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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 20, 2015, 12:53:16 pm »
Quote from: Jopax on August 20, 2015, 12:45:31 pm
It's not just about the ideas, it's about the need for said solutions. Just think about it. Why would the marines, a branch of the military specialising in naval assaults and operations have any need for a fighter capable of delivering stupidly small numbers of soliders way behind enemy lines.
... you do realize that the marines, and the navy in general, have a pretty significant air component, right? Naval assaults and operations nowadays can pretty easily involve a lot of flying stuff, and that's often handled in-house, so to speak, instead of involving other branches of the military.

E: Though the discussion is probably one better had... elsewhere. Armchair general thread, maybe, I'unno. This doesn't really have much import for europe, beyond noting what should be the obvious fact one should take anything said on milspec et al forums/websites with great heaping mounds of salt.

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Other Games / Re: The "Forgotten the name of this game?" thread. Ask here to prevent clutter.
« on: August 20, 2015, 10:35:39 am »
... could it be Gauntlet? I think they've released a new one within the last year or three, and are maybe gearing up to shoot out another?

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General Discussion / Re: Donald Trump's Narcissism Appreciation Megathread
« on: August 20, 2015, 10:25:33 am »
Quote from: smjjames on August 20, 2015, 09:14:05 am
It might not be the best analogy since nobody's died yet.
... well, none of the politicians, anyway. The sort of hateful rhetoric that's largely propagated by that general bundle of our political system is almost definitely getting people killed.

Case in point, we're already up about 150% on murdered transgendered folks compared to the entirety of last year, apparently, and we've still got a good few months to go. To the extent there's something fair about that, it's along the lines of 17 vs 12, iirc, but that still means the violent death rate per month has something like doubled. Maybe it's coincidental, but it'll be interesting to see if the rate drops back down after the campaigning cools off again.

Be interesting to see if the messages being spewed around are having an effect on things, really. Anyone want to take a bet that hate crimes have gone up since the campaigning started? There some place that's tracking that kind of information?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 19, 2015, 07:07:22 pm »
Quote from: Orange Wizard on August 19, 2015, 06:08:16 pm
Quote from: Frumple on August 19, 2015, 05:16:32 pm
That's how it starts, yes. Then the days pass, and the next thing you know you're watching Law and Order.
You make it sound like crack.
More like cognitive degeneration.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 19, 2015, 05:16:32 pm »
That's how it starts, yes. Then the days pass, and the next thing you know you're watching Law and Order.

Turn back, grak. Turn back, and flee with great fervor.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 19, 2015, 05:13:14 pm »
... y'know what we really need? Something like a swear jar. Every time someone makes a reference to xkcd, they put a dollar in the jar. Proceeds are used to fund the forum or somethin'. That sounds like a nice thing to have.

As for you, grak. You watched a detective show on TV. A live action one. And expected chicanery that wasn't of the pants-on-head variety. You have no one to blame but yourself.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« on: August 19, 2015, 04:08:17 pm »
... you mean the pages of your textbooks weren't made from gun cotton? What kind of backwards hellhole did you attend?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 19, 2015, 02:15:36 pm »
... the somehow, for what it's worth, isn't really surprising. Most churches I've seen have plenty of nooks and crannies, as well as many opportunities to isolate someone. Add in a sizable population of elderly (who by and large can't defend themselves, run away, or often even call for help) and you've got pretty good (so to speak) conditions for that sort of thing.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: August 19, 2015, 01:06:31 pm »
Nah... it's mostly that while there are unambiguously good mythical critters in japanese folklore, they're by and large not yokai, so far as I can recall. Little kami, other sorts of spirits, stuff like that. Yokai, as noted, are almost always either malevolent, massively irritating, or have some sort of trigger (ala the kappa food bit you just mentioned) that fires those two up, with very, very few exceptions (though there are some exceptions. They're just, y'know, exceptions.). Is why I'd call the closest equivalent to them to be the older tales of the fae. Yokai has a distinctively (albeit often mildly) negative connotation, from everything I've seen. It's telling that even in more modern stuff that has yokai presented in a positive light (or at least positive role), they're still pretty likely to be... kinda' jackasses, at their best.

