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Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
I just went to the gym!
I couldn't do any intensive cardio or the like, but I'm still sweating! I should be back tomorrow, and then if they're open on Sunday I'll sneak in a pre-NYR rush session.
Also I hate sports.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Anonymouswizard
I just went to the gym!
Hooray!
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Anonymouswizard
I couldn't do any intensive cardio or the like
Good! You don't want to jump straight in to intensive cardio. Build that up! Though if you really want, there's some beginner HIIT routines you could do.
They suck.
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Also I hate sports.
As one should.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
I just realized, a few days too late, that I could have said "Merry Boxing Eve" as a joke on Christmas.
Eh. Better late than never, I guess; I'll try to remember for next year.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
My next year's resolution for 2024 is to drink less caffeine. :smile:
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I have no random thoughts as of this time, however, about half a week ago this thought popped into my head, sef-quoting from elsewhere
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You get a cliche isekai background like getting hit by a truck, stabbed durung a mugging gone wrong, or tripping in front of a train or some ****...
When you die, a cosmic entity who you recognize as someone from the Marvel Multiverse says that there is a newly created lifeform on Earth 616 that is in need of a soul but doesn't have one due to some cosmic glitch so you're in luck: If you agree to take the place of that newly born entity's soul they'll be absolutely sure that all of your memories, essence, consciousness, emotions, and so on transfer over, IE, that you will still be you after your reincarnation.
You agree... and wake up as a newly born symbiote in a lab somewhere shortly after there's an attack by some Z-List villains and you can escape.. In terms of strength and abilities, you're roughly on par with the black suit prior to it bonding with Spider-Man(or Deadpool, if you accept Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars as canon.)
What do you do?
And it's frustrating because there's no easy solution to this one, no "best answer."
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Rater202
I have no random thoughts as of this time, however, about half a week ago this thought popped into my head, sef-quoting from elsewhere
And it's frustrating because there's no easy solution to this one, no "best answer."
There's very rarely a best answer, that's what makes an interesting question. The issue here is that the question just isn't very interesting and kind of relies on having more knowledge of Marvel than your average person does. Like why aren't these guys robbing banks, I thought that was what eighth rate supervillains did? Are there really enough labs experimenting on symbiotes that they're lower down the prestige list than knocking over a corner shop?
Well I suppose in New York there might be one in every other apartment...
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enderlord99
I just realized, a few days too late, that I could have said "Merry Boxing Eve" as a joke on Christmas.
Eh. Better late than never, I guess; I'll try to remember for next year.
Yeah, I like that myself, I'll try to remember it for next year too.
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Are there really enough labs experimenting on symbiotes that they're lower down the prestige list than knocking over a corner shop?
Well I suppose in New York there might be one in every other apartment...
Ignoring the fact that it's a plot device meant to facilitate one's escape from captivity...
Two active corporations—the Life Foundation and Alchemaz—and Weapon Plus division(IE, clandestine military organization sponsored jointly by multiple US and Canadian military and government bodies) currently, plus a third corporation was doing so in the past before it went horribly wrong.
Something of a cultural meme among certain criminal types is that a symbiote will automatically make you an A-lister. Additionally, corporations and military research outposts tend to have expensive equipment that say, a mad scientists might want for their own research, and Alxhemax and the Life Foundation's respective focuses might be of interest to aspiring supervillains even if they're not after symbiotes.
Also keep in mind that "Z-List" doesn't mean "random thug." It has more to do with prestige and reputation than skill.
The Shocker, for example, has the skills and talent to be an A-Lister, but he's typically considered a C-Lister mostly because he doesn't care. He just wants money.
So a Z-List villain would be someone like The Hood, who wants to be a big-shot crime lord but who is mostly just a joke, or Silvermane who is literally just an aged mob boss who should have died ages ago who thinks he's still relevant in a world where Supervillains exist when really the main reason he's still around is because none of the proper villains are interested in his rackets.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Rater202
I have no random thoughts as of this time, however, about half a week ago this thought popped into my head, sef-quoting from elsewhereAnd it's frustrating because there's no easy solution to this one, no "best answer."
Well if its Marvel, there is a huge probability that I'm in New York.
