TaiLiu's Tea-Filled Tome of Random Banter #193

[mistformsquirrl]

Supreme < ._.> We have an awesome pizza place here in town; but it's crazy expensive too >.< (we spent 24 dollars on a single large (including tip)) - Worth it when I can afford it, but definitely not something I can order routinely <@_@>

What makes it so good is the sauce. It's just flatly better than any other pizza sauce I've ever had. (The crust is particularly tasty as well) < ._.> I am a stuffed squirrel now.

@Mutant Sheep - <^,^> Very welcome!

[TaiLiu]

Good.

Yes, indeed!

Yes, if I want to take Calculus, I have to spend my precious summer doing this ****. Where it's not even clear I'll understand the subject enough to be ready for Precalc, because I'm going to do this entire course without a ****ing teacher.

Wait. They just send you course material? I... I...

Dude, seriously, don't try and play peacemaker. Just don't.

I'll need some time to think about this...

Two classes? I have to study one section of the chapter everyday and take a giant test every week! ALL SUMMER! I am losing sleep over the amount of extra work I'll have to do just so I'll be able to go to Europe to see my rapidly dying uncle and my slowly-dying grandparents for less than two measly weeks before one of them will be gone forever and the other two will not see me again for a year at best! Last year I had a month. Now I have to fly home alone because of the ****ing schools being ****ing stupid when it comes to EVERYTHING.

Supreme < ._.> We have an awesome pizza place here in town; but it's crazy expensive too >.< (we spent 24 dollars on a single large (including tip)) - Worth it when I can afford it, but definitely not something I can order routinely <@_@>

What makes it so good is the sauce. It's just flatly better than any other pizza sauce I've ever had. (The crust is particularly tasty as well) < ._.> I am a stuffed squirrel now.

@Mutant Sheep - <^,^> Very welcome!

Ah! What was the general flavour?

[LaZodiac]

EDIT: LaLa, okay. Make sure she seem's like she's normal but is basically hanging by a thread. Also, she's not going to make any new friends. Not for now. Wait until I get back, just have her be distant and functional for now, oaky?

Okay then I've probably been doing it wrong then. I had Bast spar with Carric to vent her frustrations a bit, and though she hasn't done anything with Cobra's character, she's going to soon (she's gonna have him set up a bomb trap for her to spring on The Lich).

But, since you're the player, I will do as you ask.

[MoonCat]

Wait. They just send you course material? I... I...

I'll need some time to think about this...

Yep. Gave me a textbook, and they send me the tests when I email them.



Did it sound fun for a moment?

Okay then I've probably been doing it wrong then. I had Bast spar with Carric to vent her frustrations a bit, and though she hasn't done anything with Cobra's character, she's going to soon (she's gonna have him set up a bomb trap for her to spring on The Lich).

But, since you're the player, I will do as you ask.

She'll work with people, just, no emotion. Or sharing. Or happy.

[LaZodiac]

Yep. Gave me a textbook, and they send me the tests when I email them.



Did it sound fun for a moment?

I responded to your thing concerning Bast. Don't miss it!

Okay then. I guess I'll just...not have to roleplay then. Because the way you ask it she just won't really do anything.

[TaiLiu]

Yep. Gave me a textbook, and they send me the tests when I email them.

Ah. Rough.

Did it sound fun for a moment?

Up until you revealed that there was no teacher? Yes.

[MoonCat]

I responded to your thing concerning Bast. Don't miss it!

Okay then. I guess I'll just...not have to roleplay then. Because the way you ask it she just won't really do anything.

Nah... just... do what you want.

Up until you revealed that there was no teacher? Yes.

What?

Oh, I'll have a tutor. My parents had to privately arrange that and pay for it out of their own pocket.

[LaZodiac]

Nah... just... do what you want.

No, it's ok. It's your character after all. I reacted to harshly, sorry if I sounded mean.

[Coidzor]

OH you're such a tease Moony. I can't quit you

What does skwak mean? Is it the sound you make when I give you a crushing hug?

Why can't you quit her?

I thought it was SWALK, only with a ba-kwawk! added in. Because she's so indignant she's gone full-squawk.

