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A tiny, weeny WTF_Nature wank...
I was unsure whether to post this here or iwank, but I posted twice, once to LOL and once to say, "Dude, you're being really annoying", so I figure it might go better here. Right.

WTF_Nature is a super fun community on LJ devoted to the crazy shit nature comes up with. Freak storms. Animals we didn't know existed. Animals that do exist but mutate. If it's in nature, and it makes you go "WTF", it's in the comm.

Yesterday, writerspleasure decided to post about a species of goby in South African waters that has turned on its natural predator, the jellyfish, and made those squishy suckers into their dinner. A really interesting subject, full of fascinating ramifications for the local ecosystem in that area. For some reason, he brought in an Ayn Rand reference.

markslj is tired of this political bullshit.

Wank is soon in the waters once the first blood is shed.

pazi_ashfeather makes a comment on writerspleasure's behaviour.

Thing degenerate and get mighty personal after that, all while the both of them argue about Ayn Rand. I don't know why, but people arguing about Ayn Rand always makes me laugh.

So anyway, one minute you think it's over, but those crazy kids start up the argument again in another thread. Are the Bearded Gobys Libertarians or Bolsheviks? A question for the ages!

Ahhh... Ayn Rand. *chuckle* Tiny, to be sure, but like the Bearded Goby, kind of cute as well.

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	barankhy 2010-07-21 02:50 am UTC (link)
	TvTropes has a good page on her and objectivism. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the__ivorytower 2010-07-21 03:00 am UTC (link)
	But I have to raaaaaid. >. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kylenne 2010-07-21 05:42 am UTC (link)
	Hell, I've hit up TV Tropes while raiding before. Of course, I play an Arcane mage, I could probably cook a three course meal while raiding. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the__ivorytower 2010-07-21 06:04 am UTC (link)
	I'm a healer, and we're going to ICC. "How did I die?" "MagnificentBastard." "Huh?" "Never mind..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandglass 2010-07-21 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	That's what I love about being a boomkin on trash pulls. Click hurricane, read something, refresh hurricane, read something, nobody knows the difference. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2010-07-21 03:30 am UTC (link)
	I tried to read these, but went TL;DR and went to look up tropes on iCarly. I'm a grown woman and I'd rather read about a show for tweens than grownup stuff. This explains so much. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	barankhy 2010-07-21 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	I've never made it through the whole page, but it's the most... understandable one I've come across. But then I just looked up GayOption to check and see if there's a new entry. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2010-07-22 12:16 am UTC (link)
	GayOption? I swear, I could spend a year doing nothing but reading TV Tropes and still not have read everything. Not even everything that is relevant to my personal interests. goes to look up this GayOption (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	barankhy 2010-07-22 02:02 am UTC (link)
	I've been wanting to waste my time playing games for the past three days but somehow I keep getting stuck on TvTropes ;-; As for the GayOption, it automatically increases my interest in any given game, so I check it occasionally >_> (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kahrohseh 2010-07-21 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say calling Ayn Rand and her philosophy "grownup" is being rather generous. It's more like reading the "enlightened" diatribes of a 14-year-old who has totes figured out the world better than anyone else. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2010-07-22 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Mm, good point. I like the iCarly sort of teenager much better. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mmanurere 2010-07-21 07:38 am UTC (link)
	Wow, Ayn Rand has some fans on tvtropes. And going by a spot-check on those two pages, it seems her fans there follow the usual Objectivist pattern of never having gotten past Philosophy 101. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	re_weird 2010-07-21 09:01 am UTC (link)
	Going by the Discussion on the second page, it's edited by a follower of her philosophy who erases any criticism. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mmanurere 2010-07-21 09:47 am UTC (link)
	So can we give said follower an opportunity for a steel-cage edit-reverting deathmatch against Andy Schlafly of Conservapedia? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	barankhy 2010-07-21 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	...wait, so it's written by a fan and I still think the whole thing is shite? I wonder how it'd read if it had been written by a fervent anti-Rayndian. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mcity 2010-07-26 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	I like the fact that both pages are objective about the subject. I know Objectivism and being objective are different, but still. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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