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2015-02-02, 07:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Yes. Just hard to find. Really a more pertinent problem is that we live in a 600 square foot apartment in the middle of a city and don't really have space for two cats. (You need two really; I am firmly of this opinion.)
Yep. Boring ones though.
Sorry to be all American and stuff but I still find this word hilarious and redundant. (Americans say "oriented.") (Kind of like preventative v. preventive but don't know the particulars of whose usage is which in that case)
Yes. I think inflection is at about the same level as French but someone who knows both would have to confirm that.
Hehe. That's funny because I've always had an affinity for dragonflies.
Yeah, I have a fairly good idea of what I'd do and it would be pretty simple. We're thinking garden teatime type wedding, nothing very formal, and in the summer.
American bra sizing sucks. Yes it does. There is a phobia of the letter E and everything after it, and good luck finding anything anywhere that's not 34-40 A-D. There are boutiques. But I buy stuff online which meant a LOT of returns before I figured out my proper size. And even then it means that I pretty much stay in one model and brand because it varies so. And the colors it comes in are pink pink pink.
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2015-02-02, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
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2015-02-02, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
As a rule I've found the easiest color is beige, but say you find one that fits you like a glove and is the exact right shape for you and then it only comes in these bright colors and the easiest one by far to find is candy pink so you end up with three candy pink and one yellow....
I haven't found any other style that fits as well.
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2015-02-02, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-02-03, 12:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
It took all the month? Was it supposed to?
The Florida sauna is inside out. You go outside for the hot bath and inside a mall to the extra cold air conditioning cold bath.
At the expense of readability and maybe of the dignity of someone else.
The first idea I had about that was not about the farmer throwing around seeds. Fertilizer. Fresh.
This came in the middle of programming talk and I took some time to realize that Cirth is not the programming language of the dwarves.
I am rewiring a sewing machine! All of it unfortunately. The motor and the light and the pedal wires were all horrible. I had a very frightening time when I thought smoke was coming from the soldering iron. It was from the solder but the iron is hollow and it was going up the tip and through the iron body and out the cord end. I quit for the day after that. Too frightening.
In public?!
Here we use those allergy pills from the dollar store. They work just fine. One of the cats makes allergies worse. And it is the cat who loves to sit on your shoulder and rub his fur on your hair and face.
I have no idea what an evening cut is.I have found a RL gaming group but I'm willing to meet other GitP people nearby.
Please send a PM or an email! _______ Tea served in a student cafe in Seattle
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2015-02-03, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Playing Grim Fandango.
Reminding myself why I didn't finish the Sam and Max games. Very violently.
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2015-02-03, 02:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
*wanders back into Banter, thinking of trawling back 4 pages to respond to things*
*sees all the bra-talk*
*backs away slowly, retreats to his Tolkien*
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2015-02-03, 03:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to *know*.
So I guess I have an internets? | And a trophy. | And a music cookie (whatever that is).
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2015-02-03, 03:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Oh. Neat. Also intimidating, so good luck with that. I hope you can avoid any further complications without having to abandon the project or scrap any of your tools.
Mah hair needs to be evened out because it is uneven because I never got it cut to even it out when I first grew it out.
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2015-02-03, 03:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-02-03, 04:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2015-02-03, 04:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to *know*.
So I guess I have an internets? | And a trophy. | And a music cookie (whatever that is).
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2015-02-03, 05:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
I think I'd run out of quote space.
Cool. Take it Ha Noi was a stop over before travelling elsewhere then? I'll make sure to check out the Ethnology museum, I do like a good museum. And it's good to know that even with not-so-good Vietnamese I'd be able to get by.
Cheap is good. I'm already planning on checking out some of the street food, but I'll make sure to pop by the river and investigate too. Hopefully there won't be too many bugs as I'm currently planning on arriving in monsoon season - at least it'll be warm and wet eh?
Maybe the street markets just take getting used to? But I can see there'd be a big clash between a British market and any market in SE Asia.
