WarKitty's Feline Frenzy Random Banter #216

[Durkoala]

Why not? The US has that odd law that makes them illegal,

What is this devilry

Also, season's greetings!

[Cuthalion]

What is this devilry

Also, season's greetings!

'cos of the plastic inside

three people worldwide, i believe, have died from eating Kinder eggs and ingesting plastic shards

[Teddy]

My new favorite Christmas video. Just had to share that with you all.

And that's not even the end to the Dutch Christmas tradition oddities.

Nice tree, but why did you chop down a doge? Also, moar doge please, it looks like a cute fluffy one.

Too tall, too lively. Couldn't get it to lie down and look cute without chopping it down first.

And that's sadly unachievable for this holiday, cousins' family left the ancestral farm (for Thailand) this morning, so the house is really silent now...

'cos of the plastic inside

three people worldwide, i believe, have died from eating Kinder eggs and ingesting plastic shards

Sounds like the sugar probably has been more lethal, then.

ION:

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My haul:

• Japanese puzzle box (containing sweets)
• Handmade ladybird jewelry pendant
• Metro 2033 (book)
• Rivers of London (book)
• Vanderland (signed book by a Swedish author and acquaintance of mine)
• Three pretty lovely shirts of different kinds and prints.
• Rose of Winter (game from Zodi)
• A large measure of confusion regarding which gifts belonged to me caused by aunt mislabeling one for littlest brother, putting the name of little brother on it instead

IOON:
Stayed up late last night watching Conan the Barbarian. I must say, despite its ridiculous twists and turns, it actually manages to maintain a willing suspension of disbelief all the way through it, and it deserves the cult stamp it's earned. Plays like a D&D campaign, too.

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Loot haul (including recent birthday, because some things were combo birthday + chanukah):

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Electric mixer, color: persimmon (usually I am opposed to calling colors by the names of fruits but this really is exactly the color of a persimmon)
Money for materials for building a Snappy
Money not explicitly for anything but in practice see above
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
My first watch not counting elementary-school glow-in-the-dark nearly-a-toy watches
Dark Souls (1)
Shantae

[DataNinja]

Oh, loot lists? (Man, this is making me feel like some adventurer is going to jump me and run me through with a sword. Better not assign gp value to my stuff... ) Most of the stuff that I got today was generally either EB Games gift cards (because, yay, indecisive about games), or money that people told me to spend on myself and not put towards school... because that's where all my other money's going already. Or clothes. Though, that's never a bad thing.

Oh, and a pretty cool poster (though, it hasn't actually arrived yet).

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Hopefully everyone else had a good day!

[FinnLassie]

My loot list's contents are at least 60% chocolate. I am reeeeeally sick of them all right now. Eurbgh. And a lot of this is just either mediocre and outright bad.

[Rawhide]

You can get Kinder eggs in Canada?

Yes, you can. We're not insane like the states.

The number of Canadians stopped and fined entering the US with contraband chocolate is nigh unbelievable.

[Thufir]

Talking presents? I just took a photo of mine.

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[Dallas-Dakota]

WTF. It's a Cookie Monster!

Whoa, you're also still around?

Occasionaly lurking in friendly banter and posting in the League of Legends thread in Gaming Other...but yeah, I'm still around.

Talking presents? I just took a photo of mine.

*loot*

Sweeeet. I did not know the Lord of the Rings cardgame had that many expansions.

My new favorite Christmas video. Just had to share that with you all.

It's...just a video explaining christmas? Do other countries celebrate it differently?

[FinnLassie]

ALSO WHOA DAMN DALLASBUN.

It's been so long that I forgot there's a dash between the two words.

How dare you, Mr Pirate

[Spanish_Paladin]

Aaargg... i can´t eat anymore, my family goes crazy in christmas with food..... arrggghhh... end my suffering, please x_x

[Thufir]

Sweeeet. I did not know the Lord of the Rings cardgame had that many expansions.

Core Set, six deluxe expansions, six cycles of six adventure packs each, seven saga expansions, and eight special event quests, so far. At least one more cycle and saga expansion to come, and almost certainly more that they just haven't announced.

[Aegis J Hyena]

Woke up to find the cat had peed in most of my dirty clothes.

Merry christmas to you too, you filthy feline furball.

Glad it wasn't my CLEAN clothes.

[Durkoala]

Talking presents? I just took a photo of mine.

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Goldenhand is a good book, but it does have about five other books leading up to it, so I hope you've read them first.


ION, I've been thinking of starting to play the piano again, but I really need some new songs that I like. Anybody have any suggestions of themesongs/soundtracks that are fairly easy to play?

[The Succubus]

Talking presents? I just took a photo of mine.

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Hmmm. My local shop has the spin off game and expansions for Eminent Domain. Just have to hope Scientific Discovery got nerfed to the ground.

