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Thufir

2019-10-08, 05:31 PM

I emerge from my habitual lurking to claim my third victim Random Banter thread, an unmatched and utterly pointless triumph!

*Ahem* Welcome to Random Banter, where the banter is random, and... well, that's pretty much it, aside from:

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

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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)
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The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
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ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
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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)
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Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
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The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
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Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
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Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
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North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
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Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
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Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
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I don't know if we were talking about anything in particular in the old thread, but then the beauty of Random Banter is that doesn't really matter anyway. Go forth and converse!

LaZodiac

2019-10-08, 05:34 PM

Ah, a third lap around the sun for you Thufir. What's it like to be a Forum Oldite?

Tvtyrant

2019-10-08, 05:41 PM

We shall Thufir for this thread, I fear.

Thufir

2019-10-08, 05:45 PM

Ah, a third lap around the sun for you Thufir. What's it like to be a Forum Oldite?

Lonely. The people I knew well on the forus mostly aren't around any more, which is why I mostly just lurk nowadays.

LaZodiac

2019-10-08, 05:56 PM

Lonely. The people I knew well on the forus mostly aren't around any more, which is why I mostly just lurk nowadays.

The solution to this is to be active and become known to new people. Given the internet's way of accelerating time it's like practice for becoming an immortal. Friends come and go, but you'll always have new people to meet and greet.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-08, 06:04 PM

I love homebrewing D&D. It's very creative to do for my spare time if I have nothing else to do. :smile:

DataNinja

2019-10-08, 09:33 PM

All I know is that we were talking about me being spared the Wrath of Peelee™ because he has the moderating influence of marriage. Or something to that regard. Probably. Also something something Wookiees. :smalltongue:

It always comes back to Star Wars around here, doesn't it.

Peelee

2019-10-08, 09:35 PM

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-08, 09:37 PM

Are you saying I married a Wookiee?

Wait I thought you married a dragon? :confused:

flat_footed

2019-10-08, 09:40 PM

Are you saying I married a Wookiee?

Can confirm, Peelee did in fact marry a Wookiee. Mostly for fear of limb rending, but I digress.

Peelee

2019-10-08, 09:41 PM

Can confirm, Peelee did in fact marry a Wookiee. Mostly for fear of limb rending, but I digress.

Look, I'll be the first to admit that her hair does need to get cleaned out of the vacuum frighteningly often, but it's not that bad!

flat_footed

2019-10-08, 09:43 PM

Look, I'll be the first to admit that her hair does need to get cleaned out of the vacuum frighteningly often, but it's not that bad!

Hey man, you can't deny photographic evidence:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/3e3107e367713c2657cfb336ad47224e/tumblr_nu7yinnWEL1r03qe4o1_1280.jpg

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-08, 09:45 PM

So Peelee isn't a dragon at all? :frown:

DataNinja

2019-10-08, 09:49 PM

Are you saying I married a Wookiee?

No, there was no semicolon there. The thoughts were entirely unrelated! Also, none of my business about your relations. Though, it would explain the pedantry about it. :smalltongue:

Look, I'll be the first to admit that her hair does need to get cleaned out of the vacuum frighteningly often, but it's not that bad!

Ugh, I hate vacuum hair... At least mine's easy to spot since it's pink.

flat_footed

2019-10-08, 09:49 PM

So Peelee isn't a dragon at all? :frown:

Silver Dragons have been known to take the form of their loved ones from time to time, so it is with great delight that I can confirm Peelee is in fact a dragon. A Wookiee at times, admittedly, but still a dragon at heart.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-08, 09:52 PM

Silver Dragons have been known to take the form of their loved ones from time to time, so it is with great delight that I can confirm Peelee is in fact a dragon. A Wookiee at times, admittedly, but still a dragon at heart.

Ok thank you for telling me this new information. :smile:

Algeh

2019-10-08, 09:53 PM

Ugh, I hate vacuum hair... At least mine's easy to spot since it's pink.

I seem to have solved the vacuum hair problem by buying a Dyson stick vacuum instead of something with revolving brush heads and a belt I can break. Or by avoiding vacuuming entirely far too much of the time until the hair forms tumbleweeds that I can just pick up and throw away. One of the two.

DataNinja

2019-10-08, 10:02 PM

I seem to have solved the vacuum hair problem by buying a Dyson stick vacuum instead of something with revolving brush heads and a belt I can break. Or by avoiding vacuuming entirely far too much of the time until the hair forms tumbleweeds that I can just pick up and throw away. One of the two.

Sounds smart, but the first is unfortunately not in the cards, and I can't stand letting it get messy enough for the second. But, at least you've got it all figured out. :smalltongue:

Peelee

2019-10-08, 10:44 PM

Hey man, you can't deny photographic evidence:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/3e3107e367713c2657cfb336ad47224e/tumblr_nu7yinnWEL1r03qe4o1_1280.jpg
Photoshop hack job. I only wear grey suits.

I seem to have solved the vacuum hair problem by buying a Dyson stick vacuum instead of something with revolving brush heads and a belt I can break. Or by avoiding vacuuming entirely far too much of the time until the hair forms tumbleweeds that I can just pick up and throw away. One of the two.
Dyson animal model has the brush heads, unfortunately.

HalfTangible

2019-10-08, 10:46 PM

The solution to this is to be active and become known to new people. Given the internet's way of accelerating time it's like practice for becoming an immortal. Friends come and go, but you'll always have new people to meet and greet.

Lonely. The people I knew well on the forus mostly aren't around any more, which is why I mostly just lurk nowadays.

What Zodi said.

Though I'll note most of the friends I have from the boards, I found doing other stuff. Roleplaying, mostly. Get friends from mutual hobbies.

Mystic Muse

2019-10-08, 10:52 PM

Photoshop hack job. I only wear grey suits.

You could also be the one in the white dress.:smalltongue:

Peelee

2019-10-08, 11:09 PM

You could also be the one in the white dress.:smalltongue:

I only wear grey dresses, too. :smallamused:

HalfTangible

2019-10-08, 11:12 PM

You could also be the one in the white dress.:smalltongue:

No he couldn't. He said he only wears gray suits. :smallconfused:

Mystic Muse

2019-10-08, 11:16 PM

I only wear grey dresses, too. :smallamused:

No he couldn't. He said he only wears gray suits. :smallconfused:

Or did he? :smalltongue:

(I'm just being silly regardless.)

DataNinja

2019-10-08, 11:18 PM

Or did he? :smalltongue:

(I'm just being silly regardless.)

Regardless, the world can always use more dresses. And skirts. :smalltongue:

Peelee

2019-10-08, 11:19 PM

Rare picture of the Peelee (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dcanimated/images/1/11/The_Ghost_in_Gray.png/revision/latest?cb=20150809153301).

HalfTangible

2019-10-08, 11:35 PM

Regardless, the world can always use more dresses. And skirts. :smalltongue:

Not disagreeing.

Hehe.

Insane Jeenyus

2019-10-09, 12:00 AM

I look horrid in a dress or skirt. Its something to do with hairy paws and my tail.

HalfTangible

2019-10-09, 12:03 AM

I look horrid in a dress or skirt. Its something to do with hairy paws and my tail.

I haven't worn anything but t-shirts, shorts, power armor and the occasional suit for years.

I have one button-up shirt that I got when I was literally unable to pull on a shirt over my head because of surgery

FinnLassie

2019-10-09, 06:58 AM

I'd love to post more on the forum, but there isn't really time in my life for that anymore. So many things keep me busy, and basically I have no energy to follow conversations or take part in them. So nowadays I just pop in to say hullo and give some updates about my life.

LaZodiac

2019-10-09, 07:24 AM

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-09, 02:38 PM

Trust me there is nothing of value past the canon stuff the original FMA anime covers. There's a scene where a bad guy throws a child into the air and shoots it to create a portal to real world ass WW2 Germany.

Wait, what? I knew the second half was supposed to be a thing, but what?

I mean, I'm fairly certain that was the level of 'edgy' I used in my teens.

"Um, I appear to have lost my house" is the best line. Anyway yeah you can absolutely make someone like Hohenheim! He's actually a pretty simple character, but to write someone like him you have to take the risk. And I say take it! Which reminds me, do you want to read my manuscript? It might be fun.

That sounds like a win to me.

Hohenheim is one of my inspirations for mentor characters. They used to be all grim and serious, and now they tend to be a tad airheaded and potentially going senile (not that Hohenheim does, but most of my mentors don't have his enhancements). A lot of what makes Hohenheim great though is that he's this great big good figure, who is directly involved in the plan to defeat the bad guy (instrumental in fact), isn't quite there, and is a legitimately good person with a bundle of flaws.

And I would, read your manuscript, but I'm a) not certain I'd remember to get back to you about it and b) would likely have to convert it into a kindle-friendly format before I'd get round to reading it. I'll stick to waiting until it comes out and I can help it grace the bestseller's list (heck, the only reason I'm not telling everybody here to subscribe to my friend's Soundcloud is that I'm respecting her privacy).

flat_footed

2019-10-09, 02:50 PM

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-09, 08:19 PM

I'm so bored right now. There's nothing to do anymore. :frown:

Tvtyrant

2019-10-09, 08:27 PM

I'm so bored right now. There's nothing to do anymore. :frown:

Have you read the Animorphs? If not you could give that a try.

Thufir

2019-10-09, 08:27 PM

The solution to this is to be active and become known to new people. Given the internet's way of accelerating time it's like practice for becoming an immortal. Friends come and go, but you'll always have new people to meet and greet.

What Zodi said.

Though I'll note most of the friends I have from the boards, I found doing other stuff. Roleplaying, mostly. Get friends from mutual hobbies.

I realise this was unclear from what I initially said, but I just meant it's lonely on the forums. I still have friends IRL and in other parts of the internet.

I'd love to post more on the forum, but there isn't really time in my life for that anymore. So many things keep me busy, and basically I have no energy to follow conversations or take part in them. So nowadays I just pop in to say hullo and give some updates about my life.

This is also somewhat me, only I don't tend to do the "updates about my life" part.

Re: FMA, I like *most* of the original anime, but a lot of it definitely went off the rails towards the end. I really need to watch Brotherhood at some point.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-09, 08:29 PM

Have you read the Animorphs? If not you could give that a try.

I never read the Animorphs books. But I've watch the Animorphs TV show. :smile:

Qwertystop

2019-10-09, 09:40 PM

Peelee

2019-10-09, 10:26 PM

Also me, except I don't often have things to say.

I can't remember the last time I had anything to say, but that hasn't stopped me!:smalltongue:

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 06:50 AM

Yeah... FMA goes into some pretty crazy places. FMA Brotherhood is head and shoulders above it in almost every respect. The original's ending left me very happy I had seen Brotherhood first.

I'll take the warning.

I suppose the filler beginning in Episode 4 should have been a bad sign.

I'm so bored right now. There's nothing to do anymore. :frown:

Watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! Or something else fun.

Or read a book! I can recommend a few.

I just went to the gym. It feels great to be exercising again, although I have realised I'm nowhere near as in shape as I used to be.

I'd forgotten how the locker room is actually the least embarrassing part of the gym. Everywhere else I'm worried if I'm using the machines/weights correctly, if people are judging the clothes I've decided to exercise in, if the weights I'm using ate heavy enough, and so on.

But it's just a fact that if you want to shower in the locker room then you have to be naked, and when drying yourself off afterwards it's practically impossible to ensure you're always covered, so it's easier to just accept everybody has something between their legs, get showered and dressed, and Jay not give a **** if anybody sees or disapproves.

Also, I hate sports.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 07:47 AM

I'll take the warning.

I suppose the filler beginning in Episode 4 should have been a bad sign.

Watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! Or something else fun.

Or read a book! I can recommend a few.

I just went to the gym. It feels great to be exercising again, although I have realised I'm nowhere near as in shape as I used to be.

I'd forgotten how the locker room is actually the least embarrassing part of the gym. Everywhere else I'm worried if I'm using the machines/weights correctly if people are judging the clothes I've decided to exercise in, if the weights I'm using ate heavy enough, and so on.

But it's just a fact that if you want to shower in the locker room then you have to be naked, and when drying yourself off afterwards it's practically impossible to ensure you're always covered, so it's easier to just accept everybody has something between their legs, get showered and dressed, and Jay not give a **** if anybody sees or disapproves.

Also, I hate sports.
I'm homebrewing D&D 3.5 Deities so that something to keep me busy. :smile:

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 07:58 AM

Wait, what? I knew the second half was supposed to be a thing, but what?

I mean, I'm fairly certain that was the level of 'edgy' I used in my teens.

Hohenheim is one of my inspirations for mentor characters. They used to be all grim and serious, and now they tend to be a tad airheaded and potentially going senile (not that Hohenheim does, but most of my mentors don't have his enhancements). A lot of what makes Hohenheim great though is that he's this great big good figure, who is directly involved in the plan to defeat the bad guy (instrumental in fact), isn't quite there, and is a legitimately good person with a bundle of flaws.

And I would, read your manuscript, but I'm a) not certain I'd remember to get back to you about it and b) would likely have to convert it into a kindle-friendly format before I'd get round to reading it. I'll stick to waiting until it comes out and I can help it grace the bestseller's list (heck, the only reason I'm not telling everybody here to subscribe to my friend's Soundcloud is that I'm respecting her privacy).