Bugs tend to leave me alone for some reason, but they were pretty prevalent, especially near said river. And it rained. All. The. Time. No doubt it's better outside of the wet season though.
I'm sure the street markets are okay if you get used to them, but I just thought they were more intimidating than similar ones in Delhi and whatnot. I was a young twenty-one though.
*high fives*
Not even sure if I was expecting any, but if you do find some that'd be great!
Oh I hope so, being 5' 3" on a generous day can make things like reaching really tall shelves for large items quite intimidating. And shopping for things that fit. I'm short with boobs in the FF/G range, so everything is too long in the everywhere or I'm popping buttons.
My sisters 5' 0" and generous up front, so she has the same problem. I sometimes think one of us is the milkmans, as I'm a good eight inches taller and rather less prone to back problems if you catch my meaning. Thinking about it, we never had a milkman. Maybe I'm the postmans.
And it's definitely better than a seagull. I live on the coast. Three a.m. wake up calls are unpleasant even after a lifetime of it happening.
Sound fun, I've had occasional requests to do Access type stuff for my uni too, but they don't really pay for travel expenses. Also I'm bad at public speaking - shocking I know - and probably would be too informal for them.
And I'm glad you could get way from there (and that your new flat seems to be pretty much a certainty right now).
As for the flat, the landlord wants me in asap, and I want in too and have the deposit. Just having to go at the speed of the letting agents, who've been given advice by a snail I think.
Ah, another tea fan. Well if Teddy dear doesn't have Earl Grey I have it. And Lady Grey. And raspberry and strawberry tea. And chamomile tea. And nettle and peppermint tea. And green tea with jasmine. Ever had coconut oil with green tea? it's lovely, though the texture is a little strange at first.
Yes, I really do have all those teas myself. I'm actually running low, believe it or not.
Oh I'm glad; will you be able to reach the gaming place easily from your new flat or will you go the extra mile to get there. Did you like you fellow gamers or are you still testing the waters?
Never actually done normal D&D myself, but it sounds fun. If you're looking for bardic songs I suggest Queen. And Van Canto. And some cheesy songs from the 90s just for shock value. And that Stonecutter's Song from The SImpsons.
You should try it, if you have the time. If you've got the storyteller bug in you, and you have the right group, there's not a lot of things I'd rather be doing. Is it sad to admit that? Probably.
The Sister's so attached to her hair (and she treats it so poorly) that I'm genuinely considering hacking off her hair as she sleeps just so she can get it done.
That sounds a reasonable size for a flat, though I'm used to UK shoeboxes and don't work in metres very well. Now I want to know how big my soon-to-be flat is.Last edited by Peebles; 2015-02-03 at 06:04 AM.
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2015-02-03, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
'T' as in "Technology", stolen from your "STEM" acronym. At this level, we spend just as much time being told interesting facts as actually practicing anything...
And that's why it's a huge strength of yours, and why you're a good person!
That depends. Do you ask yourself "Why isn't this a cat?" every time you use a smilie?
Short answer short, because there hasn't been anyone around who answers everything. Conversation decays quickly when people only respond to what pertains directly to them and no one already has answered. And the mentaility is contagious too.
Yeah, and it can be even worse. I don't envy the poor, Swedish teachers...
Also, you have teachers for spoken only English...?
Ahh, no, I meant the third acronym, the one you used before C/DELTA...
Don't have any of those, is too lazy/busy for any. Plus, it would feel a bit awkward...
Did he express such desires himself?
Ahh, no, I meant the space characters (' ') you often, but not always, put before the newlines at the end of the paragraph. Highlight the text at the end of the next quote to see what I mean.
Correct.
(And I totally did not make a riddle out of it just becaus I didn't know his original English name, not at all.)
Well, that assumes I actually know when I was or wasn't the author of some specific action or idea, doesn't it? Wouldn't that mean there was no problem to start with?
Bringing a camera is always good, even if you aren't much of a photographer.
And yeah, I really like urban exploration (some might remember me getting all excited about old German WWII bunkers in Denmark a few years ago). And if you want to read some of my travel accounts, feel free to go back a bit in that thread...