I know for some reason symbiotes like chocolate, but I'd probably have to eat rats at first, the real challenge is finding someone to bond to. And the available options change drastically depending on how narrative we're assuming the universe is. If there is no narrative, I have millions of potential people to bond with but are understandably limited by all the reasonable assumptions and problems of real life and common sense which makes this harder to do in the first place. If there is a narrative however, it means my actual target(s) available are whatever the plot decides will create drama for either Spiderman or Venom, probably Spiderman since he's the more popular hero. And since the narrative loooooves torturing Peter, my actual only available target is probably someone like Mary Jane, we already got a Gwenom after all. I could try to bond with someone else of course but there is good chance I'm being forced towards someone Spiderman cares about, the real trick is figuring out how to communicate that I don't intend any harm and want this to be as temporary as possible so I can find a better host that isn't involved with Spiderman, mostly because Peter's life is something you don't want to be within a few miles of for long. everyone he cares about tends to get hurt so I'd probably have to do a weird mix of not intending any harm but being enough of a jerk that I won't fall into a get saved category, but not TOO much of a jerk as to get shunted into outright villain because its all downhill from there. of course, Gwenpool comics suggest thinking narratively might not be an entirely bad idea, given how accurate she is, what she knows and what power is gained from her awareness.
of course I'm just saying all this is because Spiderman is what I know, its possible I'm apart one of a million other stories happening that has nothing to do with him and I just somehow find myself in some unfamiliar adventure involving something else.
So I guess the general thing I'd do to start is assess my current situation, see where I am, try to guess what people are at my location and what stories I could potentially be apart of, try to find vermin and such to eat, and seek an opportunity to bond to someone I'd be comfortable with. investigative, scout type stuff.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Lord Raziere
I know for some reason symbiotes like chocolate
Phenylethylamine. Symbiotes don't typically need to eat, if they're healthy, but feeding on a host's hormones and neurotransmitters can help them grow stronger and maintain their health and for a while the venom symbiote had a sickness, roughly equiviicable to a vitamin deficiency, that would be treated with phenylethylamine.
Phenylethylamine is commonly found in human brains and in chocolate and despite threats to the contrary, Eddie Brock didn't actually want to eat people's brains if he could help it so he'd binge on chocolate so the symbiote could get its fix.
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Ah.
Well if I get sick as a symbiote I know to find the nearest convenience store so I don't eat brains then :P and if the clerk tries to stop me from like eating chocolate bars, hey free temporary host. random store clerk gets a symbiote trying to stop them from eating chocolate, that sounds like a superhero origin.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
Yeah.
And I mean, I know what I'd do in that situation, or at least what I'd prefer, but actually being able to pull it off from those starting parameters is a differant question entirely.
Like, I would want to try and get to a point where I either don't need a host because I don't like the idea of sharing thoughts or agency but I also don't like the idea of turning a person or creature into a meat puppet.
to get to a point where I don't need a host, I'd need either the powers of the Agents of the Cosmos—an order of good-aligned symbiotes based on Klyntar who were basically Space Knights—or gain the traits of a symbiote dragon. Or both.
Given that the Agents of the Cosmos were effectively wiped out in the lead-up to Venomized and Klyntar just flat out isn't there anymore given that it was just a cage for Knull, my best bets would be to either bond to someone who was bonded to an Agent of the Cosmos of Dragon derived dragon and copy the data from their codex, or eat the codex to the same... but in order for codex consumption power-ups to be fully permanent rather than a temporary boost followed by a smaller boost to raw power, you kind of have to eat the full doex... which means totality assimilaing the biomass of the host like Alex Mercer from Prototype, barring some kind of cheat and I'm not sure that the cheats I used in my fanfics would actually work in canon.
My best-case scenario would probably be finding Kamala Khan, given that she's level-headed enough to listen assuming I have some means of talking to her and generally friendly enough to consider it... And also she's been bonded to two symbiotes, one of whom was an Agent of the Cosmos and one of whom was an offshoot of a Symbiote Dragon. The Agent of the Cosmos was modified with Haze Mancer's tech as well, meaning that it bonds faster and adapts at an absurd rate—years of evolution in days—so if I can copy that data and replicate it I could just get what I need and GTHO much faster but sharing a body with a teenage girl for potentially months if I can't quickly copy the hyper-adaption trait would be incredibly awkward.
...Also, her unique nature as an "Inhu-Mutant" means that her genome is a potentially volatile mixture of multiple terrestrial and extraterrestrial superhuman species and we don't know what her mutant power is, so it's entirely possible that it could backfire horribly if it turns out there's something in her genes that's a bad fit for symbiotes or her mutant power turns out to be heat or sound-based. Like, realistically it's probably gonna be cosmic energy constructs like in the MCU but that's not a chance I'd be willing to take if I'm actually there doing it, you know?
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Hm. well, in my head I thought the bonding would be more mutual in ideal circumstances, try to work something out once I could speak to them, y'know?
Though.....I wonder, is there any reason a symbiote can't puppet something like, a corpse? because if there isn't, find someone who has already died and start using their body, its not as if they're using it anymore. funeral surrounding its probably going to be angry about it though.
if that doesn't work and really worried about morality, then in a weird twisted way your best bet is to puppet a hero and try to speak to them in their mind. lemme explain:
-you go for a civvie, thats involving an innocent that you don't need to. heroes won't like that
-you go for a villain and just takeover their mind entirely because they're villain sure you have completely control but your stuck with a different problem in what will you do when you stop controlling them? that and from a heroes perspective, villains do this kind of controlling each other thing all the time so they'd assume I'm a villain or have magic or science thing to detect what person I'm puppeteering and assume I'm them. thus they will have no compunctions about stopping me from doing whatever. that and some heroes are so compassionate they want to save villains to.
