The Eternal Thread: 2016 is dead! Long live 2017!

[Ethel mermania]

The system is so fucking broken it's not even funny.

I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.

overpriced books have always been the case, small runs, required reading, it has always been a mafia shakedown.

[Farnhamia]

Definitely. Textbook prices are set by the publisher, of course. Torches and pitchforks, we're off to storm McGraw-Hill!

Let's not forget Pearson and Prentice Hall.

Them, too!

I applied at Prentice Hall for a proofreading job, years and years and years ago. Didn't get it, which was just as well.

[Gallade]

I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.

Except keeping a public copy of a textbook indefinitely is a dick move.

Only if you're caught. I think you'll find he who drops his library card in the atrium tends to acquire a disproportionately large lost/stolen book fine by year's end.

What a jerk that definitely guilty soul is!

[Gallade]

I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.

overpriced books have always been the case, small runs, required reading, it has always been a mafia shakedown.

I just feel cheated that kids these days can just flounce past pay walls like they're nothing.

I worked two jobs to read.

[The Serbian Empire]

So what does TET think of urban exploration?

I mean, I've explored downtown Boston in Fallout 4. Does that count?

Is it ruins?

[Kannap]

So I started another step of cruel adulthood: Establishing credit.

I had to jump on buying this textbook now since it was on sale for 150 dollars and in two days it was going to be 340 dollars.

The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.

I still have to buy two more textbooks, one is 87 dollars and another is 75.

[Valdiu]

I mean, I've explored downtown Boston in Fallout 4. Does that count?

Is it ruins?

Isn't modern Boston already in ruins?

[Kannap]

Definitely. Textbook prices are set by the publisher, of course. Torches and pitchforks, we're off to storm McGraw-Hill!

Let's not forget Pearson and Prentice Hall.

Oh hearing those names pains me right now. I work in the campus bookstore and we're receiving our shipments from all of those publishers tomorrow and Monday. We've gotta have them in the system and on the shelf, ready to sell, by Tuesday.

[The Princes of the Universe]

Get thee to a nunnery.

[Valdiu]

The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.

I still have to buy two more textbooks, one is 87 dollars and another is 75.

I can sell my AP Chem textbook and buy a GTX1080. It's ridiculous.

[Valdiu]

Let's not forget Pearson and Prentice Hall.

Oh hearing those names pains me right now. I work in the campus bookstore and we're receiving our shipments from all of those publishers tomorrow and Monday. We've gotta have them in the system and on the shelf, ready to sell, by Tuesday.

You should swipe some for me.

[The Serbian Empire]

Is it ruins?

Isn't modern Boston already in ruins?

It's one of the more intact cities of America. If you want ruins, visit Detroit!

Get thee to a nunnery.

I'm having nun of it.

[Kannap]

I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.

Except keeping a public copy of a textbook indefinitely is a dick move.

Whoa, thanks for reminding me, that textbook I checked out of the library and kept all of last semester and extended my due date through the break is due soon.

[Farnhamia]

Is it ruins?

Isn't modern Boston already in ruins?

I thought it was the Boston Bruins.

[Kannap]

Oh hearing those names pains me right now. I work in the campus bookstore and we're receiving our shipments from all of those publishers tomorrow and Monday. We've gotta have them in the system and on the shelf, ready to sell, by Tuesday.

You should swipe some for me.

Whoa, that's stealing. Not cool man.

[The Princes of the Universe]

Get thee to a nunnery.

I'm having nun of it.

Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.

[Valdiu]

You should swipe some for me.

Whoa, that's stealing. Not cool man.

Yeah, but neither are these exorbitant prices.

[Ethel mermania]

overpriced books have always been the case, small runs, required reading, it has always been a mafia shakedown.

I just feel cheated that kids these days can just flounce past pay walls like they're nothing.

I worked two jobs to read.

uphill both ways, for me.

[The Serbian Empire]

Isn't modern Boston already in ruins?

I thought it was the Boston Bruins.

Milan Lucic left for the Oilers. He wants his number back!

I'm having nun of it.

Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.

Sinners? You mean those who use sine.

[Valdiu]

I thought it was the Boston Bruins.

Milan Lucic left for the Oilers. He wants his number back!

Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.

Sinners? You mean those who use sine.

Tangent is where it's at.

[Auremena]

Steve Perry is probably dying right now... Someone is butchering his song like hell.

[Auremena]

I thought it was the Boston Bruins.

Milan Lucic left for the Oilers. He wants his number back!

Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.

Sinners? You mean those who use sine.

Does that make me a cosiner?

[The Holy Empire of the Spaghetti Monster]

Get thee to a nunnery.

With pleasure, as I know what that really means...

[Farnhamia]

Milan Lucic left for the Oilers. He wants his number back!


Sinners? You mean those who use sine.

Tangent is where it's at.

I loved Tangier, in the ancient days. Lovely harbor, some very good inns, and you could get interesting commodities from the Western Sahara and down the West African coast. Not to mention Tangerines!

[The Serbian Empire]

Milan Lucic left for the Oilers. He wants his number back!

Sinners? You mean those who use sine.

Does that make me a cosinner?

Only if one has encountered Bill Cos (b).