Super Advanced Classes (04/17/12)

[Neptune]

lol. sorry to disappoint you. Hmmm, if this had been a Rokien topic.... you know I'm not sure what the request would be. You got me on that one. And I'm usually pretty good at this. Rokien!! Come in here and give us your .02 cents.

[Akujin]

If they did this, they would HAVE to give them power ranger outfits specifically for this.

[Zyph]

General Discussion is a satire goldmine! Thanks for this.

I'm glad you saw that one guy in that other thread wanting all jobs to be the same three roles and thought he was full of shite too.

[Neptune]

General Discussion is a satire goldmine! Thanks for this.

I'm glad you saw that one guy in that other thread wanting all jobs to be the same three roles and thought he was full of shite too.

Actually, this was about that one monk thread. This goes out to all the monks and dragoons in the world.

[NoctisUmbra]

The current repertoire of forum memberships is superfluous, at best. This can easily be seen by taking a look at the types of threads: Joking, QQ, Meaningful Discussion, and lolPetition.

So I suggest the addition of one Super Advanced Forum Membership that any forum-goer can become by unequipping a Functional Brain. The Super Advanced Forum Membership is:

Super Irrelevant Member
Super Irrelevantly post useless threads that derail within the first 10 responses (with posts that provoke Super Anger)

Rokien or Neptune => SIR

As you can see, it's a simple plan that will allow all readers and posters to tell apart the good threads from the bad and participate in meaningful discussion. It's a lot easier than fretting over how to bring to an end the plague of threads that seem so useless to most even though they were written by people like you and me... probably.

[Neptune]

The current repertoire of forum memberships is superfluous, at best. This can easily be seen by taking a look at the types of threads: Joking, QQ, Meaningful Discussion, and lolPetition.

So I suggest the addition of one Super Advanced Forum Membership that any forum-goer can become by unequipping a Functional Brain. The Super Advanced Forum Membership is:

Super Irrelevant Member
Super Irrelevantly post useless threads that derail within the first 10 responses (with posts that provoke Super Anger)

Rokien or Neptune => SIR

As you can see, it's a simple plan that will allow all readers and posters to tell apart the good threads from the bad and participate in meaningful discussion. It's a lot easier than fretting over how to bring to an end the plague of threads that seem so useless to most even though they were written by people like you and me... probably.

I nominate this as best NoctisUmbra post of all eternity.

[bobbygunz]

I nominate this as best NoctisUmbra post of all eternity.

Why, I dare say I prefer Noctis's Blue Period.

[NoctisUmbra]

I nominate this as best NoctisUmbra post of all eternity.

Why, I dare say I prefer Noctis's Blue Period.

lolwut?

[bobbygunz]

This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901, or in Paris in the second half of the year.[1] In choosing austere color and sometimes doleful subject matter—prostitutes, beggars and drunks are frequent subjects—Noctis Umbra was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas, who took his life at the L’Hippodrome Café in Paris, France by shooting himself in the right temple on February 17, 1901. Although Noctis himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death",[2] art historian Hélène Seckel has written: "While we might be right to retain this psychologizing justification, we ought not lose sight of the chronology of events: Noctus was not there when Casagemas committed suicide in Paris ... When Noctis Umbra returned to Paris in May, he stayed in the studio of his departed friend, where he worked for several more weeks to prepare his exhibition for Vollard".[3] The works Umbra painted for his show at Ambroise Vollard's gallery that summer were generally characterized by a "dazzling palette and exuberant subject matter".[2]

In the latter part of 1901, blue tones began to dominate his paintings. He painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie, painted in 1903 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.[4] The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Umbra's works of this period, also represented in The Blindman's Meal (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of Celestina (1903). Other frequent subjects include female nudes and mothers with children.

Possibly his most well known work from this period is The Old Guitarist. Other major works include Portrait of Soler (1903) and Las dos hermanas (1904). Noctis Umbra's Blue Period was followed by his Rose Period.

The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), one of the final works from this period, was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) on December 20, 2007, but retrieved on January 8, 2008.

[NoctisUmbra]

Bah... Bobby Gunz... I give it a 7/10. A pleasant read, yet it could have used more work and creativity :P