Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174

[enderlord99]

Here's the place to banter randomly! (I have very little idea what "banter" means)

Rules and such:
1. Spam. For the purposes of RB, one word posts are generally considered spam. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* are also be considered spam. Remember that the quality of the post's content is much better than the speed of your response.

2. This isn't the Play by Post or Town forum, nor is it the Silly Message Board Games or Structured Games forum. Please avoid continuous roleplay or mock battles and fights such as the "competition for control of the universe".

3. If it's already a thread, don't bring it to RB. RB has such a huge range of subject matter even restricted to the little snippets that probably don't warrant their own thread, it doesn't need legitimate thread topics cluttering it up as well. The exception to this is to bring something that is off-topic from one thread, but on-topic for RB and the subject doesn't warrant a thread of its own.

4. Don't advertise other threads in RB. Just because these new threads move at speeds more appropriate to a message board than an IM session doesn't mean you need to come over to RB and brow beat people into posting in your latest brainchild.

5. Please don't post single line posts alerting us to your current status -- as in "I'm back." This is Random Banter, not "How to stalk Random GitP forum members."

6. Don't poke, kick or bump the thread. It will move at whatever pace it wants to. Also, please refrain from Captain Obvious comments akin to "My, the thread is fast today."

7. Random Banter can only be as good, or as entertaining, as you make it. Demands to be entertained will fall on deaf ears unless you can add something more meaningful to the conversation.

8. As this is a public forum, where the current topic is nicely recorded for you, and not a conversation where you could have missed the beginning, please refrain from asking something to the effect of "What's the topic?". Please take the time to read up a bit first.

9. Thread Creator must include the words "Random" and "Banter" as well as the thread #. Try to be concise as well.

10. Every post should contain two visible, legible complete sentences, Subject and Predicate. C'mon, make your old English teachers proud.

11. Remember, Random Banter is not your IM client. If you want to have a back and forth discussion with just one person, look in their contact information for IM details.

12. Whenever a new thread is created, all "first post", "first page", and all posts of that nature will be deleted by the administrators. Please avoid doing this, as it is frustrating for them to deal with one-lined posts like this.

13. Double-posting is not your friend. We have edit buttons for a reason.

14. Once you have made a Random Banter thread, you must wait 50 threads before making another one.

15. If you can avoid dibs calling on making the next thread, that will avoid people needing to wait if the thread hits 50 pages while the dibs-caller is asleep.



Past Random Banters
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Egdpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (”http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190034)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)
LaLa’s Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread – RB #158 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198767)
Zaydos's Zany Zooetic Random Banter - RB #159 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200208)
Blue's Blessed and Blissful Random Banter - RB #160 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201653)
Absolmorph's Azoic Arete of Adventitious and Aimless Random Banter - RB 161 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202546)
Gwyn's Gloriously Green Garrumphing Garter of Garrulous Gabble! Random Banter #162 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203954)
Eruantion's Euphoric, Elephant-filled Elevated Epoch of Eurhythmic Random Banter #163 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205487)
ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207269)
Cynical Avocado's Absolutely Admirable Accumulation of Random Bantering #165 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209860)
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Heliomance's Everchanging Thread Title Random Banter #167 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=213053)
Tragic_Comedian's Tremendously Tropical Random Banter #168 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215180)
Qwertystop's Quickly Quilted, Quip-filled Random Banter #169 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217326)
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(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219654)Feytalist's Fantastically Freakish First Random Banter #171 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222713)
Dragonprime's Dashing Delight-fu Dazzling Dualistic Random Banter #172
Castaras' Random Banter #173: Bringing back your nostalgic Great Old Ones (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229164)

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

You should put your name in the title, so we'll know who it is in the list later. *sage nod*

[LaZodiac]

Glory to the new thread. *Boogies*

Anyway, how everyone doing?

[Coidzor]

Confused. I had thought I had made a RB thread before.

How about that.

Also, full of stroganoff.

[Mutant Sheep]

Wheeeee bantertime! :smallbiggrin: BANTER POWERS ACTIVATE. *proceeds to sit in corner and snore loudly*

[Tragic_Comedian]

*boogies*

Hey guys. Looks like it's just us again. *sigh*

Some girl in the talent show sang Reflection from Mulan today. It broke my heart.

[LaZodiac]

Mulan was a really good movie that happened to have Eddie Murphy in it.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Mulan was a really good movie that happened to have Eddie Murphy in it.
Yeah. It's good. You don't like Eddie Murphy?

[LaZodiac]

Yeah. It's good. You don't like Eddie Murphy?

I don't not like him.

[Tragic_Comedian]

I don't not like him.
I see.

ION: I want one of these (http://www.micropiginfo.com/). It would be the perfect pet for me.

[LaZodiac]

I see.

ION: I want one of these (http://www.micropiginfo.com/). It would be the perfect pet for me.

Would you eat it?

[Tragic_Comedian]

Would you eat it?
No. I would love it and play with it and roll in the mud with it. I would be a good mini-pig daddy.

[LaZodiac]

No. I would love it and play with it and roll in the mud with it. I would be a good mini-pig daddy.

Ok. You should totally get it then!

[Coidzor]

Pigs that aren't capable of growing up to be massive hambeasts that are as likely to view their human owners as food as their surrogate parent?

Awesome.

I wonder if they suffer from the same sort of severe mental decay that grips dogs that have been absurdly miniaturized.

Would still totally eat one though.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Since its not Castaras' thread anymore does that mean I have to leave? If I stay I'll promise to be good and only talk about Sonic the Hedgehog comic books which have a lot less freaky stuff in it.

[LaZodiac]

Since its not Castaras' thread anymore does that mean I have to leave? If I stay I'll promise to be good and only talk about Sonic the Hedgehog comic books which have a lot less freaky stuff in it.

No need to change, and no need to leave :smalltongue:

[Tragic_Comedian]

Pigs that aren't capable of growing up to be massive hambeasts that are as likely to view their human owners as food as their surrogate parent?

Awesome.

I wonder if they suffer from the same sort of severe mental decay that grips dogs that have been absurdly miniaturized.

Would still totally eat one though.
All pigs are actually very intelligent animals.


Since its not Castaras' thread anymore does that mean I have to leave? If I stay I'll promise to be good and only talk about Sonic the Hedgehog comic books which have a lot less freaky stuff in it.
The more the merrier, amigo.

[The Succubus]

Pigs that aren't capable of growing up to be massive hambeasts that are as likely to view their human owners as food as their surrogate parent?

Awesome.

I wonder if they suffer from the same sort of severe mental decay that grips dogs that have been absurdly miniaturized.

Would still totally eat one though.

I do wonder what micro-bacon would taste like.

[Skeppio]

I do wonder what micro-bacon would taste like.

And only half the fat! :smalltongue: (or some other fraction)

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Pigs are mean animals.

I want a bear-dog.

[smellie_hippie]

Speaking of pigs, the components for me to make my second incarnation of Bacon Beer just arrived. "Smoked Bacon Porter"... still a title in progress.

[The Succubus]

Speaking of pigs, the components for me to make my second incarnation of Bacon Beer just arrived. "Smoked Bacon Porter"... still a title in progress.

But that doesn't make sense! If I have bacon flavour beer, where am I going to find beer-flavoured pork scratchings? :smalleek:

Although, if this horrific culinary experiment of yours needs a name, Hippie, I suggest "Hogwash". :smallwink:

[Feytalist]

A brewer near me has a malt-infused beer called, for some unfathomable reason, Naked Mexican.

Edit:
Got a Picture even:
http://www.bostonbreweries.co.za/modules/mod_prettySlider/image.php?width=600&height=420&cropratio=1.5:1&image=/images/stories/Comp/ce02d27d705dd347f94a2a65.jpg

[Teddy]

I highly suspect that watching too much MLP FiM in a row this time of the year must be lethal to me. Every time I watch it, my body temperature goes into a tailspin and plummets, and with this halfway Siberian cold we've (finally) got over here, that's not a good thing.

Stupid nonsensical thermoregulatory system...
*shiver, shiver*

[LaZodiac]

I highly suspect that watching too much MLP FiM in a row this time of the year must be lethal to me. Every time I watch it, my body temperature goes into a tailspin and plummets, and with this halfway Siberian cold we've (finally) got over here, that's not a good thing.

Stupid nonsensical thermoregulatory system...
*shiver, shiver*

Be careful Teddy. Sometimes, cute can be so dangerous that it will cause you physical harm. I felt a stabbing pain in my chest while reading Yotsubato, untill I alcamatized to the pure adorable.

[userpay]

I must say I love getting homework assignments to play video games.

[Coidzor]

I must say I love getting homework assignments to play video games.

Please elaborate further, for you have piqued my interest with this declaration.

[Diva De]

I must say I love getting homework assignments to play video games.

Sounds like my husband. When he was working on his doctorate, he was a TA for a programming lab. Some of his assignments included grading programming assignments. And the finals for the class were to create a video game. So...he got paid to grade other people's video games. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Hey guys. They announced the senior superlatives for the yearbook today. I was voted best personality! I'm so happy. It really means a lot to me.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Speaking of pigs, the components for me to make my second incarnation of Bacon Beer just arrived. "Smoked Bacon Porter"... still a title in progress.

That is an awesome idea.

[Ranger Mattos]

Some girl in the talent show sang Reflection from Mulan today. It broke my heart.

Mulan is an awesome movie.


Please elaborate further, for you have piqued my interest with this declaration.

Same here.


Sounds like my husband. When he was working on his doctorate, he was a TA for a programming lab. Some of his assignments included grading programming assignments. And the finals for the class were to create a video game. So...he got paid to grade other people's video games. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.

That is very awesome. I wish I could do that.


Hey guys. They announced the senior superlatives for the yearbook today. I was voted best personality! I'm so happy. It really means a lot to me.

Well, you are (note: previous statement made without knowledge of any of your classmates)

[userpay]

Please elaborate further, for you have piqued my interest with this declaration.

One of my college classes is Intro to Digital Games which involves playing games and writing about a bit about them as well as later in the semester making some games with Unity3d.

[Mutant Sheep]

Note to self: Take Digital Games in college. :smallbiggrin:

[Cobalt]

Hey guys. They announced the senior superlatives for the yearbook today. I was voted best personality! I'm so happy. It really means a lot to me.

Tragic, you are truely the best personality.

Another pizza today. And anime, because there's no better way to wind down a day of complaining than anime and real-pizza.

[LaZodiac]

Tragic, you are truely the best personality.

Another pizza today. And anime, because there's no better way to wind down a day of complaining than anime and real-pizza.

Yay anime and pizza. What you watching?

[Cobalt]

Yay anime and pizza. What you watching?

More of Macross Frontier! I'm taking forever and splitting my attention between several shows. All this anime, gah; this will take the rest of my life to enjoy.

[LaZodiac]

More of Macross Frontier! I'm taking forever and splitting my attention between several shows. All this anime, gah; this will take the rest of my life to enjoy.

Awesome. Good luck with that!

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

"Or, y'know, if you jsut need compromising photos. Y'know, whatever, y'know?"

I just wrote the above 2 sentences.

I feel like a horrible person now.

Edit for clarification: Horrible person for writing a sentence in which 2/3 of all the words were "y'know", not a horrible person for the compromising photos.

[Eruantion]

"Or, y'know, if you jsut need compromising photos. Y'know, whatever, y'know?"

I just wrote the above 2 sentences.

I feel like a horrible person now.

Edit for clarification: Horrible person for writing a sentence in which 2/3 of all the words were "y'know", not a horrible person for the compromising photos.

Woot, new thread.

