“The Fastest Way to Tomorrow is by Giving Up On Today!”
March 24, 2012 10:33 AM Subscribe
Well those first two sum up my exact situation at this moment. And I feel even more like a loser for not doing something remotely as cool as playing skyrim or texting or eating. So um, thanks?
posted by bleep at 10:48 AM on March 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by bleep at 10:48 AM on March 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
It was sunny in London today. Also, I watched two episodes of Walker Texas Ranger, ate 4 mini battenbergs, and took a four-hour nap.
posted by Partario at 10:50 AM on March 24, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by Partario at 10:50 AM on March 24, 2012 [3 favorites]
What's better than killing dragons? Quiting Skryim cold turkey, that's what is better. It is a beautiful day it is outside in the real world!
posted by autopilot at 10:52 AM on March 24, 2012
posted by autopilot at 10:52 AM on March 24, 2012
I hear SittingInAChairAndStaringAtTheWall is lovely this time of year...
posted by sexyrobot at 11:05 AM on March 24, 2012
posted by sexyrobot at 11:05 AM on March 24, 2012
(plus the 'Sipping a cup of hot chocolate and making little smacking noises' festival is coming up...)
posted by sexyrobot at 11:07 AM on March 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by sexyrobot at 11:07 AM on March 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
wow. so they're finally direct marketing to the demographic of.... me?
posted by Glibpaxman at 11:14 AM on March 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Glibpaxman at 11:14 AM on March 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
autopilot: "It is a beautiful day it is outside in the real world!"
SILENCE HEATHEN!!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:44 AM on March 24, 2012 [3 favorites]
SILENCE HEATHEN!!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:44 AM on March 24, 2012 [3 favorites]
It's sunny out and your band still sucks. I'm going to sit on the lawn drinking cheap beer. Erm, I mean, I've puking all day and can't make it out tonight. Sorry dawrg.
posted by asnider at 12:11 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by asnider at 12:11 PM on March 24, 2012
Oh dear. Its funny becuase it is sadly sadly true.
posted by lalochezia at 12:33 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by lalochezia at 12:33 PM on March 24, 2012
I'm browsing the Internet outside!! But the sun is going away so I may have to visit the bed.
posted by vespabelle at 12:43 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by vespabelle at 12:43 PM on March 24, 2012
What's better than killing dragons? Quiting Skryim cold turkey, that's what is better. It is a beautiful day it is outside in the real world!
The real world didn't just get new kill-cams for ranged attacks in the 1.5 update though!
posted by radwolf76 at 1:00 PM on March 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
The real world didn't just get new kill-cams for ranged attacks in the 1.5 update though!
posted by radwolf76 at 1:00 PM on March 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
Fun-ny. I'd like them to make some for bitter people who have to do chores today.
"It's sunny our but those underpants aren't going to wash themselves."
posted by S'Tella Fabula at 1:33 PM on March 24, 2012
"It's sunny our but those underpants aren't going to wash themselves."
posted by S'Tella Fabula at 1:33 PM on March 24, 2012
"our"? "Sunny out..."
posted by S'Tella Fabula at 1:35 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by S'Tella Fabula at 1:35 PM on March 24, 2012
Maybe I just have British Modernism on the brain (I usually do), but it amazes me a little how much contemporary travel advertising is still emulating Edward McKnight Kauffer.
posted by rabbitbookworm at 1:43 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by rabbitbookworm at 1:43 PM on March 24, 2012
Well thanks for that. It was the impetus I needed to get off the couch and go for a walk and also some Korean food.
posted by peacheater at 1:49 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by peacheater at 1:49 PM on March 24, 2012
These are awesome. My only issue is with how the author - a self confessed nomadic spirit - brands them as activities for lazy people... I don't vacation in the ways described by the posters because I'm lazy. I do it because I really do care about the environment. I want to turn the guilt complex around... the losers are the people that don't choose to vacation in these ways and instead go out and trample the already beaten paths of the world.
The world doesn't need another picture of the Amazon. If I stay home and buy a book about the Amazon from Amazon.com I just saved money and the Amazon's environment.
I am going keep these as ammunition for friends who still believe doing 'interesting' things in the 'real world' somehow makes them interesting and real. It doesn't. There is nothing interesting about being ignorant and selfish. Every time someone goes out a little bit of the earth dies... yep! And I'm no hippy mind you, it's just the math.
