level4outbreak
Cataloger & Pundit
Location: Somewhere in New York
Joined Mar 28, 2013 at 11:27PM EDT
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Name's level4outbreak: Punk, librarian, self-admitted music, history, and literature geek, fiction writer.
Things I think are awesome: A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, Punk Rock, Hardcore, Metal, Folk Music, Hunter S. Thompson, Voltaire (the philosopher), George R. R. Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, anime/manga, and Caffeine.
Things that suck: Most modern pop music, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Anything written by Edith Wharton, racism, sexism, homophobia, and decaf.
What I'm Currently Listening To
AFI (only until Sing the Sorrow. Everything after that sucks), Agnostic Front, Alice in Chains, All Out War, All Pigs Must Die, Another Breath, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Bad Religion, Beartrap, Black Flag, Blacklisted, Blitz, Born Low, The Bouncing Souls, Cat Stevens, Celtic Frost, Ceremony, Choking Victim, Clifford Brown, Common Enemy, Converge, Crime in Stereo, Cynic, The Dead Kennedys, Dear Landlord, Death, Decapitated, Discharge, Drug Church, Ensiferum, Expire, Fleet Foxes, The Gaslight Anthem, Germ Attak, A Global Threat, Godflesh, Gorilla Biscuits, High on Fire, Hüsker Dü, Incendiary, Jawbreaker, John Coltrane, Joy Division, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Last Call Brawl, The Lawrence Arms, Lifetime, The Lounge Lizards, MDC, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Masked Intruder, Miles Davis, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Municipal Waste, Negative Approach, The Nerve Agents (I actually got my username from the title of one of their songs), Night Birds, Nile, The Pogues, Punch, The Red Chord, The Refused, Rotting Out, Screeching Weasel, Shop Assistants, Sick of it All, Snapcase, Sonny Rollins, Stan Rogers, The Suicide Machines, Sylosis, This is Hell, Thought Riot, Title Fight, The Tossers, Type O Negative, Vision of Disorder, A Wilhelm Scream, Wintersun
The A Song of Ice and Fire series (obviously), Fevre Dream, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sabriel, Candide, A Treatise on Tolerance, At the Mountains of Madness and other HP Lovecraft stories, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Heart of Darkness, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, Gridlinked, Spellwright, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Stand, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, The Rum Diary, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Recent Activity
Commented on Jeff Bezos National Enquirer Blackmail Controversy
The Enquirer has probably gotten away with blackmailing loads of folks previously but why would they think that blackmailing Bezos was a good idea? The man has enough money to pay someone to kidnap a blackmailer, stuff them into a rocket and launch them into the sun and then pay people off to not care. There was no way that this was going to go well for them.
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Posted in Weird dream repository
A couple of nights ago, I had a dream that I was happy.
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Posted in Alt-Right Approved Video Games
Crusader Kings II
Ok, so this is another good candidate. Why? Because you get to play in medieval Europe. You can play as the vikings, you can be an Austrian, you can even play the Byzantines. My favorite part about the game is if you play as a Christian, you can take a loan from the jews, then kick the jews out from the country so you don't pay the loan back. Just wait for a sale because this game is expensive.
>Favorite part isn't reforming German Paganism and eradicating Christianity from the face of the earth while sacking everything in your path.
>No mention of being able to seduce your horse as an insane character
Your opinion on CKII is shit.
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Commented on Donald Trump's "I Hear You" Note
Dude's doing more for George W Bush's popularity than W was able to. That's the truly shocking thing, I think.
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Posted in Not Another CamWhroe Thread... (2018 Beta Version 4.20)
Sometimes I get high.
Commented on Kian Lawley N-Word Controversy
To be fair, I'm not that familiar with the book. I mainly know it because I'm friends with folks who read a lot of Young Adult literature even though I have little interest in it. I'm mainly a Fantasy (if you can't tell from my avatar) and Science Fiction literature guy.
I mainly became aware of The Hate U Give because of this doozy of a controversy involving the New York Times Best Seller list. I also found out that, as of the listed article, it was popular enough to be on the list for nearly 25 weeks. Read the article just for the conspiracy aspect. It's absolutely insane and fascinating to read.
Again, I admit that I wouldn't know this otherwise if it weren't for the above article and because I know people who read a lot of these types of books. It's not really my thing.