Personally, I just don't bother translating it in my head, if I run into a translator that doesn't process the word into english. Yokai is a particular category of critter that doesn't really track terribly well to a single word in english, so translating it just leads to mild confusion, imo. Spirit would probably be closest, but you'd probably need to add dangerous or trickster spirit to that, something along those lines.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: August 19, 2015, 12:44:13 pm »
... this snowchild? That is used as a trap by another yokai. Or this one? That tricks (poor) people in winter and proceeds to steal all their food (which may or may not result in people dying :V).

Now I'm kinda' wondering where you ran in to that version, actually. Happen to remember the source?

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 19, 2015, 06:51:53 am »
Quote from: Morrigi on August 19, 2015, 06:48:10 am
Death lasers and particle beams are so much cooler, though.
Yeah, kinda', though I'd say KKVs are still pretty great.

Think the closet we might be able to manage right now is something microwave based? Pretty sure folks've considered orbit to ground energy transmission via something along those lines using more-or-less modern tech. You'd just have to point it somewhere besides a receiving station and it wouldn't exactly be the quickest thing in the world, but still. It'd kill people. Probably.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 19, 2015, 06:47:28 am »
Oh, probably. It wouldn't be doing any planet busting, but it'd be relatively easy to build something up there able to bust up a city or two. Probably not with death lasers, but rods from god are close enough, right?

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 19, 2015, 06:22:44 am »
Quote from: notquitethere on August 19, 2015, 04:48:42 am
There must be a cheaper way to blow up planets.
Well, there's a pretty cheap way to blow up* the earth, anyway. Literally free, actually. All we have to do is wait many million years until the sun expands and consumes it. You may picture an image of kenshiro pointing at the earth saying "You are already dead." at your leisure.

*More or less. Boil away/burn is close enough, right?

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: August 19, 2015, 06:15:57 am »
Quote from: Orange Wizard on August 19, 2015, 01:40:04 am
Isn't oni more of a generic "big monster" thing? Seems more appropriate to translate it as whatever it most resembles in a given setting. Usually an ogre, but whatever.
Mostly no. Oni is one of the few terms of that sort that actually seem to be pretty consistently used to (mostly) talk about a specific sort of critter. Those short-horned loinclothy critters. Suika (the touhou FD posted) is a bit of a divergence, really, and she still has the horns and some of the characteristics (size (because she very cheerfully turns gigantic), belligerence, monstrous strength, etc.). There's exceptions, of course, but it's a case of exception making the rule, from what I've seen.

And yeah, to the discussion, oni is almost always translated as ogre.

The yokai thing... I'm not really sure spirit would be a good word for it, exactly. The class of critter in question has a very strong predilection towards being either malevolent or, at the least, vastly irritating. Even the ones that aren't necessarily one of those two tend to have a trigger button of some sort that turns 'em that way. Spirit is a bit too neutral for the things... they'd honestly be closer to old school fae than just about anything. Is reason yokai usually gets translated as demon, basically.

As for akuma... that is more or less also demon. Just... moreso. Kinda' like the D&D distinction between demon and devil, I guess. There's nuances to it that don't really translate well to a single word english equivalent, though, iirc.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: August 18, 2015, 11:59:10 pm »
Well, the US military budget is a bit over a half a trillion, last I checked. About the lowest estimate I'm seeing for a death star is 541,261 trillion USD. So it would take a bit under 1,082,522 years for the US military to fund the star, assume they shut down absolutely everything and dedicate the entire budget to construction (which may or may not be a desirable goal, I'unno). No telling how much longer the actual construction would take.

... so no, the military budget of the USA can't really manage a death star. The thing's bloody expensive.

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