What were the circumstances under which you made this statement?

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Woot, new thread.

What were the circumstances under which you made this statement?

The circumstances? Two friends were having an insult-off. One of them was losing, so I intervened to even the score. The picture in question is hilarious, just because I love describing it in non-Forum-friendly terms, and being TECHNICALLY accurate. EDIT: I can show you on bookFace, if you want.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Sometimes, cute can be so dangerous that it will cause you physical harm.

Understatement of the thread.

[Eruantion]

The circumstances? Two friends were having an insult-off. One of them was losing, so I intervened to even the score. The picture in question is hilarious, just because I love describing it in non-Forum-friendly terms, and being TECHNICALLY accurate. EDIT: I can show you on bookFace, if you want.

Um, whatever you say. Yeah, if you want to.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Um, whatever you say. Yeah, if you want to.

Fait accompli. Fait accompli.

[LaZodiac]

I bring to you all, Shopdogsam. Lord of "unique" cooking tips and recipes. Refried Bean Brownies, fried apple and marschino cherry pizza with peanutbutter and rootbeer desert topping filled crust. Peeling a hard boiled egg with duck tape.

Enjoy. (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE21D567BCC1F7BD9&feature=plcp)

[Cobra_Ikari]

You know, I was hungry when I came in here. Then I read this:


Refried Bean Brownies

...and suddenly, I don't ever want to eat again. >.<

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Pierogies for dinner tonight. I haven't had Pierogies in FOREVER. I am excited for this.

And we have shrimp and kielbasa in the fridge for a gumbo later. :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

[Tragic_Comedian]

Pierogies for dinner tonight. I haven't had Pierogies in FOREVER. I am excited for this.

What is Pierogies?

[LaZodiac]

Pierogies for dinner tonight. I haven't had Pierogies in FOREVER. I am excited for this.

And we have shrimp and kielbasa in the fridge for a gumbo later. :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

Not a big fan of shrimp or gumbo, and I no not what Kielbasa is. But I LOOOOOOVE pierogies!

EDIT: Pierogies are basically dumplings. STUFFED WITH MASHEDPOTATOE AND CHEESE.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Pierogies, or Perogies, or pyrohy, or any variation on that, is an Eastern European dumpling. Basically, it's a semi-circle, waning-gibbous-moon shaped dumpling filled, traditionally, with mashed potato, and sometimes cheese. Now that it's not just poor-person food anymore, you can also get meat ones, or ones with mushrooms, onions, or bacon added to the mashed potato and cheese filling. The ones I make are boiled first, and then fried. And are delicious.

Kielbasa, or Kolbasa, is also sometimes known as Polish Sausage, or Ukrainian Sausage. It's not really traditional in gumbo, but it's SO DELICIOUS, I don't care.

[Coidzor]

Mmm, gumbo. Need to make some of that proper-like soon.

How you doing yours up?

[ThePhantasm]

Absolutely love gumbo. That stuff is awesomesauce.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I'm nostalgic for last week. Nostalgia is such a funny emotion. I'm pathetic. xD

[LaZodiac]

I'm nostalgic for last week. Nostalgia is such a funny emotion. I'm pathetic. xD

You're not pathetic. Don't be like that.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Awww. s'OK LaZ. I was just poking fun at myself.

[Mutant Sheep]

Well, I'm poking laughter at you... :smallcool: MAKING SENSE IS FOR FOOLS! :D:D (Last week was a pretty good week compared to the 53 minutes of this one you've had. ;))

[AtlanteanTroll]

Well, I'm poking laughter at you... :smallcool: MAKING SENSE IS FOR FOOLS! :D:D (Last week was a pretty good week compared to the 53 minutes of this one you've had. ;))

Get on AIM or go to sleep. :smalltongue:

[Coidzor]

Much better than poking with sharp sticks, no?

Families are weird. I just got called nephew by the twin sister of my aunt by marriage and now I'm going to a beginning tango lesson as her dance partner. :smallconfused:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Much better than poking with sharp sticks, no?
Presumably. I've never tried though...


Families are weird.
New understatement of the thread.


I just got called nephew by the twin sister of my aunt by marriage and now I'm going to a beginning tango lesson as her dance partner. :smallconfused:
That is quite odd, yes. :smallconfused:

[LaZodiac]

Awww. s'OK LaZ. I was just poking fun at myself.

Ok.

ION: I DEMAND HUGS OH DEAR GOD AAAAAGH! POWER WENT OUT I'M ALONE AND IT'S DARK ;_____________________;

[Rawhide]

I DEMAND HUGS OH DEAR GOD AAAAAGH! POWER WENT OUT I'M ALONE AND IT'S DARK ;_____________________;

May I ask how you're on the computer and accessing the internet? I mean, I know it's possible, it's just that when the power is out, most places lose one or both.

[Coidzor]

Ok.

ION: I DEMAND HUGS OH DEAR GOD AAAAAGH! POWER WENT OUT I'M ALONE AND IT'S DARK ;_____________________;

*pat pat*

There, there, what Rawhide said. I personally recommend just hitting the hay. Horror movie villains never suspect that response.

[LaZodiac]

May I ask how you're on the computer and accessing the internet? I mean, I know it's possible, it's just that when the power is out, most places lose one or both.


*pat pat*

There, there, what Rawhide said. I personally recommend just hitting the hay. Horror movie villains never suspect that response.

It came back, obviously. But I'm afraid of the dark and being alone and being alone in the dark. Meep.

[Skeppio]

It came back, obviously. But I'm afraid of the dark and being alone and being alone in the dark. Meep.

*hugs* :smallfrown:

[Coidzor]

It came back, obviously. But I'm afraid of the dark and being alone and being alone in the dark. Meep.

You're afraid of the dark? But don't you live in a place where it's sunless for a couple of weeks out of the year? :smalltongue:

I will agree though, it is much better to have company in the dark than to be alone in it. Mostly because that movie was terribad.

That reminds me. There is a song by Tracy Chapman you need to listen to.

'Scalled "In The Dark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGvVIISL1o&feature=related)" or something along those lines.

Also, Nina Simone's "Sinnerman"

[LaZodiac]

You're afraid of the dark? But don't you live in a place where it's sunless for a couple of weeks out of the year? :smalltongue:

I will agree though, it is much better to have company in the dark than to be alone in it. Mostly because that movie was terribad.

That reminds me. There is a song by Tracy Chapman you need to listen to.

'Scalled "In The Dark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGvVIISL1o&feature=related)" or something along those lines.

Also, Nina Simone's "Sinnerman"

Yes, I do. It's not just "a couple of weeks" it's around 6 months or more. Yes, I sleep with a light or music on. Yes I am a child.

And dear god Alone in the Dark. Porquoi~ *despair*

Also, if we're trading songs, although I do not have a link, I recomend Sound Of Silence.

[Coidzor]

Yes, I do. It's not just "a couple of weeks" it's around 6 months or more. Yes, I sleep with a light or music on. Yes I am a child.

And dear god Alone in the Dark. Porquoi~ *despair*

Also, if we're trading songs, although I do not have a link, I recomend Sound Of Silence.

Simon and Garfunkeling me, eh? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsX03LOMhI)

One of my favorites by them, but I generally prefer The Boxer. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKjEHfHINQ)

*pat pat hug* It'll be ok. He can't make any more.

[Rawhide]

Mostly because that movie was terribad.

But the games were apparently very good.

What about I am a Rock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhgFNRhgVP8)?

[LaZodiac]

Simon and Garfunkeling me, eh? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsX03LOMhI)

One of my favorites by them, but I generally prefer The Boxer. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKjEHfHINQ)

*pat pat hug* It'll be ok. He can't make any more.

Thanks for the support. Also, Uwe Boll is infact still making movies. It's kinda depressing, since his skill at making movies has increased, and thus he's stopped being "so bad it's hilarious to riff on" to "just legitimately terrible"

EDIT: An old friend of mine loves that song. It's pretty good.

[Coidzor]

What? What!?

They lied to me. Lied about something so heinous.

There will be blood. :smallfurious:

[LaZodiac]

What? What!?

They lied to me. Lied about something so heinous.

There will be blood. :smallfurious:

If it's any consolation, he appers to be sticking to OC scripts. Blubberella, the story of a obscenly fat knock off of Bloodrayne or some crap like that. It actually exists.

[Coidzor]

If it's any consolation, he appers to be sticking to OC scripts. Blubberella, the story of a obscenly fat knock off of Bloodrayne or some crap like that. It actually exists.

A name like that and he didn't go after Barbarella? :smallconfused:

More wrong with that man than I'd ever have guessed.


But the games were apparently very good.

What about I am a Rock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhgFNRhgVP8)?

Gotta admit, I've never played them.

I am a Rock is ok, but reminds me of my ex-fiance. Which is odd because I don't even think it was one of her favorites. :smallconfused:

Does describe the things I disdain quite nicely. Can't abide laughter or loving. :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

A name like that and he didn't go after Barbarella? :smallconfused:

More wrong with that man than I'd ever have guessed.

Gotta admit, I've never played them.

I am a Rock is ok, but reminds me of my ex-fiance. Which is odd because I don't even think it was one of her favorites. :smallconfused:

Does describe the things I disdain quite nicely. Can't abide laughter or loving. :smalltongue:

...you had an Ex Fiance? Wow, I did not know that. I figured you were around 19 or 20.

Also, I don't entirely get the Barbarella comment.

[Coidzor]

...you had an Ex Fiance? Wow, I did not know that. I figured you were around 19 or 20.

Also, I don't entirely get the Barbarella comment.

Well, back in the day, Jane Fonda was apparently considered to be quite the looker, or something. I'm not fully aware of things that far back in the murky mists of time.

If you've ever heard of Duran Duran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran), Barbarella is the cult sci-fi movie that they took the name from.

I'm not that much older than you, no. Though, heck, there are those who are married and then divorced again by 20. :smallwink:

Breaking up with one's highschool sweetheart in college isn't that unusual, I'm given to understand.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Ok.
Your concern was appreciated however. I assumed using "xD" in my post would tell people I wasn't all that worried.


Breaking up with one's highschool sweetheart in college isn't that unusual, I'm given to understand.
T'is a shame. I'm watching most all of my friends who were Seniors last year break up with their girlfriends who are Seniors this year. Makes me wonder why people even try.

[Fredaintdead]

T'is a shame. I'm watching most all of my friends who were Seniors last year break up with their girlfriends who are Seniors this year. Makes me wonder why people even try.

It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all... or so the saying goes.

[AtlanteanTroll]

It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all... or so the saying goes.

I freaking hate Alfred Lord Tennyson.

[Fredaintdead]

I freaking hate Alfred Lord Tennyson.

I've never personally studied him, so I suppose I'm indifferent to him.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I've never personally studied him, so I suppose I'm indifferent to him.
Well, I haven't either, but I truly detest what I do know of him. Lord Acton on the other hand...

[Fredaintdead]

Well, I haven't either, but I truly detest what I do know of him. Lord Acton on the other hand...

I honestly know nothing of this Tennyson man other than the "loved and lost" thingimabob and whatever else I can quickly google. *shrugs*

[AtlanteanTroll]

Yeah, well. And then that quote clashes with one saying you just fall for variations on the same person over and over again... Which is a quote that I like for some reason.

[Thufir]

It is better to have loved and lost than to have listened to an album by Olivia Newton-John. Or so the saying goes.

FTFY. :smalltongue:


I freaking hate Alfred Lord Tennyson.

How very dare you.
Tennyson is amazing.

