UM member-themed mixtape game

[arg]

In this mixtape we dedicate songs to UM members!

The songs can be metal OR non-metal and should exemplify their persona on the forum, or simply make fun of them!

Our first theme is MASTER YODA (SCHMIDT)

Send me your songs you semen guzzling fucks! yes you can submit songs about yourself

 

[no country for old wainds]

i would but i don't know enough about jewish music

 

[Internally Deformed]

Finally an idea for a mixtape game that actually sounds fun. Submitted.

 

[arg]

Already have a handful, cmon guys you know you love Schmitty

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I am so honored.

Also, track submitted.

 

[CiG]

I'm in.

 

[arg]

Haha there's more to Yoda than alcohol dudes, he is a complex individual with fine tastes in culture and media

Also, in my round repeat bands will be allowed cuz im the game master, bitches

 

[no country for old wainds]

i didn't realise i had so much in common with yoda til just now

 

[Phylactery]

i didn't realise i had so much in common with yoda til just now

What's your degree in? Assuming this is one of the things you have a in common - a degree you don't want?

 

[arg]

And Seinfeld! I want fucking Seinfeld submissions you shits!

 

[no country for old wainds]

What's your degree in? Assuming this is one of the things you have a in common - a degree you don't want?

philosophy

 

[Internally Deformed]

Your mind is not your own,
What sounds more mentally stimulating is how you make your choice
So you preach about how I'm supposed to be, yet you don't you know your own
Sexuality.

 

[Phylactery]

I wouldn't say it's useless. Doesn't it involve lots of critical thinking and logic? Sounds quite interesting to me.

 

[Internally Deformed]

In the job market it is, it can be fun for doing some intellectual tinkering for shits and giggles, but making it your major and using it for your primary degree? One of the worst you could choose aside from a gender studies or communications degree.

Not really accurate. I agree that there are little in the way of practical career applications for Philosophy, but it's a difficult subject to be accepted for, and a difficult subject to do well in. Employers know this, and they're also aware that Philosophy students learn skills (as mentioned before: critical thinking, the ability to present a coherent argument, persuasiveness) that can be more useful in the workplace than those learned on more practically oriented courses.

The real doss subjects tend to be those invented in the past few decades, often terminating in the word "studies". Philosophy predates science and just about every other subject, so it has some historical prestige on its side.

 

[Phylactery]

Yeah I guess so, but there must be jobs out there that value it as a degree. Also who is to say he doesn't have a good job? I don't know what he does.

Edit: This was in response to H.P Lovecraft.

 

[Internally Deformed]

I think he works in a shop of some kind.

*previous argument falls flat on its face*

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Ozzman takes what I say way too seriously here. I mean, do most people get a degree in a subject that they absolutely, truly, fucking adore every second of the day? Like, what kind of sick, twisted fuck loves accounting?

 

[Phylactery]

I thoroughly enjoyed the entire 3 years of my maths degree. Maybe I'm just weird, though. A lot of people on the course at the same time as me did seem to be doing it for the prospects of a good job, rather than for the love of the subject.

 

[Internally Deformed]

I never said it was an easy class, by no means is it, especially for good universities. It can in fact provide worthwhile skill sets that employers will consider, I don't deny that either. My point is simply that it's not going to be the thing that gets you a good job if you don't have something else better and, or more pragmatic going for you. If you apply to IBM with a bachelor's in philosophy as your major, I hate to break it to you, but they ain't hiring you unless you want to be the janitor.

You're also not going to be accepted to a top law firm with a computer sciences degree, so I don't take your point.

I also think it's incredibly limiting for the sole purpose of higher education to be preparation for employment. The benefits of humanities educations are less tangible on an individual scale, but I think a populace with a better understanding of its cultural and ideological context is far more likely to move in a positive direction than one in which people are educated primarily by the mass media. Many people highly educated in a specific, practical or science based field - in my experience - are astonishingly uneducated otherwise.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Like, it wasn't the subject matter that I didn't enjoy anymore, it was the whole experience of academia that I got fed up with. The rampant autism, bureaucratic nonsense, and the whole environment. My friend once put it best when he said that he was interested in pursuing a graduate degree until he realized that he had to actually converse with graduate students.