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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: February 25, 2015, 10:37:15 am »
It would be possible.

Less sure about feasible. Or other things, like reusable. But you could do it.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Patch 5.1 - Open the Gates
« on: February 25, 2015, 10:13:41 am »
We actually just spent a good handful of pages talking about how badly veigar just got kicked in the reproductive organs, heh. Starts around here, goes on for a fair bit. The tl;dr version is that veigar just got shat upon.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: February 25, 2015, 10:01:35 am »
Quote from: greatorder on February 25, 2015, 06:53:01 am
Not with sound, but electrical signals possibly. As said above, though, it's not something you can just shoot at someone and they'll go homicidal. I mean, you could try to simulate an adrenaline rush (so the decision making part of the brain is running on minimal) then just do enough stuff to really piss them off.
Uh, maybe not specifically with odd frequencies, but almost certainly with sound. Sound is a physical phenomena that interacts with other physical objects -- it being able to reshape or alter your brain is certainly a viable possibility. Surviving the process, or the relative cost efficiency of that process compared to just cutting open the skull and tinkering, is another question, but eh.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 25, 2015, 09:50:30 am »
Still causes pain... does it? Or, perhaps more importantly, would it? Lorb was almost certainly talking about the robots in that dollar store spare arm thing -- and the development of a different ethics regarding harm when gratuitous physical alterations do not, in fact, cause harm -- but I'd rather imagine that by the time we reach that point in technological development, being able to just flat turn off the pain reaction for humans will be a possible, possibly trivial, action. Hell, I'm pretty sure we already can (beyond anesthetics, anyway), it's just an incredibly clumsy process.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 25, 2015, 12:56:06 am »
Potato, potahto. It's often functionally the same thing, just with one it's more likely to land on hundreds (upon hundreds) of people.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 24, 2015, 11:57:10 pm »
Quote from: Truean on February 24, 2015, 11:21:34 pm
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Re: robocalypse: Nah, that's not how programming tends to work. The robot apocalypse will occur not because they hate us, but because they loved too much.

Re: Problem solving: Naaah, we (as in society in general) have actually mostly solved it -- it's called ignore the incredible minority of people who actually have a problem. Sticking your fingers in your ears and going "La la la la" really loud while a negligible (in the sense of it being able to be neglected without society collapsing, anyway) portion of the population is suffering is a solution. A fairly terrible one, but hey. It's fairly effective, and apparently arguably better than people actually reacting to the issue, if the article that sparked this discussion is anything to go by...*

You want to know the real problem that's on the horizon for waste management, though, look no further than water shortages. It's somewhat of a terrible thing to say, but gender issues in regards to bathroom facilities are incredibly small potatoes compared to that.

Though there's a non-zero chance they'll get "solved" in the process of correcting for that. There may be a point in the not-so-distant future we literally can't afford to have gender separated bathrooms.

The future is dank.

*Though, to be clear, I'd personally say just roll with people going into whatever bathroom the please, from a legal and general enforcement standpoint. We've got actual laws that cover anything that can go wrong with that, and societal pressure can deal with the rest of it. The motion referenced is mindbogglingly stupid.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 24, 2015, 10:39:48 pm »
And every 200th flush, it lets out, in a tinny, digitized voice, a quiet, "kill me..."

I wonder if there's actually a sustainable market for toilets that beg for death, and how one would go about cornering it...

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 24, 2015, 10:17:59 pm »
E... liminate?

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 24, 2015, 09:24:58 pm »
There's also just going over to unisex bathrooms of normal (relative to current usage, anyway) size, which apparently work out well enough in some places. I'd probably wager the biggest issue (though not nearly the only one) with multiple individual ones is, well, the plumbing. Piping takes up a pretty hefty amount of space, last I checked, and the more you have to spread things out and make redundant systems the worse everything becomes cost and effort wise. It's a pretty non-negligible logistics and engineering issue.

I mean, you can work through that problem, but if there's a less burdensome solution...

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Other Games / Re: Might and Fealty
« on: February 24, 2015, 08:50:01 pm »
... for those interested, you can see a thread for the alpha test here and the last B12 thread here.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 24, 2015, 08:41:57 pm »
Uh. Huh. I must be more out of it than I thought -- it's been a while since kneejerk visceral hate has really pinged off for me. But that one got me a lil'.

Because sweet goddamn fuck criticizing people because they'd rather be feeding their fellow human beings instead of fucking murdering them should not be a thing that happens.

Definitely a bit of an anger reaction, there.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 24, 2015, 07:43:19 pm »
No real telling without more info, heh. I see similar behavior pretty often with some of my relatives when they're not really sure how to help someone out (they think need helping, anyway), and have recently read/heard some kind of (pseudo)medical jibberjabber they don't really understand. It can be a sort of clumsy, kinda' painful(ly awkward) attempt to help out. Sometimes.

Also possible es el loco, o'course. Das ist always an option.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: February 24, 2015, 07:34:11 pm »
... watching battle replays, I see low-twenty hits... quite often. Especially against otherwise squishy humans. It's particularly common with calvary charges and whatnot, but you see it often enough on plain crits (or whatever those higher end hits are on non-fatigued critters) and fatigue-boosted hits and whatnot. Just about any human with a two-handed weapon is going to manage it with non-trivial regularity. Being able to straight kill a shapeshifter in one hit will definitely make the major shifter troops (jaguar warriors and skinshifters) fairly significantly squishier. The difference between one hit and two is... pretty big.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Patch 5.1 - Open the Gates
« on: February 24, 2015, 06:31:22 pm »
Sooo...

... anyone else expecting some kind of Bard/Shyvana grudge match? Because with a name like that it sounds like it has to be a thing.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: February 24, 2015, 06:11:20 pm »
Kinda' wonder if that means N9 jaguar warriors are going to become a thing.

Also poor skinshifters ;_;

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