Yeah the original FMA anime is Real Bad. I didn't even give you the details of who the baby in question is, which makes it like ten times worse. I'll put it in another set of spoiler tags to be sure; It's Rose's baby, from the start of the series. You know that cute and wonderful girl who Ed and Al help out in a sort of tragic way? Turns out in this universe, during the riots caused by their religion being faked she was raped and had a baby! The main bad guy throws that baby into the sky and shoots it, causing a big flash of light that teleports everyone into WW2 Germany, where we get to see all of our favorite characters as nazi's because "Amestria is obviously German parallel so we should make Hughes, everyone's favorite character and the nicest man on earth, into a cold blooded nazi."

All of this is because in the original FMA anime, alchemy actually used souls of humans from the other world and the increase in alchemists coincide with WW2.

Legitimately good person who is also deeply flawed is a wonderful way to put Hohenheim, who despite being gone for years from his children is still able to recognize them even though they've changed so much. Eat **** Sasuke.

That's understandable, and thanks for the confidence :smallsmile:

Kyrell1978

2019-10-10, 08:03 AM

So a friend of mine made an RPG about a comic book he's been independently publishing for several years now.
https://books.google.com/books?id=NRZqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA317&lpg=PA317&dq=sword+and+shield+ronnie+forschen&source=bl&ots=oqp-BWF4Jq&sig=ACfU3U0kvOR7BKXGkxjBE-PwzQ88CCqvFg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1qeam1pHlAhUJKa0KHbXECq4Q6AEwFHoECAkQA Q&fbclid=IwAR1IlVO2v2HahetSfKwznoxrdSc6_XupFHAK57ocP mYqZpu63W8-qwKzU6o#v=onepage&q=sword%20and%20shield%20ronnie%20forschen&f=false

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 08:08 AM

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 10:12 AM

Yesterday I bought Strawberry Milk 2 Go, one of my favorite drinks to have because it's just really nice and convenient to have strawberry milk in a personal bottle. However, after noticing the taste was slightly different I inspected the bottle to find that, while still strawberry flavored, the milk was white!!! This is of course not that big a deal, but a funny story none the less. I decided, as a laugh, to email Saputo, the parent company that makes Milk 2 Go, about this error, and ask for a pink one please.

Their response is that they're removing the pink from Strawberry Milk 2 Go, since they changed the formula to remove artificial flavorings and colourings and it's easier to leave it white instead of find a way to make it pink. THIS is an utter travesty of the highest order and I will not stand for it. So, in the standard Canadian way, I have sent them a letter. I have provided it below because I think you'll all get a kick out of it.

Good morning,

I humbly request you put the pink back. I believe that your product is inferior due to the lack of pink colouration.

While I do understand the desire to remove artificial flavoring and colouring to your product, and applaud such an action, I feel it is an important aspect of this product for the milk to be coloured pink. It is vital to the experience to kids, who can make pretend of pink cows or make bad Pepto Bismal jokes, and a refreshing reminder of days long past for adults.

The pink colour to the milk is more than just a visual aid that it is strawberry flavored, it is a symbol of youth and imagination that brings even the slightest bit of fun back to this dark, dreary world we’re currently in. I would recommend that you find a way to reintroduce the pink colouration to the product, as that image of fun, happy times should be preserved.

As well, to put it bluntly; I don’t imagine you’d do this with chocolate milk, so why strawberry?

Peelee

2019-10-10, 10:13 AM

Yesterday I bought Strawberry Milk 2 Go, one of my favorite drinks to have because it's just really nice and convenient to have strawberry milk in a personal bottle.

I thought y'all liked your milk in bags.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 10:15 AM

I thought y'all liked your milk in bags.

I've never actually seen milk in a bag, that's usually reserved for the communities that don't have refrigeration as an option in their stores. And it's not like, WET milk, it's dried milk.

Regardless that part was a personal comment and not to be taken as a primary Canadian thing (though personal bottle sized milk containers are great, buy them).

Peelee

2019-10-10, 10:20 AM

I've never actually seen milk in a bag, that's usually reserved for the communities that don't have refrigeration as an option in their stores. And it's not like, WET milk, it's dried milk.
Imean, you're the one actually living there, so I don't want to cast aspersions, but Google tells me otherwise (https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNRvgc6A94rWLgutKOTk0Fr-X4OUmQ%3A1570720696917&source=hp&ei=uEufXeS2NIvQsAWd3rygBQ&q=canadian+milk&oq=canadian&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.35i39l2j0i20i263j0i67l2j0i131j0i67l4.735.16 66..2520...0.0..0.139.836.5j3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0.K11sYpqjBNs).

Regardless that part was a personal comment and not to be taken as a primary Canadian thing (though personal bottle sized milk containers are great, buy them).
I know, but I think I'm funny.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 10:26 AM

Imean, you're the one actually living there, so I don't want to cast aspersions, but Google tells me otherwise (https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNRvgc6A94rWLgutKOTk0Fr-X4OUmQ%3A1570720696917&source=hp&ei=uEufXeS2NIvQsAWd3rygBQ&q=canadian+milk&oq=canadian&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.35i39l2j0i20i263j0i67l2j0i131j0i67l4.735.16 66..2520...0.0..0.139.836.5j3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0.K11sYpqjBNs).

I know, but I think I'm funny.

Okay fair I was thinking of canned milk. Anyway I've never seen bagged milk before because, as one of the links to explain it said, it's mostly a maritimes and Ontario/Quebec thing. So the weird parts of Canada. I really have to specificy that I have never so much as interacted with a bag of milk.

You are funny but I think my thing is funnier.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 11:16 AM

I'm homebrewing D&D 3.5 Deities so that something to keep me busy. :smile:

That's cool, I'm using Fuzion to try to homebrew a better system for a couple of my settings (one a relatively low magic fantasy one*, one quite high tech SF).

* Done via magic being inconvinient rather than anything else. Most spells need various material components and rituals, with healing and divination being the simplest magic to perform.

Yeah the original FMA anime is Real Bad. I didn't even give you the details of who the baby in question is, which makes it like ten times worse. I'll put it in another set of spoiler tags to be sure; It's Rose's baby, from the start of the series. You know that cute and wonderful girl who Ed and Al help out in a sort of tragic way? Turns out in this universe, during the riots caused by their religion being faked she was raped and had a baby! The main bad guy throws that baby into the sky and shoots it, causing a big flash of light that teleports everyone into WW2 Germany, where we get to see all of our favorite characters as nazi's because "Amestria is obviously German parallel so we should make Hughes, everyone's favorite character and the nicest man on earth, into a cold blooded nazi."

All of this is because in the original FMA anime, alchemy actually used souls of humans from the other world and the increase in alchemists coincide with WW2.

Wait, what? It sounds more like a poorly-written attempt at comedy than a dramatic scene.

Also, technology-wise they're a little too early for that IIRC, and assuming synchronised calanders (a big stretch) they're about a decade too early. The late imperial or early republican era would have made a lot more sense. I should have remembered this last night, but that era really isn't suitable beyond the Bradley=you know who correlations (and even then they're not overly great ones).

On the last line, that idea actually sounds like a good one. Maybe I'll add it to my fantasy setting, souls who don't get into an afterlife form a halo of power around the world, to be slowly drained of their energy to power magic.

Legitimately good person who is also deeply flawed is a wonderful way to put Hohenheim, who despite being gone for years from his children is still able to recognize them even though they've changed so much. Eat **** Sasuke.

Hohenhiem really wants to be a good father, but is struggling both with his own emotional damage and the fact he realises he has to leave his family to stop a massive tragedy. And when he meets them again his interactions are awkward, but he's clearly trying to be the best father he can be and just wants to spend time raising his kids (which was always a dream of his).

That's understandable, and thanks for the confidence :smallsmile:

You're welcome.

WRT strawberry milk, I think we're missing a trick. All flavoured milk should be pink!

So a friend of mine made an RPG about a comic book he's been independently publishing for several years now.
https://books.google.com/books?id=NRZqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA317&lpg=PA317&dq=sword+and+shield+ronnie+forschen&source=bl&ots=oqp-BWF4Jq&sig=ACfU3U0kvOR7BKXGkxjBE-PwzQ88CCqvFg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1qeam1pHlAhUJKa0KHbXECq4Q6AEwFHoECAkQA Q&fbclid=IwAR1IlVO2v2HahetSfKwznoxrdSc6_XupFHAK57ocP mYqZpu63W8-qwKzU6o#v=onepage&q=sword%20and%20shield%20ronnie%20forschen&f=false

Cool, I'll make sure to give it and/or the comic a proper read sometime :smallsmile:

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 11:23 AM

That's cool, I'm using Fuzion to try to homebrew a better system for a couple of my settings (one a relatively low magic fantasy one*, one quite high tech SF).

* Done via magic being inconvenient rather than anything else. Most spells need various material components and rituals, with healing and divination being the simplest magic to perform.

Cool. What's Fuzion anyway? :smile:

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 11:31 AM

WRT strawberry milk, I think we're missing a trick. All flavoured milk should be pink!

Absolutely not pink milk is pink and nothing else! Chocolate milk should be chocolate colour! I will die on this hill!!!

I can't even begin to explain how utterly distraught and genuinely upset I'd be if someone offered me pink milk and it tasted like regular ass milk. I'd feel betrayed.

Peelee

2019-10-10, 11:50 AM

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 11:52 AM

Cool. What's Fuzion anyway? :smile:

It's a generic system descended from the system used in Cyberpunk 2020 and Mekton. I got it a few months back because the book was on sale for £1, and while not amazing it's an easier base to start from than GURPS is.

Absolutely not pink milk is pink and nothing else! Chocolate milk should be chocolate colour! I will die on this hill!!!

I've had pink chocolate! It was strawberry flavour :smalltongue:

In all seriousness, yeah I think at least for us people who grew up with coloured flavoured milk, the colour is a key part of the experience. I distrust banana-flavoured milk that looks too white, even if I flavoured it myself! (Liquidising bananas is not fun.)

But yeah, artificial colours aren't even that bad (in fact I believe some varieties can be safer than some natural colours), and in all honesty if you're flavouring with crushed/juiced strawberries you should get a mild pink colour anyway (source: accidentally dropped crushed strawberry on white stuff, I think including milk once, it was a while ago). It won't be as pink as doing it with artificial colours, but I'm sure we can find more of the strawberry pink chemical somewhere.

I can't even begin to explain how utterly distraught and genuinely upset I'd be if someone offered me pink milk and it tasted like regular ass milk. I'd feel betrayed.

Are we now categorising milk-flavoured milk as flavoured milk?

halfeye

2019-10-10, 11:53 AM

Frankly, I'd feel betrayed if I was offered milk and it turned out to be ass milk. I don't even know what that is, but it doesn't sound appetizing.

Donkeys are mammals, it'd be fine.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 11:59 AM

Frankly, I'd feel betrayed if I was offered milk and it turned out to be ass milk. I don't even know what that is, but it doesn't sound appetizing.

Hey I've heard donkey milk isn't bad.

It's a generic system descended from the system used in Cyberpunk 2020 and Mekton. I got it a few months back because the book was on sale for £1, and while not amazing it's an easier base to start from than GURPS is.

In all seriousness, yeah I think at least for us people who grew up with coloured flavoured milk, the colour is a key part of the experience. I distrust banana-flavoured milk that looks too white, even if I flavoured it myself! (Liquidising bananas is not fun.)

But yeah, artificial colours aren't even that bad (in fact I believe some varieties can be safer than some natural colours), and in all honesty if you're flavouring with crushed/juiced strawberries you should get a mild pink colour anyway (source: accidentally dropped crushed strawberry on white stuff, I think including milk once, it was a while ago). It won't be as pink as doing it with artificial colours, but I'm sure we can find more of the strawberry pink chemical somewhere.

Are we now categorising milk-flavoured milk as flavoured milk?

I want a Mecha game that isn't drown-in-the-weeds level detailed with boring ass mechs like Battletech, but also not made by Palladium because they suck. I will never get this.

The colour is, as I mentioned in my email, absolutely vital to the experience. It's just wrong otherwise!!

Yeah exactly! They could make it pink they're just cowards! Give me the pink!!!

Milk-Flavored Milk, aka the default state of milk. Unless you want to get technical than it's "not-germ-infested" flavor, because Raw Milk is a thing. Don't drink it you'll regret being alive!

I care a lot about my cow juice if you can't tell.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 12:29 PM

I want a Mecha game that isn't drown-in-the-weeds level detailed with boring ass mechs like Battletech, but also not made by Palladium because they suck. I will never get this.

Eh, I've come to see the problem with games like Mechwarrior is making the pilot too detailed, it makes me instantly run for any character archetype other than mech pilots and then attempt to find some game-changing exploit in the character creation like going through the Free Trader lifepath until a) I am three times the age of all the other characters put together, b) I now own a spaceship, and c) the GM has slapped my upside the head and taken away three of my character's limbs (at which point the spaceship gets 'wheelchair' painted on the side and I get slapped again).

ALthough I'll agree that Battletech can go too far in detailing mechs. I should get back to trying to write my mecha system, as I remember is used an open-ended scale system where smaller mechs are cheaper and more agile but bigger mechs had far more structure points and increased damage. It worked with you setting a standard size for your game which used the standard values and then scaling to that, although I might just rewrite it to an assumed 10m height (maybe 5m, but I understand not everybody likes small mechs).

