Hey, I Need a Topic in an Hour, Plz Help

[Retard Girl]

I have to do an anthropology report on a subculture or group by the end of the semester, however, i have not chosen a topic yet and its required by the beginning of my next class. i have a couple ideas, but i dont have anything in partcular that i am leaning towards.

Remember, i have to spend about 10 hours with these people, so i dont want to be with the young republicans or juggalos or whatever.

[Retard Girl]

you guys are ghey.

[*Kyle*]

magic nerds, spend ten hours with them

[-Kyle-]

do yours on ignatius j reilly

[Retard Girl]

Dude, i already told someone in front of my teacher where to find magic nerds.

[Retard Girl]

fine juggalos it is assholes

[exemplary citizen]

D'oh. am I late? do tattoo people count as a subculture?

[-Kyle-]

zane, getcher as in here, you have a new friend

[Takker]

you could spend internet time with us.

[MST3Kakalina]

yeah what about the internet

i mean i'm sure you've collectively spent ten hours with us, in real life and on the intarwebs.

[whodaimen]

Holy fuck, anthropology? Fuck yeah. Me too.

I'm not sure where you live, but I'd suggest you find the social outcasts.

The HARDCORE ones.

Wiccans. Find those. For the love of god, do something on wiccans. You can play the "I barely escaped" angle.

Alternatively, go to your local card game/comic book store, and find out where and when they all meet to play magic or some alternative. Bonus points if you find a local Pokemon League, and everyone is in the 20+ bracket. It's kind of entertaining to see how they treat the kids, and you could ramble about the various dichotomies of personality type vs age or something.



Or the internet. That works too, though I'm fairly certain your professor would argue that you personally cannot be sure of the identities of the people here.

[MST3Kakalina]

Or the internet. That works too, though I'm fairly certain your professor would argue that you personally cannot be sure of the identities of the people here.

except the part where she's hung out with us in real life.

also for a real suggestion, there's a bit of an internets/real life community forming around asperger's and autism.

[whodaimen]

except the part where she's hung out with us in real life.

also for a real suggestion, there's a bit of an internets/real life community forming around asperger's and autism.

Suck a cock.

[MST3Kakalina]

whoa there calm down. i was referring to my posts in a vacuum, that was in no way a reference to whatever you've posted in there.

not every post on this forum is meant to berate and deride you, broski.

[trog]

whodaimen as attractive and glamorous as the persecution complex lifestyle may seem now it'll really just all end in tears

[MST3Kakalina]

tears and choking to death on your own vomit

[Retard Girl]

D'oh. am I late? do tattoo people count as a subculture?

shit fuck, teacher did say tattoo artists like 2 weeks ago. arrgh. now im stuck with juggalos. maybe she'll let me change it?

whodaimen, i hate magic. i hate it a lot. i grew up being forced to play that game. i spent more time than i would have with paige and klein looking at magic cards in a card store. also, i think i know too much about the culture to really have used that as a topic.

[Zig]

i grew up being forced to play that game.

wait what

[Retard Girl]

lol this is true. i've played that game since i was 5-6ish. my dad was obsessed with that game, spent way too much money and time on it. paige and klein can defend me on this assertion, they've seen my dad's collection of cards.

[Zig]

well shit I thought the kids who get beat had it rough

[Retard Girl]

hey, i never said it was worse than domestic abuse or whatever. but playing a card game with a dad that just wants to build control decks and always win for years just kinda takes the fun out of the game.

[Zig]

man I cant sit through one round of that game without deciding to count ceiling tiles instead; much less an entire childhood

[whodaimen]

whodaimen as attractive and glamorous as the persecution complex lifestyle may seem now it'll really just all end in tears

I know. Believe me.

[t3]

Iss... vegetables a subculture.

[Chakan]

Pro gamers might be worth a look. South Korea has a huge gamer culture centered around Starcraft, but there are a number of pros in the states, too.

[trog]

Iss... vegetables a subculture.

lol mali you should do it on comatose people

[MST3Kakalina]

Pro gamers might be worth a look. South Korea has a huge gamer culture centered around Starcraft, but there are a number of pros in the states, too.
whenever i ask my students (the ones old enough/smart enough to have this conversation with me) about starcraft they just look at me blankly. all these kids play are FIFA and then random bullshit FPSes. the only blizzard they seem to respond to is D2, some of their eyes got huge when i mentioned it. we had a nice little chat about that.

[whodaimen]

That gamer culture is fucked.

Blizzard has decided to monopolize e-sports. Apparently getting 150 million a month for a server farm and munchies for their baked artists isn't enough. Now they've decided to recreate SC (which I'm all for), remove LAN entirely, and make the entire product proprietary with their new "Battle.net". The issue here is that Blizzard will have exclusive rights. The replays, the custom games (they are adding in an app store equivalent), all of it. And they are not willing to make a watered down spectator client for a third party (such as a Korean game program).

[KLEIN]

the removing lan part is really the only thing anyone should have a problem with.

[whodaimen]

When you have people who's JOB it is to play starcraft, naturally its a big problem. Korea will not be allowed to televise any form of SC2 footage. It all goes straight to Blizzard now.

[Retard Girl]

lol who cares its kora not here. (besides koba and keith)


anyways, pro-gamers seems like i'd have to meet a bunch of elitist assholes.

[whodaimen]

I care because the majority of them support families with the income, and south korea isn't exactly winning the tourism war. Meanwhile, North Korea is fucking <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/starving-in-silence/article1278941/">dead in the water</a>.

[t3]

Guess it's good they aren't required by law to switch to Starcraft 2. Also: North Korea has a shitty economy? Welcome to as of about three decades ago. Gues putting nearly all your resources behing your military to the exclusion of all else isn't the way to go.