Devmaar's Notably Unalliterative Random Banter #191

[Devmaar]

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[Amidus Drexel]

You ninja'd my edit! Take my nickname; I don't deserve it anymore!

(You did fine; I'd suggest adding the link to the last thread to the list too, to help out the next person that does it)

I'm not much of a dancer, but I'll twitch over here in the corner while we celebrate.

ION: I have so much homework due tomorrow (and I mean in the sense that I can't turn it in any later, not that it was actually due tomorrow... most of it was due weeks ago) that isn't getting done... I should actually start on the physics stuff.

Bah, tomorrow.

[Devmaar]

You ninja'd my edit! Take my nickname; I don't deserve it anymore!

(You did fine; I'd suggest adding the link to the last thread to the list too, to help out the next person that does it)

In doing this I discovered I'd typoed in the part asking if I'd done it ok

ION: I have so much homework due tomorrow (and I mean in the sense that I can't turn it in any later, not that it was actually due tomorrow... most of it was due weeks ago) that isn't getting done... I should actually start on the physics stuff.

Bah, tomorrow.

Sometimes I think you might be the American me, but then I remember you have 'talents'

[Dimonite]

*Gavotte*

You've done a fine job, Devmaar.

I never knew of the plant kingdom; I really shouldn't be seriously considering buying it in amazon...

DO EET. I'd still have all of them, but my dad made me get rid of them a few years ago.

I'm severely tempted to find sheet music of both of those songs. They were really amazing.

Even after all this time.

The goo song is totally Beatles.

YUS.
I think that awesome music is always awesome, regardless of how much we grow up. In fact, it becomes even MORE awesome due to nostalgia goggles.

And I believe the Beatles thing is intentional. If it's not, I'll eat some of that polluted goo.

[TaiLiu]

I knew the first part (we're both referring to MoonCat, right?), didn't know the second part (she's on my ignore list now, so I didn't get the update), and needed ten or more characters.

Hm. If you don't mind me asking, why does this hatred exist between the two of you? (If this is offensive in any way, I apologise.)

ION: I have so much homework due tomorrow (and I mean in the sense that I can't turn it in any later, not that it was actually due tomorrow... most of it was due weeks ago) that isn't getting done... I should actually start on the physics stuff.

Bah, tomorrow.

Do you have enough time tomorrow...?

[enderlord99]

The previous thread said it was LDK's birthday!

By the way, who's Nic, and why is his arse in this new bottle of flavoring?
Oh well, might as well bake another cake wi- OH NO YOU DON'T!

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Hm. If you don't mind me asking, why does this hatred exist between the two of you? (If this is offensive in any way, I apologise.)

I have no idea, honestly. And no, I'm not offended, though she might be (if she were here now).

[Devmaar]

Do you have enough time tomorrow...?

Based on all my (extensive) knowledge of leaving work to the last possible minute: no, but it'll do.

[AsteriskAmp]

DO EET. I'd still have all of them, but my dad made me get rid of them a few years ago.

I still have them. Order has been placed, totally worth it.

YUS.
I think that awesome music is always awesome, regardless of how much we grow up. In fact, it becomes even MORE awesome due to nostalgia goggles.

And I believe the Beatles thing is intentional. If it's not, I'll eat some of that polluted goo.

That music was and is glorious. Someone should write an orchestra version of it...


Happy Birthday LDK!

[Amidus Drexel]

Sometimes I think you might be the American me, but then I remember you have 'talents'

I play a good deal of instruments, but that's about it... Well, I'm loud. But that's not really a talent.

Hm. If you don't mind me asking, why does this hatred exist between the two of you? (If this is offensive in any way, I apologise.)

Do you have enough time tomorrow...?

As my understanding goes... Conflicting personalities, mostly. Both of them have a tendency to overreact to stuff, and neither are very tactful when they're angry or upset; this makes a feedback loop, of sorts. They're just different enough to dislike each other, and just similar enough for it to get brought up a lot. That's my take on it, anyway.

Probably not.

Based on all my (extensive) knowledge of leaving work to the last possible minute: no, but it'll do.

Nailed it.

[Mutant Sheep]

Reposting, cuz... augh.

I remember... A game about grapes, kr simething. And pizza feeding? Bad memory.

Hey, guy two pages back who got Luigi Mansion 2 (Lord Deep right?):Are there multiple save files? I heard there was some kind of multiplayer, is there? RANDOM QUESTIOOOOOON.

Ya damn new thread.

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MoonCat and Ender don't get along because *list of grviances for both sides, then a personal complaint and blatant side-picking goes here*

Amidus has school tomorrow? eww.

