Confessions 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[Bartmanhomer]

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Don't be surprised. I'm just like Seto Kaiba. Also I don't believe in the heart of the dice as well.

[8BitNinja]

I'm not addicted to anime because I do have a life of my own.

That's the idea of not having an addiction

[Bartmanhomer]

That's the idea of not having an addiction

Precisely my point. Confession: I used to be addicted for drinking multiple energy drinks. I got so agitated I quit drinking them.

[2D8HP]

Don't be surprised. I'm just like Seto Kaiba. Also I don't believe in the heart of the dice as well.

Confession: Where once I felt comfortably nerdy:

...and having the CREDENTIALS (within the space of a year I saw the Hobbit cartoon on channel 5 without missing any of it to go to the bathroom, I looked at the Dungeons and Dragons box at the toystore in the mall, and saw Stars Wars the most times of everyone in 5th grade, no way did Ben see it 15 times, where are the ticket stubs huh?) to answer the conundrum asked in this thread...

After seeing all the anime, card and video game references at this Forum, I feel well "out of it".

[The Eye]

I don't believe in the heart of the cards. (Yu-Gi-Oh)

The heart of the cards is not real, its lie for that I'm sure.

I used to Yu-Gi-Oh with my older brother. I always believed in the heart of the cards, and I always lost.

Then I found out that my brother arranged his cards in the order he wanted they to appear, and the probability of they showing up that way were higher even when shuffled (And I also sucked at shuffling) than just leaving it randomly to luck.

So yeah... Don't believe in the hearth of the cards, just put them in the order you want them to show up.

Confession: There is a Mexican food restaurant near where I work. The food there is delicious, I normally go home with a friend from work who gives me a ride and we share the gas.

Every time he can’t take me home, I stop by at the restaurant to have dinner there, every time I eat Mexican food I get sick and I promise to myself I will never eat Mexican food ever again, but everytime I don't have a ride I can't help myself but to eat there! I’m too weak-minded. : (

Today, I did it again D:

[Strigon]

Confession: I have gotten into the habit of keeping up with the more dramatic threads on this forum, and even reading the ones that got shut down.
I don't particularly heed who's saying what, and if you asked me I couldn't tell you the sides pretty much anyone picked, but something about watching the slow decline into madness that occasionally happens delights me to no end.

[Bartmanhomer]

The heart of the cards is not real, its lie for that I'm sure.

I used to Yu-Gi-Oh with my older brother. I always believed in the heart of the cards, and I always lost.

Then I found out that my brother arranged his cards in the order he wanted they to appear, and the probability of they showing up that way were higher even when shuffled (And I also sucked at shuffling) than just leaving it randomly to luck.

So yeah... Don't believe in the hearth of the cards, just put them in the order you want them to show up.

Confession: There is a Mexican food restaurant near where I work. The food there is delicious, I normally go home with a friend from work who gives me a ride and we share the gas.

Every time he can’t take me home, I stop by at the restaurant to have dinner there, every time I eat Mexican food I get sick and I promise to myself I will never eat Mexican food ever again, but everytime I don't have a ride I can't help myself but to eat there! I’m too weak-minded. : (

Today, I did it again D:

That what I said before.

[8BitNinja]

Confession: I have gotten into the habit of keeping up with the more dramatic threads on this forum, and even reading the ones that got shut down.
I don't particularly heed who's saying what, and if you asked me I couldn't tell you the sides pretty much anyone picked, but something about watching the slow decline into madness that occasionally happens delights me to no end.

Are you just looking through my post history?

[Strigon]

Are you just looking through my post history?

Nawh

...Should I?

[Delicious Taffy]

Don't believe in the Heart of the Cards, just put them in the order you want them to show up.

That's pretty much what the Heart of the Cards is. The Millennium Puzzle's special power is to get exactly the play you need at exactly the right time to maximise your chances of winning. Until the big reveal, Yugi just thinks his superstitions are working out for him without intervention from an ancient Egyptian curse necklace.

Confession: In games with a significant chance factor, I tend to assume the worst will happen, even with the odds stacked in my favor. The Millennium Puzzle would have to work some serious overtime to make me look skilled, or even somewhat lucky.

[Winter_Wolf]

I just mistook a squirrel for a rabbit.

....Hey, it was the biggest squirrel I've ever seen and he's got some rather large ears. Or else I've got a totoro wandering around in my yard. Bloody huge squirrel.

[Bartmanhomer]

I don't believe in luck.

[2D8HP]

I don't believe in luck.

Well Augustine agreed with you:

"How, therefore, is she good, who without discernment comes to both the good and to the bad?...It profits one nothing to worship her if she is truly fortune... let the bad worship her...this supposed deity"

But Shakespeare did not:

Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

And...we don't say the "L" word, it's bad lu...
it's just bad!

"The Lady, She-who-shall-not-be-named... The 'Million-to-One' Chance - and all of the other chances as well... The One who will desert you when you need Her the most - and sometimes She might not..."
Her suitors can be distinguished by their distinctive repetitive prayer; "please-oh-please-oh-please-oh-please."

Spoiler: Images of the "Lady"

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Spoiler: Words!

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Tyche is a goddess from Greek Myth (and also the Forgotten Realms) - the deity of ****. From the Forgotten Realms wiki:

"Tyche’s faith taught that one should be bold, for to dare was to live. The battle cry of the followers of Tyche was “Fortune favors the bold.” Those who had no direction or goals soon encountered ill ****, for those on no set course were at the capricious mercy of misfortune, which was no mercy at all. A brave heart and willingness to take risks beat out a carefully wrought plan nine times out of ten. One had to place oneself in the hands of fate (meaning in the hands of Tyche) and trust to one’s own ****, and priests of Tyche were supposed to be showing their good fortune—and acceptance of bad fortune—as a confidence in the Lady and in themselves. Lady **** bid that each mortal chase his or her own unique goals—so long as they didn’t counter the express wishes of herself—and it was in this chase that the Lady aided her followers."