Moonly

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Nope. Not even close. And yes, I've been called that repeatedly.

I'm not doing that!

I beat him up anyway. And I don't think he's dumb enough to confess to something he hasn't done.

WHYYYYY?

Yep. Totes. Then you should understand the general principles, no?

Good, then you should be able to listen to reason.

Well, if you're beating him up already, can you blame him for starting to think of you in a certain way? Dumbness got nothing to do with it.

Just Cause.

Look, I really doubt he'd find me aesthetically pleasing. Also, yes, I am. It's not, like, unhealthily overweight, but I'm hardly a skinny person.

Why? Cite reasons and sources.

Also, there's a range between skinny (and most people seem to mean anorexic when they say skinny) and pudgy.

I'll take it as a "he's just being weird" then. You guys are so desperate to ship me with someone, it's hilarious.

Feh, I thought my eyes stayed the same color too.

That doesn't even make any sense and smacks of the aforementioned denial by blinding one's self to reality. Even weirdness has a source, cause, and explanation which can be dissected given even a half-arsed effort.

How often do you really think about your eye color and gaze into them.

Or social weirdness, which is infinitely more likely.

No crushes! It doesn't happen!

Well, you have to factor in how much social weirdness stems from hormones, UST, and other maladies of the endocrine system.

They're an established fact of life, sorry.

Elly!

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Coidzor, the Occasionally Knighted:

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Wait... They fit another word in there as well?

Generic term Mr. Coidzor. Sorcerer here being defined as a practitioner of sorcery, sorcery being defined as magic.

Modesty is never out of place. Except when it is.

Wait... So you're purposefully leaving things up to uncertainty?!?! You monster!

Surely your accents aren't that radically different from my own...

You assume much. I was merely stating that if I did have otherworldly ancestors, it would be a family secret and not for open discussion save on pain of death.
And by the heavens, half-breeds annoy me as a fictional element. It seems like a completely pointless method of adding variety to an otherwise lacklustre group of characters and or world.
"Hmm... All our characters are fundamentally the same... I know! One of them will be half-demon!"[/end mini rant]

So... A wizard? I mean... Santa Claus is magic after all...

It's more implied.

Sorcerers don't get as awesome facial hair though.

That pretty much sums it up.

Might I even be some kind of Uncertainty Lich!? Nah....

More an unavoidable facet of human actors.

Heh. There are accents from where I grew up that I can't understand. And people from overseas have difficulty understanding me despite having an almost Midwestern accent, the most easily understood of the lot, which is why all our of newscasters have them.

Well, you know, there's being half supernatural entity and then there's being less than 1/100th supernatural entity.

I guess there's no accounting for grandma's getting drunk in the middle of winter and sleeping with the wrong grandpa.

Something like that, I suppose.

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I find it decidedly uncomfortable. Which is why I never do it. Unfortunately, I find a general lack of wall hangings and windows the bane of my existence.

Damn instinctual dominance rituals... They almost never work on cats...

Well... Not seriously anyway...

You do realise I never actually click on your links? Well I do... But only so I know what the title of the video is.

Probably. Psychology is an interesting field of study after all.

Oh early seasons Worf... So ridiculous.

I wonder at what age a person realises that fervent denial never works? As a scholar, I'd be interested in someone studying that so I can read about it.

Everything's creepy when one thinks about it.

Well, I never did any of those youth group type activities. So I'm hopeless at tents, can't make fire from local ingredients and don't have the technical know how of helping the elderly across busy streets.

And it's especially annoying when one lives in a country where quail has to imported, thus preventing one from practically being able to kill it themselves. Though I have heard all manner of nice things about game birds of course despite never having had one.

By definition, an interesting hobby is one that holds your interest, so it has to be enjoyable or one will just give it up as boring.

Well... You can if you win the lottery twenty-seven times in a row.
Which reminds me of some funny dialogue from a book about aliens forced to seek refuge on Earth:
"But X, everyone cheats at the government lottery."
"Yes Father, but not twenty-seven times in a row!"
It's funnier with the nostalgia. I love that book...

I'm ok with it in and of itself. It's the reactions I don't enjoy. ~Unless they're good ones.~ In which case it's something I enjoy and is enjoyed, but that's kind of rare.

