ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 8, 2004 20:44:25 GMT -5
Freezepop - Super Sprode
<3 synthpop
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on May 1, 2004 15:31:40 GMT -5
I can understand that. My phone likes to die whenever it rains or snows or precipitates in any way. It makes this terrible buzzing noise and kicks me off the internet every chance it gets. It really is enough to make me want to rip my hair out. I would, that is, if it weren't so long and pretty.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on May 1, 2004 15:01:16 GMT -5
Thank you as well, Rose. So sorry to hear about your internet and I do hope it works better for you in the future.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on May 1, 2004 14:30:18 GMT -5
Thank you both for the warm welcome. It is quite a pleasure to meet you both and I'll be posting an original fic any time today when I get around to it.
I've been known to be a little lazy.
Sorry about the thing that happened with Li. I've been reviewing the boards and things and I think I know about what happened. So sorry to hear about that.
But, you know what they say about the end. It's only a new beginning.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Apr 30, 2004 23:45:23 GMT -5
Hi. My friend brought me here a while ago, but I just decided to get a login name and such now. I hope that I'm welcome. I'll probably be posting a lot in the fiction forums, if that's okay. I'd just like some input on some of my work. Thanks to all who welcome me!
A question about the fiction forums: would it be preferable to link to the work or just post it in the forum?
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 24, 2004 21:17:51 GMT -5
Easy but Elegant Veal Marsala (Every time I've made this, it's turned out delicious!)
Ingredients: 1 to 1 1/2 pounds veal scaloppine or scallops All purpose flour 2 Tablespoons butter 2 Tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper Dash ground ginger 1/2 cup Marsala wine 3 Tablespoones fresh chopped parsley
Preperation: Heat butter and oil in a skillet over medium heat. Dredge veal in flour and brown quickly in butter and oil. Season with salt and pepper and a dash of ground ginger. Pour Marsala wine over veal and continue cooking until the wine is reduced to half. Turn the scallops once during this reduction. When the wine is reduced and meat is tender, remove scallops to a hot platter and keep hot. Add 1/4 cup chicken broth to the pan. Bring juices to a boil and add parsley. Pour juices over meat. Serve with rice.
Serves 4
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 8, 2004 20:28:11 GMT -5
Pulls out a .50 calibur Desert Eagle semi-automatic and pumps all eight rounds into the computer
Yeah.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 8, 2004 20:24:01 GMT -5
Walks into the room, rips the monitor off of the desk and hurls it against the wall on the opposite side of the room, then starts kicking the shit out of the tower
This computer...ain't nothing but a bitch.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 8, 2004 20:18:44 GMT -5
Damn...it's gonna be okay.
That sounds...kinda life-threatening, possibly.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 8, 2004 20:14:40 GMT -5
I know it's you. I'm just poking fun, baby.
OOoh, that sounds like you're having a good time then. I am too!
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jun 8, 2004 19:53:00 GMT -5
Gotta tell ya, that sounds like it sucks. I'm glad I'm not there now. I will be soon, however. Yes, it's true. Your most admired scholar and worldly tutor, ThoughtShift, must take summer school. And it fucking sucks. I'm sorry Ms...Lozer. Heh.
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on May 2, 2004 17:56:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the positive feedback guys! Much appreciated!
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on May 1, 2004 15:04:42 GMT -5
This is just a short story I wrote yesterday in about five minutes.
I was at a bar the other night, shooting pool, and this came to my head.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'll just post it here, as it's not that long at all. I'll link to longer fics out of consideration for the bandwidth of the bar.
Thanks to everyone who reviews it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Shark by ThoughtShift
"I don't know guys, I really don't know how to play this game..."
And the con was on. This was how he started most of his nights. Just walking into a bar, getting to know a few people, telling them that he was lost, couldn't find his way home, just needed to rest a while, maybe play a game or something if he could find an arcade somewhere...
No, there's no arcade near here. But how about this game? Whenever they got that smug grin on their face and said the name of that game, it sent his heart into tremors. Sent a shiver down his spine.
"How about a game of pool, kid?"
"Well, I guess..."
"You have to pay, kid. We only play for money."
He always let them think that they were pressuring him into playing for money. He always let them think that they were in control. He always let them think that they were conning him.
And that was the easiest way to con. Not to mention the fact that he was fifteen. He knew all the tricks to the game, too. Not pool, particularly, but conning. He knew that to get the good money in addition to his money back, he had to let them win a couple times first. He had to let them think that they were conning him. And the easiest way to gain someone's trust is to give them money.
And tonight was no different. He held the stick under his fingers like a retard, scratched a few times, blasted the cue onto the floor, even missed the cue. Then someone would try to help him. He looked pathetic, in all reality. This soaking wet kid, right in out of the rain, just trying to win some extra bus fare, and he doesn't even know how to hold a pool stick.
Take it easy on him, Charlie. He's just a kid. I mean, he can't even break, for Chrissake's! Just give him his money back.
Nah, "Charlie" would always say. I'll let the kid win his money back. He can break, just show him how!
Here's your grubby twenty, kid. On the table. If you beat me, I'll give you five to one. A hundred bucks if you can beat me.