"Tho' much is taken, much abides. And tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved Earth and Heaven - that which we are, we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will:
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

[AtlanteanTroll]

How very dare you.
Tennyson is amazing.
Meh. It's subjective, I suppose. I find him to be prick. I much prefer Lord Acton, but anything he said I would bother to quote would fall into board inappropriate topics.

[Fredaintdead]

FTFY. :smalltongue:

Well played good sir. Well played. *nods*

[Tragic_Comedian]

Meh. It's subjective, I suppose. I find him to be prick. I much prefer Lord Acton, but anything he said I would bother to quote would fall into board inappropriate topics.
You can't judge a person's art by their personal life. Tennyson's a good poet. Also, you hate Shakespeare.

ION: Dad found out I type 60 words a minute and is gonna get me a job doing transcription for the hospital.

[AtlanteanTroll]

You can't judge a person's art by their personal life. Tennyson's a good poet.
I'm not. I just think most everything he said is flat out wrong


Also, you hate Shakespeare.
Do I hate Shakespeare, or do I just enjoy trolling you? :smalltongue: No, I hate Shakespeare. Hate is too strong a word though. I hate Tennyson, I don't care for Shakespeare.

EDIT: Actually, not even that. I'm not fond of most of his more popular plays. His sonnets are very good.

[Coidzor]

You don't like Much Ado About Nothing or Taming of the Shrew?

Those are some of the earliest examples of trolling in English Literature, last I recalled.
T'is a shame. I'm watching most all of my friends who were Seniors last year break up with their girlfriends who are Seniors this year. Makes me wonder why people even try.

That is always rough stuff. Was rather trying on my relationship and the college wasn't even out of town. Most of the couples I recall survived that phase, and generally mostly got disintegrated by either A. going to the same university or B. not going to the same university.

[Teddy]

Boy am I tired. Our make-believe student union celebrated it's 10 year anniversary last night with gasque and release (both Swedish terms, and I didn't even try translating the first). It was fun, but I didn't get to bed before half past 4 in the morning. Or wake up before a quarter to 1 in the afternoon. I think the latter is some sort of a personal record...

[Coidzor]

gasque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasque)?

Make believe student union?

I'm so lost right now.

[Ranger Mattos]

Or wake up before a quarter to 1 in the afternoon. I think the latter is some sort of a personal record...

Well, you beat me at least.

ION: I just experienced my first Blue Screen of Death on my laptop. What fun :smallsigh:

A little bit more about this: I was playing Dungeon Defenders, and experienced some lag. This isn't common, but it happens occasionally. When it lasted beyond a few seconds I figured something was wrong. After a few minutes of it being completely frozen, it happened. The horror.

[The Succubus]

I am a Rock is ok, but reminds me of my ex-fiance. Which is odd because I don't even think it was one of her favorites. :smallconfused:

Does describe the things I disdain quite nicely. Can't abide laughter or loving. :smalltongue:

The Sound of Silence is my favourite but The Boxer comes pretty close.

[LaZodiac]

*falls over*

I got called to help my sister watch my auntie's baby. I've had a fairly long day!

[Coidzor]

*falls over*

I got called to help my sister watch my auntie's baby. I've had a fairly long day!

Oh dear. Family times. How was the babby? In the crying all the time phase or in the devious and calculating phase?

I'm all tuckered out from tangoing myself. And watching people who actually know how to tango. That's the really tiring bit. The things the women do with their legs is tiring just to watch. :smalleek:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Just got back from D&D. Less then 400 EXP from hitting 4th. I'm so mad we didn't level.

[Coidzor]

Just got back from D&D. Less then 400 EXP from hitting 4th. I'm so mad we didn't level.

That's a dangerous amount of XP to be away from the next level. Encourages fratricide on the part of the PCs, it does.

[AtlanteanTroll]

That's a dangerous amount of XP to be away from the next level. Encourages fratricide on the part of the PCs, it does.

Almost happened. One of us wants to be killed off anyway. We were going to mercy kill him, but we couldn't get a read on what the DMs reaction would be.

[LaZodiac]

Oh dear. Family times. How was the babby? In the crying all the time phase or in the devious and calculating phase?

I'm all tuckered out from tangoing myself. And watching people who actually know how to tango. That's the really tiring bit. The things the women do with their legs is tiring just to watch. :smalleek:

The baby was actually really well behaved. He's almost turning one! His birthday is in March.

Also, Atlantean, have the player that wishes to die discuss this with the DM. Let him go out with a super awesome bang!

[AtlanteanTroll]

Also, Atlantean, have the player that wishes to die discuss this with the DM. Let him go out with a super awesome bang!
I'm not gonna' mess with it. It's not me who wants to let the character die. If he's gonna' talk to the DM he needs to do it on his own terms.

[Coidzor]

The baby was actually really well behaved. He's almost turning one! His birthday is in March.

So still in the succulent baby flesh stage, eh? How ever did you two refrain from nomming it?


I'm not gonna' mess with it. It's not me who wants to let the character die. If he's gonna' talk to the DM he needs to do it on his own terms.

The minuscule amount of love lost is just... palpable...

[Mutant Sheep]

Augh. I would like to try D&D and finally finish my basic geek credentials, but I doubt I have the patience to actually sit down, roll dice, and*gasp* roleplay. :smallsigh::smallredface::smallfrown:

[Tragic_Comedian]

Almost happened. One of us wants to be killed off anyway. We were going to mercy kill him, but we couldn't get a read on what the DMs reaction would be.
Rather out of character for a cleric of Heironius anyhow. Though I doubt you were planning on pulling the trigger.

Augh. I would like to try D&D and finally finish my basic geek credentials, but I doubt I have the patience to actually sit down, roll dice, and*gasp* roleplay. :smallsigh::smallredface::smallfrown:
It's fun.

[Coidzor]

Augh. I would like to try D&D and finally finish my basic geek credentials, but I doubt I have the patience to actually sit down, roll dice, and*gasp* roleplay. :smallsigh::smallredface::smallfrown:

How do you survive school?

[AtlanteanTroll]

Rather out of character for a cleric of Heironius anyhow. Though I doubt you were planning on pulling the trigger.
Yeah it would. Though, I play him as a Zealot, so perhaps not.

[LaZodiac]

So still in the succulent baby flesh stage, eh? How ever did you two refrain from nomming it?

Because it's family. You don't eat family. It's a rule.

[Mutant Sheep]

How do you survive school?
By sitting on the couch eating cheetos. :smallbiggrin:

Because it's family. You don't eat family. It's a rule.
Bah. You Canadians and your intolerance towards baby eating. :smallyuk:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Because it's family. You don't eat family. It's a rule.

In our culture, yes.

[Tragic_Comedian]

In some it's considered an honor.

[Coidzor]

Because it's family. You don't eat family. It's a rule.

Not for tigers! :smalltongue: And we all know you're a tigah! :smallamused: Rawr, and such.


By sitting on the couch eating cheetos. :smallbiggrin:

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[Mutant Sheep]

Not for tigers! :smalltongue: And we all know you're a tigah! :smallamused: Rawr, and such.
Oh my god a Canadian Tiger. :smalleek:


http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_rg/assets/widget_bJOUudYjXcWl1fAD5eQ05r.jpg
I sleep through class. :smalltongue: (Nah. Just Algebra. :smallyuk:)

[userpay]

Puppy power truly works.

So here I am having a cruddy day due to a combination of allergies beating the everliving hell out of me and work being excessively busy despite being the day of the Superbowl. About an hour before closing I helped two different people with puppies and afterwords I feel strangely better. Not recovered by any means but definitely more upbeat.

[Feytalist]

So my immediate bosses are all away for the next week. Leaves only the plebeians at work.

And the rivers run red.

[LaZodiac]

Not for tigers! :smalltongue: And we all know you're a tigah! :smallamused: Rawr, and such.

Oh you :smallamused::smallwink::smallredface:


So my immediate bosses are all away for the next week. Leaves only the plebeians at work.

And the rivers run red.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.

[Coidzor]

Oh you :smallamused::smallwink::smallredface:

:smallwink: Well, I am encourageable. Or was it incorrigible? Eh, one of the two. :smalltongue:


So my immediate bosses are all away for the next week. Leaves only the plebeians at work.

And the rivers run red.

So you've taken to hunting them or to leading them in some kind of glorious revolution? I could go either way, I must admit...

[Feytalist]

So you've taken to hunting them or to leading them in some kind of glorious revolution? I could go either way, I must admit...

Think Lord of the Flies. And I'm not Piggy.

:smallamused:



BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.

OFFICE SUPPLIES FOR THE uh...

[Heliomance]

Not for tigers! :smalltongue: And we all know you're a tigah! :smallamused: Rawr, and such.



I thought she was more of a fox! #rimshot #cantbelieveijustusedthatline

[Teddy]

gasque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasque)?

Make believe student union?

I'm so lost right now.

Yes, that general type of gasque defined in the first paragraph. And Sweden has a tradition of student unions (membership in one used to be mandatory until just recently), and there is one for my whole home town, which happens to have Sweden's oldest and largest (IIRC) university, which in turn encompasses just about any subject.

Because one union must handle the special interests of all the colleges that make up our university, they can't focus specifically on the needs on one group past a certain extent, and this is what prompted the foundation of a second union specifically aimed to unite the tech and science students and speak for them.

The only hitch: due to something-something, they haven't actually managed to secure enough votes from their own members in order to separate from the real student union and become a student union on their own, so while they've been working actively with the special interests of us students and handled a lot of the real union's work through agreements, they still aren't a student union per se.

Now, during the dinner, one of the speakers refered to our "student union" as "[...] the best make-believe student union [...]" ("make-belive" is my own choice of words, as he held the speech in Swedish), and it just kind of stuck with me.

[101jir]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.
Looks like I'm not the only one who wakes up in the morning with a certain thrill from imagining the :smalleek: on countless imaginary characters faces when something terrible happens to them.:smallamused:. JK, I get that you were just responding to someone else. ANyone else ever feel like that?

[LaZodiac]

I thought she was more of a fox! #rimshot #cantbelieveijustusedthatline

Now see, that's slightly more sensible in my eyes atleast, because I actually really, really like foxs. They are so cuuuute!

Also, thanks :smallredface:

[YPU]

Looks like I'm not the only one who wakes up in the morning with a certain thrill from imagining the :smalleek: on countless imaginary characters faces when something terrible happens to them.:smallamused:. JK, I get that you were just responding to someone else. ANyone else ever feel like that?

Guilty, those exact words even.

[Rawhide]

Now see, that's slightly more sensible in my eyes atleast, because I actually really, really like foxs. They are so cuuuute!

Also, thanks :smallredface:

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[101jir]

Now see, that's slightly more sensible in my eyes atleast, because I actually really, really like foxs. They are so cuuuute!

Also, thanks :smallredface:

Personally, I am not sure which aspect of foxes I like better, their crafty nature in folklore, or their cuteness in real life. I don't really care whether they are portrayed as good or evil, the fox always has something up his/her sleeve no matter what the culture of origin is:smallbiggrin:. Then again, compared to the above pictures, both aspects make them cool.

Coyotes too. Except whether in real life or folklore, they are not so innocent. They tend to be much more vicious. Until a human with a weapon comes by, then RUN! But dogs, cattle, and all others beware, for the coyote can come at any time, and if your precious humans aren't there to protect you...

Of course, in reality I suppose it isn't such a petty thing. Still, there is a reason why people like playing games like Grand Theft Auto and other such criminal games, many of us have a certain admiration of our inner criminal.

[AtlanteanTroll]

:smallwink: Well, I am encourageable. Or was it incorrigible? Eh, one of the two. :smalltongue:
Both, perhaps? :smallwink: :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

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Omaigawtehresocuteahaaaagheaghaghae.