Okay, remove five 0's (or other digits) and add the result twice to itself.
On a more serious note, I actually honestly forgot that multiplication isn't trivial to headcount for most people...
Meh, I can always imagine colours, but Curly-hair isn't nearly as easy!
Well, perhaps it means you're not confident that people will understand you? On a more general note, I personally find it a good thing when people have memorable phrases associated with them. It creates a feeling of familiarity.
Well, it all depends on the problem. One has to keep in mind that equations are supposed to model a phenomenon, so you pick the equation which fits the best and try to predict how the phenomenon manifests itself. Some phenomena are best described by differential equations, and the equation you pick decides how many apostrophies are where.
I some cases, maybe, but I think it's highly individual rather than some sort of subconscious conspiracy. People come from different backgrounds and carry different needs...
Well, I won't say it is that (it's rather described by "this is how fast it changes over time"), but that does sum up an application of derivatives.
And it's barely even begun yet!
Well, that's up to you to decide. I use it because I'm a teddybear who hugs, but it could definitely be used the other way around too.
Nice! Congratulations on your find!
Sounds like a great time indeed!
Hmm, yes, I think I remember something like that too...
Yes, yes you do.
Naw, thanks!
Don't worry, you're British with a touch of Victorian air. Just your mere presence would be enough ambrosia for our Budgie!
I... don't agree. It's sad for those who still remain, because they're left in a vacuum of uncertainity on whether a message some old one ever will reach its recipient. It isn't as sensitive as I'd like to be, but I'd liken it a little to how people to whom friends or family members have gone missing often will prefer to know them to be dead than just presume them to be. Hopeless hope can be a most destructive force...
Wow, how heavy is your cat?
I think that quote was directed at Taet, but, well, I do have Earl Grey, if only in bags. If one wants loose leaf tea in my home, it'll either be either Darjeeling or Koh-I-Noor (can't remember which one we're stocking), or English Breakfast, which I consume by the spoonloads.
Perhaps they do some arbitrary long-hair/short-hair division where females just haaappen to fall on the long-hair side...
I was going to write out "seeds", but decided not to because it got tacky, but wow, I didn't even think about that...
Hahahaha! This is great!
Ahh, right. I sure can appreciate some good, hands-on craftmanship. Good luck and don't electrocute yourself!
And at first I thought you were speaking about the solder going through the iron, and I did start to question your sanity when you thought that wasn't a fault on the iron's part. Then I realised you were talking about the smoke...Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
Spoiler: Banner by Vrythas
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2015-02-03, 10:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-02-03, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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The problem is that when the puzzles get too frustrating, be it because you missed the obvious thing that is just "too small" or because the puzzle is bad, you start getting so frustrated that you stop actually caring about the plot, or stop finding the jokes funny.
Like, I've yet to actually determine if they thought Glotis is funny or annoying.
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2015-02-03, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Same, though I've Friday off, so it effectively is my Wednesday slump.
Well, slump and the fact that my seasonal depression has kicked in something fierce this year.
SpoilerAnd this year has chosen to manifest itself as angsting over mortality and questions about the hereafter. Some things I can get around, I've done it before, but this little bundle of questions without answers has been regularly leaving me in a mixed up ball of fear, anxiety, and inability to do anything at it's worst.
I'm not even old...
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2015-02-03, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Yes. That happens sometimes. Once you hit 10 posts multiquoted you have to hit reply, ctrl+a, ctrl+x and then back to get more, possibly pausing to hit reply in another thread so you can deselect the first 10 quotes. Quotestorming is at times a complex art.
Short answer shorter, obviously it's just that no-one else is as interesting as Koorly (presumably this is also why we keep feeding her ego).
Well, I try.
Yeah. There's a lack of closure. I can understand the tendency of people to just drift away gradually though. Hell, I'd reached the point of mostly just lurking rather than participating until last week."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2015-02-03, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Tidying the walk-in freezer would be less unpleasant if it wasn't so cold
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2015-02-03, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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What's the problem exactly? I've never had a chance to look into either of those games.