That's why I headboop/headbutt cats. Into submission. Or Flight. One or the other. Dominance rituals are kind of annoying.

No, just ironically, yeah.

Your loss.

If you find the right sources to follow, yeah. Has its fair share of weird back alleys.

That was basically his job at the time, aye.

Almost never, in some cases. Before puberty for others.

Like carbohydrates all being sugar at the end of the day... *shudder*



Hell, I'm surprised you guys are even able to import it even remotely economically.

Oh, sure, be reasonable. Don't include the requirement it be one that won't embarrass you at parties if it comes to light.

I think that just leads to the next chapter, "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems."

Coodz:Herpadurp its funny cuz its like Woriria saided it.

Mbwhahaha? It wasn't essentially inaccurate, the Eastern Theatre was a mess of actual military maneuvers.

A guy. A dood. Old. Was the dude before Hitler was the dood. Old then too. Really, Franćois was the one who did most of the work, but a Jackson/Lee comparison would be too flattering to both Hinden and Franć.

Something like that.

Sounds about right.

Ahh.

[Mutant Sheep]

Coidzor: Be that a DM of the Rings reference there? Well played, sir. Well played.*light applause*

[TaiLiu]

What?

The animosity between you and Enderlord99 crushes me like a nutcracker on a crab. It's not your fault or your worry; it's just something I have to deal with.

Oh, I'll have a tutor. My parents had to privately arrange that and pay for it out of their own pocket.

Oh. Well, that's a bitter-sweet resolution, but a teacher is always nice...

[Mutant Sheep]

The animosity between you and Enderlord99 crushes me like a nutcracker on a crab. It's not your fault or your worry; it's just something I have to deal with.

Oh. Well, that's a bitter-sweet resolution, but a teacher is always nice...

Yeah, it's a rotten deal for most everyone. Most problems are, really. That's nothin' though. Once, me and Blue Ghost? WE WAS UPSETTED. (Cuz I kept *****ing about Yugiohs metagame and general dckery. Also, clown control.)

This is a public school, Moonie? That is.... Punchable.

[Coidzor]

Coidzor: Be that a DM of the Rings reference there? Well played, sir. Well played.*light applause*

What can I say. I'm an old fogey to Mooncat.

[TaiLiu]

Yeah, it's a rotten deal for most everyone. Most problems are, really. That's nothin' though. Once, me and Blue Ghost? WE WAS UPSETTED. (Cuz I kept *****ing about Yugiohs metagame and general dckery. Also, clown control.)

Ah. How did it get resolved?

This is a public school, Moonie? That is.... Punchable.

What, the school?

[Mutant Sheep]

Ah. How did it get resolved?

What, the school?

Stopped playing Yugioh. Worked out well, I think. I don't get upset about overpowered XYZ summons and sngnfrgn STARLIGHT ROAD IS THE WORST IDEA GRAAAAAIUUGH
(And Blue does Bloo Stoof)

Si. That is a... Dumb policy and thing. Unlogicaley.

[TaiLiu]

Stopped playing Yugioh. Worked out well, I think. I don't get upset about overpowered XYZ summons and sngnfrgn STARLIGHT ROAD IS THE WORST IDEA GRAAAAAIUUGH
(And Blue does Bloo Stoof)

Ah. That is good.

Si. That is a... Dumb policy and thing. Unlogicaley.

Maybe they couldn't afford a teacher, or maybe they thought that MoonCat - with her grade skipping and all - was intelligent enough to not need one. Either way; yes, the final result is bad.

(Also, this is part of your five-day weekend, right?)

[Elemental]

Damn... I can't think of any suitable diminutives for Coidzor...

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Sorcerers don't get as awesome facial hair though.

Might I even be some kind of Uncertainty Lich!? Nah....

Heh. There are accents from where I grew up that I can't understand. And people from overseas have difficulty understanding me despite having an almost Midwestern accent, the most easily understood of the lot, which is why all our of newscasters have them.

Well, you know, there's being half supernatural entity and then there's being less than 1/100th supernatural entity.

I guess there's no accounting for grandma's getting drunk in the middle of winter and sleeping with the wrong grandpa.