Ahem.

Those are cute.

Also, I do not know what incourgible or encouragable mean :smallredface:

[101jir]

Omaigawtehresocuteahaaaagheaghaghae.

Ahem.

Those are cute.

Also, I do not know what incourgible or encouragable mean :smallredface:

Incorigible means that you are unreformable. There is no way anyone can "set you straight," so to speak. Sometimes used in context such as "incorigible prankster"

Encourageable comes from encourage.

[LaZodiac]

Incorigible means that you are unreformable. There is no way anyone can "set you straight," so to speak. Sometimes used in context such as "incorigible prankster"

Encourageable comes from encourage.

Ahh, thanks. Coidzer is definitly those :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

The Process of Belief by Bad Religion may just be the best album I've ever had the pleasure of hearing.

[Mutant Sheep]

I think my inner criminal is a jerk. Along with most non-French singing criminals. :smalltongue:

[Tragic_Comedian]

I think my inner criminal is a jerk. Along with most non-French singing criminals. :smalltongue:
I still haven't begun to understand this statement.

[Mutant Sheep]

I still haven't begun to understand this statement.

Jean Valjean is awesome. In so few words. :smallamused:

@The Tellitubby: WHAT GIMME NOW. :smalleek::smallfurious::smallwink: (I dont wanna be posting over and over. 3 post rule is like, seeping into my inner soul here. :smalltongue:)

[LaZodiac]

Jean Valjean is awesome. In so few words. :smallamused:

That reminds me of the Les Mis fighting game. It's kinda good, in it's badness.

[101jir]

I think my inner criminal is a jerk. Along with most non-French singing criminals. :smalltongue:

Did you honestly expect it not to be :smalltongue::smallconfused:?

[Coidzor]

I still haven't begun to understand this statement.

I just took it to mean that he doesn't like The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_q1SdaWLlw) Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaQ8_vDTLg&feature=related) Meister (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZcYlHUgoaQ&feature=related) or Dr. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl0R0PNqmeo) Horrible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidsxnnVTR4), as they are not French (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZYYMoiwWQQ) singers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_o5O5TSGs) while also being criminals.

I figured the inner criminal bit was either a reference to piracy or gibberish to be discarded like yesterday's tomatoes.

Personally I find my inner criminal to be a lemur named Simon. Possibly Simoné. He mostly steals bananas and ants, though occasionally he'll try to eat a colorful enough purse, but fortunately has yet to succeed as his teeth aren't quite good enough to tear it up and his mouth isn't big enough to swallow one whole.

I don't think I have an inner Frenchman, but if I did, his name would probably be either Gaston or Marseilles. Maybe just Garcon.

My inner Welshman(which is of interest to no one but Koorlithulu, our resident connoisseur of such things) is a rather confused man named either Murray or Paul who got stuck up in my family tree and unable to get back down again somehow in the misty ages of time.

[LaZodiac]

Probably the former.

Also, anyone watching the show Canada's Greatest Know It All? It's actually legit good, because everyone but the guy that just got kicked off is actually a nice guy who doesn't make the show what I thought it would be, Canada's Biggest Douchebag.

[Coidzor]

Also, anyone watching the show Canada's Greatest Know It All? It's actually legit good, because everyone but the guy that just got kicked off is actually a nice guy who doesn't make the show what I thought it would be, Canada's Biggest Douchebag.

Was there ever any doubt? /spah :smalltongue:

You guys are known as one of if not the politest societies/countries in the world.

Frankly I didn't even know Canadia had enough of those last things to even make a contest of it. Closest I thought you had were mild jerks from Kate Beaton's sentiments on the subject of Canadian history.


Both, perhaps? :smallwink: :smalltongue:


Ahh, thanks. Coidzer is definitly those :smalltongue:

Oh dear, now I think you guys are trying to encourage my incorrigibility. :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

Was there ever any doubt? /spah :smalltongue:

You guys are known as one of if not the politest societies/countries in the world.

Frankly I didn't even know Canadia had enough of those last things to even make a contest of it. Closest I thought you had were mild jerks from Kate Beaton's sentiments on the subject of Canadian history.

Oh dear, now I think you guys are trying to encourage my incorrigibility. :smalltongue:

Good point. And really when you think about our history, some of the stuff is polite in comparission. But that's all I'll say.

And the cool thing about the show is, these peoples aren't really what you'd call "know it alls". In all honesty, these guy's are just "people who are actually really smart". Except for Cary. Anyone who's seen the show would know, but Cary is...well, a out and out sterotypical asshat.

And of course we're encouraging your incouragibility. Your incouragibility is encouraging us!

[Coidzor]

Good point. And really when you think about our history, some of the stuff is polite in comparission. But that's all I'll say.

And the cool thing about the show is, these peoples aren't really what you'd call "know it alls". In all honesty, these guy's are just "people who are actually really smart". Except for Cary. Anyone who's seen the show would know, but Cary is...well, a out and out sterotypical asshat.

And of course we're encouraging your incouragibility. Your incouragibility is encouraging us!

My incouraging nature encourages you, eh? What, am I some kinda spoony (http://spoonyexperiment.com/) bard (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9830.20) now? :smalltongue:

Guess I'd better get some new dance slippers then. Writing in a dragon taking an interest in my great-grandma will be the real challenge, I think...

Coid Links at Own Risk

[LaZodiac]

My incouraging nature encourages you, eh? What, am I some kinda spoony (http://spoonyexperiment.com/) bard (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9830.20) now? :smalltongue:

Guess I'd better get some new dance slippers then. Writing in a dragon taking an interest in my great-grandma will be the real challenge, I think...

Coid Links at Own Risk

Theoreticaly, it's not to hard to write a backstory like that, if the DM is nice and your family goes back a long time.

[Coidzor]

Theoreticaly, it's not to hard to write a backstory like that, if the DM is nice and your family goes back a long time.

Back to the beginning, sure, but it's a bit tricky, since the DM around here is rather a bit of a stickler for playing strictly RAW, especially with pre-existing character builds. :smalltongue:

Hmm, I suppose I could just make the random Welshman the dragon... It'd spare granny at least... I'll need some whiteout, about a thousand paperclips, and some youtube videos of Hawaiian volcanoes.... He ain't gonna like it, but that's what he gets for getting stuck in that tree, I reckon.

At least I can tie it in to my penchant for spicy food, like habanero jam, pepperoni, salami, cream cheese, and chipotle hot sauce bagel sammiches...

Unfortunately the last sammich I ran out of genoa salami and chipotle hot sauce. And now I'm out of bagels cuz I omnomnom'd them all. :smallfrown:

[LaZodiac]

Back to the beginning, sure, but it's a bit tricky, since the DM around here is rather a bit of a stickler for playing strictly RAW, especially with pre-existing character builds. :smalltongue:

Hmm, I suppose I could just make the random Welshman the dragon... It'd spare granny at least... I'll need some whiteout, about a thousand paperclips, and some youtube videos of Hawaiian volcanoes.... He ain't gonna like it, but that's what he gets for getting stuck in that tree, I reckon.

At least I can tie it in to my penchant for spicy food, like habanero jam, pepperoni, salami, cream cheese, and chipotle hot sauce bagel sammiches...

Unfortunately the last sammich I ran out of genoa salami and chipotle hot sauce. And now I'm out of bagels cuz I omnomnom'd them all. :smallfrown:

A lack of food is always one of those horrible things.

Also, if you like spicey food, you should try Donair Meat. I'll get the recipe for you later.

Also, really, if the DM is so rigid, feel free to throw them for a loop. I can understand wanting there to be some semblence of order, but a DM has to know when to be flexible.

Speaking of DMing, the party just effortlessly crushed the Dragon I set out for them. Only it wasn't a dragon, it was a pseudodragon (a drake that looks like a dragon in miniture) that was magically increased in size. With an enchantment on it that, if it hit your will, you were hit by it as if it were a real dragon, doing real dragon sized damage.

[Mutant Sheep]

A lack of food is always one of those horrible things.

Also, if you like spicey food, you should try Donair Meat. I'll get the recipe for you later.

Also, really, if the DM is so rigid, feel free to throw them for a loop. I can understand wanting there to be some semblence of order, but a DM has to know when to be flexible.

Speaking of DMing, the party just effortlessly crushed the Dragon I set out for them. Only it wasn't a dragon, it was a pseudodragon (a drake that looks like a dragon in miniture) that was magically increased in size. With an enchantment on it that, if it hit your will, you were hit by it as if it were a real dragon, doing real dragon sized damage.
Why not just make it a dragon at that point?:smallconfused::smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

Why not just make it a dragon at that point?:smallconfused::smalltongue:

Because then my level 4 party would be fighting a level 7 Red Dragon. I had a plan and they defeated it, I can't just change it up on them.

[Tragic_Comedian]

I wish I was in Canada.

Well, I wish I was in Canada
A guitar in my hand
And I'd sing a song to all the beasts
In that great and wintry land
Is this song worth continuing or not? What do you think, my friends?

[LaZodiac]

I wish I was in Canada.

Well, I wish I was in Canada
A guitar in my hand
And I'd sing a song to all the beasts
In that great and wintry land
Is this song worth continuing or not? What do you think, my friends?

GO ahead! Songs about Canada are cool!

Now, since someone has FINALLY posted here, I can tell you guys who's go really sick ad full of puke! That's me, this morning. Woke up at 5, threw up so hard my nose started bleeding. Then I went again at 6.

I will note that this is not the hardest I've ever thrown up, but that's a hard thing to take note of. Whenever I throw up, EVERY thing goes out, that's how violent it is. And when it comes to Projectile Vomit, I've got it, emphasis on Projectile. My longest range was 20 feet!

And, throughout all these times I've thrown up, it's squeezed me so hard it tore tears from my body. Kinda amazing, far as I know.

[Mutant Sheep]

GO ahead! Songs about Canada are cool!

Now, since someone has FINALLY posted here, I can tell you guys who's go really sick ad full of puke! That's me, this morning. Woke up at 5, threw up so hard my nose started bleeding. Then I went again at 6.

I will note that this is not the hardest I've ever thrown up, but that's a hard thing to take note of. Whenever I throw up, EVERY thing goes out, that's how violent it is. And when it comes to Projectile Vomit, I've got it, emphasis on Projectile. My longest range was 20 feet!

And, throughout all these times I've thrown up, it's squeezed me so hard it tore tears from my body. Kinda amazing, far as I know.

Puking is lame.
ION: I had no 2nd period class! Yay national math test thingey! :smallcool:

[Qwertystop]

Who wants to hear read a bad joke?

[LaZodiac]

Who wants to hear read a bad joke?

I would, I would!

[AtlanteanTroll]

ION: I had no 2nd period class! Yay national math test thingey! :smallcool:
Are you sure it was national? :smallconfused:

[Coidzor]

I wish I was in Canada.

Well, I wish I was in Canada
A guitar in my hand
And I'd sing a song to all the beasts
In that great and wintry land
Is this song worth continuing or not? What do you think, my friends?

What direction were you thinking of going? Nostalgia? Pseudo-Western?

[Qwertystop]

I would, I would!
Here you go.


"Mommy, Mommy! I hate Grandma's guts!"

"Well, push them to the side of your plate."
"Mommy, Mommy! I don't want to keep walking in circles!

"Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor."
"Mommy, Mommy! I don't want to go to [Austrailia/China]!"

"Shut up and keep [swimming/digging].

[LaZodiac]

Here you go.

Those are ridiculous XP

[Ranger Mattos]

Here you go.

I've heard all of those before. Bad, yet funny.


