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2009-12-02, 07:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Don't choose this path. This is a bad path, filled with despair and anguish. No good can ever come of taking this path.
Also, Nutella is the greatest foodstuff known to man.
ION: I need to call some business people to nag them about taking part in my research. I hate calling people, it makes me nervy. I find it far more traumatising than simply talking to someone else should be. What's wrong with me?
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2009-12-02, 07:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
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2009-12-02, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
I do the exact same thing. I would much rather speak to someone in person or send an email, but I hate calling people. If it is someone I don't know (like, say, a pizzaria or other restaurant ), then I get somewhat nervous too.
That doesn't meant there's nothing wrong with you . More likely, the same thing is wrong with both of us .My Homebrew
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2009-12-02, 08:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
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2009-12-02, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
I still maintain that Nutella is better than anything on that list and will contibue to do so despite any objective evidence to prove it. Pizza comes close though.
As for the phonecalls, so far I've only actually managed to speak to one actual live person. I've mostly just heard a lot of answerphones. It's all been a bit anticlimactic.
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2009-12-02, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
...I now marvel at the fact I never added Nutella when I made that Dessert Pizza with the chocolate base...
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2009-12-02, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 09:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
A question too unimportant for its own topic: what is the color of an adrenaline rush and/or the sentiment "I exist!".
SpoilerBlue in the kundalini system, pink in aura readings, silver (gray and emitting light) in the symbolism loosely affiliated with Arabic numerals, unclassified (gray?) in Magic: the Gathering and associated systems. So far, a great deal of contradiction, and I'd like to better my chances of unnerving the recipient.
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Nutella is a tease. The true depth of hazelnut flavor can be found in little plastic packets, about the size of a ketchup packet, sold in Swedish pick'n'mix candy aisles, labeled simply Nöt-Creme. (That's "nut", not 'not', and say that five times, fast.) Its only problem is that it's only available in small packets, not jars into which one can dip a spoon. Slurping the packet is so undignified.
(looks left)
(looks right)
(sluuurp.)
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2009-12-02, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
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2009-12-02, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 11:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
@/\: The rules of color addition or subtraction get ignored in favor of mystical connotations, when using colors as symbols. At best, you could use the color wheel to find a mid-point between conflicting colors.
Now that you put it into the context of red, maybe 'adrenaline rush' wasn't the right phrase. Maybe it was endorphins instead? Exhilaration, exultation, living in the moment (which in itself is gray--perception of color sometimes gets sacrificed when every nerve is strained to react).Last edited by Quincunx; 2009-12-02 at 11:08 AM.
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2009-12-02, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Really? Gold is always the color I've seen used for multi-elemental cards. Though I think I've also seen split-color cards, too. Hmm...
...bit rusty, but I'm sure there's an example out there, if I bothered to look for it.
And in that case, Quinnie, maybe it'd be more of a green?
EDIT: The promised examples- split color and gold.Last edited by Cobra_Ikari; 2009-12-02 at 11:17 AM.
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2009-12-02, 11:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 12:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
*Sees Cobra*
*Charges and pins Cobra to the ground*
*Licks Cobra relentlessly like a dog*
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2009-12-02, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
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2009-12-02, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
I can handle calling people fine, as long as I'm sure that the person I want to talk to will answer. If anyone else answers, I get so nervous and feel like a loon asking for the person I wanted to speak to.
BANG → !
OH LOOK AT HER/.../YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN MEAN/RICHARDS
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2009-12-02, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
...given your scaly fetish, this makes me a bit nervous. =P
...I hate calling people, too. No, wait. I lied.
I hate calling girls I like. Because, inevitably, they don't pick up. And I always leave a voicemail. And my voicemails...well, more than one person has kept them so they could play them back to me at a later time and show me just how nervous and rambly and ridiculous I sound.Cobra Avatar by the lovely Miss Nobody.
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2009-12-02, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
The . . .
The . . .
The real world?! NOOOOoooooooooo . . .
I can't handle the real world!
Seriously, I'm an academic who really should just be locked away safely in a library with food delivered three times a day so that she can't hurt herself or anyone else.
Tempting . . .
I hated you until four minutes past five this evening.
Guess what?
NO MORE ESSAYS! I have officially finished with my academic work bar one tutorial and one seminar. ANd those are easy - especially as there're three people in my tutorial this week! I can get away with barely saying a thing.
Oddly, those are all the things I hate about plans.
But Phae, what if I like despair and anguish? Besides, my grad school options would involve reading, reading and more reading. And using the Bodleian proper!
I am now the proud possessor of Nutella, a loaf of bread, some chocolate eclairs, a strawberry yoghurt and a chicken sandwich. Guess what dinner is tonight.
Yes Playgrounders. Curly has hereby finished all her term's work and has only two hours of academically related stuff left to do. In two days.
'Course, that doesn't mean the essay wasn't completely evil to me. I barely got it in by the deadline.
I think I did pretty well, because I was cutting it short, literally, I felt I missed elaborating on some good points and again I might as well have limited the essay even further to simply 'Adolescent WOmen and Childlessness in the Novels of George Eliot'.