[TaiLiu]

I play a good deal of instruments, but that's about it... Well, I'm loud. But that's not really a talent.

You're an Eagle Scout, no? That seems to imply leadership abilities, along with outdoor knowledge and first aid training.

As my understanding goes... Conflicting personalities, mostly. Both of them have a tendency to overreact to stuff, and neither are very tactful when they're angry or upset; this makes a feedback loop, of sorts. They're just different enough to dislike each other, and just similar enough for it to get brought up a lot. That's my take on it, anyway.

Ah.

Probably not.

[Devmaar]

I play a good deal of instruments, but that's about it... Well, I'm loud. But that's not really a talent.

The music is what I was referring to. I've always found musical talent to be particularly impressive, probably because my own attempts have all been so humorously bad

[TaiLiu]

MoonCat and Ender don't get along because *list of grviances for both sides, then a personal complaint and blatant side-picking goes here*

Hm. What are these grievances?

[absolmorph]

-waltzes with a chair-

So, turns out I play a fairly effective utility character in a fairly low-power system with only a handful of abilities.
I don't even use my "make things up about the setting" ability. I should start using that, actually. I could have fun.
Now to figure out what I could stick in a spell-focused ability set that would make him even better at being a utility knife...

[Mutant Sheep]

Hm. What are these grievances?

Gah, i dont wanna archive search, but I don't wanna be innaccurate! THE PAIN.

On multiple occassions, Ender takes something Moonie said too seriously or she phrased something wrong, he questioned (sometimes too... Brashly), she responds angrily, we all go "those two... *dissapproving head shake*, and they wind up tiring themselves out. Though the recent birthday thread thing he did for her is a bit indicative of the way they get along.

[Amidus Drexel]

You're an Eagle Scout, no? That seems to imply leadership abilities, along with outdoor knowledge and first aid training.

Well, yes, but... yes, okay, fine. A lot of that consists of common sense and "don't piss off people/wild animals" (regarding leadership and survival skills). Still, it's knowledge I guess a lot of people don't have. Hrm...

Well, there's only one class (English) I'll definitely get an F in if I don't turn any of my stuff in, and all of the really easy work is for that class; I can finish it in an hour or so, (especially if I only do half of it). Really, the time-consuming part will be my stuff for physics... I'll have to see what I can get away with not doing. I doubt I'll get an A, but I should be fine.

The music is what I was referring to. I've always found musical talent to be particularly impressive, probably because my own attempts have all been so humorously bad

Heh, that's my take on art; I can't draw very well (and god forbid someone gives me a paintbrush ), so I'm easily impressed by fancy artwork.

-waltzes with a chair-

So, turns out I play a fairly effective utility character in a fairly low-power system with only a handful of abilities.
I don't even use my "make things up about the setting" ability. I should start using that, actually. I could have fun.
Now to figure out what I could stick in a spell-focused ability set that would make him even better at being a utility knife...

The ability to conjure small non-magical objects; that's always useful.

[Devmaar]

Hm. What are these grievances?

I would say this is probably an issue best not delved into

-waltzes with a chair-

So, turns out I play a fairly effective utility character in a fairly low-power system with only a handful of abilities.
I don't even use my "make things up about the setting" ability. I should start using that, actually. I could have fun.
Now to figure out what I could stick in a spell-focused ability set that would make him even better at being a utility knife...

Ooh, what system?

Heh, that's my take on art; I can't draw very well (and god forbid someone gives me a paintbrush ), so I'm easily impressed by fancy artwork.

I lack artsy skills too, but it doesn't impress me as much as music does...
Maybe because I know more artists than musicians?

[TaiLiu]

Gah, i dont wanna archive search, but I don't wanna be innaccurate! THE PAIN.

On multiple occassions, Ender takes something Moonie said too seriously or she phrased something wrong, he questioned (sometimes too... Brashly), she responds angrily, we all go "those two... *dissapproving head shake*, and they wind up tiring themselves out. Though the recent birthday thread thing he did for her is a bit indicative of the way they get along.

Hm. So, the way I'm seeing it right now: they're too different to like each other, but they continue to try to bond, but they can't. Am I correct?

Well, yes, but... yes, okay, fine. A lot of that consists of common sense and "don't piss off people/wild animals" (regarding leadership and survival skills). Still, it's knowledge I guess a lot of people don't have. Hrm...

Is it? Things like building fires and building shelters don't seem to be that simple to me. Leadership also seems to be difficult.

Just from this alone, I would say that you have plenty of talents.

