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Gnomes2169

2013-09-22, 07:57 PM

Because all of the other people apparently can't make one of these threads, I give you a new area to put your random stochastications. Have fun.

Have fun everyone with delightful and grand conversation deep within the Playground.

List of Previous Random Banter Threads
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)
Eldpollard'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)
Aziraphales 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)
August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212011)
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)
Thufir's Thupremely Thatithfying Thecond Random Banter With a Lithp #170
(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)
Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231235)
Dark Elf Bard's Random Banter #175:Playin' Underdark Jazz since the Drow went dark. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235950)
Mutant Sheep's Post Septaquintaquinquecentennial ApRiL fOoLs Random Banter: #176 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238117)
Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13163770)
Amiel's Appeasingly Appropriate Arbitrary Amusement (Random Banter): No.CLXXVIII #178 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245179)
"Your Angel of Banter Awaits." ThePhantasm Presents Random Banter #179 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13535351)
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Dimonite

2013-09-22, 08:14 PM

*Gavottes on in*
*trips*
*faceplants*
Glad there was no one here to see that... :smalltongue:

Anyhow, how are all you Banterites doing? I feel like I never post in RB anymore, and that makes me sad because I love you guys.

HalfTangible

2013-09-22, 08:18 PM

I am in the third year of a subject I didn't take the first two years for. After four weeks, I still can't get the program I need to use in order to do the class running. In the meantime I have missed all of those assignments and sincerely ****ed up all of my quizzes and tests. Every time I think I've solved my problem, there's another 5 that crop up.

I think it's time I threw in the towel.

LaZodiac

2013-09-22, 08:22 PM

Oh hai thread, how you doing?

I have ice cream and MNM Cookies from Subway. Best Dad is the Best Dad.

Mynxae

2013-09-22, 08:29 PM

Just thought I'd bring my post before the new thread creation to over here so peeps can respond and yeah. :smalltongue:

And I thought my sister was bad. But then, my own friends called me a paedophile when I was in grade 12 (16yo) and I was dating a grade 8'er (14yo). She was pretty but eh.. I wooed her with poetry. :smalltongue:

ION: How is everyone today? I'm moving tomorrow (unless there're more mishaps) so I'm ecstatic. Plus I got paid today so I bought myself some iced coffee and some Subway for breakfast. :smallbiggrin:

Qwertystop

2013-09-22, 08:30 PM

I'm pretty sure we're supposed to actually number these things.

Gnomes2169

2013-09-22, 08:53 PM

I'm pretty sure we're supposed to actually number these things.

What's a number? :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2013-09-22, 08:53 PM

Just thought I'd bring my post before the new thread creation to over here so peeps can respond and yeah. :smalltongue:

Awesome! Have fun at your new house :smallbiggrin:

Mynxae

2013-09-22, 09:06 PM

Awesome! Have fun at your new house :smallbiggrin:

Turns out that if everything goes to plan, I may even be able to move in tonight! Absolutely thrilled! :smallbiggrin:

Haluesen

2013-09-22, 09:13 PM

Greetings and salutations all! :smallbiggrin: Figured I may as well use the few minutes I have online right now to check in, and lo and behold there was more banter!

Dimonite! *glomps* Misses you! :smallsmile: I am doing okay, full of 3 bowls of veggies soup. :smallcool:

Yay Mynx! I hope you enjoy your new living space, may it serve you well. I shall present the home christening wine for all this time.

Oh I am sorry for the problems HalfTangible (need a way to shorten that). :smallfrown: But you cannot give up hope. There must be some way for things to work out better. I really do wish you the best and hope things improve in some way or another. *offers hugs* What class is this, if I may ask?

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-22, 09:14 PM

Swiss Miss doesn't burn my mouth any more. I think all that tea has burned away all the parts of my mouth.

Was this someone's basement under his house? Or a basement under a regular bar? It sounds fun and small and easy to see the bands.

Well, then you're not making it hot enough. :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Someone's house. I've been to basement bar shows - those aren't nearly as sketchy. Aye, you can get up close to the musicians. It's all good fun. :smallcool:

Also I want to go see Na'ir Al Saif live, too. Bastard. :smallbiggrin:

Well, if you can get to that part of VA by... tuesday night, then you can catch their last show. :smalltongue:

I fail to see why it would, at least. Long distance relationships may not be the norm, but they're neither new nor uncommon...

I have bad experiences with drinking hot drinks with a straw... :smallwink:

Actually, I think he's finished the series by now. I don't know if the last book has been translated into Swedish yet, though. I'll go and check it out...
*pause music*

*nod* Aye, indeed. Hell, my mom and stepdad met online, and they've been married for a while now.

Hrm... I dunno, I've never had a problem with straws... I don't use them very often, though. I'd rather drink straight from the cup.

There are just too many of those damn books. He could have ended the series... after pretty much any book he wanted to, really. Eternity Cube and the ones after it were all good places to stop. I haven't read the newest one, I don't think.

Nope. Coalzor is apparently being stolen away to Indiana. Which, hey, if he's not really my nephew, good luck to the lad with that. Many fine people in Indiana and it's an excellent place to raise children from what I hear. If he is, in fact, my nephew, then it merely confirms all of the reservations I have had since I found out that he existed. I shouldn't say things like that, for a variety of reasons, but I just don't care right now.

If everyone around me really needs a monster right now, I guess I just have to suck it up and play the part I was given. I'll at least perform my role to the best of my ability.

Well, that sucks, man. Here's hoping your family's not too bad from here on out. :\

ION: How is everyone today? I'm moving tomorrow (unless there're more mishaps) so I'm ecstatic. Plus I got paid today so I bought myself some iced coffee and some Subway for breakfast. :smallbiggrin:

I am annoyed at my chem homework, but rather happy aside from that.

9. Thread Creator must include the words "Random" and "Banter" as well as the thread #. [...]

*cough* RB rules, dude. :smallwink:

ION: You know, when I was in primary school, having divorced parents sucked.

It is damned awesome now, though. I have two sets of people buying me food and things. :smallcool:

HalfTangible

2013-09-22, 09:28 PM

Oh I am sorry for the problems HalfTangible (need a way to shorten that). :smallfrown: But you cannot give up hope. There must be some way for things to work out better. I really do wish you the best and hope things improve in some way or another. *offers hugs* What class is this, if I may ask?

Programming Fundamentals 3. C++.

(also, HT)

Dimonite

2013-09-22, 09:30 PM

What's a number? :smalltongue:

num·ber [nuhm-ber]: noun
1. A numeral or group of numerals.
2. The sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like: A number of people were hurt in the accident. The number of homeless children in the city has risen alarmingly.
3. A word or symbol, or a combination of words or symbols, used in counting or in noting a total.
4. The particular numeral assigned to an object so as to designate its place in a series: house number; license number.
5. One of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals.

Dimonite! *glomps* Misses you! :smallsmile: I am doing okay, full of 3 bowls of veggies soup. :smallcool:

*returns glomp*
Soup is good. Unless, of course, it's cafeteria soup. Don't eat cafeteria soup. You'll regret it. :smalltongue:

Turns out that if everything goes to plan, I may even be able to move in tonight! Absolutely thrilled! :smallbiggrin:

Congrats, man! Good to hear you're getting out of what is IIRC not the most reputable/safe neighborhood.

TaiLiu

2013-09-22, 09:32 PM

Soup is good. Unless, of course, it's cafeteria soup. Don't eat cafeteria soup. You'll regret it. :smalltongue:
What exactly is cafeteria soup?

Kymme

2013-09-22, 09:33 PM

What exactly is cafeteria soup?

One of the more awful substances I've tasted in my short life.

Mynxae

2013-09-22, 09:34 PM

One of the more awful substances I've tasted in my short life.

As long as it's not what hospitals over here serve to patients for coffee.. Ugh, tastes like dirt.

TaiLiu

2013-09-22, 09:35 PM

One of the more awful substances I've tasted in my short life.
So, is it slang for medicine or something...?

Kymme

2013-09-22, 09:37 PM

So, is it slang for medicine or something...?

Nah. It's soup, like vegetable soup, that is made in a school or hospital cafeteria. It's nauseating.

Dimonite

2013-09-22, 09:39 PM

What exactly is cafeteria soup?

Soup from a cafeteria. Cafeterias are NOT known for the quality of the meals they provide, since most state-sponsored schools are required by law to have their foodservice provided by the lowest bidder. While these laws serve to prevent graft, they tend to be unkind to the taste buds of prospective students. Although the foodservice at Winona is among the best I've had, (especially the brazed beef) they have yet to make soup that doesn't taste like it was boiled in someone's shoe.

One of the more awful substances I've tasted in my short life.

TRUTH.

So, is it slang for medicine or something...?

No. :smalltongue:

TaiLiu

2013-09-22, 10:02 PM

Nah. It's soup, like vegetable soup, that is made in a school or hospital cafeteria. It's nauseating.

Soup from a cafeteria. Cafeterias are NOT known for the quality of the meals they provide, since most state-sponsored schools are required by law to have their foodservice provided by the lowest bidder. While these laws serve to prevent graft, they tend to be unkind to the taste buds of prospective students. Although the foodservice at Winona is among the best I've had, (especially the brazed beef) they have yet to make soup that doesn't taste like it was boiled in someone's shoe.
Huh. That bad, eh?

No. :smalltongue:
Well, with the way people were talking about it, it certainly sounded like medicine! :smalltongue:

Rawhide

2013-09-22, 10:03 PM

REMINDER: When this thread gets to 50 pages, do not restart it. Just keep going into bonus pages until I get my act together.

LaZodiac

2013-09-22, 10:11 PM

REMINDER: When this thread gets to 50 pages, do not restart it. Just keep going into bonus pages until I get my act together.

I'm...not quite sure what this means, but okay!

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-22, 10:13 PM

I'm...not quite sure what this means, but okay!

Rawhide's doing something special for #200. :smallwink:

LaZodiac

2013-09-22, 10:15 PM

Oh right, yes! I'll be sure to remind you all about that once we get to it!

Taet

2013-09-22, 10:22 PM

I planted the peas for the fall today. But an hour later I saw a scrub jay dig up some of the peas. Scrub jays dig little holes like that too and hide food in them. But that was not a scrub jay hiding place! I wish it would go eat the false strawberries and leave my seeds alone.

REMINDER: When this thread gets to 50 pages, do not restart it. Just keep going into bonus pages until I get my act together.

The thread title makes more sense now. And it is smart the way it moves the # around.

What exactly is cafeteria soup?

Leftovers. :smallyuk:

Turns out that if everything goes to plan, I may even be able to move in tonight! Absolutely thrilled! :smallbiggrin:

This is wonderful news. And I am glad to be so far away I can't help you carry any sofa into your new place. :smalltongue:

Mutant Sheep

2013-09-22, 11:20 PM

Sheep spend weekend watching Avatar Last airbender.

Sheep ignored school work.

Sheep is satisfied with life. Also, confused with plot things he didn't entirely notice before. SPOILZZZZ
(THE DA LI HAVE A STUPID MOTIVATION. "She so scawee" IS NOT ADAQUATE GROUNDS FOR TREASON. Like... What the butt, guys? And then they go all the way to the Fire Capital 'cuz... shes so terrifying its awe inspiring? ARGHUBUGH. :smallfurious::smallsigh::smalltongue:))

ION: Sheep has like. Things to say to you folks. Too bad, sheep treats you like lifejournal now. Complete with mispeels.:smallamused:

TaiLiu

2013-09-22, 11:34 PM

Coidzor

2013-09-22, 11:35 PM

Coidzor is surprised Sheep even knows about Livejournal, really.

Well, that sucks, man. Here's hoping your family's not too bad from here on out. :\

Primadonnas. Primadonnas everywhere.

Dominated the entire day, and will likely have repercussions tomorrow, such as stressing my mom out till she gets sick. Whereas I'm in that place where I keep expecting to be attacked or for more excitement to come up making me have to rush off somewhere else, so my fingers itch and I can't quite completely calm down.

What exactly is cafeteria soup?

Soup. From a cafeteria. :smallconfused:

Rawhide's doing something special for #200. :smallwink:

Sacrificing us all to the Dark Lord, presumably. :smallamused:

TaiLiu

2013-09-22, 11:40 PM

Soup. From a cafeteria. :smallconfused:
Bad, foul-tasting soup from a cafeteria, it seems.

Mutant Sheep

2013-09-23, 12:01 AM

Coidzor is surprised Sheep even knows about Livejournal, really.

Primadonnas. Primadonnas everywhere.

Dominated the entire day, and will likely have repercussions tomorrow, such as stressing my mom out till she gets sick. Whereas I'm in that place where I keep expecting to be attacked or for more excitement to come up making me have to rush off somewhere else, so my fingers itch and I can't quite completely calm down.

Soup. From a cafeteria. :smallconfused:

Sacrificing us all to the Dark Lord, presumably. :smallamused:Sheep spends too much of Sheep's time with teenage womenfolk who enjoy mocking the habits of teenagers from 6 years ago. Also, I heard a joke about it somewhere referencing it being for emotional teenagers and decided it was ripe for a revival.:smalltongue:

Those are enemy birds..

I READ EVERYTHING IN THE CONTEXT OF AVATAR NOW AUUUGH.:smalleek::smallbiggrin:

Oh. Cafateria food. People....eat that?:smallconfused:

BLOOD FOR POO POO THE MONKEY GOD. TOILET PAPER FOR HIS YOSHI.:smallamused: #Family injoke literally no one here could possibly get but I told anhways cuz Sheep NEVER SLEEEEEEEE *snorez*

Aw, rats. You should make a scarecrow to shoo them away.

Low opinion of this soup, it seems.

TaiLiu worries about Sheep's grades.Living zombie scarecrow! WITH FANGS AND FANS.:smalltongue::smallbiggrin:

Baaaaah-d soup.:smallamused:

Sheep a Gradebender!:smallwink:

Rockphed

2013-09-23, 12:05 AM

Coidzor

2013-09-23, 12:31 AM

I just feel like venting. I find myself unemployed and I cannot find a job. Now, this is not from lack of training (I have a BS in electrical engineering), or lack of trying (I have sent out about 70 applications in the last month to jobs I though I was qualified for). My biggest concern is that I won't be able to find some kind of job so I can get actual health insurance for my wife and soon to be child. I'm just tired and out of ideas.

There, venting over. You may now continue with your regularly scheduled random banter. Unless you have a really good chili recipe. My church is having a chili cookoff/skeet shoot soonish, and I feel the need to stretch my culinary horizons.

Damn.

I like the cooking comically version (http://www.cookingcomically.com/?page_id=33). It's a mite-bit spicy, especially when you add in a half-tablespoon of every kind of dried red pepper you have in the house on top of the base recipe. Usually though I just brown meat, sometimes drain it, add copious amounts of tomatoes, whatever vegetables I want, and then start slowly seasoning while it simmers, basically doing it to taste.

Sheep spends too much of Sheep's time with teenage womenfolk who enjoy mocking the habits of teenagers from 6 years ago. Also, I heard a joke about it somewhere referencing it being for emotional teenagers and decided it was ripe for a revival.:smalltongue:

Those are enemy birds..

I READ EVERYTHING IN THE CONTEXT OF AVATAR NOW AUUUGH.:smalleek::smallbiggrin:

I resemble that remark.

wat

How did you get Avatar out of my fingers itching, my talons oozing, and my sheath retracting? :smallconfused:

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 12:36 AM

Baaaaah-d soup.:smallamused:
Indeed. Very nice!

Sheep a Gradebender!:smallwink:
TaiLiu wants your powers!

I just feel like venting. I find myself unemployed and I cannot find a job. Now, this is not from lack of training (I have a BS in electrical engineering), or lack of trying (I have sent out about 70 applications in the last month to jobs I though I was qualified for). My biggest concern is that I won't be able to find some kind of job so I can get actual health insurance for my wife and soon to be child. I'm just tired and out of ideas.
Oh, I'm sorry, comrade. Good luck finding a job soon!

Haluesen

2013-09-23, 01:41 AM

Programming Fundamentals 3. C++.

(also, HT)

I shall remember to potentially call you this. Also, I admit to having never heard of this class, so my advice would not be great. :smallfrown: All I can do is wish for things to be better which to me is not enough for friends...I shall see what the internet tells me to tell you. Until then, huggles are of course always around if desired.

*returns glomp*
Soup is good. Unless, of course, it's cafeteria soup. Don't eat cafeteria soup. You'll regret it. :smalltongue:

Yay for many glomps! :smallbiggrin: Oh I avoid cafeteria everything. :smalltongue: I only survived high school because of the make-your-own sandwich area. Now that was actually alright cafeteria food. :smallsmile:

I just feel like venting. I find myself unemployed and I cannot find a job. Now, this is not from lack of training (I have a BS in electrical engineering), or lack of trying (I have sent out about 70 applications in the last month to jobs I though I was qualified for). My biggest concern is that I won't be able to find some kind of job so I can get actual health insurance for my wife and soon to be child. I'm just tired and out of ideas.

There, venting over. You may now continue with your regularly scheduled random banter. Unless you have a really good chili recipe. My church is having a chili cookoff/skeet shoot soonish, and I feel the need to stretch my culinary horizons.

Oh dear! That is very sucky, and more stressful with that last very important detail. :smallfrown: To be honest, I have not had much luck myself with getting work. My advice would be somewhat lackluster. Nonetheless I have great hope for you, and am positive that something will come up. May something be there for you to cling to, to have work and do greatly.

I have not yet met you, so I say welcome and greetings. :smallsmile: We understand that you have a few places to chose for venting, and are glad that you have chose Random Banter for your venting needs. :smallwink:

ION: I can be so cheery when I feel like I should be so depressed. I feel like I ought to be depressed right now, and yet nonetheless (love this word!) I am happy. So someone tell me, how does emotion work? :smallconfused:

Teddy

2013-09-23, 02:30 AM

So far has been going well here. :smallsmile: Other than my health being a bit uncooperative. Crazy D&D players, as always. One of my friends was trying to break the fourth wall again but in a huge way, that kinda bothered me as too metagamey even for my taste. So I gave him 6 points of depravity (Heroes of Horror taint rules, literally!). So now his personality has turned bestial and he is suffering hallucinations. :smallamused:

Hehehe, that's awesome! :smallbiggrin:

Yeah think I may have been tired when I wrote that, hence why it seemed strange. Tired like now. :smallsigh: Dang do I wish I was a budgie, so I could properly nestle. I'll need to ask Kneebles to teach me. :smallsmile:

Naww... *tucks down in bed, offers self as plushie* :3

So far it has been well. I even learned how to drive a tractor! But that was quite some time ago, so I will need to sort of relearn that to remember. :smalltongue:

Knowing how to drive a tractor is no trivial skill, and it may definitely come in handy if you live close to/on the countryside...

Almost anything can be found on Amazon! :smallbiggrin: When I can save some money, I may try to get it, though I still long to play Dragon Age 2 and (if it exists on the computer) The Darkness 2. :smallevilgrin:

True. I should get myself the two Civ V expansions myself some day...

Yes indeed it is. :smallbiggrin: To be honest, I find I don't care for a lot of music lately, most rap or hip hop or rave music, techno can be okay sometimes. But kinda older rock, like Metallica and Guns n Roses, I have a special soft spot for in my heart. :smallbiggrin:

Well, you don't have to like everything. For as long as you like enough to not run out, it's perfectly fine to be content...

I know that Poets of the Fall in particular is a band I only know about here because my friend showed me, but they are great. For anyone who does not know them I would recommend without a doubt. For any that already know and enjoy them, I am quite proud. :smallbiggrin:

*checks out*
Oh yes, they sound really promising. I'll check them out a little more once I get home... :3

Ah then. I still always forget how to use those intriguing letters on the computer, so I guess I would spell it muesli. Though I am not really an oatmeal fan. :smallfrown: Blame child me for that.

I have a few really nifty buttons on my keyboard which lets me create those intriguing letters, but I've been told that they don't exist worldwide...

Thanks you Teddy. :smallsmile: *hugs* I hope I get this worked out too. I know I took my medicine right last night but my stomach still feels kinda bad right now. Either this is some weird just after waking discomfort, or a separate illness. I really hope it is the first, like it likely is though.

I'll keep my fingers crossed! :3
*hugs*

ION:
The life expectancy of a piece of blackboard chalk is hilariously low. Seriously, I don't know how many pieces of chalk our Transform Methods lecturer manage to either snap or drop in the course of a single lecture, but they're many... :smallbiggrin:

Feytalist

2013-09-23, 02:56 AM

What's all this, then. New thread? No number? I am confuse.

Poets of the Fall are awesome.

So I got a pack of Kenyan coffee from some cousins who toured there recently. Yeah, this is going to be awesome.

Sidenote: coherently quoting on a phone is ridiculously difficult.

FinnLassie

2013-09-23, 03:04 AM

Poets of the Fall is probably one of the last Finnish bands I'd expect people to know about. Huh.

Then again, I'm not surprised when it comes to Feytalist. He's already Finnish in my eyes.

Elemental

2013-09-23, 03:19 AM

I can't believe it took until six this evening for me to realise there was a new random banter... Which is odd as I was waiting for a new one to get back into the art of bantering after being thoroughly absent.

That aside, what exciting things have I missed since I last posted? Actually, I should just go and read through the end of the last thread... Scrap that plan. There's a significant quantity of pages and I don't feel up to it at the moment.

As for what I have done recently... Nothing. I've just been ill. And alas... Sometimes Random Banter moves too fast for me to keep up with when sick.
I shall endeavour to do better this time.

In related news... Damn Christmas Beetles...

Dimonite

2013-09-23, 04:46 AM

Oh. Cafateria food. People....eat that?:smallconfused:

Well, since I have to pay for it anyway...

Sheep a Gradebender!:smallwink:

Dimo warns sheep not to end up like him, as Dimo is now up at 4:30 to start his 4-page paper due at 10:00, and Dimo is miserable.