But I have Nutella and various sweet things to help me get over my 'This Essay Is Awful And I Hate It With A Violent Burning Passion' mood.
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2009-12-02, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
*doesn't have nutella or chocolate to get over ''this portfolio and house style are awfull and I have to present them tomorrow and have a hour long conversation about it''*
And now I have to go print it out and neatly file it and such into a map, etc.
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2009-12-02, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Unfortunately, I've got seventeen classes, three essays (4-6 pp), three final exams, one think-piece (8-10 pp) before December 17th, when I can go home. For one of those essays (due Fri. the 11th) I need to read a 475-page book that I don't even HAVE yet. Then there's
5080 pages of Gandhi, 16 of ancient Egyptian literature, 100 other random assorted things . . . .
All of this is really for *next* week. I have NOTHING this week. So I'm reading as far ahead as possible to give me time for the 475-page book ("The Rise of Magic in Medieval Europe" - I'm looking forward to it, I grant you, but not all of it on Friday), three essays, and a think-piece out before finals week (14-18 Dec.).
On the plus side, I think the finals are going to be comparatively simple. I've got them on the 15th, 16th, and 17th and one of them is oral; all my work is finished up on the 11th so I have the entire weekend to study. (Technically the think-piece isn't due till the 18th but I'm getting it done at least by the 13th so that I don't have to worry about it).
Aaaand....
This is why DeeRee now hates Koorli.
BUT. One of those essays is drafted and I've done thirty pages of reading this morning. Now I'm off to a plenary lecture on Marx.
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2009-12-02, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-02, 01:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Why is the abbreviation for 'pages' 'pp'? Pages has one P! Shu haddah?
*Research montage.*
Oh.
[Quote="Wikipedia"]In some languages, the convention of doubling the letters in the initialism is used to indicate plural words: for example, the Spanish EE.UU., for Estados Unidos (United States). This old convention is still followed for a limited number of English abbreviations, such as SS. for Saints, pp. for pages (although this is actually derived from the Latin abbreviation for paginae[citation needed]) or MSS for manuscripts.[/SQUOTE]
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2009-12-02, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Wow. Okay, wow.
First off: what's a think-piece? I've never even heard of that before. On the plus side maybe you can double line space the essays?
Four hundred and sevnty-five page book? EIght pages of Ghandhi? Sixteen of ancient Egypt?
Scary much. Is any of this that fabled 'ex-trar creh-dit' work or is it all compulsory?
Still that book's probably the hardest -
I WANT I WANT I WANT!
And depending on how dense the book it you should be able to manage it easily in a day. If not, do what I've had to do serveal nights in the past week:
Stay up until around five a.m., go to bed and get up at eight or nine.
What's the title of the essay the book's for?
How much did it cost?
Does it sound like it'd be a good read?
Should I think of buying that book in case it's a good buy for next year's course?
I wish you luck on all those essays and reading materials. That's as heavy as the week I had to do Gothic - oh wait, that was last week. Deeneracy in Victorian Gothic Fiction: eight fiction books, four text books, three other essays, The Uncanny, a week of lecture notes and a whole trunk load of JSTOR essays.
Not fun.
Much sympathy and incredibly large amounts of chocolate and nutella are given.
Ah, there's the thing. I don't have finals.
I have Collections. They're like (US) finals (except the marks count for absolutely nada - seriously, ten hours of exams and it means nothing! Heck, even my Finals for first year don't count towards my degree. If I don't pass those exams I get booted off the course. Meep. But I do a whole yer's work and all it means is "Congratulations. You can come back net year." Hooray?), but at the start of the following term, so yeah, all of this term's work . . . I get tested on in the first week of next term as well as starting my next term's general topic: Old English (I get the reading list tomorrow).
Oh, and as everything apart from lectures and some classes are optional I could be tested on anything under the sun remotely to do with Victorian Literature.
Koorly panic time is officially set for the last week of the year.
Good luck on those finals.
Don't worry, I can hate you during Koorly Panic Time Week. All's well and good. Hope you enjoy that Marxism lecture,
I remember Marx.
Hated that bit of my Sociology course, and the Methods paper in general.
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2009-12-02, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
I...I have a weird sort of depression going on here.
See. I don't feel sad or disparaged, like a normal depression, and I'm not lacking in happiness either. But...
I just can't bring myself to do anything right now...I feel like I'm not very good at doing...things...anything.
I just want to curl up in my bed and ignore the world until it goes away.
This is...troubling...
Mm...sorry. Should'a gone to the depression thread.
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2009-12-02, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
My idea exactly.
My academic work is slightly stressing me out. I have to give a 15 minute talk as part of my MMath project next week. I should really plan it.
Also, the project itself. I could really do with having a draft of chapters 2 & 3 done already.
Thing is, I don't think I'm actually behind or anything, I think it's just that my standards are higher than they need to be, but still.
Oh, and my sleep patterns way off. Last couple of nights I went to bed late, and I can't actually remember getting up to switch off my alarm at 8. But I swear I shouldn't have been that tired last night, at least..."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."