Is it mean?
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If Cthulhu were to be anywhere in Nevada it would be Pyramid Lake. Tahoe is an idyllic, crystal clear mountain lake. Pyramid is murky and has several creepy legends surrounding it
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A bit of background on Pyramid Lake
Including tunnels to Tahoe and fish people. From a woo site, but nothing there that isn’t already a local urban legend at least
Including tunnels to Tahoe and fish people. From a woo site, but nothing there that isn’t already a local urban legend at least
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No, you don't see the shark till the third reelAbdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:16 pm I'm picturing (opening scene of movie) a teenage girl in a bikini waterskiing on Tahoe, ominous music, and guess who emerges from the depths.
No. Thru a tunnel that BEGINS off the coast of mexico so he crosses the border illegally.Later in the movie there will be some sort of flashback of Cthulhu awakening in the South Pacific, making his way to off the coast of California, and going through the cavern.
See? We get to make a political statement then. And the first guy he kills has orange hair. And is eating a taco.
However the big climax scene can be at Pyramid Lake.
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Certainly a trap.
So you fit right in? Good. Just don't forget to rub some fish on your clothes to remain inconspicuous.
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Ok, more "is it mean"-ness
Today is my birthday, and I forgot the cardinal rule of my Birthday which is "never, ever, EVER, under any circumstances, attempt to eat in a restaurant in Reno for my birthday". Why? because Reno's biggest tourist event of the year, "Hot August Nights" (some sort of 'classic cars + 1950s nostalgia thing) is always right around my birthday and every restaurant is packed with aging Baby Boomers trying in vain to recapture their long lost youth.
So, in light of this, is it mean that this year I dubbed it "BoomerCon 2019"?
I mean, I try not to get into the whole "Boomers vs Millenials thing", especially since I would technically be neither (I think I would be Gen X, but don't really give a fuck. Which, ironically, is a very Gen X thing to do) but when I had to wait an hour and a half for a table to have my Birthday Shrimp, getting surlier by the moment, and noticing that it was mostly people who were obviously here for BoomerCon. I couldn't help but think "fuckin' boomers every 30 seconds or so.
Today is my birthday, and I forgot the cardinal rule of my Birthday which is "never, ever, EVER, under any circumstances, attempt to eat in a restaurant in Reno for my birthday". Why? because Reno's biggest tourist event of the year, "Hot August Nights" (some sort of 'classic cars + 1950s nostalgia thing) is always right around my birthday and every restaurant is packed with aging Baby Boomers trying in vain to recapture their long lost youth.
So, in light of this, is it mean that this year I dubbed it "BoomerCon 2019"?
I mean, I try not to get into the whole "Boomers vs Millenials thing", especially since I would technically be neither (I think I would be Gen X, but don't really give a fuck. Which, ironically, is a very Gen X thing to do) but when I had to wait an hour and a half for a table to have my Birthday Shrimp, getting surlier by the moment, and noticing that it was mostly people who were obviously here for BoomerCon. I couldn't help but think "fuckin' boomers every 30 seconds or so.
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Not at all. Fucking boomers.
I too am Gen X, the cool generation.
X is just a cool letter. That's why they chose it for The X Games, right?
It just wouldn't have worked if they used a different letter. I mean, think about it. "The P Games"? Nope. "The W Games"? Not that either. Has to be "X".
Therefore, Gen X is the best generation.
I too am Gen X, the cool generation.
X is just a cool letter. That's why they chose it for The X Games, right?
It just wouldn't have worked if they used a different letter. I mean, think about it. "The P Games"? Nope. "The W Games"? Not that either. Has to be "X".
Therefore, Gen X is the best generation.

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You think that's bad. Look at how much of a juggernaut nostalgia is in culture these days and imagine what it will be like when everyone is old. Bunch of octogenarians coming to Reno dressed as Harry Potters.Nyarlathotep wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 4:02 am Ok, more "is it mean"-ness
Today is my birthday, and I forgot the cardinal rule of my Birthday which is "never, ever, EVER, under any circumstances, attempt to eat in a restaurant in Reno for my birthday". Why? because Reno's biggest tourist event of the year, "Hot August Nights" (some sort of 'classic cars + 1950s nostalgia thing) is always right around my birthday and every restaurant is packed with aging Baby Boomers trying in vain to recapture their long lost youth.