The colour is, as I mentioned in my email, absolutely vital to the experience. It's just wrong otherwise!!

I'm heavily tempered by the fact that I still get subjected to 'new media is evil' in my home life ('oh why are you playing computer games/watching anime/reading a science fiction novel when you could watch the kind of TV/read the kind of books I watched at your age!'), so I'm having trouble writing that as an absolute statement, but I agree wholeheartedly. Although you'll have to excuse me because a friend suggested I try FE:F:BR and I'm getting surprisingly engaged in it.

Yeah exactly! They could make it pink they're just cowards! Give me the pink!!!

Now now, we have to be inclusive in this day and age. They should also give us the green, the purple, and the yellow coloured milk.

Milk-Flavored Milk, aka the default state of milk. Unless you want to get technical than it's "not-germ-infested" flavor, because Raw Milk is a thing. Don't drink it you'll regret being alive!

And after I want to all this trouble to get that carton of 'ultimate death unpasturised milk' :smalltongue:

Mith

2019-10-10, 12:36 PM

Frankly, I'd feel betrayed if I was offered milk and it turned out to be ass milk. I don't even know what that is, but it doesn't sound appetizing.

Vitalising bathwater if you're Pharoah.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 12:48 PM

Absolutely not pink milk is pink and nothing else! Chocolate milk should be chocolate colour! I will die on this hill!!!

I can't even begin to explain how utterly distraught and genuinely upset I'd be if someone offered me pink milk and it tasted like regular ass milk. I'd feel betrayed.

But, hey, more things should be pink! How dare you! :smallwink:

(I'll be honest, I don't really drink non-standard milk, because it just tastes too 'soft' and leves me still thirsty at the end)

I want a Mecha game that isn't drown-in-the-weeds level detailed with boring ass mechs like Battletech, but also not made by Palladium because they suck. I will never get this.

Have you looked into LANCER? I've admittedly not played much of it (since the group that I was in that tried playing it, uh, critically imploded due to circumstances), but it seems fairly fun. I want to play more of it, at least.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 01:01 PM

Eh, I've come to see the problem with games like Mechwarrior is making the pilot too detailed, it makes me instantly run for any character archetype other than mech pilots and then attempt to find some game-changing exploit in the character creation like going through the Free Trader lifepath until a) I am three times the age of all the other characters put together, b) I now own a spaceship, and c) the GM has slapped my upside the head and taken away three of my character's limbs (at which point the spaceship gets 'wheelchair' painted on the side and I get slapped again).

ALthough I'll agree that Battletech can go too far in detailing mechs. I should get back to trying to write my mecha system, as I remember is used an open-ended scale system where smaller mechs are cheaper and more agile but bigger mechs had far more structure points and increased damage. It worked with you setting a standard size for your game which used the standard values and then scaling to that, although I might just rewrite it to an assumed 10m height (maybe 5m, but I understand not everybody likes small mechs).

I'm heavily tempered by the fact that I still get subjected to 'new media is evil' in my home life ('oh why are you playing computer games/watching anime/reading a science fiction novel when you could watch the kind of TV/read the kind of books I watched at your age!'), so I'm having trouble writing that as an absolute statement, but I agree wholeheartedly. Although you'll have to excuse me because a friend suggested I try FE:F:BR and I'm getting surprisingly engaged in it.

Now now, we have to be inclusive in this day and age. They should also give us the green, the purple, and the yellow coloured milk.

And after I want to all this trouble to get that carton of 'ultimate death unpasturised milk' :smalltongue:

I want a Gundam table top game. I don't mind customization but Battletech is way more focused on Shoot The Bullet and big stompy war tank aesthetic than I want. Let me have my god damn funnels.

What's FEFBR?

Lime and grape milk would be disgusting and shockingly good, in that order. Banananana milk already exists.

But, hey, more things should be pink! How dare you! :smallwink:

(I'll be honest, I don't really drink non-standard milk, because it just tastes too 'soft' and leves me still thirsty at the end)

Have you looked into LANCER? I've admittedly not played much of it (since the group that I was in that tried playing it, uh, critically imploded due to circumstances), but it seems fairly fun. I want to play more of it, at least.

Agreed on more things needing to be pink.

Milk is a food considering all the **** in it so it's not a surprise it leaves you thirsty. Though non-standard milk doing it is partly why they're likely switching to non-artificial stuff.

That looks perfect AND I think it's drawn by Six Billion Demons, so that's rad as hell.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 01:20 PM

I want a Gundam table top game. I don't mind customization but Battletech is way more focused on Shoot The Bullet and big stompy war tank aesthetic than I want. Let me have my god damn funnels.

What's FEFBR?

Lime and grape milk would be disgusting and shockingly good, in that order. Banananana milk already exists.

I never really got into Gundam. I enjoyed the first series enough, but couldn't get into later ones. Plus I kind of like the 'humanoid tank' aesthetic, the engineer in me understands that anything that big and humanoid is going to be as agile as a hippopotamus on a skateboard, my system assumes that mecha have the rough defence class of a barn unless they're firing boosters (which they're supposed to do in combat, but eats into the same fuel supply as their generators). Mechas that leave out boosters either have to go heavy on weapons and try to power through their target's armour, or heavy on armour and try to stonewall.

Actually, considering how many details over established I should probably just bite the bullet and create a setting for this this game. An eternal war over a colonised planet in an FTL-less universe or something.

FE:F:BR is Fire Emblem: Fates: Birthright, although I'm already a little annoyed that it seems like they're going to have the MC fight for the country they were born in and not the one where they grew up, have ties and immersion in the culture. It's annoying, because I'm liking the gameplay.

Also you don't have to tell me that banananananana milk exists, it's my favourite flavour.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 01:26 PM

I never really got into Gundam. I enjoyed the first series enough, but couldn't get into later ones. Plus I kind of like the 'humanoid tank' aesthetic, the engineer in me understands that anything that big and humanoid is going to be as agile as a hippopotamus on a skateboard, my system assumes that mecha have the rough defence class of a barn unless they're firing boosters (which they're supposed to do in combat, but eats into the same fuel supply as their generators). Mechas that leave out boosters either have to go heavy on weapons and try to power through their target's armour, or heavy on armour and try to stonewall.

Actually, considering how many details over established I should probably just bite the bullet and create a setting for this this game. An eternal war over a colonised planet in an FTL-less universe or something.

FE:F:BR is Fire Emblem: Fates: Birthright, although I'm already a little annoyed that it seems like they're going to have the MC fight for the country they were born in and not the one where they grew up, have ties and immersion in the culture. It's annoying, because I'm liking the gameplay.

Also you don't have to tell me that banananananana milk exists, it's my favourite flavour.

To be fair hippo's are actually surprisingly agile given their size. But yeah that's cool and all but I don't really want the hardest hard realism ever. That's why I dislike Battletech, it's just a bunch of walking gun platforms and that's so ****ing boring. Gundam is real robot, but it's got ESPers and beam swords and humanoid mechs that are basically Large Infantry and I like that so much more. Also funnels! I cannot begin to describe how much I LOVE funnels. Just these little flying drones you control with your brain (or with an intensely steady hand and some fishing wire) that fly around shooting stuff at your enemy. It's great I love them so much and they're so cute and all the mechs that make use of funnels are my favorite.

Aahy, okay. And yeah if you're watch Birthright they're, of course, going to go to their home land. It's their Birthright, after all. The one you'd want to see is Conquest, which is him fighting for Nohr. Also you're gonna get more annoyed at time goes on, I LIKE Fates but it's uh... it's got Problems.

My favorite is Strawberry but Banana is good too.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 01:38 PM

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 01:43 PM

The in-universe justification is Gellar Fields AFAIK. The same forcefields that let beam weapons function also cocoons the robots, so they walk on top of their fields to keep from sinking and can move with more agility.

If you're talking Gundam, it's Minosvky Particles. That's how short range mech combat even works, scanning the particles released by their engines so they can find each other in the black deep nothing of space.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 01:53 PM

If you're talking Gundam, it's Minosvky Particles. That's how short range mech combat even works, scanning the particles released by their engines so they can find each other in the black deep nothing of space.

Sorry, got my mechs mixed up. Gellar fields are 40K and protect you from da Warp.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 01:58 PM

Sorry, got my mechs mixed up. Gellar fields are 40K and protect you from da Warp.

Ironically Minovsky Particles would do the opposite, since high exposure leads to psionic powers.

Mixing them up would probably be a bad idea.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 02:22 PM

Ironically Minovsky Particles would do the opposite, since high exposure leads to psionic powers.

Mixing them up would probably be a bad idea.

Heck of a crossover series though. 40k bots are hilariously oversized in the fluff, they have made progressively smaller ones over time so they can be game usable. 1,500ft imperial titans with hundreds of plasma cannons vs fast demon possessed gundams.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 02:25 PM

It's a generic system descended from the system used in Cyberpunk 2020 and Mekton. I got it a few months back because the book was on sale for £1, and while not amazing it's an easier base to start from than GURPS is.

Oh wow. That's amazing. :smile:

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 02:25 PM

Heck of a crossover series though. 40k bots are hilariously oversized in the fluff, they have made progressively smaller ones over time so they can be game usable. 1,500ft imperial titans with hundreds of plasma cannons vs fast demon possessed gundams.

Given even basic ass Gundam's can take down things far larger than them (Rip in piss Big Zam you lunatic of a walker-mech) I have to imagine demon fueled Gundams would be like Unicornw whenever it gets a sniff of Newtype energy. Which is to say it basically would burrow into it like a bloatfly and eat it inside out.

**** a Gundam/Warhammer 40k crossover would actually rule so much. Amuro Ray shows up and just makes every imperial soldier fall to their knees and he doesn't kill them because despite all appearances to the contrary he doesn't serve Korn, he serves Tzencitch.

Gonna be thinking about this all ****ing day thank you TVTyrant.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 02:28 PM

That's why I dislike Battletech, it's just a bunch of walking gun platforms and that's so ****ing boring.

Aw, no love for spider tanks? :smallfrown:
I have a soft spot for those suckers. Humanoid robots can be cool, too (especially flow-y ones), but, I dunno. There's just something about the scuttlers that gets to me.

(Very glad to hear that I was able to give you something that fit your needs. Man, really want to play it again, but oooooooof is popcorn initiative terrible for play by post.)

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 02:32 PM

Aw, no love for spider tanks? :smallfrown:
I have a soft spot for those suckers. Humanoid robots can be cool, too (especially flow-y ones), but, I dunno. There's just something about the scuttlers that gets to me.

(Very glad to hear that I was able to give you something that fit your needs. Man, really want to play it again, but oooooooof is popcorn initiative terrible for play by post.)

What's popcorn initiative?

Also I LOVE spider tanks. I want to pet a Tachikoma so much that I'd probably kill someone to do it. But like, Battletech doesn't have any of that. It's just big stompy two legged walking gun platforms. There's no style, there's no grace, to Battletech. And that's like the point. And if you wanna see a King Crab assault stomp on a locust and just man handle some jackass, that's all well and cool. But there's just nothing in it for me.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 02:39 PM

What's popcorn initiative?

Also I LOVE spider tanks. I want to pet a Tachikoma so much that I'd probably kill someone to do it. But like, Battletech doesn't have any of that. It's just big stompy two legged walking gun platforms. There's no style, there's no grace, to Battletech. And that's like the point. And if you wanna see a King Crab assault stomp on a locust and just man handle some jackass, that's all well and cool. But there's just nothing in it for me.

Popcorn initiative is basically:
1) One side elects someone to go
2) The other side elects someone to go
3) The first side elects someone who hasn't gone yet this round to go
4) The second side elects someone who hasn't yet gone this round to go
…
N) There are no people left to activate on one side, so the other side activates all their remaining people in whatever order they choose.
Then the round starts over. (In this case, with the side that did not have the most recent activation.)

So, turns pop up randomly like popcorn - hence the name. It's a cool concept, allowing a lot of strategy... but, maaaaan does it not work for play-by-post. Since it requires quick analysis of the situation and consensus.

And, ah, fair enough. Yeah, just big blocky mechs don't do it too much for me. I need some sleekness. Eldar, not Imperial. :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 02:49 PM

Aaah, cool.

I could probably run a PBP of that game really easily but that'd suck since I wanna plaaaay in the mecha game. Grumle gramble.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 02:56 PM

I could probably run a PBP of that game really easily but that'd suck since I wanna plaaaay in the mecha game. Grumle gramble.

That's what GMPCs are for. Rounding out party numbers. Clearly. And no ulterior motives. :smallwink:

SZbNAhL

2019-10-10, 03:27 PM

I thought y'all liked your milk in bags.

I still don't get how Americans can mock Canadian milkbagging when US milk comes in boxes. Did the humble bottle not survive across the Atlantic?

HalfTangible

2019-10-10, 03:28 PM

Given even basic ass Gundam's can take down things far larger than them (Rip in piss Big Zam you lunatic of a walker-mech) I have to imagine demon fueled Gundams would be like Unicornw whenever it gets a sniff of Newtype energy. Which is to say it basically would burrow into it like a bloatfly and eat it inside out.

**** a Gundam/Warhammer 40k crossover would actually rule so much. Amuro Ray shows up and just makes every imperial soldier fall to their knees and he doesn't kill them because despite all appearances to the contrary he doesn't serve Korn, he serves Tzencitch.

