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Aw crap, I missed knight MZ, sharp MZ, and the cat/pet phase. Welp, since I'm incredibly proud of my pets I'm going to spoiler it up with a bunch of pictures of em.

Oliver, a rescue dog who was 5 when we got him. He weighed 30 lbs when they took him from his last owner, and he's now at a healthy 65 for his size. He could hardly walk when we got him and he has a few bone deformities and joint problems from malnutrition, but he's the best natured guy in the world. The weird thing is you could take food right out of his mouth and he wouldn't care, despite food being tied with his dad (not myself) on the top rung of the importance ladder.

Here are a few from the ride home from getting him. He enjoyed sticking his face in the camera, so sorry for the low quality.

And here's one of him at home a few days later. While they really fattened him up after rescuing him and before giving him to us, he's still just skin and bones in it.


And finally here's Niya, our other Shar-pei. We got her from what was said to be a reputable breeder in the state of Georgia, but it turns out that any old puppy mill can call themselves a reputable breeder in Georgia. We've reported them and since then those breeders have gone under, and strangely another has cropped up with the same address but under a different name. No one takes animal abuse seriously. Anyway, Niya's adorable but afraid of everything, probably because of all the treatment she had to go through as a puppy for mange and worms and everything else.

Playful stance beside a dog-bed

Puppy-in-the-window look


I'll post my tortoises at some point in the future, but I feel like being overbearing about one species of pet at a time is sufficient 

Prediction: Jar Jar Binks will become the protagonist of the third trilogy.

What little relevance MLP has to the thread does not warrant the amount of rage and table throwing it incites. Let's use other examples instead or make the point some other way.

With that said, does anyone else find it strange that Disney can somehow both make AND ruin your childhood? Granted the Disney phase and the Star Wars phase were a few years apart, but I was definitely still a child for both.

Quote from: Shinotsa on October 30, 2012, 11:55:46 am

I've been following this thread for a bit because I love Tolkien and have read everything including the posthumous compilations of his works, but I'm not really being convinced by any of these. They sound pretty interesting, but I'm worried they'll lack the immense depth of Middle Earth. Tolkien literally lived in his worlds, crafting the languages as carefully as he crafted the landscape and the history. Is there anything else that has that sort of depth? Alternatively gentlemanly wizards or over-the-top dwarves would work, but for me hilarity comes as a close second to epic.

The extent of his world depth is relatively uncommon for fantasy - world-building on that level is more of a sci-fi thing in general.

But many, if not most, of the stories obtain at least the world-depth of LotR, if not the full set of his books. And others go even further, although it might be in areas other than linguistics, which isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea.

Well the linguistics was more of an example of just how invested he was in his work. I suppose the only true way to see if any other fantasy realms strike my fancy is to hunker down and sift through a few. Granted it might just be a safer investment of time to finally tackle some Discworld.

It's still inefficient. You should put people on moving hook, and Hitler would just slit their throat as they go by, like a huge chicken slaughterhouse.

Can we remove and preserve a part of him, and have that do the killing? As long as we're going for the slaughterhouse method, could we not just have his severed hand holding a blade that people pass by? This would remove the sleep requirement and vastly simplify calculations if the end-point of the conveyor line were also the disposal area.

Yeah, I don't know that we all need to see somebody hoisting their mainsail.

I don't know how well a mane-sail would work. I mean it's pretty fluffy, but I'm not sure if it'll catch much wind.

The sad thing is I've had professors post flowcharts less coherent than that.


Also, that is the single most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. I approve heartily, though I humbly request the addition of more ships. I am more of a junk man than a sloop man, but a ship is a ship, and as such any will do just fine.