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2019-10-10, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thufir's Third Random Banter #224
Really enjoy how that's the one you took notice of. Anyway it makes omelette's fluffier and a little thicker, just put like a tablespoon of milk in there and it does WONDERS. I tend to put too much though. Once got an omelette about like... maybe three inches thick? It was good as **** though.
Yup! Progress, however slight, has been made!
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2019-10-10, 04:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thufir's Third Random Banter #224
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-10-10, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thufir's Third Random Banter #224
Pathfinder Tiara Magic.
Look everybody it's Sailor Pathfinder.
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2019-10-10, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not the detergent itself, but a lot of cleaning stuff comes in white plastic jugs like this, so it seems kinda weird. Might just be me.
I cannot remember seeing containers of milk larger than one liter around here, mostly cartons. Glass bottles have fallen out of favour since I was a kid and are now almost exclusively used by organic brands.
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2019-10-10, 04:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Peelee; 2019-10-10 at 04:52 PM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-10-10, 05:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I know like two pages of conversation have passed since this post but I figured I'd throw my two cents in anyway and agree. I don't even like watching Gundam or anything (there was one short series that I liked and it was still a little too heavy on anime cliches for my liking) but man, they're so much more varied and interesting than some of the other 'big robot of death' franchises out there (plus Gundam Versus is just a ridiculously fun game).
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2019-10-10, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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IT really depends on the series, given Gundam's so old it can cater to everyone. Want big dumb idiot super robot fights where the power of love manifests as a giant king who becomes a heart shaped laser and the hero and his girlfriend blow a heart shaped hole through the literal robot-devil? Watch G-Gundam because not one single word uttered here is a lie.
Want to be severely depressed and sad all the time because of the cost of human life due to the horrors of war, but also everyone is a girl trying to protect one small soft awful child? Watch V Gundam! Or don't! It's good but it's weird.
Wanna watch a series about the legacy of war and also the protagonist is trans because the studio wouldn't let Tomino just make them a girl, and also like mechs to have large dumb moustaches because of a really silly joke that no one but me gets? Watch Turn A Gundam. Please watch Turn A it's so good.
Gundam caters to everyone and thing, and primarily me. There's even series that are bad but fun, like Gundam Wing. Or series that are bad but bad, like Gundam Seed and everything related to it.Last edited by LaZodiac; 2019-10-10 at 05:29 PM.
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2019-10-10, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thufir's Third Random Banter #224
The one I've seen all the way through was 8th MS Team. I've seen bits and pieces of others that lost me for one reason or another (especially Gundam Seed, now that you mention it-- I think that one might have turned me off Gundam as a whole more than any of them. So many anime cliches.)
Also, isn't G Gundam the one where countries duke it out with Gundams that range from silly stereotypes of their country of origin to borderline 'man this is kind of racist'?
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2019-10-10, 05:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Seed is definitely bad enough to scare people off the entire franchise, yeah. 8th MS Team rules though.
I don't think any of them ever hit that bad beyond maybe the Tequila Gundam, but it's also meant to be parody in that regard. It's extremely good.
Absolutely.
Also hell yeah. I'm not intolerant of milk but it's always nice to see people who are who also just, straight slam milk down their face. Because it's hilarious. Most allergies are like "if I so much as breath this I will die" and Lactose Inteolerents are like "oh yeah this'll make me feel awful. Now hand my my ice cream back please".Last edited by LaZodiac; 2019-10-10 at 05:41 PM.
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2019-10-10, 05:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Honestly I'm just bitter because Armenia doesn't get a Gundam in G Gundam
I watched 8th MS Team a pretty long time ago but I remember digging it. It's also not as awful when it comes to female characters as some of the other Gundam shows I've dabbled in, which is a plus.
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2019-10-10, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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I mean, it's not really an allergy. Ingest too much of the wrong pollen and I die (in theory, I got my tonsils removed as a toddler because it nearly happened), I have too much lactose I feel terrible and you'll want to give it half an hour after I've been to the bathroom. I only bring it up because IIRC real lactose/diary allergies are a thing, just incredibly rare.
There are two toes of lactose intolerant people, those who'll avoid chocolate because they'll feel terrible, and those who'll scoff an entire wheel of Stilton because it's there. I very much fall into the latter category, when drinking milk it'll be in the largest glass I can find, I'll pay for it later but it's delicious. Some people straight up don't believe me when I tell them I'm LI because they've just seem me eat a litre of cheese.
I did try cutting diary out once, but life's too short to avoid it.
I do take tea and coffee black, but that's personal preference. Now please give me back my ice cream.
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2019-10-10, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, giant robots/mecha/bipedal tanks. Is there anything else that manages to be so impractical yet such a beloved idea?
(I suppose hologrammatic displays are another one.)
Not that I'm complaining, of course.
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2019-10-10, 06:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 07:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Tanks can't swing chainsaws in their hands if they don't have hands, ergo mechs are the height of practicality.
It is rather funny that humans have all of these advantages over other animals in endurance, flexible design and tool usage but humanoid robots are awful.
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2019-10-10, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's practical insomuch as it provides a massive defensive advantage. Attacking… not so much. Which is, of course, where issues lay.
Limitations of code, alas. A robot simply can't adapt naturally to even something as simple as putting one's foot down for a step. It's not the design's fault so much as it is the computer's.Last edited by DataNinja; 2019-10-10 at 07:08 PM.
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2019-10-10, 07:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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No one tried the obvious solution of towing wooden buses full of troops held up by hot air balloon behind biplanes, which makes me sad. Single use troop carrier dirigibles were the future everyone needed (except the people inside them probably.)
Edit: Computers can beat us in Go and are going to take our jobs, can't figure out this walking trick. Leading to the bad future where we do manual labor and they run the stock exchange.
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2019-10-10, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Giant robots are ostensibly war machines, and "stupid but awesome" generally describes the losing strategy in war. Rome very nearly got wiped off the map because they cleaved to honor and glory against Hannibal rather than engage in "cowardly" tactics like ambushes from favorable terrain. They also absolutely loathed Fabian tactics of harassing the enemy line because it was also "cowardly" and not even close to awesome.
It's also a major reason that Rome survived the second Punic war.
Trench warfare was actually the most practical strategy for the time. It made your defensive line essentially unassailable, which is why everybody used it.
The problem is that if everyone's line is unassailable, there's never an end to the conflict. And since everyone was using trench warfare, weeeeeell...Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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2019-10-10, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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There's nothing awesome about needlessly clinging to honour over tactics, is the thing, so that's very Stupid but not Awesome. Stealthing across a battlefield to sneak attack the enemy army entirely? Now that's stupid AND awesome (but also smart since things can be dumb and smart at the same time).
Nothing is good about perpetual war, ergo trench warfare is not practical, nor is it stupid or awesome. It's just Bad.
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2019-10-10, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
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2019-10-10, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Glory is, by definition, awesome. And most awesome things are also very, very stupid (using a too big for you, for example)
Giant robots are the impractical kind of stupid. See square cube law.
Stealthing across a battlefield to sneak attack the enemy army entirely? Now that's stupid AND awesome (but also smart since things can be dumb and smart at the same time).
Nothing is good about perpetual war, ergo trench warfare is not practical, nor is it stupid or awesome. It's just Bad.Last edited by HalfTangible; 2019-10-10 at 08:19 PM.
Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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2019-10-10, 08:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 08:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-10, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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