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Ooh, the static comparison. That's fun~

I've changed my personal text a few times. The bit under the avatar. Last time back in '12! Everything else has been the same since before I ended up on B12 :3

Actually been consistently using Frumple (or a variation on it) since something like '97, '98, at least when it's available (which is usually). Was first name I ever used in multiplayer, back on the original Diablo. Username's probably older than some of the people reading this :V I like it. It's comfy.

Cheers to folks that find something they like better, though. It's to be supported and whatnot.

Also goofist of friendship, gooey {M}

Or come back to gooey, guni >_>

And hey J. GC now, I suppose. It's always nice to see the title change again :3

Mm... yeah, I've got it RSS'd. I, uh. I haven't checked in on it since July of last year, though. My feed tells me I'm 219 strips in arrears >_>

Elf dude is actually more interesting than he starts off as, imo, it just takes a loooong while and some backstory before that starts fleshing out. At least with the last point I checked. It seemed like he actually wasn't that evil at all at least compared to his family :V

And yeah, the kobold's great. The unlocking scene with the spirit critter was faintly amazing. Owl/kobold interaction earlier on was nice, too.

I read you biomancer wannabes babbling your arcane gobbledygook, and all I hear is the new headlines of tomorrow: "Yet another father impregnated by their half-clone daughter! The incest epidemic continues!"

The future is bright.

And if somebody destroys history, people will make up a new one. It's how nations were born in the first place.

Hnnooo. That's how cultures were born, more or less. Nations were first born when some jackass decided to draw imaginary lines on the ground and kill anyone that disagreed with them. Cultures are a distinct, if often related, phenomena.

But nah, I'm pretty sure we've been losing languages and cultures on the net of things over the last few decades -- certainly the number of active and wide spread ones is diminishing fairly rapidly. Globalization is a hell of a drug.

For hell's sake, is this the same bullshit that leads some people to cry against interracial marriages "because then everyone will be brown"?

Zog if I know. M'mostly incapable of getting inside the head of idiot racists. Also never actually met anyone that spun that line of reasoning that was actually giving a damn about cultural intermingling or whatev', though. S'all been pretty straightforward bigotry looking for an excuse, in my personal experience.

... though that's an argument for interracial marriages, imo :V

Sure. Don't have one.

There's no such thing as a foolproof security measure that involves actually doing anything. The point to using TOR and encryption and such isn't actually protection, per se, it's frustration -- making domestic spying agencies spend more money and man hours to collect the information in question. Because a sufficiently bankrolled and motivated organization will be able to get through whatever method you choose to use, period. That's basically the golden truth of network security, intra- or inter- net. What folks actually try to do is make it as irritating, expensive, and time consuming as possible to crack the system, in order to make doing so sufficiently inefficient the entity in question decides to spend their resources elsewhere (and allow a larger window for manual intervention, of course).

The ideal behind the TOR et al movement is that if the practice disseminates enough, domestic spying on any large scale will become fiscally inviable and, well, bugger off to greener pastures. It's not actually to make an ironclad online presence, because you, y'know, can't do that. It's more or less entirely impossible. All you can do is make it as difficult as you can and hope whoever's on the other side isn't motivated enough to bust through.

Since when does the US political system not result in riots? There are riots happening here now.

Heck, the last wave of riots in England was because of a police shooting. Does that sound familiar to anyone else?

Maybe the difference in consideration is due to the UK being so much smaller than the US? Like, geographically. And population wise, for what that's worth. A riot that covered all of britian would only destabilize a relatively minor portion of the states, in terms of land and people covered. So riots seem like a smaller deal vis a vis the states.

... one of these days, we're going to find a societal problem that actually has only one cause. I will take that problem, plate it in gold, encrust it with rhinestones, cover it in bioluminescent fungus, and enshrine it as a monument to invisible pink unicorns. It will be called, "The Only Thing Sillier Than Thinking A Problem Only Has One Cause," or Totsttapohoc. Given the name, it will probably have to be sited somewhere in south america.