That's almost the feeling I had too. Except insert Pokemon instead of Tolkien here. Only have a few books and his aren't in the collection.
I can get behind that line of thinking. The Walking Dead, a simple point-and-click adventure, has a great story. I've never been big on Dragon Age: Origins gameplay, but the story and the choice-making is nice. And of course for people who prefer them there are always visual novels. THe idea of meh gameplay but great story is everywhere!
I'd be surprised if it weren't cold. But I get what you mean. While working at a restaurant I typically hated doing anything working with the freezer. Though I eventually warmed up to the idea. I'm horrible.
@Teddy: It looks like you responded to absolutely ALL of the banter. I saw something you said and wanted to quote on it but then there was so much more...and so much more...I wouldn't know where to trim. It's amazing though. Oh and hi.
In other news, why can't sleeping work normal? I mean, I spend a few days staying up til 5 am with a friend and next thing you know my body can't decide when sleeping is okay or not. Glad I got at least one fairly normal night of sleeping, so today I can actually do things.
Also my cooking ability continues to slowly grow! I am great at making pastas of various sorts now (including stuff not just from a box!) and I got some little creative ideas to try next month. And I made cornbread for the first time and nothing burned, which I see as great for someone who has basically no baking experience.
And for the record, I do still intend to make my YouTube channel. It's just been tough because of the odd sleeping, some little life stuff, and my current headset starting to fail utterly on me. Once that last one is dealt with and I can keep ahold of money long enough to get Pharoah, I shall start. I've also been thinking of trying Town of Salem to start on my channel, and maybe even the computer version of Cards Against Humanity with a couple friends. Such ideas.
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2015-02-03, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-02-03, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Indeed then. Well I'm sorry. That does sound rather frustrating. I dislike badly designed puzzles.
...which might be why I rarely make puzzles in D&D. I have so little puzzle designing skill.
So, please remind me, have you been able to play Dragon Age: Inquisition? And if so, what do you think of it?
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2015-02-03, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-02-03, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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I always wonder if I'm a good puzzle maker or not.
For instance, I made puzzle maps on halo, and most people never solved them, because they required gamers who would usually point and shoot to puzzle solve, and most people didn't evolve to it. I'd use some tricks that people who were familiar with the games mechanics would know how to utilize, and I even developed a few puzzles in order to train you up to the harder ones...but still, I had like, 1 or 2 people solve the hard ones. Out of many. I miss watching people play through my puzzles. Oh Halo 4, why did you have to change the map editor?
The question is, if its nicely set up in my mind, is too challenging a good or bad puzzle?
My D & D puzzles are more forgiving (since you can't really trial by error in D & D, unless you have a lot of NPC minions, and are of the lower range of alignment). But from what I'm told, still enjoyable.Last edited by TheWombatOfDoom; 2015-02-03 at 12:37 PM. Reason: Never got to my point....
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Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?
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2015-02-03, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-02-03, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Yeah, 600 can be a lot. It's huge for what it is, which is a studio. A studio with a kitchen and a bathroom, but still, the bedroom and living room are one room. And it's too small for two cats + two people.
Edited to clarify: it would be fine if we lived in an area where the cats could be indoor/outdoor, but we don't. They'd have to be indoor-only. That's the main issue with the size.Last edited by Dragonrider; 2015-02-03 at 01:05 PM.
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2015-02-03, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
I would imagine that Halo puzzle maps might be something people wouldn't expect. I certainly didn't.
I guess it depends on your mind. Something logical and clear to you might be obtuse and confusing to others. There's just no way to know for sure, so you might as well try. Puzzles are supposed to be challenging.
Heh I think plenty of 'Good' adventurers would have no problem using summoned minions to test puzzles. Though if they do end up more enjoyable, then great!
Nice, though I can understand the time issue. I've been enjoying a second playthrough of DA:2, playing a mage with a very different attitude to the first run of the game. To me mages are a lot cooler now, all the difference being made just by their staves and how they work.