What about Dumbledore? One of his titles was Grand Sorcerer.
I mean... The terms wizard and sorcerer are interchangeable...

I don't particularly care. In my mind, the more important an endeavour, the less uncertainty one should allow in their plans.

I on the other hand seem to have grown up in an area where everyone has understandable accents even if they are from New Zealand or South Africa.

It just seems particularly overused in modern fiction, both of the fantasy and science fiction varieties.

I'll thank you not to cast aspersions upon my grandmothers.

I'm ok with it in and of itself. It's the reactions I don't enjoy. ~Unless they're good ones.~ In which case it's something I enjoy and is enjoyed, but that's kind of rare.

That's why I headboop/headbutt cats. Into submission. Or Flight. One or the other. Dominance rituals are kind of annoying.

Your loss.

If you find the right sources to follow, yeah. Has its fair share of weird back alleys.

That was basically his job at the time, aye.

Almost never, in some cases. Before puberty for others.

Like carbohydrates all being sugar at the end of the day... *shudder*

Hell, I'm surprised you guys are even able to import it even remotely economically.

Oh, sure, be reasonable. Don't include the requirement it be one that won't embarrass you at parties if it comes to light.

I think that just leads to the next chapter, "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems."

Eh. I'm just shy.

They are. The worst part is how we still have them encoded into our genes despite history. Oh well... Body language can still be useful.

But I'm listening to modern opera!

That's like the majority of knowledge. The only difference is that psychology likes to illuminate the darker parts of nature for the fun of it.

Though I am very fond of how they did his character in later seasons.

People are weird and then they're variable in their weirdness. This is why I need an ivory tower. That way, people can go on quests to seek me out if they need my wisdom.

I'm sure not all of them are. Just most of them.

Well... Not me. Rich people. Hence why I've never tasted quail.

That too. It's the main reason I never tell anyone about myself because then they'll tell other people.

Which is the exact reason why the family in question purchased a dodgy second hand space raft and hid out on Earth. Being thrown in prison is never fun.

The animosity between you and Enderlord99 crushes me like a nutcracker on a crab. It's not your fault or your worry; it's just something I have to deal with.

It's pretty soul crushing for us all, but neither party will admit their own failings. My only suggestion is to leave MoonCat and Enderlord to the mess they made for themselves.
You have a gentle soul TaiLiu, and I don't want you to get embroiled in their hate.

[sabelo2000]

The symbol - a Caduceus - isn't the symbol for medicine, though; it's actually the Rod of Asclepius.

Then again, it is widely misused.

Fact. Early on, the rod of Hermes (patron of doctors) was confused with the rod of Asclepius, so somewhere between the (American) Civil War and WWI the Cacuceus became the accepted (and established) symbol for medicine.

And thanks, all. BTW Araveugnitsuga it's First Class, or will be soon. But congrats on recognizing the Navy insignia and title!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I'm sorry to hear that. At least it's more than half over now. :/

Not a good thing to contemplate either way, really.

Well, that sucks.

Pretty good, depending on where you live.

Depends on where you live. Up here in Minnesota, you'd probably have to taunt him by shooting at him once or twice. In certain parts of America, though, all you have to do is stick your tongue out at him.

... But seriously, don't actually taunt a cop into shooting you. This is just a dark humor thing I do. I hope tomorrow is better for you.

Well thanks for the support, guys. For what it's worth the month HAS improved, but that may be because nothing short of the intervention of a plague could have made it worse.

I'll add it to my signature.

And my journey towards forum celebritae begins...

[Amidus Drexel]

Si. Si. Si. I just dispute saying "Poland was streamrolled during WWI by Germany and Russia" because "Poland" was not a genuine state. WW2, sure, Stalin and Hitler suck. But Caesar and Caesar did no steamrolling of a nation called Poland. (Now, armies occupying and partially formed of territories that could be called Poland being steamrolled, I can be slightly more accepting of. The Holy Roman didn't stretch too far into it, I think, though. Wasn't much more East than Saxony.)

Oh. I see you mentioned you like Clutch. I too, enjoy Clutch. Bang bang bang bang?

