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2014-09-11, 09:45 AM

HYES!

List of Banters Past:
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Eldpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphales Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”] (”[url) Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138[/URL]
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190034)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)
LaLa’s Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread – RB #158 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198767)
Zaydos's Zany Zooetic Random Banter - RB #159 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200208)
Blue's Blessed and Blissful Random Banter - RB #160 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201653)
Absolmorph's Azoic Arete of Adventitious and Aimless Random Banter - RB 161 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202546)
Gwyn's Gloriously Green Garrumphing Garter of Garrulous Gabble! Random Banter #162 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203954)
Eruantion's Euphoric, Elephant-filled Elevated Epoch of Eurhythmic Random Banter #163 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205487)
ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207269)
Cynical Avocado's Absolutely Admirable Accumulation of Random Bantering #165 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209860)
August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212011)
Heliomance's Everchanging Thread Title Random Banter #167 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=213053)
Tragic_Comedian's Tremendously Tropical Random Banter #168 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215180)
Qwertystop's Quickly Quilted, Quip-filled Random Banter #169 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217326)
Thufir's Thupremely Thatithfying Thecond Random Banter With a Lithp #170
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219654)Feytalist's Fantastically Freakish First Random Banter #171 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222713)
Dragonprime's Dashing Delight-fu Dazzling Dualistic Random Banter #172
Castaras' Random Banter #173: Bringing back your nostalgic Great Old Ones (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229164)
Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231235)
Dark Elf Bard's Random Banter #175:Playin' Underdark Jazz since the Drow went dark. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235950)
Mutant Sheep's Post Septaquintaquinquecentennial ApRiL fOoLs Random Banter: #176 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238117)
Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13163770)
Amiel's Appeasingly Appropriate Arbitrary Amusement (Random Banter): No.CLXXVIII #178 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245179)
"Your Angel of Banter Awaits." ThePhantasm Presents Random Banter #179 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13535351)
Serpentine's Secretly Sapphic Salacious Sacrarium of Random Banter #180 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253047)
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Gnomvid

2014-09-11, 09:47 AM

Random useless fact: Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 09:49 AM

I think both had mental disease strike their children too. Maybe marrying first cousins is not such a great idea. :smallsmile:

Gnomvid

2014-09-11, 09:51 AM

As long as there's no offspring and he/she is real hot why not? other then legal issues that is...

Edit: not that I condone it in any way

Qwertystop

2014-09-11, 09:52 AM

Hm. Half-alliteration?

Solse

2014-09-11, 09:58 AM

I presume so! Same sound, different letters.

As for the Einstein stuff, the moral of the story is "Don't have kids with family, lest you want to create an offspring who has serious mental issues". Homozygosity anybody?

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 09:58 AM

As long as there's no offspring and he/she is real hot why not? other then legal issues that is...

Edit: not that I condone it in any way

That stuff leads to blue people. (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson/story?id=15759819) Remember that.

Solse

2014-09-11, 10:06 AM

When I first saw your post, I thought "Cool! Real life Avatar!"
I read about the disease and don't think it's as cool now.

LaZodiac

2014-09-11, 10:15 AM

When I first saw your post, I thought "Cool! Real life Avatar!"
I read about the disease and don't think it's as cool now.

James Cameron's Avatar was also awful, so it wouldn't really be that cool in the first place :smalltongue:

Solse

2014-09-11, 10:22 AM

True, true. The other Avatar is much better. Now I'd like to see that in real life! (Without all of the villains trying to kill everybody, of course).

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-11, 10:39 AM

That stuff leads to blue people. (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson/story?id=15759819) Remember that.

He did say "assuming no offspring", though, so presumably that wouldn't be an issue.

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 10:47 AM

Oh, I missed that. Well, in that case it's in the "not-for-me-but-if-it-works-for-you"-category.

You can get blue people without offspring, though. Just ingest enough colloidal silver (see picture):

http://www.detoxdietsblog.com/wp-content/ddb-images/colloidal-silver-detox.jpg

Alternative medicine. It won't cure your illness but it may just turn you blue. (Yes, that's an overgeneralization for humerus purposes).

EmeraldRose

2014-09-11, 10:58 AM

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 11:01 AM

Oh you could always play office politics. It's a strange game, reminiscent of Vampire: the Masquerade only with fewer silly postures.

Solse

2014-09-11, 11:40 AM

Yay! It's a new thread!

*boogies*

So, I'm feeling a bit overworked. Full time job, internship (unpaid) 14 hours a week, 3 kids, and husband. All I can say is, at least the internship is temporary. And interesting. If it was something I'd done before I think the boredom might actually kill me...

That's a lot to have on your plate. Either way, I'm glad that the internship is interesting. It's a lot better than doing nothing at your job.

ION: I'm sick! Yay! :smallannoyed: At the very least, it means I can stay home from school to watch Smash 4 streams.

IOON: Korra book 4 announced for October 3 (IN AMERICA)! Get hype!

Cuthalion

2014-09-11, 12:30 PM

Doip. New thread, new gif.

http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/elephantostrich.gif

Razanir

2014-09-11, 01:07 PM

Oh you could always play office politics. It's a strange game, reminiscent of Vampire: the Masquerade only with fewer silly postures.

Just find a Dwight Schrute you can incessantly prank.

Anarion

2014-09-11, 01:16 PM

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 01:38 PM

It must have been 10-15 years ago... osmosis. People with whom I spent time told me it was better. I don't remember, but I don't think it was anything more than that.

SiuiS

2014-09-11, 01:38 PM

I was using yahoo. I heard about google trough osmosis; a slightly more tech-savvy friend (read: hipster, bleeding edge, too good for you, blablabla) who began to use google and Wikipedia a lot.

Fun fact, until I looked it up myself, I thought Wikipedia was the stupidest possible thing: a pretentious encyclopedia for wiccans because they knew better than everyone else what was real. That probably says a lot about the people I knew at the time.

enderlord99

2014-09-11, 01:39 PM

I think it's the default search engine for the version of Explorer that came with Windows ME. And since that was the first browser I used...

IRN: I remember dial-up, but only vaguely.

Qwertystop

2014-09-11, 01:41 PM

I had a random question that I want data points for. How did everyone first learn about Google (if you say it was omnipresent your whole life, you will make me feel deeply old)? Mine was from a 9th grade biology teacher who gave us a project where we had to identify a scorpion species from a story and description he gave us. He recommended this "Google" search engine because he thought it was better at the time than Ask Jeeves and would make our work easier. Turns out, he was right.

I don't remember. It wasn't omnipresent, because I remember Ask Jeeves (later just Ask) and Yahoo used to be things, but my early interactions with computers were all based on word-of-mouth - classmates and teachers telling me sites.

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-11, 02:14 PM

I don't remember. It wasn't omnipresent, because I remember Ask Jeeves (later just Ask) and Yahoo used to be things, but my early interactions with computers were all based on word-of-mouth - classmates and teachers telling me sites.

This. I remember Ask Jeeves before google, but google popped up somewhere... probably around 10 years ago, I'd guess.

I remember a lot of people referring to wikipedia as wildly inaccurate most of the time, and now I tend to trust it implicitly unless it contradicts something I remember as fact (at which point I cross-reference the information elsewhere). Interesting how that's happened.

Rawhide

2014-09-11, 02:22 PM

I never used Ask Jeeves, before Google it was HotBot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotBot).

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 02:24 PM

*sigh*

Remember AltaVista?

Razanir

2014-09-11, 02:29 PM

I don't remember. It wasn't omnipresent, because I remember Ask Jeeves (later just Ask) and Yahoo used to be things, but my early interactions with computers were all based on word-of-mouth - classmates and teachers telling me sites.

Ask Jeeves became Ask?! But yeah. I was in the same bubble of Google not being omnipresent, but still not a novel idea. I remember Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, and whatever the dog-themed one was.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-11, 03:02 PM

James Cameron's Avatar was also awful, so it wouldn't really be that cool in the first place :smalltongue:

Pshaw. A little ham-fisted, sure, but it was visually stunning.

IOON: Korra book 4 announced for October 3 (IN AMERICA)! Get hype!

For bad television? Why? :smallconfused:

Solse

2014-09-11, 03:15 PM

For bad television? Why? :smallconfused:

That's cold, AT. Very cold.

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 03:18 PM

Are there any Aussie stereotypes (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/mjtv/ss/44687-our-lips-are-sealed) they missed?

Coidzor

2014-09-11, 03:29 PM

^: Honestly, I can't remember that many Australian stereotypes off the top of my head.

I mean, they like vegemite for some reason, presumably cultural or climate, and prefer it to marmite while sometimes thinking marmite is edible if you mix it with something first if there's no vegemite, maybe? They drink beer instead of water because there's not enough water? They're all WASPs leaning towards the blond(e) despite a fairly significant immigration from Asia?

They somehow survive through pure dumb luck despite everything on the continent wanting to kill them or at least being capable of doing so?

They came up with "Technicolor Yawn" as a euphemism for vomiting? They're credited with the combination of putting a fried egg, grilled spam, and grilled pineapple on a hamburger all together?

They like "barbecuing" spam? And by that I mean, grilling spam outdoors, maybe?

*watches video*

...I don't want to go all the way through this... :smalleek:

Ask Jeeves became Ask?! But yeah. I was in the same bubble of Google not being omnipresent, but still not a novel idea. I remember Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, and whatever the dog-themed one was.

Dogpile. IIRC.

Asta Kask

2014-09-11, 03:31 PM

...all women are named Sheila...

...everyone has a pet kangaroo...

...hotels have their own fisherman (?)

LaZodiac

2014-09-11, 04:44 PM

Pshaw. A little ham-fisted, sure, but it was visually stunning.

For bad television? Why? :smallconfused:

Yeah...I disagree. The visuals honestly didn't impress me, at all, and I felt there were flaws with it. During the scene where they're walking on a plant that glows where they touch it, it didn't always glow where they touched it. It felt off. And plot wise it was just horrendous. It was less ham fisted and more ham headed. I do sort of like how the bad guys won though, and I suppose the way the ending played out is good based on certain (read: my) interpretations on how it happened.

Haven't seen Season 3 yet. People I trust the opinion of said it's comparable to Avatar season 1!

Solse

2014-09-11, 04:48 PM

I heard that in 'Strailya, their grills are dolls.

Haven't seen Season 3 yet. People I trust the opinion of said it's comparable to Avatar season 1!

I'd say it's better than that! Maybe A:TLA Book 3 level! (IMHO, though, A:TLA Book 2 was the best of them all.)

FinnLassie

2014-09-11, 05:02 PM

*thinks*

I don't think I used any kind of search engines until like 2002, and by then Google was pretty much established as The Thing. Before that I just went to websites that were given on some magazines or played educational games. Boy, compared to the present day, educational online games back in pre-2000s sucked.

Solse

2014-09-11, 05:48 PM

Educational games most always suck.