Gonna be thinking about this all ****ing day thank you TVTyrant.

You say that like serving Tzeentch is any better than serving Khorne. :smalltongue: (it's not. Worst that can happen serving Khorne is you get brutally murdered)

I've only seen Iron-Blooded Orphans as far as Gundam series go, but from what I understand 40k/Gundam would definitely be a cool crossover. The main issue I see is that 40k's power scaling is... truly, TRULY ridonkulus. Just in terms of the Imperium's mech units, you have everything from Dreadnoughts (about the size of a large tank) to Imperator War Titans (400 feet tall) and everything in between.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 03:29 PM

I still don't get how Americans can mock Canadian milkbagging when US milk comes in boxes. Did the humble bottle not survive across the Atlantic?

I... What? Most people get their milk from plastic jugs here.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 03:31 PM

You say that like serving Tzeentch is any better than serving Khorne. :smalltongue: (it's not. Worst that can happen serving Khorne is you get brutally murdered)

I've only seen Iron-Blooded Orphans as far as Gundam series go, but from what I understand 40k/Gundam would definitely be a cool crossover. The main issue I see is that 40k's power scaling is... truly, TRULY ridonkulus. Just in terms of the Imperium's mech units, you have everything from Dreadnoughts (about the size of a large tank) to Imperator War Titans (400 feet tall) and everything in between.

I meant more that "surprise, Amuro would be a demon worshipper of the tactical guy instead of the war guy" not that Tzeentch was even better than Khorne.

Also I mean technically the blue furry nerds and their robots who I can't remember are Gundam-like so it's not impossible.

I... What? Most people get their milk from plastic jugs here.

I have to imagine it's a joke about milk crates. Or Almond Milk.

SZbNAhL

2019-10-10, 03:33 PM

I... What? Most people get their milk from plastic jugs here.

Really? TV had led me to believe that you got your milk in cartons.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 03:34 PM

Really? TV had led me to believe that you got your milk in cartons.

Oh right those. Yeah those are a thing. People typically go for the jugs though.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 03:49 PM

Aahy, okay. And yeah if you're watch Birthright they're, of course, going to go to their home land. It's their Birthright, after all. The one you'd want to see is Conquest, which is him fighting for Nohr. Also you're gonna get more annoyed at time goes on, I LIKE Fates but it's uh... it's got Problems.

I'm planning to play Conquest, but I began with Birthright because apparently it's easier and this is my first Fire Emblem.

Oh right those. Yeah those are a thing. People typically go for the jugs though.

That's what she said!

Is that the door there? I'll show myself out.

Peelee

2019-10-10, 03:50 PM

Really? TV had led me to believe that you got your milk in cartons.

Cartons exist, but aren't as big so they're less commonly used. Which is a shame, since I'd be much happier with paper-based cartons than plastic-based jugs.

Why, do y'all still have glass bottles delivered to your cottage every half-fortnight by the milkduffer?

HalfTangible

2019-10-10, 03:50 PM

I meant more that "surprise, Amuro would be a demon worshipper of the tactical guy instead of the war guy" not that Tzeentch was even better than Khorne.Eh... arguable.

Also I mean technically the blue furry nerds and their robots who I can't remember are Gundam-like so it's not impossible.

The Tau are cowardly little bitches who can't even fight in melee like REAL honorable warriors ought mainly compete through massive range and exceptional firepower. (one of their bigger mechs is basically just a really big gun with legs) You'd think there'd be a size comparison between the two out there already... if there is I can't find it.

Iruka

2019-10-10, 03:55 PM

I... What? Most people get their milk from plastic jugs here.

I would not be comfortable drinking from something that looks so much like a bottle of detergent ...
Also seems like a lot of milk at once. We are talking about one of those (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_milk_container#/media/File:Bottle_of_milk.jpg), right? My googling gives me conflicting results ...

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 03:57 PM

I would not be comfortable drinking from something that looks so much like a bottle of detergent ...
Also seems like a lot of milk at once. We are talking about one of those (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_milk_container#/media/File:Bottle_of_milk.jpg), right? My googling gives me conflicting results ...

Yeah but in a place that's cold as **** like up here they last for quite a bit.

Also I mean yeah it's a lot of milk but a lot of stuff uses milk. Mashed potatoes, baking, omelette, no cold water so you just drink half a gallon in a day which I did ONE ****ING TIME ONLY and I haven't lived down still, cereal. People use a lot of milk, so getting a big ole jug is important!

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 03:58 PM

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 04:00 PM

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 04:00 PM

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 04:02 PM

The way it mostly works is we bring the gallon or half gallon home, then we pour it into a glass. Milk isn't much of a to-go drink, you usually don't take milk with you during the day.

Unless of course you have Milk 2 Go.

Incidentally they emailed me back and said they'd pass on my input to marketing. To be honest I don't really care at this point and just hope it amuses them.

Also as an aside Milk 2 Go's french name is a really ****ing good pun. "Laits Go!", which is basically "milk to go" but also "let's go" it rules, it's so good.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 04:04 PM

Why, do y'all still have glass bottles delivered to your cottage every half-fortnight by the milkduffer?

*puts on deerstalker cap, monocole, and pipe*

Why of course, how else would one fetch milk, send the servant out for it? They're already too busy picking up the meat for the sunday roast.

Also I mean yeah it's a lot of milk but a lot of stuff uses milk. Mashed potatoes, baking, omelette, no cold water so you just drink half a gallon in a day which I did ONE ****ING TIME ONLY and I haven't lived down still, cereal. People use a lot of milk, so getting a big ole jug is important!

I've never put milk in an omelette. Just straight beaten eggs and filling.

ETA: hooray for strongly worded letters, they at least get looked at before being ignored!

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 04:06 PM

I've never put milk in an omelette. Just straight beaten eggs and filling.

ETA: hooray for strongly worded letters, they at least get looked at before being ignored!

Really enjoy how that's the one you took notice of. Anyway it makes omelette's fluffier and a little thicker, just put like a tablespoon of milk in there and it does WONDERS. I tend to put too much though. Once got an omelette about like... maybe three inches thick? It was good as **** though.

Yup! Progress, however slight, has been made!

Peelee

2019-10-10, 04:11 PM

I would not be comfortable drinking from something that looks so much like a bottle of detergent ...
Also seems like a lot of milk at once. We are talking about one of those (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_milk_container#/media/File:Bottle_of_milk.jpg), right? My googling gives me conflicting results ...
...the heck kind of detergent y'all got in Germany that looks like milk?

*puts on deerstalker cap, monocole, and pipe*

Why of course, how else would one fetch milk, send the servant out for it? They're already too busy picking up the meat for the sunday roast.

Huzzahs all around!

Anyway, glass is heavy and expensive. Recycles great, though. I'd be up for it, the manufacturers and distributors don't seem to like it.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 04:27 PM

Pathfinder Tiara Magic.

Look everybody it's Sailor Pathfinder. :biggrin:

Iruka

2019-10-10, 04:36 PM

...the heck kind of detergent y'all got in Germany that looks like milk?

Huzzahs all around!

Anyway, glass is heavy and expensive. Recycles great, though. I'd be up for it, the manufacturers and distributors don't seem to like it.

Not the detergent itself, but a lot of cleaning stuff comes in white plastic jugs like this (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleichen#/media/Datei:Eau-de-Javel-deutsch-1.jpg), so it seems kinda weird. Might just be me.
I cannot remember seeing containers of milk larger than one liter around here, mostly cartons. Glass bottles have fallen out of favour since I was a kid and are now almost exclusively used by organic brands.

Peelee

2019-10-10, 04:52 PM

Not the detergent itself, but a lot of cleaning stuff comes in white plastic jugs like this (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleichen#/media/Datei:Eau-de-Javel-deutsch-1.jpg), so it seems kinda weird. Might just be me.

Aha. Most of our detergents are in brightly colored jugs that are variably shaped, while the milk jug-style jug is also used for distilled water, sweet tea, lemonade, and the like. The drink jugs are also clear, so the milk ones only look white because they hold milk.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 05:19 PM

Really enjoy how that's the one you took notice of. Anyway it makes omelette's fluffier and a little thicker, just put like a tablespoon of milk in there and it does WONDERS. I tend to put too much though. Once got an omelette about like... maybe three inches thick? It was good as **** though.

Yup! Progress, however slight, has been made!

Well it's because none of the others differed from my experience.

Anyway, glass is heavy and expensive. Recycles great, though. I'd be up for it, the manufacturers and distributors don't seem to like it.

I'd move entirely to glass containers if given the chance. Unfortunately I can rarely find drinks and the like in it.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 05:21 PM

Well it's because none of the others differed from my experience.

I'd move entirely to glass containers if given the chance. Unfortunately I can rarely find drinks and the like in it.

I'm glad to see I have found another gluttonous monster to be friends with.

Two nights ago I drank an entire litre of milk because it was going to go bad the next day. No mistakes were made.

Comrade

2019-10-10, 05:23 PM

To be fair hippo's are actually surprisingly agile given their size. But yeah that's cool and all but I don't really want the hardest hard realism ever. That's why I dislike Battletech, it's just a bunch of walking gun platforms and that's so ****ing boring. Gundam is real robot, but it's got ESPers and beam swords and humanoid mechs that are basically Large Infantry and I like that so much more. Also funnels! I cannot begin to describe how much I LOVE funnels. Just these little flying drones you control with your brain (or with an intensely steady hand and some fishing wire) that fly around shooting stuff at your enemy. It's great I love them so much and they're so cute and all the mechs that make use of funnels are my favorite.

I know like two pages of conversation have passed since this post but I figured I'd throw my two cents in anyway and agree. I don't even like watching Gundam or anything (there was one short series that I liked and it was still a little too heavy on anime cliches for my liking) but man, they're so much more varied and interesting than some of the other 'big robot of death' franchises out there (plus Gundam Versus is just a ridiculously fun game).

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 05:28 PM

I know like two pages of conversation have passed since this post but I figured I'd throw my two cents in anyway and agree. I don't even like watching Gundam or anything (there was one short series that I liked and it was still a little too heavy on anime cliches for my liking) but man, they're so much more varied and interesting than some of the other 'big robot of death' franchises out there (plus Gundam Versus is just a ridiculously fun game).

IT really depends on the series, given Gundam's so old it can cater to everyone. Want big dumb idiot super robot fights where the power of love manifests as a giant king who becomes a heart shaped laser and the hero and his girlfriend blow a heart shaped hole through the literal robot-devil? Watch G-Gundam because not one single word uttered here is a lie.

Want to be severely depressed and sad all the time because of the cost of human life due to the horrors of war, but also everyone is a girl trying to protect one small soft awful child? Watch V Gundam! Or don't! It's good but it's weird.

Wanna watch a series about the legacy of war and also the protagonist is trans because the studio wouldn't let Tomino just make them a girl, and also like mechs to have large dumb moustaches because of a really silly joke that no one but me gets? Watch Turn A Gundam. Please watch Turn A it's so good.

Gundam caters to everyone and thing, and primarily me. There's even series that are bad but fun, like Gundam Wing. Or series that are bad but bad, like Gundam Seed and everything related to it.

Comrade

2019-10-10, 05:36 PM

IT really depends on the series, given Gundam's so old it can cater to everyone. Want big dumb idiot super robot fights where the power of love manifests as a giant king who becomes a heart shaped laser and the hero and his girlfriend blow a heart shaped hole through the literal robot-devil? Watch G-Gundam because not one single word uttered here is a lie.

Want to be severely depressed and sad all the time because of the cost of human life due to the horrors of war, but also everyone is a girl trying to protect one small soft awful child? Watch V Gundam! Or don't! It's good but it's weird.

Wanna watch a series about the legacy of war and also the protagonist is trans because the studio wouldn't let Tomino just make them a girl, and also like mechs to have large dumb moustaches because of a really silly joke that no one but me gets? Watch Turn A Gundam. Please watch Turn A it's so good.

Gundam caters to everyone and thing, and primarily me. There's even series that are bad but fun, like Gundam Wing. Or series that are bad but bad, like Gundam Seed and everything related to it.

The one I've seen all the way through was 8th MS Team. I've seen bits and pieces of others that lost me for one reason or another (especially Gundam Seed, now that you mention it-- I think that one might have turned me off Gundam as a whole more than any of them. So many anime cliches.)

Also, isn't G Gundam the one where countries duke it out with Gundams that range from silly stereotypes of their country of origin to borderline 'man this is kind of racist'?

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 05:37 PM

I'm glad to see I have found another gluttonous monster to be friends with.

Two nights ago I drank an entire litre of milk because it was going to go bad the next day. No mistakes were made.

Is it possible to drink too much milk?

Actually it kind of is in my case. Lactose intolerance means too much diary isn't pleasant for me. It's a shame, I actually really like diary, and have trouble not gorging myself on milk and cheese.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 05:40 PM

The one I've seen all the way through was 8th MS Team. I've seen bits and pieces of others that lost me for one reason or another (especially Gundam Seed, now that you mention it-- I think that one might have turned me off Gundam as a whole more than any of them. So many anime cliches.)

Also, isn't G Gundam the one where countries duke it out with Gundams that range from silly stereotypes of their country of origin to borderline 'man this is kind of racist'?