How did you get Avatar out of my fingers itching, my talons oozing, and my sheath retracting? :smallconfused:

Have I told you how happy it makes me when you make an Ur-Quan Masters reference?

Yay for many glomps! :smallbiggrin: Oh I avoid cafeteria everything. :smalltongue: I only survived high school because of the make-your-own sandwich area. Now that was actually alright cafeteria food. :smallsmile:

Oh, in high school I brought my own lunch every day. But now that I'm in college I have to pay for a meal plan if I'm living on campus, so I may as well use it. At least the pizza is decent...

SiuiS

2013-09-23, 05:03 AM

Rawhide, you are fantastic. You really, truly are.

What's an Ur Quan, and how would I master it? I'd like talons and sheathes and oozing, so long as it's forum appropriate :3

Feytalist

2013-09-23, 05:41 AM

Then again, I'm not surprised when it comes to Feytalist. He's already Finnish in my eyes.

:D <- this is my big goofy grin

Although I have to confess I didn't even know they were Finnish. But I do now! :smallbiggrin:

FinnLassie

2013-09-23, 06:27 AM

:D <- this is my big goofy grin

Although I have to confess I didn't even know they were Finnish. But I do now! :smallbiggrin:

See? That's how Finnish you are. It's so natural to you to listen to Finnish bands you don't even think about them being Finnish.

TheWombatOfDoom

2013-09-23, 07:53 AM

Whoooo boy, Bandom Ranter 199! It's magic! Magic I tell you! So excited.

How is everyone?

ION: I finished my first of three commissions and the client LOVED it. :smallsmile: I've been on a happy kick from it ever since. :smallbiggrin:

DraPrime

2013-09-23, 08:10 AM

Even the seductive call of doing more work cannot keep me away from the smell of new RB thread. I'll be even more excited when we finally hit thread 200.

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-23, 08:24 AM

ION:

Even the seductive call of doing more work cannot keep me away from the smell of new RB thread. I'll be even more excited when we finally hit thread 200.

Darling, we should talk more. I have things to complain about, and only you'd understand in more than an abstract way!

MMN (My Main News):
I have a doctor's appointment in just under an hour, and I know I need it, but I don't think I'll be able to explain to (hopefully) her what the problem is as I have a really crippling problem talking to people.
Strange I know, considering I'm a jabberbox and am quite gregarious at times. But if you've ever seen me around anyone new. Or older than me. Or talking to someone in a higher position of authority than me. Or in any form of transaction.
And eye contact is a thing I struggle with too, at times.
So I'm talking to a new doctor about personal things, in an intimate situation (i.e. involving confiding things in a complete stranger, and relying on them to both keep those secrets and help you), and I can barely talk to my neighbour when I'm in town acting as her beast of burden.
The neighbour I've known for at least eight years. It's easier to talk to her in my home, but anywhere else it's like I'm a demure, polite, withdrawn person.

Any tips about how to actually talk to people?

Dimonite

2013-09-23, 08:25 AM

What's an Ur Quan, and how would I master it? I'd like talons and sheathes and oozing, so long as it's forum appropriate :3

Ur-Quan masters is an old and REALLY, REALLY AWESOME computer game. If you want to try it out, I have a link to the page where you can download it somewhere around here...
*rummages*
Here you go! (http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php)

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 08:27 AM

Rawhide, you are fantastic. You really, truly are.

What's an Ur Quan, and how would I master it? I'd like talons and sheathes and oozing, so long as it's forum appropriate :3

An Ur Quan is something from Star Control 2 if I recall. They're the half of the super mega genocide monsters who opt to IMPRISON you instead of wipe you out completely.

Also to The Wombat of Doom's question, I'm doing good. Going to record some Megaman to finally restart my game thread!

DraPrime

2013-09-23, 08:59 AM

Darling, we should talk more. I have things to complain about, and only you'd understand in more than an abstract way!

Indeed we should CirrataCattaPuella! When did we last talk, when I was in Spain? Do tell me about this abstract complaint thing. Also, this reminds me, I must post pictures from the Camino as you requested.

CirrataCattaPuella...that just has a nice rhythm to it. I love Latin so much. :smallsmile:

Kneenibble

2013-09-23, 09:04 AM

Rawhide, you are fantastic. You really, truly are.

What's an Ur Quan, and how would I master it? I'd like talons and sheathes and oozing, so long as it's forum appropriate :3

Attention interloper - heed this recorded message. This drone vessel speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan. You are trespassing within Ur-Quan space. This world, Earth, may not be approached for any reason. Nor will hostilities against our orbital platform be tolerated. In addition, your ship does not respond to standard Hierarchy identification transmissions... and is therefore deemed to be... independent. This is not permissible -- only subservience shall be tolerated.

DraPrime

2013-09-23, 09:13 AM

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 09:16 AM

>_>

<_<

*launches missiles*

Run away!

Good luck with that Dragonprime.

Also, thank you all for reminding me of how badass they are. God, Star Control 2 is...it's fantastic. It's what Mass Effect 3 should of been. The Reaper's in ME3 are nothing compared to the Ur Quan despite the fact that they SHOULD be just as cool in comparison.

SiuiS

2013-09-23, 09:19 AM

Curly: write it out! Write stuff. And then, hand that writing, to the doctor! Just... Just don't think about, like, "I'm going to hand this to the doctor" while writing it.

Oh my, I think sleep dep is finally kicking in?

Ur-Quan masters is an old and REALLY, REALLY AWESOME computer game. If you want to try it out, I have a link to the page where you can download it somewhere around here...
*rummages*
Here you go! (http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php)

Neat! I actually have heard good things about this game prior. Now to remember to come to this thread from a computer...

Attention interloper - heed this recorded message. This drone vessel speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan. You are trespassing within Ur-Quan space. This world, Earth, may not be approached for any reason. Nor will hostilities against our orbital platform be tolerated. In addition, your ship does not respond to standard Hierarchy identification transmissions... and is therefore deemed to be... independent. This is not permissible -- only subservience shall be tolerated.

Awww

I'm sorry, Kneen, but I can't be subservient! My filly would kill me. *sigh* guess it's rebellion, then? Someone get the bayonets! You fight space wars with bayonets, right? That's a thing?

>_>

<_<

*launches missiles*

Run away!

No they'll think I did that @.@
What have you dooooooone

TheWombatOfDoom

2013-09-23, 09:23 AM

An Ur Quan is something from Star Control 2 if I recall. They're the half of the super mega genocide monsters who opt to IMPRISON you instead of wipe you out completely.

Also to The Wombat of Doom's question, I'm doing good. Going to record some Megaman to finally restart my game thread!

Oh! How's that going? I'm recording Majora's Mask and it's going alright...what do you use for recording it? A capture card? Or do you run it on your computer?

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 09:27 AM

Oh! How's that going? I'm recording Majora's Mask and it's going alright...what do you use for recording it? A capture card? Or do you run it on your computer?

I use a DVD recorder, which I then put the disc of into my computer, which I record using a recording program. That's for console games.

DraPrime

2013-09-23, 09:55 AM

Good luck with that Dragonprime.

Joke's on them, they're fictional and I'm not. I'd like to see them try to get me.

In other news, I am now doing meteorology homework. In seminary. Who would have thought that becoming a priest would require learning about why a radiation temperature inversion can happen at night? It's cool, and I like science, but this is definitely not what I expected a few years back when I joined.

Life is strange. It's good that way.

edit: I just noticed I didn't even write my last name correctly on the homework. Brilliant. :smallsigh:

Kneenibble

2013-09-23, 10:13 AM

Before I begin here, Amadou -- Amadillius -- Damnmyass -- Ummydummyzummyyummy -- the previous thread is closed, so I cannot import your delightful poem as a quote. But know that much pleasure was had by me at both your reply and your metrical ION. Let the new thread not be a break in this tradition, but indeed as a natural fault in its accumulation, a layer upon which banter archaeologists will gaze and mark in continuity.

I planted the peas for the fall today. But an hour later I saw a scrub jay dig up some of the peas. Scrub jays dig little holes like that too and hide food in them. But that was not a scrub jay hiding place! I wish it would go eat the false strawberries and leave my seeds alone.

Ah, tiny little pea nuggetlings, barely flushed with germination, wafting the aroma of their dampening up through the loose grains of earth. I can feel my oil gland quickening at the very thought. Can you blame them? Although, for a price, I can contact my West Coast budgie agents and see about arranging some distractions.

And likewise, though it be too late to import the quote from the previous thread, your crack about "topping" the flowers caused me both pleasure and pain [to the still fractured ribbish region, which is much sensitive to heavings of the diaphragm]

Sheep spends too much of Sheep's time with teenage womenfolk who enjoy mocking the habits of teenagers from 6 years ago. Also, I heard a joke about it somewhere referencing it being for emotional teenagers and decided it was ripe for a revival.:smalltongue:

Teenage womenfolk? *seethes with bilious invidy, and runs to the bathroom crying bitter foolish tears*

BLOOD FOR POO POO THE MONKEY GOD. TOILET PAPER FOR HIS YOSHI.:smallamused: #Family injoke literally no one here could possibly get but I told anhways cuz Sheep NEVER SLEEEEEEEE *snorez*

Yes, yes, this is the Ovine contact high I have been craving. Now at last I feel apprehensive, quick, forgetive, and full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes. To the poetry desk!

I just feel like venting. I find myself unemployed and I cannot find a job. Now, this is not from lack of training (I have a BS in electrical engineering), or lack of trying (I have sent out about 70 applications in the last month to jobs I though I was qualified for). My biggest concern is that I won't be able to find some kind of job so I can get actual health insurance for my wife and soon to be child. I'm just tired and out of ideas.

There, venting over. You may now continue with your regularly scheduled random banter. Unless you have a really good chili recipe. My church is having a chili cookoff/skeet shoot soonish, and I feel the need to stretch my culinary horizons.

Lamentable, lamentable, lamentable! ;___; Emigrate to Canadia. Jobs for electrical engineers teem thickly enough in the waters here that you need but reach therein and grasp to catch one.

Chili is, alas, not in my culinary vocabulary. I recommend you search for a Guatemalan Insanity Pepper Stew for a good time.

ION: I can be so cheery when I feel like I should be so depressed. I feel like I ought to be depressed right now, and yet nonetheless (love this word!) I am happy. So someone tell me, how does emotion work? :smallconfused:

Well you know, they say that with a thrill-seeking personality, what goes up must come down. Top of the world one minute, haunted by megrims the next. Yep, it's like our friend Haluesen is an alley cat and his own damn humors are swinging him by the tail. But don't worry: he'll be back on top again. I don't think we've heard the last of Haluesen.

Whoooo boy, Bandom Ranter 199! It's magic! Magic I tell you! So excited.

How is everyone?

ION: I finished my first of three commissions and the client LOVED it. :smallsmile: I've been on a happy kick from it ever since. :smallbiggrin:

This is excellent news. I am pleased for you, and wish continued success in your craeft.

I myself am exceedingly well. I have passed the weekend in a luminescent haze of lust and bliss: three golden days and three silver nights which burned slow and hot in the moment and which seem, looking back, to have passed by as quickly as crisp leaves in a breeze.

Indeed we should CirrataCattaPuella! When did we last talk, when I was in Spain? Do tell me about this abstract complaint thing. Also, this reminds me, I must post pictures from the Camino as you requested.

CirrataCattaPuella...that just has a nice rhythm to it. I love Latin so much. :smallsmile:

Your love of this tongue pleases me, in turn.

I know two ladies who walked the Camino! They showed me pictures! You should show yours, in turn (although I seem to remember you posted a few a while ago, right?). The cathedral in Spain whose name I do not remember touched me in ways I did not know I could be touched.

Awww

I'm sorry, Kneen, but I can't be subservient! My filly would kill me. *sigh* guess it's rebellion, then? Someone get the bayonets! You fight space wars with bayonets, right? That's a thing?

No they'll think I did that @.@
What have you dooooooone

Ooooooh, it's just as well, I prefer to be subservient myself. :smallamused: Wrong genre, though: this is no brazen and fossil-fueled roughride through the Cosmic West. You will need lazars and the aforementioned missiles in this world of High Scifi and Outer Horrors.

*manipulates various knobby controls with limbish things, drooling fluids from some orifice or another into a grate arranged on the floor* You cannot unchoose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_fzCW0L84)

factotum

2013-09-23, 10:39 AM

An Ur Quan is something from Star Control 2 if I recall. They're the half of the super mega genocide monsters who opt to IMPRISON you instead of wipe you out completely.

Actually, both halves of the species in question are the Ur-Quan--one subspecies calls itself the Kohr-Ah, the other ones are the Kzer-Za.

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 11:03 AM

Right, right, I forgot that. Thanks Factotum!

FinnLassie

2013-09-23, 11:03 AM

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 11:05 AM

FinnLassie

2013-09-23, 11:11 AM

Oh dear...good luck Finn! I hope things go well :smallfrown:

*hugs*

Thank you, Zooziemunch! I hope so too. At least I will have a valid reason not to attend the lecture if I'm at the doctor's. :smalltongue:

Kneenibble

2013-09-23, 11:32 AM

I phoned NHS24 not too long ago to see what I should do with my back pain. I need to continue taking pain killers until the morning, and if it's not helping, that's me to the doctors. I'm really suspecting slipped disc, but we'll see what the doctor says tomorrow.

Sort of crappy this anxiety of mine over calling and doctors, I've got my first lecture tomorrow... and I'm very likely missing it. :smallannoyed:

Oh, Finnozolol... it saddens me to hear ill tidings of you in this way. I could offer to muster up a group of birds to walk on your back, but the benefit would be therapeutic and temporary.

May I do anything for you this day? Send a packet of feathers for tickling and a handful of silver coins for gazing in the post, say, or a comb carved from a horse's thigh to neaten the budgine orts left behind in your coiffure?

Thufir

2013-09-23, 11:45 AM

MMN (My Main News):
I have a doctor's appointment in just under an hour,

Good luck!

and I know I need it, but I don't think I'll be able to explain to (hopefully) her what the problem is as I have a really crippling problem talking to people.
Strange I know, considering I'm a jabberbox and am quite gregarious at times. But if you've ever seen me around anyone new. Or older than me. Or talking to someone in a higher position of authority than me. Or in any form of transaction.
And eye contact is a thing I struggle with too, at times.
So I'm talking to a new doctor about personal things, in an intimate situation (i.e. involving confiding things in a complete stranger, and relying on them to both keep those secrets and help you), and I can barely talk to my neighbour when I'm in town acting as her beast of burden.
The neighbour I've known for at least eight years. It's easier to talk to her in my home, but anywhere else it's like I'm a demure, polite, withdrawn person.

Any tips about how to actually talk to people?

Well, I...
...
Damn. A few years ago I'm sure I had some answers to this, because I tried specifically to force myself to be more sociable in order to acquire more friends and stuff. Then I acquired the friends and stopped trying so hard...

In any case, I don't know if talking to people socially requires quite the same sort of approach as talking to a doctor privately, though I guess confidence is somewhat transferrable.

On the other hand, that time you came up to my birthday party two years ago I seem to recall some awkwardness, but also you getting on alright talking to people when they talked to you first? And in this context, it's the doctor's job to talk to you, to put you at your ease and get the answers out of you, so hopefully they're pretty good at so doing.

Speaking of you up here, you mentioned in passing an interest in possibily coming up to see me in The Mikado. Anything further on that? I fully understand it's likely too expensive and stuff, but if there is a chance of you coming I'd just like to know in advance, so, yeah.

ION: My sleep pattern (or lack thereof) is sabotaging my ability to get things done. Also my mouse3 appears to be possibly partially broken, which is a problem, as I use it for things in video games.

Rockphed

2013-09-23, 01:01 PM

ION: I can be so cheery when I feel like I should be so depressed. I feel like I ought to be depressed right now, and yet nonetheless (love this word!) I am happy. So someone tell me, how does emotion work? :smallconfused:

I would rather be cheerful without reason than depressed without cause. On the other hand, it does get awkward walking into a funeral all chipper and happy. Not that I have ever done so, but not feeling sad when you walk into a funeral is a surreal experience.

Haluesen

2013-09-23, 01:46 PM

Hehehe, that's awesome! :smallbiggrin:

Indeed it very much was! We shall see how this affects him for the rest of the adventure. They are level 5, taint is not so easily cured at those levels. :smallamused:

Naww... *tucks down in bed, offers self as plushie* :3

Ooh wonderful! :smallredface: Thank you much dear Teddy. *snuggles comfortably*

Knowing how to drive a tractor is no trivial skill, and it may definitely come in handy if you live close to/on the countryside...

Yes, but I only learned it as a requirement for an Agriculture class that I only joined because my friend was in it. :smalltongue: And didn't get to use the skill much. But I like having the knowledge, and would actually like to test it again.

True. I should get myself the two Civ V expansions myself some day...

You should, and then tell me how it is. :smallbiggrin:

Well, you don't have to like everything. For as long as you like enough to not run out, it's perfectly fine to be content...

Oh I am certain that I shall not run out of music to enjoy. :smallsmile: There is quite a lot of it.

*checks out*
Oh yes, they sound really promising. I'll check them out a little more once I get home... :3

Yes please do! :smallsmile: They are very enjoyable!

I have a few really nifty buttons on my keyboard which lets me create those intriguing letters, but I've been told that they don't exist worldwide...

Hmm you know, I have actually heard of this, these keyboards. Mine sadly does not have them but my friend here, who I shall henceforth refer to as Varsu instead of "my friend" because I mention her a lot and that is a nickname of sorts for her, uses those letters often with some basic computer program. I will have to ask her to show me it again so that I can write more intriguing words. :smallbiggrin:

I'll keep my fingers crossed! :3
*hugs*

Well it was definitely just a morning issue. I got much better and currently am much better, especially with Teddy plushie!

ION:
The life expectancy of a piece of blackboard chalk is hilariously low. Seriously, I don't know how many pieces of chalk our Transform Methods lecturer manage to either snap or drop in the course of a single lecture, but they're many... :smallbiggrin:

Heh this is rather comical. :smallsmile: Poor poor chalk, such a small flame to flicker for but a short while. :smalltongue:

What's all this, then. New thread? No number? I am confuse.

Poets of the Fall are awesome.

So I got a pack of Kenyan coffee from some cousins who toured there recently. Yeah, this is going to be awesome.

Sidenote: coherently quoting on a phone is ridiculously difficult.

Yes they are! :smallbiggrin: Ever since my friend showed me their music I have been rather hooked. That was quite a few years ago. Still I do not have the knowledge that he does, owning as many of their songs as he possibly can.

KENYAN! Hehe tell us how well the tasting goes. :smalltongue:

Poets of the Fall is probably one of the last Finnish bands I'd expect people to know about. Huh.

Then again, I'm not surprised when it comes to Feytalist. He's already Finnish in my eyes.

That was it, they were Finnish! I had forgotten for a while, for this I am very sorry Finny.

But yeah, I don't remember how my friend (not Varsu) heard of them, but he showed me some songs and the rest, as they tend to say, is history. :smallbiggrin: Actually all this talk gave me a musical urge, so I am listening to some songs right now.

Oh, in high school I brought my own lunch every day. But now that I'm in college I have to pay for a meal plan if I'm living on campus, so I may as well use it. At least the pizza is decent...

Well as long as some of it is good, that sounds like you can survive of it. :smallsmile: I didn't really have the means to bring lunch from home back in high school; in fact, that is why I was able to get the free school lunches. Some kindness there I guess. :smallsigh: But I still stand by the yumminess of those deli sandwiches. :smallcool:

Whoooo boy, Bandom Ranter 199! It's magic! Magic I tell you! So excited.

How is everyone?

ION: I finished my first of three commissions and the client LOVED it. :smallsmile: I've been on a happy kick from it ever since. :smallbiggrin:

Hello Wombat! :smallbiggrin: I am doing well, listening to great music, gonna head home soon. And not ill!

Congratulations Wombat! This is just amazing, fantastic, wonderous, magnificence! *hugs* A toast to our Wombat anybody? *provides the wine*

Well you know, they say that with a thrill-seeking personality, what goes up must come down. Top of the world one minute, haunted by megrims the next. Yep, it's like our friend Haluesen is an alley cat and his own damn humors are swinging him by the tail. But don't worry: he'll be back on top again. I don't think we've heard the last of Haluesen.

Heh, of course you do not hear the last of me! :smallamused: I shall not depart, always remaining bright and energetic within the banterhome, always keen for my delightfully deliciously deliriously darling communications with you all, even in darkest sorrow and most burning of rages, here I shall be happy and kind and most courteous and benevolent. :smallbiggrin: I am quite well now, those reasons I was unjoyous yesterday have passed from my tender heart into the realms of the unbothering. Back to the top of the world I shall be and shall stay.

I would rather be cheerful without reason than depressed without cause. On the other hand, it does get awkward walking into a funeral all chipper and happy. Not that I have ever done so, but not feeling sad when you walk into a funeral is a surreal experience.

This is so very quite true! :smallbiggrin: I like having some cheer, even though last night I felt like I had to be sorrowful. There is a short but all too personal story behind that, suffice it to say that the problems have passed. And truthfully, though I have never felt happy in a funeral, I believe at one time I went to one without being quite sad. It is a thing with me, even in funerals hard to grasp onto tears and melancholy. I guess it is in the past now.

So much bantering, it is wonderful! Though if I misses writing to someone because of my long time spent writing this, I apologize most profusely and offer hugs and cookies in the hopes of making peace.

Dallas-Dakota

2013-09-23, 04:22 PM

So how did I not know about this band untill only a week ago? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXf01sYtrU)

MoonCat

2013-09-23, 04:57 PM

So... going to my first day of college in... three hours.

Whose bright idea was it to send fifteen year olds to college classesI'mgoingtobeeatenalive.

ION: Dad and I are both down with a cold. Our response to both being sick and thus wacked out of our skulls yesterday was to spend the afternoon reading the WebMD article on freckles and watching Simon's Cat vids.

When Mum got back home, we were sitting on the couch listening to the Duck Song and giggling.

