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Title: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 12, 2012, 02:09:51 PM
(http://mothra.brontoforum.us/img/saddestdresser.jpg)

Taken on the corner of my old apartment's curb. Of the many speculations I have encountered I weep for any which would place these words on this item in such a place.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ziiro on January 12, 2012, 02:26:45 PM
Whatever it is, it's not loading. Put it on imgur or something.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 12, 2012, 02:56:10 PM
What th

Fixed. Imageshack's been on a steadily decline these past two years.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: LaserBeing on January 12, 2012, 05:31:00 PM
(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/sadbear.png)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Defenestration on January 12, 2012, 05:56:01 PM
(http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=11052001)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 12, 2012, 06:06:31 PM
What is the saddest thing? Why, that's obvious: the opening cutscene in Okami:

Okami Opening Cutscene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHAeFojDIfA#)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Büge on January 12, 2012, 08:06:07 PM
(http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/206505-the-memory-card-98-killing-medusa/FinalFantasyAdventureTitleScreen-620x.jpg)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 12, 2012, 09:01:16 PM
(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/sadbear.png)

HAHAHAHA

I... I sincerely wonder if the thread is now over.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Brentai on January 12, 2012, 09:27:14 PM
Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?

YTPMV: Ganon Says Your Face While I Play VERY Fitting Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxyh4ctGHw#)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 17, 2012, 09:24:32 PM
(http://mothra.brontoforum.us/img/squid.jpg)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: fullmooninu on January 19, 2012, 11:03:39 AM
(http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/5850/tumblrlvpfevvpn81qd4534.jpg)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Pacobird on January 19, 2012, 01:43:39 PM
(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/sadbear.png)

persona 4: the movie
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Classic on January 19, 2012, 01:47:07 PM
Why would they set the American version in Japan?
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ziiro on January 20, 2012, 12:09:27 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Uimlm.jpg)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 20, 2012, 12:47:50 PM
;____;
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ziiro on January 20, 2012, 01:04:18 PM
It's not like it was torn up by a pet on the first day they got it. The toy has obviously been well-loved and been around for a while. I had a pain in the ass of a dog that would do that to every stuffed animal in the house. It was awful.

[spoiler]IT'S ALSO SOME INCREDIBLY DEEP COMMENTARY ON HOW WE TREAT NATURE AND THE WORLD AS WELL AS MINDLESS CONSUMERISM, MAAAAN.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Malikial on January 20, 2012, 01:10:48 PM
Dogs only do that when they are not socialized well enough or played with enough...
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Lottel on January 20, 2012, 01:58:03 PM
You guys are forgetting that that's a creepyass tiger toy.
Whoever destroyed probably saved the kids from having nightmares.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 21, 2012, 08:08:39 AM
Dinosaur Comics just made me realize I have a non-zero chance of being murdered. :(
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 21, 2012, 10:18:58 AM
Link
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 21, 2012, 11:07:27 AM
Link (http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2117)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 21, 2012, 12:35:50 PM
Well I mean, most of the time murder happens as a highly emotional short-term reactive action. People don't really think of the consequences, they are just angry or distressed enough that their mind tells them that this person has to be destroyed for their own satisfaction/relief/order. Society can stress the life-ending consequences of murder to the common man, and we do, but the fact of the matter is that people don't really have a sense of what the punishment REALLY entails until they are experiencing it. You never really understand anything until you experience it. They have an idea of it but it's not really truly real, it's never imagined in the day-to-day this-is-how-my-life-will-inescapably-progress-after-I-do-this future scenario. I guess a large part of why this is is that nobody ever really wants to think about it, so they don't put any more thought into it than they need to.

I would say that popular culture movies like the Shawshank Redemption and Oz and such help deter this by giving some idea of what it would be like to spend life in prison, but you usually don't have a good incentive to sit down and watch a prison movie unless it's about something other than how shitty prison is.

There's also just crazy or imbalanced people, who exist and there's probably a way to better catalog them, but that means that police and government oversight plays a more active role in our lives and this is not something a lot of people appreciate. Also, there's a lot of grey area in what "potentially dangerous" might be defined as to our police force.

Also, it's a matter of numbers. There's usually just more people than a police force could effectively monitor. If we're going to allow autonomy and freedom, than we're allowing the possibility that people will use this to hurt us.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: McDohl on January 21, 2012, 01:28:53 PM
last panel in those comics always make the dinosaur look like he's doing the pee-pee dance.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 21, 2012, 01:43:42 PM
I've always seen it as the giddy girly hand-clapping-while-bouncing excitehop
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 21, 2012, 04:36:47 PM
Yeah, this isn't Talking Time here, folks. When we talk about something, we provide a fucking link.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Lottel on January 21, 2012, 04:43:08 PM
Yeah, this isn't Talking Time (http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/) here, folks. When we talk about something, we provide a fucking link.

ftfy
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: TA on January 21, 2012, 10:54:01 PM
Yeah, this isn't Talking Time (http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/) here, folks. When we talk about something, we provide a fucking link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink).

ftfy (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FTFY)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: McDohl on January 22, 2012, 08:06:07 AM
It's no different than, say, our old red text meme.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 22, 2012, 09:16:32 AM
It's no different than, say, our still current red text meme.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 22, 2012, 11:41:38 AM
It's no different than, say, our old RAINBOW meme.