FinnLassie

2014-09-11, 05:55 PM

I have to disagree. I've spent a lot of time playing many maths educational games for the past 3 weeks and witnessed kids actually do enjoy them. Or then they just enjoy how they get to use a computer. :smalltongue:

Solse

2014-09-11, 07:07 PM

Teddy

2014-09-11, 07:25 PM

From last thread:

If it's a porcelain cup then there's no enamel on it, enamel is glass melted onto metal, it would be the ceramic glaceing that's getting chipped

Edit: bonded onto metal would be a better description

Uhh, right, I seem to have accidently mixed them up. Glace is the correct term. I blame being tired.

ION:
Speaking of tired, I think I just blew my Go To Bed check...

FinnLassie

2014-09-11, 08:03 PM

I've never encountered any fun ones in my experience, though. My school once made everybody play educational games for a required amount of time per day, but what they didn't know was that the games had a setting to disable the educational part, leaving a relatively fun Mario clone. (The games were mainly platformers, where when you beat a level, you have to complete a certain number of arithmetic problems. It was a boring as hell way to fake putting an effort into making the games "educational".)

That's exactly the type of games I remember playing when I was in school, and yeah, they were hella tedious and boring. No matter what the subject, they all followed the same pattern. The new games have much more variety though and have much more meaning than before. I'm kinda already waiting for the next step.

LaZodiac

2014-09-11, 08:37 PM

That's exactly the type of games I remember playing when I was in school, and yeah, they were hella tedious and boring. No matter what the subject, they all followed the same pattern. The new games have much more variety though and have much more meaning than before. I'm kinda already waiting for the next step.

Oh, speaking of edutainment games, Lucahjin (the girl who did the barbie videos) did a video on Freddie Fish. You watch now!

HalfTangible

2014-09-11, 11:30 PM

So, remember that Dragon Age round-robin thing LaZodiac and I found a third for a while back? Yeah, said third had to drop out for reasons of not having a CD key. :smallfrown:

Any other takers?

So, the basic idea was that each of the three of us would play the three dragon age games in order, and swap our saves each time. So, for instance, I would play DA:O, then LaZodiac would import that save and play DA:2 with it. Then the third would play Inquisition with that save. We'd each play origins and rotate the games like that so that we'd get three DA 'universes' with their own heroes and outcomes.

It seemed like a fun idea at the time, and has actually motivated me to re-finish my origins playthrough.

Gnomvid

2014-09-12, 05:45 AM

You younglings sure are lucky to have got to play games at school as a kind of learning thing, well we played games at school too but not as part of the curriculum.

Solse

2014-09-12, 07:26 AM

You younglings sure are lucky to have got to play games at school as a kind of learning thing, well we played games at school too but not as part of the curriculum.

Trust me, these games were nothing to get excited about. We still had to smuggle in games like you did. One year, I introduced the whole school to Cave Story by downloading it onto the schoolwide hard drive. Everybody loved it, for good reason.

Gnomvid

2014-09-12, 07:52 AM

Trust me, these games were nothing to get excited about. We still had to smuggle in games like you did. One year, I introduced the whole school to Cave Story by downloading it onto the schoolwide hard drive. Everybody loved it, for good reason.

Games as a learning tool did not exist when I went to school, it wasn't until 7th grade the school we then moved to had any computers (well so called any way they weren't even 286's, something called Compis) we were taught typing in 8th grade on actual typewriters although they were electronic, but I learned more at home on the Commodore 128 and later Atari 1040STE.

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 08:25 AM

Teddy

2014-09-12, 08:29 AM

Family heirloom cactus (not actuallya cactus) is dead. If you remember, it was declared dead this Christmas after the heating system had died at our family farm and indoor temperatures dropped below zero, but then we found two leaves which had miraculously survived the cold. We took it home to better care for it over summer, but to no avail. Either it couldn't stand the heat or the rains, or perhaps the root system was so damaged that it continued to deteriorate until it no longer could support the plant. With only half a centimetre left of green leaf left, I tried to replant it and supply it with lots of (cold) light, water (to compensate for its lack of roots) and carbon dioxide, but I was aware it was probably all a futile effort as I'm not schooled in emergency gardening. It kept deteriorating, slowly losing its little remaining colour, so today I decided to attempt a final drastic meassure and cut off the lower half to put it on a paper soaked with water and nutrients, thus bypassing the need for roots entirely. It was too late, though, because when I put the knife to it, it tore apart and revealed to already have rottened through, so now its officially dead, not just inevitably dying.

To be honest, I am a little sad about this. I have a tendency to grow attached to objects with history, and this plant was around a hundred years old by our estimates...

Asta Kask

2014-09-12, 08:41 AM

Solse

2014-09-12, 08:41 AM

Games as a learning tool did not exist when I went to school, it wasn't until 7th grade the school we then moved to had any computers (well so called any way they weren't even 286's, something called Compis) we were taught typing in 8th grade on actual typewriters although they were electronic, but I learned more at home on the Commodore 128 and later Atari 1040STE.

So you're old school! That's cool! From what I hear, though, Compis weren't regarded that highly, even back when they were released. Either way, it's cool that you got to use computers when they were just beginning.

Gnomvid

2014-09-12, 08:44 AM

Rotted all the way to the bark?
as trees only use the very outer most part of the trunk to carry water and nutrients so even if it is rotten at the core still does not mean it's dead dead just mostly dead, meaning it's got a very miniscule micro chance of actually surviving.
or you can amputate a branch and either transplant it to another tree (good chance of survival or stick it in the ground (not so good chance of survival)

Asta Kask

2014-09-12, 08:45 AM

So you're old school! That's cool! From what I hear, though, Compis weren't regarded that highly, even back when they were released. Either way, it's cool that you got to use computers when they were just beginning.

In the 1940's? :)

We had a Vic-20 and then a Vic-64. I have no idea what they had at school, but I remember playing SimEarth and SimCity.

Gnomvid

2014-09-12, 08:49 AM

So you're old school! That's cool! From what I hear, though, Compis weren't regarded that highly, even back when they were released. Either way, it's cool that you got to use computers when they were just beginning.

Yeah they were quite crap even then, I remember much more fondly playing Civ on the 386 computers at High School although it was a pain to Switch between the four floppy's all the time.
Yes I'm older then I care to admit but as I don't feel like 38 soon to be 39 but rather 20 something I don't honestly care either so nurrr!!!

Anarion

2014-09-12, 09:14 AM

Well, my theory that Google has been using mind control rays to take over the population seems mostly confirmed. :smallbiggrin:

Really though, it's amazing how effective search is at just spreading. It really IDs google as an invention that was just a good idea for the world because it took very little prodding for everyone to start using it and then it stuck and we all use it now.

It's like if I asked about the first time you ever used a toothpick or a paper clip. These are great things that once they're around, you don't even acknowledge that they're in any way notable.

I've never encountered any fun ones in my experience, though. My school once made everybody play educational games for a required amount of time per day, but what they didn't know was that the games had a setting to disable the educational part, leaving a relatively fun Mario clone. (The games were mainly platformers, where when you beat a level, you have to complete a certain number of arithmetic problems. It was a boring as hell way to fake putting an effort into making the games "educational".)

If you managed to play around with the program enough to alter the settings in order to avoid having to do the problem, it was an effective teaching tool.

Trust me, these games were nothing to get excited about. We still had to smuggle in games like you did. One year, I introduced the whole school to Cave Story by downloading it onto the schoolwide hard drive. Everybody loved it, for good reason.

You're a hero.

EmeraldRose

2014-09-12, 09:21 AM

Let's see...computer games at school. I think we had something called Number Munchers and of course there was The Oregon Trail. It's amazing how many people you could kill off in that game...

Gnomvid

2014-09-12, 09:23 AM

Can't argue with that, I used to rely on Lycos or what it was called for all my info in the bad old days of dial up didn't like Google when they first appeared and now I can't see why I'd even want to contemplate another search engine.

EDIT:
Let's see...computer games at school. I think we had something called Number Munchers and of course there was The Oregon Trail. It's amazing how many people you could kill off in that game...

The Oregon Trail man I really need to try to find some time to dust off some of my emulators one of these days and play some classic gems again

Razanir

2014-09-12, 11:28 AM

The Oregon Trail man I really need to try to find some time to dust off some of my emulators one of these days and play some classic gems again

The only version I've played is the DSi version.

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-12, 11:49 AM

You know you're a programmer when... You keep accidentally ending sentences in your notes with semicolons. :smallamused:

Seriously, though. Not cool, brain. I have to read these later. :smallannoyed:

Related: The project that I'm working on for my data structures class is involves essentially building the boring parts of MatLab (e.g. basic matrix operations), except without basically any of the "user-friendly" features. :smallamused: At least I'll be (presumably) able to hold onto this for later if I ever need this sort of matrix functionality in C++ later.

Let's see...computer games at school. I think we had something called Number Munchers and of course there was The Oregon Trail. It's amazing how many people you could kill off in that game...

I remember both of those! I think I actually beat Oregon Trail once... that game was easy to die in (although it's also possible that I just sucked).

ION: Two major projects and a test due next friday (on top of the rest of my homework). Yay. I'll be losing money for this as well, because I would otherwise be working Friday evening, and I don't realistically have sufficient free time with which to schedule another shift.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-12, 12:09 PM

Well, my name is officially in the ring for Student Senate. 14 out of 15 seats are open, so I guess the odds are better than normal?

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 12:55 PM

Good luck AT.

Oh man just got my early Smash 4 demo code because I'm a good Nintendo fan. I've also got three other codes to share however I please :smallamused:

Qwertystop

2014-09-12, 01:01 PM

Good luck AT.

Oh man just got my early Smash 4 demo code because I'm a good Nintendo fan. I've also got three other codes to share however I please :smallamused:

May I have one?

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-12, 01:03 PM

Good luck AT.

Oh man just got my early Smash 4 demo code because I'm a good Nintendo fan. I've also got three other codes to share however I please :smallamused:

Ooooh! For 3DS or WiiU? Cause if the former... (And thanks!)

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 01:12 PM

May I have one?

Yes!

Ooooh! For 3DS or WiiU? Cause if the former... (And thanks!)

It's the former.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-12, 01:18 PM

It's the former.

May I also have one? :smallsmile:

Solse

2014-09-12, 01:19 PM

Good luck AT.

Oh man just got my early Smash 4 demo code because I'm a good Nintendo fan. I've also got three other codes to share however I please :smallamused:

May I have one as well? Pleaase Zodi? You don't know how much this means to me... please?

I NEED THAT DEMO.

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 01:23 PM

May I also have one? :smallsmile:

May I have one as well? Pleaase Zodi? You don't know how much this means to me... please?

I NEED THAT DEMO.

Too late, all three are already gonzo :smallbiggrin:

Solse

2014-09-12, 01:25 PM

Too late, all three are already gonzo :smallbiggrin:

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Anyway, congrats Zodi and Qwerty. May you enjoy your Smash.

*cries in corner*

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 01:26 PM

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Anyway, congrats Zodi and Qwerty. May you enjoy your Smash.

*cries in corner*

The public demo comes out literally in a week.

Solse

2014-09-12, 01:41 PM

The public demo comes out literally in a week.

Good point, but I really want Smash. I've been waiting for this game for so long.

Qwertystop

2014-09-12, 02:31 PM

The public demo comes out literally in a week.