My brother told me he was considering getting DA:I to play the multiplayer with his gf, but as far as we can tell it only has online multiplayer. Most sites we looked up were pretty vague but that's how it seems. So he decided against it.
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2015-02-03, 02:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, that would explain it, then. It's actually from said era.
I kinda figured they'd do for Grim Fandango was another team did for Shadowgate and change things up on the remaster.
600 sq ft was approximately the size of LadyMeyers' and my first apartment. I can't even begin to imaging cramming a cat in there alongside all of our stuff. Poor thing would go completely bonkers.
Yeah, the MP is online-only. It's very much like the ME3 multiplayer.
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2015-02-03, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well keep in mind the guys making the Remaster is Double Fine, and as I've touched on in this thread previously they make nothing but garbage. The only change they made mechanically was adding in point and click controls as opposed to tank controls, though they also put in an achievement where you play the game solely using tank controls because Tim Schaffer demanded it.
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2015-02-03, 03:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Qwertystop's Unexpected-To-Everyone-Or-At-Least-To-Him Random Banter #210
Well, I'm not sure I'd compare our rather casual use of algebra and low-level calculus to a farmer planting seeds, as we're being a good deal more careless than any farmer could afford to be.
\ruthless pedant
But yeah, It's easy to forget that other people won't know what I'm talking about when I complain about something in one of my math classes. Or talk about math in general.
Another step down the ladder would be arithmetic, which is about as much math as a short pamphlet on classic Russian literature is the full text of War and Peace.
Wooo! C == superior
Personally, I think I'd enjoy doing the work in assembly, but I've yet to need to do that, so I couldn't really say for sure.
I wouldn't imagine. And there's plenty of room for errors that have to do with deficiencies in the hardware, on top of all the possible logic errors.
It's also possible we won't need to use floating-point numbers at all, but I'm not going to get my hopes up too much.
I know you talked about this a lot while you were doing it/right after you finished, but what sort of signals were you working with, anyway? I vaguely remember you mentioning audio of some sort, but then again, noise can be used to mean a whole lot more than just sound.
Heh. Yeah, it's pretty hard to completely filter out unwanted signals and still have something useable without pretty specialized hardware. I would think it'd be easier with software, but I suppose there's a lot more you have to take into account when reading in the signal (which is incredibly easy in a hardware system).
Heheheh
Does the Black Speech use it, or does that have it? (not that there's a lot of places where that's actually written)
Heh. That will be a fun read, should you decide to do so. I expect a full account of everything!
See:Originally Posted by Amidus Drexel
Give or take, yeah. Lucky you; ours isn't.
The rest is about the same too, though for some reason the locally grown stuff is waaaaay more expensive than it needs to be.
It's surprisingly expensive to get really good bread in the states. There's plenty of cheap stuff, but it's all crap. The cheap bread I've had in the UK was all much better.
Fruit's cheap everywhere, though, so long as you're getting it in season.
MEAT. Sometimes it's expensive here, sometimes it isn't. It goes up and down a lot, from what I remember (I don't buy a whole lot of meat).
Wow, really? There was a kitchen on every floor of my building in the dorms, and it was hardly a new building. I mean, you're still sharing the kitchen with ~70 people, but they didn't really get used all that often.
Living with 8 people?! I don't think I could manage that. Three other guys is about right - any more would be distracting, and any less would be dull.
Generally it's the people taking the trash, who like to leave them open so they don't have to struggle with the door when they're pushing those big trash carts. But yes, it's incredibly annoying. The rain doesn't get in, but the wind sure as hell does. We get some cold wind here, which is a pretty big shock when you've been spending hours next to the grill.
They can be, but usually they're not. A lot of the hard part of solving the equations comes with having to use algebra to manipulate them, not from the calculus itself.
The order of the equation is purely descriptive - if the highest derivative is the second derivative, then it's a second-order equation. If the highest is the seventh derivative, it's a seventh-order equation. If the highest is the first derivative, it's only a first-order equation.