-but if you go for a hero, and explain things in their mind, they won't be happy but they'll be more fine with it than if I try it with a civvie because heroes are self-sacrificing like that and intend to use themselves as a shield from anyone else having to deal with nonsense like this by dressing up in the costume and such. its why heroes willing to use the symbiote in the first place and such, its not just power or whatever influencing them, its this innate feeling of responsibility pushing them to take hits for everyone else- if they didn't get bonded by the symbiote, somebody else would and they'd have to fight whoever gets the symbiote instead probably. then they'd be forced to come up with a solution for me since I'd express to them that I want this arrangement with the hero to be temporary and such and know I'm not going to harm others because I went for them rather than anyone like a civilian.
alternatively, since The Doctor is proven canonical to the Marvel universe, find a random young woman who wants adventure, explain you what you want but also that you can help them get more adventure, buy a bag of jelly babies, travel to London, then explain things to The Doctor and he will probably be one of the most understanding people to explain this to, with a bonus of not solving anything with violence so he'll probably have a better solution than most, all the while coming with an offering of a doctor companion and jelly babies. how could he possibly resist?
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Yes. And it is trivially easy to take in more calories than you burn in exercise, especially when starting out.
With luck we'll eventually be able to correct this biomedically, decades down the road. The holy grail for this would be if they could somehow implant electroplaque stacks* that would just constantly fire and would take up all the fat and sugar in your blood and use it to charge your smartphone
*probably along with a bunch of capacitors and voltage transformers and stuff to get the output consistently to the level where it needs to be
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alternatively, since The Doctor is proven canonical to the Marvel universe, find a random young woman who wants adventure, explain you what you want but also that you can help them get more adventure, buy a bag of jelly babies, travel to London, then explain things to The Doctor and he will probably be one of the most understanding people to explain this to, with a bonus of not solving anything with violence so he'll probably have a better solution than most, all the while coming with an offering of a doctor companion and jelly babies. how could he possibly resist?
He typically off in his own little section of the Multiverse.
I think the only time he interacted with the main Marvel Universe was when he kidnapped Death's Head from the Transformers Universe and stranded him at the Fantastic Four's house...
...I need to look up the circumstances of that.
As for puppeting corpses... Mixed results. So far the only unambiguous cases have been Dark Carnage reanimated Cletus and Emil Gregg, in both cases calling the soul back to inhabit the reanimated corpse, and Flash Thomspon resurrecting himself when he was possessing a symbiote Dragon by having the dragon bond to his corpse.
So it does seem to specifically be a symbiote-dragon thing.
If it comes down to puppeting someone, honestly, I'd probably just go for Stevil because 1: I'd be able to get something out of it and 2: he's kind of due for some karma after somehow getting acquitted for stealing a nuclear bomb and trying to nuke New York City.
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More gyming, I've found the cardio that works for me at the moment (about 30 minutes of fast walking, I hope to build up to a slow jog over a year or two). Yes there are better exercises for my weight, but I like the treadmill (and exercise bike, but I'm too heavy for spinning). While I'm in control I actually have to press the buttons to change the speed, which is just enough to stop me from slowing down.
Really the only annoyance is nowhere to take out my lens, which means either exercising without vision or not using the gym's showers. Which I haven't yet, but mainly because I keep forgetting my towel, thankfully my vision's not quite as bad as I've been claiming.
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More gyming, I've found the cardio that works for me at the moment (about 30 minutes of fast walking, I hope to build up to a slow jog over a year or two). Yes there are better exercises for my weight, but I like the treadmill (and exercise bike, but I'm too heavy for spinning). While I'm in control I actually have to press the buttons to change the speed, which is just enough to stop me from slowing down.
If you like that particular exercise more then I'd say that makes it the better choice. You're in it for the long haul after all and it'll be easier to stick with it that way.
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If you like that particular exercise more then I'd say that makes it the better choice. You're in it for the long haul after all and it'll be easier to stick with it that way.
Agreed. The main reason I picked using an exercise bike as my (at least initially) primary method of working out was that it's something I can easily do while watching movies or tv shows so I don't go insane with boredom in the first five minutes (I also considered a treadmill, but picked the bike mostly because I work out at home and the bike was smaller and quieter).
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Form
If you like that particular exercise more then I'd say that makes it the better choice. You're in it for the long haul after all and it'll be easier to stick with it that way.