So, in light of this, is it mean that this year I dubbed it "BoomerCon 2019"?
I mean, I try not to get into the whole "Boomers vs Millenials thing", especially since I would technically be neither (I think I would be Gen X, but don't really give a fuck. Which, ironically, is a very Gen X thing to do) but when I had to wait an hour and a half for a table to have my Birthday Shrimp, getting surlier by the moment, and noticing that it was mostly people who were obviously here for BoomerCon. I couldn't help but think "fuckin' boomers every 30 seconds or so.
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Into each life, a little rain must fall. Here's to hoping ours isn't black mud and radioactive.
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Ugh.Grammatron wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:29 amYou think that's bad. Look at how much of a juggernaut nostalgia is in culture these days and imagine what it will be like when everyone is old. Bunch of octogenarians coming to Reno dressed as Harry Potters.Nyarlathotep wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 4:02 am Ok, more "is it mean"-ness
Today is my birthday, and I forgot the cardinal rule of my Birthday which is "never, ever, EVER, under any circumstances, attempt to eat in a restaurant in Reno for my birthday". Why? because Reno's biggest tourist event of the year, "Hot August Nights" (some sort of 'classic cars + 1950s nostalgia thing) is always right around my birthday and every restaurant is packed with aging Baby Boomers trying in vain to recapture their long lost youth.
So, in light of this, is it mean that this year I dubbed it "BoomerCon 2019"?
I mean, I try not to get into the whole "Boomers vs Millenials thing", especially since I would technically be neither (I think I would be Gen X, but don't really give a fuck. Which, ironically, is a very Gen X thing to do) but when I had to wait an hour and a half for a table to have my Birthday Shrimp, getting surlier by the moment, and noticing that it was mostly people who were obviously here for BoomerCon. I couldn't help but think "fuckin' boomers every 30 seconds or so.
One of the weirdest things I think young people do is proclaim themselves as a Hufflepuff or whatever. I could kind of get it if they treated it more like a fun thing to do while talking about their favorite book, I mean, after all, my own hobby involves pretending to be a wizard and rolling funny dice for hours at a time, so I would be throwing stones in a glass house if I condemned others for geekiness. But I see them treat it like it is something with actual predictive power, i.e. I saw some young woman on Facebook proclaim that she doesn't get along with Slytherins.
This is why whenever I see a thread on some facebook group where people talk about what 'house' they belong to, I always say "Lannister"
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I gotta say, seeing the cars is the one cool thing about it. I am not a car guy by any means but seeing some of the restoration jobs some of these people have done is pretty neato. Not neato enough to want to go to any of the events, but seeing some of these old cars cruising down the street looking probably better than they did the day they originally drove out of the dealership is pretty cool. Even if my reaction to seeing the first one was something along the lines of "Awww fuck, I forgot, Hot August Nights"Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:10 pm I suppose I'm a boomer.
To me boomer nostalgia Nevada style doesn't mean classic cars, it means open air nuclear tests and the relevant scenes from the Godfather movies.![]()
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I am half-seriously expected assisted-living homes that resemble a fandom con.Grammatron wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:29 am You think that's bad. Look at how much of a juggernaut nostalgia is in culture these days and imagine what it will be like when everyone is old. Bunch of octogenarians coming to Reno dressed as Harry Potters.
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I know, right, they should totally focus on each other's astrological sun signs instead like a normal person.Nyarlathotep wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:56 pm Ugh.
One of the weirdest things I think young people do is proclaim themselves as a Hufflepuff or whatever. I could kind of get it if they treated it more like a fun thing to do while talking about their favorite book, I mean, after all, my own hobby involves pretending to be a wizard and rolling funny dice for hours at a time, so I would be throwing stones in a glass house if I condemned others for geekiness. But I see them treat it like it is something with actual predictive power, i.e. I saw some young woman on Facebook proclaim that she doesn't get along with Slytherins.
This is why whenever I see a thread on some facebook group where people talk about what 'house' they belong to, I always say "Lannister"
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
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That’s how it seems to have become, another weird silly meaningless categorization that people take oddly seriously. Just like astrological signs or Meyers-Briggs categories