He'd just get that dazed, starstruck look in his eye. He was so good at that. Really, Mr. Charlie? Thanks! I'll try my best!
The pool hall would laugh at him, but encourage him anyway. He'd played twice, broken the second time. Barely tapped the cue so that only one ball came away, then Charlie would proceed to take him to school, so to speak. Ten bucks a game he had lost. Get it back, plus eighty if he won. But he had to decide, would it get better?
And the answer was no. He went to the end of the table, chalked his cue, and bent over the table, eyeing the shot. He curled his index finger and set the stick in the channel created by his forefinger and thumb, took aim, and blasted the cue ball.
Everyone watched in confusement and amazement as two striped balls, the "prettier" ones, fell into the corner pockets.
"Wow!" He'd say. "That was cool!" And after that, the only sounds were from the people watching as they ooed and awed over his miracle shots. Bank shot after the amazing break to sink a ball. Tap one in on the side after that. Put some backspin on that one, knocks the ball right in the hole. Another bank shot, a little tougher, but nothing he can't handle. Ball slides in smooth. as silk. And everyone just watched as he took the poor fool's money.
"Eight ball, side pocket." he'd say calmly as he made an amazing bank shot to tap the eight ball into the pocket. And calmly he'd set the stick down, pick up his money, and walk out. He always loved hearing what they had to say when he left, so he liked to hang around a little bit outside.
Boy, if I didn't know better, I'd think you were just conned, Charlie.
Whether it was twenty bucks or three thousand, whether he was conning or really playing. He never lost. Rumor has it he won forty-five thousand dollars from a professional, the world champion they said, and just walked away with his money, never said a word about it to anyone.
The boy would just smell the money in his fist and walk on. To the next bus station, to the next plane...to the next paycheck. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- And there it is.
Not my usual writing style, but I was a little bored and didn't feel like working on any other fic, so I decided to just write a really short one. More of an exercise really.
Let me know what you all think of it, thanks!
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jul 30, 2004 6:53:24 GMT -5
That is a very good point. We are advanced enough to feel compassion for those weaker than we are, are we not? Is that not the reason we have nursing homes, Maverick? So that the stronger among us can take care of the weaker? So, would it not make sense that the same thing hold true on a broader basis? That the stronger inhabitants of the planet take care of the weaker?
I thought you had a sense of justice? Or does that only apply to people? But if I get too far ahead in the conversation, just use that age old phrase, "Survival of the Fittest", which was never even meant to be applied here, really. Charles Darwin coined the phrase more than a hundred years ago to describe the evolutionary process.
But what you're saying is that sentient thought is what is required for justice. A dog has to know that it's rights have been violated before anyone can do anything about it. Right? Well, it doesn't. It trusts, blindly. It assumes that you won't hurt it for your own twisted pleasure. But hey, whatever you do in your free time is your business. I'd stay away from the neighbor's dog if I were you, though. They do actually press charges if you get caught. That'd be funny, though, huh? You're outside beating the fuck out of some poor dog and the cops roll up and catch you. Big man now, eh?
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ThoughtShift
GM II
Song of the week: Fur Elise by DJ Mystic
Posts: 84
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Post by ThoughtShift on Jul 11, 2004 22:49:34 GMT -5
Mikaru, you make the point exactly. We disadvantage animals just to have a few luxuries. And if you think that's right, you have a problem.
Point is, animals are needlessly abused by humans every day. Humans are inherently cruel and indifferent towards animals because of their upbringing, typically. I would take an animal's life over a human's any day. I would have no problem saying, "Sorry bitch, but this dog is not fickle, it's loyal, and it is a lot nicer to me than you. I have to kill you."
Humans in general are the epitome of evil. You all think you're better because you can talk. Because you can work out math problems. You're not.
Blacks, jews, indians, talk whatever nonsense you want about how you're people have suffered. Maybe you have. A few years here, some of your people die, and it's over. Animals have been mistreated for centuries, before any black man was forced to pick cotton, before any jew was dismembered, before any indian was forced off his land. We force animals off their land for no reason other than we cannot stop our blatant overpopulation of this earth. We cannot stop our blatant abuse of this planet's natural resources. We are gluttons, that's all we are. We force animals to suffer for our entertainment.
So lock those black people up for another thousand years, throw all the jews into concentration camps and kick the indians out altogether. When they've suffered as long as the dog or the cat has been under the highly abusive and fickle finger of man, then they can complain. But as far as I'm concerned...cotton's ripe for the pickin'.
Malakym: You are very good at making blatantly ignorant statements.
EDIT: Viper, you said that liberals make this earth a worse place. That is very blatantly offensive and untrue. And you are very ignorant if you really think that just recently humans have harmed dogs.
That kid's parents were plain ignorant. It is very possible and very easy to keep an infant on a meatless diet and have him be as healthy as any other child.
There is NOTHING wrong with valuing an animal life over a humans. Humans are garbage. They are sentient and that is what makes most animals better than humans. Sentience makes humans shallow and deceitful. Humans, from the day they learn to speak, do not deserve to live.
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