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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: October 29, 2012, 10:26:36 pm »
Good thing I don't live in some ultra-Orthodox household then, huh?
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: October 29, 2012, 09:32:14 pm »
kaijyuu beat me to it. Curse my sudden impulse to see if a forum game I wanted to start had already been done here!
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: October 29, 2012, 09:25:09 pm »
The most risque desktop background I have!
Spoiler: It doesn't hold a candle to FD's :P (click to show/hide)
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General Discussion / Re: [Pyon] Eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh? (Happy Thread)
« on: October 29, 2012, 09:20:27 pm »Ah. Of course.That's the Outer Me. Mortal me is just a young human.I thought you were already many thousands of years old, according to B12 fanfiction?If I get that old, I fully intend to do this.See, this is what I need to do when I get older. Also, grow long mustache and braid long hair into it.Hell yes.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I hope this is real. I really, really do, because then I think I may feel better about humanity.
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General Discussion / Re: [Pyon] Eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh? (Happy Thread)
« on: October 29, 2012, 09:11:28 pm »I thought you were already many thousands of years old, according to B12 fanfiction?If I get that old, I fully intend to do this.See, this is what I need to do when I get older. Also, grow long mustache and braid long hair into it.Hell yes.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I hope this is real. I really, really do, because then I think I may feel better about humanity.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: October 29, 2012, 09:10:36 pm »I just remembered the reveredtours LP of dwarf fortress, only to find it died without a conclusion.The sad fate of all too many LPs.
* he says, knowing full well he left several to die
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 29, 2012, 08:53:24 pm »
*You hear the laughter of thirsting gods*
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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: October 29, 2012, 08:37:50 pm »
Neurofibroma, apparently O_o
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: October 29, 2012, 08:04:16 pm »According to Wikipedia and basic math, our hypothetical Hitler would have burned through every MG-42 ever made (assuming no repairs or replacements were done on the already-fired guns) in 277 days, give or take.I was imagining some sort of set up where they are shot and fall into ditches. Possibly onto conveyor belts. Plus, it's possible the gestapo could just toss our mass-murdering friend another machine gun, then replace it while he gets on firing.With WW2 era machineguns, you're going to have to replace the barrel roughly once for every minute of constant fire. Add that to the number of people who wouldn't be killed outright and you're reaching problems. Once you consider the fact that he'll need to stop shooting periodically for the bodies to be cleared away and you've got a serious issue. It takes time to move hundreds of mangled corpses, time that the genocidal lunatic on-the-go doesn't have.It will fail less frequently, and can be quickly and easily replaced. Guns can jam, misfire, warp from overheating, and I don't even know what else.But imagine how many people he can mow down with a machine gun. If they line them up, He could do some serious damage, enough to make up for the replacement times.
Still, that takes time out, not to mention that there is no assurance that every body will fall into the conveyor-trenches. It's much easier to simply have a new set of knives laid out each morning than to pass Hitler a fresh MG-42 every minute of his waking time.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: October 29, 2012, 07:21:49 pm »I HAD a catInternet has trouble transmitting actual warmth and cuddles. For the time being, anyway.you have a cat!
you all have cats!
except those of you without cats
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: October 29, 2012, 06:54:08 pm »
I just realized that I messed up some of the tenses in my previous post. Drat.
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: October 29, 2012, 06:44:33 pm »
Keep in mind, those are Texas Republicans, who can hit a whole new level of crazy than you'd expect.
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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: October 29, 2012, 06:38:49 pm »
It will fail less frequently, and can be quickly and easily replaced. Guns can jam, misfire, warp from overheating, and I don't even know what else.
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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: October 29, 2012, 06:35:49 pm »How many people could Hitler kill if he had a machine gun with functionally infinite ammo, and a conveyor belt running people toward him, assuming ~2-4 hours of sleep per day?Even with infinite ammo (and how would that work exactly?), the gun would still require frequent maintenance and part replacement. A simple stabbing weapon might be slower, but is more durable.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 29, 2012, 06:32:22 pm »
Do y'think misko got the message yet? 