Yeah, I'm just trying to head off the 'have you considered swimming' recommendations. I know what I like (leg-focused cardio) and I'm starting with that. I might, might add some weights in eventually, but it's not the kind of exercise I get excited by.
Because I had the weird thing today of dreading going to the gym until about an hour beforehand, at which point I started going '**** yeah I'm gonna exercise'. Humans are weird.
ETA: I'm listening to podcasts while exercising, any good ones I should check out?
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Hey everyone. I'm popular in the Starbucks community. Today I went to Starbucks near my house just to get a cup of hot coffee and a Marshmallow Dream Bar and a customer paid for the coffee and food for me. :smile:
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Anonymouswizard
Yeah, I'm just trying to head off the 'have you considered swimming' recommendations. I know what I like (leg-focused cardio) and I'm starting with that. I might, might add some weights in eventually, but it's not the kind of exercise I get excited by.
Because I had the weird thing today of dreading going to the gym until about an hour beforehand, at which point I started going '**** yeah I'm gonna exercise'. Humans are weird.
ETA: I'm listening to podcasts while exercising, any good ones I should check out?
There's Rotgrind by Narrative Declaration which has a podcast. It's basically a couple of folks playing a homebrew TTRPG and I've found it fun and funny.
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ETA: I'm listening to podcasts while exercising, any good ones I should check out?
If you want something light-hearted, I am quite fond of My dad wrote a porno. The basic concept is that one of the hosts learned that his father had self-published a series of erotic novels of... questionable quality, so after presumably dying a little inside, he decided to start a podcast with two of his friends where they read and discuss the books. I'm not usually very into MSTing stuff, but I really like this one for some reason, I think a big part of it is the hosts' chemistry. (Oh, and if anyone is feeling bad for the titular dad, he apparently loves the podcast and while he don't really understand why people think it's so funny, he's proud that the books have gotten so popular.)
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Anonymouswizard
ETA: I'm listening to podcasts while exercising, any good ones I should check out?
The Magnus Archives is a classic if you like creepypasta-esque horror, but I'd also like to suggest Disc Only which is unstructured mostly-comedy run by a group of Youtube LPers
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Batcathat
If you want something light-hearted, I am quite fond of My dad wrote a porno. The basic concept is that one of the hosts learned that his father had self-published a series of erotic novels of... questionable quality, so after presumably dying a little inside, he decided to start a podcast with two of his friends where they read and discuss the books. I'm not usually very into MSTing stuff, but I really like this one for some reason, I think a big part of it is the hosts' chemistry. (Oh, and if anyone is feeling bad for the titular dad, he apparently loves the podcast and while he don't really understand why people think it's so funny, he's proud that the books have gotten so popular.)
One of the best aspects is how the dad fully believes they are well-written and cannot be disabused of this notion. My wife and i used to put it on when we went to Louisiana. Went through I think book 3, can't remember why we stopped. Probably slipped our minds until now.
Spoiler
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We got up to her being a spy. I think I heard something about her eventually becoming president of the United States? Really should continue the series.
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Show
Doesn't she get demoted to an intern position due to being kidnapped? Honestly sometimes the sex is the least bizarre part of the chapter. Especially when Spooner unveils a gadget.
Also I really should listen to the last two episodes.
As to the ones I haven't heard I'll pick one to try before I next leave for the gym.
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So from celebrating Christmas late because of a family issue, I got a new shirt, a new comfy blanket, the fifth volume of Usagi Yojimbo and Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and Devil May Cry 5, so good haul this year. only problem will be figuring out the computer space issue to play them, and finding something entertaining enough to be worth eating my chocolate truffles because I don't want to get chocolate on the pages of my new book. Merry Late Christmas everyone.
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Beeftank
Huh, that seems odd. What else do you drink when having stuff with peanut butter?
Fruit juice, tea, soft drinks in general, or just plain ol' water.
To be honest, the answer to "what do you drink..." is pretty much always "tea" over here. With a full-on meal you
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Peelee
Then take more culture! Europeans developed lactose tolerance and you Britons just discard it? Milk itself isn't even really a drink and milkshakes are only for kids? Is this some sort of self-loathing thing?
Imean, I'd say that surely you guys at least cook with it, but then i remember y'alls national dishes are, like, beans on toast, meat pies, and a toad in a hole?
Our national dishes are fish and chips, chicken tikka masala, and roast beef (not all at the same time), thank you very much.
Like anonymouswizard says, we do put milk in tea, and get through a fair amount that way. We also have it on cereal. Some people put it in their coffee (I don't). And we eat a lot of cheese. Plus cream with puddings and on scones and so on. So we still consume plenty of dairy products, we just don't feel the need to drink the stuff neat.