Well, there's only one class (English) I'll definitely get an F in if I don't turn any of my stuff in, and all of the really easy work is for that class; I can finish it in an hour or so, (especially if I only do half of it). Really, the time-consuming part will be my stuff for physics... I'll have to see what I can get away with not doing. I doubt I'll get an A, but I should be fine.

Ah. That's good.

I would say this is probably an issue best not delved into-

I can definitely see problems that could be caused by asking...

[Amidus Drexel]

I lack artsy skills too, but it doesn't impress me as much as music does...
Maybe because I know more artists than musicians?

Probably; I only know a handful of artists, but a lot of musicians.

Is it? Things like building fires and building shelters don't seem to be that simple to me. Leadership also seems to be difficult.

Just from this alone, I would say that you have plenty of talents.

Ah. That's good.

Fires are really easy to start; I could list tons of cheap firestarters and things that make good tinder... I'm proving your point, aren't I? Shelters are a common sense one, and leadership is practice, social skills, and luck.

Well, no, not really, but it's salvageable, and that's the important part. I would've done work yesterday if I had paid more attention to my schedule.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Rhode Island is a state and Rhodes is an island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece as I recall. Culturally Greek or Grecian or whatever the term for living people from Greece as opposed to the ones from antiquity.

Yay! I was right.

Hehe. Slytherin. *guffaw, guffaw*

I think there's only one way that it can play out.

Death Eaters? Wearing lots of green? Being type cast as evil because Rowling failed at her 'all houses are equal' shtick?

Wow.

The joys of one hundred and fifty plus year old rail lines

Mostly because I like the name Penzance and then also because I have to actually check what sort of distances are involved in traveling in the UK so that I have some way to actually imagine them, because my imagination is not very good. It's part of being terminally square, you see, my imagination is atrophied.

It's an Anglicisation of Pensans - holy headland, referring to the chapel of St. Anthony's where a chapel has stood for the last thousand years. Somewhat morbidly, the town's official symbol is the head of St. John the Baptist.
Someone back in time had a very morbid sense of humour indeed.
Oh, and to break your break more?
Penzance (the end of the railway line) is roughly seventy-five miles from Plymouth. Plymouth is in the next county and the official start of Devon.
Two hours to travel seventy-five miles.

Have I? I've always figured myself to be more a Ravenclaw. Slytherin might be my second strongest pull, but I can't think what was particularly Slytherin-like about this situation.
I don't know if the other guys will be as keen, but it's entirely possible they won't object, I guess?

I just figured it sneaky; not watching a film you can easily locate and watch in order to coerce a friend into making a Disney movie night. And I can always lend you the DVD to watch on the way back home. Don't know how much it'd cost to mail it back, not more than a couple pound though right?
Funny thing about those silly Sorting Hat quizzes: I always get a different result every time (though markedly less Gryffindor than everything else). Shows how silly they are.

I'm just going to bring a duvet instead. Makes packing easier as well 'cause it's more flexible.

Duvets are weird. I've not used one in seven years or so if I had other options. And it takes up waaaaaaaay more room than a sleeping bag!

I'd be able to manage with a pretty small bag if I didn't have to bring sleeping stuff and want to bring my laptop.

Yup. Except I also get easily bored so books.

[TaiLiu]

Fires are really easy to start; I could list tons of cheap firestarters and things that make good tinder... I'm proving your point, aren't I? Shelters are a common sense one, and leadership is practice, social skills, and luck.

Would it be, though? It's probably common sense for you and your scout buddies, but if someone never ventured into the wilderness, he or she would probably lack the knowledge needed to build a good shelter.

[Amidus Drexel]

Would it be, though? It's probably common sense for you and your scout buddies, but if someone never ventured into the wilderness, he or she would probably lack the knowledge needed to build a good shelter.

Really, either you have the things with you to make a good shelter (a tarp, some sort of small rope; twine is okay, para-cord is better), or you half-ass it with sticks, trees, rocks, and any available cloth (clothing, etc.). If you can tie an overhand knot (this is for you, people that can tie their own shoes), then you can make a lean-to (admittedly, a rather poor one) out of a jacket, two decent-sized sticks, and something to lean them against.

I mean, the idea behind making a shelter is that you use what you've got; it doesn't take much skill to keep the rain off of you if you've got enough material to cover yourself. (otherwise, it's damn near impossible). I've slept in a hammock under a tarp several times (Note: do not do this in heavy wind/extreme cold; not fun.) and never got wet (even when it rained), and that's about as little shelter as you can have and have it still qualify as "shelter".

