Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141

[Sneak]

I'm listening to the new New Pornographers album, and all I can think is: "Fortunately, the New Pornographers more than make up for the harm Canada caused to music in the form of Nickelback." :smalltongue:

Also, I'm reading The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth for modern lit class. It's ****ing amazing.

[Coidzor]

What's it about, Sneakers Bar?
Excuse me, but a parme what?

What I'm making except with chicken and I'm using zucchini instead of eggplant, so really, not what I'm making at all other than in the name. (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Eggplant-Parmigiana-Caponata/Detail.aspx)

Smells so good, babies jump out the window!

[Sneak]

What's it about, Sneakers Bar?

It's a novel written in verse (sonnets in iambic tetrameter) about yuppies in San Francisco in the 80's.

...it sounds bizarre, but it's not. It's just good.

[absolmorph]

My day, in summary:
Most sites are blocked on my laptop (which I have for school), don't have my phone, spent all day on schoolwork, am still behind on schoolwork, can't see my friends tomorrow like I hoped to and probably won't get to see my girlfriend for about 25 days.
Not being able to see my girlfriend is like an onion topping the crud sundae my day has been.
I hate onions.

[Phase]

Some people like onions.

I don't, but I do like finally beating World of Goo.

[Sneak]

Me, I prefer onions.

[absolmorph]

Some people like onions.

I don't, but I do like finally beating World of Goo.
That's why I specified my intense dislike.

[Dogmantra]

I'm...getting better, but stilll feeling cruddy.:smallfrown:

Try looking at your avatar. It makes everything better.

[Coidzor]

Not being able to see my girlfriend is like an onion topping the crud sundae my day has been.

Have a VGcats to cheer you up. (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/)

Me, I'm still confused as to where the onions went in my zucchini parmesan.

Also, how a 57 year old and a 21 year old managed to eat a meal for about 6 people between the two of them in like, no time flat.

[KuReshtin]

Also, how a 57 year old and a 21 year old managed to eat a meal for about 6 people between the two of them in like, no time flat.

That's usually what happens when I make lasagna. Doesn't matter how much I make, it all disappears.

[Teddy]

Must be because cookbook authors don't know anything about the hunger of the populace...

[randman22222]

They're more worried about the taste than getting their "will feed" estimates right. :smalltongue:

Also, just spent ~22 hours in airports thanks to cancellations, reschedulings, and delays. Then 9 in flights (not so bad). I smelled like I was homeless by the end. :smalltongue:

[KuReshtin]

Must be because cookbook authors don't know anything about the hunger of the populace...

What is this 'cookbook' thing you are talking about?
That like a cheat-sheet on how to cook?
People use those?

[CurlyKitGirl]

I think it depends on several things:
1) The complexity of the recipe and
2) How often said dish has been made before.
I know that I'm more than comfortable cooking up a roast, cauliflower cheese, cottage pie, spag bol, stew and other simple things like that even though they seem complicated and I've never not really made one all by my own before.
But the reason I'm so confident with making them is that I've seen 'em made lots and done peripheral assistance, and really, when you get down to it most of them's meat and potatoes and some veg. Then for spag bol you just take away the taties, add some pasta and tomatoe-y sauce and for the cauli you make a cheese sauce. Hardly all that is it?

With something I've never seen made before I'd have a look at the recipe and copy out the important instructions, but cooking calls for flexibility and innovation. If I don't want green peppers in my fajitas (yeah, we made fajitas once at home - we're now super-exotic) I'll take them out and add a bit more meat, veg and spicy stuff for the sauce.

Desserts would require a recipe for the first time around though. Because we all like a good essert and I don't want to muck it up.

[Trobby]

Try looking at your avatar. It makes everything better.

*Looks at my avatar*

http://images.whatport80.com/images/9/9e/HA_HA_HA,_OH_WOW.jpg

That totally makes things better. :smallredface: Thanks, Doggie. ^.^

[lord pringle]

*Looks at my avatar*

I want to devolve you back in to a mareep...
you'd be so much cuter!

[Teddy]

What is this 'cookbook' thing you are talking about?
That like a cheat-sheet on how to cook?
People use those?

It was more a respond to Coidzor and his supposed 6-person meal. And it's always important to have a scapegoat to blame. And in this case, if you make a too small dinner without a cookbook, you've only got yourself to blame.


I want to devolve you back in to a mareep...
you'd be so much cuter!

Why are pokemon always cuter before they evolve? Sometimes they get cooler when they evolve, but sometimes they just become plain ugly.

[KuReshtin]

It was more a respond to Coidzor and his supposed 6-person meal. And it's always important to have a scapegoat to blame. And in this case, if you make a too small dinner without a cookbook, you've only got yourself to blame.



I don't do 'too small dinner'. Mainly because when I do cook, I tend to cook for several days in advance. Like this:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kureshtin/images/Food.jpg

That is my bolognaise sauce filling up a wok, and a meatloaf at the top that I made mainly because I ran out of space to put the meat in the bolognaise sauce. :smallbiggrin: And that's me cooking for me, and no one else.

But I see your point about having someone to blame. However, if you do use the recipe in a cook book, and you blame the recipe for it being too little food at the end, people can respond by saying 'well, you know cook books always have really small portions, so you should have compensated.'

[Mando Knight]

Why are pokemon always cuter before they evolve? Sometimes they get cooler when they evolve, but sometimes they just become plain ugly.

Because babies are cute, but adults are cool. Pokémon have to follow the same progression. :smallwink:

[Rawhide]

Has anyone ever evolved a pikachu (and not regretted it)?

[Coplantor]

I always evolve my pokemons without regret.

[Rawhide]

http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129165187387649492.jpg

[Coplantor]

It took you some time this time rawhide... what happened?

[Rawhide]

Hey, I can't post pictures all the time! I have to have some serious posts.


Here, to make up for it, check out this highly relevant picture:
http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129165187321869262.jpg

[Deth Muncher]

There's Pokemon discussion going on in three different threads now.

Obviously, there's been an invasion.

[Coplantor]

Hey, I can't post pictures all the time! I have to have some serious posts.


Here, to make up for it, check out this highly relevant picture:
http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129165187321869262.jpg

I want to carry your children

[Trobby]

So does this mean that the Digimon attack is actually just a counter-attack against Pokemon?

Also, has anyone else noticed that Pokemon is considered a word by Firefox, but Digimon is not?

[Teddy]

There's Pokemon discussion going on in three different threads now.

Obviously, there's been an invasion.

We must gather a defensive militia at once and arm our bears. This threat must be dealt with now!

[Rawhide]

We must gather a defensive militia at once and arm our bears. This threat must be dealt with now!

PREPARING DEFENCES

http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/chargin_malaysia.jpg

[Dogmantra]

That totally makes things better. :smallredface: Thanks, Doggie. ^.^

Tell you what would make things even better is if you happened to post the non-themed Kuppy Boy. Not telling why though. :smallsmile:

[Deth Muncher]

PREPARING DEFENCES

PUN

OH GOD THE PUNS THEY WOUND ME!

[Kobold-Bard]

Thanks Rawhide, I needed another black hole for my time. I'd just escaped tvtropes :smallwink:

[Rawhide]

Thanks Rawhide, I needed another black hole for my time. I'd just escaped tvtropes :smallwink:

You're welcome. :wink:



Well guys

http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129165187334369262.jpg

But I'm afraid I must go. You see, I'm quite busy and

http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129165230724301152.jpg

[Deth Muncher]

You're welcome. :wink:



Well guys

PUNS

But I'm afraid I must go. You see, I'm quite busy and

MOAR PUNS

WHYYYYYYY do you do this to me?! Puns are my only weakness! Well, that and bullets. My only weaknesses are puns and bullets...and procrastination. Okay, AMONG my weaknesses are puns, bullets and procrastination.

[Legoshrimp]

WHYYYYYYY do you do this to me?! Puns are my only weakness! Well, that and bullets. My only weaknesses are puns and bullets...and procrastination. Okay, AMONG my weaknesses are puns, bullets and procrastination.

Maybe to clarify you should say something along the lines of "My non physical weakness is puns, although you probably would end up running into the same issues :smallbiggrin: So this is my first time reading/posting in an RB thread....Scary >.>

[Coplantor]

WHYYYYYYY do you do this to me?! Puns are my only weakness! Well, that and bullets. My only weaknesses are puns and bullets...and procrastination. Okay, AMONG my weaknesses are puns, bullets and procrastination.

OK, puns, bullets, proccastination and Monty Python.