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 05:15 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-23, 05:19 PM

Firstly, @FinnLassie: whenever I read your name there's an undercurrent whispering 'Fionuala', may I call you that (or eventually some derivative of that)?

Indeed we should CirrataCattaPuella! When did we last talk, when I was in Spain? Do tell me about this abstract complaint thing. Also, this reminds me, I must post pictures from the Camino as you requested.

CirrataCattaPuella...that just has a nice rhythm to it. I love Latin so much. :smallsmile:

Theologians who deliberately write in an effusive, overly elaborate tone that somehow is paradoxically dull, thick and formulaic. Theologians who managed to make this Angelic Doctor of ours sound so dull and thick (not stupid-thick, but thick-thick) that I actually scrubbed floors rather than read further. Theologians who manage to confuse me. When I'd already understood the point he was explaining.
Because theologians who write an everyman's beginner/introductory book so impenetrable that it took me a month to return to the book, and only by skipping half a chapter. Whereupon I found the key aspect/theme of Aquinas that easily explained the earlier point that made me go scrub floors like a modern day Cendrillon.

Latin is fun, but the initial Latin drills? Not so much.
The first time I came across one of those was in Y9. Maybe earlier actually. Amo, amas, amat, amanis, amantis, amant.

Curly: write it out! Write stuff. And then, hand that writing, to the doctor! Just... Just don't think about, like, "I'm going to hand this to the doctor" while writing it.

That post came after I'd gone, so the first thing I blurted after the customary greetings was "I'm not good at talking, to people, um," and then sat in an awkward silence (for me at least) for nearly a minute.
Lovely doctor she was though.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it next time, see if that works.

Good luck!

I get to go back for bloods to make sure I didn't develop any sequelae like diabetes. I doubt I have diabetes, but if I did it would be tragic. No more desserts . . .
And before you say anything like, get diabetic friendly merchandise: it's expensive, and the Family cannot afford it.

Well, I...
...
Damn. A few years ago I'm sure I had some answers to this, because I tried specifically to force myself to be more sociable in order to acquire more friends and stuff. Then I acquired the friends and stopped trying so hard...

In any case, I don't know if talking to people socially requires quite the same sort of approach as talking to a doctor privately, though I guess confidence is somewhat transferrable.

I can't talk to anyone. Especially if I feel intimidated or not on an equal footing, such as meeting new people, being the only stranger in a group, having to initiate conversation, or anything like that.
I mean, once I get started I can't stop, but I need the right people and/or environment.

On the other hand, that time you came up to my birthday party two years ago I seem to recall some awkwardness, but also you getting on alright talking to people when they talked to you first? And in this context, it's the doctor's job to talk to you, to put you at your ease and get the answers out of you, so hopefully they're pretty good at so doing.

*shrugs*
Everyone else knew each other, so I was on a lesser footing, and I didn't know anything about them in order to open a discussion with them. So I lurked. The fact that there was alcohol helped, though I don't think I drank all that much that time. Or did I? It's all a bit of a non-drunk blur, except for the staying up partying (would you call it that?) until about three or four.
And the doctor was nice about my social issues. Patient and open. Better than my 'normal' doctor. I say he's my 'normal' doctor, but I've only seen once. Couldn't actually get the problem I was there for resolved as (somehow unsurprisingly) the paperwork indicating I actually had the problem in the first place was missing from my history entirely.
Entirely.

Speaking of you up here, you mentioned in passing an interest in possibily coming up to see me in The Mikado. Anything further on that? I fully understand it's likely too expensive and stuff, but if there is a chance of you coming I'd just like to know in advance, so, yeah.

What are those dates again?

So how did I not know about this band untill only a week ago? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXf01sYtrU)

I don't know, but this is wonderful.

So... going to my first day of college in... three hours.

Whose bright idea was it to send fifteen year olds to college classesI'mgoingtobeeatenalive.

You'll be fine sweetie darling; if you need help, you have an entire forum to ask and talk to. You know where to find me, I'll listen if you need to talk.

Mutant Sheep

2013-09-23, 05:22 PM

Attention interloper - heed this recorded message. This drone vessel speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan. You are trespassing within Ur-Quan space. This world, Earth, may not be approached for any reason. Nor will hostilities against our orbital platform be tolerated. In addition, your ship does not respond to standard Hierarchy identification transmissions... and is therefore deemed to be... independent. This is not permissible -- only subservience shall be tolerated.Oh! Oh! I pick subservience!:smallbiggrin:

Teenage womenfolk? *seethes with bilious invidy, and runs to the bathroom crying bitter foolish tears*

Yes, yes, this is the Ovine contact high I have been craving. Now at last I feel apprehensive, quick, forgetive, and full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes. To the poetry desk!

Lamentable, lamentable, lamentable! ;___; Emigrate to Canadia. Jobs for electrical engineers teem thickly enough in the waters here that you need but reach therein and grasp to catch one.

Chili is, alas, not in my culinary vocabulary. I recommend you search for a Guatemalan Insanity Pepper Stew for a good time.I spend time with teenage menfolk as well! A fair amount more than I do the womenfolk, if I were to be honest.

:smallamused: Happy to be of service, Knee. *bows, floffs his floffy hat and floffs away*

Ohh, career opportunities! Me likey!:smalltongue:

I myself am exceedingly well. I have passed the weekend in a luminescent haze of lust and bliss: three golden days and three silver nights which burned slow and hot in the moment and which seem, looking back, to have passed by as quickly as crisp leaves in a breeze.

Your love of this tongue pleases me, in turn.

I know two ladies who walked the Camino! They showed me pictures! You should show yours, in turn (although I seem to remember you posted a few a while ago, right?). The cathedral in Spain whose name I do not remember touched me in ways I did not know I could be touched.

Ooooooh, it's just as well, I prefer to be subservient myself. :smallamused: Wrong genre, though: this is no brazen and fossil-fueled roughride through the Cosmic West. You will need lazars and the aforementioned missiles in this world of High Scifi and Outer Horrors.It is wonderful to know that your life has gone the way of the bats, and become lofty and blissful, but do not forget us here in the... Metaphorical thing i purposefully twist to confuse the meaning of.:smalltongue: Anyways, Yay happy Knees!:smallbiggrin:

*Something about pleasing things with tongues*:smalltongue::smallwink:

I believe it is the Santiago, and yes, it is quite the place. Strangely, i think it prettier than Notre Dame, despite having been to Notre Dame personally and only having seen the Cathedral of Santiago in film and paint.:smallconfused::smalltongue:

Awwwww.:smallfrown: But SpaceBayonets are so cool! (What'd you think this white text was for? Dissapointment at Knee for not dominating the alien menace? :P
ION:Brothers birthday today. He is officially unpupa, for he is 18! I USE SARCASM TO INSULT THIS OCCSASION.:smallyuk::smallbiggrin:

Moonie:Why are you taking college classes at 6 PM?:smalleek: JUST TAKE TOP MANY AP CLASSES LIKE THE REST OF THE SMART PEOPLE. :smallbiggrin:

@Double D's:Best band about beards, no question.:smallamused:

@Curlicious: I know that word! I would never remember the parts of a verb, but conjugation was both simple and fun! Until we got to participles, which confused me until the Senior latin instructor explained them, but by then, it was too late.:smallfrown::smalltongue: LATIN.:smallcool:

Thufir

2013-09-23, 05:32 PM

*shrugs*
Everyone else knew each other, so I was on a lesser footing, and I didn't know anything about them in order to open a discussion with them. So I lurked. The fact that there was alcohol helped, though I don't think I drank all that much that time. Or did I? It's all a bit of a non-drunk blur, except for the staying up partying (would you call it that?) until about three or four.

I don't think you drank that much, no.

What are those dates again?

9th to the 12th of October.

MoonCat

2013-09-23, 05:43 PM

Good luck.

Though do realize you don't have to do collage level classes at your age. You could opt out of them.

Thunks.

Well, actually, to opt out would imply it being the default thing to do it. I had to jump through hoops (mainly of my own construction, I only bought the textbooks last night, par example) to get in. I'm just wondering whose bright idea it was to put me in those classes. Oh right- mine.

You'll be fine sweetie darling; if you need help, you have an entire forum to ask and talk to. You know where to find me, I'll listen if you need to talk.

<hugs> :smallsmile: Somehow, I think venturing anywhere near the forum on days where I have both high school and college homework wll end badly for me. :smallwink::smalltongue:

I spend time with teenage menfolk as well! A fair amount more than I do the womenfolk, if I were to be honest.

Moonie:Why are you taking college classes at 6 PM?:smalleek: JUST TAKE TOP MANY AP CLASSES LIKE THE REST OF THE SMART PEOPLE. :smallbiggrin:

As do I, but I just do it for the friendship. :smallamused:

Because that's when the English class starts? It goes until 8:30 and I haven't even begun my regular school homework.

I caaaaaan't. The only AP they even offer this year is English, and that one I really wanted to take at the college!

Dr. Bath

2013-09-23, 05:56 PM

Oh dang OH DANG. I have to whip up a portfolio from scratch by midday Wednesday. This is not a thing I have ever done or know how to do. It doesn't help that I don't actually have anything to put in it since my hard drive has been wiped twice this year and I've moved twice (chucking a bunch of stuff). Stupid convincing CV. Why can I lie so good?

@Kneen: Do jobs for electrical electrical accept doe-eyed physicists? I may have to skip the country if my jig is discovered and elevated. I'm fairly sure that's how it works anyway: fail once at the interview stage and it's over the border to Mexico.

@Curly: Tips for talking to people? Just talk about whatever your into at the time, you are very erudite. Alternatively spout a load of nonsense that is only tangentially related to the subject at hand. That's my general plan. That and don't a) over think it b) force the conversation (let it flow from one topic to another, even if you still have something really friggin interesting to say. Such is life) and c) I had something else but I forgot what. Remember not to care too much about what everyone else is thinking. That's why it's so easy to chat while drunk!

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 05:58 PM

Rawhide, you are fantastic. You really, truly are.

I agree!

Any tips about how to actually talk to people?
I would be interested in hearing about this, too.

I just noticed I didn't even write my last name correctly on the homework. Brilliant. :smallsigh:
Huh. What did you spell it as?

I phoned NHS24 not too long ago to see what I should do with my back pain. I need to continue taking pain killers until the morning, and if it's not helping, that's me to the doctors. I'm really suspecting slipped disc, but we'll see what the doctor says tomorrow.

Sort of crappy this anxiety of mine over calling and doctors, I've got my first lecture tomorrow... and I'm very likely missing it. :smallannoyed:
Eek. I hope you heal, comrade!

So... going to my first day of college in... three hours.

Whose bright idea was it to send fifteen year olds to college classesI'mgoingtobeeatenalive.
Oo, college classes are fun! What class[es] are you taking?

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-23, 06:09 PM

Someone remind me how many RBs have to go by before you can claim a new one? It doesn't seem to be in the first post.

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 06:10 PM

Someone remind me how many RBs have to go by before you can claim a new one? It doesn't seem to be in the first post.
Fifty threads.

MoonCat

2013-09-23, 06:12 PM

Oo, college classes are fun! What class[es] are you taking?

Lit and Pol Sci.

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 06:14 PM

Lit and Pol Sci.
Fun! Tell us how your classes go!

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-23, 06:17 PM

Fifty threads.

Crap, I'm up for one. Maybe if I was actually regular ... :smalltongue:

Lit and Pol Sci.

Please tell me you are not taking a class simply called "PoliSci."

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 06:21 PM

Crap, I'm up for one. Maybe if I was actually regular ... :smalltongue:
You're regular enough!

Please tell me you are not taking a class simply called "PoliSci."
Bad class?

MoonCat

2013-09-23, 06:50 PM

Please tell me you are not taking a class simply called "PoliSci."

Technically, it is American Government 202, but the college advisers themselves just call it Pol Sci when referring to it.

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 06:51 PM

Thunks.

Well, actually, to opt out would imply it being the default thing to do it. I had to jump through hoops (mainly of my own construction, I only bought the textbooks last night, par example) to get in. I'm just wondering whose bright idea it was to put me in those classes. Oh right- mine.

Ahh, okay. Good luck.

ION: Playing The Wonderful 101 and...I was literally just moved to tears.

Spoilers: A character uses a pompadour hair style as a drill weapon.

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 07:01 PM

Ahh, okay. Good luck.

ION: Playing The Wonderful 101 and...I was literally just moved to tears.

Spoilers: A character uses a pompadour hair style as a drill weapon.
How elegant and refined! How wondrous! It must be magnificent!

Dimonite

2013-09-23, 07:05 PM

Ooooooh, it's just as well, I prefer to be subservient myself. :smallamused: Wrong genre, though: this is no brazen and fossil-fueled roughride through the Cosmic West. You will need lazars and the aforementioned missiles in this world of High Scifi and Outer Horrors.

But I need my Shiva furnaces to power the Hellbore Cannons! And there's just no ROOM with the Cmmr-enhanced Utwig bomb on my ship to have all that AND lazars! :smalltongue:

*manipulates various knobby controls with limbish things, drooling fluids from some orifice or another into a grate arranged on the floor* You cannot unchoose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_fzCW0L84)

*flails*
Poor Spathi. :smalltongue:

Theologians who deliberately write in an effusive, overly elaborate tone that somehow is paradoxically dull, thick and formulaic. Theologians who managed to make this Angelic Doctor of ours sound so dull and thick (not stupid-thick, but thick-thick) that I actually scrubbed floors rather than read further. Theologians who manage to confuse me. When I'd already understood the point he was explaining.
Because theologians who write an everyman's beginner/introductory book so impenetrable that it took me a month to return to the book, and only by skipping half a chapter. Whereupon I found the key aspect/theme of Aquinas that easily explained the earlier point that made me go scrub floors like a modern day Cendrillon.

You sound like someone in desperate need of some Chesterton. He is difficult to read, true, but that's because a chapter of Chesterton is worth a novel from most authors.
Seriously, though, I've tried to read other theologians. Emphasis on tried. It's pretty rough.

Latin is fun, but the initial Latin drills? Not so much.
The first time I came across one of those was in Y9. Maybe earlier actually. Amo, amas, amat, amanis, amantis, amant.

Verb conjugation is the best part! Although it's been so long for me I can't even remember what conjugation that particular verb is in... :smallfrown:

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-23, 07:06 PM

Technically, it is American Government 202, but the college advisers themselves just call it Pol Sci when referring to it.

Well that's silly. I'm sure I missed something, but where are you taking this class?

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-23, 07:14 PM

Soup from a cafeteria. Cafeterias are NOT known for the quality of the meals they provide, since most state-sponsored schools are required by law to have their foodservice provided by the lowest bidder. While these laws serve to prevent graft, they tend to be unkind to the taste buds of prospective students. Although the foodservice at Winona is among the best I've had, (especially the brazed beef) they have yet to make soup that doesn't taste like it was boiled in someone's shoe.

Yeah... I think the cafeteria at my high school wasn't allowed to have food above... either grade C or grade D. It was pretty disappointing stuff. Some of it was alright, but... *twitch*

Primadonnas. Primadonnas everywhere.
Dominated the entire day, and will likely have repercussions tomorrow, such as stressing my mom out till she gets sick. Whereas I'm in that place where I keep expecting to be attacked or for more excitement to come up making me have to rush off somewhere else, so my fingers itch and I can't quite completely calm down.

Sacrificing us all to the Dark Lord, presumably. :smallamused:

Ouch, man. Here's hoping you've got less of that soon. :smallfrown:

Ooh, I get sacrifices? :smallamused:

So someone tell me, how does emotion work? :smallconfused:

It doesn't. Not in any predictable sense. Run with what you get, and try to be happy regardless. I've been to wakes that were more energizing (and in general, more enjoyable) than a decent amount of family dinners I've had... don't sweat it too much.

ION:
The life expectancy of a piece of blackboard chalk is hilariously low. Seriously, I don't know how many pieces of chalk our Transform Methods lecturer manage to either snap or drop in the course of a single lecture, but they're many... :smallbiggrin:

I've got a prof who seems to break, drop, or wear one down to nothing just about every class, but I think yours has got him beat. :smallamused:

As for what I have done recently... Nothing. I've just been ill. And alas... Sometimes Random Banter moves too fast for me to keep up with when sick.
I shall endeavour to do better this time.

Feel better, man. :\

What's an Ur Quan, and how would I master it? I'd like talons and sheathes and oozing, so long as it's forum appropriate :3

Hard to kill. :smallamused:

UQM (SC2) is awesome, though. I wish I had the time to finish the game; if you have the time for a game, I don't think there are many that are as easily accessible that are as fun to play as SC2. :smallcool:

How is everyone?

ION: I finished my first of three commissions and the client LOVED it. :smallsmile: I've been on a happy kick from it ever since. :smallbiggrin:

Busy. So busy.

Any tips about how to actually talk to people?

Well, you can always try what I do: Put yourself in situations that occasionally require people to talk to you, and respond as naturally as possible. Repeat until you're comfortable talking properly to that person.

...I make friends slowly. :smallamused:

Before I begin here, Amadou -- Amadillius -- Damnmyass -- Ummydummyzummyyummy -- [...]

[...] the previous thread is closed, so I cannot import your delightful poem as a quote. But know that much pleasure was had by me at both your reply and your metrical ION. Let the new thread not be a break in this tradition, but indeed as a natural fault in its accumulation, a layer upon which banter archaeologists will gaze and mark in continuity.

Bahahahahahaha :smallbiggrin:

How fare you today, yon budgie?
Is Winnipeg as cold as here?
(I would think 'tis colder yonder
In northlands in this time of year)
Ack, awkward meter change. I WILL STICK WITH MY EIGHT SYLLABLES, DAMMIT!

I phoned NHS24 not too long ago to see what I should do with my back pain. I need to continue taking pain killers until the morning, and if it's not helping, that's me to the doctors. I'm really suspecting slipped disc, but we'll see what the doctor says tomorrow.

Sort of crappy this anxiety of mine over calling and doctors, I've got my first lecture tomorrow... and I'm very likely missing it. :smallannoyed:

Feel better, Finn :\

So... going to my first day of college in... three hours.

Have fun with that. :smallamused:

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ION: I've got three tests in the next seven days, on top of my regular homework. I've already drank about a liter of cola to keep myself focused enough to do roughly half of one homework assignment... Tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be !fun!. :smallsigh:

*collapses*

MoonCat

2013-09-23, 07:24 PM

Well that's silly. I'm sure I missed something, but where are you taking this class?

Local college? Why is it silly?

Have fun with that. :smallamused:

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ION: I've got three tests in the next seven days, on top of my regular homework. I've already drank about a liter of cola to keep myself focused enough to do roughly half of one homework assignment... Tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be !fun!. :smallsigh:

*collapses*

Fluuuurrrrrrrrrrrb.

Heh. I had three tests on Friday while I was coming down with a cold, and I have three more tests this week that I know of, almost definitely one more, and possibly another two.

Mynxae

2013-09-23, 07:32 PM

So it turns out for some reason we didn't get the unit we wanted. Our lease got declined, and they didn't tell us why. Even though we rang them. :smallannoyed: Much calmer than I was an hour and a half ago when I got the news. But oh well, life moves on... We're already looking at inspecting a new place which, oddly enough, looks better, better facilities, closer to everything and is cheaper rent. Funny how it works out isn't it? :smallwink:

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 07:48 PM

I've got three tests in the next seven days, on top of my regular homework. I've already drank about a liter of cola to keep myself focused enough to do roughly half of one homework assignment... Tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be !fun!. :smallsigh:

*collapses*
Oo. Have a good respite!

So it turns out for some reason we didn't get the unit we wanted. Our lease got declined, and they didn't tell us why. Even though we rang them. :smallannoyed: Much calmer than I was an hour and a half ago when I got the news. But oh well, life moves on... We're already looking at inspecting a new place which, oddly enough, looks better, better facilities, closer to everything and is cheaper rent. Funny how it works out isn't it? :smallwink:
Indeed! Good luck obtaining it!

Mynxae

2013-09-23, 07:59 PM

Indeed! Good luck obtaining it!

Turns out we already have an inspection for it this afternoon. :smallbiggrin: I'll update you guys once we're all done. :smalltongue:

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 08:10 PM

Turns out we already have an inspection for it this afternoon. :smallbiggrin: I'll update you guys once we're all done. :smalltongue:
Woo! :haley:

Rockphed

2013-09-23, 08:38 PM

So... going to my first day of college in... three hours.

Whose bright idea was it to send fifteen year olds to college classesI'mgoingtobeeatenalive.

In hind sight, I wish I had chosen to attend classes at the community college when I was 15 rather than continueing in highschool. I would have probably learned a bunch more stuff sooner and not have had to learn it all the hard way later. Also, I had a college class with a 15 year old once. She was no where near the least prepared person for the class. Of course I was taking 2 8:00 classes at the time, one at 8am and one at 8pm, so I probably cannot say terribly much about what was actually going on.

Haluesen

2013-09-23, 08:44 PM

It doesn't. Not in any predictable sense. Run with what you get, and try to be happy regardless. I've been to wakes that were more energizing (and in general, more enjoyable) than a decent amount of family dinners I've had... don't sweat it too much.

This is reasonable and I am starting to learn it. :smallamused: What part of the funeral was the wake again? Silly Hal, always getting so confused I am. :smallsmile:

ION: I've got three tests in the next seven days, on top of my regular homework. I've already drank about a liter of cola to keep myself focused enough to do roughly half of one homework assignment... Tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be !fun!. :smallsigh:

*collapses*

Aiyiyi. :smallfrown: That is absurdness. Quickly! I must finish my energy transfer advice! It shall give you the POWER!! :smallcool:

So it turns out for some reason we didn't get the unit we wanted. Our lease got declined, and they didn't tell us why. Even though we rang them. :smallannoyed: Much calmer than I was an hour and a half ago when I got the news. But oh well, life moves on... We're already looking at inspecting a new place which, oddly enough, looks better, better facilities, closer to everything and is cheaper rent. Funny how it works out isn't it? :smallwink:

Well that...that is...fortunate? Unfortunate? I guess it is working out but still...that people. :smallannoyed: Well crossing fingers and wishing well to you Mynx. :smallsmile:

Rockphed

2013-09-23, 08:51 PM

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-23, 08:53 PM

Local college? Why is it silly?

