Comments on: Stories from the smelly pits of pantsuit internets; in today's episode: Iu Da

By: "Platforms", aka MMORPGs « The Tar Pit

"Platforms", aka MMORPGs « The Tar Pit — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:24:48 +0000

[...] recall, I expect Iu Da, or The Profiling Machine: both pieces deal with such platforms, from their respective concrete and [...]

By: Nature and technology « The Tar Pit

Nature and technology « The Tar Pit — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:20:25 +0000

[...] when the good folks running the show finally run out of resources to finance either the bread, the circus or some mixture of the two, what do you think they'll [...]

By: The sweeping, unstoppable wave « The Tar Pit

The sweeping, unstoppable wave « The Tar Pit — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:15:55 +0000

[...] 2000s, while mainstream radio never promoted it4. And yes I'm aware it was their loss, since then YouTube and at that point mainstream "stars" began struggling to keep up with the trend. Yes, it was [...]

By: Piano practice, the first month « The Tar Pit

Piano practice, the first month « The Tar Pit — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:06:20 +0000

[...] don't know what happened with most people, on account of everyone and their dog entirely moving to platforms. I mostly played the blues, the old one from the plantations, sung by Howlin' Wolf, by Bukka White [...]

By: All is old and all is new... « The Tar Pit

All is old and all is new... « The Tar Pit — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:53:21 +0000

[...] no fundamental difference between praying with one's ass leaning at thirty degrees, and staring at the slime oozing out of the tube, both behaviours reward the very same type of stupidity; as there is no [...]

By: On computers « The Tar Pit

On computers « The Tar Pit — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:48:51 +0000

[...] over various markets, killing, pillaging and raping dead tree books, music and movie distribution ("entertainment" as a whole, in fact), all news, the scientific method, money and finance, the market of jobs, and [...]

By: spyked

spyked — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:01:27 +0000

In the very same category (how could I forget?!) lies a bunch of gold, a gem among gems: Vax Populi.

Răzvan Anghelescu documents life in the Romanian country through a very simple device: by querying his fellow Romanians, on matters that are sometimes very simple, while othertimes they're overwhelmingly, or mayhaps offensively complicated. The golden moment being said Romanian's reaction to the question, which as far as I can see reveals bit by bit the fate of these miserable people. They're to forever stick to herding sheep, unable as they find themselves to do anything else; at least as long as there's still sheep left on Mother Earth, că dupe aia... Dumnezeu cu mila.

By: ... but do y'all really still believe in coincidences? « The Tar Pit

... but do y'all really still believe in coincidences? « The Tar Pit — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:37:41 +0000

[...] hard, leaving somewhere on a shelf all the internets, technologies and computers, not to mention "news" and all those other useless distractions. In other words, I woke up one morning at seven, prepared [...]