We should have a RAINBOW meme.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on January 22, 2012, 11:47:59 AM
It's no different than, say, our old RAINBOW meme.

:imagination: We should have a RAINBOW meme. :imagination:

Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Defenestration on January 22, 2012, 12:00:48 PM
This thread is now the saddest thing.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Lottel on January 22, 2012, 12:12:59 PM
This thread is now the raddest thing.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 22, 2012, 12:24:52 PM
It's no different than, say, our old RAINBOW meme.

:imagination: We should have a RAINBOW meme. :imagination:

speaking of old memes...
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Brentai on January 22, 2012, 12:52:24 PM
This thread is now the gayest thing.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on January 22, 2012, 01:36:39 PM
We'll have a gaaayyyyy ollllddd tiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeee!
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Classic on January 22, 2012, 01:40:03 PM
I need a Winston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c#) now.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on January 22, 2012, 02:13:03 PM
My topic's almost hit three pages!!!

Not like this.... not like this..... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avr7enrZuJQ#)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 22, 2012, 02:39:00 PM
:imagination: We'll have a GAAAYYYYY OLLLLDDD TIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEE :imagination:

:imagination: I need a Winston now. :imagination:

Every seven letter word. Every single one.

Also divisible by seven works, too.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Brentai on January 22, 2012, 03:12:21 PM
I'll just have to avoid using 7-letter words the

Quote
Brentai

God DAMN  it.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: R^2 on January 22, 2012, 06:06:15 PM
Link (http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2117)

Sorry to :slowpoke: here but are the images in Dinosaur Comics so unimportant now that no one notices T-Rex is condemning murder while stomping on houses and people?
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Lottel on January 22, 2012, 06:13:00 PM
That's the only entertainment I get from it. The juxtaposition of murder and mundane discussions.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on January 22, 2012, 06:56:59 PM
He crushes the same house every strip. At this point any former inhabitants are long-dead.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Envy on January 22, 2012, 08:00:03 PM
The real question is who keeps building the house.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Lottel on January 22, 2012, 08:03:46 PM
He's also stone cold steppin' on a dude.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Classic on January 22, 2012, 08:33:48 PM
Oh, here's a good one for you.
http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew2/2012/01/21/time-away/ (http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew2/2012/01/21/time-away/)
Parish is I guess going to be contemplating mortality and shit.

EDIT:
And now I will too.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Niku on January 22, 2012, 08:40:14 PM
This is actually something a bit close to my heart, as my mother has been saying for a month or so that she's afraid my sister might not make it through the year at the rate she is requiring surgeries to make up for the problems caused by previous surgeries.  I keep meaning to go see her and I haven't yet.  I think I will this week.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on January 22, 2012, 09:24:55 PM
That is some seriously rough beats.

@Niku: Yes.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 22, 2012, 09:45:53 PM
The saddest thing is North Korean propaganda about food.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Büge on January 22, 2012, 09:52:56 PM
The saddest thing is that North Koreans appear to believe North Korean food propaganda.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 22, 2012, 09:59:43 PM
They at least have to act like it.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Defenestration on January 22, 2012, 11:49:09 PM
http://sadtrombone.com/ (http://sadtrombone.com/)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: NexAdruin on January 23, 2012, 03:31:10 AM
Best display of acting, Will Smith (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmerFuzRNZ4#noexternalembed)

Edit: better quality
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Kayma on January 23, 2012, 05:55:28 AM
I really like that scene.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Dooly on January 23, 2012, 07:49:50 AM
Yeah, this isn't Talking Time (http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/) here, folks. When we talk about something, we provide a fucking link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink).

ftfy (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FTFY)

Huh, I thought ftfy meant Fuck That, Fuck You.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: R^2 on January 23, 2012, 09:05:33 AM
Oh, here's a good one for you.
http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew2/2012/01/21/time-away/ (http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew2/2012/01/21/time-away/)
Parish is I guess going to be contemplating mortality and shit.

EDIT:
And now I will too.