It's just how the problem's set up - you could switch them around if you liked, but then it would be modeling something else when you graphed it (and wouldn't be the same equation). The one with two apostrophes is the second derivative, and the one with a single apostrophe is the first derivative - they're just notation to indicate what the equation is.
If you really want to get into why, it has to do with whatever you're trying to model.
Let's do a bit of an extended example. I'll use a spring with a weight on it, because that's probably easier to understand (though the same set of equations works for a swinging door).
tl;dr: A spring-mass system is modeled by an equation of this form: my'' - ry' + ky = 0. The m is the thing hanging from the spring, the r is the dampening effect (resisting the motion of the spring - think air resistance), and the k is how "springy' the spring is.
Spoiler: Extended Example
A spring-mass system is modeled by an equation of this form: my'' - ry' + ky = 0. It's a second-order linear equation, but that's not really important to understand. What is important are the coefficients m, k, and r.
m is the mass of the weight on the spring - it controls the amplitude, or how far the spring moves.
If m is very large, then the spring will go up and down really far. This is like sticking a really big weight on it, pulling it down, and it shooting up in the air.
If m is very small, then the spring will do the opposite - it'll barely move up and down at all.
k is a physical constant of the spring; it basically means how strong the string pulls back to its original position. This is going to control how fast the spring moves back and forth.
If k is very large, then the spring will move up and down really fast. Imagine one of those old-fashioned door-stoppers with the spring attached to the wall - when you play with the stopper, it bounces back and forth really fast.
If k is very small, then the spring will move more slowly. Imagine a slinky - they move slowly, relatively speaking.
r is the damping force - it models the resistance the spring encounters when it tries to move back and forth. This could be air resistance, a special damper placed on the spring itself - pretty much anything that'll try and keep the spring from moving.
If r is zero, then the spring will never slow down and stop, and it'll just bounce back and forth forever. Imagine the spring in space, where it won't be slowed down by anything.
If r is very small, the spring will bounce back and forth, but it'll slow down and stop eventually. This is what'll happen if you do it here on Earth (and what the gif shows).
If r is very large, the spring will slowly close without bouncing back and forth at all. Imagine a spring trying to pull a weight up through molassas - it's 'sticky' and resists motion.
There's also a specific value of r where the door is critically dampened, and then the spring will move to a certain position very quickly and then stop, entirely without bouncing back and forth. It looks a lot like the one with molassas, but imagine something a little bit thinner, so that the spring can pull the weight up quickly, but still thick enough to keep it from bouncing around.
The equation itself can represent anything, though - it's just meant to model that particular system (and we pick equations that make good models).
Believe me, it would hurt my head to try and solve that too. Nonlinear systems aren't all that complicated, but yeah, they're generally much harder.
As Thurfir said, e is irrational, not imaginary (irrational numbers are ones that you can't accurately represent as fractions, whereas imaginary numbers are a bit of notation to let us take the square root of negative numbers). The rest was far better explained by him and I'd be doing you both a disservice to stumble through my own explanation of those functions.
Woo, pat on the back!
Yeah, I don't really have the spare energy or time to do anything other than casual reading (what little of that I manage), but perhaps I'll read some Joyce later.
I have no idea who Eco is... but that sounds like reading a complicated puzzle a la Hollywood Illuminati, not a book.
But but but I'm many of those things!
Bahahaha, I can't even pretend to keep a straight face over text. Nah, I mean, I'm pretty set in my ways (and certainly biased), but that won't stop me from having interesting conversations with people that think differently. I'm just too stubborn to be converted.
Back in the day, people would pay you to complain! But they invented the internet, and now we pay to complain about other people.
I am Satan, hear me roar.
Bahahahaha, I'm kinda glad my little sister doesn't think of me that way. There was a long time where she thought that I was a complete idiot, and has only recently discovered that I am, in fact, smart, and that she doesn't, in fact, know better than me about everything.
See, if I had that kind of power over someone's learning, I would abuse it (yes, let's teach you all sorts of "facts". Perhaps it's best that I don't.