Seed is definitely bad enough to scare people off the entire franchise, yeah. 8th MS Team rules though.

I don't think any of them ever hit that bad beyond maybe the Tequila Gundam, but it's also meant to be parody in that regard. It's extremely good.

Is it possible to drink too much milk?

Actually it kind of is in my case. Lactose intolerance means too much diary isn't pleasant for me. It's a shame, I actually really like diary, and have trouble not gorging myself on milk and cheese.

Absolutely.

Also hell yeah. I'm not intolerant of milk but it's always nice to see people who are who also just, straight slam milk down their face. Because it's hilarious. Most allergies are like "if I so much as breath this I will die" and Lactose Inteolerents are like "oh yeah this'll make me feel awful. Now hand my my ice cream back please".

Comrade

2019-10-10, 05:58 PM

Seed is definitely bad enough to scare people off the entire franchise, yeah. 8th MS Team rules though.

I don't think any of them ever hit that bad beyond maybe the Tequila Gundam, but it's also meant to be parody in that regard. It's extremely good.

Honestly I'm just bitter because Armenia doesn't get a Gundam in G Gundam

I watched 8th MS Team a pretty long time ago but I remember digging it. It's also not as awful when it comes to female characters as some of the other Gundam shows I've dabbled in, which is a plus.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 06:00 PM

Honestly I'm just bitter because Armenia doesn't get a Gundam in G Gundam

I watched 8th MS Team a pretty long time ago but I remember digging it. It's also not as awful when it comes to female characters as some of the other Gundam shows I've dabbled in, which is a plus.

I really liked that one as a kid, then I tried to rewatch it and gave up after two episodes. The issue was more that it had 90s voice dubbing then the plot, but like One Piece I think it is going to be sub only.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-10, 06:05 PM

Absolutely.

Also hell yeah. I'm not intolerant of milk but it's always nice to see people who are who also just, straight slam milk down their face. Because it's hilarious. Most allergies are like "if I so much as breath this I will die" and Lactose Inteolerents are like "oh yeah this'll make me feel awful. Now hand my my ice cream back please".

I mean, it's not really an allergy. Ingest too much of the wrong pollen and I die (in theory, I got my tonsils removed as a toddler because it nearly happened), I have too much lactose I feel terrible and you'll want to give it half an hour after I've been to the bathroom. I only bring it up because IIRC real lactose/diary allergies are a thing, just incredibly rare.

There are two toes of lactose intolerant people, those who'll avoid chocolate because they'll feel terrible, and those who'll scoff an entire wheel of Stilton because it's there. I very much fall into the latter category, when drinking milk it'll be in the largest glass I can find, I'll pay for it later but it's delicious. Some people straight up don't believe me when I tell them I'm LI because they've just seem me eat a litre of cheese.

I did try cutting diary out once, but life's too short to avoid it.

I do take tea and coffee black, but that's personal preference. Now please give me back my ice cream.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 06:34 PM

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 06:40 PM

Ah, giant robots/mecha/bipedal tanks. Is there anything else that manages to be so impractical yet such a beloved idea? :smalltongue:
(I suppose hologrammatic displays are another one.)

Not that I'm complaining, of course. :smallwink:

The whole "mechs are impractical!" argument has never held any weight for me because bitch look at history and name one time where humans did something practical over something absolutely gob smacked stupid and awesome instead.

Qwertystop

2019-10-10, 06:41 PM

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 06:55 PM

The whole "mechs are impractical!" argument has never held any weight for me because bitch look at history and name one time where humans did something practical over something absolutely gob smacked stupid and awesome instead.

Sadly, the stuff that tends to get eventually rolled out into use between "X" and "X but better", tends to be the latter. Hence why settings need handwaves to use X. :smalltongue:
(Or just deliberately ignore it for that very reason. Because it's cool and awesome.)

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 07:04 PM

Trench warfare.

Trench warfare is not practical and is in fact an utter meat grinder.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 07:05 PM

Tanks can't swing chainsaws in their hands if they don't have hands, ergo mechs are the height of practicality.

It is rather funny that humans have all of these advantages over other animals in endurance, flexible design and tool usage but humanoid robots are awful.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 07:07 PM

Trench warfare is not practical and is in fact an utter meat grinder.

It's practical insomuch as it provides a massive defensive advantage. Attacking… not so much. Which is, of course, where issues lay.

It is rather funny that humans have all of these advantages over other animals in endurance, flexible design and tool usage but humanoid robots are awful.

Limitations of code, alas. A robot simply can't adapt naturally to even something as simple as putting one's foot down for a step. It's not the design's fault so much as it is the computer's. :smallamused:

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 07:11 PM

It's practical insomuch as it provides a massive defensive advantage. Attacking… not so much. Which is, of course, where issues lay.

No one tried the obvious solution of towing wooden buses full of troops held up by hot air balloon behind biplanes, which makes me sad. Single use troop carrier dirigibles were the future everyone needed (except the people inside them probably.)

Edit: Computers can beat us in Go and are going to take our jobs, can't figure out this walking trick. Leading to the bad future where we do manual labor and they run the stock exchange.

HalfTangible

2019-10-10, 07:37 PM

The whole "mechs are impractical!" argument has never held any weight for me because bitch look at history and name one time where humans did something practical over something absolutely gob smacked stupid and awesome instead.

Giant robots are ostensibly war machines, and "stupid but awesome" generally describes the losing strategy in war. Rome very nearly got wiped off the map because they cleaved to honor and glory against Hannibal rather than engage in "cowardly" tactics like ambushes from favorable terrain. They also absolutely loathed Fabian tactics of harassing the enemy line because it was also "cowardly" and not even close to awesome.

It's also a major reason that Rome survived the second Punic war.

Trench warfare is not practical and is in fact an utter meat grinder.

Trench warfare was actually the most practical strategy for the time. It made your defensive line essentially unassailable, which is why everybody used it.

The problem is that if everyone's line is unassailable, there's never an end to the conflict. And since everyone was using trench warfare, weeeeeell...

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 08:06 PM

Giant robots are ostensibly war machines, and "stupid but awesome" generally describes the losing strategy in war. Rome very nearly got wiped off the map because they cleaved to honor and glory against Hannibal rather than engage in "cowardly" tactics like ambushes from favorable terrain. They also absolutely loathed Fabian tactics of harassing the enemy line because it was also "cowardly" and not even close to awesome.

It's also a major reason that Rome survived the second Punic war.

Trench warfare was actually the most practical strategy for the time. It made your defensive line essentially unassailable, which is why everybody used it.

The problem is that if everyone's line is unassailable, there's never an end to the conflict. And since everyone was using trench warfare, weeeeeell...

There's nothing awesome about needlessly clinging to honour over tactics, is the thing, so that's very Stupid but not Awesome. Stealthing across a battlefield to sneak attack the enemy army entirely? Now that's stupid AND awesome (but also smart since things can be dumb and smart at the same time).

Nothing is good about perpetual war, ergo trench warfare is not practical, nor is it stupid or awesome. It's just Bad.

Insane Jeenyus

2019-10-10, 08:12 PM

. . . . I can't even begin to explain how utterly distraught . . . .Since this is about milk, wouldn't you be "udderly distraught" ?

HalfTangible

2019-10-10, 08:17 PM

There's nothing awesome about needlessly clinging to honour over tactics, is the thing, so that's very Stupid but not Awesome.

Glory is, by definition, awesome. And most awesome things are also very, very stupid (using a too big for you, for example)

Giant robots are the impractical kind of stupid. See square cube law.

Stealthing across a battlefield to sneak attack the enemy army entirely? Now that's stupid AND awesome (but also smart since things can be dumb and smart at the same time).

This... isn't what Hannibal did at any point I can recall. IIRC he preferred to bait his enemies into terrible positions.

Nothing is good about perpetual war, ergo trench warfare is not practical, nor is it stupid or awesome. It's just Bad.

Zodi, trench warfare was used because it was the most viable strategy available. Using any other tactic (on land, anyway) meant you lost to the guys who WERE using trench warfare.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 08:22 PM

Zodi, trench warfare was used because it was the most viable strategy available. Using any other tactic (on land, anyway) meant you lost to the guys who WERE using trench warfare.

I know I'm just saying war bad, that's all :smalltongue:

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 08:36 PM

I know I'm just saying war bad, that's all :smalltongue:

But giant robots made for war good? :smalltongue:
Gimmie anything futuretech, really.

LaZodiac

2019-10-10, 08:49 PM

But giant robots made for war good? :smalltongue:
Gimmie anything futuretech, really.

Fictional war isn't harming anyone so it's (mostly) fine~

Also giant war robots means also giant for fun robots. Imagine how cool a robot fighting league would be.

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 08:53 PM

Imagine how cool a robot fighting league would be.

Given how many games and other media have been made about such things... yeah, I'd say it's within imagination of how cool it'd be. :smallbiggrin:

Knight9910

2019-10-10, 09:09 PM

Locally for me, there is Promised Land Dairy which is doing the same thing.

While I do appreciate the attempt to be more "natural" and "organic" there are plenty of ways to get red coloring naturally and organically, without having to resort to using synthetic chemical dyes.

...also, I don't like Promised Land Dairy's strawberry milk. It has way too much of a citrusy acidic bite to it, which is totally out of place in milk, which is supposed to be sweet and smooth.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 09:10 PM

I'm starting to change my alignment from Chaotic Good to Lawful Good starting a deep breathing mediation of Lawful Goodness. :smile:

enderlord99

2019-10-10, 09:30 PM

I'm starting to change my alignment from Chaotic Good to Lawful Good starting a deep breathing mediation of Lawful Goodness. :smile:

Dude. Alignments aren't real. They're a game construct.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 09:33 PM

Dude. Alignments aren't real. They're a game construct.

Yes they are. I see it everywhere. :smile:

Peelee

2019-10-10, 09:43 PM

But giant robots made for war good? :smalltongue:

War. Huh. What is it good for?

HalfTangible

2019-10-10, 09:47 PM

War. Huh. What is it good for?

Rhyming.

Core, door, floor, decor, soar, more, snore...

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 09:48 PM

Rhyming.

Core, door, floor, decor, soar, more, snore...

S'more… which I now want. Mmmmmm...

enderlord99

2019-10-10, 10:00 PM

Yes they are. I see it everywhere. :smile:

You... see alignments? :smallconfused:

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 10:12 PM

You... see alignments? :smallconfused:

Figuratively yes but not literally. :wink:

DataNinja

2019-10-10, 10:27 PM

Figuratively yes but not literally. :wink:

You should become an automotive technician, then.

HalfTangible

2019-10-10, 10:30 PM

S'more… which I now want. Mmmmmm...

Aaaaand you ruined it :smalltongue:

Tvtyrant

2019-10-10, 10:30 PM

War. Huh. What is it good for?

Making me wealthy!

...what?

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-10, 10:33 PM

You should become an automotive technician, then.

LOL! Good one! :biggrin:

factotum

2019-10-11, 01:17 AM

You... see alignments? :smallconfused:

Better than seeing dead people, I guess...

Teddy

2019-10-11, 01:30 AM

But yeah, artificial colours aren't even that bad (in fact I believe some varieties can be safer than some natural colours), and in all honesty if you're flavouring with crushed/juiced strawberries you should get a mild pink colour anyway (source: accidentally dropped crushed strawberry on white stuff, I think including milk once, it was a while ago). It won't be as pink as doing it with artificial colours, but I'm sure we can find more of the strawberry pink chemical somewhere.

Given that they switched from artificial ingredients, I'm willing to wager that genuine strawberry colouring is quite far out of the price range for this brand. I'm even willing to bet that their natural flavours aren't actually taken from strawberries, but rather cheaper plants which just happen to contain the same esters as strawberries do.

Milk-Flavored Milk, aka the default state of milk. Unless you want to get technical than it's "not-germ-infested" flavor, because Raw Milk is a thing. Don't drink it you'll regret being alive!

I've had raw milk and I do not regret being alive. In fact, unless the cow is sick, raw milk should not contain any significant amount of germs. That said, you need to drink raw milk fresh, because unpasteurised milk doesn't really have a shelf life.

I still don't get how Americans can mock Canadian milkbagging when US milk comes in boxes. Did the humble bottle not survive across the Atlantic?

Actually, one of the major inventions in milk carton history is Swedish, and you'll find that milk cartons are quite common in mainland Europe as well. In fact, I'd say the Nordic countries have the US beat when it comes to relative milk carton usage. Ours is pretty much 100% of the total range of milk packaging.

Two nights ago I drank an entire litre of milk because it was going to go bad the next day. No mistakes were made.

You didn't really have to, though. Expiry dates aren't hard caps, and unless your refrigerator is bad, yours should last for a few more days. It will acquire a taste which I'm not too fond of first, though.

There are two toes of lactose intolerant people, those who'll avoid chocolate because they'll feel terrible, and those who'll scoff an entire wheel of Stilton because it's there. I very much fall into the latter category, when drinking milk it'll be in the largest glass I can find, I'll pay for it later but it's delicious. Some people straight up don't believe me when I tell them I'm LI because they've just seem me eat a litre of cheese.

Actually, the process of making cheese consumes most of the lactose, so most lactose intolerant people can consume moderate amounts of cheese with no ill effects.

factotum

2019-10-11, 05:34 AM

Actually, one of the major inventions in milk carton history is Swedish, and you'll find that milk cartons are quite common in mainland Europe as well. In fact, I'd say the Nordic countries have the US beat when it comes to relative milk carton usage. Ours is pretty much 100% of the total range of milk packaging.

Milk cartons used to be quite common in the UK, too, but they seem to have been replaced with plastic bottles in the last few years. Wonder if the manufacturers will switch back to cartons given all the bad publicity surrounding plastics these days?

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-11, 05:36 AM

The whole "mechs are impractical!" argument has never held any weight for me because bitch look at history and name one time where humans did something practical over something absolutely gob smacked stupid and awesome instead.

You want me to try?

Romans using slave labour over steam power
The majority of prosthetics development
All those generals who decided to win their battles instead of having their soldiers fight in time with the Cancan
Electronic computers over mechanical computers (they didn't get out awesomed for quite a while)
Sieges
Egyptian Pharoahs switching from pyramids to underground tombs

Need I go on?

Generally in history when something awesome has been done that's either because a) it's actually practical, or b) so much money has been sunk into it already that it's impractical to use a practical option.

Mecha are cool, but they're so unrealistic that Gundam's agile mecha are less ridiculous than Battletech's walking tanks. It's at the point where unless they're heavy use of boosters to ease movement and the limbs are more about positioning weapons and boosters than actually moving the mecha then I'll just remember how hard it is to build a walking robot.

Actually, the process of making cheese consumes most of the lactose, so most lactose intolerant people can consume moderate amounts of cheese with no ill effects.

I take this to mean that an entire wheel of Stilton is a moderate amount to eat in a single day :smallwink:

Insane Jeenyus

2019-10-11, 06:29 AM

re: Milk comtainers

I believe the switch from glass to plastic was economic as the weight of the container difference was a drastic improvement to gas consumption.

LaZodiac

2019-10-11, 07:25 AM

You didn't really have to, though. Expiry dates aren't hard caps, and unless your refrigerator is bad, yours should last for a few more days. It will acquire a taste which I'm not too fond of first, though.

The taste of "I'm ever so slightly beginning to spoil" milk makes me vomit.

Peelee

2019-10-11, 09:35 AM

Teddy

2019-10-11, 11:22 AM

I take this to mean that an entire wheel of Stilton is a moderate amount to eat in a single day :smallwink:

Yes, and when you come back calling me a liar, I'll call you a wuss. Not that I'd touch that Stilton myself, cheese just tastes like sour, spoiled milk to me. http://i.imgur.com/FZ6yI9l.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/3VDrLoW.png

re: Milk comtainers

I believe the switch from glass to plastic was economic as the weight of the container difference was a drastic improvement to gas consumption.

Plus, making glass bottles requires a lot of energy.

The taste of "I'm ever so slightly beginning to spoil" milk makes me vomit.

Fair enough, then.

Oh hey another reason to envy the Swedes.

I agree, we are pretty enviable. http://i.imgur.com/haudcUB.png

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-11, 07:07 PM

Yes, and when you come back calling me a liar, I'll call you a wuss. Not that I'd touch that Stilton myself, cheese just tastes like sour, spoiled milk to me.

Wuss :smallwink:

And I'm now feeling down because I can't find a cuddle buddy or anybody that I can do things I consider intimate* with.

Anybody got advice for getting my mind off this sort of stuff?

* like cuddling, because touch is an intimate thing even if clothes are on! Oh, and other stuff, I guess.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-11, 08:51 PM

Well I'm not bored anymore. I'm brainstorming my next chapter of my Pathfinder Fan-Fiction story.

Peelee

2019-10-11, 11:32 PM

My favorite rum, which I thought was discontinued years ago (largely due to the clerks at the liquor stores telling me it was discontinued, and the website not listing any place that has it), showed up at a liquor store close to downtown. I bought 'em out. Tonight is a good night.

DataNinja

2019-10-11, 11:46 PM

Peelee

2019-10-11, 11:47 PM

Ooh, very nice. It's the good kind of surprise, and I'm happy for you.

Thanks!

Fun fact, the brand's website still claims it's not available for sale anywhere near me. I don't know what forgotten crate they found those bottles in, but I'm set for a good long while now.

factotum

2019-10-12, 03:13 AM

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes yesterday. Was at the supermarket this morning just marvelling at all the things I can't eat anymore... :smallfrown:

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-12, 06:03 AM

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes yesterday. Was at the supermarket this morning just marvelling at all the things I can't eat anymore... :smallfrown:

Orch, that sucks.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-12, 10:05 AM

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes yesterday. Was at the supermarket this morning just marvelling at all the things I can't eat anymore... :smallfrown:

I'm so sorry. That is super rough.

Insane Jeenyus

2019-10-12, 03:02 PM

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes yesterday. Was at the supermarket this morning just marvelling at all the things I can't eat anymore... :smallfrown:I found out I was type 2 at age 37 and went through the same supermarket depression. hang in there, its a marathon, not a sprint.

enderlord99

2019-10-12, 08:15 PM

Dad just made the tedious supposed-"joke" of a door being a jar, and then announced that he was extremely funny. :smallannoyed:

Even I'm not that oblivious! I suppose he could have just been lying...

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-12, 08:17 PM

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-13, 07:19 AM

I got into a fight with my friend a couple of days ago, because she said I don't like Tomb Raider because I consider the second reboot games to be massively inferior to the Core Design games.

Maybe I'm wrong for wanting a series built on platforming to focus on platforming instead of stealth and third person shooter combat, but I literally grew up with the first four games*. Don't tell me that the games are in the same series when one is based around puzzles and traversing giant multiple-level tombs and the other incudes five minute jumping over pits segments between thirty minute gun battles. But apparently this is pure 'they changed it now it sucks' and I shouldn't want the old puzzle platformer style.

But I've been discovering that it's the really little things that annoy me, like having air control. I've been playing Angel of Darkness (whisk, in my opinion, is just better than TR2013), and the fact that jumps were committed only added challenge and gameplay. I actually have to plan my jumps and ensure I have the right momentum instead of just leaping and wiggling the stick if I'm going to miss. The platforming in the newer games just feels so souled, but in the older ones I don't care about the tank controls because they work and the game is designed around them.

* and to clarify they didn't get into the series until later.

Iruka

2019-10-13, 08:17 AM

SZbNAhL

2019-10-13, 08:54 AM

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-13, 11:32 AM

The main "natural" red dye is E120, but that's of animal origin so you'd lose all the vegetarian and vegan customers, along with various religious groups. I guess if they have to lose one of: vegetarians, people who irrationally avoid anything "artificial" and people who like their strawberry milk to be pink, the latter is the least profitable market.

Bah, it's like this 'organic' nonsense, I just had some organic eggs, they were from some totally carbon based chickens. I say we treat the artificial stuff like what it is, chemicals, and the natural stuff like what it is, chemicals.

And darn, a bit of milk in your omelette really does increase the fluffiness. I'm going to try to go and study French cooking now.

Peelee

2019-10-13, 11:44 AM

And darn, a bit of milk in your omelette really does increase the fluffiness.

Does the same with scrambled eggs. Ian McKellen has a good video on how he makes his, I totally recommend checking it out.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-13, 01:17 PM

Does the same with scrambled eggs. Ian McKellen has a good video on how he makes his, I totally recommend checking it out.

Except it ruins the taste, scrambled eggs are better with a dash of salted butter.

Peelee

2019-10-13, 01:44 PM

Except it ruins the taste, scrambled eggs are better with a dash of salted butter.

Dash of butter. Then out on a slice of well-buttered toast.

Insane Jeenyus

2019-10-13, 02:41 PM

Delightful culinary discovery:

Disclaimer: Non vegan/vegetarian; non Hillel / Kosher; lactose free;

take smoked bacon and fully cook. finely chop bacon to about "bacon bit sized bits"

Drop bits into pan of tomato soup and slow cook. place some in a bowl with a slice of smoked provolone or smoke Gouda cheese. let cheese melt then enjoy.

I have enjoyed tomato soup wit cheese many times, but on a whim I dropped in the bacon and YUMMY!

SZbNAhL

2019-10-13, 03:18 PM

non Hillel

So it's only acceptable to followers of Beit Shammai? That may be the most obscure joke I have ever made.

Bah, it's like this 'organic' nonsense, I just had some organic eggs, they were from some totally carbon based chickens. I say we treat the artificial stuff like what it is, chemicals, and the natural stuff like what it is, chemicals.

Seconded.

Teddy

2019-10-13, 03:20 PM

The main "natural" red dye is E120, but that's of animal origin so you'd lose all the vegetarian and vegan customers, along with various religious groups. I guess if they have to lose one of: vegetarians, people who irrationally avoid anything "artificial" and people who like their strawberry milk to be pink, the latter is the least profitable market.

It takes a rather hardcore vegetarian to refuse to eat something because it contains extract from an insect, and vegans wouldn't even pick it up to read the label of contents given that it's milk.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-13, 03:59 PM

It takes a rather hardcore vegetarian to refuse to eat something because it contains extract from an insect, and vegans wouldn't even pick it up to read the label of contents given that it's milk.

To be fair, it is practically impossible to avoid eating insects/insect parts, they're just generally small enough for you to not notice. Plus it's extra protein, I don't personally see the problem.

PhyrexianShovel

2019-10-13, 04:59 PM

Bah, it's like this 'organic' nonsense, I just had some organic eggs, they were from some totally carbon based chickens. I say we treat the artificial stuff like what it is, chemicals, and the natural stuff like what it is, chemicals.
*snip*

That's not really the point of organics. The point is to avoid pesticides and similar chemicals that harm the environment. It's more about not supporting those that harm the environment then it is about dietary restrictions. Although I agree that organic eggs sound dumb. How would you put pesticides on chickens?

Iruka

2019-10-13, 05:16 PM

PhyrexianShovel

2019-10-13, 05:19 PM

The exact regulations will vary, but to be labeled as "organic" the chickens get for example more space, their food has to be free of pesticides and use of medication is more restricted.

Oh, I see. So they're basically free-range chickens with some other upsides. Thanks for the info!

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-13, 05:28 PM

That's not really the point of organics. The point is to avoid pesticides and similar chemicals that harm the environment. It's more about not supporting those that harm the environment then it is about dietary restrictions. Although I agree that organic eggs sound dumb. How would you put pesticides on chickens?

Talk about a) missing the joke entirely (the eggs were organic in the 'to do with living matter' sense, not the 'to do with organic farming' sense) and b) not realising that I don't give a dire rat's arse about what organic farming entails. It's going to be obsolete once we apply our new, more efficient genetic engineering methods to these plants we've been genetically engineering for the least ten thousand years or so, why should I worth about it? The future's going to be cool if we can avoid an eternal cyberpunk dystopia.

Teddy

2019-10-13, 06:22 PM

Talk about [...] b) not realising that I don't give a dire rat's arse about what organic farming entails. It's going to be obsolete once we apply our new, more efficient genetic engineering methods to these plants we've been genetically engineering for the least ten thousand years or so, why should I worth about it?

You might be underestimating the amount of time it'll take to genetically engineer plants that are both fully pest resistant yet at the same time not ecosystem-destroying.

The future's going to be cool if we can avoid an eternal cyberpunk dystopia.

Or turning the Earth into the bastard hellspawn of a desert and a marshland...

Qwertystop

2019-10-13, 06:46 PM

Oh, I see. So they're basically free-range chickens with some other upsides. Thanks for the info!
I don't think the "increased space" is generally part of "organic" as far as labelling requirements go. "Organic" and "free-range" are orthogonal (and "free-range" probably means less than you intuitively expect, though that's jurisdictional).

You might be underestimating the amount of time it'll take to genetically engineer plants that are both fully pest resistant yet at the same time not ecosystem-destroying.

Sterility is the usual way to go, yes? Existing gengineered crops are usually grown from seed bought fresh from whatever company makes them, not bought once and reseeded from the results, as far as I know. That removes "ecosystem-destroying" as a risk beyond the confines of the fields.

Iruka

2019-10-13, 08:27 PM

I don't think the "increased space" is generally part of "organic" as far as labelling requirements go. "Organic" and "free-range" are orthogonal (and "free-range" probably means less than you intuitively expect, though that's jurisdictional).

As I said, it varies with jurisdictions and the specific certifications. But at least around here, more space seems to be part of the package.

Sterility is the usual way to go, yes? Existing gengineered crops are usually grown from seed bought fresh from whatever company makes them, not bought once and reseeded from the results, as far as I know. That removes "ecosystem-destroying" as a risk beyond the confines of the fields.

It also makes the farmers very dependend on the seed company, which I would see as a downside.

enderlord99

2019-10-13, 11:31 PM

I just remembered out of nowhere my childhood habit of stuffing the family cat into my shirt and pretending to be pregnant.

Algeh

2019-10-14, 12:06 AM

On the milk container issue, I do buy my milk in glass bottles from the local dairy, but that's not common in my area. I'm just lucky enough to have a glass-bottle small dairy that sells milk at the farmers market walking distance from my house once a week. I used to live in a different city in my state that had a dairy with re-usable plastic bottles and wide distribution, though. (That dairy ran a chain of milk-focused convenience stores with drive-thru windows and I miss them terribly. Being able to pick up milk on the way home without getting out of the car was a major bonus of living in that town. I don't really drive much now, though, since I walk to work, so I suppose it wouldn't be the same anyway.)