I think there is also a legitimate query over what the nutritional benefit of the majority of milk sold actually is. Once it's been skimmed and homogenised, most of the actual nutrients are gone. You have to add calcium back to it before you can even make cheese with the stuff, and honestly, given what US food standards are like I'd be surprised if the stuff over there is any better for the most part. The idea that drinking a lot of milk is good for you is probably at least 80% marketing in the first place, but it's also probably hopelessly out of date, as most modern mass-market milk has all the nutritional value of sugary, slightly salty water. I try to consume unhomogenised milk for that reason (which tastes so much better), although I must admit it doesn't work as well in tea.
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sugary, slightly salty water.
Or as it's known in the US 'water' :smalltongue:
I need to get more decent tea in, which I have without milk because this European has apparently unevolved lactose tolerance. Ideally I'd find a good, not too expensive loose leaf green tea, but that's so much harder than black tea.
Meanwhile one of my friends still doesn't get why I don't categories herbal infusions under 'tea' and another is crazy enough to consider green tea to be 'herbal tea'.
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Aedilred
Fruit juice, tea, soft drinks in general, or just plain ol' water.
To be honest, the answer to "what do you drink..." is pretty much always "tea" over here. With a full-on meal you
Our national dishes are fish and chips, chicken tikka masala, and roast beef (not all at the same time), thank you very much.
Imean, do you really want another crack at English cooking, with a national dish being Indian and national drink being Chinese?
Yes, i know.
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Aedilred
Like anonymouswizard says, we do put milk in tea, and get through a fair amount that way. We also have it on cereal. Some people put it in their coffee (I don't). And we eat a lot of cheese. Plus cream with puddings and on scones and so on. So we still consume plenty of dairy products, we just don't feel the need to drink the stuff neat.
It'd be jarring to hear, is the thing. For example, "you guys eat cheese? That's mostly a children's food".
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I think there is also a legitimate query over what the nutritional benefit of the majority of milk sold actually is. Once it's been skimmed and homogenised, most of the actual nutrients are gone.
Not really. Itdua good source of protein and magnesium, and also has repeatedly been shown to have significant benefits for muscle health, especially in adults (notably muscle repair) and elders (notably reduction in muscle loss).
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Aedilred
The idea that drinking a lot of milk is good for you is probably at least 80% marketing in the first place, but it's also probably hopelessly out of date, as most modern mass-market milk has all the nutritional value of sugary, slightly salty water.
Imean that just sounds silly. The bone claims were massively exaggerated, sure, but it's far from "sugary salty water" as far as nutritional value.
Now, if you want to talk about environmental impact of cattle farming, that's a whole 'nother thing, but that's also pretty tangential.
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You ever get into something and spend some time trying to figure it out and then it turned out it's not really thing?
A recurring narrative that has been shared through several symbiote-related titles in the past few years is Carnage trying to become a God... to the point that the symbiote had a falling out with Cletus over differing ideas of how to go about it.
It succeeded in doing so in the climax of Death of The Venomverse, and then returned to Earth 616 to flex it's new godly power in the most recent volume of its seld titled series only to be told that it's incomplete and a god of nothing, so it creates a clone of Cletus with his memories up to when they first bonded again so it can have that human perspective after they merge and then they go off to try and create a following and naturally this involves a murder spree.
Stepping lightly here, the first issue has every single one of his named victims in the issue share a name with one of the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth while also leaving behind allusions to the same.
So I spend a month wondering what that means, what his endgame is...
This month, the second issue reveals that it doesn't mean anything, he's doing it to **** with conspiracy theorists and other than that he's just doing the Classic Carnage move of inflicting random violence and inciting chaos and his actual methods of building a following for himself are unrelated and so far unrevealed.
...so basically I fell for the bit.
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Aedilred
Our national dishes are fish and chips, chicken tikka masala, and roast beef (not all at the same time), thank you very much.
Don't forget the Full English Breakfast! Egg! Bacon! Sausage! Chips! Beans! Some people also add black pudding, but I don't eat that.
Of course, some people replace the Chips with something else and make a hash of it...
(And others attempt to replace it all with the curséd croissants and coffee)
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Manga Shoggoth
Don't forget the Full English Breakfast! Egg! Bacon! Sausage! Chips! Beans! Some people also add black pudding, but I don't eat that.
A Full English is bacon, sausage, black pudding, fried eggs, fried bread, baked beans (degenerate English version), and optional hash browns. I have no clue why you're adding chips to a Partial English:smalltongue:
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(And others attempt to replace it all with the curséd croissants and coffee)
Croissants and hot chocolate is acceptable, if you wish to be seen as sleeping with the enemy.
Also we're all forgetting afternoon tea. Tea! Scones! Jam! Clotted cream! Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off! Whatever cakes you can stuff on the top layer!
