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If you can be excited about it, be excited about it. Positive emotional reaction is almost always the better one, and definitely the better one in the given situation.

Cannot... _{but... must...}

... O'Sirus only hates it because she isn't actively sucking on it. *suggestive eyebrow waggle*

Quote from: penguinofhonor on March 05, 2014, 12:49:42 am

Nobody older will tell you this, but they were all dicks in high school too.

Really? Doesn't seem that bad-my mom and dad said there were many shenanigans back in their day, also taught me the notes on smoking and public 'settling of qualms' (ie open fistfights which stop when blood is shed or one backs out; like the duels of old?) and lectured me on 'this is not a good thing to do and instead do "x/y/z" or other alternatives...'

So I don't do that and stuffs are happy.

Mm... the thing to take away from that, though, in the context of this discussion, is that stuff was happening back in their day enough that they had notes to teach you. It really is more or less how PoH and co. has stated. There is the occasional one (like your parents) that will actually fess up about what they got up to, but there's definitely a lot that don't. I've personally seen more of the latter than the former, for what little that's worth.

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Older (mostly older, anyway) folks have been decrying moral decay basically since the earliest of written history. If I'm not misremembering, there was even crap like that involved with some of the verbal traditions that go back even further. And yet the next generation comes along and gets by well enough that they live to start doing the same thing. I'd say it makes one think, but there's really not terribly much to think about. The nostalgia filter is strong with most humans, heh.

Anything is better than bright sunny (blisteringly hot) skies *salute*

Trends toward it a bit, but nah, fondling's pretty unspecific. It's usually paired with something specifying what is being fondled. Same with groping.

And yeah, not necessarily, but it's a much stronger implication than with fondling, which is usually no implication at all.

Spirecraft jumpshiiiiippppssss

They answer all problems. All of them.

For eyes, you use precision jumps to blow up all the guard posts in the system. Then the eye goes splat. The researchable spire starship is really good for that. Raids and the normal suspects (siege, bombers) can also do really well depending on the post you're blowing up. If you're abusing micropauses (well, pausing in general, really), you can very easily coordinate a simultaneous system-wide strike on all the guard posts. It's glorious~ One second there's nothing in the system, next second a full cap of starships have been dropped like the proverbial hammer, with functionally no transit time.

Jumpships are the best thing. Right up there with spirecraft scouts, which are ridiculous and wonderful, especially when used in conjunction with jumpships! _{and kinda' lag inducing when you've stuck one in every single system on the map >_>}

I was wtfing more at the price. Where would it cost $48 for a thing of juice?!

Presumably it's one of those with gold flecks or something floating around in it, I'unno. Maybe it's cut with raw cocaine. Rich people OJ, is what I'm saying, sold at fancy rip-off-the-idiots-with-more-money-than-sense shops.

Or I guess inflation, sure. I think I'd rather it be orange juice laced with speed.

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press post six times, get interrupted every time argh

Y'know, Avis's post a couple pages back got me thinking a little. Most of it not really of note, but one conclusion I came to is the realization that, as bullshit excuses to violate the sovereignty of another nation goes, ethnic tensions -- while more transparent than thin air, as pretty much everyone (fortunately) seems to realize -- is actually somewhat, very subtly, brilliant.

With WMDs -- with a lot of things, really -- there's, y'know, proof. The thing's existence or non-existence can be shown, eventually, which vindicates or condemns the invasion to whatever degree. But this? Russia's excuse? Sufficient ethnic conflict to warrant preemptive invasion will be practically impossible to prove or disprove in retrospect (because it's subjective as all hell, especially before actual wide-scale violence breaks out) and, even better (for a given definition of better), if it didn't exist before, it probably will by the end of all this.

For all that it's flimsy to the degree it's a farce, Russia's created a situation where, come the future, they can claim the violence and enmity they're close to certainly in the process of kicking off as justification for doing so. It... it's almost... elegant? In an absurd sort of way...