It's going to be a rough transition when the farmers market shuts down for the winter at the end of the month and I have to actually get in the car to buy perishables again. I've really been enjoying being able to get everything but shelf-stable bulk stuff on foot all summer.

Teddy

2019-10-14, 12:37 AM

Sterility is the usual way to go, yes? Existing gengineered crops are usually grown from seed bought fresh from whatever company makes them, not bought once and reseeded from the results, as far as I know. That removes "ecosystem-destroying" as a risk beyond the confines of the fields.

Yeah, but that requires fertile plants to hybridise from, because we aren't quite at the stage where we're able to synthesise entire seeds from molecular matter, and you need to make sure those aren't eco-system destroying either. To put in perspective, contemporary genetically engineered crops primarily do one thing, and that's a tailored immunity to very strong planticides, meaning they can grow completely free of competition.

Then we have the whole part about a cyberpunk dystopia...

PhyrexianShovel

2019-10-14, 12:46 AM

Talk about a) missing the joke entirely (the eggs were organic in the 'to do with living matter' sense, not the 'to do with organic farming' sense) *snip*

Sorry, I have trouble getting jokes over the internet. We should have a common indicator for it like we do for sarcasm.

*snip* It also makes the farmers very dependend on the seed company, which I would see as a downside.

Yeah, basically this. I remember hearing something about a group of farmers that were forced to buy seeds because of their contract even though the plant wasn't sterile, which really screwed up their business model. Forcing all farmers to do so by genetic means would mean mostly the end for independent farmers. I think the right way to go would be to make it not sterile, but just only have the seeds be opened by some kind of tool, and not naturally. Probably too difficult to make happen, though.

Asmotherion

2019-10-14, 05:01 AM

enderlord99

2019-10-14, 05:03 AM

Look at this mashup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSyFaIx90c) of two versions of the same song, both of which were internet-remixes of the same source material.

FinnLassie

2019-10-14, 03:02 PM

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes yesterday. Was at the supermarket this morning just marvelling at all the things I can't eat anymore... :smallfrown:

I'm allergic to soy, cannot have dairy or many grains unless I want my body to suffer, so I can relate to the long stares at all of the shelves of food I can't have any longer.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-14, 03:54 PM

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day everybody. :smile:

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-14, 04:19 PM

You might be underestimating the amount of time it'll take to genetically engineer plants that are both fully pest resistant yet at the same time not ecosystem-destroying.

Decades to centuries. It's still quicker than millennia,

Or turning the Earth into the bastard hellspawn of a desert and a marshland...

True, we might have to get the desert and marshland hitched quickly.

Sorry, I have trouble getting jokes over the internet. We should have a common indicator for it like we do for sarcasm.

That's fine, I was hoping the snark about the chickens being 'totally carbon based'.

WRT organic farming, I just don't care about it. I'm not exactly against it, more I just think we're starting to get tools that make it obsolete.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day everybody. :smile:

Considering that over here I'm partially indigenous (I'm somewhere up to half celtic, somewhere up to half germanic), go Indigenous People!

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-14, 06:42 PM

Decades to centuries. It's still quicker than millennia,

True, we might have to get the desert and marshland hitched quickly.

That's fine, I was hoping the snark about the chickens being 'totally carbon based'.

WRT organic farming, I just don't care about it. I'm not exactly against it, more I just think we're starting to get tools that make it obsolete.

Considering that over here I'm partially indigenous (I'm somewhere up to half celtic, somewhere up to half germanic), go Indigenous People!

{scrubbed}

Solamnicknight

2019-10-15, 01:08 AM

Comrade

2019-10-15, 02:38 AM

Hi everyone! Long time since I was on the forum. I got a new job in May and have been working on getting rid of my low self-esteem. I’m a library page now and am really enjoying it! I’m still working on my college degree, doing well in 3 out of 4 classes but am failing remedial algebra. I’m an online student. I’m horrible at math which is odd for a d&d player, but I comprehend the written word quite a bit better than complex numeric rules. Hope everyone is doing well, and hopefully I can find some time to post tomorrow. Going to get some sleep now!

I don't think I know you but welcome back!

So I did karaoke for the first time tonight, 'cause well, when a friend's feelin' low, you do what you've got to do to get them out of the house. All I can say is when your singing lexicon is limited to Georgian/Persian folk songs and outlaw country, karaoke is a struggle.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 03:47 AM

So I did karaoke for the first time tonight, 'cause well, when a friend's feelin' low, you do what you've got to do to get them out of the house. All I can say is when your singing lexicon is limited to Georgian/Persian folk songs and outlaw country, karaoke is a struggle.

I have a love-hate relationship with karaoke. On the one hand I have a good singing voice, on the o other hand I have an untrained singing voice so while I can hold a tune I tend to revert to monotone (and I'm aware of the fact). The end result is that despite loving to sing I won't do karaoke without being drunk (and I rarely drink these days).

But yeah, a good range of musical knowledge is fairly important. Knowing some of the more popular songs from the eighties through noughties has saved my life when there's no metal or youtube singers on offer.

Well I've started shaving my body hair, didn't get all the way through it this morning but I'm planning on going the 'no hair below the neckline' route because I think it looks better.

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 10:53 AM

Bah, it's like this 'organic' nonsense, I just had some organic eggs, they were from some totally carbon based chickens. I say we treat the artificial stuff like what it is, chemicals, and the natural stuff like what it is, chemicals.

And darn, a bit of milk in your omelette really does increase the fluffiness. I'm going to try to go and study French cooking now.

I return from the void! Blue is still here and says hi.

I'm glad you tried the milk in omelettes thing. It makes for some damn good egg-cake.

DataNinja

2019-10-15, 10:56 AM

I return from the void! Blue is still here and says hi.

Welcome back from the Void. How was Gilgamesh? :smalltongue:
(People still being where you expect them to be is much preferable to the alternative. :smallamused: )

Iruka

2019-10-15, 11:28 AM

I don't think I know you but welcome back!

So I did karaoke for the first time tonight, 'cause well, when a friend's feelin' low, you do what you've got to do to get them out of the house. All I can say is when your singing lexicon is limited to Georgian/Persian folk songs and outlaw country, karaoke is a struggle.

What is your favourite georgian or persian folk song?

https://i.imgur.com/RSIVRhe.png

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 11:34 AM

Welcome back from the Void. How was Gilgamesh? :smalltongue:
(People still being where you expect them to be is much preferable to the alternative. :smallamused: )

Greg is good, as ever and always. It snowed today and it's the "gonna stick around" snow.

Things are good though, yeah. Blue's gonna be going home today, came to work with me and such.

Solamnicknight

2019-10-15, 11:42 AM

I don't think I know you but welcome back!

So I did karaoke for the first time tonight, 'cause well, when a friend's feelin' low, you do what you've got to do to get them out of the house. All I can say is when your singing lexicon is limited to Georgian/Persian folk songs and outlaw country, karaoke is a struggle.

That’s good of you that you got your friend to go out. Also that’s cool you decided to go up and do some karaoke, that takes some confidence. Sounds like you had a good time!

DataNinja

2019-10-15, 12:13 PM

It snowed today and it's the "gonna stick around" snow.

Oh, oh fun. It's that season already. I wish you strength in getting through. Your're gonna need it to lift that shovel at this rate.

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 12:20 PM

Oh, oh fun. It's that season already. I wish you strength in getting through. Your're gonna need it to lift that shovel at this rate.

Foolish land dweller, I live in the sky (in the 7th floor of an apartment. I don't have to shovel~).

DataNinja

2019-10-15, 12:30 PM

Foolish land dweller, I live in the sky (in the 7th floor of an apartment. I don't have to shovel~).

Oh, lucky you. :smalltongue:
(Except I'm not actually that foolish, because of the low amount of snow we get here at least.)

Peelee

2019-10-15, 12:45 PM

Why y'all talking about shovels, do you dig a hole to put all that snow in? Is that how snow works?

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 12:53 PM

Why y'all talking about shovels, do you dig a hole to put all that snow in? Is that how snow works?

In Portland we hope it melts on its own. It isn't a great strategy :p

Peelee

2019-10-15, 12:58 PM

In Portland we hope it melts on its own. It isn't a great strategy :p

It's better than Birmingham's strategy of panic, hoard milk and bread, and close the whole damn state.:smallwink:

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 01:29 PM

It's better than Birmingham's strategy of panic, hoard milk and bread, and close the whole damn state.:smallwink:

Funny, that's the of the other Birmingham as well :smalltongue: If only because the entire shuts down at the first hint of snow, or even worse leaves on the line.

Peelee

2019-10-15, 01:41 PM

Funny, that's the of the other Birmingham as well :smalltongue: If only because the entire shuts down at the first hint of snow, or even worse leaves on the line.

It's a bonding moment!

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-15, 01:46 PM

I love pit bulls (dog). I don't understand why some people think that pit bulls are evil. It's just how people who train pit bulls.

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 01:52 PM

Why y'all talking about shovels, do you dig a hole to put all that snow in? Is that how snow works?

We use the shovel and we throw it Somewhere Else, so it's no longer in our way. Somewhere Else is usually a backyard or the road.

I love pit bulls (dog). I don't understand why some people think that pit bulls are evil. It's just how people who train pit bulls.

A lot of pit bull breeds can look scary. That's basically it.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 02:01 PM

I love pit bulls (dog). I don't understand why some people think that pit bulls are evil. It's just how people who train pit bulls.

Pitbulls=dogs
Dogs=scary
Pitbulls!=scary
Therefore scary!=scary

I'm confused? :smallconfused:

Comrade

2019-10-15, 02:16 PM

I have a love-hate relationship with karaoke. On the one hand I have a good singing voice, on the o other hand I have an untrained singing voice so while I can hold a tune I tend to revert to monotone (and I'm aware of the fact).

Well I've started shaving my body hair, didn't get all the way through it this morning but I'm planning on going the 'no hair below the neckline' route because I think it looks better.

I've contemplated springing for vocal lessons myself, since I do love singing and I wouldn't mind being able to do it without shattering windows and killing parties. Also, I've tried shaving body hair before, mainly out of curiosity, and boy is it a hassle. The itching is an absolute terror too. Would not recommend.

What is your favourite georgian or persian folk song?

My favorite Georgian folk song to sing is probably Tu Ase Turpa Iqavi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYF_MHTfMeo), which puzzlingly enough this Irish pub didn't have on their karaoke machine. So I settled for a less-than-spectacular rendition of Merle Haggard's 'Someday We'll Look Back'. My voice is pretty low and I struggle with some of Merle's higher-register stuff, but they didn't have the country artists I usually find better suited to my voice, so I had to work with what I had.

enderlord99

2019-10-15, 02:25 PM

Pitbulls=dogs
Dogs=scary
Pitbulls!=scary
Therefore scary!=scary

I'm confused? :smallconfused:

...Where'd you get the second line from? Dogs aren't scary; they're cute!

Peelee

2019-10-15, 02:26 PM

Dogs aren't scary; they're cute!

Ehhhhhhhhh...

I wouldn't use "cute" any more than I'd use "scary."

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 02:54 PM

I love pit bulls (dog). I don't understand why some people think that pit bulls are evil. It's just how people who train pit bulls.

The conflict is a proxy for nature vs. nurture arguments. People who don't buy into nurture arguments see the higher rates of attacks as indicative of the breed, people who don't but into nature arguments blame the training. There really isn't a point to arguing about it, because the axioms involved are fairly fundamental and the same data can be used to make either argument.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-15, 03:13 PM

The conflict is a proxy for nature vs. nurture arguments. People who don't buy into nurture arguments see the higher rates of attacks as indicative of the breed, people who don't but into nature arguments blame the training. There really isn't a point to arguing about it, because the axioms involved are fairly fundamental and the same data can be used to make either argument.

And is this based on facts or opinions? Because I know that some people buy pit bulls and take great care of them turn out to be wonderful pets.

Peelee

2019-10-15, 03:15 PM

And is this based on facts or opinions?

Well, if you can make the nature vs nurture debate factual, there's probably a Nobel Prize or two waiting for you.

enderlord99

2019-10-15, 03:16 PM

Ehhhhhhhhh...

I wouldn't use "cute" any more than I'd use "scary."

Depends on the dog, I guess.

Pugs and bulldogs are gross. Most others are cute.

Peelee

2019-10-15, 03:17 PM

Depends on the dog, I guess.

Pugs and bulldogs are gross. Most others are cute.

British bulldogs? Those are one of the few I would call cute.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 03:18 PM

And is this based on facts or opinions? Because I know that some people buy pit bulls and take great care of them turn out to be wonderful pets.

Which is great, but statistically they are involved in more attacks then other breeds.

The conflict is about how we interpret those statistics. Is it that pit bulls are more violent, or are bad owners more likely to get pit bulls?

For instance, some people raise tigers. Of those people, some have done so without getting attacked, but owning a tiger is still exponentially more dangerous then a dog.

Well, if you can make the nature vs nurture debate factual, there's probably a Nobel Prize or two waiting for you.

Exactly.

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 03:34 PM

Depends on the dog, I guess.

Pugs and bulldogs are gross. Most others are cute.

Pugs are only ugly because we selectively bred them until their noses stopped being functional.

enderlord99

2019-10-15, 03:37 PM

Pugs are only ugly because we selectively bred them until their noses stopped being functional.