CLUTCH BE AWESOME YAAAAAAAY. /Still cant tell if Beale Street, Blast Tyrant, or Robot Hive Exodus is favoritest album. Half of each album is vying for my top 5. xD

Yes, and I believe Elemental's got me on that one as well... I apparently have misremembered how far east the HRE was.

\m/(>.<)\m/

It's a tough choice... I don't think I could decide. They're all good albums.

No thank you. If you did, then I'd have to go to America and do your hobbies, and I can't play bass.

Well... That doesn't help at all. Oh wait... That one.

It is indeed. No one is ever right about anything. After all, who can say what is truth and what is lies, what is illusory and what is reality?
Of course, I am grounded enough that I have a good understanding of what is real or not. Which means I'm completely missing my own point. I do that sometimes.

True... and sing. I mean, I could teach you a bit with the bass, but putting the two together takes quite a bit of practice.

See, you got it.

The best part of making a point is being slightly wrong so you can be right and still argue over it. Like this Poland debate. (granted, this is more due to a non-omnipresence of my learned knowledge in the front of my mind and not intentional design)

Comparatively difficult. I think there are less legal repercussions in owning a bow. Maybe I'll take up archery instead...

I, on the other hand, would be concerned if the world was going to be blown up. After all, all my stuff is here and I can't take it with me when I die. So I'd like to be able to enjoy it for as long as possible.

Actually, Scotland didn't exist in the times of the Roman Empire. A better name for it then would have been Pictland. Actually... I think one of the Roman words for it meant Pictland... Or was it Caledonia? Damn inconsistent Romans...
And anyway... They didn't bother because their empire was already stretched too far such that conquering further North would have been a venture more costly that any potential gain.
And they did actually invade Pictland... They just didn't make any progress so far away from their power bases...

Archery takes some not-insignificant strength in one's arms that I never could really manage.

Yeah, but if everyone's going to die and there's nothing you can do about it, why not have fun?

Bah. For future reference, any time that I mention a country or something that existed under a different name in the time period I'm talking about, the one with the chronologically appropriate name for that general geographic area is the one I'm talking about.
Successfully invade. Along the lines of "take over", not "attack and withdraw because the Scots/Picts are freaking nuts".

I think you'll find that even your country still uses horses in warfare despite the American preferable towards moveable gun turrets. After all, a horse is more practical on certain terrain and not everywhere can be flat land.

They dismounted before combat you sarcastic fiend. So watch yourself, or I'll excise you from Amidus's mind.

So in short, Poland was not steamrollered by invaders in World War I. There were no invaders of Poland in WWI. Because of time, I will not recount the glorious centuries of Polish history prior to the fall of the Jagellon Dynasty, but I assure you, it was indeed glorious to the point of them crushing the Teutonic Knights and taking most of their holdings.
However, geographically, armies did steamroller across Poland a couple of times.
But never, was it owned by the Holy Roman Empire or "several other sovereign states". Just Austria, Prussia (later the German Empire), Russia, and at one point Sweden might have had part of it, but I can't remember.

Not to my knowledge... although I'll look it up later when I've got time.



I think Sheep beat you to it, but yes, not the HRE. (ancientish geography just sort of melts together. I should probably learn some more about it).

And I'll repeat for relevancy: For future reference, any time that I mention a country or something that existed under a different name in the time period I'm talking about, the one with the chronologically appropriate name for that general geographic area and time period is the one I'm talking about.

[Teddy]

Okay, I go to sleep just to find this monstrosity of new pages. Given, I've seen worse and I wasn't even present for the golden days of yore, but still, it's at least three times more than what I would've expected.

I think it's Moonies fault (in some ironic sense of the term). Her appearance is like an instant +2 to thread length.

...
Hmm, and now I'm inspired to create a card game based on Random Banter. The target is to be the first to claim the next thread, and to achieve that, you play posters and other miscellaneous cards to either speed up your own posters' posting rate or slow down/block out the opponent's (or s').

And all poster's would have different attributes judging how many posts they'd create and how they'd interact with other posters. Take the Persistent Off-Time European, for example. He's always online at the wrong time, so he wouldn't be able to contribute especially many posts to advance the thread, but he's verbose, which means he's eligible for a Wall-of-Text (which may encourage other verbose posters but intimidate modest ones), and his persistence makes it nigh impossible to intimidate him or forcing him to drop out.