[Kobold-Bard]

Maybe to clarify you should say something along the lines of "My non physical weakness is puns, although you probably would end up running into the same issues :smallbiggrin: So this is my first time reading/posting in an RB thread....Scary >.>

Scary because it's your first time? Or do you find the thread itself scary?

[Legoshrimp]

Okay scary was an exaggeration, that I said in a most likely entirely fail attempt to be funny. Also I think I'm either worse at spelling, or FireFox is wrong. It is saying "Okay" is spelled wrong.

[Trobby]

@Doggie: Uh....if you say so.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/NewAvatarblueclothes.png

[Dogmantra]

Danke, Trobby.

Also hey guys!
Portal is free (http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/) so if you play vidja games, or even have a vague idea of what they are, go and download it. You shan't be disappointed. I won't let you.

[Trobby]

...;w; But...I already own it...

[Dogmantra]

...

Download it again.

[Thajocoth]

...;w; But...I already own it...

I got it with the Orange Box as one of my first 360 games. Honestly, if it was purchasable separately back then, I wouldn't've gotten the rest of the Orange Box.

[Thufir]

Link gives me a blank page. I am disappointed.

[Kobold-Bard]

Link gives me a blank page. I am disappointed.

Try it more than once, it gave me an error message the first time.

[Fostire]

Try it more than once, it gave me an error message the first time.

You can also go straight here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/ instead of going to the announcement page.

[Dogmantra]

I got it with the Orange Box as one of my first 360 games. Honestly, if it was purchasable separately back then, I wouldn't've gotten the rest of the Orange Box.

Get it on PC.

[Thajocoth]

Get it on PC.

I'm not a PC gamer. Having only 4 directions to move in at any given time just feels too restrictive to me, and I don't have a gaming PC because there's no point in getting one when I've got 8 consoles hooked up. If I were to get Portal again, I'd get the version on the 360 that comes with bonus maps.

[Dogmantra]

You get the bonus maps on PC.

For free.

And I bought Portal twice. For the same system. You have it lucky, you people. *waves walking stick*

[Trobby]

...Incidentally, why did you want both of the avatars, Doggie? o.o;

[Deth Muncher]

You get the bonus maps on PC.

For free.

And I bought Portal twice. For the same system. You have it lucky, you people. *waves walking stick*

If I got Portal on the OB, do I have the bonus maps?

[Rawhide]

I'm not a PC gamer. Having only 4 directions to move in at any given time just feels too restrictive to me, and I don't have a gaming PC because there's no point in getting one when I've got 8 consoles hooked up. If I were to get Portal again, I'd get the version on the 360 that comes with bonus maps.

OMGWTFBBQ

PC controls feel restrictive??????

Well, other than the fact that you are welcome to use an Xbox 360 controller on PC if you should wish it (but why???) or a third party USB controller (such as those from Logitech), I am left with only one question - are you completely insane?

The mouse/keyboard control system is far less restrictive than the console controls. Sure, there's only four buttons for moving, wait, five or six (run/walk and/or run/walk toggle), but that actually makes 8 directions + speed control. Add another two if you count turn left and right, but nobody uses those, and I'll tell you why, the mouse. You have complete freedom to look and turn in any direction you want within an instant, I'm talking about absolute precision control.

WASD may, on the face of it, look restrictive to you, but the mouse is the only way to play an FPS. The mouse keyboard combo is far superior to an analog stick any day of the week and I'm having a hard time thinking up a better combination (even eye tracking is severly limited unless you have a 360degree monitor around you).

[Thajocoth]

...an FPS...

Portal's more of a FPPP. First Person Puzzle Platformer.

Anyway... There are advantages to both styles. You like the fluidity of aiming with a mouse. I like the fluidity of walking with an analog stick. Ideally, you'd have both. In a game where platforming is more the focus, like Portal and Mirror's Edge, the advantage of the mouse is far less, and the advantage of the analog stick increases.

For me, a controller feels far more comfortable in my hands than a keyboard... And there's no real chance of pressing the wrong button and screwing something up, or having to look down to see where my fingers are, like there is with a keyboard. I also never have to use my pinkies, which is a plus for me. So I do play a few FPS games on console as well (The Bioshock and Metroid Prime serieses come to mind), and pretty much ignore PC gaming altogether.

Very little of what I play is FPS. Most of it's 3rd person or a 2D view. When given the option in a game, I'll generally stick to 3rd person when I can (Fallout 3's the only example I can think of here).

EDIT: It's entirely possible that I've mentioned every first person view game I have in this post... For reference. Well, aside from the rest of the Orange Box, but that's implied.

[Thufir]

And there's no real chance of pressing the wrong button and screwing something up, or having to look down to see where my fingers are, like there is with a keyboard.

There isn't a risk of that with a keyboard either. You just position your fingers on the buttons you need.

[Rawhide]

Well, one of the reasons that the keyboard is good is because of the sheer amount of buttons you have at your fingertips, but I can see why you may not like the lack of easily determining which button is which from touch (but to me, that's very easy, the size and shape of capslock/shift are very distinctive). This is why you can buy special controllers designed purely to use in your off-hand which are usually much more comfortable, contain distinctive buttons you can tell from touch, can be configured and programmed with macros. These devices sometimes even contain an analog thumbstick! Mice too can often have extra buttons suitable for gaming (the standard mouse already has 5).

As for comfort (briefly touched in the previous paragraph) I'm glad you said that the keyboard, not the mouse, was uncomfortable for you. Comfort is a subjective thing, but personally I have found the mouse to be very comfortable. The keyboard for gaming obviously isn't completely optimal (being a multipurpose device), but I haven't had any issues (and then there's the aforementioned dedicated gaming devices to alleviate that).

As for the FPS thing. I think of Portal as more of a "First Person Shooter where the only thing you shoot is portals". It is part of the FPS genre and uses the FPS controls, just with a lot less "shooting" and a lot more puzzle solving and jumping - Half Life already contained a lot of the "jumpy-jumpy" elements. I very much like that precision mouse control when trying to shoot portals while mid-air in the middle of a leap to exactly where I need it when I land or hit the wall.

[Thajocoth]

There isn't a risk of that with a keyboard either. You just position your fingers on the buttons you need.

I've found that my fingers tend to shift over time. With two right hands and a left hand this wouldn't really be much of an issue. Rightest hand: mouse, Right hand: arrow keys, Left hand: jump/crouch/select stuff/pause/ect... Though, my left hand would still wind up shifting occasionally. Around each button on a controller is more unique, and you're holding it anyway... So that doesn't really happen.

All-in-all... TETO. As long as they keep releasing the games for both groups, we're all happy. My next game is for both 360 & PC, though it's more of a side-view sorta thing.

[Coidzor]

I very highly doubt that you lack the ability to get the muscle memory to go back to WADS of all things. I mean, most keyboards have the middle row site keys to go off of if one gets lost anyway.

Though, I must admit, if one is going to hit the wrong button, this is going to happen regardless of whether one is using a keyboard of a controller. Neither is butter proof, after all.

[Thajocoth]

I very highly doubt that you lack the ability to get the muscle memory to go back to WADS of all things. I mean, most keyboards have the middle row site keys to go off of if one gets lost anyway.

Though, I must admit, if one is going to hit the wrong button, this is going to happen regardless of whether one is using a keyboard of a controller. Neither is butter proof, after all.

A keyboard has several dozen keys that each feel exactly the same. Most controllers have none. It is very easy to think you're on a set of keys you're not on.

You know, finger shift wasn't even one of my bigger points...

And when I've played games on the PC in the past, you know what I used? The arrow keys with my left hand, reaching over to Ctrl, Shift, Enter, Space & Alt, occasionally missing and hitting the rt-click or windows buttons, so really it's not easy for me to finger shift unless I'm moving my hand across the keyboard to press something specific, like a number or F-key. Or I'd have my right hand on the arrows and my left hand on a few key buttons (if there was no mouse option) or I'd use a gamepad. I don't like WASD even if I am stuck playing on a PC. The only game I've played that forced WASD was a 2-player 1-keyboard game that had P1 on arrow keys and P2 on WASD.

[Coidzor]

Well, there's regions of the keyboard, mostly defined by the border of the number keys and the shift/tab and such, which are usually a different shape if not texture.

I've used my keyboard enough that it actually does feel different between the keys, but that may be mental conditioning/poor...not hygiene, let's go with maintenance of the keyboard surfaces.

the name "Why?" as far as band names go, sucks for finding them online. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUHw3mYQYTg&feature=related) :smallannoyed:

Apparently I look a bit like one of the guys from the bandage though.

[Rawhide]

the name "Why?" as far as band names go, sucks for finding them online.[/URL] :smallannoyed:

You think "Why?" is bad, try searching for "Live".