Heh. I had three tests on Friday while I was coming down with a cold, and I have three more tests this week that I know of, almost definitely one more, and possibly another two.

Makes no sense not to refer to a course by its name, really, especially if we're talking about the academic advisors.

I know you take difficult classes, but you're in high school, and they are still (well, with the exception of your actual college courses) high school classes. Three is a lot, given what they involve, and my workload is probably somewhat comparable to yours right now.

This is reasonable and I am starting to learn it. :smallamused: What part of the funeral was the wake again? Silly Hal, always getting so confused I am. :smallsmile:

Aiyiyi. :smallfrown: That is absurdness. Quickly! I must finish my energy transfer advice! It shall give you the POWER!! :smallcool:

A wake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_%28ceremony%29)isn't part of a funeral - it's a somewhat similar ceremony where the family and friends view the body that happens beforehand.

If only. I might just finish off this 2L of Coke tonight... I want to go to bed early, but there are things I want to do first...

LaZodiac

2013-09-23, 09:01 PM

How elegant and refined! How wondrous! It must be magnificent!

It truly was.

So it turns out for some reason we didn't get the unit we wanted. Our lease got declined, and they didn't tell us why. Even though we rang them. :smallannoyed: Much calmer than I was an hour and a half ago when I got the news. But oh well, life moves on... We're already looking at inspecting a new place which, oddly enough, looks better, better facilities, closer to everything and is cheaper rent. Funny how it works out isn't it? :smallwink:

Oh dear, good luck!

Turns out we already have an inspection for it this afternoon. :smallbiggrin: I'll update you guys once we're all done. :smalltongue:

Looks like my retroactive wish of good luck helped : D

DraPrime

2013-09-23, 09:29 PM

Your love of this tongue pleases me, in turn.

I know two ladies who walked the Camino! They showed me pictures! You should show yours, in turn (although I seem to remember you posted a few a while ago, right?). The cathedral in Spain whose name I do not remember touched me in ways I did not know I could be touched.

Would this happen to be the cathedral in Burgos. It was so spectacular that Santiago was actually a bit of a letdown once I got there just because Burgos was that much more beautiful, though Santiago does have a better facade. I'll get around to posting photos on flickr or something. Currently they're on Facebook, but then I'd have to be friends with the entire Playground to show them.

Theologians who deliberately write in an effusive, overly elaborate tone that somehow is paradoxically dull, thick and formulaic. Theologians who managed to make this Angelic Doctor of ours sound so dull and thick (not stupid-thick, but thick-thick) that I actually scrubbed floors rather than read further. Theologians who manage to confuse me. When I'd already understood the point he was explaining.
Because theologians who write an everyman's beginner/introductory book so impenetrable that it took me a month to return to the book, and only by skipping half a chapter. Whereupon I found the key aspect/theme of Aquinas that easily explained the earlier point that made me go scrub floors like a modern day Cendrillon.

Who on earth are you reading that made such a terrible introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas? One of his virtues is how clear and to the point he is. The Summa Theologiae isn't exactly a gripping novel full of exciting high adventure, but there are far worse theologians (I'm lookin' at you Blessed Duns Scotus) when it comes to writing style. What I like so much about Thomism is that it's actually quite easy to understand once you get used to Aristotelian metaphysical terminology (form, substance, prime matter, etc.). Then again, I've also had my head stuck in philosophy for over three years now, so I no longer know what is sensible to normal people. However, off the top of my head I can name three very good introductory books on St. Thomas if you'd like a recommendation. One by a French neo-thomist, one by a British Jesuit neo-thomist (an unusual combination), and one by the eminent G.K. Chesterton. Also, what has you reading about my beloved Angelic Doctor?

Well, now you've made me want to change the quote in my signature. Vale Pater Ecclesiae, salve Doctor Angelicus.

Latin is fun, but the initial Latin drills? Not so much.
The first time I came across one of those was in Y9. Maybe earlier actually. Amo, amas, amat, amanis, amantis, amant.

*hiss*

Latin drills. I'm so glad I'm past that. Now that I'm on my second year of it all we do is translate things. Currently we're going through Sallust's account of the Catalinarian Conspiracy. All I must do is translate. No being tested on memorizing the principle parts, or the subjunctive pluperfect. Just translation. Curly, it is wonderful. This warms my classicist heart so much.

edit: I just noticed that Latin wikipedia is called vicipedia. While in classical Latin that does in fact phonetically sound like "wiki", it ends up meaning "I-conquered-pedia". That's actually a pretty cool name.

I believe it is the Santiago, and yes, it is quite the place. Strangely, i think it prettier than Notre Dame, despite having been to Notre Dame personally and only having seen the Cathedral of Santiago in film and paint.:smallconfused::smalltongue:

Santiago is much prettier than Notre Dame. That cathedral gets heavily overrated just because it's in Paris and featured prominently in a Victor Hugo novel. It is easily outdone by the likes the Yorkminster, Chartres, and Burgos...oh Burgos.

Huh. What did you spell it as?

I cut out a vowel. My last name is egregiously Slavic and difficult to pronounce/write. I take great pride in actually being able to say a word with the sequence of letters "drzyck" in it. So when I mess it up, I simply facepalm.

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 09:38 PM

I cut out a vowel. My last name is egregiously Slavic and difficult to pronounce/write. I take great pride in actually being able to say a word with the sequence of letters "drzyck" in it. So when I mess it up, I simply facepalm.
Ah! I'm sure your educator won't notice. :smalltongue:

DraPrime

2013-09-23, 09:39 PM

Ah! I'm sure your educator won't notice. :smalltongue:

You know, normally I'd agree, but my meteorology professor studied Polish for eight years. If anyone would notice, it would be him. :smallsigh:

TaiLiu

2013-09-23, 09:45 PM

You know, normally I'd agree, but my meteorology professor studied Polish for eight years. If anyone would notice, it would be him. :smallsigh:
Huh. Perhaps you could hire a team of correction ninjas to secretly alter the spelling of your surname to the correct one...

Haluesen

2013-09-23, 11:43 PM

A wake is a "Let's get drunk to remember and forget the dead" party.

My mother sometimes tells us she doesn't want anyone wearing black at her funeral. I don't know if we can have a proper wake since nobody in my family drinks alcohol.

A wake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_%28ceremony%29)isn't part of a funeral - it's a somewhat similar ceremony where the family and friends view the body that happens beforehand.

Hmm thank you both, good knowledge there. :smallsmile: I remember it now...I haven't been to one in so long, it kinda just slips the mind. Though I admit to not remembering at any point that my family had alcohol during any part of funeral proceedings, even this little afterward family gathering part. But again, it has been some time.

If only. I might just finish off this 2L of Coke tonight... I want to go to bed early, but there are things I want to do first...

Then I do wish you the best in the proceeding and cheer you on from afar. :smalltongue:

Taet

2013-09-24, 12:28 AM

When MoonCat wrote about drifting along I felt what she felt and got worried and looked for clues that I might be drifting along too. How long are you supposed to go before you clean a bathroom?

Yes, but I only learned it as a requirement for an Agriculture class that I only joined because my friend was in it. :smalltongue: And didn't get to use the skill much. But I like having the knowledge, and would actually like to test it again.

Well as long as some of it is good, that sounds like you can survive of it. :smallsmile: I didn't really have the means to bring lunch from home back in high school; in fact, that is why I was able to get the free school lunches. Some kindness there I guess. :smallsigh: But I still stand by the yumminess of those deli sandwiches. :smallcool:

So much bantering, it is wonderful! Though if I misses writing to someone because of my long time spent writing this, I apologize most profusely and offer hugs and cookies in the hopes of making peace.

Where do you go to learn to drive a tractor? Do you just find a farm and say "I'd like to learn to drive a tractor and I'll pay for the gas"?

I guess all the peanut people have made sure there are no more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for kids who forgot their lunch or their lunch money. This feels weird. That was part of what a cafeteria is. It can't be gone.

You did not miss me but I will take a hug and a cookie. And leave a hug and a cookie too.

Aw, rats. You should make a scarecrow to shoo them away.

They do not fly away when I hang clothes out to dry but I will try it.

ION:
The life expectancy of a piece of blackboard chalk is hilariously low. Seriously, I don't know how many pieces of chalk our Transform Methods lecturer manage to either snap or drop in the course of a single lecture, but they're many... :smallbiggrin:

He needs a pencil bead. I used to have to use them in school to try and fix the way I hold a pencil. It didn't work. I still hold a pencil on the flap of skin. But another thing it did was stop a pencil from breaking.

Joke's on them, they're fictional and I'm not. I'd like to see them try to get me.

In other news, I am now doing meteorology homework. In seminary. Who would have thought that becoming a priest would require learning about why a radiation temperature inversion can happen at night? It's cool, and I like science, but this is definitely not what I expected a few years back when I joined.

Life is strange. It's good that way.

edit: I just noticed I didn't even write my last name correctly on the homework. Brilliant. :smallsigh:

I'm not sure about that.

Did you have to take any science and meteorology looked interesting?

I am thinking about pencils now so I will ask if you wrote your name wrong with a pencil and if you can feel it going wrong when it happens.

It doesn't. Not in any predictable sense. Run with what you get, and try to be happy regardless. I've been to wakes that were more energizing (and in general, more enjoyable) than a decent amount of family dinners I've had... don't sweat it too much.

Making that feeling of being together is the hardest thing to do. And at the family dinners everyone is trying so hard. With that or with just trying to be who they are.

Elemental

2013-09-24, 02:19 AM

Any tips about how to actually talk to people?

I was so very tempted to answer this in a manner of the most sarcastic variety, but then I berated myself silently and began thinking of a more helpful answer.
Alas, I can't think of anything more helpful than to just start talking and don't stop. It's worked for me in the past on a couple of occasions when I needed to explain things. But I've never done so to a doctor before...

Attention interloper - heed this recorded message. This drone vessel speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan. You are trespassing within Ur-Quan space. This world, Earth, may not be approached for any reason. Nor will hostilities against our orbital platform be tolerated. In addition, your ship does not respond to standard Hierarchy identification transmissions... and is therefore deemed to be... independent. This is not permissible -- only subservience shall be tolerated.

Does this mean the budgies are aligned with space-aliens? If so, on a scale of one to "Whatever is Good and Holy in this Universe, come to aid so that our death may be either averted or rendered as free from anguish as possible", how afraid should we be?

I'm sorry, Kneen, but I can't be subservient! My filly would kill me. *sigh* guess it's rebellion, then? Someone get the bayonets! You fight space wars with bayonets, right? That's a thing?

Well, it's certainly better than the idea I had. Fire isn't very practical in space.

In other news, I am now doing meteorology homework. In seminary. Who would have thought that becoming a priest would require learning about why a radiation temperature inversion can happen at night? It's cool, and I like science, but this is definitely not what I expected a few years back when I joined.

Life is strange. It's good that way.

edit: I just noticed I didn't even write my last name correctly on the homework. Brilliant. :smallsigh:

Well... Such knowledge could be useful if you become a priest in a region remote and free from convenient broadcasts as to the state of future weather. I mean, there is more to being a priest than theology.

Now, that's an accomplishment in the field of spelling errors.

And here's where I take a break to scream about the fallibility of technology and its nigh continuous failings, only to be greatly relieved that my post was not lost when my computer crashed momentarily. I suspect that the heat is getting to it... It is indeed excellent when things work out like that.

Let the new thread not be a break in this tradition, but indeed as a natural fault in its accumulation, a layer upon which banter archaeologists will gaze and mark in continuity.

I would indeed find such an archaeological investigation into the records of our random discussions fascinating. And also a rather maddening endeavour fraught with such enjoyable pointlessness.
Perhaps when I am old and rich, I shall commission a historian to embark on such a task.

I phoned NHS24 not too long ago to see what I should do with my back pain. I need to continue taking pain killers until the morning, and if it's not helping, that's me to the doctors. I'm really suspecting slipped disc, but we'll see what the doctor says tomorrow.

Sort of crappy this anxiety of mine over calling and doctors, I've got my first lecture tomorrow... and I'm very likely missing it. :smallannoyed:

Oh dear... I rather hope that that is not the case. I would say anything but, but there are some rather terrible causes of back pain out there.
I do so hope it is something minor and that you recover quickly.

- or a comb carved from a horse's thigh -

Oh dear... Should I be concerned about this? Because I'll need to pack if I am to flee the country from a swarm of limb-stealing budgerigars.

I get to go back for bloods to make sure I didn't develop any sequelae like diabetes. I doubt I have diabetes, but if I did it would be tragic. No more desserts . . .
And before you say anything like, get diabetic friendly merchandise: it's expensive, and the Family cannot afford it.

Fortunately, we live in a time where diabetes doesn't result in a diabetic coma and then death within five years...
I would give advice concerning how to go about being diabetic as my Mum is and she manages fine, even with the occasional dessert, but I don't believe her diabetes is very serious.

Yeah... I think the cafeteria at my high school wasn't allowed to have food above... either grade C or grade D. It was pretty disappointing stuff. Some of it was alright, but... *twitch*

Ooh, I get sacrifices? :smallamused:

Feel better, man. :\

Personally... Of all the cost cutting measures, that particular one is pushing things. But then, schools over here don't provide lunch, at least neither of the ones I've been to have. They provide facilities so you can buy food if you want, but otherwise one brings a lunch.
Oh well... There's nothing I can do as an Australian about the situation over in America.

If you're getting sacrifices, then I want sacrifices too. Preferably in the form of noble metals and precious stones.

I do, by quite a margin, hence this monstrosity of a post I'm typing.

A wake is a "Let's get drunk to remember and forget the dead" party.

My mother sometimes tells us she doesn't want anyone wearing black at her funeral. I don't know if we can have a proper wake since nobody in my family drinks alcohol.

Nonsense. Getting drunk is hardly a requirement of the occasion. But then, wakes in my family have also been used as impromptu reunions...

A wake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_%28ceremony%29)isn't part of a funeral - it's a somewhat similar ceremony where the family and friends view the body that happens beforehand.

Not over here. Here, a viewing takes place just before the funeral, and then a wake is held after the funeral and/or burial.
But you're right, it isn't part of the funeral.

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-24, 08:33 AM

*sees DP posting*
*screams like a little girl*

DraPrime

2013-09-24, 08:45 AM

*sees DP posting*
*screams like a little girl*

Oh dear, have I become that infrequent that I prompt this reaction? I blame Sallust.

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-24, 08:47 AM

Oh dear, have I become that infrequent that I prompt this reaction? I blame Sallust.

No, probably not. But let's be on honest, I'm the over-reacting type. I suppose melodramatics would be a better word though.

EDIT: People should check out my art thread~

LaZodiac

2013-09-24, 09:42 AM

Le gasp! Guess what guys, my game thread has finally started back up! Woohoo!

Haluesen

2013-09-24, 10:46 AM

Where do you go to learn to drive a tractor? Do you just find a farm and say "I'd like to learn to drive a tractor and I'll pay for the gas"?

I guess all the peanut people have made sure there are no more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for kids who forgot their lunch or their lunch money. This feels weird. That was part of what a cafeteria is. It can't be gone.

You did not miss me but I will take a hug and a cookie. And leave a hug and a cookie too.

Ah in high school actually. I live in a pretty rural area and there is actually a farm on campus for those involved in this program from agriculture-related careers. I was in the class simply because a friend was, but one of the things in the class was learning how to drive the tractor up at the farm.

Hmm...well I remember pb&j's through elementary school, maybe middle school. Sorry Taet, I do not know what happens to them.

Yay! :smallsmile: *hugs*

Le gasp! Guess what guys, my game thread has finally started back up! Woohoo!

Ooh cool Zodi! :smallbiggrin: What game does it happen to be?

ION: Hello and greetings all! I...hehe guess I don't really have any news to report yet. Darn tired brain! Well, in that case just how is everyone?

LaZodiac

2013-09-24, 11:17 AM

Ooh cool Zodi! :smallbiggrin: What game does it happen to be?

It's literally inside my sig :smallamused:

Haluesen

2013-09-24, 11:38 AM

It's literally inside my sig :smallamused:

Oh that game. :smallredface: Thought you meant like you started another. Okay then! Darn sleepy brain...

LaZodiac

2013-09-24, 11:48 AM

Oh that game. :smallredface: Thought you meant like you started another. Okay then! Darn sleepy brain...

It's okay, happens to everyone :smallamused:

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-24, 11:51 AM

A wake is a "Let's get drunk to remember and forget the dead" party.

My mother sometimes tells us she doesn't want anyone wearing black at her funeral. I don't know if we can have a proper wake since nobody in my family drinks alcohol.

Er... I've never seen any alcohol at the ones I've been to... Put it down to cultural differences, perhaps.

edit: I just noticed that Latin wikipedia is called vicipedia. While in classical Latin that does in fact phonetically sound like "wiki", it ends up meaning "I-conquered-pedia". That's actually a pretty cool name.

I cut out a vowel. My last name is egregiously Slavic and difficult to pronounce/write. I take great pride in actually being able to say a word with the sequence of letters "drzyck" in it. So when I mess it up, I simply facepalm.

Heheheh, what is this mythical land of pedia? Is it good for farming, or is it more suitable for hunting and trapping? :smallamused:

Hrm... My mother's father's side of my family tree is from Poland... of course, that last name was butchered at Ellis Island, and no one remembers exactly what it used to be. I don't think it was quite so linguistically obtuse, though. (and by my mother's accounts, it seems to more resemble a Russian patronymic than anything else).

When MoonCat wrote about drifting along I felt what she felt and got worried and looked for clues that I might be drifting along too. How long are you supposed to go before you clean a bathroom?

Making that feeling of being together is the hardest thing to do. And at the family dinners everyone is trying so hard. With that or with just trying to be who they are.

...until it's dirty? :smallconfused: I think that in particular isn't much of an indicator on account of it varying widely on a case-by-case basis.

Well, I think it's more because of the family I am forced to interact with in each situation as much as the context of the situation... people tend to be less vitriolic when there are dead people around, anyway...

Personally... Of all the cost cutting measures, that particular one is pushing things. But then, schools over here don't provide lunch, at least neither of the ones I've been to have. They provide facilities so you can buy food if you want, but otherwise one brings a lunch.
Oh well... There's nothing I can do as an Australian about the situation over in America.

If you're getting sacrifices, then I want sacrifices too. Preferably in the form of noble metals and precious stones.

I do, by quite a margin, hence this monstrosity of a post I'm typing.

Not over here. Here, a viewing takes place just before the funeral, and then a wake is held after the funeral and/or burial.
But you're right, it isn't part of the funeral.

The food wasn't all bad, but most of it was disappointing, aye. It's good that they provided it, though; I couldn't have put the motivation together to make myself lunch every day when I was in high school... especially not junior or senior year. (for different reasons). Hell, I've still got trouble doing that now.

I want sacrifices in people that can give me a good explanation in how to do some of my homework, and then another person to actually do all of the work that I already know how to do just fine and simply don't want to spend the time on.

Le gasp! Guess what guys, my game thread has finally started back up! Woohoo!

...I wish I had the time to watch all of the LPs you've sent me... I'll try to follow this.

ION: I am working on some music... I might have time later this week or next week to put it together and record it... Maybe.

Teddy

2013-09-24, 01:33 PM

Indeed it very much was! We shall see how this affects him for the rest of the adventure. They are level 5, taint is not so easily cured at those levels. :smallamused:

Ohh, be sure to tell us of any interesting developments! :3

Ooh wonderful! :smallredface: Thank you much dear Teddy. *snuggles comfortably*

*is comfortably snuggled* :3

Yes, but I only learned it as a requirement for an Agriculture class that I only joined because my friend was in it. :smalltongue: And didn't get to use the skill much. But I like having the knowledge, and would actually like to test it again.

Well, it's not a bad skill to have. We may be a bit out of the ordinary in that we actually have an old farm in the family, but I know I can count a number of uses for someone able to drive a tractor...

You should, and then tell me how it is. :smallbiggrin:

Hehehe, that may take a while. Between here, school and life, I've barely got enough time to play any games to start with, and I already have a few incoming on my interest list...

Oh I am certain that I shall not run out of music to enjoy. :smallsmile: There is quite a lot of it.

Yeah, you need to be really niche for it to ever be a problem... :smallwink:

Yes please do! :smallsmile: They are very enjoyable!

Yeah, I checked out a few more songs. They're not exactly the type of music I feel like listening to right now, but definitely good... :3

Hmm you know, I have actually heard of this, these keyboards. Mine sadly does not have them but my friend here, who I shall henceforth refer to as Varsu instead of "my friend" because I mention her a lot and that is a nickname of sorts for her, uses those letters often with some basic computer program. I will have to ask her to show me it again so that I can write more intriguing words. :smallbiggrin:

Hehehe, yeah. I should get one of those programs myself. I've grown a bit tired of copying '♫'s from my friendly neighbourhood Unicode table, and being able to write '°'s with just a keypress would be quite useful as well...

Well it was definitely just a morning issue. I got much better and currently am much better, especially with Teddy plushie!

Woo! :3
*hugs*

Heh this is rather comical. :smallsmile: Poor poor chalk, such a small flame to flicker for but a short while. :smalltongue:

Hehehe... :smallbiggrin:

Heh, of course you do not hear the last of me! :smallamused: I shall not depart, always remaining bright and energetic within the banterhome, always keen for my delightfully deliciously deliriously darling communications with you all, even in darkest sorrow and most burning of rages, here I shall be happy and kind and most courteous and benevolent. :smallbiggrin: I am quite well now, those reasons I was unjoyous yesterday have passed from my tender heart into the realms of the unbothering. Back to the top of the world I shall be and shall stay.