...I suppose you're right... it's just something that strikes me as obvious enough that anyone should be able to do it, even without much experience.

[TaiLiu]

...I suppose you're right... it's just something that strikes me as obvious enough that anyone should be able to do it, even without much experience.

I agree. With proper instruction or teaching, one could easily build one. However, one must obtain the knowledge or experience in some way; it's easy to do once one knows how.

[absolmorph]

Ooh, what system?

A modified version of the Marvel Heroic RP system.
We basically took the dice rolling mechanic and the general feel (sans the heroic at the moment, since we started at a lower power level), stuck it in a medieval-ish light fantasy setting, and started playing.

The ability to conjure small non-magical objects; that's always useful.

I will definitely see if I can come up with a way to do that, but that's unlikely to be a consistent dice rolling thing (which is what I want).

[Deathkeeper]

Reposting, cuz... augh.

I remember... A game about grapes, kr simething. And pizza feeding? Bad memory.

Hey, guy two pages back who got Luigi Mansion 2 (Lord Deep right?):Are there multiple save files? I heard there was some kind of multiplayer, is there? RANDOM QUESTIOOOOOON.

Ya damn new thread.

You might want to google that. I'm not opening LM2 until I beat Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (or as I like to call it, Dr. Pokemon MD), on account of playing multiple games at once causes me to never finish either.

Side note: PMD has made one of the greatest NPCs ever in the form of Quagsire. Who, as the expression goes, gives so few ****s at the start of the game that even your super-nice partner character calls him a bit of a jerk. Who, at some point, mastered Batman's interrogations skills such that Scraggy wets his pants every time he looks in his general direction. Who was knighted at some point even though there isn't a monarch in this universe. All the while almost never changing his derpy facial expression.

[Mutant Sheep]

Which Mystery Dungeon is this? The new nin-sprite one? It looks so weeeiiiird.

[LaZodiac]

You might want to google that. I'm not opening LM2 until I beat Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (or as I like to call it, Dr. Pokemon MD), on account of playing multiple games at once causes me to never finish either.

Side note: PMD has made one of the greatest NPCs ever in the form of Quagsire. Who, as the expression goes, gives so few ****s at the start of the game that even your super-nice partner character calls him a bit of a jerk. Who, at some point, mastered Batman's interrogations skills such that Scraggy wets his pants every time he looks in his general direction. Who was knighted at some point even though there isn't a monarch in this universe. All the while almost never changing his derpy facial expression.

The Mystery Dungeon Pokémon games are fantastic in basically every way. If I recall, this game in particular actually shows

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someone legitimately getting KILLED FOR REAL.

[factotum]

Penzance (the end of the railway line) is roughly seventy-five miles from Plymouth. Plymouth is in the next county and the official start of Devon.
Two hours to travel seventy-five miles.

That's actually not as bad as you think it is. I just checked out what Bing and Google say for a journey from Penzance to Plymouth by car, and Bing said 1hr 50m while Google has 1hr 42. Not all that much faster, and from what I remember of the roads when I've been on holiday in Devon, not surprising to me either!

[Elemental]

Just like when we play Half-Life and you rocket across the map and SOMEHOW hit me and blow me up?

It's the only thing in that game that really works as a sniper rifle. I mean... The crossbow is useless at range.

Rocket sniping. For when you REALLY want someone to go "What the hell just happened?"

Yep.

I dunno; I like to put the difficulty on Nightmare (e.g. the "Nothing stays dead" difficulty) and then just try to finish the levels.

I don't think I ever found all the secret doors except in the first level.

But the whole point of the game is to find the secret doors!

It's a tradition to complain about the trains. And seeing as I don't even know where Rhodes is (I think there's one in Greece, and given Rhode Island is . . . a state in America? And it might have a Rhodes in it?) I'm almost certainly wrong.

I can't believe you didn't know... I mean... It's a fairly historically significant island...

@Curly - Yes, Rhode Island is a state. It's not very big, though.

It's not even an island. I mean... How can they look at their children knowing they've perpetrated such a falsehood for so long?
Yes, I know there is an island by that name.

Watching my bro's soccer game (football to the rest of the world - America is weird). Intentionally cheering and banging my feet out of rhythm with the rest of the stands

Don't worry. We call it soccer here as well.

Hm. What are these grievances?

It's just best not to discuss it. All you need to know is that the whole thing has been blown out of proportion multiple times.

[gooddragon1]

Goku, 4 power levels (super saiyan modes)... 1 anime ... meh
Al Bundy, 4 touch downs... not 1 season... 1 game ... pro.