[Jokasti]

The worst would be 'The'.
Maybe 'Of' or 'A'.

[Rawhide]

The worst would be 'The'.
Maybe 'Of' or 'A'.

Searching for V can sometimes be quite tricky...

[Pheehelm]

<Insomniak`> Stupid ******* Google
<Insomniak`> "The" is a common word, and was not included in your search
<Insomniak`> "Who" is a common word, and was not included in your search----------

[Partof1]

Ah, computers and games, the things that bind geeks together and internally cause them undue suffering for their enjoyment. Being serious about fun makes it little fun, but fulfilling. Fun is also harder with limited funds. Such is my case. I am torn between supporting my video- or war- gaming addictions, and would like some other opinions.

I am looking either at (A) Pokemon SoulSilver or (B) a Chaos Predator for Warhammer 40k. I would buy both, but I must balance my funds with a generous portion going towards a Cuba trip with school.

In favour of (A):
-Childhood sentimentality
-accomplishment of ingrained goals (ie, catching mewtwo, as well as Lugia)
-Pokewalker

In favour of (B):
-It is a tank.
-will further a new hobby, expanding my knowledgability of aspects of the game


So, take up again an old obsession, or further a new one?
Random bantererers, help!:smalleek:

[lord pringle]

Ah, computers and games, the things that bind geeks together and internally cause them undue suffering for their enjoyment. Being serious about fun makes it little fun, but fulfilling. Fun is also harder with limited funds. Such is my case. I am torn between supporting my video- or war- gaming addictions, and would like some other opinions.

I am looking either at (A) Pokemon SoulSilver or (B) a Chaos Predator for Warhammer 40k. I would buy both, but I must balance my funds with a generous portion going towards a Cuba trip with school.

In favour of (A):
-Childhood sentimentality
-accomplishment of ingrained goals (ie, catching mewtwo, as well as Lugia)
-Pokewalker

In favour of (B):
-It is a tank.
-will further a new hobby, expanding my knowledgability of aspects of the game


So, take up again an old obsession, or further a new one?
Random bantererers, help!:smalleek:

I would say pokemon, because it doesn't require lots of set up and can be played more or less anywhere.

[Partof1]

Good point, good point.

That is actually helpful. Now leaning towards Pokeymans.

[Deth Muncher]

Good point, good point.

That is actually helpful. Now leaning towards Pokeymans.

While I support the Chaos Pred (I'm an Iron Warriors player myself), I further support Pokeymans because while Game Freak and Nintendo both suck, at least they're not price raising bastages like GW.

[Phase]

You know that point on the Stress Event Horizon when yelling the worst curse you know at the top of your lungs and hitting things against other things just doesn't help.

And so you feel this urge to take a brick to someone's face, just to relieve the tension, to allow yourself some release.

I've hit that point. I'm going to bed.

[lord pringle]

You know that point on the Stress Event Horizon when yelling the worst curse you know at the top of your lungs and hitting things against other things just doesn't help.

And so you feel this urge to take a brick to someone's face, just to relieve the tension, to allow yourself some release.

I've hit that point. I'm going to bed.

Oh. Oh my. Hate those days.

[Coidzor]

More enjoyment from a new pokemon game rather than a single piece or armor that will require additional expenditures to justify having bought it if it does work out. ...And even MORE expenditures if it doesn't work out but you don't drop the hobby.

[Kobold-Bard]

"I felt like a whale, I was miserable with my life because of my size...I went from a size 10 to a size 2

I was under the impression that Size 10 was normal. Am I wrong? I am rubbish at stuff like this.

[Dogmantra]

...Incidentally, why did you want both of the avatars, Doggie? o.o;

I just wanted your non-theme one acshually.

But it's a secret.

[Deth Muncher]

Dogmantra, you silly person, you can't catch Butterfree with a net!

[Dogmantra]

That's what he wants you to think.

[Deth Muncher]

That's what he wants you to think.

O_o

What the I don't even.

[Dogmantra]

Butterfree can learn Confusion, y'know. Just... just sayin' is all.

[Deth Muncher]

My Lord. Godwin's Law in effect. I'm writing a paper in my Bioethics class, and mentioned the Nazis.

5 pages is all it took. >_<

[Thufir]

Woo, Portal. Maybe I should get some sleep now... or have another go at some of those challenges...

[absolmorph]

I'm currently waiting for an opportunity to use my abs as part of an argument.
Because I can.

[Dogmantra]

I have a new hobby: playing Spanish Flea over fight scenes from films.

I find the cave troll scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpssk85XTQQ) from the first LotR film to fit rather well. Go on, give it a try. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU)

[Kobold-Bard]

I just took the exact same exam as I did last year, apparently this lecturer doesn't change his exams ever.

[Quincunx]

That would've been nice to learn last year, from a student of his from two years ago.

I wear a UK size 10 with a BMI of 20 and a skeletal structure that's within norms for UK sizing but petite in US sizing. Size 10 is supposed to be in the middle of the average size ranges, but since the UK sizes don't go smaller than 6 and that's if you're very lucky, I am not sure what they're thinking. (I'm thinking they need to recalibrate the scale for the post-rationing generation. UK 4 and below would only fit very short women. The sizes get distorted when scaled that small and no longer are proportionate to average height.) US sizes actually do go down to 0 (UK 4) and up to, and past, 20, so the US 10 is a better expression of the median size at least.

[Dogmantra]

I just took the exact same exam as I did last year, apparently this lecturer doesn't change his exams ever.

Speaking of exams, I just found out my compulsory 6th form induction day is on the same day as my last GCSE. Thanks for remembering me, guys!

They had better not make me go in the morning 'cause my exam starts at quarter to two. Oh boy is it going to be awkward saying I can't go to that, since it's only me and one other person sitting this paper.

It's not like I'm even changing school!

[Kobold-Bard]

Speaking of exams, I just found out my compulsory 6th form induction day is on the same day as my last GCSE. Thanks for remembering me, guys!

They had better not make me go in the morning 'cause my exam starts at quarter to two. Oh boy is it going to be awkward saying I can't go to that, since it's only me and one other person sitting this paper.

It's not like I'm even changing school!

Welcome to the wonderful world of non-compulsory education bureaucracy. It may not be this way for everyone but every little thing involves at least 3 phonecalls/letter/emails to get anything done.

[Coplantor]

I have a new hobby: playing Spanish Flea over fight scenes from films.

I find the cave troll scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpssk85XTQQ) from the first LotR film to fit rather well. Go on, give it a try. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU)

What is this spanish flea I'm too lazy too google about but I'm using as an opportunity to join the conversation without an abrupt change of topic?

[Kobold-Bard]

I have a new hobby: playing Spanish Flea over fight scenes from films.

I find the cave troll scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpssk85XTQQ) from the first LotR film to fit rather well. Go on, give it a try. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU)

That was brilliant. Reminded me of when I discovered you could play mp3s through the Xbox 360 rather than the actual game music. Gears of War with Walkin on sunshine as a soundtrack is surprisingly funny.

[Dogmantra]

What is this spanish flea I'm too lazy too google about but I'm using as an opportunity to join the conversation without an abrupt change of topic?

The first link is the scene. The second link is Spanish Flea.

[Coplantor]

The first link is the scene. The second link is Spanish Flea.

At work right now, no youtube for me...:smallfrown:

[Kobold-Bard]

At work right now, no youtube for me...:smallfrown:

Do it once you get home. LotR scenes played to totally inappropriate music is highly recommended.

[Coplantor]

I get home around 11:00 pm, ussually very tired and my mother is always on facebook, seems like I'll have to wait till saturday :smallyuk:

[Rawhide]

Now you're thinking with LEGO

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/portal_view_1.jpg

[Coplantor]

Intresting, I'm looking at some snaps from the security cameras from where I work, pretty much every shop lifter is an old lady.

[randman22222]

I have a new hobby: playing Spanish Flea over fight scenes from films.

I find the cave troll scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpssk85XTQQ) from the first LotR film to fit rather well. Go on, give it a try. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU)

Eeeheehee... This is amusing. I like doing similar things with my iPod, and random people walking around. The Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdFwhhH2x7I) makes even people getting off of a bus seem really epic. :smalltongue:

[Dragonrider]

I was under the impression that Size 10 was normal. Am I wrong? I am rubbish at stuff like this.

The thing about women (at least in the US), though, is that normal-sized ones are likely to feel fat. Thin ones are likely to feel fat. Fat ones are likely to feel extra-fat. Fatness is not related in any way to size; it is related to self-esteem and state of mind. Anytime a woman feels bad about herself, she tends to channel it into expressions of fatness.