I agree. American bulldogs likewise.

SZbNAhL

2019-10-15, 03:40 PM

Funny, that's true of the other Birmingham as well :smalltongue: If only because the entire city shuts down at the first hint of snow, or even worse leaves on the line.

Hey! As a former resident of The One True Birmingham who never got any time off for snow, I take offence at that. I'll have you know I had to wade through shin-high snow to get to my first ever university exam. And I still aced it.

Pitbulls=dogs
Dogs=scary
Pitbulls!=scary
Therefore scary!=scary

I'm confused? :smallconfused:

You're commiting the logical fallacy of assuming that a trait applicable to some members of a group (scary dogs are scary) is applicable to the whole group (dogs are scary).

Scary dogs = scary.
Scary dogs ∈ dogs.
Pitbulls ∈ dogs.
Pitbulls != scary.
∴Pitbulls !∈ scary dogs.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 03:40 PM

I agree. American bulldogs likewise.

I like bulldogs. Pugs are taking it a little far, and are too small to do the jobs I want dogs for, but bulldogs are nice. Cuddly, friendly, big happy smiles.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 03:43 PM

I've contemplated springing for vocal lessons myself, since I do love singing and I wouldn't mind being able to do it without shattering windows and killing parties.

Yeah, I really need to find a teacher for them. It's one of the weirdest things, in that I can hold a tune but I struggle with pitch vatiation.

Also, I've tried shaving body hair before, mainly out of curiosity, and boy is it a hassle. The itching is an absolute terror too. Would not recommend.

Eh, I don't get much body hair anyway, and shaving it off looks better. Ill agree it is a hassle (and takes an age), but the itching isn't that bad, and seems to mainly be caused by my clothes. But hopefully the areas which had longer hair won't take so long next time.

I'd share a picture as evidence, but I don't want to go through the hassle of making it board-safe.

...Where'd you get the second line from? Dogs aren't scary; they're cute!

Nearly blind as a small child+dogs being interested=lots of dogs suddenly appearing right in front of me. The effects still persist decades later.

Except for British Bulldogs, they're the only breed to be universily cute.

EDIT: @SZbNAhL you're making the mistake that I'm speaking just for myself. I have a general discomfort and low level fear of canines from experiences as a toddler, and I'm definitely not the only person I know to dislike dogs.

sktarq

2019-10-15, 04:00 PM

Except for British Bulldogs, they're the only breed to be universily cute.

EDIT: @SZbNAhL you're making the mistake that I'm speaking just for myself. I have a general discomfort and low level fear of canines from experiences as a toddler, and I'm definitely not the only person I know to dislike dogs.
Yeah I don't get how people find the modern British Bulldog breed cute TBH...Some of the older versions or recreations (like the Olde English Bulldogge) sure but the modern ones, they just strike a so "WRONG", and they have always brought out a mix of anger and pained empathy in me that I can never be comfortable around them.

Pugs are only ugly because we selectively bred them until their noses stopped being functional.
well their eye and spinal problems don't help. but the lack of a proper nose (and the associated horrifying breathing noises) is the biggie.

So I went to boarding school where we had a museum of paleontology on campus and I spent a lot of time around bones to the point where I picked up a kind of mental visual filter where you can "see"/track bones in living moving creatures (damn humans are weird organisms)...and dog breeds like the English bulldog, basset hounds, pugs, dachshunds, greyhounds, pop out massively as a distorted mess and thus kinda give me the creeps (and things like a Bedlington Terrier seem just fine in spite of their weird trims for the same reason)

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-15, 04:14 PM

Which is great, but statistically they are involved in more attacks than other breeds.

The conflict is about how we interpret those statistics. Is it that pit bulls are more violent, or are bad owners more likely to get pit bulls?

For instance, some people raise tigers. Of those people, some have done so without getting attacked, but owning a tiger is still exponentially more dangerous than a dog.

Exactly.

First off Pit bulls like all animals are neutral. It depends on the owner on how they train them. I don't believe that any animal no matter how vicious they are evil. It just like the Pokemon episode. I think Ekans and Koffing said Pokemon aren't evil, humans are. :annoyed:

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 04:20 PM

I don't believe that any animal no matter how vicious they are evil. It just like the Pokemon episode.

Somebody's never met a swan :smallwink:

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-15, 04:22 PM

Somebody's never met a swan :smallwink:

Swam aren't evil. Territorial yes but not evil.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 04:24 PM

First off Pit bulls like all animals are neutral. It depends on the owner on how they train them. I don't believe that any animal no matter how vicious they are evil. It just like the Pokemon episode. I think Ekans and Koffing said Pokemon aren't evil, humans are. :annoyed:

No one said they were evil. Animals aren't naturally safe to interact with, we bred them to act in ways we can control. Zebras bite and kick regardless of training, it is their instinct not to let you touch or ride them. You can't pen a gazelle, it will beat itself to death against the sides of the pen until they die.

Domestic animals share a hierarchy that humans can usurp. Horses live in fixed orders, we just convinced them we are on top of that order. Dogs live in packs, we live in herds so it is easy to get them to treat us as their parents.

No rhino can be made safe for human riding. You might get it to do what you want with enough sticks and carrots, but you can't be sure it is safe. A pet wolf is safer then a pet tiger, and a pet dog is tens of times safer then a pet wolf. Animals are never totally safe or predictable, it is about how much they average out.

So the question is if the breed of pit bulls makes them more dangerous then other dogs, or if bad pet owners just like pit bulls. The same question came up with bull dogs, rottweilers, dobermans, and dalmatians over the last century.

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 04:24 PM

Swam aren't evil. Territorial yes but not evil.

That's only because their GM banned evil alignments :smalltongue:

Peelee

2019-10-15, 04:27 PM

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-15, 04:28 PM

No one said they were evil. Animals aren't naturally safe to interact with, we bred them to act in ways we can control. Zebras bite and kick regardless of training, it is their instinct not to let you touch or ride them. You can't pen a gazelle, it will beat itself to death against the sides of the pen until they die.

Domestic animals share a hierarchy that humans can usurp. Horses live in fixed orders, we just convinced them we are on top of that order. Dogs live in packs, we live in herds so it is easy to get them to treat us as their parents.

No rhino can be made safe for human riding. You might get it to do what you want with enough sticks and carrots, but you can't be sure it is safe. A pet wolf is safer then a pet tiger, and a pet dog is tens of times safer then a pet wolf. Animals are never totally safe or predictable, it is about how much they average out.

So the question is if the breed of pit bulls makes them more dangerous then other dogs, or if bad pet owners just like pit bulls. The same question came up with bull dogs, rottweilers, dobermans, and dalmatians over the last century.
That's a very good point. Domestic animals are easier to tame than wild animals. By the way I'm an animal lover. :biggrin:

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-15, 04:39 PM

You need to not think about it in terms of good and evil. The real world isn't Pokémon or D&D.

citation needed

In all seriousness, I wouldn't be shocked if we all turned out to be characters in some slice of life RPG played in the next universe up. Tabletop or computer, although with my traits I feel like a minor NPC created by an algorithm.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 04:44 PM

citation needed

In all seriousness, I wouldn't be shocked if we all turned out to be characters in some slice of life RPG played in the next universe up. Tabletop or computer, although with my traits I feel like a minor NPC created by an algorithm.

If that were true then I would meet a PC at some point, presumably. Will I know they are a PC, or will I assume they are an NPC like me?

Are celebrities PCs or just really fancy NPCs for the PCs to meet? How many PCs are there for there to be so many NPCs? Is being a recurring NPC a blessing because your meaning in life was more important then selling McDonalds to a PC one time, or a curse because your life is crazy and tragic?

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-15, 04:44 PM

You need to not think about it in terms of good and evil. The real world isn't Pokémon or D&D.

I was only using Pokemon as an example to prove my point that's all I said. :annoyed:

Solamnicknight

2019-10-15, 09:37 PM

It's a bonding moment!
Gotta have the bread and milk. It drives me nuts when I have to grocery shop and a bunch of people are out buying bread and milk because of an impending snowstorm. Where I live you should expect some snow. I’m north of Pittsburgh fyi. My area is close enough to a certain Great Lake that snow is a common occurrence in winter.

Peelee

2019-10-15, 10:12 PM

Gotta have the bread and milk. It drives me nuts when I have to grocery shop and a bunch of people are out buying bread and milk because of an impending snowstorm. Where I live you should expect some snow. I’m north of Pittsburgh fyi. My area is close enough to a certain Great Lake that snow is a common occurrence in winter.

The Great Lakes create snow? That's erie.

Mith

2019-10-15, 10:23 PM

The Great Lakes create snow? That's erie.

I was expecting a Superior pun, to be honest.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-15, 10:52 PM

I was expecting a Superior pun, to be honest.

A pun war? Huron.

Peelee

2019-10-15, 10:54 PM

I was expecting a Superior pun, to be honest.

I thought it was pretty good. Have you checked your ears lately? Maybe your Huron's off.

flat_footed

2019-10-15, 11:14 PM

A pun war? Huron.

I thought it was pretty good. Have you checked your ears lately? Maybe your Huron's off.

Tyrant takes this round. Peelee's was a Michigan instead of a hit.

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 11:37 PM

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not sure I can bear these great lake puns any longer.

Peelee

2019-10-15, 11:41 PM

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not sure I can bear these great lake puns any longer.

Would you prefer it if we punned about Brazil instead? I could move the puns on to Rio.

What now, flat_footed?

LaZodiac

2019-10-15, 11:50 PM

Would you prefer it if we punned about Brazil instead? I could move the puns on to Rio.

What now, flat_footed?

All I'm saying is that this is erasure of the northern Great Lakes. Don't be a slave to your assumptions that people only know of the mid western ones.

flat_footed

2019-10-15, 11:54 PM

Would you prefer it if we pinned about Brazil instead? I could move the puns on to Rio.

What now, flat_footed?

Taking this to South America? What, should we believe you sailed with the Iron Fleet and Huron Greyjoy?

Regardless, I can't follow you there. The food doesn't agree with me. Have you seen what gets put in broth? I've never seen a Soup Erie'r than that.

Tvtyrant

2019-10-16, 12:18 AM

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not sure I can bear these great lake puns any longer.

Wait until we get to the bad lake puns :)

DataNinja

2019-10-16, 01:05 AM

All I'm saying is that this is erasure of the northern Great Lakes. Don't be a slave to your assumptions that people only know of the mid western ones.

But those are the Fundy ones to say. :smalltongue:

Insane Jeenyus

2019-10-16, 06:26 AM

Wait until we get to the bad lake puns :)

water they worried about?

Peelee

2019-10-16, 06:47 AM

All I'm saying is that this is erasure of the northern Great Lakes. Don't be a slave to your assumptions that people only know of the mid western ones.

OK, I'll bite. What are the northern Great Lakes? And are you sure they're not just Pretty Good Lakes?

LaZodiac

2019-10-16, 07:38 AM

OK, I'll bite. What are the northern Great Lakes? And are you sure they're not just Pretty Good Lakes?

Okay so living close to them makes them feel larger than they actually are, but Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake are very good lakes and should be counted amongst the others!

Peelee

2019-10-16, 07:52 AM

Okay so living close to them makes them feel larger than they actually are, but Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake are very good lakes and should be counted amongst the others!

No love for Great Salt Lake?

Anonymouswizard

2019-10-16, 08:47 AM

Your problem is that you're letting your lakes ruin wild! Better to lock them up in a nice, safe District :smalltongue:

DavidSh

2019-10-16, 08:52 AM

Where do you draw the line? If you include Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, then Lake Winnipeg and Lake Athabasca will want in.

Peelee

2019-10-16, 08:54 AM

Where do you draw the line? If you include Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, then Lake Winnipeg and Lake Athabasca will want in.

Those definitely sound like just OK lakes. What's great about 'em?

LaZodiac

2019-10-16, 09:28 AM

Where do you draw the line? If you include Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, then Lake Winnipeg and Lake Athabasca will want in.

No one cares about Lake Winnipeg, least of all people from Winnipeg.

Mith

2019-10-16, 09:29 AM

Those definitely sound like just OK lakes. What's great about 'em?

My Prairie born self remain unconvinced that most of the above mentioned lakes are not in fact seas that decided to lengthen the strait between them and the oceans to lower their salt content.

In all seriousness, first time I saw Lake Superior, my brain kinda just shut off (flying over it in an airplane and being unable to spot shorelines from that hieght for a while was a bit much).

factotum

2019-10-16, 10:18 AM

Your problem is that you're letting your lakes ruin wild! Better to lock them up in a nice, safe District :smalltongue:

Rutland Water isn't in the Lake District! :smallwink:

LaZodiac

2019-10-16, 01:59 PM

A lawyer and one of his assistants is up in our office today and the assistant in question is basically a roaming, sentient cloud of weed smoke and it could not be funnier. Just this completely stable and normal person going about doing legal work, while also smelling like a rope store caught on fire making everyone around her sleepy.

Solamnicknight

2019-10-16, 07:22 PM

The Great Lakes create snow? That's erie. I should’ve seen that coming.

Bartmanhomer

2019-10-16, 07:41 PM

I created four superheroes:

Tier-Man, Tier-Woman, Tier-Boy and Tier-Girl

Their powers is to increased their tier power from Bottom-Tier To God-Tier. So what do you think of my superheroes? :smile: