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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 11, 2012, 12:08:12 pm »
What choices are we looking at here?

Probably either Evangelion, Code Geass R2, Madoka, or something lighter like Lucky Star or Azumanga Diaoh.
Azumanga is super.

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Other Games / Re: Non Gamer Girlfriends and Portal...
« on: February 10, 2012, 02:10:25 am »
My friend is a gamer, and watching him play Portal 2 when I've beaten it before is a terrible experience, because I am bad at hiding my emotions, and he can tell that I'm dying inside when he passes by an important place.

I am thankful for co-op, where we are cooperatively stupid.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 09, 2012, 09:34:50 pm »
Was thinking of starting Idolm@ster if I have time. Seems only right to, considering I listen to the songs. Meaning Aoi Tori on repeat all day, with a smattering of other Idolm@ster songs mixed in that are just OK.

Should also finish Madoka.

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Creative Projects / Re: +The Engravers Guild+
« on: February 08, 2012, 11:39:23 pm »
There are tools called smudgers (I'm not sure of the actual term), which is basically extremely tightly rolled paper shaped like a crayon that you can use to smudge your shading. You can use paper, but you need to be careful since it won't normally be as precise without the narrow tip the smudger would have.
Blending stumps.

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We are doing convolution integrals and I have no clue what is going on.

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Creative Projects / Re: +The Engravers Guild+
« on: February 07, 2012, 09:53:43 pm »
I've been meaning to ask but keep forgetting; what brand of tablet do you guys generally use and what program(s) do you guys use?
From what I've seen, if I were you I'd honestly just start off with the much cheaper and frankly more educational pencil and paper for drawing instead of splurging on a $150+ tablet that you'll never adequately paint with because you have no technical foundations to work on.
I don't know, I believe technical foundations carry over between tablet and pencil/paper. If you're good with one, you're pretty much going to be perfectly fine switching to the other.

The main boon with starting with pencils is that it's cheaper, easily available to use, and familiar to most.

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Life Advice / Re: Relaxation?
« on: February 07, 2012, 05:02:56 pm »
http://www.instructables.com/

Put the booze money into supplies for starting a project that interests you.

When I had more time on my hands, papercraft was also mad relaxing, and very cheap to get started with. Actually, pretty much any sort of hand-crafting puts me into a good mood.

Learning an instrument is also a great way to bum out and relax.

I also usually find cooking to be relaxing, but I act like a moron when cooking, so it's probably more fun than if I just settled down and cooked.

I also watch anime, but tastes aren't very universal.

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Life Advice / Re: where circut?
« on: February 07, 2012, 01:54:03 pm »
^ I agree.

Assuming the buzzing is more than the ambient sort of buzz that's typical of electronics, I would recommend returning the TV and recommending the client to another person.

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Life Advice / Re: where circut?
« on: February 07, 2012, 12:30:06 pm »
CRT stands for "cathode ray tube."


Patchy, that sounds sensible, but how do you suggest discharging the high voltage components?  There's still going to be a pathway, well, through your body, just not through your body and off to the ground.
Discharging a capacitor can be done by directly shorting out the two terminals with a wire, but that's not safe at all in situations where you have a capacitor storing large amounts of energy. It will make sparks if you do this. Look up discharging capacitors on youtube. Safely discharging a capacitor requires a resistor.

Current will follow the path of least resistance, so I think you'd want to do all you could to increase your resistance or get as close as you can to an open circuit by using an insulator, until the capacitors are discharged. You'd ground yourself for voltage-sensitive components, but for high-voltage things, safety is the better way to go.

But I still think it's a terrible idea to mess around with it if you don't know what you're doing. I don't even know what I'm really doing. For some perspective, 0.1A is lethal.

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Life Advice / Re: where circut?
« on: February 07, 2012, 10:41:04 am »
Yeah, I was going to say.  This is obvious, but ground the fuck out of yourself first if you're going to do anything with capacitors... and probably look up additional advice on the internet as to how to do it, because I last dug around inside electronics a rather long time ago =/
I think in this case, you'd actually want to avoid grounding yourself at first, to avoid having an electrical pathway through your body. Once the high voltage components have been discharged, then you'd be okay with working on it.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 06, 2012, 12:26:32 am »
Katanagatari is extremely well done, though that ending is
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Same with the Battle Royale manga.

On a somewhat less grim note, Summer Wars and The Girl who Leapt Through Time are both excellent IMO. Any other suggestions?
You might enjoy Dennou Coil.

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Life Advice / Re: Experiences with College?
« on: February 04, 2012, 12:30:49 pm »
As a fellow dane i can confirm that college/university is a super good thing. I've only been in for half a year, but despite the mental wall that is calculus and mathematics (half of which i'm positive i won't ever lay my eyes on again), i'm still loving it.
For me, calculus is something that I see everywhere now that I've taken it. It honestly changes how you observe things, in my opinion.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: January 28, 2012, 04:45:33 pm »
Yes, I'm doing it. I'm almost there. I'm at episode 104 of Hokuto No Ken, just a few episodes away from being done with HnK.

Now I just need to forget that HnK 2 exists, so I can live my life without the torment of feeling obligated to watch it.

I have no idea how you guys marathon shows like you do, I get mentally exhausted after three eps.
I mostly stick to shorter series, so it's not too bad for me.

Manga kills me though, I usually continue reading them on the computer until I get nauseated and force myself to stop.

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General Discussion / Re: Parents or Childfree?
« on: January 25, 2012, 01:08:42 am »
I don't hate kids, but the idea of trying to raise a child scares me. I'm terrified at the possibility of spending years and years raising a child, only to have them hate me as a father.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: January 24, 2012, 07:35:32 pm »
Nisemonogatari/Bakemonogatari - I love this dialogue to bits
If you liked Bakemonogatari dialogue, consider watching Tatami Galaxy as well.

Something I realized about Tatami Galaxy is that if I watched the weekly episodes as they were released, rather than waiting for the series to finish then watching all the episodes at once, I might not be as fond of it. The repetition works well when you watch it like one long movie, but probably isn't as liked when you have to wait a week for each episode.

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