Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141

[Trobby]

So...I had no idea that Hero 3D (The mini-game in Iji) had a Heavy Metal/Alternative rock band behind its music.

This...This is awesome. Pretty much as awesome as a thing can get.

[Thufir]

Grrarrnyarrgrrfnyarglfrawrtshblehhh.
Worst exam ever.

[Ranna]

I had a really bad exam once, where I basically just described a tree (this was for a degree module) - literally i think I used the sentances A tree is tall, a tree has bark a tree is green.. it was genious stuff NOT


Apparently he liked my description of a tree so I got a good mark... Don't worry about how you felt the exam went till you get the results - you'll be depressed enough then you may aswel forget about it till then

[Quincunx]

Pokey is gone!

Rather, the IRC bot-script that produced Pokey the Penguin quotes when poked, and various relics of the not-well-thought-through idea to let the channel residents teach the robot new prompts and replies, no longer works, after who-knows-how-many years of uptime. (Doubtless one of the Unix wonks will correct me on that point in a few hours, down to the very second.) This is as bad as coming back to school one August, finding that they'd upgraded all the computers, and that the new operating system hadn't a clue what to do with my files. Stories lost to obsolescence!

[KuReshtin]

Just got back home from a trip to Newquay for the weekend.
Was worried for a bit this morning when I watched the news saying that the ash cloud was back over the UK and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get home.
In the end, all was well, though.

Newquay was nice. I think I need to head down to Cornwall for a longer trip where I have time to actually do stuff instead of doing a relatively quick trip where most of it was spent refereeing football.

[Deth Muncher]

Opinion: Which avatar do I use next? (And no, I'm not doing Victorian week. :P)


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EDIT: Forgot to mention, these are both credited to AlterForm.

[Trobby]

^Go for the Protoman one. Though either way, I'd suggest you use thicker lines. Particularly on the arms and legs.

[Dogmantra]

Trobby, I demand you stop having fantastically adorable avatars. RIGHT NOW.

[Kobold-Bard]

Eating Simpkins travel sweets and being reminded of my Gran. Wish I'd been less of a douche as a kid and spent more time with her.

[arguskos]

DAMMIT WHY CANNOT I FIND THIS MUSIC ANYWHERE?! /raeg

It is so glorious, and I want it! But, I cannot seem to find anywhere to acquire it!

The Unseen Guest, I need your music dammit! Why must money desert me so.

[KuReshtin]

Eating Simpkins travel sweets and being reminded of my Gran. Wish I'd been less of a douche as a kid and spent more time with her.

Mmmmmm Simpkins Travel Sweets. Bought two tins of it on my way to Newquay. The near-death experience my parents tell me I had with one of those types of candies when I was a kid doesn't seem to have had any ill effect on me.

[Kobold-Bard]

Mmmmmm Simpkins Travel Sweets. Bought two tins of it on my way to Newquay. The near-death experience my parents tell me I had with one of those types of candies when I was a kid doesn't seem to have had any ill effect on me.

Hell yeah for overcoming near-death experiences. Apparently until the age of 2 I used to just randomly fall over because I'd stopped breathing for about a minute beforehand, and it hasn't stopped my consuming oxygen

[arguskos]

Hell yeah for overcoming near-death experiences. Apparently until the age of 2 I used to just randomly fall over because I'd stopped breathing for about a minute beforehand, and it hasn't stopped my consuming oxygen

Shame, that. Wait, you still NEED oxygen? Really, get the upgrade dude. Person 5.6 is way better than lame ol' 5.5 ever was.

[Kobold-Bard]

Shame, that. Wait, you still NEED oxygen? Really, get the upgrade dude. Person 5.6 is way better than lame ol' 5.5 ever was.

Tried it, didn't like it. Yes the whole "No more are you a slave to plants" thing was kinda cool, but I just missed my eyebrows too much, so I downgraded again.

[arguskos]

Tried it, didn't like it. Yes the whole "No more are you a slave to plants" thing was kinda cool, but I just missed my eyebrows too much, so I downgraded again.

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Sorry, reference required.

[Ravens_cry]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Sorry, reference required.

I thought you were our robotic overlords!

[Trobby]

Trobby, I demand you stop having fantastically adorable avatars. RIGHT NOW.

Well, I asked someone else to do my Victorian Era avatar, and that will be more bombastic than adorable. But I don't think you're going to be able to escape the fact that I have kitty ears and a doggie tail. Sorreh. ^^;

[Dr. Bath]

Who needs a dose of HARSH TRUTHS?

It is you.

Do not consume after depressive periods, may induce nihilism, despair, increased general knowledge and nausea.

[KilltheToy]

My SAT prep class has left me in despair. I can't seem to pass any of the math quizzes. Even the ones I felt like I did pretty good on I fail. The ones that most of my classmates get 100s on, I get a 50. Seriously, my best math grade is a frakking 60.

I'm not amused by this .

[Sneak]

I recently discovered the band The Books.

Why did I only recently discover the band The Books?