I think, oddly enough, some people actually like their home life and family and wish they had it back when they're away.
Never experienced it myself, mind.
HAHA, NOPE
We're required to have at least one weekend shift (I work Saturday nights), and they're always short-staffed. But we're short-staffed during the week too. Chances are I'll move my Thursday shift to Tuesday. It's a shame, though, I really like working with John and Allison. They've got their **** together, unlike some of the other people I've worked with.
Well, it's about a 2-3 mile walk home from campus, BUT buses run most of the time, so it's no big deal, generally. I've made the walk once or twice, but it's not really worth it unless I get out extra early (as it takes around an hour, and the bus runs back where I live once an hour at that time of night).
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Because they're money-grubbing whores and they know the students will pay their ludicrous prices because they didn't plan ahead.
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Likely for the convenience of having the book that you need for your class available and searchable by the class and professor, with the added benefit that the university gets to make money off of it that way.
Yeah, humanities books are generally priced more reasonably (as the professors aren't asking for huge, thick textbooks in most cases), but some of the professors make up for it in volume (thankfully none of mine have done that).
Yeah, my experimenting with tablet drawing was fun (and some parts are easier, once you learn the interface - erasing and redrawing, especially), but I still think I'm far better at pencil and paper.
Gah, I need to get a new pen so I can go back to practicing that. I've got some stuff that I want to draw that will be absolutely ridiculous to try and do with a mouse.
Agreed, agreed, and agreed. I think I could teach uni courses, but I'm not sure what I would actually do.
Hell, I've even found myself posting less - this past week has been a pretty sharp spike in activity for me.
I find it really hard to focus on actual work when I'm clear-headed. I distract myself with other things because they're more interesting, and I never get around to the homework - whereas it's a whole lot easier for me to pin an idea down and just do it when I'm in a somewhat affected state of mind. Obviously being drunk or half-awake is bad for quality, but a little sleepy or tipsy generally means I can concentrate on a single thing and get it done.
How to be apoliticianphilosopher 101.
Bahahahahaha
They're tedious and annoying. I get that it's an important concept to understand, but I hate them with a passion because they are quite possibly the most annoying thing I have ever done with mathematics.
Indeed. I like to get someone who's good at those sorts of things to give me a hand with it, as it makes the process simpler (because they can tell you what's good and bad to put on there, and give specific advice, not just the general advice you see on the web and hear about from other people).
50k. I recently hit a little over 22k (with ~3-4k words, iirc), so we've got quite a long way to go.
This is by far the most confusing thing that I've seen since that one time I skipped a week of Diff Eq and we started doing complex linear algebra bull**** again. Not sure what you're going on about, dude.
This is very true. You'll never surprise us unless you do something like only post a few sentences and then never respond.
It is a lot of fun, but you really need a good group of people to play with.
As far as good bard songs go, anything by Alestorm.
ex is really cool, but it's not easy to "get" even if you know about derivatives. (I mean, it's easy to accept, but the why is a bit more of a challenge, and that's probably what you care about)
You could always try to cut it yourself, though I don't know how much you trust yourself with scissors.
Or you go during March when the weather is reasonable.
If AT told me to put his name back correctly when replying to him on here, then I'd fix it. Perhaps begrudgingly.
Bahahahahaha
Solder smoke is fun. And by fun I mean it invariably ends up in your face somehow.
This I would like clarification on as well.
Yeah... hell, I've even found myself responding less than I used to.
I would suspect she means in Vietnam, rather than the UK. Conversational English classes in England do seem a bit silly, though.
This seems the most likely - that or ludicrous prices on even the smallest amount of styling (which I remember from the barbershop I went to when I still got my hair cut).
ION: I don't know why I bothered to show up to class today. Abbott lectured for an hour and a half on file directories and permissions (which are not only extremely simple, but also thoroughly explained in the reading he wanted us to do before this class). I'm pretty sure everyone that qualified for that course is quite familiar with how a slash works, but thanks for telling us anyway.
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A few odds and ends.