Oxalis, oxalic acid, what's the difference at the end of the day?

Probably the taste. I mean, both lemons and oranges contain citric acid...

bubbles are fun

Fixed it for you.

Oxalis? We have that here as a weed, though it has purplish pink flowers, not white. I don't doubt its edibility, but I'm not going to try it out.

[...] with the shamrock shaped leaves.

Sounds like the one we have potted as an outdoor plant. Say, is it rather high with the stems of the leaves reaching roughly 10-15 cm in height? Also, if this is the case, it should be much less distinct in taste than our wild Oxalis, and therefore less interesting to eat.

You peoples be crazee. And by crazy, I mean "I spent all day playing a Civ 4 scenario on my brothers awesome actually-in-good-shape computer and got to sack Rome TWICE".

Civ IV is best Civ.

I'm getting mixed messages here... Especially since I can't remember what the exclamation points around a specific word mean anymore... Oh well, what's the worst that could happen, it's not like there's any more kidneys left to steal...

Well, the !! (or rather, ‼) around an object denotes that it's on fire, so ‼Science‼ isn't just ordinary science, but Science On Fire, which is just so much more Fun.

I never understood Minnesota or Modern Scandinavia, I must admit. Why are they so mild-mannered?! Is it to lull us into a false sense of security?

*blink, blink*
*blink, blink*
Who told you? :smallparanoid:

They used cavalry in WWII. With swords. There is a reason the Germans and Russians mowed them down.

History lesson time!

There were 16 Polish cavalry charges conducted throughout the entire WWII, and only one of those was an unanimous failure (two more were repelled, but prompted a German surrender of their positions). In total, find most of these cavalry charges to be so fascinating that I refuse to let any statement of "Stupid Poles charging tanks!" go unanswered.

Besides, if there's anything Civ has taught me, it's that the best counter for enemy machine guns (before the introduction of marines) is dedicated cavalry.

Interjection: *DING!*

*1st Class Petty Officer*

Just leveled up IRL... now a SIXTH-level Healer!

Nice. I was going to show off my awesome Wikipedia skills, but you seem to have beaten me to the punch. Still, a question remains. It's called the Medical Corps in the army, but is it so as well in the navy?

Also, on a side note, I've always found the grade "Petty Officer" to sound silly...

Sometimes, MoonCat, you are hopelessly naive. But only sometimes. There are only four reasons I can think of for staring at a person. Firstly, there's studying them psychologically. Secondly, because one is interested in them. Thirdly, because there's something on their face. And finally, they're doing something strange.
Now, the last two don't seem to apply, so the answer is either your associate has a crush on you, which may very well be the case, or he's interested in psychology.

I wouldn't rule out the fourth reason entirely, since even though it sound's like it could be an excuse, well, this is how Moonie described it:

[...] He claims it was because it was more interesting to see my reactions (because Artist Friend and I might have been simultaneously squeeing for the entire thing) [...]

After all, simultaneous squeeing may be pretty amusing to watch.

On a related note, did I tell you guys about my project group? () The girls both have a mutual dislike toward babies but absolutely adore cute animals. Especially one of the girls do, and whenever the subject of animals is brought up, she goes into a constant, endless squeeing, proclaiming them all to be the cutest. Yes, all of them. It can take hours to get her back into working shape...

Adverbs too. One day I'm going to try and go 24 hours without using any.

Why all this hating (or rather, love-hating) on adverbs? I still haven't noticed in what way your use constitues an abuse...

It is a compound word that consists of two words, sans-space.

Let me guess, the two words are equally long, and the first isn't a curse in and on itself?

@Eye colours:
Mine are grey/green, depending on the lighting. Seriously, they seem to be stuck in some no man's land regarding eye colour. They used to be blue when I was a little kid, but they dullened as I grew older and started to take on a slightly green hue. An old classmate off-handedly refered to them as green during a biology lesson when she asked our teacher about what genetics brought about green eyes.

Also, there are some small specks of brown interspersed as well, but they seem to have stayed consistent across the years...