Commented on Kian Lawley N-Word Controversy
>Considering no one’s heard of him or this movie before
Hadn’t heard of the actor but it’s not completely true that no one has heard of the movie. It’s a film adaptation for a young adult novel that’s actually really popular. (haven’t read it, though, so can’t comment on whether or not it’s good). Just because you may not pay attention to that specific genre, doesn’t mean that “no one’s heard of it.”
Uploaded an image to Ben Swolo.
What the fuck there's a sequel?
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Posted in What meme did you hate the most
Much like everyone here, I hated Harambe. I despise it because the "joke" relied on beating it to death and continue beating the corpse.
I also had an irrational hatred for "Cracking open a cold one with the boys." I can't rationalize or explain why I hate this one so much, I just do.
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Posted in ZOMG TWITTER CHANGED THEIR CHARACTER LIMIT!!!!!1!
Twitter is a dumpster fire.
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Posted in Alex Jones commits white genocide: Sperm-damaging Lead Found in Infowars Dietary Supplements
This could be part of the plan, if the conspiracy that Alex Jones is actually Bill Hicks is true.
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Posted in second american civil war
Never. Everyone's too busy posting dank memes at each other to tear themselves away from their computers.
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Posted in Name ONE LGBT person who could be considered a genius
Nah, bro. You're thinking of Gene Wilder. Very easy to confuse!
Posted Insert A Memeworthy Crossword Answer! in the Just For Fun forum.
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Posted in Insert A Memeworthy Crossword Answer!
Hey folks! So, I tend to work on the New York Times Crossword and the clue for yesterday's puzzle at 26-Down was "Many an internet meme." So, as a fun little exercise, I posted a pic of the crossword with the spot blank for folks to put their own "answers!" Have fun!
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Posted in Father tries to "teach gun safety" to young sons, points gun everywhere, pulls the trigger thinking it's empty, kills young daughter
No, they definitely are accidents. The problem here is that they're such stupidly avoidable accidents that could have been prevented with an actual gun safety course taught by an expert.
I think the overarching issue is that, while there are gun safety courses in the US that people can take, most gun owners learn gun safety like in this case: from a family member, friend, etc. I am not a gun owner myself but have grown up around them. I learned the rules of being around my grandfather's gun collection, which were mostly flintlocks and some old Navy Revolvers but a few modern rifles, from my grandfather. We weren't allowed to touch any of them and the big thing that he always drilled in our heads was "A gun is always loaded, even if you know it isn't."
I did some of my own research into the gun laws of my own state, New York aka some of the toughest gun laws in the US, specifically, NYC's gun laws. The rest of New York State actually does not require you to apply for a permit to purchase and own a long gun, rifle or shotgun, just handguns as far as I'm able to tell from the NYS government website. But that's beside the point.
The thing I've noticed from it is that, out of all of the requirements that they expect from your application for a permit, they do not require that you take a gun safety course. I think this could potentially decrease some issues if all states (Again, speaking mainly from a New York State aspect, I do not know anything about gun laws in other states) required a certificate stating that they had gone through a certain amount of hours of gun safety training prior to applying for the permit. More than likely, the folks who don't want to be bothered with the gun safety course would not be able to get the permit in order to purchase one in the first place. Now, admittedly, this is a very idealistic idea that does not take into account many things, such as people buying guns for other people etc. But I think it would be a start, at the very least. Certainly better than what we've got now.
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Posted in Musicians/bands that make (or have made) music based on history or ancient mythology
Can't have a thread like this without mention of Nile, a death metal band that mixes both technicality and brutality to create awesomeness. Their songs are mainly about Ancient Egyptian history/customs and the mythology of the civilization. They also occasionally write songs about the Lovecraft Universe.
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Posted in The Han Solo Movie Has Lost Its Directors Over "Creative Differences"
Anyway, I'm hoping this doesn't affect the movie too much. Out of all of the Anthology films that they're making, the Han Solo one was the one that I was the most excited about. To be fair, though, with how good Rogue One was, this one was definitely going to have to work really hard to live up to it.
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Posted in Things that make you feel old.
The fact that I don't understand any of the new memes that have been coming out.
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Posted in Are California And Massachusetts Merger?
A trash state with trash residents with trash taste in sports teams.