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The guy sitting next to me in my Computer Science class lol'd at those. Half the class stared at him.

[Qwertystop]

I've heard all of those before. Bad, yet funny.

Yeah, Dad tells me them.

[Tragic_Comedian]

What direction were you thinking of going? Nostalgia? Pseudo-Western?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, so I guess... folky? I was gonna have a couple verses, and each was gonna begin "I wish I was in Canada".

ION: I have lost 16 pounds. Raise the roof.

[Coidzor]

Mmm, make it so then. Also, good on yer.

I need to lose about that much myself, so I can get down back below 200 again.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I too would like to lose some weight. Well, fat anyway. I'd actually like to put on some more muscle. Which I suppose would lead to an increased weight ...

[Mutant Sheep]

I would so love to gain weight. Being a skinny person makes these "I want to lose weight" discussions seem so totally weird. Also, I'm skinnier than you hahaha.:smalltongue::smallbiggrin:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Welp, guess who got hisself a massive new crush? Oh, that would be me.

Gotta love it.

[Mutant Sheep]

Welp, guess who got hisself a massive new crush? Oh, that would be me.

Gotta love it.

You perverter of people! You punk-steampunk-skull corrupter of the humanityz! :smalltongue:

Also, crushes are so much fun, its a wonder people survive their pre-30's. :smallsigh:

[Tragic_Comedian]

Good luck with the lady, amigo.

ION: Sometimes I worry that all my older friends secretly view me as this annoying kid that comes around.

[Coidzor]

^: Well, there's always going to be some of that. Generations being what they are.

But if they're actually your friends, and if they weren't, you should've found out by now, the thing is, you're their annoying kid.
I would so love to gain weight. Being a skinny person makes these "I want to lose weight" discussions seem so totally weird. Also, I'm skinnier than you hahaha.:smalltongue::smallbiggrin:

I used to be skinny. Then I fell in love, almost got married, and ballooned up by about 25 pounds. So be careful what you wish for.

[Mutant Sheep]

I'm very annoying. I'm sure you guys knew that already though. :smallwink: One of these days its gonna stop being lovable goofiness. But not today. :smallcool:

[Feytalist]

Speaking of weight, I recently finally broke through the "underweight" barrier of the BMI scale. I'm now "normal". I'm strangely proud of this fact.

[WyvernLord]

I'm (not surprisingly) tired. Also my favorite salad is the Caesar Salad. Just sharing.

[Form]

Speaking of weight, I recently finally broke through the "underweight" barrier of the BMI scale. I'm now "normal". I'm strangely proud of this fact.

Well, why not? Especially if it took a bit of effort. Besides, it's a positive development, so jay!

[Feytalist]

Well, why not? Especially if it took a bit of effort. Besides, it's a positive development, so jay!

A bit of effort? Heh. It took the total opposite of effort. All I did was ate more and exercised less. :smalltongue:

Now I just need to convert the extra weight into muscle, and I'll be golden. That, however, will take some effort. Bleh.

[Teddy]

I used to be skinny. Then I fell in love, almost got married, and ballooned up by about 25 pounds. So be careful what you wish for.

25 pounds would put me at what can be considered average-ish weight for my age (I actually have no idea of what the average weight for males of my age is, but I can safely say that it's definitely higher than mine). Right now, I'm happy that my personal average weight has risen to and stabilised at an even power of 2. Marvel at my mighty 10000002 kg of body mass. :smallwink:

[userpay]

Is it just me or does China have alot of stuff that you wouldn't expect to explode exploding?

[LaZodiac]

Speaking of weight, I recently finally broke through the "underweight" barrier of the BMI scale. I'm now "normal". I'm strangely proud of this fact.

Always remember this, the BMI scale is increeeedibly unrealistic.

[Coidzor]

Always remember this, the BMI scale is increeeedibly unrealistic.

It really is all about dem hips*, just as Serpentine always said. :smallamused:

In other news, it looks like I'm getting a birthday&christmas present early from some of my friends because they're sick of me using a mac from back before they had intel processors.

*and waist

[LaZodiac]

It really is all about dem hips*, just as Serpentine always said. :smallamused:

In other news, it looks like I'm getting a birthday&christmas present early from some of my friends because they're sick of me using a mac from back before they had intel processors.

*and waist

Well, yes. Hips and waist are always important!

Hooray early gifts! And hooray new computers!

[101jir]

Does anyone else ever set their alarm whenever they need to go somewhere (esp. in a dorm for anyone who has gone/is going to college)? Funny thing is, I was listening to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50nlglMsv0)this morning and my alarm went off. I jumped so high, and then laughed so hard because of the context!

[AtlanteanTroll]

Also, crushes are so much fun, its a wonder people survive their pre-30's. :smallsigh:

Yeah. Right. Fun. *rains on parade because he is Debby Downer* :smallannoyed: :smalltongue:

But mostly :smallannoyed:

[Coidzor]

Does anyone else ever set their alarm whenever they need to go somewhere (esp. in a dorm for anyone who has gone/is going to college)? Funny thing is, I was listening to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50nlglMsv0)this morning and my alarm went off. I jumped so high, and then laughed so hard because of the context!

I'd say that roughly and off the cuff about 2 or 3 out of every 5 guys on my frosh dorm hall did that, yeah.

Wicked coincidence that. :smallamused:

[Tragic_Comedian]

Does anyone else ever set their alarm whenever they need to go somewhere (esp. in a dorm for anyone who has gone/is going to college)? Funny thing is, I was listening to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50nlglMsv0)this morning and my alarm went off. I jumped so high, and then laughed so hard because of the context!
I do not have an alarm.

[AtlanteanTroll]

*point to signature and shamelessly plugs art thread*

*coughs*

Return to your regularly scheduled banter my fellow playgrounders.

[LaZodiac]

*point to signature and shamelessly plugs art thread*

*coughs*

Return to your regularly scheduled banter my fellow playgrounders.

Awesome, I'll check it out later!

Also, don't feel bad about telling us about your threads here. I'd do it if I had any new ones to talk about :smalltongue:

[AsteriskAmp]

It really is all about dem hips*, just as Serpentine always said. :smallamused:

*and waist

Actually the Quetelet index is a perfectly valid measure of what it was designed for, numerous published studies confirm it (Eknoyan, 2007; Lobstein, Baur and Uauy, 2004; Perez, Hoelscher, Springer, et al. 2011; to name a few). If you so wish I can provide quotes.

Most health-related studies of obesity will have to rely on it do to both the sheer amount of additional data it provides for further research (both variables, height and weight) and the fact that it is actually rather reliable while being extremely practical.

What most people overlook though is that there are no universal ranges, there are specific ranges for each age category, the Body Mass Index Reference Charts.

[Feytalist]

Quite. For the majority of cases, the BMI is a sufficient general gauge. It's still used extensively in the health and medical insurance industry.


Seems Neil Gaiman has started writing again, on some sort of mystery project. I'm gonna keep my eye on his journal veeeeery closely.

[AsteriskAmp]

Quite. For the majority of cases, the BMI is a sufficient general gauge. It's still used extensively in the health and medical insurance industry.

Where do you think its use picked up?

[Feytalist]

Where do you think its use picked up?

Dunno. In medical insurance? Since that's what you bolded :smalltongue:

All I know is I had to do many many BMI related calculations for use as correlation coefficients back when I was studying assurance theory.

[AsteriskAmp]

Dunno. In medical insurance? Since that's what you bolded :smalltongue:

All I know is I had to do many many BMI related calculations for use as correlation coefficients back when I was studying assurance theory.
They needed a way to proof obese people are more likely to die, so to define obese they pulled a thesis by a long dead guy and it turned out to be pretty good at what it did.

My high school thesis pretty much hinged on me proving BMI is a valid measurement.

[Feytalist]

They needed a way to proof obese people are more likely to die, so to define obese they pulled a thesis by a long dead guy and it turned out to be pretty good at what it did.

My high school thesis pretty much hinged on me proving BMI is a valid measurement.

Huh, interesting. So obviously you know a bit about it, heh.

I just plug the numbers into the formulae. And obviously BMI is just one of the many variables we use. It's by far not the only measurement of health.

But I do remember that there was a cut-off point, way on the outer edge of the obese range, that carried the same kind of weight as some of the nastier STI's. By which point your insurance premiums would start choking you to death. So it's a rather important measurement of health, at least for the medical insurance industry.

[LaZodiac]

Quite. For the majority of cases, the BMI is a sufficient general gauge. It's still used extensively in the health and medical insurance industry.

Seems Neil Gaiman has started writing again, on some sort of mystery project. I'm gonna keep my eye on his journal veeeeery closely.

I think Neil Gaiman is working on the Before Watchman mini series. I forget if he is though.

[Heliomance]

August! You're back!


ION, watching Supernatural right before bed gives me really interesting dreams. The one I've just had was a really vivid one, involving timeloops and such. It was just reaching the climax, and one of the protagonist's allies had just been possessed. The protagonist (a sort of hybrid of Harry Dresden and Dean Winchester) was just opening his mouth to give the possessing demon what for, when my alarm went off. My alarm at the moment is O Fortuna. My heart stopped for a moment.

[Feytalist]

I think Neil Gaiman is working on the Before Watchman mini series. I forget if he is though.

Oh, really? I didn't know he was involved. I know that Alan Moore most certainly isn't. But if Gaiman is writing, it might be interesting.

[AsteriskAmp]

August! You're back!


ION, watching Supernatural right before bed gives me really interesting dreams. The one I've just had was a really vivid one, involving timeloops and such. It was just reaching the climax, and one of the protagonist's allies had just been possessed. The protagonist (a sort of hybrid of Harry Dresden and Dean Winchester) was just opening his mouth to give the possessing demon what for, when my alarm went off. My alarm at the moment is O Fortuna. My heart stopped for a moment.

Not fully though and I'm unaware of how long, but it could be said I've returned.

That's awfully specific, and the fact you remember it is notable as well.

Which of the many O Fortunas? The original with choir, the musical rock version or the metal version?

[Feytalist]

Which of the many O Fortunas? The original with choir, the musical rock version or the metal version?

The choir I used to be in did O Fortuna once. The original. Although we spiced it up a bit with a light show, smoke machine and a string section. Was pretty cool.

I sprained my voice that year :/


And just because it's awesome, the metal version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hem0JeHtCjA).

[LaZodiac]

Oh, really? I didn't know he was involved. I know that Alan Moore most certainly isn't. But if Gaiman is writing, it might be interesting.

Like I said, I may be wrong. But I think he is.

Also, even if he is, I don't see a point behind Before Watchmen beyond trying to milk a cult classic. It's as stupid and unessicary as making a sequel to Psychonauts.

[Feytalist]

Like I said, I may be wrong. But I think he is.

Also, even if he is, I don't see a point behind Before Watchmen beyond trying to milk a cult classic. It's as stupid and unessicary as making a sequel to Psychonauts.

But, but... Psychonauts ended on a cliffhanger! :smalltongue:

But I see your point. I like what Alan Moore said about the whole thing: "I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago".

Which I found amusing.

[AsteriskAmp]

Like I said, I may be wrong. But I think he is.

Also, even if he is, I don't see a point behind Before Watchmen beyond trying to milk a cult classic. It's as stupid and unessicary as making a sequel to Psychonauts.
Who loses from sequels?
If they are bad you disregard them. If they are good you've just gotten an extension of the original masterpiece. It's ignore-win.

The choir I used to be in did O Fortuna once. The original. Although we spiced it up a bit with a light show, smoke machine and a string section. Was pretty cool.

