I’d have no problem telling them to get lives. What are they going to do, stab me with their toy swords?
The other day, Diogenes smashed a beatnik’s guitar and got sued. Successfully!
What would getting lives entail? What’s missing from their current lives?
Brain-fart minor wording error corrected in bold.
You don’t think that DtC would actually look at the link I provided and run the risk of finding out something that might contradict his preconceived notions, do you? They dress in costumes and fight with real (not toy) swords, therefore they are losers without real lives. So sayeth Diogenes, sole possessor of The Truth.
Silliness is doing something fun for the amusement of yourself or others. Foolishness is doing something stupid which makes other people laugh at you (as opposed to with you).
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That is way too fucking funny!
It is kind of funny, that series of posts ending the way it did. Still, she spelt it that way not out of ignorance, but as an homage; just not primarily to Blake. Still nothing wrong with it.
See, this is the point.
What makes whatever Dio does in his spare time (from his post count, it mostly comprises telling people on the internet they’re wrong) or what anyone else does any more legitimate than someone else’s hobby? My mother collects antique sewing paraphernalia and makes beautiful purses and quilts. My father plays World of Warcraft and plays with his dogs. I know girls who knit, guys who play basketball, and gamers of all ages and genders who play all types of games. I ask again: what is less legitimate about drawing a guy with bunny ears or propelling an imaginary wizard around an imaginary world or spending hundreds of hours hand-sewing a re-creation of the Maidstone jacket?
You think it’s weird? Based on what, exactly? That it’s unusual? That not everyone does it or knows much about it? I’m still waiting to hear a real argument apart from “It’s just weird!” Someone said it bespeaks an inability to handle the real world, choosing a fantasy to fill it instead. That’s certainly a big assumption to make about teachers, professors, interior designers, administrators, managers, police officers, game producers, programmers, technical writers, copy editors, nurses, NASA engineers, EMTs, and at least one wacky cosmonaut.
And I know weird folk listed in all of the above: there’s a lifestyle furry of my long friendship who administrates regional distribution for a textbook company. His personal predilections don’t reach beyond a Beanie Baby or two in his office. The current king in my area works in Mission Control. One of our finest event stewards in the SCA is also an event coordinator for conferences in Las Vegas, which rather fits. I assure you, these are all people who excel in their professional lives. While there will always be people who take anything too far and too seriously, it is counterproductive and intellectually dishonest to use their examples against their fellows.
Well, except that she’s not any kind of a tiger.
So what? Little Plastic Ninja is probably not any kind of plastic ninja, nor is neutron star any kind of neutron star. Silver Tyger Girl is, at least, actually a girl who is into tigers.
(But, granted, I imagine your point isn’t meant to be about the username, as such, but her persona more generally. But then, it wouldn’t really have anything to do with the spelling neutron star was taking her to task over, either…)
Incidentally, what is your answer to my question above about getting lives?
I think Thundercats is way funnier than plain old ignorance.
I don’t, but I have no quibble with that.
I don’t care about the spelling, but she said, “I’m not a normal tiger.” She’s not a tiger, period. I think it’s ridiculous for someone to go around saying “I’m a tiger with wings.” Sue me.
LurkMeisteranswered it.
Sorry, I missed the part where she said “I’m not a normal tiger” and thus read more pointless antagonism in your reply than was actually there. I apologize.
It’s a little difficult for me to extract from his post exactly what your answers would be, but I’ll give it a shot. My stab at your answer to “What would getting lives comprise?” would be “Stop dressing in costumes and playing with real swords, for a start”. I am at a greater loss for your answer to “What’s missing from their current lives?”, and cannot attempt to extract it from LurkMeister’s post.
I bet you’re not Greek.
Maybe “get a life” is too harsh. I just can’t take people who go around playacting in period drag seriously I guess. I don’t hate them. I don’t literally laugh at them or bother them in real life. I just privately think they’re a little off.
I don’t go around saying I am. I don’t roleplay being a Greek philosopher. It’s just a username. It was actually chosen at near random.
The only way that they could have a life (whatever the fuck that means) is to permanently and totally cease whatever activity they are engaged in which Diogenes the Cynic has deemed makes them losers.
Thus is The Way, The Truth, and The Light. All Hail Diogenes the Cynic, Sole Arbiter of All That Is Right In the Universe. Bow before His Wisdom, all you lesser creatures.
Alright, that seems reasonable.
To anyone still arguiing with Dio - this is as close to him admitting defeat as you’re gonna get. I suggest you declare victory and go home.