Oh, and Peace Treaty for that matter. >.>

[Thufir]

Goldenhand is a good book, but it does have about five other books leading up to it, so I hope you've read them first.

I think only Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen are really required. Based on looking it up on wikipedia I got the impression Clariel was more of a supplemental thing (though I'd probably like to get it at some point anyway), as was that one short story in Across the Wall (which I have read in any case).

Hmmm. My local shop has the spin off game and expansions for Eminent Domain. Just have to hope Scientific Discovery got nerfed to the ground.

Oh, and Peace Treaty for that matter. >.>

I'm still not sure Scientific Discovery is actually that broken in normal play. It's just when you can have it as a starting technology that it goes really out of control. Peace Treaty is pretty dumb for sure, though I feel like it might be less so if there weren't multiple instances of it. After teaching Tasroth how to play and playing one game I regaled him with some stories of the broken stuff we did with the expansion at that last meetup.

[WarKitty]

I got Civ VI for Christmas!

Also a cute purse and a nice warm shirt and $250 from my relatives plus a $50 amazon gift card.

[Teddy]

It's...just a video explaining christmas? Do other countries celebrate it differently?

Can't tell if facetitious or not.

Also, Dutch is so heavy on its "sch" sounds, it's hilarious! And this comes from a Swede, whose language is known for its infinite variations of the "sh" sound.

ION:
Back home again from the ancestral farm. I'm conflicted, I would have liked to stay longer, but with cousins gone, little brothers were antsy to get home to their computers and whatnot.

Anyway, yesterday evening included aurora spotting, which was pretty cool. They're far to rare down here in Uppsala, and when they do appear, I'm usually distracted and miss them (or have my view blocked by something). It wasn't a particularly long show, and somewhat blurry to boot, but it's still northern lights and I love it!

Then during the night, a moderate storm hit us, continuing throughout the day. Despite the snow being quite crusted, it still managed to find something loose to blow up and form pretty drifts everywhere.

Also, littlest brother carved the head of Anubis out of a block of ice which had shattered our rain water barrel. He has a bit of artistic talent I envy of him.

Pictures will be forthcoming eventually, as soon as I can muster a bit of ambition...

[FinnLassie]

Four hours til my alarm goes off. About four and a half hours til I have to get out of mum's flat and head towards the train station with my luggage. Approx five hours til my train to the airport. Seven hours til my flight leaves towards Copenhagen, and some hours after that heading towards Edinburgh. Soon after landing I hop on a bus to Glasgow.

And then I'm back home.

[factotum]

Soon after landing I hop on a bus to Glasgow.

And then I'm back home.

I'm confused--I thought you'd moved back to Finland and didn't live in Scotland anymore?

[Mutant Sheep]

Christmas loot was had on my end, but comprehensive lists are not my style. I did get socks. Pink, beautiful socks! Much chocolate! Also, watching things and stuff happened. Mooncat was not too entertained by my favoritest film of all time, I think it's an aquired taste. Mother Moon makes tasty foodstuffs, and is made of puns.

Sheep you both look "not at all like I expected" and also "ridiculously handsome"

Especially in that last picture. MoonCat did a great job on that.

I had posted pictures years ago, almost glad no one remembers. I looked even dorkier back then, I did. HANDSOME WHAT NO IM NOT. LIAR.

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This was me in 2013. Observe the dork.

This is a documentation Moon sneakily took of my as I surfed the high seas of the internet. She is sneaky.

ION: I got bit by a dog this Christmas! On my nose!

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Honestly, doesn't look bad, and it looks worse than it is. Didn't stop certain hosts from decreeing a visit to the ER to get it looked at though.

Poor little dog got scared.

[Durkoala]

I think only Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen are really required. Based on looking it up on wikipedia I got the impression Clariel was more of a supplemental thing (though I'd probably like to get it at some point anyway), as was that one short story in Across the Wall (which I have read in any case).

Clariel isn't required, but it's got a few plot elements reaching into Goldenhand, although most of them are explained when they appear. It's also easily the worst of the Old Kingdom books, so it's up to you if you want to read it.

Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case leads directly into Goldenhand; the last scene of that is in the first chapter of Goldenhand. It's also not required and can be read on its own (if you've read Abhorsen): it's a good short story but reading it before Goldenhand is a lot more fun than after.

That said, if you want to read your book now, there's no reason that you can't if you've read Lirael and Abhorsen. Sabriel is not strictly necessary, but L&A are a lot easier if you have read it.

[LaZodiac]

Christmas loot was had on my end, but comprehensive lists are not my style. I did get socks. Pink, beautiful socks! Much chocolate! Also, watching things and stuff happened. Mooncat was not too entertained by my favoritest film of all time, I think it's an aquired taste. Mother Moon makes tasty foodstuffs, and is made of puns.