I sprained my voice that year :/


And just because it's awesome, the metal version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hem0JeHtCjA).
I think the original stops being it when you've got somthing as hideously as disconnected from the original as a string section, organs are way better :smallbiggrin:.

I wish the musical rock version was on youtube, its simply so much fun to hear it be progressively degraded by ragtime-esque sound and the sound quality of a midi. And I'm not joking.

[Heliomance]

Not fully though and I'm unaware of how long, but it could be said I've returned.

That's awfully specific, and the fact you remember it is notable as well.

Which of the many O Fortunas? The original with choir, the musical rock version or the metal version?

The Trans Siberian Orchestra version

[AsteriskAmp]

The Trans Siberian Orchestra version

My alarm clock consists of a piano playing loudly, most of the time it's Elton John's greatest hits though I've been waked to Salsa and my school's hymn, all courtesy of my father.

[LaZodiac]

But, but... Psychonauts ended on a cliffhanger! :smalltongue:

But I see your point. I like what Alan Moore said about the whole thing: "I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago".

Which I found amusing.

That is ammusing, yes.

And it did? I wouldn't know because MEAT CIRCUS.


Who loses from sequels?
If they are bad you disregard them. If they are good you've just gotten an extension of the original masterpiece. It's ignore-win.

I think the original stops being it when you've got somthing as hideously as disconnected from the original as a string section, organs are way better :smallbiggrin:.

I wish the musical rock version was on youtube, its simply so much fun to hear it be progressively degraded by ragtime-esque sound and the sound quality of a midi. And I'm not joking.

Even if you disregard the sequels, they are still there and they can still put a stain on the originals. Just look at Star Wars. Though I will note, the stain is there because Lucas insists on trying to wipe up the stain with the original copies.

[AsteriskAmp]

Even if you disregard the sequels, they are still there and they can still put a stain on the originals. Just look at Star Wars. Though I will note, the stain is there because Lucas insists on trying to wipe up the stain with the original copies.

And in the worst cases you laugh since it's not like the canon has been tainted, you simply ignore it if you want (though trying to push that idea on to someone else might not always work).

Without the prequels we'd have no Battlefront II.

[LaZodiac]

I've never played the Battlefront games, almost sure.

[AsteriskAmp]

I've never played the Battlefront games, almost sure.

Lego Star Wars?
Stormtroop flinging II.I? Force Unleashed
Lightsaber Duels?

[LaZodiac]

Lego Star Wars?
Stormtroop flinging II.I? Force Unleashed
Lightsaber Duels?

I've played Lego Starwars. I've also played Force Unleashed (and it sucked plot wise, and the force wasn't as fun as I expected, though it was fun.)

[AsteriskAmp]

I've played Lego Starwars. I've also played Force Unleashed (and it sucked plot wise, and the force wasn't as fun as I expected, though it was fun.)

You can place a storm trooper in front of a tie fighter, I spent at least 3 hours doing that.

[Coidzor]

The Trans Siberian Orchestra version

Trans Siberian Orchestra time? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJnd7jcqAoo) I'm down with that.. :smallcool:

[LaZodiac]

You can place a storm trooper in front of a tie fighter, I spent at least 3 hours doing that.

I can't even begin to imagine why. It seems kinda fun but I got bored of throwing dudes into the path of the launchign tie fighters after the...tenth, I think.

[AsteriskAmp]

I can't even begin to imagine why. It seems kinda fun but I got bored of throwing dudes into the path of the launchign tie fighters after the...tenth, I think.

The possibilities are endless however. Placing it in the way makes the Tie Fighter crash and the trooper be fling. Time the throw and you can watch the tie-fighter seem like being hit by an rpg. Miss it and a stortrooper stil dies. The many powers and ways to fling them make the possibilities endless.

[LaZodiac]

The possibilities are endless however. Placing it in the way makes the Tie Fighter crash and the trooper be fling. Time the throw and you can watch the tie-fighter seem like being hit by an rpg. Miss it and a stortrooper stil dies. The many powers and ways to fling them make the possibilities endless.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't find all those things as unique an expierance. They are all just throwing a dude at a thing. Also, speaking of force, if Starkiller can rip a Star Destroyer out the sky (very poorly I might add,t hat minigame SUCKED) why can't he just strait up explode a dude with the force? Also, this is just a minor thing, but why doesn't my lightsaber slice dudes up into pieces?

[AsteriskAmp]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't find all those things as unique an expierance. They are all just throwing a dude at a thing. Also, speaking of force, if Starkiller can rip a Star Destroyer out the sky (very poorly I might add,t hat minigame SUCKED) why can't he just strait up explode a dude with the force? Also, this is just a minor thing, but why doesn't my lightsaber slice dudes up into pieces?

Results are what matters.

Animating an implosion and/or severed limbs and keeping track of them would be insane. It's a Lucas Arts product after all.

[LaZodiac]

Results are what matters.

Animating an implosion and/or severed limbs and keeping track of them would be insane. It's a Lucas Arts product after all.

I guess, but if Fallout 3 can do it, you'd think Force Unleashed could.

[AsteriskAmp]

I guess, but if Fallout 3 can do it, you'd think Force Unleashed could.

Fallout is Bethesda. This are the guys that wrote in game books, many many of them. Their products are buggy not feature lacking. Lucas Arts products are both.

[AtlanteanTroll]

August! Any idea how long you're gonna be around? Even a vague one? :smallbiggrin:

[AsteriskAmp]

August! Any idea how long you're gonna be around? Even a vague one? :smallbiggrin:
Until university starts probably either a bit earlier or later. Which should be around March.

[Teddy]

Who loses from sequels?
If they are bad you disregard them. If they are good you've just gotten an extension of the original masterpiece. It's ignore-win.

The problem is that any story that leaves the door open for a sequel will inevitably have its fans imagine how the story continues. If a sequel then comes that is just bad, then it stomps those fantasies into the fan-fic section without replacing them with something adequate. Of course you may try to pretend that it never existed, but that's a bit hard when you'll constantly be reminded that it in fact does, especially if you try to share your speculations on how the sequel would unfold.

If the story doesn't leave the door open for a sequel (or a prequel for that matter), then you shouldn't make one to start with.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Until university starts probably either a bit earlier or later. Which should be around March.

Sweet, sweet. It's good to see you around.

[AsteriskAmp]

The problem is that any story that leaves the door open for a sequel will inevitably have its fans imagine how the story continues. If a sequel then comes that is just bad, then it stomps those fantasies into the fan-fic section without replacing them with something adequate. Of course you may try to pretend that it never existed, but that's a bit hard when you'll constantly be reminded that it in fact does, especially if you try to share your speculations on how the sequel would unfold.

If the story doesn't leave the door open for a sequel (or a prequel for that matter), then you shouldn't make one to start with.
Nothing stops fanfic writers, not even the authors specifically saying some are impossible.

Whatever stops people from telling me how the next movie woulod unfold and who they'd like to direct it is welcomed.

Of course you should make it, cash cows corpses are the base of the entertainment market.

[Teddy]

Nothing stops fanfic writers, not even the authors specifically saying some are impossible.

Whatever stops people from telling me how the next movie woulod unfold and who they'd like to direct it is welcomed.

Of course you should make it, cash cows corpses are the base of the entertainment market.

The thing is, not everyone likes to be called fan-fic writer (or fan-whatever whateverers, since the ideas that I'm talking about usually aren't written down). It has a stamp of uncanon on it, and especially so when it goes against the canon.

Also, there are a lot of people out there who see canon as something you can't challenge, much like you can't tear out a section of your history book and replace it with your own creative writing and still call it history. Or a meeting protocol if want something that involves less speculation to start with. To those people, a bad sequel is almost like an embarrassing part of your country's (or whatever you feel tied to) history - it's utterly painful, but you can't ignore it either, and even more importantly, you can't claim it to be untrue and replace that particular part of your history with something "better".

I kind of attribute myself to that group. I am a bit obsessed by the canonical myself...

[AsteriskAmp]

The thing is, not everyone likes to be called fan-fic writer (or fan-whatever whateverers, since the ideas that I'm talking about usually aren't written down). It has a stamp of uncanon on it, and especially so when it goes against the canon.

Also, there are a lot of people out there who see canon as something you can't challenge, much like you can't tear out a section of your history book and replace it with your own creative writing and still call it history. Or a meeting protocol if want something that involves less speculation to start with. To those people, a bad sequel is almost like an embarrassing part of your country's (or whatever you feel tied to) history - it's utterly painful, but you can't ignore it either, and even more importantly, you can't claim it to be untrue and replace that particular part of your history with something "better".

I kind of attribute myself to that group. I am a bit obsessed by the canonical myself...
Maybe because it actually isn't canon it is called fan-? Unless it gets the author's/"copyright holder" seal of approval it isn't canon.

And yes you can do that, "Damnatio memoriae". Tell enough people your version and spice it somewhat to appeal to your demographic and you've just changed history. And the validity of canon is only mental, the fans make it valid, if they want to think it didn't happen it didn't. For example, its sad that The Matrix never had any sequel, or that Tsukihime's anime never came to fruition.

[LaZodiac]

Same with the Highlander movie. It's a good thing it didn't get a sequel. After all, the PLOT is about all the Highlanders dying but ONE. You can't GET more.

[Riverdance]

How was your day today? Anecdotes, stories, how you're feeling, how your day went, all welcome.

I'll start off. My day was great. Today I finally wiped out while skiing. I'm not actually a very good skier. My style tends to combine mediocre form with high speeds, but until today I had avoided accidents this season. Today I hit a small and rare patch of powder and my edge caught. I spun literally thirty feet before my skis came off. When I stopped I found my skis were twenty feet back up the trail behind me. Incredibly I didn't even strain a muscle and the entire experience was thoroughly enjoyable. Other than that I took a calculus test and gathered data for a happiness survey which I wrote myself.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Here's my dumb story from today. (I was gonna post it earlier, but I was pleasantly distracted by August.)

We were goofing off at musical rehearsal today and I ran all the way down the isle and jumped onto the stage which is, like, 5 feet up as only a true spazz can. Think Naruto, arms and legs pointing out from my body. After not somehow breaking my kneecaps, the director states: "You sure are flexible for a kid who never leaves the house."

[KingHywel]

I took a World History pretest. Halfway through, I realized I should probably get some wrong. (I've already read the textbook (I was really bored)).

[Goosefeather]

It's 2:36am and I should really be going to bed. I have decided however that I am ill enough to justify not going to class tomorrow, so no huge rush (don't judge me!) It has been a day of snuffling/nose-blowing in lectures and consequently annoying everyone around me, unhealthy comfort food, and general sitting-around-the-house-in-a-duvet-ness.

On which note, good night to all and to all a good night!

[Traab]

Not the best. My 89 year old grandmother is having an especially bad day. Her mind is going fast and she spent most of today insisting the people only she could see were stealing from us all, eating all our food, sleeping in her bed, the babies were starving, etc etc etc. I am basically a home health aide for her, so i stay at home all day to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesnt fall and hurt herself because the invisible people wont let her have her walker so she tries to walk without it. Normally she is borderline, she sees things but is aware that they probably arent real, today she was convinced they were real and spent most of the day upset that I wasnt sorting the people out.

As for skiing, thats always fun. I tried skiing once, I went up the hill before I learned how to steer. or stop. I am pretty sure I broke the sound barrier at one point before I slipped and fell for about 50 yards on my belly until I slammed ribs first into the ski lift pole. Thank god they are heavily padded. That would have sucked at the speeds I was travelling. Heh, it took three people on the slope at the time to gather up my skis and poles I lost along the way. There was even a long trail of furrows in the snow from my fingers trying to slow me down for a good 10-15 yards. I stayed on the bunny slope after that.

