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[qwantz]

Dudes I feel kinda odd about my last post! I meant it as a "Hey, here's the article I was writing about!" but I think it came across as "Hey, here's that dude from before! I MUST END HIM

Comments

[ryan_howse]

Isn't critical discourse kind of, y'know, important for essays though?

And besides, the essay only got four replies. Perhaps I am missing something.

[qwantz]

No, I'm all for critical discourse! But I guess I see a difference between "I tore apart the dude's essay" and "I tore apart the dude's essay and then sent people to tell the person who bought it how terrible it is."

Maybe I am overanalyzing it.

[snowmit]

You are over analyzing it.

If the article had been available online in the first place, then you'd have linked to it in your first post.

[snowmit]

Also, the Walrus doesn't make its hiring decision based on your opinions of the essay. It's not like Mister Fox is like "a lot of people don't like our Bill O'Reilley, better fire him".

[thestormsurfer]

No, I think it is totally... uh... decorous for you to discuss a published article and link to it.

[qwantz]

Decorous! There's a classy word I'd like to use more often.

[professor]

I cannot believe you just used the word "decorous" to refer to Ryan North. He makes a comic with talking dinosaurs and carries on fake prank wars with dudes over the Internet. Plus he created fictional Jimbo Wales. How is any of that decorous I ask you.

[qwantz]

WHAT IS MORE DECOROUS THAN THAT??

[corduroyarmy]

I like that you have this sway with people where you can state an opinion and based on that your army of followers adopts your cause and acts on it. You're like the digital equivalent of Balthar and his cult.

[qwantz]

No, it's because I was totally right

[corduroyarmy]

I have images of you looking sneaky as a T-Rex in a slinky red dress caresses your shoulder. Someone is tapping a wine glass.

[corduroyarmy]

and by 'I have images' I mean I am imagining them, not I possess them for .. purposes known only to myself.

[grosely_clerx]

With great bodyslam comes great responsibility. Re: decorous, I think your remarks were perfectly... felicitous.

Since one of the commenters posted a link to your livejournal, the author now has access to your writings. So at least there's some potential for reciprocity - banish your guilt, and await the counter-strike!

[qwantz]

I'm looking forward to a point-by-point takedown of my response to Mr. Tusks' letter!

And it'll end with "In other news, earlier in the piece Ryan showed how wrinkley-ass his hands are, so I may be wrong in trying to get him to be more precise in his writing!

you did the right thing, son

[koliaphis]

ryan!!!!!!!!!!(pay attention to me)
i am a fledgling physicist, and i spend six hours a week, at least, doing experiments that require a lot of attention and REAL statistics. i am probably as unhappy as you are about his "stats". if he had spent more than 4 minutes doing it, i wouldn't be so insulted.
"the results are telling"?!?!!! no one gets credit for saying "my stats are good because i said so".
NO ONE. *creepy tonal music*

Re: you did the right thing, son

[qwantz]

*internet high fives*