It's a mad, mad world.

[Quincunx]

Aye. Instead of bathing in the blood of our enemies once, we're expected to butter our skins with the bleeding from our enemies' self-esteem, bit by bit. Not as satisfying.

[The Rose Dragon]

The thing about women (at least in the US), though, is that normal-sized ones are likely to feel fat. Thin ones are likely to feel fat. Fat ones are likely to feel extra-fat. Fatness is not related in any way to size; it is related to self-esteem and state of mind. Anytime a woman feels bad about herself, she tends to channel it into expressions of fatness.

It's a mad, mad world.

Strangely enough, some will feel too thin. It is rare, but it happens.

[Dr. Bath]

What is this spanish flea I'm too lazy too google about but I'm using as an opportunity to join the conversation without an abrupt change of topic?

It goes: Doo doo doo do du du du doo. Doo doo doo do du du du doo. Du du du do do doo du du du do do doo doooo. Dududududooo. And so on.

[Dragonrider]

Strangely enough, some will feel too thin. It is rare, but it happens.

Yes; but there is not the cultural stigma on thinness that I would say there is on fatness. It's a rare woman who will complain about her thighs not being jiggly enough.

[The Rose Dragon]

Isn't the personal lack of self-esteem enough reason for thinking you're too thin being a bad thing?

Does that sentence even make sense?

[Cleverdan22]

I just found out that not only am I going to be president of the Thespian Society next year, I'm also going to be putting together the school's Literary Magazine. I'm honored, but I'll be busy.

[Trobby]

I just wanted your non-theme one acshually.

But it's a secret.

...=3~? *Wags tail* Now I'm curious. :O

[Dogmantra]

...=3~? *Wags tail* Now I'm curious. :O

Nothing. (http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/De_ressurect/kuppyjoe.png)

:smalltongue:

[Trobby]

Ah, then I guess I...owo

...owo

Yeeee! >w< I literally squeed with joy

[Dogmantra]

Thanks I could help, bro.
:smallsmile:

[Trobby]

Gah...wait, we're brothers now? #owo# When did this happen?!

[Coidzor]

Time travel, Brogitudinal One, Time Travel.

Which I freaking hate. :smallmad:

[Coplantor]

It goes: Doo doo doo do du du du doo. Doo doo doo do du du du doo. Du du du do do doo du du du do do doo doooo. Dududududooo. And so on.

Of course! Silly me, now it´s all clear. Thanks Bath!:smalltongue:

[Dr. Bath]

Time travel, Brogitudinal One, Time Travel.

Which I freaking hate. :smallmad:

YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/01251.gif)

@Coplantor: No probs duder. Glad I could... broblige.

[absolmorph]

Time travel, Brogitudinal One, Time Travel.

Which I freaking hate. :smallmad:
Time travel?!
KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[Rawhide]

There's only one thing problematic about time travel. Tenses.


One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem about changing the course of history - the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s “Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations”. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intension of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstration, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

[Partof1]

See here, laddies (and lasses, as well): time travel, unfortunately, will not work, no matter what gizmo are whatzamawhozit you invent. The issue at the core of it is that time in and of itself, is not a tangible quantity. You can not have more or less of it, and our perceptions of time are about regular occurences, which may or may not be regular. Time was invented by man to coincide with events we noticed repeated, and offer a specific number, or tangible quantity to an abstract one.

And here, my listeners, we reach my point. If time is not, in fact a quantity, you can not spontaneously add to or subtract from it, and cannot actually relive events.

A way I like to look at it is a yarn formed by an infiite number of threads woven together, and instantly unwoven as the moment passes. You could not go forward as those events may not actually occur, and cannot go back, as the universe holds no memory of events past. Each thread affects what threads may be yet woven, but none may be rewoven.

And so, I leave you with that. Discuss, disagree, and altogether, go crazy.

[Phase]

Part, you are thinking of the FIFTH dimension of the multiverse, not the fourth.

Time is linear, a single line. It starts at the beginning of time, and ends at the end. Each point on the line is one moment in time, a point of three dimensional existence in our universe.

[Partof1]

I don't believe time is linear, which was among, if not my main point.

Time is not a quantity that can be gained or lost, at least not in actuality, but a quantity placed on what, eons ago, man could not percieve without numbers.

[Phase]

That's just it. If you accept String Theory, Time, the fourth dimension, is completely and utterly linear. It displays the progression of third dimensional existence in that timeline over the entirety of time. Time is NOT linear in the sense that the time stream can split in the fifth dimension.

There are Ten of these dimensions, you're talking about the fifth and maybe sixth.

[Partof1]

Ah, I getcha now. For simpler intents and purposes, time is linear, but with variables added, it gets a fair bit more complicated.

My thinking is that, to actually move through time, one must consider the influences of all dimensions, and with all the variables, I believe it is only possibly to wipe yourself off the face of the dimension, with little to no control of where, when, and in what state of matter you will wind up.

[Phase]

I think this video (http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php) was very helpful in teaching me how the universe is constructed. It's clear and succinct.

[Partof1]

Dialup won't let me do anything video related. I'm gonna have to stick with my crackpot theories and be happy :P

[Thajocoth]

You can't travel through time. I've had the following theory for over a decade now:

Let's say you've discovered how to travel through time. This methodology now exists. Given infinite time in the future, there are infinite people that exist at the same time as the process you've now created. The probability that none of them will be hurt by time travel enough to want to stop time travel is so infinitesimal as to be nonexistent. Somebody will, invariably, use your process of time travel to go back and stop you before you come up with the idea. This is what has happened/will happen every time time travel has been/will be developed. It's possible that this has happened several times before...

As far as the time-line is concerned, somebody spontaneously comes into existence with memories of a future that will never happen. That person kills someone who was thinking about, but hadn't figured out, how to travel through time. The previous version of the future simply never happened/will never happen. No alternate dimensions... It ceases to be a possibility. The only thing that remains from that future is a disgruntled person who has no valid identification, and will likely be considered insane when they try to defend their actions.

[Nano]

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

[Zeb The Troll]

Pertinent comic...

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time_machine.png

[Coidzor]

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

Why were you deep throating your toothbrush? Wait, nevermind, I don't want to know.

Disappearing for no reason, no, that is not normal. Disappearing due to ...reasons, yeah, that is kinda standing up to, y'know, reason.

[Quincunx]

Thajocoth: "Given infinite time in the future"? What happens when we're not given infinite time in the future, which is usually the case when I try to use the "it's already been done and undone" argument? There's an assumption of 'for every person's action, there is an equal and opposite reaction' which I am having trouble justifying.


So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

It's not unheard-of. My gag reflex dampened a few years after adolescence. Never bothered looking up why it changed though, since it was too sensitive to begin with.

[Tyrandar]

One of my friends doesn't have a gag reflex (though I'm not sure if this was always the case). He was worried about not being able to induce vomiting if he got alcohol poisoning. :smallmad:

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

Why would one gag whilst brushing one's teeth? :smallconfused:

[Tyrandar]

Why would one gag whilst brushing one's teeth? :smallconfused:

You've never had the toothbrush slip while getting those pesky back molars?

[KuReshtin]

You've never had the toothbrush slip while getting those pesky back molars?

This.

Also, those new-fangled toothbrushes that have that tongue-scraper thing as well can be a cause if used.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I suppose I have better control of my hands, and therefore the brush. :smalltongue:

[Tyrandar]

I suppose I have better control of my hands, and therefore the brush. :smalltongue:

Or! You're not brushing hard enough! Ever think of that? :smallbiggrin:

[Thajocoth]

Thajocoth: "Given infinite time in the future"? What happens when we're not given infinite time in the future, which is usually the case when I try to use the "it's already been done and undone" argument? There's an assumption of 'for every person's action, there is an equal and opposite reaction' which I am having trouble justifying.

The inventor doesn't get infinite time... The universe does. Time's not just gonna stop... And there will always be people. I didn't say humans because who knows if we'll evolve into something else or whatnot... So if time doesn't end and there are always people, there are infinite people in the future. It is not unreasonable to take these premises as assumed facts.

I have never gagged myself with a toothbrush. I generally brush my teeth, not my throat. Maybe if I hadn't gotten my wisdom teeth removed or something it might've been a possibility...

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Or! You're not brushing hard enough! Ever think of that? :smallbiggrin:

IMPOSSIBLE!

[Legoshrimp]

I have never gagged myself with a toothbrush. I generally brush my teeth, not my throat. Maybe if I hadn't gotten my wisdom teeth removed or something it might've been a possibility...