Ahh, such a delight to read! Let us lounge together at this mighty peak and just enjoy everything life has to offer. :3

Oh, and if anyone else wants to come up and enjoy the view, I'll gladly stretch out my hand! I wouldn't want to deny anyone the sheer happiness... :3

So... going to my first day of college in... three hours.

Whose bright idea was it to send fifteen year olds to college classesI'mgoingtobeeatenalive.

Good luck, Moonie! I believe in you! :3 And don't worry, college people may be drunkards, but they're usually pretty nice.

I've got a prof who seems to break, drop, or wear one down to nothing just about every class, but I think yours has got him beat. :smallamused:

Well, he seems to kill 2-3 chalks per lecture, so it's nothing extreme, but it's persistent, and he looks a bit silly when he stops to look down at the piece of the chalk which just snapped and fell to the floor, before he shrugs and goes on with his lecture...

...I make friends slowly. :smallamused:

Well, for as long as you make as you aren't disconent with the pace, that shouldn't be a problem... :smallwink:

How fare you today, yon budgie?
Is Winnipeg as cold as here?
(I would think 'tis colder yonder
In northlands in this time of year)
Ack, awkward meter change. I WILL STICK WITH MY EIGHT SYLLABLES, DAMMIT!

I think it worked pretty well, at least as a standalone... :smallsmile:

Would this happen to be the cathedral in Burgos. It was so spectacular that Santiago was actually a bit of a letdown once I got there just because Burgos was that much more beautiful, though Santiago does have a better facade. I'll get around to posting photos on flickr or something. Currently they're on Facebook, but then I'd have to be friends with the entire Playground to show them.

Actually, I think Facebook lets you hotlink pictures, so just copy the image links and you should be able to post them here. I know I have done so with a few of my steampunk pictures...

edit: I just noticed that Latin wikipedia is called vicipedia. While in classical Latin that does in fact phonetically sound like "wiki", it ends up meaning "I-conquered-pedia". That's actually a pretty cool name.

Hehehe, this is great! :3

He needs a pencil bead. I used to have to use them in school to try and fix the way I hold a pencil. It didn't work. I still hold a pencil on the flap of skin. But another thing it did was stop a pencil from breaking.

Actually, blackboard chalk doesn't quite let you work with it in the same way as a pencil, mostly because you need to write on a vertical surface, rather than a horisontal...

ION:
Ugh, I wish I could be faster to respond, but between life and the university, I'm finding less and less time to write up my posts, which is sad, because I like it here. The only caveat is that I like my life as it is now, so I don't really want to calm down at that either, and uni is just relentlessly evermarching as always...

TaiLiu

2013-09-24, 06:02 PM

They do not fly away when I hang clothes out to dry but I will try it.
Make it look scary, and add some sort of device that'll make loud noises...

People should check out my art thread~
Indeed. It is very nice!

Haluesen

2013-09-24, 07:20 PM

Ohh, be sure to tell us of any interesting developments! :3

Heh sure, I shall tell you of the fun. :smallwink:

*is comfortably snuggled* :3

Yay silly sweet Teddy. :smallsmile: I am now much less of the sleepy but I do thank you for these snuggles.

Well, it's not a bad skill to have. We may be a bit out of the ordinary in that we actually have an old farm in the family, but I know I can count a number of uses for someone able to drive a tractor...

Yes indeed! Who knows, it could be the skill that saves lives. :smallbiggrin:

Hehehe, that may take a while. Between here, school and life, I've barely got enough time to play any games to start with, and I already have a few incoming on my interest list...

Well, this is okay. :smallsmile: I still have other games on the brain to focus on. Fallout New Vegas, maybe another play of Dragon Age. Both are rather long.

Yeah, you need to be really niche for it to ever be a problem... :smallwink:

I'm pretty sure I don't fit that description... :smallamused: Maybe picky, but not niche.

Yeah, I checked out a few more songs. They're not exactly the type of music I feel like listening to right now, but definitely good... :3

That's alright, this is well. :smallsmile: I just felt it would be good to introduce the concept.

Hehehe, yeah. I should get one of those programs myself. I've grown a bit tired of copying '♫'s from my friendly neighbourhood Unicode table, and being able to write '°'s with just a keypress would be quite useful as well...

I would imagine it would. Do you do much musical writing on the computer?

Ahh, such a delight to read! Let us lounge together at this mighty peak and just enjoy everything life has to offer. :3

Oh, and if anyone else wants to come up and enjoy the view, I'll gladly stretch out my hand! I wouldn't want to deny anyone the sheer happiness... :3

Thanks, I tried very hard on that one. :smallredface: I enjoyed writing it, though I believe it may have used up the majority of energy I have reserved for witty banter. It may be a while before I am able to speak with such eloquence again. So for now, I am content enough to lounge.

FinnLassie

2013-09-24, 07:23 PM

I'm exhausted. Dead. Tired. Extremely wound up.

*curls up in corner, steals any blankets that have been left there and disappears underneath them*

LaZodiac

2013-09-24, 07:41 PM

I'm exhausted. Dead. Tired. Extremely wound up.

*curls up in corner, steals any blankets that have been left there and disappears underneath them*

*gives you all the blankets*

Feel better soon Finn!

As an aside, I didn't realize you knew Dvil in real life. I know him too!

TaiLiu

2013-09-24, 08:04 PM

As an aside, I didn't realize you knew Dvil in real life. I know him too!
Oo, who is Dvil?

LooksAtYouFunny

2013-09-24, 08:12 PM

LaZodiac

2013-09-24, 08:13 PM

Oo, who is Dvil?

A person who is a friend of mine and someone Finn knows in real life apparently.

TaiLiu

2013-09-24, 08:31 PM

So... mostly out of interest and because I cant find a more appropriate place for it..

Are there any graphical games on these forums? (in the Play-by-post style)
I've looked through a lot already.. but it does seem that Text based games in established systems are the norm here, if not the only thing... am I wrong and blind or just missing them when I click through the things?

Best Regards -LAYF-
Hm. What exactly do you mean by "graphic games?"

A person who is a friend of mine and someone Finn knows in real life apparently.
Huh. Is Dvil from Finland or something?

LaZodiac

2013-09-24, 08:38 PM

Hm. What exactly do you mean by "graphic games?"

Huh. Is Dvil from Finland or something?

I'm assuming he means visuals are involved.

I don't know! I know he's in...England or something, if I recall. It's been awhile since we've talked.

TaiLiu

2013-09-24, 08:49 PM

I'm assuming he means visuals are involved.
Ah. Still vague!

I don't know! I know he's in...England or something, if I recall. It's been awhile since we've talked.
Ah! FinnLassie is somewhere close to there, I think.

LooksAtYouFunny

2013-09-24, 08:53 PM

Hm. What exactly do you mean by "graphic games?"

LaZodiac got it.. some kind of visuals that are actively updated in each game...
a couple of samples from my own games on another forum:

And adventure game, 3 players.
http://i.imgur.com/A3FD1Dy.png
http://i.imgur.com/Oh6r3s4.png

An RTS'ish game, 5-20 players
http://i.imgur.com/lah5zi8.png
http://i.imgur.com/ZHGb34V.png

An all can vote, horror game.
http://i.imgur.com/WJlVNQb.png
http://i.imgur.com/EN4MMRX.png

And off cause text to accompany it....

TaiLiu

2013-09-24, 09:02 PM

LaZodiac got it.. some kind of visuals that are actively updated in each game...
a couple of samples from my own games on another forum:

http://i.imgur.com/A3FD1Dy.png
http://i.imgur.com/Oh6r3s4.png

http://i.imgur.com/lah5zi8.png
http://i.imgur.com/ZHGb34V.png

http://i.imgur.com/WJlVNQb.png
http://i.imgur.com/EN4MMRX.png

And off cause text to accompany it....
Oh, neat. I don't think so, though; it's mostly text, with the occasional grid.

Taet

2013-09-24, 09:13 PM

Mynxae! We want news about the rental!

Make it look scary, and add some sort of device that'll make loud noises...

Indeed. It is very nice!

Next door has a new baby and three other people on this street are working on their classic cars today. We have plenty of loud noises. Yellow car is louder than a train a mile away. This is the truth. I couldn't hear the train any more once the yellow car started running.

So... mostly out of interest and because I cant find a more appropriate place for it..

Are there any graphical games on these forums? (in the Play-by-post style)
I've looked through a lot already.. but it does seem that Text based games in established systems are the norm here, if not the only thing... am I wrong and blind or just missing them when I click through the things?

Best Regards -LAYF-

That is an interesting idea! But it makes the screen very wide.

I have seen people make pictures for a post but only one picture. Not something to draw every time. If things get silly enough here someone will draw a picture of the scene.

LooksAtYouFunny

2013-09-24, 09:21 PM

Oh, neat. I don't think so, though; it's mostly text, with the occasional grid.
Hmm.. that's what I suspected, sad.. Just thought I'd look into it... since you do seem to have many GM's and even more games around here...

That is an interesting idea! But it makes the screen very wide.

I have seen people make pictures for a post but only one picture. Not something to draw every time. If things get silly enough here someone will draw a picture of the scene.
Og.. yea... I see that the forum does not have the "re size" function.. that was why I put it in a spoiler...
but its only the big image that does that.. the small image did fine :)

Hmm.. yea.. not really what I meant... I was thinking games where every update has its own images... Its just favorites of mine
(honest reason is that I have a disorder not unlike dyslexia, so.. text writing is just not my thing)

Hmm... maybe I should start a game here some time and see what people think of it...

Thanks for the quick replies....

TaiLiu

2013-09-24, 09:45 PM

Hmm... maybe I should start a game here some time and see what people think of it...
You should! An image-based game would certainly be exotic, compared to the more text-based ones around here.

Mynxae

2013-09-25, 12:31 AM

Mynxae! We want news about the rental!

Sorry I got distracted by spending the afternoon with my sister and her boyfriend's Mum, who is extremely awesome and wants to help me find a boyfriend. :smalltongue:

Inspection went great last night, place looks good, application has been sent in and they said they'll let us know if it's approved by tomorrow. :smallbiggrin:

Teddy

2013-09-25, 03:25 AM

Heh sure, I shall tell you of the fun. :smallwink:

Yay! :3

Yay silly sweet Teddy. :smallsmile: I am now much less of the sleepy but I do thank you for these snuggles.

You're welcome! :3
*snuggles more*

Yes indeed! Who knows, it could be the skill that saves lives. :smallbiggrin:

Well, if you have access to a tractor, that's not even a far fetch. I mean, you can use it to pull cars out of a ditch or fallen trees off the road, for example...

Well, this is okay. :smallsmile: I still have other games on the brain to focus on. Fallout New Vegas, maybe another play of Dragon Age. Both are rather long.

Yeah. I never managed to play all the way through Dragon Age, I got so fed up with meeting yet another darkspawn hoard that it kind of lost the charm...

I would imagine it would. Do you do much musical writing on the computer?

No, but when I'm in a really good mood, I use to suffix my greetings with a '♫' to show that I'm more or less singing it... :3

Thanks, I tried very hard on that one. :smallredface: I enjoyed writing it, though I believe it may have used up the majority of energy I have reserved for witty banter. It may be a while before I am able to speak with such eloquence again. So for now, I am content enough to lounge.

Well, you don't have to be eloquent all the time. Personally, I'm waiting for the great autumn firework to inspire me into writing up something beautiful... :3

Hmm.. yea.. not really what I meant... I was thinking games where every update has its own images... Its just favorites of mine
(honest reason is that I have a disorder not unlike dyslexia, so.. text writing is just not my thing)

Hmm... maybe I should start a game here some time and see what people think of it...

Sounds like a good idea! I'm sure there are more than just you around who'd be interested. :3

Dr. Bath

2013-09-25, 03:36 AM

So... mostly out of interest and because I cant find a more appropriate place for it..

Are there any graphical games on these forums? (in the Play-by-post style)
I've looked through a lot already.. but it does seem that Text based games in established systems are the norm here, if not the only thing... am I wrong and blind or just missing them when I click through the things?

Best Regards -LAYF-

There've been things like you mention from time to time in the Arts and Crafts section. There's also the Battle Royale, which is more collaborative storytelling (not sure if it's still going?). Alternatively you could try starting something up in structured games.

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-25, 08:20 AM

Well, he seems to kill 2-3 chalks per lecture, so it's nothing extreme, but it's persistent, and he looks a bit silly when he stops to look down at the piece of the chalk which just snapped and fell to the floor, before he shrugs and goes on with his lecture...

Well, for as long as you make as you aren't disconent with the pace, that shouldn't be a problem... :smallwink:

I think it worked pretty well, at least as a standalone... :smallsmile:

Hrm... still, that seems a bit odd, given that mine doesn't go through nearly that many, and he strikes the blackboard quite hard with them. Hrm... How long are your lectures? Perhaps mine simply doesn't have the time in 50 minutes to go through a few pieces of chalk.

Not yet, although I suppose I'll see how it goes.

Well, I meant the awkward differences between the first/third lines and the second/fourth lines. 2/4 would flow more naturally with seven syllables, I think.

I'm exhausted. Dead. Tired. Extremely wound up.

*curls up in corner, steals any blankets that have been left there and disappears underneath them*

*tosses you a blanket and a pillow*

Feel better, Finn... :smallfrown:

So... mostly out of interest and because I cant find a more appropriate place for it..

Are there any graphical games on these forums? (in the Play-by-post style)
I've looked through a lot already.. but it does seem that Text based games in established systems are the norm here, if not the only thing... am I wrong and blind or just missing them when I click through the things?

Best Regards -LAYF-

Hrm... there is that one thread... not a whole lot of people posted in it, and it was mostly freeform, but it's pretty similar to what you had in mind. I'll go find it.

Here you go. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274724)

Huh. Is Dvil from Finland or something?

I don't know! I know he's in... England or something, if I recall. It's been a while since we've talked.

They both live in Scotland, or else Dvil has to travel quite a ways to meet Finn in real life. :smalltongue: I believe Dvil is Scottish, although I could be wrong.

ION: So, last night I took a couple hours to go record an idea I've been knocking around for a while, and walked away unfinished with just over 18 minutes of music. I don't know how this happened. I suppose I'll try to finish that tonight or tomorrow.

LooksAtYouFunny

2013-09-25, 08:42 AM

@Amidus Drexel
Cool stuff.. thanks for the link... that actually makes me wonder why this have not been taken further...
But in general, I don't see many forums out there with games like that...

Feytalist

2013-09-25, 08:53 AM

Too much effort, I'd guess.

But then, I've always been a lazy bugger.

Speaking of which, damn I'm tired. Working and studying at the same time just kills.

Teddy

2013-09-25, 10:56 AM

Hrm... still, that seems a bit odd, given that mine doesn't go through nearly that many, and he strikes the blackboard quite hard with them. Hrm... How long are your lectures? Perhaps mine simply doesn't have the time in 50 minutes to go through a few pieces of chalk.

2 * 45 minutes with a 15 minute break inbetween, so ours seem to be roughly on par...

Not yet, although I suppose I'll see how it goes.

Well, at worst you'll end up feeling lonely, and in that unfortunate case you'll probably figure out a way to be more proactive about it... :smallsmile:

ION: So, last night I took a couple hours to go record an idea I've been knocking around for a while, and walked away unfinished with just over 18 minutes of music. I don't know how this happened. I suppose I'll try to finish that tonight or tomorrow.

Ohh, sounds interesting! Good luck! :3

Haluesen

2013-09-25, 01:10 PM

You're welcome! :3
*snuggles more*

Awwwe... :smallredface:

Well, if you have access to a tractor, that's not even a far fetch. I mean, you can use it to pull cars out of a ditch or fallen trees off the road, for example...

It's official, I need a tractor someday. I could be a hero! :smallbiggrin:

Yeah. I never managed to play all the way through Dragon Age, I got so fed up with meeting yet another darkspawn hoard that it kind of lost the charm...

You make a fair point. :smallsmile: It's on of my favorite games ever but not at all for the combat. And the lag on computer gets horrible. :smallannoyed:

No, but when I'm in a really good mood, I use to suffix my greetings with a '♫' to show that I'm more or less singing it... :3

Oh that's so cute! :smallsmile: Such a happy little greeting.

Well, you don't have to be eloquent all the time. Personally, I'm waiting for the great autumn firework to inspire me into writing up something beautiful... :3

Right, but sometimes it is quite fun to try to be. :smallsmile: Hmm what exactly is this autumn firework of which you speak?

Gnomes2169

2013-09-25, 01:20 PM

Derp, derpderpderp, derp. That will be all.

So then, how are y'all doing?

Dimonite

2013-09-25, 02:38 PM

Derp, derpderpderp, derp. That will be all.

So then, how are y'all doing?

You seem less derpy than normal. :smalltongue:

I'm fine. Not that you'd know, since you never come over and talk to me and I can't get into your anti-prison. :smalltongue:

Dvil

2013-09-25, 02:42 PM

I don't normally venture into this particular thread but today, without warning, my ears suddenly started burning :smalltongue:

FinnLassie

2013-09-25, 02:47 PM

I don't normally venture into this particular thread but today, without warning, my ears suddenly started burning :smalltongue:

HI DVIL.

Who are you?!?!?!?!?!

Dvil

2013-09-25, 02:56 PM

I'm an international man of mystery is who I am

FinnLassie

2013-09-25, 02:58 PM

I'm an international man of mystery is who I am

I guess that's completely true. How are you this fine evening?

Dvil

2013-09-25, 03:10 PM

I guess that's completely true. How are you this fine evening?

Tired and wanting my bed. Yourself?

FinnLassie

2013-09-25, 03:15 PM

Tired and wanting my bed. Yourself?

Pretty much the same. Although I can't do what I desire, for I forgot that I'm back to uni so I actually have work to do for tomorrow... Crap.

ION: I suck at pool.

Dvil

2013-09-25, 03:20 PM

Haha! I have no work yet. But I'm entertaining guests and so I have to stay up

Taet

2013-09-25, 03:25 PM

I am waiting to hear if I need to do jury duty. It feels weird. I have not seen a court since I went there on a school trip and we could not take notes and so it was hard to follow.

Gnomes2169

2013-09-25, 03:26 PM

You seem less derpy than normal. :smalltongue:

I'm fine. Not that you'd know, since you never come over and talk to me and I can't get into your anti-prison. :smalltongue:

I know, derp? :smalltongue:

Hey, you have an anti-prison too. :smalltongue: And besides, I might accidentally meet your room mate, and from what you tell me, that meeting would end up with one of us on the run for homicide via nitroglycerin. Hint, it would not be him. :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2013-09-25, 03:26 PM

Pretty much the same. Although I can't do what I desire, for I forgot that I'm back to uni so I actually have work to do for tomorrow... Crap.

ION: I suck at pool.

Ouch, good luck Finn! And don't worry, it just takes practice.

Haha! I have no work yet. But I'm entertaining guests and so I have to stay up

Ooof, good luck with that! Also hello it's been awhile.

Teddy

2013-09-25, 03:33 PM

Awwwe... :smallredface:

:3

It's official, I need a tractor someday. I could be a hero! :smallbiggrin:

:biggrin:

You make a fair point. :smallsmile: It's on of my favorite games ever but not at all for the combat. And the lag on computer gets horrible. :smallannoyed:

Yeah, what really put a nail in my coffin was when all the darkspawn mages gained the ability to cast Crushing Prison (or whatever it was called), since it's a sure insta-kill against you unless you have a mage with the invulnerability sphere spell availible...

Oh that's so cute! :smallsmile: Such a happy little greeting.

Yep, and I can use it on other occations too! ♫

Right, but sometimes it is quite fun to try to be. :smallsmile: Hmm what exactly is this autumn firework of which you speak?

When all the trees switch hue and the forest across our local valley blooms out in a light show of marvelous colours! :3

I don't normally venture into this particular thread but today, without warning, my ears suddenly started burning :smalltongue:

*imagines a seagul with flames sprouting out of its head*

Haluesen

2013-09-25, 03:34 PM

Derp, derpderpderp, derp. That will be all.

So then, how are y'all doing?

Hello hello! :smallsmile: I do well, leisurely I would suppose. Guess I should get to that schoolwork soon though. :smalltongue:

I don't normally venture into this particular thread but today, without warning, my ears suddenly started burning :smalltongue:

Ah so you are the one who is spoken of! :smallbiggrin: Greetings and salutations!

I am waiting to hear if I need to do jury duty. It feels weird. I have not seen a court since I went there on a school trip and we could not take notes and so it was hard to follow.

Yikes that sounds rather unpleasant. :smalleek: I am sincerely hoping you are spared that, for now at least. And I'm the same actually. Took one trip back in middle school, have no remembrance of why, and it has since slipped to the back of my cranium, drawn out only by your reminder. I think I passed a different court a couple times, never really went in though.

I suggest, as with all problems, that you find the solution on the internet. Just look and see what typical court proceedings are like. Might help you know what to expect.

Dvil

2013-09-25, 03:35 PM

Ooof, good luck with that! Also hello it's been awhile.

Hello hello, it certainly has! How are you doing?

*imagines a seagul with flames sprouting out of its head*

This isn't even my final form!

Haluesen

2013-09-25, 03:49 PM

:3

:biggrin:

Oh Teddy, you posted while I was writing! Sorry if it seems that I missed you. :smallsmile:

Yeah, what really put a nail in my coffin was when all the darkspawn mages gained the ability to cast Crushing Prison (or whatever it was called), since it's a sure insta-kill against you unless you have a mage with the invulnerability sphere spell availible...

Hmm I've had some problem with that, mostly when I played it on the PS3 at Varsu's house. On the computer, the main enemy issue I have is Shattering Arrow. :smallannoyed: Stuns most of my team, and at a certain point in the game it seems like all archers have it.

