Thrones fans, our Communist Comrades build a culture, language and a set of rituals that we can engage in together to bring us all together. We’re like a group sitting around a campfire, singing songs to the flames. When it comes time for a hug, you need to remember- it’s the person beside you who’ll appreciate it, not the fire.

So for us as Discordians, we’ve formed a relationship through a deity generally considered explicitly a symbolic or metaphorical entity. I think we might need to remind ourselves that we are a collection of wonderful, curious people who are brought together by Eris…

But she can’t love us back.

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Intermittens written submissions / Re: ddate
« on: May 13, 2013, 01:00:40 AM »
I like the idea of the code being included.

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Intermittens written submissions / Re: Editors thread for IM11
« on: May 13, 2013, 12:58:35 AM »
Editor will make most of the creative decisions for the edition, what goes in what stays out.

They are responsible for putting it all together, basically.

They can do the formatting themselves, outsource, etc, whatever works.

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All Else / Re: Stuff you have trouble posting yourself
« on: May 10, 2013, 02:41:14 AM »
So feel free to still use the email, but that error is killed DEAD.

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 10, 2013, 02:39:52 AM »
BBCODE ARROR FUCKING DESTROYED

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 10, 2013, 02:39:09 AM »
An infinite number of fractal cultists walk into a bar. The first says “I’ll have a beer.” The second says, “I’ll have half a beer.” The third says, “I’ll have a quarter of a beer.” The fourth says “I’ll have an eighth of a beer.” The bartender says “sTOP”, pours two beers, drinks them both, and takes a screenshot.

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All Else / Stuff you have trouble posting yourself
« on: May 09, 2013, 04:07:17 PM »
Certain punctuation marks are causing issues.  If you have big issues, right now the only fix is to email it to intermittens@gmail.com and it will post via EmailSpag.

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 09, 2013, 03:01:36 PM »

life sure is simple - just don

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 09, 2013, 03:00:48 PM »
[code]life sure is simple - just don

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 09, 2013, 03:00:03 PM »
life sure is simple - just don

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:52:46 PM »
life sure is simple - just don

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Intermittens image submissions / Intermittens 11 cover art
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:19:56 PM »
Cover art provided by TripleZero

Image derived from http://www.flickr.com/photos/thart2009/5291352603/ - requires attribution to Thart2009

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:11:38 PM »
So funny angular single quotes fuck it up. Odd.

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All Else / Re: bbcode error
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:11:11 PM »
I see

life sure is simple - just don't mix that up with easy

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