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There's a good foot-and-a-half on my patio table. I really ought to tip that on its side...

I got a few pics of the snow here, it really dumped... 

That's nothin.

I am down for a terrible RWL team in LoL. I am qualified for that, at least.

Shadow are you still in Ottawa?

Hey ghost of RWL community!

Can you believe that RWL is my homepage and that I've never actually logged out, even though I haven't gone past the main page in years...

I'm doing my MA in Sociology and Digital Humanities right now, writing my thesis on League of Legends, I'm married and I have two kids.

Does anyone play LoL?



OK bye now!

There's a difference between me playing dumb and you acting superior. Sure, I dropped off before addressing every single argument y'all made, but throughout your arguments is a general assumption that somehow me and my school are incapable of even conceiving of what you do. Yes, I quote other academics when I argue (of course, and so I should, they're smarter than me), but those academics have spent tons of time working directly with, within, and alongside the scientific fields they critique.

Like it or not, my arguments don't come from a group of people who are actively ignorant.

aaaaaand you took me too seriously. Outside of UMD I assure you, I simply get a kick out of making a caricature out of you, and then dissing it.

My UMD forays degenerate into ME feeling hopeless, I admit I probably project that upon you.

Hopeless, because I want to engage you, and never have time time to climb the mountain of words you pile on top of me. I have other mountains to climb, and those one's have grades, transcripts, and hopefully acceptence into my own masters program at the top.

I'll get to it one day, but until then please don't assume that my failure to adequately respond to you is due to a lack of solid critical analysis done by those in mine and other fields in the humanities. There are far smarter people then I doing a far greater job of critiquing every aspect of the broad field you claim I made into a straw man. I have, on occasions, tried to direct you towards those smart people, but I'm not sure if you ever got there. I'm reading Taming of Truth by Ian Hacking (a brilliant Canadian sociologist), and even my stats prof (a mathematician, a positivist, and empiricist, etc) finds Hacking's critiques invaluable. There's a copy in your library (mind too, but I have it out and I'm not returning it any time soon)

You can't escape society, my dear positivist.

Are you an interpretivist?

No, no, firetooth, you are doing it wrong. The new age hipster thing is to assume you know what sort of philosophies others adhere to based on things they say on the internet.

You're supposed to just call him an interpretivist. It doesn't matter if you're right, the important thing is that you labelled him.

He's right, you know. It can be proved objectively.

You can't escape society, my dear positivist.

Who could? Yet somehow people take the "cups" song seriously (or is that only little girls?)

It's not that catchy. I do love whenever people put absurd lyrics overtop of whatever the current pop-synth sound is. It shows you just how stupid most pop songs are. People always manage to take pop songs seriously, and I can't help but wonder why.

Peace uses his own number system.

I use base-whatever

I'm sorry to hear that Sevs. I suppose you'll be leaving?