Help fight the meme that 'going out' is good. Stay home. Save the planet.
posted by astrobiophysican at 1:51 PM on March 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
The world doesn't need another picture of the Amazon. If I stay home and buy a book about the Amazon from Amazon.com I just saved money and the Amazon's environment.
I am going keep these as ammunition for friends who still believe doing 'interesting' things in the 'real world' somehow makes them interesting and real. It doesn't. There is nothing interesting about being ignorant and selfish. Every time someone goes out a little bit of the earth dies... yep! And I'm no hippy mind you, it's just the math.
Help fight the meme that 'going out' is good. Stay home. Save the planet.
posted by astrobiophysican at 1:51 PM on March 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Wait -- there are ranged attack kill-cams now? Be right back -- I have to try that with my one-shot/one-kill ebony bow (170 damage points * 2x critical hit * 3x sneak bonus).
Just when I thought I was done with that accursed game!
posted by autopilot at 1:58 PM on March 24, 2012
Just when I thought I was done with that accursed game!
posted by autopilot at 1:58 PM on March 24, 2012
Um, yeah, the powers of hulu have caused me to watch 7 seasons of the Peep Show and 2 seasons of The Book Group over the past couple of weeks. Only problem is that now I want to go on a trip (maybe permanently?) to the UK. So...really...the poster's message backfired on me.
posted by bquarters at 2:08 PM on March 24, 2012
posted by bquarters at 2:08 PM on March 24, 2012
Wait -- there are ranged attack kill-cams now?
Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.
posted by radwolf76 at 2:46 PM on March 24, 2012
Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.
posted by radwolf76 at 2:46 PM on March 24, 2012
I watched two episodes of Walker Texas Ranger
Holy crap, is that a record?
posted by bongo_x at 6:55 PM on March 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
Holy crap, is that a record?
posted by bongo_x at 6:55 PM on March 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
This one hit a little too close to home for me also. Before I had kids, I looked forward to sleeping in on Saturday mornings. Now I daydream about that when a little voice from the other room yells "Is it morning yet...!?!?" at 6:23 am on Saturday morning.
So, no, not funny. But my wounds are self-inflicted.
posted by dfm500 at 9:04 PM on March 24, 2012
So, no, not funny. But my wounds are self-inflicted.
posted by dfm500 at 9:04 PM on March 24, 2012
The sun around here gives people cancer. Don't tell me to go outside unless you're happy to give me a chunk of skin to replace the bits I've already had cut out.
/hikes out to Winterhold, poses dramatically on a rock.
posted by Jilder at 1:49 PM on March 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
/hikes out to Winterhold, poses dramatically on a rock.
posted by Jilder at 1:49 PM on March 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
Wait -- there are ranged attack kill-cams now? Be right back -- I have to try that with my one-shot/one-kill ebony bow (170 damage points * 2x critical hit * 3x sneak bonus).
You need to upgrade that to a legendary quality daedric bow pimped out with double enchantments. 240 base damage * 2x critical hit * 3x sneak bonus + 30 fire damage + 30 electrical damage (+15 magicka damage).
(Don't forget to use daedric arrows with it, of course, for those few extra damage points. If you arm your archer follower with a single daedric arrow, the henchmen unlimited ammunition scripts will provide you with a slow but steady accumulation of daedric arrows to scavenge from the corpses of the enemies they attack.)
posted by talitha_kumi at 4:10 PM on March 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
You need to upgrade that to a legendary quality daedric bow pimped out with double enchantments. 240 base damage * 2x critical hit * 3x sneak bonus + 30 fire damage + 30 electrical damage (+15 magicka damage).
(Don't forget to use daedric arrows with it, of course, for those few extra damage points. If you arm your archer follower with a single daedric arrow, the henchmen unlimited ammunition scripts will provide you with a slow but steady accumulation of daedric arrows to scavenge from the corpses of the enemies they attack.)
posted by talitha_kumi at 4:10 PM on March 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
Visual news is one of the prettiest websites I've seen in a long time.
posted by hellslinger at 12:26 AM on March 26, 2012
posted by hellslinger at 12:26 AM on March 26, 2012
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