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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: January 03, 2013, 08:50:11 pm »
Quote from: wordnik.com
hyperthesis
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

    n. In ancient prosody, interchange of quantity in two successive places of a logaśdic series, so that in one of two lines metrically corresponding, as in strophe and antistrophe, a long is apparently transferred to a position before a short, which it would normally succeed, or a short transferred so as to exchange places with a preceding long. See polyschematic.
    n. In Philol., a transfer or “'attraction” of a letter from the syllable to which it originally belonged to another syllable immediately preceding or following it; orthographic transposition, or metathesis: thus, in Greek, μέλαινα is used for μελανια.
    n. In the Gr. Ch., a fast in addition to those regularly observed.


Also some sort of research group in New Zealand.

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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: January 03, 2013, 08:38:25 pm »
Otherwise it's a hypothesis.

HYPOTHESIS, DAMNIT!
Finally, someone remembers the poor Scientific Method! I can't be the only one to send a card on it's birthday, right?

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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: January 03, 2013, 08:32:27 pm »
I mentioned a theory that light in the early universe was faster than light is now.

I was then called a creationist for saying that.

Dafuq is that logic!?
It's only a theory if there's some sort of testable evidence to back it up :|

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Forums are back up! Yayifications!

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Of course, that left the problem of being cold sometimes. So one of them decided that the most logical course of action is to rip the skins off other animals and wear those instead. That way, you have the best of both worlds.

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Other Games / Re: Games you wish existed
« on: January 03, 2013, 04:27:10 pm »
Honestly, I think a Harry Potter MMORPG would be pretty sweet. It should emphasize problem solving and teamwork over "kill X amount of monster Y and bring Z drop". You pick your House and gain experience in working with different areas of magic.

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Dude, put a language warning on that O_o

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Other Games / Re: Steam Holiday Sale 2012
« on: January 03, 2013, 04:01:23 pm »
It usually seems that way during major sales. Guess the servers must be busy.

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Other Games / Re: Minecraft - It has blocks.
« on: January 03, 2013, 04:00:36 pm »
Glowstone itself justifies the Nether completely I don't know what you're talking about. The quartz is used in advanced redstone recipes.
You have an entire realm for just one light-emitting block. And some fancy redstone components, i guess.
The nether is just so... Bland.
Nether fortress blocks? Blaze powder? Ghast tears? Infinite source of gold (via Zombie Pigmen drops)? Hell, infinite source of lava! Plenty of stuff in the Nether, even if you don't use it.

ETA: And I totally forgot about the fast-travel thing. Thanks, Andir.

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Installing Neverwinter Nights as we speak. I've heard quite a few things about this game :D

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Is birthday. Hooray for the inevitable march toward death!
You have survived another trip around the dreaded DayStar!

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Welp. The winner of Binding of Issac + Soundtrack has not gotten back to me, so now we move on to second place!

Majestic7, please contact me so that we can begin the gift-giving process!
Stiiiiiiiil waiting...

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Other Games / Re: Space Engine - A downright gorgeous universe simulation
« on: January 03, 2013, 01:14:26 pm »
Would still be infinitely more effective than good-old sub-light speeds.

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I just discovered that some screenshots of the old Adamantine Space Elevator thread have been replaced with screenshots from... Kerbal Space Program, I think? This is basically the most hilarious thing I've seen all week.

How did you even find that out in the middle of a thread from 2010...?
...Re-reading things?
Pretty much this. TVTropes linked it under Eldritch Location so I decided to check it out again.
Seems like a lot of the original images are broken as well. That's a shame :(

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 03, 2013, 04:30:15 am »
Thank goodness, DrPoo finally stopped drunk posting.

That stopped the day after :P
Well, it was annoying me so I put you on an ignore list. Now you're off it :)

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