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(And others attempt to replace it all with the curséd croissants and coffee)
Croissants and coffee is the perfect breakfast, and I will fist fight people for its honour.
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Why would Doritos put the promotional code on the OUTSIDE of the packet where anyone can steal it without buying the packet? :smallannoyed:
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Croissants and coffee is the perfect breakfast, and I will fist fight people for its honour.
Fisticuffs? For honour? My my, how barbaric.
Over here we fight with a bit of nobility. You may pick from the classic gentleperson weapons: walking stick, infantry sabre, pistol, hapless peasant, or intercontinental ballistic missile :smallwink:
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I hope everyone has been well. I've been a bit indisposed due to Qwerty visit! We've made braised chicken and veggies, stew, some bread, some cake, and all was delicious! We also watched Fiddler on the Roof and it made me cry a bunch- and also threw me into a wall so hard I ended up upside down when "If I Was A Rich Man" started because the fact that such a genuine, wonderful song was turned into a pop anthem by Gwen Stefani is just a very weird realization to have.
Anyway, yeah. Great film.
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Today I learned that there exist a Mod for the 2018 God of War that replaces Kratos and Atreus with Homer and Bart Simpson, competing with the dialog being replaced by very good impressions of the two characters.
Some lines are references to the show, others are just lines from the original game, and others still are the lines changed to reflect the altered characters.
The Leviathan Ax is replaced with Wonderbat, and Balder is replaced by Flanders who wants to know why Homer left Springfield in such a hurry and is a little overaggressive about getting Homer to come pray with him.
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Rater202
Today I learned that there exist a Mod for the 2018 God of War that replaces Kratos and Atreus with Homer and Bart Simpson, competing with the dialog being replaced by very good impressions of the two characters.
Some lines are references to the show, others are just lines from the original game, and others still are the lines changed to reflect the altered characters.
The Leviathan Ax is replaced with Wonderbat, and Balder is replaced by Flanders who wants to know why Homer left Springfield in such a hurry and is a little overaggressive about getting Homer to come pray with him.
https://youtu.be/YoYS43i14D4
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Heh, that's pretty brilliant.
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Anonymouswizard
A Full English is bacon, sausage, black pudding, fried eggs, fried bread, baked beans (degenerate English version), and optional hash browns. I have no clue why you're adding chips to a Partial English:smalltongue:
Because nearly everywhere I go these days black pudding isn't automatically there (a huge number of places don't sell it as it is forbidden for a lot of their customers), hash browns don't usually appear and the toast is usually an extra if you aren't at a transport cafe.
(I miss the old place in Bradford - there was a transport cafe at the end of the road. Excelent food, and since the owners lived there anyone blocking the driveway was made to move before taking another mouthful.)
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Also we're all forgetting afternoon tea. Tea! Scones! Jam! Clotted cream! Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off! Whatever cakes you can stuff on the top layer!
That's one hell of a Dagwood right there...
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That's one hell of a Dagwood right there...
A Dagwood... Dog?
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The classic full English breakfast is bacon, egg, sausage, tomato, beans, fried bread, bubble and squeak (may be replaced by hash browns if necessary), with optional mushroom and black pudding. I will accept no substitutions (certainly not chips) and my word is final.
I may be willing to accept further additions, like liver sausage (but only in addition to the breakfast sausage). On the side, tea and, if you feel for some reason your calorific intake is insufficient, toast.
I do think, however, that the very similar Irish breakfast, which includes soda bread, potato farls and white pudding, is marginally superior.
With all that said, continental breakfasts with coffee are perfectly acceptable, as are American breakfasts with pancakes and/or waffles (provided they are of good quality). No insular prejudice here. The full English isn't exactly an everyday food, and some continental pastries are delicious.
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Despite only having visited Britain a couple of times, I think it's where I've had both two of the most disappointing breakfasts ever as well as the most surprisingly tasty one (the former two were in a cheap Birmingham hostel and a slightly less cheap London hotel, the latter in some sort of diner at the edge of the London Chinatown). None of them were anything close to a full English breakfast though, which I've never tried.
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It was like a billion years ago when I was a child, and I don't remember anything about it, so I don't talk about it much.
Oh, okay.
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"Plato? 'It's okay to ogle and get handsy once in a while', probably. And we happen to have a policy about that as well."
Really? I didn't know Plato supported ogling and sexual harassment. :O
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So, a question for all y'all, since it came up recently. What's my vibe?
Not totally sure what a vibe is, even after looking up the definition. But it's a good vibe for sure.
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:smile:
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I wish it were easier to block certain content on the internet, at least my web browser, for all time.
There are zero circumstances under which I ever want to see anything involving Seth McFarlane animation, or any variation on certain memes ever again.
That sounds technically difficult. You could block out text discussions of Seth McFarlane, but images are a pain to manage unless there's alt text.