Also, it's funny, because dad is distinctly blue-eyed (even though it's a light hue of blue), and mum is brown-eyed.

And finally, if my eyes are going anywhere, I hope they go toward the green, as green is my favourite colour...

@Crushes:
I think a girl in my old class may've had a crush on me, but I don't know who. There's just a greeting in my student hat which seem suspiciously crush-y to me, but it isn't signed, and I can't guess who it would belong to...

I'm way too oblivious to notice anything in the physical space, however...

IRN:
I should probably archive all the greeting in my student hat before some of them go illegible. I seem to have grown more interested in archiving random stuff of affectionate value as of lately...

ION:
Health backlash. I seriously don't have time for this nonsense...

[LaZodiac]

Okay, I go to sleep just to find this monstrosity of new pages. Given, I've seen worse and I wasn't even present for the golden days of yore, but still, it's at least three times more than what I would've expected.

I think it's Moonies fault (in some ironic sense of the term). Her appearance is like an instant +2 to thread length.

...
Hmm, and now I'm inspired to create a card game based on Random Banter. The target is to be the first to claim the next thread, and to achieve that, you play posters and other miscellaneous cards to either speed up your own posters' posting rate or slow down/block out the opponent's (or s').

And all poster's would have different attributes judging how many posts they'd create and how they'd interact with other posters. Take the Persistent Off-Time European, for example. He's always online at the wrong time, so he wouldn't be able to contribute especially many posts to advance the thread, but he's verbose, which means he's eligible for a Wall-of-Text (which may encourage other verbose posters but intimidate modest ones), and his persistence makes it nigh impossible to intimidate him or forcing him to drop out.

I think a girl in my old class may've had a crush on me, but I don't know who. There's just a greeting in my student hat which seem suspiciously crush-y to me, but it isn't signed, and I can't guess who it would belong to...

I'm way too oblivious to notice anything in the physical space, however...

IRN:
I should probably archive all the greeting in my student hat before some of them go illegible. I seem to have grown more interested in archiving random stuff of affectionate value as of lately...

ION:
Health backlash. I seriously don't have time for this nonsense...

That card game sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder what type of card I'd be.

I've never been too good at telling when people like me in real life either

You should, it sounds like an interesting thing! I've never even heard of a student hat before.

Awe, get better soon Teddy!

[Elemental]

True... and sing. I mean, I could teach you a bit with the bass, but putting the two together takes quite a bit of practice.

See, you got it.

The best part of making a point is being slightly wrong so you can be right and still argue over it. Like this Poland debate. (granted, this is more due to a non-omnipresence of my learned knowledge in the front of my mind and not intentional design)

These days, I only sing for person enjoyment. I used to have an exceptionally wonderful voice, and then I turned thirteen and that went away.

Indeed I did. I only had to think on it for a while as I avoid profanity. Swearing rusts my halo.

Yeah... But I like being completely right. And I like to say wise and insightful sounding things that don't actually mean anything half the time but sound good at the time.

Archery takes some not-insignificant strength in one's arms that I never could really manage.

Yeah, but if everyone's going to die and there's nothing you can do about it, why not have fun?

Bah. For future reference, any time that I mention a country or something that existed under a different name in the time period I'm talking about, the one with the chronologically appropriate name for that general geographic area is the one I'm talking about.
Successfully invade. Along the lines of "take over", not "attack and withdraw because the Scots/Picts are freaking nuts".

You'd be surprised at how much strength I've got in my hands and arms that I haven't tapped into. I occasionally astound people.
Of course, like all endeavours worth one's time, it requires a certain amount of effort.

You are aware of how confusing that'll get when it comes to certain regions? I mean... I can look things up, but I'll have to cross reference historical names, modern names and significant events and dates to get it down.

Not to my knowledge... although I'll look it up later when I've got time.



I think Sheep beat you to it, but yes, not the HRE. (ancientish geography just sort of melts together. I should probably learn some more about it).

And I'll repeat for relevancy: For future reference, any time that I mention a country or something that existed under a different name in the time period I'm talking about, the one with the chronologically appropriate name for that general geographic area and time period is the one I'm talking about.

Trust me. They don't often, but they do when the situation calls for it.