Maybe you should be brushing your throat, did you ever think of that?! :smalltongue:

[Phase]

And there will always be people. I didn't say humans because who knows if we'll evolve into something else or whatnot... So if time doesn't end and there are always people, there are infinite people in the future. It is not unreasonable to take these premises as assumed facts.

No, there will not always be people. Humans will evolve a bit (our manipulation of nature makes this almost infinitesimal) then eventually die out. It might take a while, but in the 13+ billion more years this timeline will continue, humans aren't likely to be present for the majority.

[Trobby]

IMPOSSIBLE!

I think you mean...

http://talentedapps.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kijinnmaru-inconceivable.jpg

[Nano]

I tended to gag if I was brushing my tongue way in the back. Y'know, where the bad breath is. Thinking on it now, the reflex was probably over sensitive to begin with, so I don't really miss it.

I do however miss being able to avoid the line of conversation turning to deepthroating whenever current events are discussed.

[Dragon queen]

Chocolate cookies taste better when cooked for 20 minutes not 30. It's quite true.:smallsigh: But never ever ever put magical sprinkles on them!!!:smalleek:

[arguskos]

I tended to gag if I was brushing my tongue way in the back. Y'know, where the bad breath is. Thinking on it now, the reflex was probably over sensitive to begin with, so I don't really miss it.

I do however miss being able to avoid the line of conversation turning to deepthroating whenever current events are discussed.
You know, you ask about your gag reflex, the obvious response is going to be that topic. :smalltongue: Juuuuust sayin'.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I think you mean...

http://talentedapps.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kijinnmaru-inconceivable.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ

[Dr. Bath]

You know, you ask about your gag reflex, the obvious response is going to be that topic. :smalltongue: Juuuuust sayin'.

Or how quick witted you are.

Badum psh.

[Thufir]

I love being weird.

I just had an extensive conversation with my housemate. We started off talking about food and Firefly/Serenity. The eventual conclusion was that if I am a figment of his imagination (A possibility we have considered used to make his brain hurt before), then he is either a Hollywood movie star, a superhero, or an engineer who is the sole inhabitant of a sub-Saharan African village.

[Dr. Bath]

Eh. Seems pretty run of the mill really.

My friend and I convinced someone that we were really street performance artists. We weren't trying to be.

[KataraAltinaII]

so I leave for 3 months and only 11 random banters go by?

what is this!?! :smallfurious:

[Cristo Meyers]

so I leave for 3 months and only 11 random banters go by?

what is this!?! :smallfurious:

Par for the course?

[Cealocanth]

No, there will not always be people. Humans will evolve a bit (our manipulation of nature makes this almost infinitesimal) then eventually die out. It might take a while, but in the 13+ billion more years this timeline will continue, humans aren't likely to be present for the majority.

I totally agree. If the history of the planet were 1 year then humans would have only been around less than 1 second before midnight on December 31st. We haven't been around very long, and I doubt we'll be around longer than 15ish more milenia at most. Then again, if we colonize other planets, then a whole bunch of diffetent branches of the human species may be created untill the point that humans are a catergory in which species are placed, like primates. Still, I don't know how that fits into this whole length of our existence thing.

I like cookies nice and soft too. It's not the same way with bread though. cook it longer and lower and you get better bread.

[Thajocoth]

I don't want to get into too much of a debate, but I think we're smart enough to survive, and to shift towards protecting life on this planet from other forces, like the sun slowly getting hotter and it's eventual collapse.


...a whole bunch of diffetent branches of the human species may be created untill the point that humans are a catergory in which species are placed, like primates.I see this as exceedingly likely. I call that category "people".

Also, chocolate chip cookies are best when they're still fairly hot, and cooked JUST enough that they don't fall apart while you hold them, which is still fairly soft. And with milk nearby.

[KataraAltinaII]

Par for the course?

damn. I thought no one would guess... :smallannoyed:
glad to be back. :smallbiggrin:

[Coidzor]

so I leave for 3 months and only 11 random banters go by?

what is this!?! :smallfurious:

Well, it's certainly not madness.

Where'd you head off to?

[Neko Toast]

I just put a huge, figurative "dent" in my room today. So much cleaning. It will end up a lot more spacious in the end, though. I'm happy. :smallsmile:

I should be poking my head around here more often now. The upcoming week is Finals Week for me, but after that I'm free for the summer (and won't start working until June). I'll probably just start posting more often out of boredom.

[Rutskarn]

I just put a huge, figurative "dent" in my room today. So much cleaning. It will end up a lot more spacious in the end, though. I'm happy. :smallsmile:


In my case, this would be a literal dent, a visible dip in the crust of filthy thrice-worn laundry and scattered gaming supplies, a petrified ocean of garbage and loose handouts within which several new species have evolved and adapted. I'm afraid that if I cleaned it, I'd have the extinction of the Western Fetid Rat and the Desert Sockwinder on my hands.

[Quincunx]

Nature needs tidying. Who can bear to allow the half-eaten fledgling to rot upon the rock where the clumsy magpie had dropped it, the six varieties of ivy to finish choking the last line of trees marking where the forest used to grow? Four trees have already died, and one fledgling. A nest almost falls out the remaining live tree. Perhaps its, in disarray from a magpie attack. Perhaps not. Untidy, all. Dirty, dirty, and a windbreak to catch every scrap of man's litter as well as nature's. Cigarette ends. Crisp packets turned inside-out. Rain-soaked boxer shorts, glossy, streaked with mildew in two colors. They came in with the wind, but unlike the untidy things of nature, will never rot, will never leave. The fledgling's meat will crack, its bones will fall, the soil will receive them. The trees will choke and die, host healthy mosses, crumble, yet the line will remain--the line of cigarette ends, crisp packets, and rain-soaked boxer shorts.

[Neko Toast]

In my case, this would be a literal dent, a visible dip in the crust of filthy thrice-worn laundry and scattered gaming supplies, a petrified ocean of garbage and loose handouts within which several new species have evolved and adapted. I'm afraid that if I cleaned it, I'd have the extinction of the Western Fetid Rat and the Desert Sockwinder on my hands.

Those species sound more detrimental to Mother Earth, so I think she'll thank you if they become extinct.

Just finished re-organizing my furniture and taking down some of my old and unwanted posters. I must say, my room is gonna look pretty spiffy once I move in the rest of my things that are still up at college.

[Rutskarn]

Those species sound more detrimental to Mother Earth, so I think she'll thank you if they become extinct.

Oh, yeah, and it's always about what Earth wants, isn't it? Like I'm sort of, friggin', like it's all about her. Screw Mother Earth, I want me some goddamned sockrodents and if she doesn't like them, she can move out.

It's the prerogative of humans to do whatever the hell they feel like to their natural environment.

[Cobalt]

My room... Ew... I really need to clean that pla- BeJesus, what is that thing on my foot!?


Oh, yeah, and it's always about what Earth wants, isn't it? Like I'm sort of, friggin', like it's all about her. Screw Mother Earth, I want me some goddamned sockrodents and if she doesn't like them, she can move out.

...Can I sig that? It actually had me roll off the couch with laughter. For a few seconds, but still.

[Rutskarn]

My room... Ew... I really need to clean that pla- BeJesus, what is that thing on my foot!?



...Can I sig that? It actually had me roll off the couch with laughter. For a few seconds, but still.

Be my guest, but I get a share of the profits.

[DraPrime]

Oh, yeah, and it's always about what Earth wants, isn't it? Like I'm sort of, friggin', like it's all about her. Screw Mother Earth, I want me some goddamned sockrodents and if she doesn't like them, she can move out.

It's the prerogative of humans to do whatever the hell they feel like to their natural environment.

Father Earth fully supports you Rutskarn. He thinks that Mother Earth is a terrible woman, and regrets ever getting involved with her. He will support your sockrodents to the bitter end.

[Coidzor]

Is it bad that I just thought of ferrets when I saw "sock rodent?"

...Because that's totally where my mind first went.

So I got this mental image of ferrets fighting Mother Nature.

[Neko Toast]

Father Earth fully supports you Rutskarn. He thinks that Mother Earth is a terrible woman, and regrets ever getting involved with her. He will support your sockrodents to the bitter end.

I thought Mother Earth was married to Father Time. Am I missing something, here?

[Assassin89]

I thought Mother Earth was married to Father Time. Am I missing something, here?

Mother Earth has no defined gender, so it can be defined as either a mother or a father.

[Neko Toast]

Mother Earth has no defined gender, so it can be defined as either a mother or a father.

You see that right there? That's you killing a joke. Killing jokes is a federal crime on these forums. They could put you away for this.