This actually happened to my father with his father. Maybe not the work-obligations-delay-the-trip part but my grandfather died while we were getting in the car to drive to North Carolina to visit.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on January 23, 2012, 09:36:50 AM
When my grandmother was dying, I could not go see her as I was simply too broke, last minute cross-continent airline tickets costing $2000+ (in Canada anyway). Even my dad couldn't go - for the same reason. I don't know, my grandfather told me not to bother trying because he didn't think we'd have made it in time (and knew we were broke but didn't mention it), but I would have liked the luxury of trying. And then there was this past Christmas.

Christ, I'm tired.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on May 17, 2013, 09:42:18 AM
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/271b3c5eda69478b787f6b4f714ea24a/tumblr_mmx4537Mfz1rwnp75o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: McDohl on May 17, 2013, 09:50:31 AM
I would be sad too if someone were making me play Donkey Konga.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on May 17, 2013, 10:13:01 AM
Ben Hur Galley Slaves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX4SDd4Ym4I#ws)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on May 17, 2013, 10:52:43 AM
Ben Hur Galley Slaves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX4SDd4Ym4I#ws)

Mongrel I fear you might not quite grasp the spirit of this thread
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Brentai on May 17, 2013, 12:28:30 PM
YOUR FACE YOUR FACE YOUR oh I said that the first time.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mongrel on May 17, 2013, 12:36:02 PM
Ben Hur Galley Slaves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX4SDd4Ym4I#ws)

Mongrel I fear you might not quite grasp the spirit of this thread

Well, I dunno. Unlike our "shit" threads, this thread seems to manage to swing wildly between sad and absurd.

That cat certainly looks unhappy, but that .gif isn't exactly plumbing the depths of sombre morbidity.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on May 17, 2013, 02:26:32 PM
In my head it was more like, things that one saw that, by implication, were The Saddest Thing. But I suppose it could be both, really.

Sadness is a robust and metropolitan thing.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on May 17, 2013, 02:27:55 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/993c5437de392e07ca19355ba02a30b1/tumblr_mmuusyly0c1qczk3po1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on May 17, 2013, 02:37:41 PM
wow
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Post by: Mongrel on May 17, 2013, 02:44:50 PM
Tragicomedy defined.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Büge on May 17, 2013, 02:50:26 PM
Brontoforumus, what is The Tastelessest Thing?
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ted Belmont on May 17, 2013, 04:45:04 PM
Too soon
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on August 12, 2013, 03:40:08 PM
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/231a9b6ff43668a66bc0c64146d2a366/tumblr_mrg6t2jKr11r9bzpho1_1280.gif)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 12, 2013, 07:41:17 PM
... jesus, that made me suicidal
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Büge on August 12, 2013, 10:17:40 PM
I wonder if that person is still at it now that they're 38.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: on August 12, 2013, 10:27:49 PM
Googleing "GamemasterAnthony" suggests yes.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on August 13, 2013, 11:21:16 AM
Yes... yes there is absolutely more. There is a fanfiction.net profile packed with Sonic the Hedgehog stories, but... well, I think you all get the gist of it.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on August 13, 2013, 11:22:49 AM
On topic, the hyper-conservative, vaguely retarded mother of my friend, whom I friended on Facebook so that she wouldn't feel so alone, posted this the other day, and I just... it hit me, somehow, as profoundly, immensely sad:

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/44dc53378e76624526d909026c88c600/tumblr_mrfgpherp21qfn1c0o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Royal☭ on August 13, 2013, 11:39:42 AM
It's like some parable from a religion so ancient we can no longer comprehend its time, place or meaning.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Smiler on August 13, 2013, 11:40:21 AM
Brony Powerpoint Speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aMrSFNR8SY#ws)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Brentai on August 13, 2013, 12:10:32 PM
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/44dc53378e76624526d909026c88c600/tumblr_mrfgpherp21qfn1c0o1_500.jpg)

Was the next post grabbed on purpose or...
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Thad on August 13, 2013, 12:36:26 PM
Brony Powerpoint Speech

I thought for a second, from the preview still, that the man giving the Brony Powerpoint Speech was Neil Gaiman.

Isn't it amazing how a minor change can turn the Saddest Thing into the Awesomest Thing?
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on August 13, 2013, 01:51:57 PM
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/44dc53378e76624526d909026c88c600/tumblr_mrfgpherp21qfn1c0o1_500.jpg)

Was the next post grabbed on purpose or...
On purpose. Just seemed too perfect to leave it out.
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Ocksi on September 13, 2013, 05:14:37 PM
Baby elephant cries for hours after being rejected by mother (http://m.now.msn.com/baby-elephant-in-china-rejected-by-mom-wept-inconsolably)
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 13, 2013, 09:37:18 PM
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ELEPHANTS COULD CRY

JESUS
Title: Re: Brontoforumus, what is The Saddest Thing?
Post by: Mothra on September 14, 2013, 02:57:31 AM
2013 Saddest Thing in History