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Death or dishonor! _{or a new map or something, maybe}

Seriously though, them breaking themselves on a single city can do wonders for building up some high level doomcritters, providing you can keep everything alive. Then you can march (some of) them out and start squishing things.

Out of curiosity, though, why no vamp sword on nofy? Got plenty of metal for it, and I think you've got access. Couple of those handed out could help a lot on defense. Or offense. Pretty much anything, really, that 10% post-battle heal cuts attrition pretty hard. 'Specially when you stack cannibalize on top of it, when it's an option.

Nah, I haven't seen teachers mis-mark tests very often. 'specially given the prevalence of scantron (machine checked bubble-in thingies, whatever they're called in other places) and digital tests, these days. Question or answer's sometimes worded poorly enough th'teach strikes it off the graded stuff, but that's about it.

Well this exploded while I wasn't watching it. Of course my sads was ignored, but the debate turned into a wildfire

It kinda' didn't. Discussion moved past it pretty quickly, and it was a good 6-7 hours ago since anything was said on the subject. That said...

Violence DOES preclude that, and I think that is absolutely wonderful. Because ANYONE can be violent. ANYONE can define their own "good" with violence.
Better yet, others can then be violent to THEM. Its a self-balancing system.

... violence can't define a good. It can't really "define" anything, because it's inherently and immutable deconstructive. It's breaking things, not making them. At best, it's things that need to be broken (and occasionally, that need legitimately exists), but you cannot create through violence, only (at best) through what comes after it. Confusion over that is one of the reasons the states' justice system is so bloody buggered -- punishment is seen as a goal in itself.

And no, what construes the good is a separate issue from th'fact that violence cannot contribute to it. The issue with violence and justice, whatever justice is defined as, is that violence removes the possibility of action (possibly action that is precluding other, positive, action, yes, but again, the violent act itself is negative). Regardless of what justice is seen to be, violent action cannot contribute to it. It's pretty much literally impossible. You cannot create via destruction. You can break something and then rearrange it into something else, but it's the act of rearranging that makes the new thing, not the act of breaking. Even whatever is left after being broken is defined by its existence afterwards, not the act that breaks it. Violence is occasionally a tool used to prepare for creation -- and has merit precisely to the extent that it does and no further -- but it cannot, itself, create.

... in any case, just action -- justice -- is no more a ridiculous concept than right action or good action. Close enough to synonymous that the distinction borders irrelevant. It's not defined by people in positions of power, it's defined by the system it's framed within -- and those in power only have a limited capability to decide that system. The individual has more control over how they frame the world (which system they operate within) around them than pretty much anything short of their base physical construction, for all that they almost always exercise that control to a limited extent. The concept that justice can only flow from the powers that be is faintly ridiculous.

I've... I've just now noticed that I apparently get annoyed when I 100% quiz/tests/etc. I guess it doesn't feel right to do well when there's not some failure involved? Like it's too easy. Perfection means you're not encountering difficulty. I mean, extra credit or curvature or something bringing it up to 100+ is fine, but actually missing nothing is, just.

It's like the test is poorly designed or something. S'almost... insulting? It is a strange sensation. Just... just mark one off at random or something. Max score of 99/100. That'll do.

Also noticed a couple days ago my default reaction to learning I topped the class on a test is "Shit." Bit of a cringe involved. Happened plenty in the past, in retrospect, but I think this is the first time I've actually noticed it.

... stuff can synergize, yeah, especially if it's stacked up close to each other.

Quote from: GiglameshDespair on February 21, 2014, 08:39:01 pm

All my earbuds are ones i got free from an airline. They are atrocious.

I thought airlines charged like $15 for those things.

Seriously, just put out $25 or so for a decent set of headphones. Lasts longer, sounds better.

Ehhn. It's been rare I have even good headphones last more than about three years (and the, like, one that did did so by dint of what are apparently called cable ties. It was in three pieces by the end.). El-cheapo earbuds are like maybe five bucks, sometimes less, and tend to last me a good 1-2 years before something happens to them. 25$ for 3 years vs 10-15 *shrug*

S'nice to be able to stick 'em in your pocket, too. Not very easy to do that with a decent set of headphones.

Earbuds are pain incarnate.

It took a good year or two before they stopped hurting, yes. Some folks just have tiny ear holes, too. Poor folks.

... you just had to actually say it, didn't you Xant?

Now it's cursed. Murphy's comin' for 'is due.

Just you watch. The slam jam for that thing will be poorly done dubstep.

This... this is perhaps the most confusing thing I have ever eaten. Applesauce, mixed with crunchy fluffernutter (or, well, peanut butter and marshmallow cream) and chocolate syrup. It... I...

... I can't tell what it tastes like. And the texture changes with every spoonful. It's not even bad, per se. Or good. Kinda' sweet, but not nearly as sweet as it should be, given the ingredients.

This is a very strange thing I have created. I don't think I'll ever do it again. At least not without a decent blender to normalize the texture.

E: Okay, now my stomach/mouth is kinda' refusing to let me eat more. It has officially gone "Nope." Lesson learned: Mixing too many textures makes your tongue rebel. It doesn't even taste bad, or have any unpleasant, on their own, textures involved. It's apparently just that fact that there's so many, and like half of them not sequential, that's making the physiology freak out a little.