Probably. Geography is at least as interesting as history. In fact, historical geography is one of my hobbies.

Which gets very confusing for everyone else... Maybe we should all just use geographic coordinates.

...
Hmm, and now I'm inspired to create a card game based on Random Banter. The target is to be the first to claim the next thread, and to achieve that, you play posters and other miscellaneous cards to either speed up your own posters' posting rate or slow down/block out the opponent's (or s').

This must now happen.

Sounds like the one we have potted as an outdoor plant. Say, is it rather high with the stems of the leaves reaching roughly 10-15 cm in height? Also, if this is the case, it should be much less distinct in taste than our wild Oxalis, and therefore less interesting to eat.

I'm not certain and I'm certainly not checking at this time of night. But I'd say about that.


Edit: Oh, and guys? If I ever discover a method of restoring the dead to life, make sure I destroy my research when I realise what a terrible crime I have wrought against nature.
I don't want anyone discovering it after I've died and unintentionally causing the downfall of society in the name of profit.

[Teddy]

That card game sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder what type of card I'd be.

Hmm, I can't come up with a good name on the fly, but you'd be chatty (likely to engage in small talk), modest (unlikely to join in on someone else's conversation (I should probably come up with a better term)) and have a rather high posting value...

You should, it sounds like an interesting thing! I've never even heard of a student hat before.

I did, but sadly, one of the greetings is too smudged out and illegible for me to make out what it says, which is a shame, really.

Also, student cap (or hat, as I prefer to call them, since it sounds more distinguished).

Awe, get better soon Teddy!

Yeah, I really hope I do.

This must now happen.

Yeah, I am just as tempted as I'm overloaded with projects and undersupplied with time...

Edit: Oh, and guys? If I ever discover a method of restoring the dead to life, make sure I destroy my research when I realise what a terrible crime I have wrought against nature.
I don't want anyone discovering it after I've died and unintentionally causing the downfall of society in the name of profit.

I don't think science works that way. If you've ever discovered something, you're doomed to discover it again. I think it says so in history or something...

[LaZodiac]

Hmm, I can't come up with a good name on the fly, but you'd be chatty (likely to engage in small talk), modest (unlikely to join in on someone else's conversation (I should probably come up with a better term)) and have a rather high posting value...

I did, but sadly, one of the greetings is too smudged out and illegible for me to make out what it says, which is a shame, really.

Also, student cap (or hat, as I prefer to call them, since it sounds more distinguished).

Yeah, I really hope I do.

Aaah, okay.

Awe, that's too bad. Poor little message.

That's a cool hat!

*sends my support*

[Reinboom]

What kinds of cards may a lurker who hasn't posted regularly in many years have?

[Elemental]

Yeah, I am just as tempted as I'm overloaded with projects and undersupplied with time...

I don't think science works that way. If you've ever discovered something, you're doomed to discover it again. I think it says so in history or something...

Damned projects...

I mean, I don't want anyone discovering my research and using it for an ethically questionable business.
I'd never be able to forgive myself.

[Teddy]

What kinds of cards may a lurker who hasn't posted regularly in many years have?

Hmm, well, I imagine lurker being a quality you add to a poster rather than an intrinsic trait. I mean, some may enter play with it and need to lose it before starting to contribute, but being a lurker shouldn't be a defining quality of a poster, since being a lurker is almost the polar opposite of being a poster in the first place...

[Coidzor]

What kinds of cards may a lurker who hasn't posted regularly in many years have?

Causes confusion in youngbloods and nostalgia in old posters. May cause a lurker-invasion or gathering of the elder mods?

[Reinboom]

Hmm, well, I imagine lurker being a quality you add to a poster rather than an intrinsic trait. I mean, some may enter play with it and need to lose it before starting to contribute, but being a lurker shouldn't be a defining quality of a poster, since being a lurker is almost the polar opposite of being a poster in the first place...

This makes some sense, but this also means that old posters are no longer posters anymore.
What's the timing on this? At what point does a poster regain that trait?

Causes confusion in youngbloods and nostalgia in old posters. May cause a lurker-invasion or gathering of the elder mods?

That would be a fun force to wield.


If only returning to a community wasn't so intimidating.