And has a thirty-play limit.

Solse

2014-09-12, 02:34 PM

And has a thirty-play limit.

I have no choice but to keep it on forever.

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 03:06 PM

And has a thirty-play limit.

If you run out of 30 uses before October 3rd, which is when the game comes OUT, you're not playing the game correctly.

SiuiS

2014-09-12, 03:28 PM

Qwertystop

2014-09-12, 04:06 PM

Also, simplicity. Google, unlike every other search at the time, did what it said it would, and did it well. You went there, typed things, and a search happened. No news feed. No pop culture loading. No other nonsense. Just search bar.

Compare that to yahoo or MSN which had you slog trough their chosen info to get anything done?

I read an article that said that when they were testing it people would sit for ten minutes at the search bar without typing, and when asked, would say they were waiting for the rest of it to load.

Solse

2014-09-12, 04:08 PM

Ohmygod i just got the demo from somebody on another forum

the hype is real

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-12, 04:57 PM

lol. Don't explode, man.

Teddy

2014-09-12, 05:04 PM

You can't take a "stickling"?

If the plant would've been fairly complete, that would have been very possible, but now we only had two single leaves, so a cutting would be the entire plant sans roots, and we hoped the roots would be more beneficial.

Rotted all the way to the bark?
as trees only use the very outer most part of the trunk to carry water and nutrients so even if it is rotten at the core still does not mean it's dead dead just mostly dead, meaning it's got a very miniscule micro chance of actually surviving.
or you can amputate a branch and either transplant it to another tree (good chance of survival or stick it in the ground (not so good chance of survival)

It was a christmas cactus (which I now to my surprise learned actually is a true cactus), not a tree.

ICactusRN:
Dad thinks it was a rot which killed it, so nothing could probably have saved it when we noticed it dying for real. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm no hortoculturist. I got positive news, though, because he told me that there is at least one clone in existence, and probably another one. The main root itself was special, but for as long as the genes live on, I'm happy again... http://i.imgur.com/jLvmsd9.png

You know you're a programmer when... You keep accidentally ending sentences in your notes with semicolons. :smallamused:

Seriously, though. Not cool, brain. I have to read these later. :smallannoyed:

Hehehe! http://i.imgur.com/haudcUB.png

Also, you say you can't read semicolons? http://i.imgur.com/rcxULF7.png

Related: The project that I'm working on for my data structures class is involves essentially building the boring parts of MatLab (e.g. basic matrix operations), except without basically any of the "user-friendly" features. :smallamused: At least I'll be (presumably) able to hold onto this for later if I ever need this sort of matrix functionality in C++ later.

Given, chances are pretty great you'll find the code horribly unoptimised and generally buggy in a few years. Code has a tendency to magically deteriorate like that for no explicable reason... http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.png

Solse

2014-09-12, 05:56 PM

Alright. I'm back. Now for some details.

Megaman's A combos into his grab.
Recoveries are super buffed. You have to be great at edgeguarding to make it useful.
The game speed is fast. Not Melee fast, but not Brawl slow.
All of the characters (Villager especially) are very cerebral. You need a lot of strategy to plan, not unlike Brawl, but this game is still aggressive.
All of the demo characters are viable, but Mario and Mega Man are my favorites.

Yeah, Sm4sh is awesome. Well done, Sakurai, well done.

Qwertystop

2014-09-12, 07:19 PM

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 07:28 PM

I can't figure out how to shield without holding the grab button and missing the grab. Or how to hold a grab for more than a split second. Or how to pummel. Or what Mega's strong side attack (directional, but not smash) is.

Fun, but not sure it's worth getting both. Any idea what the connection to the console version actually does?

L is grab, R is shield. I don't know what you mean by "pummel"

Enemies escaping your grab is just a thing that can happen. Be sure to throw them in time! Megaman's side smash is a charge shot, you have to charge it...though you don't have to.

3DS can be used as a controller for the Wii U version.

Solse

2014-09-12, 08:05 PM

I'm pretty sure Qwerty's talking about Megaman's tilt. It's just his neutral-A, but he moves while doing it. His neutral-air is just his neutral-A in the air.

Qwertystop

2014-09-12, 08:08 PM

L is grab, R is shield. I don't know what you mean by "pummel"

Enemies escaping your grab is just a thing that can happen. Be sure to throw them in time! Megaman's side smash is a charge shot, you have to charge it...though you don't have to.

3DS can be used as a controller for the Wii U version.

R doesn't seem to be working for me.
Pummel is when you attack someone for a little extra damage while grabbing, before/instead of throwing. In previous games it was the button for the basic attack, while grabbing. In this it seems they break out before you have time to pummel. Got it to work once, though - I guess they just reduced grab time, or at least that's what it feels like.

I know that's his side smash, I meant his side strong/side tilt. Comparison: With Mario, A with no direction is a punch, side smash (A and tap circle-pad to the side) is a fireball in front of his hand, but side strong (A while holding to the side but not all the way/not enough to move, or while walking but not dashing) is a kick. With Mega he just seems to fire his buster as normal, doesn't even stop walking. Which I guess could be what he gets instead, not having to stop to use his basic attack.

Haluesen

2014-09-12, 09:10 PM

Doip. New thread, new gif.

http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/elephantostrich.gif

Yay for a new thread! :smallbiggrin: That unfortunate bird, should have known not to mess with that elephant. Elephant always knows. :smallamused:

Educational games most always suck.

Oregon Trail counts as educational right/ I know some other banterers mentioned it. I loved that game, it was easy to get addicted. :smallbiggrin: There was some other one I played once, involving traveling through a museum and putting together puzzle things based on historical events...I can't remember the name but I loved that one. Never beat it sadly.

So, remember that Dragon Age round-robin thing LaZodiac and I found a third for a while back? Yeah, said third had to drop out for reasons of not having a CD key. :smallfrown:

Any other takers?

So, the basic idea was that each of the three of us would play the three dragon age games in order, and swap our saves each time. So, for instance, I would play DA:O, then LaZodiac would import that save and play DA:2 with it. Then the third would play Inquisition with that save. We'd each play origins and rotate the games like that so that we'd get three DA 'universes' with their own heroes and outcomes.

It seemed like a fun idea at the time, and has actually motivated me to re-finish my origins playthrough.

That sounds extremely fun! :smallsmile: I might be interested in trying...I only have Origins but I could look into some way to get 2. Both games are long enough to give me time to acquire Inquisition if I get serious about it. Could you possibly explain more to me of how this whole thing works other than what is in the spoilers?

Family heirloom cactus (not actuallya cactus) is dead. If you remember, it was declared dead this Christmas after the heating system had died at our family farm and indoor temperatures dropped below zero, but then we found two leaves which had miraculously survived the cold. We took it home to better care for it over summer, but to no avail. Either it couldn't stand the heat or the rains, or perhaps the root system was so damaged that it continued to deteriorate until it no longer could support the plant. With only half a centimetre left of green leaf left, I tried to replant it and supply it with lots of (cold) light, water (to compensate for its lack of roots) and carbon dioxide, but I was aware it was probably all a futile effort as I'm not schooled in emergency gardening. It kept deteriorating, slowly losing its little remaining colour, so today I decided to attempt a final drastic meassure and cut off the lower half to put it on a paper soaked with water and nutrients, thus bypassing the need for roots entirely. It was too late, though, because when I put the knife to it, it tore apart and revealed to already have rottened through, so now its officially dead, not just inevitably dying.

To be honest, I am a little sad about this. I have a tendency to grow attached to objects with history, and this plant was around a hundred years old by our estimates...

Awww I'm sorry to hear that Teddy. :smallfrown: *hugs* Getting attached isn't surprising if your family has had that cactus for awhile.

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 09:24 PM

R doesn't seem to be working for me.
Pummel is when you attack someone for a little extra damage while grabbing, before/instead of throwing. In previous games it was the button for the basic attack, while grabbing. In this it seems they break out before you have time to pummel. Got it to work once, though - I guess they just reduced grab time, or at least that's what it feels like.

I know that's his side smash, I meant his side strong/side tilt. Comparison: With Mario, A with no direction is a punch, side smash (A and tap circle-pad to the side) is a fireball in front of his hand, but side strong (A while holding to the side but not all the way/not enough to move, or while walking but not dashing) is a kick. With Mega he just seems to fire his buster as normal, doesn't even stop walking. Which I guess could be what he gets instead, not having to stop to use his basic attack.

I missunderstood your terminology, sorry :smalltongue:

Anyway, that's A button, same as always. I think your 3DS is just busted in regards to R.

HalfTangible

2014-09-12, 09:33 PM

That sounds extremely fun! :smallsmile: I might be interested in trying...I only have Origins but I could look into some way to get 2. Both games are long enough to give me time to acquire Inquisition if I get serious about it. Could you possibly explain more to me of how this whole thing works other than what is in the spoilers?

That's fine, i don't have 2 either :smalltongue::smallwink:

Okay, so dragon age lets you import saves from your previous character (you probably know this already). Here's the thing: since the characters and their major actions (king of Orzammar, werewolfs' continued existence, etc) are all saved in a single folder, you can take that folder, send it to someone else, and then they can import that into their own game.

The way it works is that each of us plays origins, and then we take the folder with that character, copy it and send it to another player in this thing. Then that person starts up DA:2, and plays through after importing that save. When Inquisition rolls around, that person sends the DA:2 save to the last person in the group, who plays Inquisition (presumably after they go through it on their own save). Now, all three of us will be doing this, so the end result is that each player's Inquisition play-through will have decisions put in by the other two as their own heroes, and you have to deal with the consequences.

I thought it would be an interesting experiment with this IP since it echoes the game world itself - Hawke has no connection to the Hero of Ferelden/Warden's adventures, for instance, and the Inquisitor's first appearance occurs long after anything Hawke OR the Warden does. It's something that wouldn't be as easily done with say, Mass Effect, where the protagonist stays the same, but i thought for this particular story it would be very interesting.

If there's anything in particular you were curious about, my pm box is open.

Nilehus

2014-09-12, 09:35 PM

My daughter just pooped on the potty for the first time! :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin: She's not even 2 yet. I'm so proud of her.

Rawhide

2014-09-12, 09:44 PM

Good luck AT.

Oh man just got my early Smash 4 demo code because I'm a good Nintendo fan. I've also got three other codes to share however I please :smallamused:

I was all ready to jump up and down saying yes please, but then I remembered that it would probably be tied to American* systems.

*Continent(s), not country.

LaZodiac

2014-09-12, 09:47 PM

I was all ready to jump up and down saying yes please, but then I remembered that it would probably be tied to American* systems.

*Continent(s), not country.

This is correct :smallsigh:

Haluesen

2014-09-12, 10:12 PM

That's fine, i don't have 2 either :smalltongue::smallwink:

Okay, so dragon age lets you import saves from your previous character (you probably know this already). Here's the thing: since the characters and their major actions (king of Orzammar, werewolfs' continued existence, etc) are all saved in a single folder, you can take that folder, send it to someone else, and then they can import that into their own game.

The way it works is that each of us plays origins, and then we take the folder with that character, copy it and send it to another player in this thing. Then that person starts up DA:2, and plays through after importing that save. When Inquisition rolls around, that person sends the DA:2 save to the last person in the group, who plays Inquisition (presumably after they go through it on their own save). Now, all three of us will be doing this, so the end result is that each player's Inquisition play-through will have decisions put in by the other two as their own heroes, and you have to deal with the consequences.

I thought it would be an interesting experiment with this IP since it echoes the game world itself - Hawke has no connection to the Hero of Ferelden/Warden's adventures, for instance, and the Inquisitor's first appearance occurs long after anything Hawke OR the Warden does. It's something that wouldn't be as easily done with say, Mass Effect, where the protagonist stays the same, but i thought for this particular story it would be very interesting.

If there's anything in particular you were curious about, my pm box is open.

That sounds extremely fun and awesome. :smallsmile: I still need to find a way to get 2. They probably sell it cheap online somewhere. But this seems like a fun idea, and if I can join in I would really like to.

If I have more major questions I will PM you, but I do have one for here while it is on my mind. Is the Awakening expansion to Origins included in this or no?

HalfTangible

2014-09-12, 10:19 PM

That sounds extremely fun and awesome. :smallsmile: I still need to find a way to get 2. They probably sell it cheap online somewhere. But this seems like a fun idea, and if I can join in I would really like to. I checked Origin - they have it at like $20. If you can find it cheaper elsewhere, let me know. xD

If I have more major questions I will PM you, but I do have one for here while it is on my mind. Is the Awakening expansion to Origins included in this or no?

If we don't play a particular piece of content, default options are put through. I'm not gonna play Awakening because of reasons, but you can play through it if you want. It should work with someone else's copy of DA2 either way.

Skeppio

2014-09-13, 01:28 AM

Good luck AT.

Oh man just got my early Smash 4 demo code because I'm a good Nintendo fan. I've also got three other codes to share however I please :smallamused:

I got mine too! ^_^ Lucky I double-checked my email after I saw AU codes mentioned on another site, I nearly deleted the email with my codes not realising what was inside! :smalleek:

Solse

2014-09-13, 10:19 AM

Oregon Trail counts as educational right/ I know some other banterers mentioned it. I loved that game, it was easy to get addicted. :smallbiggrin: There was some other one I played once, involving traveling through a museum and putting together puzzle things based on historical events...I can't remember the name but I loved that one. Never beat it sadly.

Oregon Trail is a big exception. I've heard it's great, except for the whole dying of dysentery part.

LaZodiac

2014-09-13, 10:23 AM

Oregon Trail is a big exception. I've heard it's great, except for the whole dying of dysentery part.

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

Skeppio

2014-09-13, 10:50 AM

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

For the pace you set, I assume all their food was also gruel. :smalltongue:

Mutant Sheep

2014-09-13, 10:52 AM

I feel like a bad Amurican chillun for not remembering me having play Oregon Trail. I know we have like, 4 versions of it...:smallconfused::smallbiggrin:

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-13, 11:44 AM

You're a bad 'Murican child for not rmembering having played. I'm an awful American child for not having every played... >__>

Solse

2014-09-13, 12:30 PM

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

pst u only won because of noclip hax

cheater

enderlord99

2014-09-13, 12:44 PM

...Is it bad that I don't know what "noclip" means in relation to old ASCII-based games?

Qwertystop

2014-09-13, 12:52 PM

...Is it bad that I don't know what "noclip" means in relation to old ASCII-based games?

Pretty sure it's just nonsense.

Solse

2014-09-13, 01:34 PM

I was making fun of sore losers nowadays who get mad when they don't win in online videogames, and applying it to an old text-based game.

Haluesen

2014-09-13, 07:22 PM

I checked Origin - they have it at like $20. If you can find it cheaper elsewhere, let me know. xD

If we don't play a particular piece of content, default options are put through. I'm not gonna play Awakening because of reasons, but you can play through it if you want. It should work with someone else's copy of DA2 either way.

I shall be on the lookout, and $25 is now my goal to account for tax. :smallbiggrin: And duly noted, I likely shall. Just for the extra content really, though a lot of the late game abilities can be pretty fun. Has anyone else shown interest in join you two in this, or am I the first taker? :smalltongue: Cause I'm all for it, this sounds very awesome.

Oregon Trail is a big exception. I've heard it's great, except for the whole dying of dysentery part.

Yeah that basically is it. I haven't played in quite a few years, and now I think I will look it up. But those survival-based games are a huge favorite of mine, even way back at the origins of Oregon Trail.

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

You either lie, misremember, or are an Oregon Trail god. :smallbiggrin:

I kid, it is likely the 3rd one. :smallwink:

It is okay Sheepy and Trolly, you two can too play this excellent game on your computer. It shouldn't be too big of a download and you can see for yourself how it is. :smalltongue: You are not bad 'Muricans.

HalfTangible

2014-09-13, 07:36 PM

I shall be on the lookout, and $25 is now my goal to account for tax. :smallbiggrin: And duly noted, I likely shall. Just for the extra content really, though a lot of the late game abilities can be pretty fun. Has anyone else shown interest in join you two in this, or am I the first taker? :smalltongue: Cause I'm all for it, this sounds very awesome. Sweeeeeet! I'll shoot you a PM.

Lala and I set this up. We had a third, but he had to drop because he couldn't find his copy of origins. Sad, but understandable.

LaZodiac

2014-09-13, 08:16 PM

I shall be on the lookout, and $25 is now my goal to account for tax. :smallbiggrin: And duly noted, I likely shall. Just for the extra content really, though a lot of the late game abilities can be pretty fun. Has anyone else shown interest in join you two in this, or am I the first taker? :smalltongue: Cause I'm all for it, this sounds very awesome.

You either lie, misremember, or are an Oregon Trail god. :smallbiggrin:

I kid, it is likely the 3rd one. :smallwink:

What HT said also we're limiting it to three people. Better that way.

Huzzah! I have unlimited power!

HalfTangible

2014-09-13, 10:54 PM

What HT said also we're limiting it to three people. Better that way.

Until DA4 comes out, and then we can find 4 people!

...

Don't look at me like that, it could be fun too! :smalltongue:

(More likely we'll just pass the Inquisition saves along, if we do it at all)

LaZodiac

2014-09-13, 11:04 PM

Until DA4 comes out, and then we can find 4 people!

...

Don't look at me like that, it could be fun too! :smalltongue:

(More likely we'll just pass the Inquisition saves along, if we do it at all)

Well yes. Though they've mentioned Inquisition is the end of the trilogy of sorts.

But yes, lets keep it to three. Far more manageable. Will also allow us to get together and talk about it.

Haluesen

2014-09-13, 11:13 PM

Sweeeeeet! I'll shoot you a PM.

Lala and I set this up. We had a third, but he had to drop because he couldn't find his copy of origins. Sad, but understandable.

Yay I get to be part of a really fun round robin game thing! :smallbiggrin: I remember you mentioning about the third person who couldn't do this. That really sucks though that his game is missing. :smallfrown:

What HT said also we're limiting it to three people. Better that way.

Huzzah! I have unlimited power!

I can understand that. It really fits the whole 3 seperate heroes thing in the franchise. I am really looking forward to Inquisition. :smallbiggrin: But for now, I need to look for a cheap way of getting DA 2. To the internet! Oh wait, already here. :smalltongue:

Unlimited power in managing wagons of people on long journeys and in them not dying of horrible illness. But still, any form of unlimited power is better than no unlimited power at all. Entirely limited power in all ways, such sad.

LaZodiac

2014-09-13, 11:19 PM

I can understand that. It really fits the whole 3 seperate heroes thing in the franchise. I am really looking forward to Inquisition. :smallbiggrin: But for now, I need to look for a cheap way of getting DA 2. To the internet! Oh wait, already here. :smalltongue:

Unlimited power in managing wagons of people on long journeys and in them not dying of horrible illness. But still, any form of unlimited power is better than no unlimited power at all. Entirely limited power in all ways, such sad.

Honestly just buy it on Origin. There is no other place to buy it and it will be cheap.

True. Limited power is far to limited.

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-13, 11:19 PM

Hehehe! http://i.imgur.com/haudcUB.png

Also, you say you can't read semicolons? http://i.imgur.com/rcxULF7.png

Given, chances are pretty great you'll find the code horribly unoptimised and generally buggy in a few years. Code has a tendency to magically deteriorate like that for no explicable reason... http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.png

Man, I can read them, but it really bothers me to have them at the end of sentences in my notes.

Yeah... unless you've forgotten how it works entirely, and then it's nigh-incomprehensible and unusable. :smallamused:

enderlord99

2014-09-13, 11:34 PM

To practice html coding, I once made the following web page in notepad:

<html>
<head>
<title>
Sir Fredrick's Brain
</title>
</head>
<body>
Fred's Spleen
</body>
</html>
I saved the document as (an HTML file called) "Fred"

factotum

2014-09-14, 02:22 AM

Honestly just buy it on Origin. There is no other place to buy it and it will be cheap.

Not true, actually--you can buy it on Gamers Gate. I suspect that'll just get you an Origin key for the game anyway, but might be worth checking to see if it's cheaper in your location.

Razanir

2014-09-14, 08:43 AM

Given, chances are pretty great you'll find the code horribly unoptimised and generally buggy in a few years. Code has a tendency to magically deteriorate like that for no explicable reason... http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.png

Or just unreadable. I once had 7 layers of nested loops and conditionals in a program. This was before I learned the important of commenting.

Asta Kask

2014-09-14, 08:59 AM

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

Haluesen

2014-09-14, 09:25 AM

Honestly just buy it on Origin. There is no other place to buy it and it will be cheap.

True. Limited power is far to limited.

When I looked it up Origin was one of the first ones to pop up actually. And $20 seems the most fair and shouldn't be hard to build up to even without an official job. Which to me is pretty encouraging. :smallsmile:

Don't I know it. :smalltongue: Although funny enough I get to have a little more power, at least in Mario Kart 8. I have been dubbed the Banana King for my habit of dropping the slippery little gags in front of item boxes and at finish lines. King is not nearly so powerful as a god, but it's something. :smallamused:

To practice html coding, I once made the following web page in notepad:

I saved the document as (an HTML file called) "Fred"

That is...pretty interesting? I have no clue how that worked, but indeed spleen is a funny word. :smallbiggrin:

factotum

2014-09-14, 11:10 AM

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

That's not an excuse for producing unreadable spaghetti code for the sake of saving a few bytes in your source, you know...

Razanir

2014-09-14, 11:56 AM

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

Newline characters are a luxury. When a friend of mine learned C, his teacher had them write the entire program on a single line. Debug it yourself.

Asta Kask

2014-09-14, 12:36 PM

Newline characters are a luxury. When a friend of mine learned C, his teacher had them write the entire program on a single line. Debug it yourself.

We also played with "Snake". It was easy to remove the collision-detecting mechanism, meaning the snake would continue straight through the wall and up in the memory registers, reaching the operative system in a little while. Very amusing when you were 10.

Solse

2014-09-14, 01:29 PM

Newline characters are a luxury. When a friend of mine learned C, his teacher had them write the entire program on a single line. Debug it yourself.

That reminds me of obfuscated code, code which is made to be completely unintelligible. There's an International Obfuscated C Code Contest which awards obfuscated C programs based on certain factors. Here's a link to the winners' programs. (http://www.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html)

We also played with "Snake". It was easy to remove the collision-detecting mechanism, meaning the snake would continue straight through the wall and up in the memory registers, reaching the operative system in a little while. Very amusing when you were 10.

It must've been really fun to see when the snake got to the display memory.

Teddy

2014-09-14, 01:51 PM

Or just unreadable. I once had 7 layers of nested loops and conditionals in a program. This was before I learned the important of commenting.

For our upcoming first lab in AI programming, we're supposed to make an optimised pathfinder using A*, and I've been thinking of means to reduce the amount of calculations while still fulfilling the fundamental requirements. I've been thinking about parallelisation, because I've got a bit of experience with that, especially from a project I did in the spring one year ago. That one was quite terrible, though, and I probably learned just as much what to avoid to do as what to actually do in the first case... http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.png

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

Hmm, assuming you get 2 kB for your text editor/IDE and no paging, that's 2000 characters. You'll have to learn to write modularised code if you're going to make anything larger than a Fibonacci generator. Assuming you do get paging, I'm just going to stick out my tongue at you and say something stereotypically snarky about old traditionalists blaming outside factors for lazy behaviour... http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/FZ6yI9l.png

That is...pretty interesting? I have no clue how that worked, but indeed spleen is a funny word. :smallbiggrin:

It creates a webpage looking as if you just opened Notepad and typed "Fred's Spleen" into it. The window/tab will be named "Sir Fredrick's Brain".

EDIT:

It must've been really fun to see when the snake got to the display memory.

It probably looked a bit like a snake...

http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.png

LaZodiac

2014-09-14, 01:53 PM

One benefit of living in the middle of nowhere: finding super obscure video games for cheap because no one bought them and no one will except you and the world was just waiting for you to do it.

God bless you, Shopper's Drugmart. THE GUNSTRINGER IS MINE!...tomorrow.

Mx.Silver

2014-09-14, 03:35 PM

http://i.imgur.com/eStEaVh.jpg

Either that, or they're just weirdly self-aware.

HalfTangible

2014-09-14, 06:19 PM

Why do people say things like "this is retarded, no offense" like somehow 'no offense' will magically evaporate all insult?

LaZodiac

2014-09-14, 06:24 PM

Why do people say things like "this is retarded, no offense" like somehow 'no offense' will magically evaporate all insult?

I think the offense is towards people who are retarded, in that example, not to the thing being compared to it.

enderlord99

2014-09-14, 06:34 PM

I think the offense is towards people who are retarded, in that example, not to the thing being compared to it.

It's offensive toward both. The extra sentence doesn't change that.

Coidzor

2014-09-14, 06:53 PM

It's offensive toward both. The extra sentence doesn't change that.

Well, obviously, but people are people, you have to remember that.

If one thing you don't forget, let it be that people will be people.

There's a distant possibility that they think something is really, really stupid but don't care enough to actively shame people and try to get them to stop liking it beyond their judgment of the thing itself.

Solse

2014-09-15, 05:14 AM

It probably looked a bit like a snake...

http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.png

...

*facepalms repeatedly*

Razanir

2014-09-15, 11:44 AM

Three words.

SURGE. IS. BACK.

Asta Kask

2014-09-15, 02:55 PM

And now a PSA for the worried bra-wearers - Wearing a bra does not cause breast cancer. (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/one-more-time-no-wearing-a-bra-does-not-cause-breast-cancer/)

This is one of those rumors that pop up from time to time. It is not true. Or at least, there's nothing to suggest it is true. Continue to wear your bras.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-15, 03:20 PM

Or don't. You'll make a significant portion of the male population pretty happy.

FinnLassie

2014-09-15, 03:57 PM

Or don't. You'll make a significant portion of the male population pretty happy.

I really doubt that a significant portion of women care jack all about how the male population feels about it.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-15, 04:18 PM

I really doubt that a significant portion of women care jack all about how the male population feels about it.

I'm sure they don't either, but that doesn't mean you have to listen to Asta if you don't want. And really, couldn't the world stand to have a little more happiness? :smalltongue:

enderlord99

2014-09-15, 04:45 PM

I have a tube of toothpaste that looks like a corny television advertisement for an action-figure.

It says:

Extreme Clean

With micro-active foaming action!

LaZodiac

2014-09-15, 04:56 PM

I have a tube of toothpaste that looks like a corny television advertisement for an action-figure.

It says:

You think that's nuts, try out our mild wing sauce. AKA...

:smallfurious:ULTIMATE MIIIIIIIIILD!:smallfurious:

We are the absolute pinnacle of being average.

enderlord99

2014-09-15, 05:51 PM

You think that's nuts, try out our mild wing sauce. AKA...

:smallfurious:ULTIMATE MIIIIIIIIILD!:smallfurious:

We are the absolute pinnacle of being average.

...Is that really on a product label? Mine was.

EDIT:http://www.aquafresh.com/images/products/product-three.png

LaZodiac

2014-09-15, 05:59 PM

...Is that really on a product label? Mine was.

EDIT:http://www.aquafresh.com/images/products/product-three.png

Well no, but the product was ACTUALLY called "Ultimate Mild"

I'm just saying, they're calling themselves the absolutely ultimate of "neither too spicy nor too sour". It's an oxymoron and I love it.

enderlord99

2014-09-15, 06:11 PM

"Ultimate" seems to me like "double extra." As such, "ultimate mild" would basically mean "bell-pepper-flavored." What would be really weird would be "ultimate medium." Speaking of which, is that also available?

Razanir

2014-09-15, 06:20 PM

1) Grading is fine. Although it gets not-fun when you have to give "true" Fs. (I don't feel guilt if they didn't complete everything. Only when they attempted every problem)
2) Grading, however, becomes much less enjoyable when you have a fever.
3) My new Rubik's Cube got here. Fangshi Shuangren.
4) Custom color scheme of gray-golden yellow, green-blue, red-??? (I originally had gray-yellow, red-golden yellow. But apparently the two yellows are a lot more similar than the pictures suggested)
5) TIL: Carbos is pokémon is short for carbohydrates. Or at least it wouldn't surprise me if it is. I just somehow never noticed that until today.

Asta Kask

2014-09-15, 06:37 PM

Or don't. You'll make a significant portion of the male population pretty happy.

I'm not sadistic enough to demand that women - particularly women with large breasts - go braless. From what I understand, it hurts.

LaZodiac

2014-09-15, 06:47 PM

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-15, 07:50 PM

I'm not sadistic enough to demand that women - particularly women with large breasts - go braless. From what I understand, it hurts.

Tell that to my 2nd grade Spanish teacher. *traumatized*

Coidzor

2014-09-15, 10:58 PM

Or don't. You'll make a significant portion of the male population pretty happy.

Hey now, the push-up bra has helped the happiness of the male population to a fair extent. And even to some extent the happiness of the female of the species.

You think that's nuts, try out our mild wing sauce. AKA...

:smallfurious:ULTIMATE MIIIIIIIIILD!:smallfurious:

We are the absolute pinnacle of being average.

So it's basically butter with red food coloring? :smallamused:

LaZodiac

2014-09-15, 11:16 PM

Hey now, the push-up bra has helped the happiness of the male population to a fair extent. And even to some extent the happiness of the female of the species.

So it's basically butter with red food coloring? :smallamused:

...no it's actually Mild wing sauce. Not some ****ing gross Cheese Whiz crap.

Coidzor

2014-09-15, 11:26 PM

...no it's actually Mild wing sauce. Not some ****ing gross Cheese Whiz crap.

Buffalo sauce, which is what wing sauce is, at its most basic, is just a proportion of hot sauce and melted butter. The more hot sauce, the more XTREME. The less hot sauce the mildlier it is.

So super mild wing saus would be basically just enough hot sauce for color.

Cheez Whiz is so much more and less than that. :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2014-09-15, 11:49 PM

enderlord99

2014-09-16, 12:13 AM

LaZodiac

2014-09-16, 12:27 AM

CynicalAvocado

2014-09-16, 12:33 AM

i never liked buffalo sauce, i always prefer my wings with lemon pepper or teryaki sauce

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-16, 12:39 AM

Buffalo sauce, which is what wing sauce is, at its most basic, is just a proportion of hot sauce and melted butter. The more hot sauce, the more XTREME. The less hot sauce the mildlier it is.

So super mild wing saus would be basically just enough hot sauce for color.

Cheez Whiz is so much more and less than that. :smalltongue:

Indeed. There's some really good sauce I've made before that's basically butter, Franks RedHot, garlic, and jalapenos (and it's an absurd amount of garlic and jalapenos). That stuff is the best. The base is just butter, vinegar, and cayenne pepper, though.

On the subject of hot sauces, I prefer things to be exceptionally spicy. Buffalo sauces are pretty good, as is Peri-Peri. I've recently taken a liking to Buffalo Wild Wings' Habanero Mango sauce, which is both very sweet and very spicy. Good stuff. :smallcool:

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-16, 01:11 AM

Oh man. Buffalo Wild Wings has a limited time "Classic Margarita" sauce around the same time they were doing Salted Caramel and Ghost Pepper. Didn't even try the Ghost Pepper one, and the Salted Caramel was okay, but, just, oh man. The Margarita sauce was *so* good. Actually kind of sad I only had it once, for it is certainly gone now. :smallfrown:

Feytalist

2014-09-16, 04:59 AM

Speaking of hot sauce.

A local store over here stocks a new product simply called "Hot Sauce". Apparently it's an import from the US. Is that actually a thing? Is "hot sauce" actually a brand name? Or is it just a labeling fail on our part.

(The sauce is actually not that hot.)

Also: I am currently eating fudge. That is all.

Also also: new thread yay. (I was gone a while, okay? Shht.)

Gnomvid

2014-09-16, 05:38 AM

This reminds me I need to order another gallon jug of Tabasco Chipotle, smoky goodness mmmmmm...

Asta Kask

2014-09-16, 07:42 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfgDPLkMg-w

This may be the best TV scene ever. I LOOOOOOVE John Hurt here.

FinnLassie

2014-09-16, 06:15 PM

Placement's mushing my brain.

I accidentally walked out of the shop with the shopping basket. Thank goodness it's just about 3-5mins away, but still, it was embarrassing as hell. And a good thing, I suppose, since I remembered to pick up some stuff I had not remembered the first time I got the shopping.

I also suspect the cashier is flirting with me and it's starting to get uncomfortable. And it's weird because he's like the only person I talk to IRL apart from people from my placement school.

LaZodiac

2014-09-16, 07:12 PM

Coidzor

2014-09-17, 12:56 AM

Finnlassie: ack! I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you can catch a breather and rally. And, uh, good luck with that other issue.

This reminds me I need to order another gallon jug of Tabasco Chipotle, smoky goodness mmmmmm...

They... come.... :smallconfused: that... size.... neeeeed. :smallfurious:

Indeed. There's some really good sauce I've made before that's basically butter, Franks RedHot, garlic, and jalapenos (and it's an absurd amount of garlic and jalapenos). That stuff is the best. The base is just butter, vinegar, and cayenne pepper, though.

On the subject of hot sauces, I prefer things to be exceptionally spicy. Buffalo sauces are pretty good, as is Peri-Peri. I've recently taken a liking to Buffalo Wild Wings' Habanero Mango sauce, which is both very sweet and very spicy. Good stuff. :smallcool:

Mhm! :smallbiggrin:

Nice. I think my tastes changed or else I just need to start eating spicier food more generally and more often and hotter to build up as much tolerance as a gringo can develop, as the Mango Habanero used to be my favorite but now I just... don't really taste the sweet anymore. :smallconfused: :smallfrown:

I don't know I've never tried it. I know when making our wings with it we add garlic powder to it though.

It is important to fortify y'all up there with extra garlic for those periods of time where there's no sun. :smallwink:

And garlic makes most savory things tastes betters. :smallsmile:

FinnLassie

2014-09-17, 02:21 AM

... seems like I really am tired, since I didnt give the full details. I ran back to the shop immediately when I noticed (almost back home) and dear lord was I embarrassed. :smalltongue:

Rawhide

2014-09-17, 02:29 AM

It is important to fortify y'all up there with extra garlic for those periods of time where there's no sun. :smallwink:

And garlic makes most savory things tastes betters. :smallsmile:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/dd2ed2f9ec00f4e4c3c512314ae130c2/tumblr_nbas6yDvzH1qbpmvho1_500.jpg

... seems like I really am tired, since I didnt give the full details. I ran back to the shop immediately when I noticed (almost back home) and dear lord was I embarrassed. :smalltongue:

I think they understood that. They were talking about your other issue.

Asta Kask

2014-09-17, 08:30 AM

Chaotic Evil Fox Says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE

Razanir

2014-09-17, 09:16 AM

New goal: Solve a Rubik's Cube... BLINDFOLDED

FinnLassie

2014-09-17, 10:25 AM

I think they understood that. They were talking about your other issue.

It was more of a general clarification, in case someone didn't get it.

Asta Kask

2014-09-17, 10:30 AM

New goal: Solve a Rubik's Cube... BLINDFOLDED

You intend to develop some kind of imaging ladar?

Feytalist

2014-09-17, 10:38 AM

You intend to develop some kind of imaging ladar?

If each colour had a different texture, it might work.

Hellishly difficult, of course. But otherwise, what's the point :smallbiggrin:

Gnomvid

2014-09-17, 10:43 AM

So glue different grades of sandpaper to the different colors

Asta Kask

2014-09-17, 10:46 AM

Or he could have a blindfold with small holes in.

Razanir

2014-09-17, 11:34 AM

It involves learning where stickers are supposed to go, not dealing with the colors themselves.

So for instance, I might remember the cycle DF->UL->RD->BL->FR->UB->DF.

Asta Kask

2014-09-17, 12:27 PM

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000068013/polls_wtf_2558_614488_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-17, 12:59 PM

I can't solve a Rubik's, but if you can do it, going to blindfolded isn't that hard. I've seen loads do it.

HalfTangible

2014-09-17, 01:07 PM

I can't solve a Rubik's, but if you can do it, going to blindfolded isn't that hard. I've seen loads do it.

How do you tell when you're done?

enderlord99

2014-09-17, 01:15 PM

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000068013/polls_wtf_2558_614488_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg

LOL BBQ Sauce!

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-17, 01:20 PM

How do you tell when you're done?

Memorizing, mainly. Will have to ask my friends.

Also Brother Jed is on campus, and I can't.

Razanir

2014-09-17, 01:41 PM

How do you tell when you're done?

You guess. You memorize where everything has to go, solve everything, and hope you didn't make any mistakes.

Solse

2014-09-17, 05:41 PM

Or he could have a blindfold with small holes in.

I like this solution. Practical.

Haluesen

2014-09-17, 09:08 PM

Since the hot sauce used in buffalo wing sauce is just a mixture of peppers and vinegar, the mildest possible hot sauce would be made with bell peppers (which are technically peppers, but are sweet rather than spicy) and cider vinegar (which is technically vinegar, but is sweet rather than sour.) Mix that with butter, and the results would probably be weird on chicken wings, but delicious (though still kind of weird) on popcorn. It would also be sweet.

Indeed. There's some really good sauce I've made before that's basically butter, Franks RedHot, garlic, and jalapenos (and it's an absurd amount of garlic and jalapenos). That stuff is the best. The base is just butter, vinegar, and cayenne pepper, though.

On the subject of hot sauces, I prefer things to be exceptionally spicy. Buffalo sauces are pretty good, as is Peri-Peri. I've recently taken a liking to Buffalo Wild Wings' Habanero Mango sauce, which is both very sweet and very spicy. Good stuff. :smallcool:

Ah, the people here teach me so much about the art of food. :smallbiggrin: In all honesty I am glad to read stuff like this as it helps me come up with new idea to test out. And I haven't gotten into spicy cooking at all yet. I think I still have yet to try out the spicy brownies...

Placement's mushing my brain.

I accidentally walked out of the shop with the shopping basket. Thank goodness it's just about 3-5mins away, but still, it was embarrassing as hell. And a good thing, I suppose, since I remembered to pick up some stuff I had not remembered the first time I got the shopping.

I also suspect the cashier is flirting with me and it's starting to get uncomfortable. And it's weird because he's like the only person I talk to IRL apart from people from my placement school.

I'm sorry for the school stress, I hope it all goes well though Finny.

Make the moment your own, walk in like it is a PRIVILEGE that they can have their basket back! :smallbiggrin: But seriously sucks that you were all embarrassed, it isn't a fun feeling to have.

Chaotic Evil Fox Says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE

This is so awesome. I kinda want the little guy, he would guard my house well from the evils of the world. :smallsmile:

New goal: Solve a Rubik's Cube... BLINDFOLDED

....there are so many things I want to say about this that I don't know where to start. :smallconfused: :smalleek:

Mercenary Pen

2014-09-18, 07:15 AM

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-18, 07:20 AM

I'm trying to remember the internet "law" that states that anyone trying to correct the spelling or grammar of another is destined to make their own spelling/grammar mistakes in so doing- anyone able to help?

Skitt's Law, according to this (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6408927/Internet-rules-and-laws-the-top-10-from-Godwin-to-Poe.html). You could probably also say Murphy's Law too.

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 08:15 AM

This is so awesome. I kinda want the little guy, he would guard my house well from the evils of the world. :smallsmile:

That's... not quite the role it has in the movie. Don't watch it. I like this version better.

Razanir

2014-09-18, 08:21 AM

Teddy

2014-09-18, 08:41 AM

Muphry's Law is the name I'm used to.

Murphy's law is much more general, and to be honest a bit misapplied, because typos and grammatical errors is writing-gone-wrong no matter how little you care about it. This is more a case of the likelihood of shooting yourself in the foot being proportional to the height of the moral ground you're trying to take, or more general, that the likelihood of problems is proportionate to how important it is for you to avoid any problems.

I found the last one to be very true with erasers and exams: the smaller my eraser was, the more likely I was to make errors and the larger they would become. When the size of my eraser approached zero, I would frequently have to redo entire pages.

Razanir

2014-09-18, 09:08 AM

You could probably also say Murphy's Law too.

Murphy's law is much more general

No, it's Muphry's Law. As in an intentional misspelling of Murphy.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-18, 09:22 AM

I have shared this with the chat already, but we have found the music of the future (http://xspongexcorex.bandcamp.com/track/right-where-i-want-you). Be warned, it is not for all.

Razanir

2014-09-18, 09:23 AM

So apparently Grumpy Cat is getting a movie. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, Aubrey Plaza is perfect for the role. On the other hand, it's a meme getting a movie.

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 09:31 AM

It's nothing new. We had a couple of farmers who were famous for doing a commercial, where they spoke with a dialect. They traveled around the country for a year doing this. What they said wasn't very funny. Dialects, however, were apparently hilarious. It happens.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-18, 09:51 AM

Okay, so do these baby baboons have really, oddly human faces or is it just me...?

http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/6c/601083cfaa87eec5e3b7622d8a2b4/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg

Skeppio

2014-09-18, 09:51 AM

So apparently Grumpy Cat is getting a movie. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, Audrey Plaza is perfect for the role. On the other hand, it's a meme getting a movie.

I worry for the future.....:smallsigh:

Though I can't say I didn't expect something like this to happen eventually.

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 10:04 AM

Okay, so do these baby baboons have really, oddly human faces or is it just me...?

http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/6c/601083cfaa87eec5e3b7622d8a2b4/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg

You're completely right. It's called neoteny - the retention of infantile characteristics in adults - and humans have a lot of neoteny with apes and monkeys.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_J7SY_2pDGzI/TPurdTZ1ueI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/KAjxkBTStIQ/s1600/chimps.jpg

LaZodiac

2014-09-18, 10:05 AM

Rawhide

2014-09-18, 10:37 AM

So apparently Grumpy Cat is getting a movie. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, Aubrey Plaza is perfect for the role. On the other hand, it's a meme getting a movie.

Aubrey Plaza would make a perfect Grumpy Cat.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-18, 10:38 AM

It's almost as if we are relatives or something : O

Well duh. :smalltongue:

But having never seen a baby baboon, I was startled. As Asta pointed out, they don't really look like they're adult forms.

EmeraldRose

2014-09-18, 10:43 AM

Hmm...new iOS update is taking more than 2 hours to download...this does not bode well. :smallsigh:

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 10:52 AM

You should have had a baboon downloading it. A child baboon.

Your own kids (probably) don't count.

EmeraldRose

2014-09-18, 10:55 AM

It isn't difficult. Just apparently will take forever. Fortunately it will just run in the background. :P

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-18, 11:00 AM

Okay, so do these baby baboons have really, oddly human faces or is it just me...?

http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/6c/601083cfaa87eec5e3b7622d8a2b4/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg

Indeed they do - although I imagine that most people's view of 'human-like' faces these days is influenced by a great deal of animated movies with human-like animals... especially via disney and pixar. Also what Asta said.

ION: Step one of troubleshooting your circuit board - ensure that the chips are inserted properly before you accuse the LED sensors/integrated circuits of messing up your XNOR gate.

>.>
<.<

There went half an hour. :smallsigh: :smallamused:

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 11:03 AM

It isn't difficult. Just apparently will take forever. Fortunately it will just run in the background. :P

You didn't think I'd put a baboon on something complicated?

That's where your kids come in. They're probably leaps and bounds ahead of you. Do you even know how to install the Blu-Ray? Honest. We won't judge.

EmeraldRose

2014-09-18, 11:10 AM

You didn't think I'd put a baboon on something complicated?

That's where your kids come in. They're probably leaps and bounds ahead of you. Do you even know how to install the Blu-Ray? Honest. We won't judge.

I know how to install iOS updates. I was merely complaining that this update takes hours to download. The kids are at school. We don't have a blu-ray player.

*pokes Asta with a stick*

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-18, 11:12 AM

iOS 8 is supposed to be ... bad. From my understanding. Could well be wrong, though.

EmeraldRose

2014-09-18, 11:19 AM

iOS 8 is supposed to be ... bad. From my understanding. Could well be wrong, though.

Lovely....well, no worries. It just told me it had an issue with downloading it, so maybe I can put it off for awhile.

*goes to backup stuff just in case*

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 11:50 AM

I know how to install iOS updates. I was merely complaining that this update takes hours to download. The kids are at school. We don't have a blu-ray player.

*pokes Asta with a stick*

*pokes back*

*goes off to pet the cat*

LaZodiac

2014-09-18, 12:08 PM

Well duh. :smalltongue:

But having never seen a baby baboon, I was startled. As Asta pointed out, they don't really look like they're adult forms.

Ooh, okay. I can understand that. Maybe I'm just weird but it didn't surprise me none :smallbiggrin:

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-18, 12:15 PM

Ooh, okay. I can understand that. Maybe I'm just weird but it didn't surprise me none :smallbiggrin:

Hahah, perhaps. Or maybe you secretly love baby animals? :smallwink:

LaZodiac

2014-09-18, 12:24 PM

Hahah, perhaps. Or maybe you secretly love baby animals? :smallwink:

That seems unlikely :smallamused:

...maybe.

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 12:32 PM

You don't like kittens?

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16700000/Cute-kitten-babies-pets-and-animals-16713247-1024-768.jpg

Teddy

2014-09-18, 12:40 PM

You don't like kittens?

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16700000/Cute-kitten-babies-pets-and-animals-16713247-1024-768.jpg

I don't like sites which refuse hot-linking of their pictures...

Asta Kask

2014-09-18, 12:49 PM

This is brilliant. We need more lectures like this on the Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g8lANs6zpQ

Solse

2014-09-18, 08:27 PM

I worry for the future.....:smallsigh:

Though I can't say I didn't expect something like this to happen eventually.

"Hey! The internet is apparently a thing now! Let's make money off of a meme that's really popular!"
"How about Grumpy Cat?"
"Awesome! I think that it's a cool, hip meme that will appeal to younger audiences! Never mind the fact that it's years old and not relevant any more!"

Seriously, they might as well make a movie about high-wheel bikes -- a similar fad that has no relevancy nowadays.

Lheticus

2014-09-18, 09:02 PM

GAH! Did this thread get down to the 2nd page or something earlier today? I didn't realize this was a thing and accidentally duplicated it. :( Waiting for the mods to delete it now X_X

enderlord99

2014-09-18, 10:48 PM

Excuse me, but I would like to propose a challenge for raisin-ear: hand someone else a solved rubix cube. Turn your back and ask them to randomize it, informing you when they're done. At that point, take the cube back and get it into the superflip position in 30 moves or fewer. Also, in case you're wondering: yes, I know I spelled your name wrong.:smallcool:

Rawhide

2014-09-19, 12:51 AM

Holy (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=55630) sheet (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/x-men-spinoff-deadpool-gets-734172)!

http://www.fromsingletomarried.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sheets2.jpg

Teddy

2014-09-19, 02:34 AM

"Hey! The internet is apparently a thing now! Let's make money off of a meme that's really popular!"
"How about Grumpy Cat?"
"Awesome! I think that it's a cool, hip meme that will appeal to younger audiences! Never mind the fact that it's years old and not relevant any more!"

Seriously, they might as well make a movie about high-wheel bikes -- a similar fad that has no relevancy nowadays.

To be honest, I wouldn't call high-wheel bicycles a fad. They were an impractical solution to a practical problem, and they lasted on the market for 20 years before durable chains and inflatable tyres made them obsolete, which from the perspective of a user is quite a long time (and depending on the quality may very well have been a lifetime for he bicycle).

Coidzor

2014-09-19, 05:55 AM

EmeraldRose

2014-09-19, 07:56 AM

Arrr!!! Happy OneDayOfTheYearWhenIt'sSociallyAcceptableToBeAPira teInsteadOfANinja!!!

Or something...

Asta Kask

2014-09-19, 07:59 AM

I'm actually distantly related to the wife of a pirate.

Qwertystop

2014-09-19, 08:11 AM

I'm actually distantly related to the wife of a pirate.

I think most people are, because math. Anyone who lived more than about... I think it was 600 years ago?... either has no living descendants or is probably the ancestor of most people alive today. I think that was how it worked out? I forget.

Asta Kask

2014-09-19, 08:18 AM

Shush you.

Teddy

2014-09-19, 10:41 AM

I'm actually distantly related to the wife of a pirate.

But not the pirate himself? http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/rcxULF7.png

Septimus Faber

2014-09-19, 12:28 PM

Asta Kask

2014-09-19, 03:10 PM

But not the pirate himself? http://i.imgur.com/ZRHtTJs.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/rcxULF7.png

Only to the missus.

Ravens_cry

2014-09-19, 03:19 PM

I don't write often, but when I do, really, do, it tends to be in gushes.
Today I wrote my first piece of fan fiction. Non sexual, and SFW, but I want to share it, because. It's about a page and a half of single space text, and I apologize for any spelling, syntex or grammar errors.
Still, I had a need to write, and now I have a need to share.
He gripped the tree trunk tightly, his long ears flat against the back of his head, his claws digging into the bark far deeper, far tighter than they ever did with her, as bitter, steaming tears ran down his cheeks.
It was no substitute, but, then, nothing was.
He remember crying for the first time, when she told him that she was going away, that she was going to die.
He hadn't known he could cry, and, to his shame, it set off what could only be described as a rampage. No one has been hurt, only property, and that was easily enough repaired these days. In fact, most of it had repaired itself.
Still, it did lose him much of one thing most precious, even to the likes of him, time, and, by the time he calmed back down enough to stop destroying, he was almost too late.
Almost.
He thanked any being that would hear his words that he was not, but it still meant they only had time for one last embrace, letting her hold him for one last time, though her bones were like glass and her skin like tissue paper.
Her sister had passed away two decades before, and that had being hard on both of them. She was the mother he never had and she all too briefly. Still, they were together, and that helped ease the gaping tear to a dull ache, but now, oh, but now he was alone.
Odd to be alone in a world with over 12 billion people, but there it was.
As soon as her life signs faded to noise, he ran. Everyone had been tense for another rampage, but even that atavistic desire could close this wound. He ran from the hospital, down the road and onto the beach. Only his ancient fear stopped him from trying to take the one thing left in him, all else having been scooped out with her passing. He trembled. He had wanted to leap out into that blue infinity, let it consume him like the depths of a greater infinity he had once known, let him die.
But no. It was not just instinct that held him back now. For, with him gone, who would remember?
No, she must never be forgotten.
That day, he made what may have been the most difficult decision of his life: To live.
Oh, he was reckless , and reckless he remained, but, as an almost indestructible immortal, it wasn't reckless for him, but merely a way of spending his boundless energy.
In fact, that was why he was here.
The Professor, always a tinkerer, had for many decades been working with the humans to bridge their understanding and his. It was a slow process, because much native human theory, while capable of accurate predictions in many respects, had choked them off from further developments by being wrong in deeply fundamental ways. Finally, after many failed attempts and not a few disasters, that bridge had been made.
“Sir? Sir, they are ready for you.”
Yes, and he was ready for them, for today was the launch of the first human built, human designed anti gravity (a human term with so many things wrong with it, but it remained even as understanding outpaced it) faster than light (same problem) craft.
As an almost indestructible, immortal, and, last but not least, small creature, he was the perfect test pilot. There was a bit of grumbling of him taking that honour, but it was not the first time non-humans lead the way in human spaceflight from what they told him, and he was an honorary human at this point anyway. He took a deep breath, pulling back the tears. They had served their purpose, but now it was the time for action.
“Okay!” he said eagerly, one hand leaving the bark to give a raised thumbs up.
He hopped down to the ground, following his escort back to the launch zone, but first he took one last chance to look behind him at the island. Oh, things had changed a little since he had first arrived those many decades ago. The buildings mostly, but that was like clothing's changing fashions; it didn't really change the fundamental character of the place.
Turning back, he faced the gleaming gantry where his craft awaited. Compared to even the most primitive craft elsewhere, it was a shambling wreck held together by prayers and duct tape. Still, he could feel the human pride at its completion around him, as he was lead to be suited up in a pressure suit just his size and, then, to the cockpit. The elevator rose slowly, climbing the gantry in what felt something like forever. Like the Mercury capsules of old, the craft was more worn than ridden, but, he managed being strapped into place, his hands gripping the controls even as they sealed the hatch.
Finally, the tinny (would they ever fix that?) voice in his ear squawked, “Sir, are you ready?”
Opening his mouth wide and wider, in a grin that tended to unnerve most humans yet endeared him to others, he smiled. “Okay!” he cried, anxious to get started. He could hear the flurry of words in the background as the last preflight checks were completed, but only one mattered to him as he waited for infinity to pass.
“Hound Dog 1, you are go for launch, and Godspeed!”
Yes, the traditional sendoff, even now.
He could feel the energies build in the craft around him, how it yearned to join the great, the greatest in fact, infinity it was designed for. Well, that was just how he liked it.
As the power within his craft built to a fever pitch, tears suddenly misted his eyes once more as the old, old song came to mind. He pressed a button, one of hundreds, on the panel in front of him, and it blared from the speakers at him, as the craft rose into the air on a shriek like a banshee dying, they'd have to look into that, as he rose higher and higher, while Elvis filled his ears. Faster and faster it picked up speed, punching past the atmosphere faster than any bullet, any missile, than anything human built before ever had. He was speed, he was flight, and the sky, fading from blue swiftly into a black studded with stars, drew him forward, and he would follow.
Voices chattered tinnily in his ear, but they were irrelevant.
As his craft transitioned to faster than light, his face practically split with his sharp toothed smile, so broad it looked like his big blue head might fall off, he said one word, one word that, to him, was more important than any other.
“Liiiiiii . . . LOOOOOO!!!”
Even if he was the only one left behind, a likely fate for an immortal, she would never be forgotten.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-19, 03:59 PM

Don't personally like the in media res used, but very interesting ... Stitch? :smallconfused:

Teddy

2014-09-19, 04:02 PM

Totally random, off-topic, not worthy of discussion and thus a perfect fit for this thread:

What sort of size scars do people have, and what injuries caused them? I'd like to have a baseline to compare mine to.

Mine is about 3/4 of a centimetre wide,and stretches from my spine to underneath my left shoulder. Childhood operation. Damn genetic-environmental interaction...:smallannoyed:

I've got a slightly drop-shaped scar on my right elbow. It's perhaps 6 cm long and 2 cm wide at the bottom, with the top half comprising a line and the bottom a more shapeless cloud. I got it from falling with my bike 4 years ago as I did a too sharp turn at high speed on gravel while trying to evade a friend coming from another direction. Today it's mostly faded to invisibility, but it's still there if you look.