And from Greek Myth, Tyche granted mortals the ability to break the chains for fate and forge their own destiny (for good or ill).

Tyche is generally perceived as neutral in alignment, and a patron of adventurers.

In latter "Realms" lore Tyche was changed into: Tymora and her sister,Beshaba, the goddess of misfortune, having been created when
Tyche, the former deity of ****, was infected by Moander's evil essence, and split apart by Selûne.
Tymora is commonly revered by adventurers and others who rely on a mixture of **** and skill to achieve their goals. She is also a known ally of the demipower Finder Wyvernspur

For those aligned with Law Dame Fortune/Lady ****/Tyche/Tymora! does not seem an appropriate choice!

Medieval lyrics!:

O Fortuna (O Fortune)
velut luna (like the moon)
statu variabilis (you are changeable)
semper crescis (always waxing)
aut decrescis; (and waning;)
vita detestabilis (hateful life)
nunc obdurat (first oppresses)
et tunc curat (and then soothes)
ludo mentis aciem, (as fancy takes it)
egestatem, (poverty)
potestatem (and power)
dissolvit ut glaciem. (it melts them like ice.)

Sors immanis (Fate - monstrous)
et inanis, (and empty)
rota tu volubilis, (you whirling wheel)
status malus, (you are malevolent)
vana salus (well-being is vain)
semper dissolubilis, (and always fades to nothing)
obumbrata (shadowed)
et velata (and veiled)
mihi quoque niteris; (you plague me too;)
nunc per ludum (now through the game)
dorsum nudum (I bring my bare back)
fero tui sceleris. (to your villainy.)

Sors salutis (Fate is against me)
et virtutis (in health)
michi nunc contraria, (and virtue)
est affectus (driven on)
et defectus (and weighted down)
semper in angaria. (always enslaved.)
Hac in hora (So at this hour)
sine mora (without delay)
corde pulsum tangite; (pluck the vibrating strings;)
quod per sortem (since Fate)
sternit fortem, (strikes down the strong)
mecum omnes plangite! (everyone weep with me!)

And some Music!



That goes with the medieval Latin lyrics.

[S@tanicoaldo]

Ah! Carmina burana, such a sublime way to say that life is ****. :p

[2D8HP]

....such a sublime way to say that life is ****. :p

You just gave a synopsis of a 1,000 years of Medieval philosophy!

[Velaryon]

One part of my job is removing the books that nobody reads from my section of the library collection. My section is math and science. A lot of the books go unused. This makes me sad, even though I myself am not particularly a math or science geek.

[2D8HP]

One part of my job is....

That would make me sad as well.

[Delicious Taffy]

Whenever I catch wind that someone I follow has mentioned me online, my first instinct is to download any video/sound and immediately try to YTP it into some horribly degenerate nonsense.

[8BitNinja]

Whatever age you think I am, you are wrong

[Delicious Taffy]

Whatever age you think I am, you are wrong

Based on that, I'm gonna say you're in the 2-89 age bracket. Am I in the ballpark?

[Avianmosquito]

I just noticed I'm drunk. According to the calculator here, I am at 0.123%. So, I am starting to think I might be an alcoholic...

My name is Justin S...

[Knaight]

I just noticed I'm drunk. According to the calculator here, I am at 0.123%. So, I am starting to think I might be an alcoholic...

My name is Justin S...

Those calculators tend to be rough approximations at best, largely because stuff like "what you've eaten recently" is so critical.

[Razade]

Those calculators tend to be rough approximations at best, largely because stuff like "what you've eaten recently" is so critical.

Not to mention a calculator that has the term "frat boy" is probably one to look at with a healthy level of skepticism.

.12 isn't that high. If your number was like.... .30 then we could talk. A .12 is just kinda buzzed.

[Aedilred]

I get slightly annoyed by the memetic reference to "things within things" as "inception".

[Knaight]

Not to mention a calculator that has the term "frat boy" is probably one to look at with a healthy level of skepticism.

.12 isn't that high. If your number was like.... .30 then we could talk. A .12 is just kinda buzzed.

It's more than enough that you shouldn't be driving, but that's less a matter of it being really drunk and more a matter of how cars are fundamentally dangerous machines weighing thousands of pounds that can move at high speeds. I'd be inclined to avoid driving at a .025 (calculated), given the aforementioned variability.

Also if the number was something like 0.30 that talking is questionable. There's a real risk of passing out there*.

*I'd call it a near certainty, but the literature disagrees and I suspect being a mile above sea level might have something to do with the discrepancy.

[8BitNinja]

I get slightly annoyed by the memetic reference to "things within things" as "inception".

What do you propose we call it?

[DataNinja]

What do you propose we call it?

Matryoshka?

Yes, I know it refers more to the design of the dolls than their nesting properties, but, meh.

[2D8HP]

Matryoshka?

Yes, I know it refers more to the design of the dolls than their nesting properties, but, meh.

Matryoshka effect?

Matryoshka syndrome?

Sounds cool!

It shall be used.

[Delicious Taffy]

What do you propose we call it?

Recursion.

[Bartmanhomer]

I don't like movies that have too much sexual content such as Fifty Shades Of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker.