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roseweird posted:

if amazon workers go on strike and you don't get your next $300 book delivery , you'll survive , in spite of their theft from you

hey now, don't be rude, i bought those books off individual students and antiquarian bookstores, and the books were certified organic.

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shriekingviolet posted:

also this was cool because of all the people in the comments section who did not understand the burning pile of books and continued to ask for a refund.



printing books just to burn them as a metaphor for Calvinism is one of the funniest things ive ever heard on the internet. the only way it would be better is if it were someone like Jim Davis or Scott Adams doing it instead

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roseweird posted:

i don't think i was being rude.

i thought you were being smarmy.

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wait smarmy doesn't mean what i think it does

surly?
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perhaps you would have enjoyed it more if you didn't read the gigantic wall of text written by someone who is probably mentally ill, and instead assessed the situation in a concise manner so that you could happily witness a bunch of children cry about how they spent 75 dollars on stick figures

really, he was ranting about calvinism? lol
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roseweird posted:

you were being smarmy, and in response i was being catty and judgmental but also funny and on-point, which posture i like to regard as my trademark

fair enough.

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when i was a child, every year for Christmas my parents would buy me a Calvin & Hobbes collection and write a little loving note in the cover for me. eventually i had accrued every single one and i would read them over and over constantly. then one day as a teen, while i was away, my sister was trying to wash our cats in the tub and somehow managed to flood the bathroom, the water leaked under the baseboards and into my bedroom, ruining several piles of books i had left on the floor, including all but one or two of those C&H collections. later, as i placed those soggy, mouldy, rippled and ink-run books into the trashbag, a large part of my childhood died in those moments. a large part of my soul. but that loss was also my very first step away from the juvenile emotional prisons of Capitalist object-fetishization and saccharin liberal sentimentality, and into the warm, loving, adult embrace of Leading Light Communism
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roseweird posted:

shriekingviolet posted:

really, he was ranting about calvinism? lol

i think it was a joke and you and superabound are on the same page



it is a joke but the metaphor really works from a Creator vs Creation standpoint and its fucking hilarious

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what happened to the drinking thread, because i should clearly only be posting there right now
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roseweird you appear to be having a mental breakdown in all the threads on the rHizzonE, might wanna take a break there m8
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The KLF could never ultimately explain why they went to an island off the coast of Scotland and burned the million pounds they'd earned from their string of #1 singles, but maybe it was to inspire this webcomic guy and Calvinism and stuff
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how is "webcomic potlatch" not a somethingawful.com subforum already
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"don't pay your debts" is what i got out of this and i broadly agree
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roseweird posted:

calvin & hobbes came out before the internet and it was a mildly amusing companion to childhood but if you paid for that giant overpriced anthology youre probably stupid and if you would try to fight me over comic books i'm just going to assume i could probably beat your ass and not worry about it too much


i accrued the anthologies over the course of my childhood

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*coarse