As an aside, it'd be cool to be able to insert alt text for images on this forum. On the list of would be nice to haves.
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My next year's resolution for 2024 is to drink less caffeine. :smile:
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Bartmanhomer
Hey everyone. I'm popular in the Starbucks community. Today I went to Starbucks near my house just to get a cup of hot coffee and a Marshmallow Dream Bar and a customer paid for the coffee and food for me. :smile:
I'm happy for you. Did the customer know you?
It's also kinda funny paired with your new year's resolution. It must make it hard if people are regularly buying you coffee. :smalltongue:
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Why would Doritos put the promotional code on the OUTSIDE of the packet where anyone can steal it without buying the packet? :smallannoyed:
Maybe their factory is set up to print things on the outside of the bag but not the inside. Like, a technical limitation that they don't wanna bother bypassing just for the promotion.
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LaZodiac
I hope everyone has been well. I've been a bit indisposed due to Qwerty visit! We've made braised chicken and veggies, stew, some bread, some cake, and all was delicious! We also watched Fiddler on the Roof and it made me cry a bunch- and also threw me into a wall so hard I ended up upside down when "If I Was A Rich Man" started because the fact that such a genuine, wonderful song was turned into a pop anthem by Gwen Stefani is just a very weird realization to have.
Glad you two are having fun. Are you two planning to spend the new year's eve together? :smallsmile:
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TaiLiu
Glad you two are having fun. Are you two planning to spend the new year's eve together? :smallsmile:
We are! She sadly goes back on the 2nd of January though, so it'll be a short but eventful way to ring in the new year.
I do kinda wish she coulda stayed for my birthday on the 27th but I'm not gonna lock her up in this frozen hellhole for a month just because I want birthday hugs.
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LaZodiac
We are! She sadly goes back on the 2nd of January though, so it'll be a short but eventful way to ring in the new year.
I do kinda wish she coulda stayed for my birthday on the 27th but I'm not gonna lock her up in this frozen hellhole for a month just because I want birthday hugs.
Your vibe is now "too cool to be a fairy tale villain."
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Despite only having visited Britain a couple of times, I think it's where I've had both two of the most disappointing breakfasts ever as well as the most surprisingly tasty one (the former two were in a cheap Birmingham hostel and a slightly less cheap London hotel, the latter in some sort of diner at the edge of the London Chinatown). None of them were anything close to a full English breakfast though, which I've never tried.
There is some bad food here, to be sure. Hotel breakfasts in particular can be all over the place. There's bad food everywhere, though, so whatever anyone might say, it's not just a British thing.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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LaZodiac
We are! She sadly goes back on the 2nd of January though, so it'll be a short but eventful way to ring in the new year.
I do kinda wish she coulda stayed for my birthday on the 27th but I'm not gonna lock her up in this frozen hellhole for a month just because I want birthday hugs.
That sounds like a lot of fun. Happy for you two. :smallsmile:
It must be super super cold right now, what with being so close to the north's winter solstice and all. Hope you stay warm.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
Thoght Potato, the channel that has that speculative biology series I mention from time to time, has two more videos up.
Last month they added one about the qalupalik, a mermaid-like a creature from Inuit folklore that's credited with snatching away stray children who wander too close to cracks in the ice, and a few days ago a video about giants(especially the 'Si-Te-Cah' of the folklore of the indiginous peoples of the Great Basin region in north America) which also picks up on some narrative beats from their Frankenstein's monster video.
I'll b honst, I'm starting to beless interested in the spculativ biology and more interested in the world building becuase there's very clearly some Umbrella **** going on in the background.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Rawhide
A Dagwood... Dog?
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One of these, although the Dagwood Dog is named after the same character.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Manga Shoggoth
That's one hell of a Dagwood right there...
Please, it's not all eaten in one bite.
Been watching Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha, as I said in the last thread, and it's a bizarre experience watching it after Madoka Magica. Spoiler
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Specifically while Kyubey/Cubey was a very inhuman character with inhuman flaws, all their counterparts in Nanoha feel like a refutation by being very humanly flawed. Especially Yuuno, who while incredibly moral is just not a particularly good mentor.
Which as I said is weird because Lyrical Nanoha is a decade older than Madoka Magica.
Also there's finally going to be more Madoka Magica next year, proper stuff and not spinoffs. I'm very excited.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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TaiLiu
I'm happy for you. Did the customer know you?
It's also kinda funny paired with your new year's resolution. It must make it hard if people are regularly buying you coffee. :smalltongue:
Apparently, yes the customer knows me very well because he sees me almost every day at Starbucks but what can I say I'm very popular and famous in the Starbucks community.
Yes, you're right about that.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Anonymouswizard
Please, it's not all eaten in one bite.