[Cobalt]

I thought Mother Earth was married to Father Time. Am I missing something, here?

I smell a Soap Opera.

[Copacetic]

I thought Mother Earth was married to Father Time. Am I missing something, here?

No, that was their son. It was Father Sky, I'm certain.

The other day I misprinted the date on an assignment, I wrote 20010 instead of 2010. And that made me wonder; what will life be like in 18000 years? 180000 years? We will have either mastered spacecraft and spread across the universe like a plague, colonizing planet after planet with our superior technology, or our planet will just be evolving life again after a nuclear-enabled nutjob ignites a nuke-war and humanity destroys itself. Thoughts?

[Coidzor]

You see that right there? That's you killing a joke. Killing jokes is a federal crime on these forums. They could put you away for this.

At the very least.... (http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cit_Erwin_Schrodinger_warning.png)

[Cobalt]

No, that was their son. It was Father Sky, I'm certain.


Like I said. Soap Opera.


The other day I misprinted the date on an assignment, I wrote 20010 instead of 2010. And that made me wonder; what will life be like in 18000 years? 180000 years? We will have either mastered spacecraft and spread across the universe like a plague, colonizing planet after planet with our superior technology, or our planet will just be evolving life again after a nuclear-enabled nutjob ignites a nuke-war and humanity destroys itself. Thoughts?

Neither. Humanity will quite clearly be enslaved by alien invaders in the year 20012, when they land in huge empty fields left behind from our rushed deforestation of Earth to use wood as a replacement for fossil fuels, quickly subjugating us in the mayhem during the aftermath of World War twenty-four, which was fought over dwindling forest resources using, ironically, Napalm weapons. It will be the ultimate- and final- lessen in man’s ignorance when it comes to governing his own affairs, which will be told to the slaves constantly each day over the huge speaker system that the invaders will have set up to demoralize man as they mine the planet’s crust for fossil fuels left behind from our dead bodies.

Or not. Hells, I don’t know.

[absolmorph]

You see that right there? That's you killing a joke. Killing jokes is a federal crime on these forums. They could put you away for this.
Question: Do I still serve the time if I kill my own joke before the end of my post, or is that like an abortion?

[KataraAltinaII]

Well, it's certainly not madness.

Where'd you head off to?

is it Sparta?

I was in Albuquerque, devoid of access to a computer.

[Thufir]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

For weeks I've been thinking my first exam was on tuesday. Turns out it's actually tomorrow.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[Dogmantra]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

For weeks I've been thinking my first exam was on tuesday. Turns out it's actually tomorrow.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Now you've got me nervous. Despite the fact that I know you're a lot further through education than GCSEs, I am now wondering if my first exam isn't tomorrow. Thanks. :smallannoyed:

:smallwink:

[Tyrandar]

I keep having dreams where it turns out that I've missed exams (aside from the ones I deliberately skipped due to a lack of knowledge :smallfrown:) Stupid college - get out of my subconscious!

[Thufir]

Bah. GCSEs don't require revision, they're easy.

[Dogmantra]

Bah. GCSEs don't require revision, they're easy.

Yeah, but it'd mean I'd have to go into school for 4 days this week instead of 3.

[Malfunctioned]

Now you've got me nervous. Despite the fact that I know you're a lot further through education than GCSEs, I am now wondering if my first exam isn't tomorrow. Thanks. :smallannoyed:

:smallwink:

Whilst I can't recommend not revising for GCSE's I can honestly say that I didn't at all and I ended up with 8 of them, two A's in that as well. :smallbiggrin:

[Neko Toast]

Question: Do I still serve the time if I kill my own joke before the end of my post, or is that like an abortion?

Nah, the worst you can get with that is a $300 fine and some community service hours.

[CrimsonAngel]

I heard something about Barbarian week, is that true?
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e381/CrimsonAngelChris/oots/d445718.png

[Dogmantra]

It was suggested in the Avatar Theme Week Central Thread. Victorian Week is the next one though.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

*presents avatar*

[Malfunctioned]

Wooo! Malfunctioned now has new glasses! And he is also talking in the third-person for some reason!

[randman22222]

Ho hum. Not knowing anyone aside from my family here in Deutschland is a little lonesome. Is there anyone here from Darmstadt, I wonder?

[Dogmantra]

So my evening meal tonight consisted of some slightly stale popcorn and a few chocolate raisins. In my next breath I will be complaining about the fact I am too thin.

[Sneak]

This is fantastic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jbgo4iJFmQ&feature=related)

[Tyrandar]

This is fantastic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jbgo4iJFmQ&feature=related)

That is far awesomer than I expected.

[Rutskarn]

This is fantastic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jbgo4iJFmQ&feature=related)

For some reason, the instrumental part of this sounds like it should be playing in the background of an early 90s-era sidescroller.

[Phase]

I find myself enjoying Othello. Far more than most other Shakespeare, at least. Iago should be praised more in modern culture.

[Coidzor]

I find myself enjoying Othello. Far more than most other Shakespeare, at least. Iago should be praised more in modern culture.

I keep meaning to read that. Too bad for him he got shafted by having the most recent homage I can think of to him that one parrot.

[Sneak]

For some reason, the instrumental part of this sounds like it should be playing in the background of an early 90s-era sidescroller.

Michael Jackson in an early 90s-era sidescroller? Yeah, I can see that.

Speaking of which, I've been trying to remember a particular early 90s-eras sidescroller for forever now. It had samurais in it, and cool samurai music. I'm pretty sure it was on some Sega system. Anyone?


I find myself enjoying Othello. Far more than most other Shakespeare, at least. Iago should be praised more in modern culture.

Indeed. I don't understand why the play isn't called Iago, because he's clearly the main character. And the most quotable.

I didn't like it that much, though, to be honest. The three Shakesplays I've been forced to read for school are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, and Julius Caesar. Of those three, Julius Caesar is easily the best, IMO.

Still, I'm just not a Shakes fan. Give me Nabokov or even Melville over the Bard of Avon any day. Or if we're just talking playwrights, Oscar Wilde.

[Thajocoth]

Michael Jackson in an early 90s-era sidescroller? Yeah, I can see that.

Speaking of which, I've been trying to remember a particular early 90s-eras sidescroller for forever now. It had samurais in it, and cool samurai music. I'm pretty sure it was on some Sega system. Anyone?

I have, for the Genesis, Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi, and as part of a 6-pack on 1 cartridge, Revenge of the Shinobi. Are either of these what you're looking for?

(All my video games are in a drawer nearby. It's pretty accessible, so it was quick to check.)

[Rutskarn]

Michael Jackson in an early 90s-era sidescroller? Yeah, I can see that.

Come to think of it... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_Moonwalker)

[Jibar]

I find myself enjoying Othello. Far more than most other Shakespeare, at least. Iago should be praised more in modern culture.

You see a good performance, Iago shines as one of Shakespeare's best. I saw a great travelling group do it at my hometown.

Though, personally, a Midsummer's Night Dream receives far more attention than it gets. I loves me some Puck and his mischief.

[Worira]

Though, personally, a Midsummer's Night Dream receives far more attention than it gets. I loves me some Puck and his mischief.

We got some Zen business up in here.

Also, Iago has a pretty pathetic motive for his cunning, highly involved schemes.

[Amiel]

My fellow Australians, Mr Bean is available to watch on iView (http://www.abc.net.au/iview/?WT.svl=mainNav) :smallbiggrin:

[Thufir]

Also, Iago has a pretty pathetic motive for his cunning, highly involved schemes.

Given how much Iago lies and manipulates, you shouldn't necessarily take his stated motivation at face value.
To be honest, the most convincing reason why he does it may just be 'because he can'.

[Coidzor]

He is pretty much the definition of for the evulz (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz), was how I always had it treated when he's come up.

I'd always just thought of him as the definition of an effective CE type. Though, as I mentioned earlier, I need to actually read and see the play rather than go off of second and third hand info.

[Trobby]

So...I had no idea that Hero 3D (The mini-game in Iji) had a Heavy Metal/Alternative rock band behind its music. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXHRFFUzME8&feature=related)

This...This is awesome. Pretty much as awesome as a thing can get.

[Thufir]

Grrarrnyarrgrrfnyarglfrawrtshblehhh.
Worst exam ever.

[Ranna]

I had a really bad exam once, where I basically just described a tree (this was for a degree module) - literally i think I used the sentances A tree is tall, a tree has bark a tree is green.. it was genious stuff NOT :smallannoyed:


Apparently he liked my description of a tree so I got a good mark... Don't worry about how you felt the exam went till you get the results - you'll be depressed enough then you may aswel forget about it till then

[Quincunx]

Pokey is gone!