As I also mentioned, I suffer from lag. My characters will be attacking and everyone will be using powers but they won't take effect in anywhere from a couple seconds to a minute or more. And with the tactics, my allies continue to try to use abilities over and over until they take effect, while wastes tons of stamina/mana. :smallmad: Or they will die when they suddenly take damage from all the attacks they have stood up to at once. That said, this is only a problem in area with tons and tons of enemies, or if I play for too long. But it made the end of the main campaign pure horridness. :smallfurious:

...Still I do like the characters, a lot. And the many choices available saves it for me. I'm big on lots of choice in games; hence why D&D and other tabletop games with lots of freedom are the best. :smallsmile:

Yep, and I can use it on other occations too! ♫

Ah hehe I see that. :smallbiggrin:

When all the trees switch hue and the forest across our local valley blooms out in a light show of marvelous colours! :3

Oh that does sounds beautiful! :smallredface: I used to live across the street from a small wooded area. There is one nearby where I live now but it is private property, so I can't truly enjoy such a display.

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-25, 04:09 PM

I got my first two college papers back. My art history professor gave man an A- on my visual analysis and my FYS professor said I have "impeccable logic." :smallbiggrin:

Dimonite

2013-09-25, 04:22 PM

I know, derp? :smalltongue:

Hey, you have an anti-prison too. :smalltongue: And besides, I might accidentally meet your room mate, and from what you tell me, that meeting would end up with one of us on the run for homicide via nitroglycerin. Hint, it would not be him. :smalltongue:

Sure, but my anti-prison is WAY easier to get into. And my roommate isn't that bad, and even if he were our room is the best place to come if you're looking to avoid him. That said: where would you even GET nitroglycerin?

LaZodiac

2013-09-25, 04:42 PM

Hello hello, it certainly has! How are you doing?

I'm doing good! Got someone to do art for my comic (though she's currently busy, as I'm sure you know :smallamused:).

Also I beat "The Wonderful 101" and encourage everyone to buy a Wii U and this game.

FinnLassie

2013-09-25, 04:47 PM

I'm doing good! Got someone to do art for my comic (though she's currently busy, as I'm sure you know :smallamused:).

Babe, we're still in early steps. :smallwink: :smallwink: :smallwink: Inspiration... I'm lacking it, super hard. :smalleek:

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-25, 04:53 PM

Bah, comics take forever!~ Trag and I are still working on our one shot. :smallsigh:

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-25, 05:08 PM

LaZodiac

2013-09-25, 05:40 PM

HalfTangible

2013-09-25, 05:43 PM

Babe, we're still in early steps. :smallwink: :smallwink: :smallwink: Inspiration... I'm lacking it, super hard. :smalleek:

Okay, okay :smallamused:

And sorry, I don't know what to do to help that D:

I find it helps to brainstorm between the storytellers. Collaboration works wonders for stories, even if you're already collaborating.

...if that makes any sense at all =/

LaZodiac

2013-09-25, 05:48 PM

I find it helps to brainstorm between the storytellers. Collaboration works wonders for stories, even if you're already collaborating.

...if that makes any sense at all =/

It makes sense. I'm guessing that she's just busy so she can't power up and draw, or something like that.

Gnomes2169

2013-09-25, 06:03 PM

Sure, but my anti-prison is WAY easier to get into. And my roommate isn't that bad, and even if he were our room is the best place to come if you're looking to avoid him. That said: where would you even GET nitroglycerin?

What, you want me to give away ALL of my secrets? :smalltongue:

Dimonite

2013-09-25, 06:25 PM

What, you want me to give away ALL of my secrets? :smalltongue:

Well, I do know one of your contacts in the world of chemistry. But he knows you well enough that he wouldn't be giving you any nitroglycerin. :smalltongue:

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-25, 07:18 PM

@Amidus Drexel
Cool stuff.. thanks for the link... that actually makes me wonder why this have not been taken further...
But in general, I don't see many forums out there with games like that...

*shrug* I think most of the people there either lost interest, were too busy, or just forgot about it. It was a fun thread to watch while it was active, though.

Speaking of which, damn I'm tired. Working and studying at the same time just kills.

Yeah... that's why I'm not looking for a job right now... I've barely got the mental capacity to do the schoolwork I've got, much less spend another 20 or so hours a week working. I might work over the summer.

2 * 45 minutes with a 15 minute break inbetween, so ours seem to be roughly on par...

Well, at worst you'll end up feeling lonely, and in that unfortunate case you'll probably figure out a way to be more proactive about it... :smallsmile:

Ohh, sounds interesting! Good luck! :3

*nod* Mine appears to be doing better today, as I don't think he's broken any yet, but he's been nicer on the chalk/blackboard so far too.

Yeah, I can't say I get out much... I'm busy, human interaction is difficult, and other things grab my interest. I know some people on campus, but I'm normally too busy (or otherwise unavailable) to actually hang out with them.

Well, you say 'interesting', but I think "Really? How long is this bit? Why can't I justify separating this into pieces?"

So then, how are y'all doing?

Worn out. I need a weekend after approximately three days of classes just about every week. I hope I don't get any more homework this week.

I don't normally venture into this particular thread but today, without warning, my ears suddenly started burning :smalltongue:

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b506/AmidusDrexel/Silly%20Drawings/Untitled_zpse3e744a0.png

ION: I suck at pool.

Practice! And it was my understanding that most people suck at pool, and there's just a handful of people that are exceptionally good at it.

Hey, you have an anti-prison too. :smalltongue: And besides, I might accidentally meet your room mate, and from what you tell me, that meeting would end up with one of us on the run for homicide via nitroglycerin. Hint, it would not be him. :smalltongue:

Heheheh :smallamused:

Sure, but my anti-prison is WAY easier to get into. And my roommate isn't that bad, and even if he were our room is the best place to come if you're looking to avoid him. That said: where would you even GET nitroglycerin?

I'll trade you roommates. I have a hard time getting the room to myself except during the mornings on some days.

Well, it's not that hard to get one's hands on.

I'm doing good! Got someone to do art for my comic (though she's currently busy, as I'm sure you know :smallamused:).

Babe, we're still in early steps. :smallwink: :smallwink: :smallwink: Inspiration... I'm lacking it, super hard. :smalleek:

Subtle as bricks, the two of you. :smallamused:

Can either of you keep any secrets? :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Taet

2013-09-25, 07:38 PM

That moment where you're watching clips from really funny comedy shows on YouTube while drinking a fizzy pop, knowing its a bad idea because of the inevitable: you've just taken a sip and you start to laugh, so you try to hurry and swallow, but your throat's already constricted to start laughing as the fizzy pop hits the back of your throat meaning you start to choke and the fizz shoots up your nose leaving you a choking, coughing, eye watering, nose-stingingly runny, sneezing, itchy-nosed mess.

Ow.

Welp. Back to watching clips from really funny comedy shows on YouTube while drinking a fizzy pop.

EDIT: Will do the usual wall-o'-text quotestorm when I can see properly and aren't sneezing every ten seconds or so.

This could be a silly clip from YouTube of watching a silly clip from YouTube. Of someone watching a silly clip.

*imagines a seagul with flames sprouting out of its head*

I thought Dr. Bath was the sea gull. There's more than one? Is it time to hide the french fries and other foods sea gulls love?

Yikes that sounds rather unpleasant. :smalleek: I am sincerely hoping you are spared that, for now at least. And I'm the same actually. Took one trip back in middle school, have no remembrance of why, and it has since slipped to the back of my cranium, drawn out only by your reminder. I think I passed a different court a couple times, never really went in though.

I suggest, as with all problems, that you find the solution on the internet. Just look and see what typical court proceedings are like. Might help you know what to expect.

I should have remembered to do that. It doesn't matter right now though. My number has been skipped over. I don't have to go.

There was a lucky find. TIME magazine has a funny column in the back that I like to read. The last magazine it was talking about jury service in California and it was gentle and it explained why the people I knew and asked aren't the kinds of people who get picked for juries.

DraPrime

2013-09-25, 08:55 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-25, 09:01 PM

Mutant Sheep

2013-09-25, 09:03 PM

DraPrime

2013-09-25, 09:15 PM

Eh.
The Aeneid had it first. Assuming it was based off one hundred percent accurate historical documents. Which it wasn't.

"At the top Manlius, guardian of the Tarpeian Citadel,
stood before the temple, defending the high Capitol."
Aeneid, Book VIII (http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVIII.htm)

I, and the rest of my Classical Civ class, also rather enjoyed the name of the Roman King Tarquinius Superbus. Why?
Because he's a super bus. We were easily amused.

Superbus...how did I never notice that? I just thought it was a really great way of saying "superb". Also, the Aeneid did not have this first. Sallust's The Conspiracy of Catiline has Gaius Manlius, which was written before the reign of Augustus. Though I will admit that perhaps Virgil's Manlius was known before he appeared in dactylic hexameter, but as far as I know C. Manlius came first in the written record a centurion who tried to help Cataline seize power in Rome.

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-25, 09:30 PM

Superbus...how did I never notice that? I just thought it was a really great way of saying "superb". Also, the Aeneid did not have this first. Sallust's The Conspiracy of Catiline has Gaius Manlius, which was written before the reign of Augustus. Though I will admit that perhaps Virgil's Manlius was known before he appeared in dactylic hexameter, but as far as I know C. Manlius came first in the written record a centurion who tried to help Cataline seize power in Rome.

Pretty much, but given my Latin was taught almost completely in translation, and I'm unsure of what elements of the Aeneid were based from other documents that existed at the time of composition I wasn't sure, hence the very obvious lampooning of the Aeneid not being an actual historical document when it was clear you were referencing things that actually happened for realisies guys.

You are technically right - 'superbus' in Latin more or less means 'exceesively proud'/'arrogant', and you can even intuit the correct stressing and pronunciation just from reading it, but at first glance it looks like someone forgot the space between super bus.
And that is somehow hilarious. Superbus and Manlius became running gags for months along with a few other interestingly named people.

LaZodiac

2013-09-25, 10:23 PM

Mynxae

2013-09-25, 10:25 PM

THE BEST NAME EVER.

*poses*

Yes your Smolderius-ness.:smalltongue:

Taet

2013-09-25, 10:34 PM

Yes your Smolderius-ness.:smalltongue:

Says someone who has his avatar on fire. :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2013-09-25, 10:37 PM

Yes your Smolderius-ness.:smalltongue:

Mwahahaha.

Also, just got back from seeing Insidious 2. Because my sister said she'd get me GTA5 if I went to see it with her and her friends.

GTA5 better be good :smalleek:

Haluesen

2013-09-25, 10:43 PM

I got my first two college papers back. My art history professor gave man an A- on my visual analysis and my FYS professor said I have "impeccable logic." :smallbiggrin:

Congratulations on your mighty mental success! :smallbiggrin: Hmm what is FYS? :smalltongue:

I should have remembered to do that. It doesn't matter right now though. My number has been skipped over. I don't have to go.

There was a lucky find. TIME magazine has a funny column in the back that I like to read. The last magazine it was talking about jury service in California and it was gentle and it explained why the people I knew and asked aren't the kinds of people who get picked for juries.

Well good then. Glad you were able to avoid it for now. :smallsmile:

Hmm, could you share with us why they wouldn't be picked for juries? Or am I prying too much? :smallconfused:

So I think I just found the most masculine name of all time in the middle of a Roman historical account. Gaius Manlius. His first name has the word "guy" in it, and his last name is just a Latiny sounding version of manly. I am in awe. He was even a centurion, which just makes him even cooler. I don't know who his parents were, but clearly they somehow knew modern English and decided to give him a really cool name.

Hehe that is rather intense. I shall need to borrow that name at some point maybe for a campaign, throw the MANLIEST NPC ever at the players, just see how things go. Design stats for him just in case they try to challenge his MANLINESS.

As a side mention, another very masculine name that I read online somewhere was Max Fightmaster. :smallbiggrin:

Mynxae

2013-09-25, 10:53 PM

Says someone who has his avatar on fire. :smalltongue:

That was only because my OC didn't know that dragonpuppies were so temperamental! :smalltongue:

Mwahahaha.

Ebil. *prods with a stick* :smallbiggrin:

Dimonite

2013-09-25, 11:28 PM

That was only because my OC didn't know that dragonpuppies were so temperamental! :smalltongue:

We aren't tempermental! Think of it this way - a regular puppy will affectionately nibble on your hand, not knowing that it hurts. In the same way, a dragonpuppy will warm your face with a low-intensity flame. However, since you are NOT its fireproof mother, the flame tends to scorch you a bit. :smalltongue:

Coidzor

2013-09-25, 11:33 PM

Mutant Sheep

2013-09-25, 11:57 PM

That was only because my OC didn't know that dragonpuppies were so temperamental! :smalltongue:

Ebil. *prods with a stick* :smallbiggrin:Bah. How could something so adorable be so volatile?:smalltongue: *attacks dragonpuppy with patented Belly Rub technique, waits for results*:smallbiggrin:

Ebil? Lala? Naaaaaaah.:smallwink:

We aren't tempermental! Think of it this way - a regular puppy will affectionately nibble on your hand, not knowing that it hurts. In the same way, a dragonpuppy will warm your face with a low-intensity flame. However, since you are NOT its fireproof mother, the flame tends to scorch you a bit. :smalltongue:Everything is Charmeleon.:smallamused::smallcool:

My only question is this. Can you make it into sushi?

What? :smallconfused::smallconfused::smalleek: IT IS A DRAGON. DRAGONS ARE STEAK. :smallfurious::smalltongue: (You cant have Prime Sushi!:smallbiggrin:)

Lala is a smouldering temptress, apperently. :smallamused: I have never heard smouldering used in any other terms.

Taet

2013-09-26, 12:30 AM

We aren't tempermental! Think of it this way - a regular puppy will affectionately nibble on your hand, not knowing that it hurts. In the same way, a dragonpuppy will warm your face with a low-intensity flame. However, since you are NOT its fireproof mother, the flame tends to scorch you a bit. :smalltongue:

This is so cute! :smallsmile:

Bah. How could something so adorable be so volatile?:smalltongue: *attacks dragonpuppy with patented Belly Rub technique, waits for results*:smallbiggrin:

:smallconfused::smalleek: IT IS A DRAGON. DRAGONS ARE STEAK. :smallfurious::smalltongue: (You cant have Prime Sushi!:smallbiggrin:

Tail wagging! :smallsmile:

Does that mean that a dragonborn avatar is made of steak too? :smalleek:

Hmm, could you share with us why they wouldn't be picked for juries? Or am I prying too much? :smallconfused:

I don't know if it was a joke or not but he wrote that "jury of your peers" is the important part. That the people who sit and hear the case should have something in common with the people in it. It is comforting. It's nothing wrong with us that my friends and I do not get called. The court just didn't need the help of retail workers or phone workers today or that day.

Mynxae

2013-09-26, 01:08 AM

What? :smallconfused:

I've seen a few pics of Zodi before. She just smolders. As in like.. Raw sexuality. She's just so gorgeous. :smalleek:

Coidzor

2013-09-26, 01:53 AM

:smallconfused::smalleek: IT IS A DRAGON. DRAGONS ARE STEAK. :smallfurious::smalltongue: (You cant have Prime Sushi!:smallbiggrin:)

Lala is a smouldering temptress, apperently. :smallamused: I have never heard smouldering used in any other terms.

Not with that kind of attitude, anyway. :smallamused:

Hmm... A temptress, you say?

I've seen a few pics of Zodi before. She just smolders. As in like.. Raw sexuality. She's just so gorgeous. :smalleek:

I didn't think you were into girls. :smallconfused: That's a whole lot of sexuality to be exuding then...

Dvil

2013-09-26, 02:56 AM

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b506/AmidusDrexel/Silly%20Drawings/Untitled_zpse3e744a0.png

A masterpiece!

I've seen a few pics of Zodi before. She just smolders. As in like.. Raw sexuality. She's just so gorgeous. :smalleek:

Yeah, it's true.

HalfTangible

2013-09-26, 03:24 AM

I've seen a few pics of Zodi before. She just smolders. As in like.. Raw sexuality. She's just so gorgeous. :smalleek:

*nodnodnod* She's smoking. It's insane.

I didn't think you were into girls. :smallconfused: That's a whole lot of sexuality to be exuding then...

I thought Mynx was bi :smallconfused: But i've been wrong about internet peeps before.

Teddy

2013-09-26, 04:17 AM

Oh Teddy, you posted while I was writing! Sorry if it seems that I missed you. :smallsmile:

Hehehe, don't worry! I've done it enough times myself to spot what's going on. Plus, your post was way too for you to have time writing it since after I posted... :smallwink:

As I also mentioned, I suffer from lag. My characters will be attacking and everyone will be using powers but they won't take effect in anywhere from a couple seconds to a minute or more. And with the tactics, my allies continue to try to use abilities over and over until they take effect, while wastes tons of stamina/mana. :smallmad: Or they will die when they suddenly take damage from all the attacks they have stood up to at once. That said, this is only a problem in area with tons and tons of enemies, or if I play for too long. But it made the end of the main campaign pure horridness. :smallfurious:

Yeah, I get that lag too. It's a bit annoying when you drop an area damage spell and half of the enemies manage to get outside of the area before the damage takes effect...

...Still I do like the characters, a lot. And the many choices available saves it for me. I'm big on lots of choice in games; hence why D&D and other tabletop games with lots of freedom are the best. :smallsmile:

Yeah, the characters were good. :3

Oh that does sounds beautiful! :smallredface: I used to live across the street from a small wooded area. There is one nearby where I live now but it is private property, so I can't truly enjoy such a display.

It's a firework best observed from afar, in my opinion.

Yeah, I can't say I get out much... I'm busy, human interaction is difficult, and other things grab my interest. I know some people on campus, but I'm normally too busy (or otherwise unavailable) to actually hang out with them.

Well, it's not like you haven't got several years of time left... :3

Well, you say 'interesting', but I think "Really? How long is this bit? Why can't I justify separating this into pieces?"

Still shorter than some of the pieces you've linked here... :smallwink::smallamused:

Worn out. I need a weekend after approximately three days of classes just about every week. I hope I don't get any more homework this week.

Hehehe, yeah, the university tempo is undeniably high...

*albafire*

Hehehe, almost exactly like I imagined it... :3

I thought Dr. Bath was the sea gull. There's more than one? Is it time to hide the french fries and other foods sea gulls love?

*checks Dvil's sig*
Oh, he's an albatross. Bath is indeed a sea gull, but also a pokémon...

Also, just got back from seeing Insidious 2. Because my sister said she'd get me GTA5 if I went to see it with her and her friends.

GTA5 better be good :smalleek:

Hehehe... :smallamused:

I read a review saying it was definitely good, but the reviewer was a bit disappointed by the lack of strong women and the fact that with such a big budget, they could've done an even better story...

Mynxae

2013-09-26, 05:30 AM

I didn't think you were into girls. :smallconfused: That's a whole lot of sexuality to be exuding then...

*nodnodnod* She's smoking. It's insane.

I thought Mynx was bi :smallconfused: But i've been wrong about internet peeps before.

I'm allowed to be bi-curious. :smallredface:

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 09:18 AM

I read a review saying it was definitely good, but the reviewer was a bit disappointed by the lack of strong women and the fact that with such a big budget, they could've done an even better story...

It's GTA, this doesn't surprise me XP

Also, concerning the "everyone fauns over Zodi" subject matter: :smallredface:

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 09:21 AM

Hehehe... :smallamused:

I read a review saying it was definitely good, but the reviewer was a bit disappointed by the lack of strong women and the fact that with such a big budget, they could've done an even better story...

GTA 5 was pretty good, up to a point.

The problem for me came at about a third of the way through when it railroaded me first into a mission out of the blue, and then railroaded me again into an interactive torture sequence where I had to torture information out of an innocent man if I wanted to proceed.

I stopped playing at that point.

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 09:28 AM

GTA 5 was pretty good, up to a point.

The problem for me came at about a third of the way through when it railroaded me first into a mission out of the blue, and then railroaded me again into an interactive torture sequence where I had to torture information out of an innocent man if I wanted to proceed.

I stopped playing at that point.

I heard of that. We'll see how I fair. I grew up with Vice City, and I had the edition that didn't remove all the heavy racism during the Haitians missions.

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 09:38 AM

I heard of that. We'll see how I fair. I grew up with Vice City, and I had the edition that didn't remove all the heavy racism during the Haitians missions.

If you can get through it, more power to you. To me it just came across as a combination of throwing something controversial in for shock value and trying to cover it up by saying "social commentary!" and the developers smugly sitting there saying "We know you'll do it. You don't want to stop playing."

Throw in that I don't think it was handled well for "social commentary" at all, and well, I felt no more desire to give the game any more of my attention.

If you want to address torture and it's effects on people, then do it. Don't throw it in and then go back to missions where you're killing hallucinatory clowns. There's more to real social commentary than adding a sitcom-style summary to the end of the episode.

Bah, I'm doing it again...this has been bugging me all week for a long list of reasons, many of which don't have anything to do with the game.

DraPrime

2013-09-26, 09:39 AM

is a smouldering temptress, apperently. :smallamused: I have never heard smouldering used in any other terms.

Smouldering ruins...smouldering volcanoes...the smouldering rage of Gaius Manlius. There are many uses.:smalltongue:

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 09:40 AM

Yeah... that's why I'm not looking for a job right now... I've barely got the mental capacity to do the schoolwork I've got, much less spend another 20 or so hours a week working. I might work over the summer.

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b506/AmidusDrexel/Silly%20Drawings/Untitled_zpse3e744a0.png

Ugh, work. I really would like to have some extra dosh so having a job would be ideal, but with my uni schedule it's absolutely impossible for me to consider it. I'm going to uni full time, and even thinking about having one shift a week is putting me off. Other people are capable of it, I'm not, it takes me a while to null my brain to keep myself sane. I should probably do the same as you and get a summer job, but buh... Gah, I'll probably get a job when I'm done with my placement next semester.

Damn it Amipoop, you beat me to it. :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Practice! And it was my understanding that most people suck at pool, and there's just a handful of people that are exceptionally good at it.

I'll trade you roommates. I have a hard time getting the room to myself except during the mornings on some days.