Been watching Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha, as I said in the last thread, and it's a bizarre experience watching it after Madoka Magica.
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Specifically while Kyubey/Cubey was a very inhuman character with inhuman flaws, all their counterparts in Nanoha feel like a refutation by being very humanly flawed. Especially Yuuno, who while incredibly moral is just not a particularly good mentor.
Which as I said is weird because Lyrical Nanoha is a decade older than Madoka Magica.
Also there's finally going to be more Madoka Magica next year, proper stuff and not spinoffs. I'm very excited.
Yeah, it does kinda feel like that. I think it's especially funny how Spoiler: later back-half of the series Nanoha
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the little ferret guy is absolutely framed as Nanoha's love interest and how that completely Does Not Happen At All for obvious reasons.
I'm not sure why one would be excited for more Madoka stuff given Rebellion is garbage and everything after it is interminably worse.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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LaZodiac
Yeah, it does kinda feel like that. I think it's especially funny how
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the little ferret guy is absolutely framed as Nanoha's love interest and how that completely Does Not Happen At All for obvious reasons.
I'm not sure why one would be excited for more Madoka stuff given Rebellion is garbage and everything after it is interminably worse.
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Nanoha is as straight as a roundabout and has been obviously crushing on Fate since their first befriending?
Rebellion wasn't that bad, but definitely suffered from not being the second series it was supposed to be. Since then I don't think there's been any attempt to continue the story, and I've avoided most EU stuff because the first one I tried was just terrible.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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TaiLiu
Really? I didn't know Plato supported ogling and sexual harassment. :O
I was somewhat facetious and hyperbolic there, yes, but Plato was very much a product of his age and quite apologetic of certain, khm, cultural practices thereof, among which those pertaining to what kinds of relationships are normal between an older man of wealth and learning and a teenaged boy.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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LaZodiac
I'm not sure why one would be excited for more Madoka stuff given Rebellion is garbage and everything after it is interminably worse.
What is this Rebellion of which you speak?
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I presume you mean the fact that
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Nanoha is as straight as a roundabout and has been obviously crushing on Fate since their first befriending?
Rebellion wasn't that bad, but definitely suffered from not being the second series it was supposed to be. Since then I don't think there's been any attempt to continue the story, and I've avoided most EU stuff because the first one I tried was just terrible.
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By the time they're adults, Fate and Nonaha are living in the same house, sleeping in the same bed, and raising children together, one of whom refers to them both as being her parents and looks exactly like what you'd expect their magical lesbian baby to look like even though she isn't genetically related to them.
They never outright say that they're together in the original continuity, but...
And as for Rebellion... Jokes aside it took the surprisingly happy ending of the very dark orignal series and ruined it because Hamura would rather watch the world burn than not be with Madoka.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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Anonymouswizard
I presume you mean the fact that
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Nanoha is as straight as a roundabout and has been obviously crushing on Fate since their first befriending?
Rebellion wasn't that bad, but definitely suffered from not being the second series it was supposed to be. Since then I don't think there's been any attempt to continue the story, and I've avoided most EU stuff because the first one I tried was just terrible.
Yeah that.
There isn't anything a second series is SUPPOSED to be, because there shouldn't be any attempt to continue the story because the story is Over. There is nothing of value to whatever happens next in Madoka's setting because the first series more or less created a perfect self-contained story. The Incubators are explicitly not clever enough to do what they do in Rebellion, and the idea of Homura becoming the lucifer to Madoka's magical girl hope god is Stupid Stupid Stupid STUPID. This is why the other attempt at this with Magi-Reco was "here is a side story somewhere else that takes place during one of Homura's weirder loops", because there isn't any way to add more onto the story without ruining or weakening the original in some way.
The only things that could possibly work as "further Madoka material" is having side stories about other magical girls in the settings, or getting a standard but well executed "here is what Madoka's new world looks like". Nothing else could possibly function as a sequel, and Rebellion's decision to undo the happy ending is exactly what everyone who says "MAdoka is bad because it's edgelord ****" was expecting. Let the series unambiguously happy ending stand as it is, please, for the love of Madoka.
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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What is this Rebellion of which you speak?
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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And as for Rebellion... Jokes aside it took the surprisingly happy ending of the very dark orignal series and ruined it because Hamura would rather watch the world burn than not be with Madoka.
Which is a very valid route for the story to go, particularly with the original series having the selfishness of wishes as a theme. It also helps a lot that it's clearly not intended as the end, and Homura may very well be ruined by her relatively honest selfishness as much as those who were dishonest about it were.
It's also entirely consistent with her character, Spoiler
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when you've fled to the past a hundred times to save one girl what's dooming one more timeline to you? It doesn't hurt that her powers seem to let her keep her memory whenever anybody hits the reset button, and those powers are also established to be ripple-effect proof...