[Ulysses WkAmil]

I went skiing once. I slipped on my skis, and fell onto a wire fence, the wire choking my neck. The employee at the lift stated "You can kill yourself, just don't do it here".
My friend did a mid-air faceplant into the snow. I don't know how you turn 100 degrees horizontally, it just happened.

[Tragic_Comedian]

"You sure are flexible for a kid who never leaves the house."
Bazinga.

After all these years, I still (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat8GQEJlCY&feature=related) wanna be the very best, like no one ever was.

[DarkLightDragon]

Bazinga.

After all these years, I still (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat8GQEJlCY&feature=related) wanna be the very best, like no one ever was.

I can still remember the words to the full versions of that and the Johto season! :smallcool:

I also still have my special occasion avatars from my earlier forum days. Pretty awesome! :smallsmile:

[Teddy]

Maybe because it actually isn't canon it is called fan-? Unless it gets the author's/"copyright holder" seal of approval it isn't canon.

And yes you can do that, "Damnatio memoriae". Tell enough people your version and spice it somewhat to appeal to your demographic and you've just changed history. And the validity of canon is only mental, the fans make it valid, if they want to think it didn't happen it didn't. For example, its sad that The Matrix never had any sequel, or that Tsukihime's anime never came to fruition.

Because denying history has never led to anything bad. At all. Annoyed smilie omitted because I don't want to come off as hostile.

Also, what I was trying to point out was that a bad sequel turns your own ideas on how things will unfold from "not canon but not directly against canon" to "simply against canon". There is a difference that actually do matter for some.

And arguing that something can be easilly disregarded because it's "only mental" pays little respect to how much "only mental" actually matters to just about everyone.

Take your taste of food, for example. That foodstuff you find disgusting? It's only mental, now eat it.

That fobia that turns you into a wreck whenever you encounter the object of your fear? It's only mental, now run straight into it.

You can't simply tell people to ignore everything they find themselves averse to, because it's not always that simple, and in those cases, it's easy to come off as inconsiderate.

[LaZodiac]

Because denying history has never led to anything bad. At all. Annoyed smilie omitted because I don't want to come off as hostile.

Also, what I was trying to point out was that a bad sequel turns your own ideas on how things will unfold from "not canon but not directly against canon" to "simply against canon". There is a difference that actually do matter for some.

And arguing that something can be easilly disregarded because it's "only mental" pays little respect to how much "only mental" actually matters to just about everyone.

Take your taste of food, for example. That foodstuff you find disgusting? It's only mental, now eat it.

That fobia that turns you into a wreck whenever you encounter the object of your fear? It's only mental, now run straight into it.

You can't simply tell people to ignore everything they find themselves averse to, because it's not always that simple, and in those cases, it's easy to come off as inconsiderate.

Of course. But it's still really hard for the individuals involved to do that. Especialy when it comes to phobia's and what not. I guess it's more of a hope then anything else really. "I wish the Highlander sequels didn't exist, they are so bad".

And while we're on the subject. Your inability to finish by the deadlines, they too is just mental :smallamused:

In all seriousness I really do respect the fact that you're still doing this for me despite all my nagging.

[Rawhide]

And it did? I wouldn't know because MEAT CIRCUS.

Have you seen the patch notes? The most recent one mentions making MEAT CIRCUS much easier.


Same with the Highlander movie. It's a good thing it didn't get a sequel. After all, the PLOT is about all the Highlanders dying but ONE. You can't GET more.

Highlander 2 was so bad, even Highlander 3 and the other movies/episodes ignored it and removed it from canon.

[Feytalist]

Meat Circus is nothing a few retries won't fix. It is devilishly irritating, though. And nothing really happens after that point, anyway. But it does end on a sort of a cliffhanger.

[The Succubus]

Meeeeaaaat Circussssssss......X_x

I will beat that bloody level one of these days, assuming I'm not distracted by the other awesome stuff coming from Double Fine. ^^

[fergo]

Crap, so far. And it's only started :smallannoyed: (by student day-off standards. By normal standards it's lunchtime :smallyuk:).

This morning I argued with my beautiful girlfriend and we're not talking at the moment.:smallfrown:.

Then I learn that a beer festival we've put an incredible amount of effort into planning over the last few months has been called off at the last minute, when we were actually good to go. I've been thinking all this time that we just couldn't make this happen, we couldn't get the sponsors, the money, the student interest. And as soon as we actually have everything sorted out (including a fantastic sponsor who was pretty much willing to pay for everything) the SU turn around and say that it won't happen.

:smallfurious::smallmad::smallannoyed::smallfrown: :smallfurious::smallmad::smallannoyed::smallfrown: :smallfurious::smallmad::smallfrown::smallannoyed:

Ah well...

[AsteriskAmp]

Because denying history has never led to anything bad. At all. [COLOR="White"]Annoyed smilie omitted because I don't want to come off as hostile.

We can't really know what happens when omitting history succeeds since... well, we believe the new version.


Also, what I was trying to point out was that a bad sequel turns your own ideas on how things will unfold from "not canon but not directly against canon" to "simply against canon". There is a difference that actually do matter for some.
Most of the time simply changing the idea of "how will it unfold" into a complaint of "how it should have unfolded".


And arguing that something can be easilly disregarded because it's "only mental" pays little respect to how much "only mental" actually matters to just about everyone.
A more precise term would have been is consensus based. A consensus of the fan base, which can actually decide something isn't canon and shove it under the rag. See Zelda games for the cd-i which are not even included in hypothetical time lines and are not mentioned by anyone ever except to comment on their non-existence and general lack of Zeldaness.


Take your taste of food, for example. That foodstuff you find disgusting? It's only mental, now eat it.
Flavour is a physical property that's constant. Taste is not mental, you liking it or not is.


That fobia that turns you into a wreck whenever you encounter the object of your fear? It's only mental, now run straight into it.
And phobias also encompass neurobiological factors. People can be aware their fear is irrational but still be unable to get over it.

Also, there is a certain school of phobia treatment that actually tells you to do this for a number of phobias, run straight into it to be able to comprehend there is no danger and internalize it.


You can't simply tell people to ignore everything they find themselves averse to, because it's not always that simple, and in those cases, it's easy to come off as inconsiderate.
When a phobia is at least partially rational and the reaction is not overly panicking yes, you shouldn't. When you have a guest over your dining table because his fear of dogs just made him jump there than I think telling him to ignore the barkings since the dog is safely locked away is only sensible.

[passons]

it was mixed dude till 12.00 noon happy there after my boss started shouting at me

[Castaras]

Fever feels like it's gone down a bit, but still feel just as tired and out of it. Not feeling 100% when it comes to my stomach any more either.

But eh. I've been a lot worse, and I'm still happy. :smallsmile:

[Teddy]

We can't really know what happens when omitting history succeeds since... well, we believe the new version.

Yes, because whenever someone starts to deny history, every single inhabitant on Earth will agree with the new version, and no records whatsoever of the past will be kept for the future. For the record, that was sarcasm.

I don't want to get into any examples, because they stray a little bit too close to the political area (unless they just jump straight into the deep end of the political pool knows as ideological fanaticism, that is), but authoritarian nations have been known to rewrite their history in order to make it seem more glorious, and political fanatics quite often rely heavily on their own historical "facts".


Most of the time simply changing the idea on how will unfold into a complaint of how it should have unfolded.

Turning dreams sour in the process.


A more precise term would have been is consensus based. A consensus of the fan base, which can actually decide something isn't canon and shove it under the rag. See Zelda games for the cd-i which are not even included in hypothetical time lines and are not mentioned by anyone ever except to comment on their non-existence and general lack of Zeldaness.

It's still an individual matter where one draws the definition between canon and not canon.


Flavour is a physical property that's constant. Taste is not mental, you liking it or not is.

Which is why I was talking about not liking it.


And phobias also encompass neurobiological factors. People can be aware their fear is irrational but still be unable to get over it.

You realise that everything that relates to our brain are neurobiological factors, right? After all, every memory consists of uniquely wired neuron patterns, and every thought is but electrical pulses running along these.


Also, there is a certain school of phobia treatment that actually tells you to do this for a number of phobias, run straight into it to be able to comprehend there is no danger and internalize it.

If it's CBT you're alluding to, then we're talking about baby steps rather than rushing headlong into it. If it's something more radical, well, I think I'd refer the Geneva Convention if someone forced me into that.


When a phobia is at least partially rational and the reaction is not overly panicking yes, you shouldn't. When you have a guest over your dining table because his fear of dogs just made him jump there than I think telling him to ignore the barkings since the dog is safely locked away is only sensible.

Which, I might add, will do nothing good to better his situation, and just displays a lack of understanding of or respect for your guest's problem. The sensible action would be to walk over to your dog and try to calm it down.

[LaZodiac]

Have you seen the patch notes? The most recent one mentions making MEAT CIRCUS much easier.

I was unaware of that. Doesn't matter RIGHT now, since on my new computer I have to re get to that point. I better not expierance the glitch where my Cobweb Duster disappears and I have to gather all the arrowheads for it again. Because that's heinous and horrible and bad.


Meat Circus is nothing a few retries won't fix. It is devilishly irritating, though. And nothing really happens after that point, anyway. But it does end on a sort of a cliffhanger.

For some reason I was never really good at jumping from the trapiezes.


*huge reply*

I know that Pinkhair totally gave you a more interesting comment to read, but I totally said a thing to you to :smallredface:

[arguskos]

"This is arguskos, with the inside scoop for the half-time report! It's been an uneventful first half, with a rough hit during Introduction to Pacific Asia but with a strong rebound during Tragic Vision. We've got the Freethinker's Show coming up in 20, and the second half shortly thereafter, where it looks like there's gonna be a real good Friday Night Magic play. Stay tuned for the coverage, after these commercials!"

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

But, but... Psychonauts ended on a cliffhanger! :smalltongue:

But I see your point. I like what Alan Moore said about the whole thing: "I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago".

Which I found amusing.

He also said the same thing about Blackest Night and it came across as very demeaning to Geoff Johns I thought. Comic books should be built on continuity, dangling plot threads should be resolved and Johns expounded on Moore's "work" (three characters spout an obscure prophecy) greatly.

Honestly, I found Moore's comment above rather rude and insulting. Its not like DC NEEDS to make these new Watchmen books. Moore makes it sound like DC is banking the survival of the company on this Watchmen mini-series. Are they hoping it will make a profit? Sure! Will the company go under if it doesn't? Nope!

[Dogmantra]

I'm still quite happy from last night, when I had two of the nicest cups of tea I've had in a long time while watching This Is Spinal Tap, one of my favourite films.

[fergo]

I'm still quite happy from last night, when I had two of the nicest cups of tea I've had in a long time while watching This Is Spinal Tap, one of my favourite films.

Fantastic film :smallbiggrin:.

[Kalmageddon]

Could be better, the weather here is horrible, winds so strong that if I dare open a window I might not be able to close it again. This also caused a friend of mine who was supposed to come to town tomorrow to have to postpone the trip.

Also, I think I might have cought a cold...

[AsteriskAmp]

Yes, because whenever someone starts to deny history, every single inhabitant on Earth will agree with the new version, and no records whatsoever of the past will be kept for the future. For the record, that was sarcasm.