Rather, the IRC bot-script that produced Pokey the Penguin quotes when poked, and various relics of the not-well-thought-through idea to let the channel residents teach the robot new prompts and replies, no longer works, after who-knows-how-many years of uptime. (Doubtless one of the Unix wonks will correct me on that point in a few hours, down to the very second.) This is as bad as coming back to school one August, finding that they'd upgraded all the computers, and that the new operating system hadn't a clue what to do with my files. Stories lost to obsolescence!

[KuReshtin]

Just got back home from a trip to Newquay for the weekend.
Was worried for a bit this morning when I watched the news saying that the ash cloud was back over the UK and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get home.
In the end, all was well, though.

Newquay was nice. I think I need to head down to Cornwall for a longer trip where I have time to actually do stuff instead of doing a relatively quick trip where most of it was spent refereeing football.

[Deth Muncher]

Opinion: Which avatar do I use next? (And no, I'm not doing Victorian week. :P)
http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz51/amidamaru42/MegamanOotsAvatar.png

or

http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz51/amidamaru42/ProtomanOotsAvatar.png

EDIT: Forgot to mention, these are both credited to AlterForm.

[Trobby]

^Go for the Protoman one. Though either way, I'd suggest you use thicker lines. Particularly on the arms and legs.

[Dogmantra]

Trobby, I demand you stop having fantastically adorable avatars. RIGHT NOW.

[Kobold-Bard]

Eating Simpkins travel sweets and being reminded of my Gran. Wish I'd been less of a douche as a kid and spent more time with her.

[arguskos]

DAMMIT WHY CANNOT I FIND THIS MUSIC ANYWHERE?! /raeg :smallfurious:

It is so glorious, and I want it! But, I cannot seem to find anywhere to acquire it! :smallfrown:

The Unseen Guest, I need your music dammit! Why must money desert me so.

[KuReshtin]

Eating Simpkins travel sweets and being reminded of my Gran. Wish I'd been less of a douche as a kid and spent more time with her.

Mmmmmm Simpkins Travel Sweets. Bought two tins of it on my way to Newquay. The near-death experience my parents tell me I had with one of those types of candies when I was a kid doesn't seem to have had any ill effect on me. :smallsmile:

[Kobold-Bard]

Mmmmmm Simpkins Travel Sweets. Bought two tins of it on my way to Newquay. The near-death experience my parents tell me I had with one of those types of candies when I was a kid doesn't seem to have had any ill effect on me. :smallsmile:

Hell yeah for overcoming near-death experiences. Apparently until the age of 2 I used to just randomly fall over because I'd stopped breathing for about a minute beforehand, and it hasn't stopped my consuming oxygen :smallcool:

[arguskos]

Hell yeah for overcoming near-death experiences. Apparently until the age of 2 I used to just randomly fall over because I'd stopped breathing for about a minute beforehand, and it hasn't stopped my consuming oxygen :smallcool:
Shame, that. Wait, you still NEED oxygen? Really, get the upgrade dude. Person 5.6 is way better than lame ol' 5.5 ever was. :smallwink::smalltongue:

[Kobold-Bard]

Shame, that. Wait, you still NEED oxygen? Really, get the upgrade dude. Person 5.6 is way better than lame ol' 5.5 ever was. :smallwink::smalltongue:

Tried it, didn't like it. Yes the whole "No more are you a slave to plants" thing was kinda cool, but I just missed my eyebrows too much, so I downgraded again.

[arguskos]

Tried it, didn't like it. Yes the whole "No more are you a slave to plants" thing was kinda cool, but I just missed my eyebrows too much, so I downgraded again.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Sorry, reference required.

[Ravens_cry]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Sorry, reference required.
I thought you were our robotic overlords!:smalltongue:

[Trobby]

Trobby, I demand you stop having fantastically adorable avatars. RIGHT NOW.

Well, I asked someone else to do my Victorian Era avatar, and that will be more bombastic than adorable. But I don't think you're going to be able to escape the fact that I have kitty ears and a doggie tail. Sorreh. ^^;

[Dr. Bath]

Who needs a dose of HARSH TRUTHS?

It is you. (http://timelesschaos.com/mspa.php?curswf=factSeagull)

Do not consume after depressive periods, may induce nihilism, despair, increased general knowledge and nausea.

[KilltheToy]

My SAT prep class has left me in despair. I can't seem to pass any of the math quizzes. Even the ones I felt like I did pretty good on I fail. The ones that most of my classmates get 100s on, I get a 50. Seriously, my best math grade is a frakking 60.

I'm not amused by this :smallannoyed:.

[Sneak]

I recently discovered the band The Books.

Why did I only recently discover the band The Books?

[Rutskarn]

At this moment, the list of criminal offenses I would not commit for some onion rings is relatively small.

God damn, but I love onion rings. They're a passable vegetable, caked in breading, deep-fried to the point where grease saturates every crumb, then crusted with salt until they...

I need to stop before my keyboard rusts solid from the drool.

[Worira]

Would you... fail to kill an injured migratory bird while within the confines of a Canadian wildlife reserve for onion rings?

[Ravens_cry]

At this moment, the list of criminal offenses I would not commit for some onion rings is relatively small.

God damn, but I love onion rings. They're a passable vegetable, caked in breading, deep-fried to the point where grease saturates every crumb, then crusted with salt until they...

I need to stop before my keyboard rusts solid from the drool.
You meen they are supposed to be crusted in salt?
Oh pooh, that's the one thing I don't like about them, too salty.

[Anuan]

I just figured out my budget for the next two months.

Expect pictures of new swords very shortly before I go to America :smallbiggrin:

[Coidzor]

I just figured out my budget for the next two months.

Expect pictures of new swords very shortly before I go to America :smallbiggrin:

Isn't that precisely the worst time to make such a purchase, due to it cutting into your disposable funds for anything intriguing you might encounter while abroad and minimizing your chance to enjoy your purchases before you go away from them for an extended period to experience new things and thus have your attention drawn far away from them sooner than it would otherwise have you cease active appreciation and admiration of your latest acquisition?

[Tyrandar]

Isn't that precisely the worst time to make such a purchase, due to it cutting into your disposable funds for anything intriguing you might encounter while abroad and minimizing your chance to enjoy your purchases before you go away from them for an extended period to experience new things and thus have your attention drawn far away from them sooner than it would otherwise have you cease active appreciation and admiration of your latest acquisition?

It's never a bad time to buy swords. Also, America is boring. :smallyuk:

[Anuan]

Isn't that precisely the worst time to make such a purchase, due to it cutting into your disposable funds for anything intriguing you might encounter while abroad and minimizing your chance to enjoy your purchases before you go away from them for an extended period to experience new things and thus have your attention drawn far away from them sooner than it would otherwise have you cease active appreciation and admiration of your latest acquisition?

I have eight thousand dollars put away specifically for my trip to America, so, y'know. No. I'll be saving up my usual pay of 400 a month from my parents (who're paying back the thirty thousand I gave them) to get a few little things next month, then I should have a little over six hundred dollars by the time the Abbey comes around. Because the swords are made and sold by small companies, instead of mass-produced, they're a lot cheaper for a high-quality sword. I will have a few days of enjoying them before leaving for America, and the idea of getting to play with them for real is something that will keep me happy-ish when I come back from my trip.

[Trobby]

It just occurred to me that, starting in 2011, I'm going to be expected to actually start paying back my student loans. This...is a little frightening. And I'm not entirely sure how much I'm going to need to spend for my final semester either, so that's something too.

It wouldn't bother me so much, if I also didn't have a job. Well, not a full-time job anyway. <.<; My ongoing policy of being lazy may soon have to change.

In other news, I have the urge to start a blog, but I have no idea what I could possibly blog about.

Things I could try to blog about:

-Being an online college student
-Ethical dilemmas of Cyberspace
-Being politically unaligned
-Role-playing culture
-Personal life "events"

I put "events" in quotation marks because, frankly, the most exciting events that have happened to me in the past week all have to do with things that happen to other people that I'm not supposed to share lest they get out about their public lives. Oh, and seeing Citizen Kane for the first time.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I too, am considering a blog (well, a vlog-type thing, actually). I do, however, know what it would be about; politics. :smallcool:

[Teddy]

*double sigh* (I managed to close the tab in which I was writing a quite a long post on the subject below, so I'm slightly annoyed right now.)