Subtle as bricks, the two of you. :smallamused:

Can either of you keep any secrets? :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Shut up Mr. I'm Good In Everything. :smallyuk:

I probably shouldn't ask what you need the room for if you need to be there all by yourself...

:smallamused: :smallcool:

Hey, she's the one blurting everything out. I have no chance to stop her, she lives on the other side of this world for me!

I'm allowed to be bi-curious. :smallredface:

I'm not bi-curious, but I still call women sexy if needed. One doesn't need to have any sexual or romantic desires over something to say someone's a hot mamacita. :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 09:47 AM

If you can get through it, more power to you. To me it just came across as a combination of throwing something controversial in for shock value and trying to cover it up by saying "social commentary!" and the developers smugly sitting there saying "We know you'll do it. You don't want to stop playing."

Throw in that I don't think it was handled well for "social commentary" at all, and well, I felt no more desire to give the game any more of my attention.

If you want to address torture and it's effects on people, then do it. Don't throw it in and then go back to missions where you're killing hallucinatory clowns. There's more to real social commentary than adding a sitcom-style summary to the end of the episode.

Bah, I'm doing it again...this has been bugging me all week for a long list of reasons, many of which don't have anything to do with the game.

Understandable. I'm...going to go out on a limb and say that since this is GTA, this is completely within the series wheelhouse. I've only ever actually played Vice City though, so I wouldn't know.

Hope whatever's bothering you clears up.

Dimonite

2013-09-26, 09:52 AM

I'll trade you roommates. I have a hard time getting the room to myself except during the mornings on some days.

... what on EARTH would I get out of that trade? :smalltongue:

My only question is this. Can you make it into sushi?

... If I understand that question correctly, the answer is no. Mostly because both of the dragonpuppy's parents (in this case an Irish setter and a red dragon) would rend you limb from limb for trying. And then set your limbs on fire. :smalltongue:

Bah. How could something so adorable be so volatile?:smalltongue: *attacks dragonpuppy with patented Belly Rub technique, waits for results*:smallbiggrin:

The dragonpuppy enjoys your belly rubs so much that it decides to help you out. Thinking you must be cold with just that wool and no flame inside to keep you warm, it sets you on fire.

This is so cute! :smallsmile:

This is the goal of dragonpuppies. :smalltongue:

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 10:07 AM

Understandable. I'm...going to go out on a limb and say that since this is GTA, this is completely within the series wheelhouse. I've only ever actually played Vice City though, so I wouldn't know.

Hope whatever's bothering you clears up.

Thanks.

I need to get back into Persona 3 or something. Clear all this out.

This is the goal of dragonpuppies. :smalltongue:

Part of me wants to hug it, but the GM in me wants to weaponize it to terrorize my players...

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 10:11 AM

Thanks.

I need to get back into Persona 3 or something. Clear all this out.

Yes, because that will be a much less traumatic game to play :smallamused:

(just teasin')

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 10:16 AM

Yes, because that will be a much less traumatic game to play :smallamused:

(just teasin')

Hush. :smalltongue:

It's the only thing I have left that I haven't beaten yet, and I'm bereft of anything new until Assassin's Creed: Black Flag and Arkham Origins comes out in about a month.

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 10:39 AM

Hush. :smalltongue:

It's the only thing I have left that I haven't beaten yet, and I'm bereft of anything new until Assassin's Creed: Black Flag and Arkham Origins comes out in about a month.

If you have a Wii U, get Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101. Those games are great.

randman22222

2013-09-26, 10:50 AM

What about older games (SNES generation and the one after)? I'm looking at catching up on a lot of the gaming I missed from those years. Stuff with really good story-telling. So far I'm looking at Suikoden, Xenogears, maybe some Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, and I also need to finally finish Earthbound. Anyone else got suggestions? Oh, and I don't know what gen it was, but I just ordered Beyond Good and Evil. Because that one's apparently good.

Feytalist

2013-09-26, 10:52 AM

Oh, and I don't know what gen it was, but I just ordered Beyond Good and Evil. Because that one's apparently good.

Dammit, I've always wanted to try that one.

Because, yeah, apparently it's good.

randman22222

2013-09-26, 11:01 AM

Dammit, I've always wanted to try that one.

Because, yeah, apparently it's good.

Ebay. I got it for L-with-squiggle 2.50 including P&P. :smallbiggrin:

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 11:06 AM

If you have a Wii U, get Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101. Those games are great.

Nah, just PS3 and PC. Had a Wii, but eventually we sold it because it just wasn't being used.

Thought about a WiiU, but I don't want another console to end up being sold due to disuse.

What about older games (SNES generation and the one after)? I'm looking at catching up on a lot of the gaming I missed from those years. Stuff with really good story-telling. So far I'm looking at Suikoden, Xenogears, maybe some Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, and I also need to finally finish Earthbound. Anyone else got suggestions? Oh, and I don't know what gen it was, but I just ordered Beyond Good and Evil. Because that one's apparently good.

Time to date myself and start talking about games that were good when I was growing up...

Grandia and Grandia 2 are PS-era games (well, Grandia 2 was Dreamcast, but there's a PS2 port). I only ever played Grandia 2, but I loved it. It had an innovative combat system that was much more involved than your average RPG.

Hybrid Heaven for the N64 was also pretty good, but hasn't aged well. The story was also pretty weak. This is one of those ones that I liked a lot but others didn't seem to.

You mentioned Wild Arms, number 3 is a very good one. The cel-shaded art is charming.

One the SNES front there's the ones that everyone talks about: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3 (6), Earthbound like you mentioned (probably my favorite). One you might not have looked into is the Lufia series. Particularly number 2. There's also Breath of Fire 1 and 2 for the SNES and the other sequels for the Playstation (be mindful of Dragon Quarter, though, it's a pretty different beast than the others).

Kneenibble

2013-09-26, 11:12 AM

How fare you today, yon budgie?
Is Winnipeg as cold as here?
(I would think 'tis colder yonder
In northlands in this time of year)
Ack, awkward meter change. I WILL STICK WITH MY EIGHT SYLLABLES, DAMMIT!

Now budgie perches on the flying tile
To rest his weary wings a little while
And discourse with the seated Amadou
Who snuck up on that budgie as he flew.
The fleece of clouds creeps gently by below
Illuminated by the dusk's red glow;
The gloam lays thick in Amadou's dark hair
Whose curls entrap the shadows waxing there.
"Lord summer overstays his welcome, friend,"
Says budgie, gazing on the day's red end;
"The northlands swelter, barely kissed with gold
"When autumn ought already blow with cold."
This news does not arrange a different face
On Amadou, although a little trace
Of discontentment twitches round his mouth.
"It similarly swelters in the south.
"You bring ill tidings, birdfriend, past repute:
"That overeager summer heats pollute
"The cleanliness and cooling of the fall,
"Our very favourite season of them all."
As sunset bleeds the coloured heavens dry
The friends in silence on the tile fly.
Against the perturbations of their hearts,
The company a solemn cheer imparts.

Ugh, work. I really would like to have some extra dosh so having a job would be ideal, but with my uni schedule it's absolutely impossible for me to consider it. I'm going to uni full time, and even thinking about having one shift a week is putting me off. Other people are capable of it, I'm not, it takes me a while to null my brain to keep myself sane. I should probably do the same as you and get a summer job, but buh... Gah, I'll probably get a job when I'm done with my placement next semester.

I don't mean this to be advice exactly, because surely there are benefits to getting some work experience: but I sorely wish I could have enjoyed the experience of just being a student. I had some job or another all the way through my undergrad and they detracted from each other: never quite able to fully sink my being into my studies, nor never quite able to appreciate the satisfaction of labour and the freedom to spend money. :smallyuk:

And so, Finnique, my non-advice is not to get a job. I forbid it. I have budgie agents crawling all over Scotland that will sabotage any attempt of yours to gain employment.

The dragonpuppy enjoys your belly rubs so much that it decides to help you out. Thinking you must be cold with just that wool and no flame inside to keep you warm, it sets you on fire.

Rrrrgh, he means so well and looks so cute and innocent... and yet I foresee much trouble from the little devil. That was my good nesting wool! ;___;

Coidzor

2013-09-26, 11:38 AM

... If I understand that question correctly, the answer is no. Mostly because both of the dragonpuppy's parents (in this case an Irish setter and a red dragon) would rend you limb from limb for trying. And then set your limbs on fire. :smalltongue:

An Irish Setter that's not half-brain dead from bad breeding practices? Pfft, what kind of gullible hayseed do you take me for? Everyone knows those are just imaginary. :smalltongue:

The dragonpuppy enjoys your belly rubs so much that it decides to help you out. Thinking you must be cold with just that wool and no flame inside to keep you warm, it sets you on fire.

Admittedly, both dogs and lizards aren't that good at thinking.

.This is the goal of dragonpuppies. :smalltongue:

I thought it was taking over the world in an unstoppable horde for the glory of Dimonitus.

Thanks.

I need to get back into Persona 3 or something. Clear all this out.

That does sound rather jarring from a game where you're taking selfies of yourself with people in the background taking selfies of themselves while the player is taking a selfie of themself with the selfie-ception in the background, yeah.

Sounds like a plan. :smallsmile:

Part of me wants to hug it, but the GM in me wants to weaponize it to terrorize my players...

I think that's the point, really. It's adorable and a source of utter mayhem and chaos. Unlike Swamp Dragons which are kind of disgusting and pitiable and a source of utter mayhem and chaos unless they last long enough to grow on you and then they can become cute in a kind of ugly way.

Also, concerning the "everyone fauns over Zodi" subject matter: :smallredface:

Where's that image of Sheep throwing Fauns at Teddy when I need it? :smalltongue:

I'm allowed to be bi-curious. :smallredface:

I suppose. I must just be misrecollecting some things, ah well. I'll just have to have my entire world view shatter to pieces or something. :smalltongue:

Ugh, work. I really would like to have some extra dosh so having a job would be ideal, but with my uni schedule it's absolutely impossible for me to consider it. I'm going to uni full time, and even thinking about having one shift a week is putting me off. Other people are capable of it, I'm not, it takes me a while to null my brain to keep myself sane. I should probably do the same as you and get a summer job, but buh... Gah, I'll probably get a job when I'm done with my placement next semester.

I probably shouldn't ask what you need the room for if you need to be there all by yourself...

Hey, she's the one blurting everything out. I have no chance to stop her, she lives on the other side of this world for me!

I'm not bi-curious, but I still call women sexy if needed. One doesn't need to have any sexual or romantic desires over something to say someone's a hot mamacita. :smalltongue:

Wuff. Good luck.

When in doubt, assume MAD SCIENCE! That's what I imagine whenever Teddy says things that I don't understand, anyway.

Isn't that part of the fun? :smallbiggrin:

Telling someone is sexy is one thing. Telling that someone is exuding raw animal sexuality is a whole other ball game. Or maybe I just have an erroneous connotation of one being affected by said raw animal sexuality that's being exuded if one is picking up on and commenting upon it. *shrug*

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-26, 12:04 PM

stuff stuff stuff stuff

CRISTO!

I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU IN YEARS!

How are you and her Ladyship?

ION:
So. Dinner tonight happens to be basketti bolognese and some pancake rolls left over from New Years Eve that we'd forgotten about. This will be an interesting dinner.

Actually, I like both of those things, and practise food type segregation at meals, so it'll be like two meals.
Besides, noodles and basketti are virtually the same thing.

Amidus Drexel

2013-09-26, 12:11 PM

So I think I just found the most masculine name of all time in the middle of a Roman historical account. Gaius Manlius. His first name has the word "guy" in it, and his last name is just a Latiny sounding version of manly. I am in awe. He was even a centurion, which just makes him even cooler. I don't know who his parents were, but clearly they somehow knew modern English and decided to give him a really cool name.

*snicker*

Yes your Smolderius-ness.:smalltongue:

Says someone who has his avatar on fire. :smalltongue:

...Do I need to draw Zodi on fire as well? :smallamused: :smalltongue:

I didn't think you were into girls. :smallconfused: That's a whole lot of sexuality to be exuding then...

He could always be bi-cu...

I'm allowed to be bi-curious. :smallredface:

Dammit, Mynx, I was saying that!

A masterpiece!

I am not well-known for my skill with visual arts, for reasons that should be obvious. :smallamused:

Well, it's not like you haven't got several years of time left... :3

Still shorter than some of the pieces you've linked here... :smallwink::smallamused:

Hehehe, yeah, the university tempo is undeniably high...

Hehehe, almost exactly like I imagined it... :3

I think, statistically speaking, it's a little less than that, but aye. :smallamused:

Well, I'm certainly not going to top Pink Lady Lemonade or any of the other AMT stuff I may have posted links to. :smalltongue:
That said, there should probably be a point where one separates things into tracks, or cuts down on the length of a specific bit to a more reasonable length compared to the rest of the bits in the piece... I suppose I'm just easily unsatisfied with my own work.

*nod* Indeed. Perhaps I should attempt a less demanding courseload next year. (although if I do, that'll very likely be at the expense of me being able to graduate in four years).

Well, hopefully you imagined it drawn better. :smalltongue:

Ugh, work. I really would like to have some extra dosh so having a job would be ideal, but with my uni schedule it's absolutely impossible for me to consider it. I'm going to uni full time, and even thinking about having one shift a week is putting me off. Other people are capable of it, I'm not, it takes me a while to null my brain to keep myself sane. I should probably do the same as you and get a summer job, but buh... Gah, I'll probably get a job when I'm done with my placement next semester.

Shut up Mr. I'm Good In Everything. :smallyuk:

I probably shouldn't ask what you need the room for if you need to be there all by yourself...

Hey, she's the one blurting everything out. I have no chance to stop her, she lives on the other side of this world for me!

Well, I say I mean to get a summer job, but I said that at the end of last year and that never happened, so... :smallamused:

Not everything. Hell, I'm not even especially good at pool.

:smallwink: :smallamused:

Heheheh :smallamused:

... what on EARTH would I get out of that trade? :smalltongue:

A roommate in your room, duh. :smalltongue:

What about older games (SNES generation and the one after)? I'm looking at catching up on a lot of the gaming I missed from those years. Stuff with really good story-telling. So far I'm looking at Suikoden, Xenogears, maybe some Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, and I also need to finally finish Earthbound. Anyone else got suggestions? Oh, and I don't know what gen it was, but I just ordered Beyond Good and Evil. Because that one's apparently good.

If you want good story-telling, Phantasy Star IV. Only game I've ever played that got a genuine emotional reaction out of me aside from frustration at repeatedly dying (that's PSII). Of course, that's for Genesis, but I'm sure you can find a port or an emulator if you don't have one.

Now budgie perches on the flying tile
To rest his weary wings a little while
And discourse with the seated Amadou
Who snuck up on that budgie as he flew.
The fleece of clouds creeps gently by below
Illuminated by the dusk's red glow;
The gloam lays thick in Amadou's dark hair
Whose curls entrap the shadows waxing there.
"Lord summer overstays his welcome, friend,"
Says budgie, gazing on the day's red end;
"The northlands swelter, barely kissed with gold
"When autumn ought already blow with cold."
This news does not arrange a different face
On Amadou, although a little trace
Of discontentment twitches round his mouth.
"It similarly swelters in the south.
"You bring ill tidings, birdfriend, past repute:
"That overeager summer heats pollute
"The cleanliness and cooling of the fall,
"Our very favourite season of them all."
As sunset bleeds the coloured heavens dry
The friends in silence on the tile fly.
Against the perturbations of their hearts,
The company a solemn cheer imparts.

I'll say that autumn came quite sharply
Unannounced and quite distinct
One day it was clearly summer
The next was cool and crisp - I mean
To say it always feels like autumn
As of now would be a lie
Some days (like today) are sunny
And others have clouds in the sky

Many days it rains or threatens
To, with marbled grey and white
Clouds, which linger to the twilight
Later seeing fit to hide
Have made life quite interesting
When they sometimes call for rains
Instead the clouds, content to linger
Stay the storm, and dry ground remains

(although not yesterday, I will add;
and though I am glad
for the rain, it was somewhat dull;
perhaps I was full
or simply tired of the wet).
I'd be willing to bet
That today's sunnier warmth too,
might have something to do
with the absence of clouds.
The dark grey shroud
is lifted, and replaced with a sheet of blue.
Today is warmer, 'tis true,
But I'd prefer it not,
For winter is my favorite season.
The others are just too hot.

Oh, god, that's the worst meter I've used in a while.

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 12:13 PM

CRISTO!

I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU IN YEARS!

How are you and her Ladyship?

I have been negilgent in showing up around here, haven't I. I blame the new working conditions.

Well, all things considered. Autumn and Winter are coming, though, and the cold seasons have been wreaking all sorts of unholy havoc with my mood the past few years.

I've a new job and soon I'll have a new brother-in-law. Nothing like your younger (I can't say little, she's been taller than me since she was 'bout 14) sister getting married to make you feel old. I like him, he reminds me a lot of the LLama.

Writing has...stopped. It's frustrating and depressing, but it's also a very real, very difficult block that won't go away. But other than the recent dramas everything's on the upside of good for the pair of us.

Dimonite

2013-09-26, 12:13 PM

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 01:04 PM

Wait a minute... how did you know about that plan? :smalleek:

Like does tend to recognize like.

I mean, we've all thought about creating ridiculously cute hybrids and using them to further our plans for world domination at some point, right?

...or is that just me?

Haluesen

2013-09-26, 01:16 PM

Hehehe, don't worry! I've done it enough times myself to spot what's going on. Plus, your post was way too for you to have time writing it since after I posted... :smallwink:

Ah, right then. :smallredface: Okay I am forgiven, yay!

Yeah, I get that lag too. It's a bit annoying when you drop an area damage spell and half of the enemies manage to get outside of the area before the damage takes effect...

Hmm not sure if I have had that specifically or not, though most likely. I used area effects rarely, unless that area was directly around my character (Whirlwind, Mind Blast, etc.).

Yeah, the characters were good. :3

Indeed! Which makes a lot of difference to me in games. :smallsmile:

As a small example, take Fallout New Vegas compared to Dragon Age Origins. Fallout doesn't have quite as many interesting characters, though there are some. To me both games are about on par with story decisions and character progression choice. Fallout is just more fun in terms of combat. :smallbiggrin: Again, just my opinion.

It's a firework best observed from afar, in my opinion.

Heh. I just looked out my window to see if maybe I could witness this anyway, seeing as how I live up on a hill. Then I realized that most of the trees are pine trees, and even the ones that aren't don't really have leaves that change pretty colors. :smallfrown: No firework for me.

I'm allowed to be bi-curious. :smallredface:

Indeed you are, don't let anyone say otherwise. :smalltongue: Not that anybody is saying otherwise, but you get my point.

Also, concerning the "everyone fauns over Zodi" subject matter: :smallredface:

It seems you have quite a following Zodi. :smallwink: Although it is sweet that so many find you beautiful.

Ugh, work. I really would like to have some extra dosh so having a job would be ideal, but with my uni schedule it's absolutely impossible for me to consider it. I'm going to uni full time, and even thinking about having one shift a week is putting me off. Other people are capable of it, I'm not, it takes me a while to null my brain to keep myself sane. I should probably do the same as you and get a summer job, but buh... Gah, I'll probably get a job when I'm done with my placement next semester.

Yikes, rough schedule. :smallsigh: I encourage your line of thinking, wait to get a job. Just not too much; don't put it off for ages like I have. How many hours is full time class? I'm basically in half time sorta, which is something like 5-10 hours a week I think.

I'm not bi-curious, but I still call women sexy if needed. One doesn't need to have any sexual or romantic desires over something to say someone's a hot mamacita. :smalltongue:

I can agree with this logic most heartily! :smallbiggrin: Beauty or handsomeness or what have you is a universal concept. I'm pretty sure I'm not bi, doesn't stop me from admiring men from time to time. Though I guess that is usually for different reasons than appearance...whatever it still counts!

Also though it is without the quoting, I do wish to say that Kneemes's and AmiDrex's poetry writing is absolutely baffling me, with you both deserve kudos for. :smallbiggrin:

And so ION: Well not much really. Been inspired to try to make a very out there highly interactive adventure for D&D but at the moment in the story I cannot appropriately add it in, so I will have some weeks to brainstorm and prepare for it.

Other than that getting into gear and doing schoolwork properly today, unlike my sort of tired studying I have done throughout the week So you know, hoping I get that well. And I WILL post a picture or two today, I am not letting myself slide on that. :smallannoyed:

So how is everyone else?

AtlanteanTroll

2013-09-26, 01:20 PM

Congratulations on your mighty mental success! :smallbiggrin: Hmm what is FYS? :smalltongue:
FYS stands for First Year Seminar. It's something liberal arts colleges are picking up in the states where you have a really small group of freshmen all in one class learning about very specific, and usually fun, topics.

Mine's about nuclear power and atomic weapons in fiction as opposes to real life. I have Watchmen and Astro Boy as required reading. :smallsmile:

Also, holy crap, Knee. That was wonderful. And I don't really like poetry.

ION: Japanese quiz tomorrow, followed with a katakana quiz on Monday and and Economics exam.

I'm afraid. I'm very afraid. :smallsigh:

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 02:14 PM

Mine's about nuclear power and atomic weapons in fiction as opposes to real life. I have Watchmen and Astro Boy as required reading. :smallsmile:

ION: Japanese quiz tomorrow, followed with a katakana quiz on Monday and and Economics exam.

I'm afraid. I'm very afraid. :smallsigh:

Good luck you're going to need it. A lot.

Also a subject that require you to read Astro Boy and Watchmen is amazing. You better read The World's Strongest Robot Arc. And then read Pluto, a redo of that arc from the guy who did 20th Century Boys and Monster (so a bloody genius).