I had posted pictures years ago, almost glad no one remembers. I looked even dorkier back then, I did. HANDSOME WHAT NO IM NOT. LIAR.

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This was me in 2013. Observe the dork.

This is a documentation Moon sneakily took of my as I surfed the high seas of the internet. She is sneaky.

ION: I got bit by a dog this Christmas! On my nose!

Spoiler: NOSEFACE THERE IS DOG BITE

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Honestly, doesn't look bad, and it looks worse than it is. Didn't stop certain hosts from decreeing a visit to the ER to get it looked at though.

Poor little dog got scared.

Oh yeah, you've definitely grown into yourself, if that makes sense.

Also HOLY **** JESUS AAAAAH! YOU...are you SURE you're alright? Cause that looks bad! REaL BAD!

[FinnLassie]

I'm confused--I thought you'd moved back to Finland and didn't live in Scotland anymore?

Glasgow will always be my home.

Ye can take the lass outta Glesga but ye cannae take Glesga outta the lass.

[DraPrime]

Glasgow will always be my home.

Ye can take the lass outta Glesga but ye cannae take Glesga outta the lass.

That was way too legible to be true Glaswegian speech.

[Coidzor]

Oh yeah, you've definitely grown into yourself, if that makes sense.

Indeed, Puberty has come full circle for our Wee Ship.

Next thing we'll know, he'll be driving and hitting up biker bars.

[Teddy]

I had posted pictures years ago, almost glad no one remembers. I looked even dorkier back then, I did. HANDSOME WHAT NO IM NOT. LIAR.

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This was me in 2013. Observe the dork.

This is a documentation Moon sneakily took of my as I surfed the high seas of the internet. She is sneaky.

I remember!

Also, your pictures are too small, my not-very-people-oriented pattern recognition can't make out how you've changed in them!

ION: I got bit by a dog this Christmas! On my nose!

Spoiler: NOSEFACE THERE IS DOG BITE

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Honestly, doesn't look bad, and it looks worse than it is. Didn't stop certain hosts from decreeing a visit to the ER to get it looked at though.

Poor little dog got scared.

Ouch! I understand the ER, dog bites can be quite infection-prone under the wrong circumstances, even if they look harmless.

Also, how did you manage to scare a little dog into biting your nose?

Also HOLY **** JESUS AAAAAH! YOU...are you SURE you're alright? Cause that looks bad! REaL BAD!

Note to self: Never get any serious injuries, and if you do, never tell Zodi.

[Mutant Sheep]

Oh yeah, you've definitely grown into yourself, if that makes sense.

Also HOLY **** JESUS AAAAAH! YOU...are you SURE you're alright? Cause that looks bad! REaL BAD!

It does, even if I take it as "your face got older; hair, longer". I got over body image issues years ago.
Yeah? Didn't even bleed badly, honestly. Dog was let out of the room they put him in maybe an hour later, pet the guy, we still got along. Didn't hurt anyone else.

Indeed, Puberty has come full circle for our Wee Ship.

Next thing we'll know, he'll be driving and hitting up biker bars.

I have facial hair, and not just when I forgot to shave like all my recent pictures have of me. That overgrown soul patch (?) has been there for more than a year now. Praise me, praise me!

Implying I do not do both of these things already? I do neither, yes. Bikers are scary!

I remember!

Also, your pictures are too small, my not-very-people-oriented pattern recognition can't make out how you've changed in them!

Ouch! I understand the ER, dog bites can be quite infection-prone under the wrong circumstances, even if they look harmless.

Also, how did you manage to scare a little dog into biting your nose?

Note to self: Never get any serious injuries, and if you do, never tell Zodi.

Hehe. Hi Teddy!

I may slip in some LARGER BIG ones then mayhaps. Maybe.

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LARGE enough for you?

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Really low quality from 3 years back, but I can find it easily and there honestly isn't much photographic evidence of my existence that looks GOOD.

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That's a Moonie attempting to clean my facegouges. She did good.

And I scared the dog into it by... Uhh. Well, 20 seconds beforehand he was licking my nose, then he suddenly decided I was so tasty he needed a bite.

Also, unsure if you/others saw this post, was at the end of a page, but I had posted before and there are some pictures.

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Moon did makeup, its my elmo shirt.

Hehe. Zodi has a sane reaction, being bitten isn't much fun. There was some noseskin on my hands when we were cleaning my snout up.

[DataNinja]

Note to self: Never get any serious injuries, and if you do, never tell Zodi.

Man, I have got to learn how you do that, if you can manage to avoid serious injury just by telling yourself to avoid it. Does that trick work on illnesses, too? Because judging by some of my family, I may have need of that, soon.

[FinnLassie]

That was way too legible to be true Glaswegian speech.

I would rather not spend time translating Glesga banter on the forums. :P