[Rutskarn]

At this moment, the list of criminal offenses I would not commit for some onion rings is relatively small.

God damn, but I love onion rings. They're a passable vegetable, caked in breading, deep-fried to the point where grease saturates every crumb, then crusted with salt until they...

I need to stop before my keyboard rusts solid from the drool.

[Worira]

Would you... fail to kill an injured migratory bird while within the confines of a Canadian wildlife reserve for onion rings?

[Ravens_cry]

At this moment, the list of criminal offenses I would not commit for some onion rings is relatively small.

God damn, but I love onion rings. They're a passable vegetable, caked in breading, deep-fried to the point where grease saturates every crumb, then crusted with salt until they...

I need to stop before my keyboard rusts solid from the drool.

You meen they are supposed to be crusted in salt?
Oh pooh, that's the one thing I don't like about them, too salty.

[Anuan]

I just figured out my budget for the next two months.

Expect pictures of new swords very shortly before I go to America

[Coidzor]

I just figured out my budget for the next two months.

Expect pictures of new swords very shortly before I go to America

Isn't that precisely the worst time to make such a purchase, due to it cutting into your disposable funds for anything intriguing you might encounter while abroad and minimizing your chance to enjoy your purchases before you go away from them for an extended period to experience new things and thus have your attention drawn far away from them sooner than it would otherwise have you cease active appreciation and admiration of your latest acquisition?

[Tyrandar]

Isn't that precisely the worst time to make such a purchase, due to it cutting into your disposable funds for anything intriguing you might encounter while abroad and minimizing your chance to enjoy your purchases before you go away from them for an extended period to experience new things and thus have your attention drawn far away from them sooner than it would otherwise have you cease active appreciation and admiration of your latest acquisition?

It's never a bad time to buy swords. Also, America is boring.

[Anuan]

Isn't that precisely the worst time to make such a purchase, due to it cutting into your disposable funds for anything intriguing you might encounter while abroad and minimizing your chance to enjoy your purchases before you go away from them for an extended period to experience new things and thus have your attention drawn far away from them sooner than it would otherwise have you cease active appreciation and admiration of your latest acquisition?

I have eight thousand dollars put away specifically for my trip to America, so, y'know. No. I'll be saving up my usual pay of 400 a month from my parents (who're paying back the thirty thousand I gave them) to get a few little things next month, then I should have a little over six hundred dollars by the time the Abbey comes around. Because the swords are made and sold by small companies, instead of mass-produced, they're a lot cheaper for a high-quality sword. I will have a few days of enjoying them before leaving for America, and the idea of getting to play with them for real is something that will keep me happy-ish when I come back from my trip.

[Trobby]

It just occurred to me that, starting in 2011, I'm going to be expected to actually start paying back my student loans. This...is a little frightening. And I'm not entirely sure how much I'm going to need to spend for my final semester either, so that's something too.

It wouldn't bother me so much, if I also didn't have a job. Well, not a full-time job anyway. <.<; My ongoing policy of being lazy may soon have to change.

In other news, I have the urge to start a blog, but I have no idea what I could possibly blog about.

Things I could try to blog about:

-Being an online college student
-Ethical dilemmas of Cyberspace
-Being politically unaligned
-Role-playing culture
-Personal life "events"

I put "events" in quotation marks because, frankly, the most exciting events that have happened to me in the past week all have to do with things that happen to other people that I'm not supposed to share lest they get out about their public lives. Oh, and seeing Citizen Kane for the first time.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I too, am considering a blog (well, a vlog-type thing, actually). I do, however, know what it would be about; politics.

[Teddy]

*double sigh* (I managed to close the tab in which I was writing a quite a long post on the subject below, so I'm slightly annoyed right now.)

So, I've got two tests and a minor writing assignment for tomorrow. One of the tests is a quite large one on chemistry, and while it's almost all logical to me, I've still got a problem with the chapter on "Life and Energy". In short words, the text written in this chapter just doesn't make any sense. Let me explain how:

One of the other chapters I've got is on organic chemistry. The chapter is very thoroughgoing on every single step in all the reactions going on between molecules, and the naming conventions are very strict, to say the least, which is quite a good thing.

Now we've got the chapter "Life and Energy", which does pretty much everything the other way around. It throws around lots of reactions while barely explaining them, the naming conventions are horrible and it consequently simplifies pretty much everything.

Combine these two chapters in the same readthrough, and the confusion is total. When I've gotten used to a thoroughgoing explanation on every single step in a reaction, I don't want another reaction to be explained as "stuff goes in, other stuff comes out". And the worst part is that I know that questions asking for the irrememberable names on some of the reactants and products that are involved in these amazingly sophisticated processes will come up on the test, and there isn't any useful trick that I can use to ease the learning of their names at all. I feel moderately screwed.


And during this whole time, I've been listening to the looping music for the link to "Timeless Chaos" that Dr. Bath provided a few posts ago. What the seagull says is quite fascinating: sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree and sometimes I just think "I knew that already, go on and please stop repeating yourself.".