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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 31, 2015, 08:13:55 am »
Bankrupted and sold to china. That's the results, just like every school in the country will spontaneously self-immolate if jeb gets elected.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 31, 2015, 12:17:12 am »
TrumpxCongressional Stabbing Frenzy. I'd ship it.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 30, 2015, 11:19:47 pm »
Try to go to sleep at a decent hour (between 8 and 9, in this case). Body decides that's a signal to wake up <3 hours later, perfectly alert, with a headache, and unable to go back to sleep. Days like this make me wish I was born in an era to access to another couple of centuries worth of medical research, so I could get up, take human biology back behind the shed, and put it down like the sick dog it is. Frustrating to the point of tears.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 30, 2015, 04:08:33 pm »
Canada, iirc. Hence mention of the other citizenship... somewhere or another. I think. If I'm not mixing people up.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 30, 2015, 02:04:08 pm »
... this is where someone makes the "Six of one, half dozen of the other" quip, right? I... I'll throw myself upon the sword, I guess. I don't want to, but it feels like someone has to...

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General Discussion / Re: If the world suddenly reversed rotational direction over the course of a week...
« on: August 30, 2015, 01:44:36 pm »
It's a bit over 1600 km/h, looking at it, not 1k km/s. Only about a half km per second. Doesn't really change that much, though :V

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General Discussion / Re: If the world suddenly reversed rotational direction over the course of a week...
« on: August 30, 2015, 01:25:01 pm »
Relatively certain a shift over the course of a week would kill pretty much every macroorganism on the planet. Ruddy thing's spinning too much, too fast, for that rapid of a deceleration and re-acceleration to not bugger everything right into the stratosphere,* possibly literally in some cases. Maybe over a course of a century or two it'd be survivable. Maybe not.

Nothing good, in any case.

E: If you're looking for some answers beyond the cataclysm, this site has some interesting broad-stroke responses.

*It would be roughly equivalent to a semi-truck slamming into a solid wall and then getting rocket-punched back in the opposite direction. Almost nothing of the truck would survive. Also that period in which we lost a substantial amount of our magnetic shielding (when the spin reached a near stop) would be radioactive hell. Hope everyone's underground getting crushed by tectonic upheavals then :V

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 30, 2015, 01:22:03 pm »
It's a name. Stevia is more a word proper, being a species name, kinda' like "human". Given it's actually a kinda' useful sort of plant, you could even conceivably spin 250 words on its wonders.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 30, 2015, 12:48:01 pm »
... it's so rare to see someone actually cheering increased taxes and a rise in joblessness. Nice, though. It'd make a lot of the world a lot more comfortable in the face of that rising productivity if more folks were okay with that sort of thing.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 30, 2015, 10:54:15 am »
I'unno if a revived reagan would actually help. Dude may be too liberal for the current republican electorate. I guess the revival would be caused by all the current candidates being sucked into a frothing flesh orgy and exploding into thousands of little reagan spawns, which would litter the lands and then sprout up into fully formed Nouveau Reagan conservomonkies. They would then run as a reaganite abomination collective.

It would be very interesting. You'd see a drastic about face on conservative opinions of radical biomedical experimentation, since God would have clearly rescinded any opposition to meddling with the human form.

E: Edited to fix typo. Also to recognize the truth that a republican flesh orgy would froth with age, fat, and bombastically concealed shame.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 30, 2015, 09:49:44 am »
No, no. Keep things reasonable. Europe doesn't have a space program worth mentioning, but they do have navies. Give 'em a goal they might actually be able to achieve. Probably couldn't get the stuff out of atmo to begin with, anyway.

... or better, shanghai whoever manages to get the gold up, melt the gold back down, and then shoot it to the moon. Two birds for the price of one.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 30, 2015, 09:43:31 am »
They should melt it all down and dump it in the mariana trench. Give people a reason to get off their arse and get down there.

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Other Games / Re: Videogame Storylines: Bad or built for their medium?
« on: August 30, 2015, 07:33:42 am »
It... depends on the game. Obviously enough? Story can be built for the medium or just plain good depending on the writers involved. There's not really anything stopping anyone from making an action game or whatev' with a decent plot -- look at some of the (newer) castlevanias, ferex. Plenty of the newer beat-'em-ups (Devil May Cry series and similar such material) try for a plot, as another example, and from what I understand (not actually playing them, not having the system or the specs to experience most), some of 'em even do pretty alright.

Kevak mostly nailed the normal issues, though. Combine normal sturgeon's stuff with th'fact that most of the people involved are often not exactly what you'd call good writers, mix in coordination issues, and most of the material in question is going to be pretty shoddy, even relative to your normal revelation ratio. Not anything particularly unusual 'bout that, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 29, 2015, 04:21:18 pm »
Depends a fair bit on where you are*, but most of the places I've lived ~$2 USD/day is pretty doable, and indeed able to manage fairly healthy. I didn't, due to some dietary issues, but still. Not particularly enjoyable, and bumping it up to $3-4/day (or ~100 USD/month, in other words) makes things a lot more comfortable, but it's pretty viable if the local prices aren't too jacked up. Multivitamin or whathaveyou probably wouldn't hurt, either, but those are frankly pretty cheap.

*From what I've seen, food price wise you can expect a larger urban area to cost around 150%** more than smaller ones or rural areas, ferex. Which is still well under 500/month, but that's obviously only a fraction of living costs. Not too sure about regional or national variances, for what that's worth.

E:**Well, the places that aren't ripping you off, anyway. And providing you avoid the pointlessly marked up name brand junk, o'course. The usual stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone know how to burn a video file to a dvd that can play in a DVD player?
« on: August 29, 2015, 01:23:21 pm »
... just so long as they give consent, and maybe use cases instead of very breakable dvds. Shards would be very painful let loose in nooks.

Hint: You may have missed a comma :V

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