Ravens_cry

2014-09-19, 04:05 PM

Don't personally like the in media res used, but very interesting ... Stitch? :smallconfused:
Yep. It was inspired by this series of sketches. (http://9gag.com/gag/ag0LpMr?ref=fb.s.mw)
It hit me right in the feels, so I decided to punch back, as it were.

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-19, 06:32 PM

Totally random, off-topic, not worthy of discussion and thus a perfect fit for this thread:

What sort of size scars do people have, and what injuries caused them? I'd like to have a baseline to compare mine to.

Mine is about 3/4 of a centimetre wide,and stretches from my spine to underneath my left shoulder. Childhood operation. Damn genetic-environmental interaction...:smallannoyed:

The biggest scar I've got is on my collarbone, from a mole that was removed I forget how long ago. I can't really tell how big it is because it's so old (and positioned basically on a bone). I've also got a fair amount of small scars on my hands and arms from things that just didn't heal well.

Solse

2014-09-19, 06:55 PM

I capsized a sailboat a couple months ago and got a centimeter-long scar on my elbow. It's fading quickly, so I don't know if I can really call it a scar.

Ravens_cry

2014-09-19, 07:07 PM

I have two scars I can tell you about. One has a grisly story of nail impairment and a three year old (me) who was bouncing where they should not bounce, but I am not going to tell that story.
No, my strangest scar, I don't have a story about at all. I only found it when I got my hair cut really short one summer because it was really hot.
It is like a zipper running from the top of my head to the back of my neck, and I have no damn clue where it came from.
A scar like that you'd think there would be a story, some part of the family legend that explains it, but nope, nothing!

factotum

2014-09-20, 02:09 AM

What sort of size scars do people have, and what injuries caused them?

About 2cm long, running from the cuticle on my left forefinger back to somewhere between the first and second joint. Achieved when I broke the glass in the house I was staying in as a student due to getting locked out when both my housemates were away for the weekend.

Somensjev

2014-09-20, 08:20 AM

LaZodiac

2014-09-20, 08:31 AM

That's really awesome. And I'm glad you mentioned BT just had a busted up hand because I was seriously about to ask if BT only has one hand because otherwise him only putting one hand mark is weird.

Somensjev

2014-09-20, 08:35 AM

That's really awesome. And I'm glad you mentioned BT just had a busted up hand because I was seriously about to ask if BT only has one hand because otherwise him only putting one hand mark is weird.

i figured the two biggest questions would be "why is there an egg", and "why does BT only have one hand"

there was a third question, but i forgot what it was

Rawhide

2014-09-20, 09:02 AM

LaZodiac, in case you missed my earlier post, they are making a Deadpool movie!

LaZodiac

2014-09-20, 09:06 AM

LaZodiac, in case you missed my earlier post, they are making a Deadpool movie!

I saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw.

Super excited. It's in 2016 though so I'm gonna chill about it till it's out. I just forgot to mention I'd saw it XP

Cuthalion

2014-09-20, 11:55 AM

http://i58.tinypic.com/s1p1f4.jpg

Septimus Faber

2014-09-20, 12:04 PM

http://i58.tinypic.com/s1p1f4.jpg

Is it bad that when I saw that the first thing that came into my head was the thought of roast chicken, with gravy?

HalfTangible

2014-09-20, 12:06 PM

http://i58.tinypic.com/s1p1f4.jpg

Right round. Like a record baby. Right round round round.

Coidzor

2014-09-20, 01:42 PM

http://i58.tinypic.com/s1p1f4.jpg

That reminds me. One of these days I have got to sit down with you and have a heart-to-heart about how you're able to keep those chickens of yours from killing one another or trying to kill you now that I have to deal with Heisenberg "I am the one who pecks," the Rooster.

He hasn't attacked me yet, and my friend may have been putting me on about how the gallo tries to work itself up into a berserk fury before charging, but...

Well, if he doesn't result in any chicks soon I may have to ask you if you have any recipes that are good for using rooster in other than the infamous **** soup.

Razanir

2014-09-20, 02:11 PM

Cuthalion

2014-09-20, 02:26 PM

That reminds me. One of these days I have got to sit down with you and have a heart-to-heart about how you're able to keep those chickens of yours from killing one another or trying to kill you now that I have to deal with Heisenberg "I am the one who pecks," the Rooster.

He hasn't attacked me yet, and my friend may have been putting me on about how the gallo tries to work itself up into a berserk fury before charging, but...

Well, if he doesn't result in any chicks soon I may have to ask you if you have any recipes that are good for using rooster in other than the infamous **** soup.

My chickens are all hens... they attack each other occasionally but mostly for the sake of the pecking order, i.e. that is my food before it is your food.

There are occasionally wacko roosters, though, that just don't get the whole thing. Most roosters aren't that bad, but you may have had the misfortune to get one.

LaZodiac

2014-09-20, 08:49 PM

Oh man, I went to the Khans of Tarkir prerelease at our local game shop and had lots of fun!

Solse

2014-09-20, 09:10 PM

Woo! My elbow has finally healed! You see. Back on Labor Day, I had an unfortunate run-in with the road. I somehow managed to slip and fall while crossing the street, and scraped myself up pretty bad. Most of it healed within the week. But my elbow laceration took a lot longer. It was a lose-lose. Either I put on a bandage and it pulls the scab off, of I don't put one on and I'm tempted to pick at it. Well 3 weeks later, I'm finally declaring it back to normal.

Ouch. Something about pavement's bumpiness makes it incredibly painful to fall on it. Nothing better than crying out in pain after simply tripping on pavement.

Either way, I'm glad you're healed. It's a great feeling to wake up and find that a cut has healed, or you're healthy after being sick for a while.

Razanir

2014-09-20, 10:03 PM

or you're healthy after being sick for a while.

Oh, right, I was also suffering through a nasty cough at the same time.

Taet

2014-09-21, 12:09 AM

so, yesterday was my last day of school, and my friend and i decided to leave behind something for the school

spoilered for size:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/14djajt.jpg
a picture of the whole thing, from a bad angle

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2ahf8ex.jpg
a closer picture of part

http://oi62.tinypic.com/2d6qgqb.jpg
a little message for the younger students

http://oi60.tinypic.com/14lo8yo.jpg
our hand prints an initials

http://oi61.tinypic.com/fv8hl4.jpg
we added more handprints, from our friends

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2udz0ya.jpg
one of our friends had an injured hand

http://oi62.tinypic.com/zwhmh1.jpg
my '0' looked like an egg, so we made it symbolic

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2u8b0gm.jpg
i ended up with three handprints on me by the end, two on my back, and one on my leg

ION: my name changed while i was at a birthday party, i didn't even realise until i was PM'd about it
I did not expect pretty drawings like this. :smallbiggrin:

I think most people are, because math. Anyone who lived more than about... I think it was 600 years ago?... either has no living descendants or is probably the ancestor of most people alive today. I think that was how it worked out? I forget.
That only works out in 600 years for native Americans. Maybe native Australians too. And Easter Islanders. And it is horrible to know most of them have no living descendants because of Old World diseases. :smallfrown:

Coidzor

2014-09-21, 01:06 AM

My chickens are all hens... they attack each other occasionally but mostly for the sake of the pecking order, i.e. that is my food before it is your food.

There are occasionally wacko roosters, though, that just don't get the whole thing. Most roosters aren't that bad, but you may have had the misfortune to get one.

Hmm. In retrospect, I'm not sure why they decided to go with trying to have a rooster to start with rather than starting off with learning to manage a number of hens and then deciding from there if they wanted to deal with the hassle of them potentially reproducing.

Ahh, alas, this one has definitely that kind of reputation with my friend. Some crisis came up and they weren't able to get enough hand-raising as chicks, so maybe he just wasn't loved on enough. Or he took being loved on and then no longer being loved on enough after that personally and is holding a grudge. XD

Pretty bird, though that's probably partially because he pecks the hens and makes them look uglier than they otherwise would by pulling out feathers on their back.

AtlanteanTroll

2014-09-21, 12:38 PM

Roosters are terrifying. They will chase your forever if you make them mad. I'm having flashbacks to my childhood friend's farm. Ugggh.

FinnLassie

2014-09-21, 12:51 PM

Likely moving back to Finland, life is scary.

LaZodiac

2014-09-21, 01:02 PM

Likely moving back to Finland, life is scary.

Oh dear. I hope everything is alright :smallfrown:

Mrs McGinty

2014-09-21, 01:06 PM

What sort of size scars do people have, and what injuries caused them?

I have a curved scar running across my right index finger resulting from an attempt to cut a baguette whilst drunk. Ten years on, it still hurts when I play the double bass.

Coidzor

2014-09-21, 01:20 PM

Likely moving back to Finland, life is scary.

I'm sorry to hear that. :smallfrown: I hope it starts moving in a less-scary direction soon.

Asta Kask

2014-09-21, 01:28 PM

Likely moving back to Finland, life is scary.

That sounds sad. You sound like you like teaching in Scotland. Is there anything you can tell us, or is it something you want to remain private? We're willing to listen if you feel like talking.

HalfTangible

2014-09-21, 01:30 PM

Totally random, off-topic, not worthy of discussion and thus a perfect fit for this thread:

What sort of size scars do people have, and what injuries caused them? I'd like to have a baseline to compare mine to.

Mine is about 3/4 of a centimetre wide,and stretches from my spine to underneath my left shoulder. Childhood operation. Damn genetic-environmental interaction...:smallannoyed:

I've got a scar that runs down the center of my bottom lip from middle school.

On a completely unrelated note, chapstick is your friend. Especially when your lips have been horrifically chapped for over 2 months.

LaZodiac

2014-09-21, 02:22 PM

So I've been trying to trick myself into drinking coffee by doing half and half with vanilla creamer. Am I doing it wrong?

Asta Kask

2014-09-21, 02:26 PM

Why would you do that?

LaZodiac

2014-09-21, 02:33 PM

Why would you do that?

I like warm drinks but coffee tastes disgusting. But the creamer is vanilla so it's super yummy.

Amidus Drexel

2014-09-21, 02:34 PM

I like warm drinks but coffee tastes disgusting. But the creamer is vanilla so it's super yummy.

Good black coffee is alright. Bitter, but good. But then again, I'm somewhat of a purist even when it's unnecessary, so...

You could always go for hot chocolate, you know... :smalltongue:

enderlord99

2014-09-21, 02:44 PM

So I've been trying to trick myself into drinking coffee by doing half and half with vanilla creamer.
Okay. Umm... What's the point of it?

Am I doing it wrong?
A 1:1 ratio is way more creamer than even I use, and I use a lot of creamer. Still, whatever works for you...

LaZodiac

2014-09-21, 03:40 PM

Good black coffee is alright. Bitter, but good. But then again, I'm somewhat of a purist even when it's unnecessary, so...

You could always go for hot chocolate, you know... :smalltongue:

Yeah now I can't do bitter at all.

I'd love to I don't know how to make hot chocolate. My aunt said she'd show me though!

Okay. Umm... What's the point of it?

A 1:1 ratio is way more creamer than even I use, and I use a lot of creamer. Still, whatever works for you...

As I said above, I like warm drinks and vanilla but I can't stand coffee. So, drowning.