Teddy

2013-09-26, 02:27 PM

Now budgie perches on the flying tile
To rest his weary wings a little while
And discourse with the seated Amadou
Who snuck up on that budgie as he flew.
The fleece of clouds creeps gently by below
Illuminated by the dusk's red glow;
The gloam lays thick in Amadou's dark hair
Whose curls entrap the shadows waxing there.
"Lord summer overstays his welcome, friend,"
Says budgie, gazing on the day's red end;
"The northlands swelter, barely kissed with gold
"When autumn ought already blow with cold."
This news does not arrange a different face
On Amadou, although a little trace
Of discontentment twitches round his mouth.
"It similarly swelters in the south.
"You bring ill tidings, birdfriend, past repute:
"That overeager summer heats pollute
"The cleanliness and cooling of the fall,
"Our very favourite season of them all."
As sunset bleeds the coloured heavens dry
The friends in silence on the tile fly.
Against the perturbations of their hearts,
The company a solemn cheer imparts.

A frozen voice brought from the east
On chill wind's back, from foreign beast:
"Speakst thou bird of but thine north
Our autumn marches ever forth
Blowing winds that bites your ear!"
Snivels cold-struck teddybear

Where's that image of Sheep throwing Fauns at Teddy when I need it? :smalltongue:

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When in doubt, assume MAD SCIENCE! That's what I imagine whenever Teddy says things that I don't understand, anyway.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm more of a mad engineer... :smallwink:

ION:
[basketti]

[more basketti]

Actually, I remember testing to see if this functionality was implemented a year or so ago, but it wasn't back then. Good to see it being in place now... :3

Also, "basketti"? What's the story behind this word? :smallcurious:

...Do I need to draw Zodi on fire as well? :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Yes. :smallinarguable:

I think, statistically speaking, it's a little less than that, but aye. :smallamused:

You have terrible college dropouts. :smallamused:

Well, I'm certainly not going to top Pink Lady Lemonade or any of the other AMT stuff I may have posted links to. :smalltongue:
That said, there should probably be a point where one separates things into tracks, or cuts down on the length of a specific bit to a more reasonable length compared to the rest of the bits in the piece... I suppose I'm just easily unsatisfied with my own work.

Well, for as long as you like it in the end... :3

Well, hopefully you imagined it drawn better. :smalltongue:

Hardly. :smallwink::smallamused:

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 02:39 PM

Teddy

2013-09-26, 02:44 PM

Ah, right then. :smallredface: Okay I am forgiven, yay!

See, now I did it as well! ;3

Hmm not sure if I have had that specifically or not, though most likely. I used area effects rarely, unless that area was directly around my character (Whirlwind, Mind Blast, etc.).

I played a mage who focused specifically on locking the enemies in place and dropping as much area damage on top of them as possible, so the effect was pretty notable to me...

Heh. I just looked out my window to see if maybe I could witness this anyway, seeing as how I live up on a hill. Then I realized that most of the trees are pine trees, and even the ones that aren't don't really have leaves that change pretty colors. :smallfrown: No firework for me.

Naww, that's too bad... :smallfrown:
*hugs*

Yikes, rough schedule. :smallsigh: I encourage your line of thinking, wait to get a job. Just not too much; don't put it off for ages like I have. How many hours is full time class? I'm basically in half time sorta, which is something like 5-10 hours a week I think.

Heh, full time over here is supposed to correspond to 40 hours of studies every week, but only 2/3rds of that comes in the form of scheduled activities, so closer to 27 hours.

And so ION: Well not much really. Been inspired to try to make a very out there highly interactive adventure for D&D but at the moment in the story I cannot appropriately add it in, so I will have some weeks to brainstorm and prepare for it.

Good luck! Sounds fun! :3

Other than that getting into gear and doing schoolwork properly today, unlike my sort of tired studying I have done throughout the week So you know, hoping I get that well. And I WILL post a picture or two today, I am not letting myself slide on that. :smallannoyed:

Ohh! I'm looking forward to it. :3

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 02:47 PM

EDIT2: OH CRAP HE JUST SAID "OH OOPS" this is not a nice thing to hear as a passenger!

Does that rank better or worse than "Time to put that mail-order license to good use!"?

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 02:48 PM

Does that rank better or worse than "Time to put that mail-order license to good use!"?

I don't know!

BUT THE PLANE IS CALLED PIPER IN THE PLAYGROUND

EDIT: Randman's telling me I shouldn't have eaten spicy food before getting on the plane.

WELL SORRY.

Now our pilot's complaining how he can't see through the cockpit.

EDIT2: We are at 9000 feet!

Rockphed

2013-09-26, 02:50 PM

That said: where would you even GET nitroglycerin?

From my grandmother. Where would you get nitroglycerin? :smallconfused:

As an update on my previous rant, I had a job interview yesterday! And it wasn't at Mcdonald's! So now I am going to do a jig.:smallamused: Or a happy dance.

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 02:56 PM

As an update on my previous rant, I had a job interview yesterday! And it wasn't at Mcdonald's! So now I am going to do a jig.:smallamused: Or a happy dance.

Good going! Where at?

Clearly some kind of booze-induced happy dance is in order.

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 02:56 PM

Me and Randman are soon to take off from Glasgow to East Midlands airport!

AAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.
FLIGHT SIMULATORS ARE COOL

EDIT: I HAVE TO STABILISE MY NOODLES IT'S KINDA HARD EATING IN THE BACK
EDIT2: OH CRAP HE JUST SAID "OH OOPS" this is not a nice thing to hear as a passenger!
EDIT3: WE'RE AT OVER 4000ft my noodles are splashing all over the place wharbgarbl

I don't know!

BUT THE PLANE IS CALLED PIPER IN THE PLAYGROUND

EDIT: Randman's telling me I shouldn't have eaten spicy food before getting on the plane.

WELL SORRY.

Now our pilot's complaining how he can't see through the cockpit.

EDIT2: We are at 9000 feet!

Oh dear! I hope everything's okay Finn! Also, you guys are lucky, being all able to meet up and stuff :smallbiggrin:

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 02:58 PM

Oh dear! I hope everything's okay Finn! Also, you guys are lucky, being all able to meet up and stuff :smallbiggrin:

Well I wouldn't exactly say we're meeting up, although he's not that many miles away from me... :smalltongue:

UPDATE: Randman has blindfolded me. I can't see where we're going. WHAT IS THIS BLACKNESS THAT SURROUNDS ME.

Haluesen

2013-09-26, 02:58 PM

FYS stands for First Year Seminar. It's something liberal arts colleges are picking up in the states where you have a really small group of freshmen all in one class learning about very specific, and usually fun, topics.

Mine's about nuclear power and atomic weapons in fiction as opposes to real life. I have Watchmen and Astro Boy as required reading. :smallsmile:

ION: Japanese quiz tomorrow, followed with a katakana quiz on Monday and and Economics exam.

I'm afraid. I'm very afraid. :smallsigh:

Huh, I have never heard of such a class. Sounds interesting though at least, and gotta love that required reading. :smallwink:

Oh geez so much. :smalleek: Just take it a bit at a time, and think "I got this." :smallbiggrin: Because you do.

Me and Randman are soon to take off from Glasgow to East Midlands airport!

AAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.
FLIGHT SIMULATORS ARE COOL

EDIT: I HAVE TO STABILISE MY NOODLES IT'S KINDA HARD EATING IN THE BACK
EDIT2: OH CRAP HE JUST SAID "OH OOPS" this is not a nice thing to hear as a passenger!
EDIT3: WE'RE AT OVER 4000ft my noodles are splashing all over the place wharbgarbl

Great! Have fun! :smallsmile: Hehe where is East Midlands? :smallbiggrin:

Yes you must. Definitely stabalize th-

Oh dear, no that is not. :smalleek: Um...hold on? :smalltongue:

Noodles at 4000 ft. Sounds like a potential comedy film title. :smallwink:

See, now I did it as well! ;3

Heh it's alright, these things happen. :smalltongue: I knew you would get to me when you could, you're sweet like that. :smallsmile:

I played a mage who focused specifically on locking the enemies in place and dropping as much area damage on top of them as possible, so the effect was pretty notable to me...

Eh yeah, I can see how that would happen more. :smalleek: It is a great strategy when it works...if it is any consolation. :smallwink: I prefer going with a dual-wielding rogue and just backstabbing enemies to doom, and then at higher level mixing in all those cool two-weapon talents. :smallbiggrin: But I always try almost every playstyle at least once in a game. Just not two-handed weapon combat. :smallannoyed:

Naww, that's too bad... :smallfrown:
*hugs*

It'll be okay. :smallsmile: I'm already enjoying the cooler weather over here. *hugs* So that is something good.

Heh, full time over here is supposed to correspond to 40 hours of studies every week, but only 2/3rds of that comes in the form of scheduled activities, so closer to 27 hours.

Ah okay then, thank you for the point of reference. :smallsmile: When I used to go on campus full time, I had one class a day, for 3 days a week, and each class was 4 hours...so about 12 hours, probably a little more. As for out of school time work, that varied. Most classes I could get everything done in class. When I couldn't... :smalleek:

Good luck! Sounds fun! :3

I guess so, I haven't even thought of what to do yet. :smalltongue: I'm sure something will come up. I am also looking at the pregenerated adventure I have for the 5.0 game, trying to familiarize myself with it, as well as planning some story elements to it and thinking of how to improve the monsters to actually make them a threat to my players.

Ohh! I'm looking forward to it. :3

Hmm well now I really can't let people down can I? :smallbiggrin:

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LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 02:59 PM

Well I wouldn't exactly say we're meeting up, although he's not that many miles away from me... :smalltongue:

UPDATE: Randman has blindfolded me. I can't see where we're going. WHAT IS THIS BLACKNESS THAT SURROUNDS ME.

I have no idea what is going on :smalleek:

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 03:01 PM

Noodles at 4000 ft. Sounds like a potential comedy film title. :smallwink:

Bwahahahaha

I have no idea what is going on :smalleek:

Randman has set the plane on autopilot and he also removed my blindfolds. He is now raging at the autopilot.

Rockphed

2013-09-26, 03:01 PM

Like does tend to recognize like.

I mean, we've all thought about creating ridiculously cute hybrids and using them to further our plans for world domination at some point, right?

...or is that just me?

My world domination plans include mutant squirrels. I think they would be cute.

Good going! Where at?

Clearly some kind of booze-induced happy dance is in order.

A local engineering firm. By local, I mean "a 20 minute drive in bad traffic from where I sit at this very moment."

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 03:02 PM

Randman has set the plane on autopilot and he also removed my blindfolds. He is now raging at the autopilot.

I assume you are playing a video game online with him or something. Also, I have no idea who Randman is other then "a guy on the forum" XP

Haluesen

2013-09-26, 03:05 PM

Bwahahahaha

Glad I could bring some laughs in the middle of all the craziness. :smallamused:

Randman has set the plane on autopilot and he also removed my blindfolds. He is now raging at the autopilot.[/QUOTE]

This combined with everything you said before just makes me wonder even more... :smalleek: You aren't gonna crash right? Or at least your noodles are safe?

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 03:07 PM

I assume you are playing a video game online with him or something. Also, I have no idea who Randman is other then "a guy on the forum" XP

Did you miss the white text? :smallwink:

Glad I could bring some laughs in the middle of all the craziness. :smallamused:

This combined with everything you said before just makes me wonder even more... :smalleek: You aren't gonna crash right? Or at least your noodles are safe?

THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER

I suppose not. He's now cooking, but apparently now someone's talking to him and we have to head to Manchester. Schucks!

I'm not getting any of Randman's pasta.

EDIT: OH SHEEZ OH SHEEZ THE AUTOPILOT ISN'T ALL THAT SMART thanks for the info and making me feel all safe Randman The Pilot

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 03:07 PM

My world domination plans include mutant squirrels. I think they would be cute.

Especially the all-black ones with the pointy fur-tufts on their ears.

A local engineering firm. By local, I mean "a 20 minute drive in bad traffic from where I sit at this very moment."

Awesome. Twenty minutes of bad traffic is a heck of a lot better than I've had to do. The highest was "2 hour train ride." That lasted all of one day.

Good luck!

I'm not getting any of Randman's pasta.

So...strange euphemism?

I'm voting strange euphemism. :smalltongue:

randman22222

2013-09-26, 03:09 PM

Don't expect any in flight service. This macaroni is all mine, Finn.

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 03:09 PM

Did you miss the white text? :smallwink:

Evidently yes :smalltongue:

Though I'm curious at how you're playing a flight simulator multiplayer. Unless it's just something I'm not understanding XP

Taet

2013-09-26, 03:24 PM

Well that explains why they are able to get wifi 4000 feet up. It doesn't explain the noodles though.

Cristo Meyers

2013-09-26, 03:27 PM

Well that explains why they are able to get wifi 4000 feet up. It doesn't explain the noodles though.

Actually I was able to get wifi on the last flight I took. Don't remember how they did it, precisely, but it was available.

Dimonite

2013-09-26, 03:32 PM

Like does tend to recognize like.

I mean, we've all thought about creating ridiculously cute hybrids and using them to further our plans for world domination at some point, right?

...or is that just me?

No, I do that all the time. My latest idea is chipmunk-bots.

ION: I thought I posted this here last night, but APPARENTLY NOT so:
I believe I've told you all about the time last year a squirrel attacked me. This incident has caused me to be wary of squirrels (and the SQUIRREL MAFIA which is a totally real thing and not all in my head). Anyway, yesterday as I was walking to the bus stop a squirrel made eye contact with me. I held the eye contact, as is my wont, but squirrels are very good at not blinking and eventually I turned away. Then I proceeded to the bus stop, where I was just in time to see the bus pull away. STUPID SQUIRREL MADE ME MISS MY BUS.

CurlyKitGirl

2013-09-26, 03:38 PM

I have been negilgent in showing up around here, haven't I. I blame the new working conditions.

Well, all things considered. Autumn and Winter are coming, though, and the cold seasons have been wreaking all sorts of unholy havoc with my mood the past few years.

I've a new job and soon I'll have a new brother-in-law. Nothing like your younger (I can't say little, she's been taller than me since she was 'bout 14) sister getting married to make you feel old. I like him, he reminds me a lot of the LLama.

Writing has...stopped. It's frustrating and depressing, but it's also a very real, very difficult block that won't go away. But other than the recent dramas everything's on the upside of good for the pair of us.

Congratulations to . . .Sister Meyers I suppose, though really that descriptor doesn't really work all things considered. And really? Like Llama? Well, at least you'll get along fine, a couple of relatives of mine are partners with/married to people I don't especially like and it's awkward.
Hmmm, the best way to defeat a particularly tenacious block is either to watch/read something absolutely amazing and creative and fun OR watch something that's utterly appalling, with little to no cohesion in any of the usual areas writers focus on. It shouldn't be dull either, as that would just kill you, but the events on-screen should be baffling or insane or outright confusing.

Actually, I remember testing to see if this functionality was implemented a year or so ago, but it wasn't back then. Good to see it being in place now... :3

Also, "basketti"? What's the story behind this word? :smallcurious:

Besides, it's easy enough to do. And it is quite fun; there's a thread over in the Complaints/Admin subsection that's just people posting spoilers to congratulate Rawhide on this feature.

Little Brother had the hardest time pronouncing 'spaghetti', he had a fifty percent success rate up until he was fifteen or so, and sometimes I still slip when I'm speaking stupidly fast. And earlier I was stuck in a queue with about half a dozen children, and they all decided to talk to me.
Not sure why though. :smallconfused:
And so basketti, because nostalgia, and children and it's somewhat adorable.

Also, I still say blapple and apple instead of 'blackberry and apple'.

randman22222

2013-09-26, 03:41 PM

This is captain randman speaking, letting the passenger know that that sound was the landing gear, which I forgot to retract. In other news, we are on course to arrive in about 45 minutes.

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 03:42 PM

Congratulations to . . .Sister Meyers I suppose, though really that descriptor doesn't really work all things considered. And really? Like Llama? Well, at least you'll get along fine, a couple of relatives of mine are partners with/married to people I don't especially like and it's awkward.
Hmmm, the best way to defeat a particularly tenacious block is either to watch/read something absolutely amazing and creative and fun OR watch something that's utterly appalling, with little to no cohesion in any of the usual areas writers focus on. It shouldn't be dull either, as that would just kill you, but the events on-screen should be baffling or insane or outright confusing.

Besides, it's easy enough to do. And it is quite fun; there's a thread over in the Complaints/Admin subsection that's just people posting spoilers to congratulate Rawhide on this feature.

Little Brother had the hardest time pronouncing 'spaghetti', he had a fifty percent success rate up until he was fifteen or so, and sometimes I still slip when I'm speaking stupidly fast. And earlier I was stuck in a queue with about half a dozen children, and they all decided to talk to me.
Not sure why though. :smallconfused:
And so basketti, because nostalgia, and children and it's somewhat adorable.

Also, I still say blapple and apple instead of 'blackberry and apple'.

It's quite an interesting feature! I wonder how good it works...

Snape kills Dumbledore

Dang, you can't colour the text inside the spoiler box. Cool though!

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 03:50 PM

It's really hard to bake in a plane!

There has been many ups and downs.

For example, I forgot to put the seatbelt on. Turbulence was interesting. The buns were flying all over the place.

Landing in 20 minutes.

EDIT: Seatbelt wasn't any help. It's broken. WHY THE HELL did Randman purchase this plane from the Soviets?!
EDIT2: Our pilot is a liar. Apparently landing will not be in 20 minutes. I'm not sure where he's taking me. HAS HE KIDNAPPED ME?! :smalleek:
EDIT3: THE BLINDFOLD IS BACK ON OH DEAR NOES

Haluesen

2013-09-26, 03:58 PM

THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER

I suppose not. He's now cooking, but apparently now someone's talking to him and we have to head to Manchester. Schucks!

I'm not getting any of Randman's pasta.

EDIT: OH SHEEZ OH SHEEZ THE AUTOPILOT ISN'T ALL THAT SMART thanks for the info and making me feel all safe Randman The Pilot

It's really hard to bake in a plane!

There has been many ups and downs.

For example, I forgot to put the seatbelt on. Turbulence was interesting. The buns were flying all over the place.

Landing in 20 minutes.

EDIT: Seatbelt wasn't any help. It's broken. WHY THE HELL did Randman purchase this plane from the Soviets?!
EDIT2: Our pilot is a liar. Apparently landing will not be in 20 minutes. I'm not sure where he's taking me. HAS HE KIDNAPPED ME?! :smalleek:
EDIT3: THE BLINDFOLD IS BACK ON OH DEAR NOES

I can't even see what is going on and this is still pure comedy. :smallamused: It is very much a laughing matter Finnyfriend. But I am not absolutely malicious. I do wish for things to work out better and for you to be unblindfolded.

OH NO THE BUNS! :smalleek:

ION: I thought I posted this here last night, but APPARENTLY NOT so:
I believe I've told you all about the time last year a squirrel attacked me. This incident has caused me to be wary of squirrels (and the SQUIRREL MAFIA which is a totally real thing and not all in my head). Anyway, yesterday as I was walking to the bus stop a squirrel made eye contact with me. I held the eye contact, as is my wont, but squirrels are very good at not blinking and eventually I turned away. Then I proceeded to the bus stop, where I was just in time to see the bus pull away. STUPID SQUIRREL MADE ME MISS MY BUS.

Aww poor Dimontastic. :smallfrown: Those terrible squirrels. I believe you on their deviousness. *offer hugs*

Hehe thanks for showing me that this is possible. :smallamused:

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 04:00 PM

Randman says we're going down to 3800 feet I have no idea what's going on EVERYTHING IS DARK AROUND ME. HALP.

Flight simulation is SO MUCH FUN.

EDIT: BAD NEWS HE SAYS. "I didn't crash per se, but I didn't slow down whilst landing..."

Rockphed

2013-09-26, 04:02 PM

No, I do that all the time. My latest idea is chipmunk-bots.

ION: I thought I posted this here last night, but APPARENTLY NOT so:
I believe I've told you all about the time last year a squirrel attacked me. This incident has caused me to be wary of squirrels (and the SQUIRREL MAFIA which is a totally real thing and not all in my head). Anyway, yesterday as I was walking to the bus stop a squirrel made eye contact with me. I held the eye contact, as is my wont, but squirrels are very good at not blinking and eventually I turned away. Then I proceeded to the bus stop, where I was just in time to see the bus pull away. STUPID SQUIRREL MADE ME MISS MY BUS.

The Squirrel Mob would not be pleased with your assertion of their existence, if they existed. They do not. You will take an all expenses paid vacation to lake Lao Gai if your persist in your assertion of existence of the squirrel mafia.

randman22222

2013-09-26, 04:05 PM

Sorry about that, folks. This plane isn't built like the ones they gave us in the RAF. That sound was the engine misfiring, I'd say... many times. When I tell you to brace, do so.

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 04:06 PM

Sorry about that, folks. This plane isn't built like the ones they gave us in the RAF. That sound was the engine misfiring, I'd say... many times. When I tell you to brace, do so.

So... when's our funeral?

Rockphed

2013-09-26, 04:08 PM

STOP LYING DOWN ON THE JOB FINN! YOU ARE GOING TO FIRE THAT PLANE BACK UP AND TAKE IT AROUND FOR ANOTHER PASS, or so help me, NEXT FLIGHT'S REFRESHMENT WILL BE YOUR LIVER!

Also, only winners get funerals at camp No-Fun-At-All! Go back and show physics who's boss!:smallfurious:

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 04:09 PM

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 04:10 PM

Jeez, everyone's having fun with this airplane thing :smalltongue:

randman22222

2013-09-26, 04:14 PM

For those who are curious, this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overspeed_%28aircraft%29) is what I just did.

LaZodiac

2013-09-26, 04:16 PM

For those who are curious, this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overspeed_%28aircraft%29) is what I just did.

That's not exactly what I'd call an explanation, but okay.

FinnLassie

2013-09-26, 04:16 PM

Note to self: think twice boarding Randman's plane when he has a proper licence.

Thufir

2013-09-26, 04:20 PM

I slightly ruined a song in The Mikado this rehearsal! Apparently I have some sort of issue with Pitti-Sing's shoes.