I don't want to get into any examples, because they stray a little bit too close to the political area (unless they just jump straight into the deep end of the political pool knows as ideological fanaticism, that is), but authoritarian nations have been known to rewrite their history in order to make it seem more glorious, and political fanatics quite often rely heavily on their own historical "facts".
Our knowledge of ancient history is dependant on records and archaeological vestiges, the second one can't really speak about politic to the same level as the first, the first ones are easy to alter. You don't need everyone to believe it, just the ones who know the proper version, slight spins overtime give a completely different version. Or a big spin made by a big person editing records and using propaganda.

We only know of the failures because we believe in the successes.


Turning dreams sour in the process.
Why must a writer be limited by the possibility of the backlash of presenting an extension to THEIR artistic vision. If the mentality was a pre-emptive no sequel or prequel since it could ruin someone's dreams of their version of the continuation of the story, there would be no sequels, good or bad.



It's still an individual matter where one draws the definition between canon and not canon.
Canon discontinuity depends on the fandom. And if it is so, then what's the problem with sequel canon if one simply can regard it as non-canon?


You realise that everything that relates to our brain are neurobiological factors, right? After all, every memory consists of uniquely wired neuron patterns, and every thought is but electrical pulses running along these.
Phobias are not merely in your thoughts, they are not simply fear, it's a rather irrational fear and it's also ingrained into inctinct and rational parts of the mind.


If it's CBT you're alluding to, then we're talking about baby steps rather than rushing headlong into it. If it's something more radical, well, I think I'd refer the Geneva Convention if someone forced me into that.

Not always, they can be cured on one session with in vivo experience and therapist guidance.
It can be done that way, I was placed into a dark room and guided through it and got over my fear of darkness.
Also, Geneva Convention refers to war prisoners...


Which, I might add, will do nothing good to better his situation, and just displays a lack of understanding of or respect for your guest's problem. The sensible action would be to walk over to your dog and try to calm it down.
It will get him to ground floor and sitting again, perfectly sensible. Lack of understanding would letting the dog aorund the house and telling him it's not aggressive.

[Teddy]

I know that Pinkhair totally gave you a more interesting comment to read, but I totally said a thing to you to :smallredface:

That's probably due to large amounts of introvertedness on my side. If I think that what it was I was about to say is too obvious or doesn't add enough new content to the conversation, I'll generally refrain from saying it. That, and I wasn't quite sure about how I should interpret the "relevant" part of your post.

You already know my answer to the second part of your post, although it's a bit less workload and a bit more laziness nowadays. That, and it can be hard to secure a computer for Inkscaping when I have to compete with both my brothers for them, and I have other things I want to do on those computers as well...


Our knowledge of ancient history is dependant on records and archaeological vestiges, the second one can't really speak about politic to the same level as the first, the first ones are easy to alter. You don't need everyone to believe it, just the ones who know the proper version, slight spins overtime give a completely different version. Or a big spin made by a big person editing records and using propaganda.

We only know of the failures because we believe in the successes.

I'm not arguing that history is (at least for most of the part) written by the winners (although it has changed significantly with increased litteracy and access to writing materials, as well as other media). I'm just maintaing my statement that when we overwrite the actual events of the past, it's for worse, or, to analyse my original snarky response to your original statement (taking the sarcasm into account), for as long as rewriting history has lead to anything bad at all, it still stands (or falls, if taken sincerely).


Why must a writer be limited by the possibility of the backlash of presenting an extension to THEIR artistic vision. If the mentality was a pre-emptive no sequel or prequel since it could ruin someone's dreams of their version of the continuation of the story, there would be no sequels, good or bad.

I never said that. I just argued against that sequels never can be bad (or how to say it), because you can always ignore them if they are, by saying that ignoring isn't always that easy.


Canon discontinuity depends on the fandom. And if it is so, then what's the problem with sequel canon if one simply can regard it as non-canon?

Everyone have their own standards. What one person can call a sidestep from canon, another one can't, because they have different ideas about what counts as canon. The CDI Zelda and Mario games (which have utterly hillarious cutscenes, by the way) are generally easy to disregard as a sidestep from canon, because their production shares pretty much no common elements with the production of the original games. Book 2 in a trilogy by the same author might not be as easy to ignore to everyone.


Phobias are not merely in your thoughts, they are not simply fear, it's a rather irrational fear and it's also ingrained into inctinct and rational parts of the mind.

So? It's still just neural patterns, like everything else. I'm merely saying that just because something is mental, doesn't mean that you can throw it out if you grow tired of it.


Not always, they can be cured on one session with in vivo experience and therapist guidance.
It can be done that way, I was placed into a dark room and guided through it and got over my fear of darkness.
Also, Geneva Convention refers to war prisoners...

Yes, I realised that about a minute after posting, but I was in a hurry and never got around to editing it. The Universal Declaration on Human Rights is more what I was thinking about. Bottom line is, I'd put it on equal levels with torture if I were to face it myself. Given, I'm a trypanophobic myself, and repeatedly being stung with syringes comes pretty close to torture anyway...


It will get him to ground floor and sitting again, perfectly sensible. Lack of understanding would letting the dog aorund the house and telling him it's not aggressive.

Is this some personal experience of yours, or are you just hypothesising? Because I for one can't stand being in the same room as syringes or similar implements, even if I can't see them. Merely knowing about their existence unnerves me up to the point where I start to crack and need to leave the room. Telling me that no one will touch them won't help me either, because my imagination is providing me with enough panic fuel as it is.

Now, it's hard to call these two scenarios analogous in any way possible. I'm just trying to present something I can draw personal experience from.

[LaZodiac]

That's probably due to large amounts of introvertedness on my side. If I think that what it was I was about to say is too obvious or doesn't add enough new content to the conversation, I'll generally refrain from saying it. That, and I wasn't quite sure about how I should interpret the "relevant" part of your post.

You already know my answer to the second part of your post, although it's a bit less workload and a bit more laziness nowadays. That, and it can be hard to secure a computer for Inkscaping when I have to compete with both my brothers for them, and I have other things I want to do on those computers as well...

Yha, yha, I understand. I don't believe I knew about the brothers thing, which explains it more. I'll try to not bother you as often as I do now, considering all the stuff you've got going.

*hugs*

[Coidzor]

Did we really go from discussing not wanting to acknowledge bad sequels to flirting with Godwin's law and historical revisionism?

Really?

[Teddy]

Yha, yha, I understand. I don't believe I knew about the brothers thing, which explains it more. I'll try to not bother you as often as I do now, considering all the stuff you've got going.

*hugs*

I think I've mentioned it once or twice, but it was probably rather indirect and interwoven with other stuff...

Also, you're bothering me often? I think I'll have to rewrite my definition of the word. :smallwink:


Did we really go from discussing not wanting to acknowledge bad sequels to flirting with Godwin's law and historical revisionism?

Really?

Natural discussion progression. Why do you think Godwin's law is a law to start with? :smallwink:

[LaZodiac]

I think I've mentioned it once or twice, but it was probably rather indirect and interwoven with other stuff...

Also, you're bothering me often? I think I'll have to rewrite my definition of the word. :smallwink:

Well, every time I bug you about it, I feel like I'm stepping to far.

[AsteriskAmp]

I'm not arguing that history is (at least for most of the part) written by the winners (although it has changed significantly with increased litteracy and access to writing materials, as well as other media). I'm just maintaing my statement that when we overwrite the actual events of the past, it's for worse, or, to analyse my original snarky response to your original statement (taking the sarcasm into account), for as long as rewriting history has lead to anything bad at all, it still stands (or falls, if taken sincerely).
And I maintain that we only know it is from worse from examples of those who failed to edit history. Those who succeeded in doing so we can't know about.


I never said that. I just argued against that sequels never can be bad (or how to say it), because you can always ignore them if they are, by saying that ignoring isn't always that easy.
But it is possible, it's just that other might not agree with the statement of dis-canonity


Everyone have their own standards. What one person can call a sidestep from canon, another one can't, because they have different ideas about what counts as canon. The CDI Zelda and Mario games (which have utterly hillarious cutscenes, by the way) are generally easy to disregard as a sidestep from canon, because their production shares pretty much no common elements with the production of the original games. Book 2 in a trilogy by the same author might not be as easy to ignore to everyone.
Still, it can be ignored, people just won't, but it can be ignored and assumed as such for personal purposes.


So? It's still just neural patterns, like everything else. I'm merely saying that just because something is mental, doesn't mean that you can throw it out if you grow tired of it.
But canon isn't mental, it's based on either a legal criteria (who has the rights) or on consensus by the community of followers of a work. You may ignore it, but it is still there, not that it matters since again, you can simply ignore it.


Yes, I realised that about a minute after posting, but I was in a hurry and never got around to editing it. The Universal Declaration on Human Rights is more what I was thinking about. Bottom line is, I'd put it on equal levels with torture if I were to face it myself. Given, I'm a trypanophobic myself, and repeatedly being stung with syringes comes pretty close to torture anyway...
I don't think trypanophobia is treatable through in vivo experience (or at least not legally).


Is this some personal experience of yours, or are you just hypothesising? Because I for one can't stand being in the same room as syringes or similar implements, even if I can't see them. Merely knowing about their existence unnerves me up to the point where I start to crack and need to leave the room. Telling me that no one will touch them won't help me either, because my imagination is providing me with enough panic fuel as it is.
That was a personal experience of mine. Twice, once as spectator.
But most of the times, phobias can be controlled to a respectable degree at least to the point of functionality with due environmental control by those around and lots of water. An analogous case would be having to share your house with a diabetic, both can make efforts to reduce the uncomfortable situations but it is outright insensible to outright get rid of his/her needles or for him/her to place them in plain view and scattered around the property.


Did we really go from discussing not wanting to acknowledge bad sequels to flirting with Godwin's law and historical revisionism?

Really?

You forgot the psychology sub-plot.

[Coidzor]

Natural discussion progression. Why do you think Godwin's law is a law to start with? :smallwink:

:smalltongue: I rather doubt we'll get to wide-spread denial of WWII having happened out of people wanting to not acknowledge the star wars prequels or Highlander 2.

[Thufir]

:smalltongue: I rather doubt we'll get to wide-spread denial of WWII having happened out of people wanting to not acknowledge the star wars prequels or Highlander 2.

No, but I find it very easy to imagine how Godwin's Law could arise in an argument about bad sequels.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Somehow by the time I graduate next year, I'll have more credits in math then any other subject. :smallconfused:

[Coidzor]

No, but I find it very easy to imagine how Godwin's Law could arise in an argument about bad sequels.

Haha. I knew there was a reason we loved ya! :smallbiggrin:

I actually fell out of my chair on that one.

[Coidzor]

Wuff. I have had a night, let me tell you.

On behalf of the group of all people named whatever it is that you all think my name actually is, I sincerely hope that you all had a much better night than I did.

What with having had to go to the ER twice and one of those times involving walking in on someone naked and the assorted and sundry things leading up to, filling the space between, and fully fleshing out those things.

The hot nurse being rather mitigated by the situation and lack of grounding on the proper technique for being a proper shameless ass and hitting on a nurse on duty in the ER ward.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating ... The older I get the better my dad's stories about the 60s get. I mean ... Yeesh.

[LaZodiac]

Wuff. I have had a night, let me tell you.

On behalf of the group of all people named whatever it is that you all think my name actually is, I sincerely hope that you all had a much better night than I did.

What with having had to go to the ER twice and one of those times involving walking in on someone naked and the assorted and sundry things leading up to, filling the space between, and fully fleshing out those things.

The hot nurse being rather mitigated by the situation and lack of grounding on the proper technique for being a proper shameless ass and hitting on a nurse on duty in the ER ward.

I can't say I understand what you just said, but let it be known that we're, or atleast I, am rooting for you! Whatever happened, I hope it improves/gets worse depending on which would be better in the current situation.