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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: March 01, 2015, 09:58:43 pm »
Huzzah!

Frumple pretty much always approves of what is probably the longest and most prolific piece of crossover fanfiction the world has ever seen~

E: Though what's that one from around 8:50 from?

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: March 01, 2015, 09:52:45 pm »
... they're talking to the vigorously thrusting crotch axe, not the enlarged mechanical phallus euphemism.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 01, 2015, 09:30:35 pm »
You're not considering the predominate association outside of the game, apparently.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: March 01, 2015, 09:28:50 pm »
Quote from: Furtuka on March 01, 2015, 09:24:16 pm
Zone of the Enders would like to have a word with you :V
It can talk to the oversized heat axe I've strapped to my mecha crotch.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 01, 2015, 09:26:09 pm »
... yeah, it's the population that's the rub. Florida has more people in it than both puerto rico and honduras put together. By the tune of... well, a bit shy of a multiple of two. ~19m vs ~8m + ~3m. Y'all gon' have to step up yer game if you want to step with the big drug addled overheated landmasses.

@ Tawa, why do you think? Aren't those the holy assassins or something along those lines?

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Other Games / Re: The "Forgotten the name of this game?" thread. Ask here to prevent clutter.
« on: March 01, 2015, 08:59:59 pm »
Maybe divinity: original sin?

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: March 01, 2015, 08:55:35 pm »
Quote from: Furtuka on March 01, 2015, 01:17:21 am
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-28/mechatsuku-contest-finalist-videos-preview-5-potential-mecha-anime/.85469
Bleeeh. First was cars with arms and legs, which, like. No. Just... no. The animation almost approached dynamic and bouncing off rooftops could be amusing, but. Cars with legs. No. Sweet zeus those things looked godawful.

Second was almost interesting -- the mechs vaguely bug look approached appealing... and then they started moving and fighting it was just kinda'... I'unno, it felt almost lazy. Iffy CGI et al. Swords of Greater Compensation +3 and whatnot, no thanks.

Third... the tentacley thing was kinda' appealing, design wise. Everything else was kinda' shite. ... especially characters and that freaking backwards arm blade thing I've basically never seen used in a way that didn't look terrible.

Forth arguably had the best mecha design, imo, but the apparent primary machine committed the heretical mistake of having no feet. You can't have a proper mecha if it doesn't have feet. Preferably nice and bulky ones. Characters also looked kinda' eh.

Fifth... almost? It felt like it tried harder than the first three, but the mech design still looked kinda' bad and the fight choreography I saw looked just lackluster -- especially the bit where the machine with the maces apparently cut through something.

Jimmies unrustled :(

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 01, 2015, 08:35:24 pm »
Quote from: Flying Dice on March 01, 2015, 07:49:38 pm
What's up with this Florida Man guy, he's the strangest super hero I've ever heard of, always in the news for shit like this.
The secret to Florida Man's powers is extreme heat and humidity, and incredibly copious amounts of drugs.

... it's not actually a secret tho

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 01, 2015, 02:43:55 pm »
The magnificent emu chicken, basically. The only chicken whose color is as black as their vile omniphagic heart.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: March 01, 2015, 01:02:25 pm »
Ah, if you're looking for brain research going wrong, you'd probably want to look back... hrm, don't quite remember the distance. 60s, 70s? Somewhere back there. When they were doing lobotomies and electroshock therapy and whatnot -- back when the psych field was actually kinda' monstrous fairly often. There was some pretty terrible stuff.

Thing is, though, even at its worst it wasn't really wide spread -- it is incredibly difficult to actually screw with the brain en masse, even if you're using biological or chemical weapons, even using the best of today's knowledge and, from what I understand, most of the better guesses regarding future capability -- and some of it actually did progress things a bit (we're considerably better at not screwing up brainzapping, ferex). And nowadays we've got considerably stronger methodological constraints on how you go about things, which are mostly pretty well followed.

Basically, from what I understand given my interaction with the psych field (which is, as with you NS, not professional), the risks are not as large as popular fiction or whatnot would like to have one think. Not nonexistent, but the logistics surrounding it makes it unlikely to be an issue. And the benefits are nigh-on immeasurable. As I noted, we really can't afford to stay in a state of ignorance regarding how our brains work -- any damage knowing more could cause is almost certainly outweighed by what not knowing is causing, and would continue to cause.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: March 01, 2015, 12:30:35 pm »
Quote from: Novel Scoops on March 01, 2015, 12:22:32 pm
Give me a example of what happens when it goes wrong.
... the brain? Well, there's this list...

Admittedly it's not a perfect list, but it's about the best we have right now and getting better as the years go by, mostly.

If you're talking about something besides the brain going wrong, though, you'll have to clarify as I've misunderstood.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: March 01, 2015, 12:18:12 pm »
Uh, not even remotely? Bioweapons are... not prolific issues. I mean, they could be, but they're currently not. So curing them is disproportionate to the risk. Minds are something, well... everyone has. Making sure they're working well, fixing what ails them... that is also disproportionate to the risk, but in the other direction, y'know? Benefits far, far outweigh the risks.

There's just not many scenarios where ignorance regarding our most important organ is a desirable goal. We... really need to know more about what's going on in that thing. "Everything" would be really nice.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: March 01, 2015, 12:00:46 pm »
It's a possibility, just as it's a possibility no harm whatsoever will occur. It goes both ways, et al. And any method that is harmful without a counter will almost certainly be a high priority for creating solutions regarding -- any sort of thing will not remain a thing very long.

As I noted, what I imagine is most likely is that yes, harmful technology and/or methodology will be developed, but it will be massively outnumbered by the amount of beneficial ones. The sheer amount of problems we currently have due to not understanding how our brain works makes that as near a guarantee as you can get when making future-related WAGs.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 01, 2015, 11:26:12 am »
You might want to see a doctor about that, Ak. CD is a serious medical condition. More seriously, the reason is sanity and good sense. Keep at it.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: March 01, 2015, 11:04:48 am »
Quote from: Novel Scoops on March 01, 2015, 10:02:14 am
Does a better understanding of the brain worry you?
Depends on what you mean by "worry". Will it allow new means of abusing human beings? Almost certainly. Do I consider the potential negatives to outweigh the potential positives? Not even remotely.

It would be pretty difficult for the possible advances in neurology to cause more harm than good -- too many of humanity's problems are caused by not actually knowing what the zog our brainmeats are doing, and the potential benefits to cognitive enhancement are incredibly large. There's maybe some worries about what particularly corrupt individuals will try to do with that knowledge, but... hell, knowing more means knowing how to counter that, too. It's an apple with a gram of poison in it that also has instructions on curing that poison (and dozens of others that aren't in the apple) embedded inside.

... so the less clear answer would be, "No, not really."

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