So, I've got two tests and a minor writing assignment for tomorrow. One of the tests is a quite large one on chemistry, and while it's almost all logical to me, I've still got a problem with the chapter on "Life and Energy". In short words, the text written in this chapter just doesn't make any sense. Let me explain how:

One of the other chapters I've got is on organic chemistry. The chapter is very thoroughgoing on every single step in all the reactions going on between molecules, and the naming conventions are very strict, to say the least, which is quite a good thing.

Now we've got the chapter "Life and Energy", which does pretty much everything the other way around. It throws around lots of reactions while barely explaining them, the naming conventions are horrible and it consequently simplifies pretty much everything.

Combine these two chapters in the same readthrough, and the confusion is total. When I've gotten used to a thoroughgoing explanation on every single step in a reaction, I don't want another reaction to be explained as "stuff goes in, other stuff comes out". And the worst part is that I know that questions asking for the irrememberable names on some of the reactants and products that are involved in these amazingly sophisticated processes will come up on the test, and there isn't any useful trick that I can use to ease the learning of their names at all. I feel moderately screwed.


And during this whole time, I've been listening to the looping music for the link to "Timeless Chaos" that Dr. Bath provided a few posts ago. What the seagull says is quite fascinating: sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree and sometimes I just think "I knew that already, go on and please stop repeating yourself.".

[Dragonrider]

I

am

HOME!!!

:smallbiggrin:

10-page final, 25-page paper, turned in; two exams taken; things packed, unpacked, gloriously settled. YAY!

[Mando Knight]

One of the other chapters I've got is on organic chemistry.

There's your problem right there.

EDIT:
Also, 'grats, DeeRee. I guess I know why I didn't go into humanities. :smallwink:

[Deth Muncher]

So, I forgot to mention: Finished up with college last week. Notable highlights (spoiled for length with SHINY NEW SPOILER BUTTON):
-Turned in my English paper on time, got a perfect score. However, due to having turned in some BS assignment late earlier in the class, instead of a 100, I got an 85.:smallannoyed:

-Turned in my African Gov't and Politics paper two days after it was due, even with the extension I got. Still rocked the paper, and turned my F in the class into a C.:smallsmile:

-Turned in my Bioethics paper two days after it was due, and also four pages short, still ended up with an 80 on it, and a 90.4 in the class, which was an A. I'll gladly send it to anyone who wants to see it, since it's about the ethics with advanced prosthetics. To give you an idea of how the paper is structured, I really wished I'd seen Iron Man 2 first, since it backed up several of my points. :smallcool: Other notable references in that paper are to the 6 Million Dollar Man, Rocky Horror Picture Show (sort of), Terminator, and non-specific references to Warhammer 40k.

-Got a B in Russian since I miscalculated how many language lab hours I had done. :smallfrown:

-Got a B in Band because I had a few absences. :smallmad:

I then realized that instead of the 3.0 I'd gotten, I could have gotten a 3.6 if I'd done minimally more effort in those B classes. :smallfurious: @ self.

[Teddy]

There's your problem right there.

Nonono, that one makes all the sense I want it to do. I can, for example, read the name of a single molecule, and (if it's written right) make out exactly what molecule it is down to every single everything. I can also look at a reaction and say "This is what's going to happen", because it all makes sense.

What doesn't make sense, however, is the stupid chemistry-biology cross-over chapter on how the cells produce energy. The processes would make sense if the guy writing this chapter would have read through the chapter on organic chemistry and adopted their methods, put he (or she, I dont know) apparently didn't, so now it's all annoying letters I try to make sense of. :smallannoyed:

[Phase]

Ah, messing with the magically mysterious mechanisms of Mitochondria, eh mister?

[Teddy]

Ah, messing with the magically mysterious mechanisms of Mitochondria, eh mister?

Yes. The book tries to tell me that the inmost part of the Mitochondria is called Matrix, and it's a Swedish book and matrix isn't a Swedish word. I'm slightly annoyed at the book at the moment... :smallannoyed:


By the way, is it just me or did the smilies in the box to the left just change places? Do they do this all the time? Am I going mad?

[Kobold-Bard]

Yes. The book tries to tell me that the inmost part of the Mitochondria is called Matrix, and it's a Swedish book and matrix isn't a Swedish word. I'm slightly annoyed at the book at the moment... :smallannoyed:


By the way, is it just me or did the smilies in the box to the left just change places? Do they do this all the time? Am I going mad?

They always do.

[arguskos]

They always do.
Or do they? :smallconfused: Perhaps... it is a sign of strained sanity, of your madness finally slipping between the cracks in your armor and slowly infecting your mind.

Or, it's an artifact of the board code and happens all the time. :smallwink:

Your choice.

[Rutskarn]

Would you... fail to kill an injured migratory bird while within the confines of a Canadian wildlife reserve for onion rings?

In a heartbeat.

Or. Wait, is that the crime, or is not doing that the crime?

And if this is ambiguity is a way of mocking me, keep in mind that murdering you's a little more open-and-shut, legalistically.

[Phase]

Rutskarn we both know your heart hasn't beaten on its own in years.

[Dr. Bath]

Don't you use heartbeats as your standard unit of time, Phase?

I keep this chickenwristwatch just so I always have the time on me.

Also: How does everyone like my stylin new avatar I slaved over a hot mspaint for 6 whole minutes to make that!

[Phase]

>Dr. Bath: Squawk like an idiot and take a crap on your magical chest

[Dvandemon]

legalistically.

Thats a word now?

[Blue Ghost]

Thats a word now?

"Legalistic" has always been a word, though I'm not sure it was used correctly in this context.

[Dr. Bath]

>Dr. Bath: Squawk like an idiot and take a crap on your magical chest
You wrote:
>DR. BATH: DRAW MORE STUPID LOOKIN' POKEYMANS
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h24/solarturtle/eeeeveeees.png
What a complete waste of time. You feel dumb for even suggesting it.

[Tyrandar]

All hail PokeDoctor Bath! :smallbiggrin:

[Blue Ghost]

Those are some ugly Eevees. :smalleek:
I like them.

[Recaiden]

Don't you use heartbeats as your standard unit of time, Phase?

I keep this chickenwristwatch just so I always have the time on me.

Also: How does everyone like my stylin new avatar I slaved over a hot mspaint for 6 whole minutes to make that!

Second. Worst. Looking. Avatar. Ever.

[Trobby]

Those are some truly grotesque Eeveelutions, but why settle for second worst avatar ever? I'm going for gold!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/worstavatar.png

[Coidzor]

You wrote:
>DR. BATH: DRAW MORE STUPID LOOKIN' POKEYMANS
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h24/solarturtle/eeeeveeees.png
What a complete waste of time. You feel dumb for even suggesting it.

Liscensed Pokemon Inbreeder

I see Dr. Bath is a fan of MS Paint Adventures Guy.

[Tyrandar]

Liscensed Pokemon Inbreeder

I laughed more than any normal person should.

http://memegenerator.net/Oak/ImageMacro/839947/SmallThumbnail.jpg

[Dogmantra]

Those are some truly grotesque Eeveelutions, but why settle for second worst avatar ever? I'm going for gold!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/worstavatar.png

I liked it better when your avatar didn't break my eyes.

[Trobby]

I liked it better when your avatar didn't break my eyes.

Apologies to all eyes everywhere. I'll be switching back to my normaltar now.

[Teddy]

*phew*

I'm kind of exhausted right now. Chemistry test went okay, I guess, and other test went pretty well. There haven't been an full hour without preparation since I woke up. But now I've got an evening that I can spare without having to do homework, or do something else. Freedom! :smallbiggrin:

Now, what should I do with it? :smallconfused:

[KuReshtin]

Now, what should I do with it? :smallconfused:

Modern Warfare 2

[Teddy]

Modern Warfare 2

Haven't got that one, and BTW, one of our computers has broken down (we think it's the graphics card), and that's the only one which I can install things on (I lack administrator rights on the one I'm writing on right now), so now I can't play the games I find interresting at the moment.

[Deth Muncher]

Haven't got that one, and BTW, one of our computers has broken down (we think it's the graphics card), and that's the only one which I can install things on (I lack administrator rights on the one I'm writing on right now), so now I can't play the games I find interresting at the moment.

Oh, in that case, cry.

[arguskos]

Oh, in that case, cry.
What he said. :smallwink:

[Kobold-Bard]

Watching American Dad. Just heard Patrick Stewart singing I like little girls.

I'm scared now :smalleek:

[Cealocanth]

Those are some truly grotesque Eeveelutions, but why settle for second worst avatar ever? I'm going for gold!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/worstavatar.png

No, I'd say the badly drawn pokemon are still worse. Your's made me laugh my head off, so i'd put it as 3rd worst.