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Other Games / Re: Electrohiccup Giveaway
« on: October 21, 2013, 06:18:59 am »
About six hours to go. Fairly sure everything's updated, but folks might want to check and make sure they're where they want to be on the lists, heh.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 21, 2013, 06:16:11 am »
Dream brain says: The first time you kill someone by twisting their head clean off their shoulders, you must go and get it the fanciest hat on site, to make it special.
Being fair, the dude took two shots to the chest, one to the back, and a bullet right in the bloody head and went on to murder my father (who had acid blood!) before having his head caved in by repeated blows with a pistol and torn off "just to be sure". At that point, like. Trophy. Yeah? Yeah.
That was also an oddly cerebral dream to have ended so violently. Lots of talking. Which I'm rapidly forgetting, but I don't think I'll be forgetting violently killing an evil supersoldier Mr. Spender.
Being fair, the dude took two shots to the chest, one to the back, and a bullet right in the bloody head and went on to murder my father (who had acid blood!) before having his head caved in by repeated blows with a pistol and torn off "just to be sure". At that point, like. Trophy. Yeah? Yeah.
That was also an oddly cerebral dream to have ended so violently. Lots of talking. Which I'm rapidly forgetting, but I don't think I'll be forgetting violently killing an evil supersoldier Mr. Spender.
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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: October 21, 2013, 12:57:24 am »
Beyond murder porn, it's also a form of tobacco and a couple of different verbs. Nothing like having a single word with four+ different meanings and no alternate spellings.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: October 20, 2013, 10:59:45 pm »
Your roomie has not learned the subtle art of setting the thermostat to 65F and leaving it alone, apparently.
Well. Setting it to cool to that temp, anyway. Colder than that... AC can bugger off and stop wasting energy. That's what house coats are for.
... wish I could justify doing that, m'self. AC's set to cool to like 74 or so. Frakkin' energy costs.
Bright side being! Forecast is saying it'll be highs in the low seventies by this next sunday, here. Bloody finally.
Well. Setting it to cool to that temp, anyway. Colder than that... AC can bugger off and stop wasting energy. That's what house coats are for.
... wish I could justify doing that, m'self. AC's set to cool to like 74 or so. Frakkin' energy costs.
Bright side being! Forecast is saying it'll be highs in the low seventies by this next sunday, here. Bloody finally.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 20, 2013, 09:59:08 pm »Err, I live in NYC and I've never encountered ticks? How does a person such as myself exist? I sit in the park, go in the subways, be near random dogs, etc.Pure and unfettered luck. Also, hell, I live in freaking Florida, I've actually rumbled through swamps and forests and etc., and I've never actually gotten a tick on me. Few pets have, but not me. For all that the buggers are pervasive it's not like they're mosquitoes and you run into them every time you go outside.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Song of Sigs Edition
« on: October 20, 2013, 09:28:12 pm »
Ouch.
Don't suppose you've got a deletion restorer whatsit available?
... also, uh. How? Is... is the button for permo-delete and copy on your keyboard close together for some ungodly reason?
Don't suppose you've got a deletion restorer whatsit available?
... also, uh. How? Is... is the button for permo-delete and copy on your keyboard close together for some ungodly reason?
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 20, 2013, 07:30:14 pm »
... considering one of the sweden vectors was imported turtles...
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 20, 2013, 07:27:06 pm »Quote
Bird-facilitated introduction of ticks and associated pathogens is postulated to promote invasion of tick-borne zoonotic diseases into urban areas. Results of a longitudinal study conducted in suburban Chicago, Illinois, USA, during 2005–2010 show that 1.6% of 6,180 wild birds captured in mist nets harbored ticks.tl;dr: Not even urbanization is going to save your ass, now.
Unless it involves shooting down every single bird in the country.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 20, 2013, 07:22:53 pm »Sweden it is.Oh hey.
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The first European record of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say), is reported. There are several records of Hyalomma aegyptium (L.) from imported tortoises in Sweden. Excluding other ticks imported on exotic pets and zoo animals, another 13 tick species are listed that may occur, at least occasionally, in Sweden. Because of its wide geographic distribution, great abundance, and wide host range, I. ricinus is medically the most important arthropod in northern Europe. I. ricinus is common in southern and south-central Sweden and along the coast of northern Sweden and has been recorded from 29 mammal species, 56 bird species, and two species of lizards in Sweden alone. The potential introduction to Sweden of exotic pathogens with infected ticks (e.g., I. persulcatus and H. marginatum on birds or Dermacentor spp. and R. sanguineus on mammals) is evident.
I tol'chu. Not inclusive.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 20, 2013, 07:05:53 pm »Here's a nice little distribution map... for some of the species. Everywhere inside the circles, as well as all the little dots.Ticks sound awful. Really awful.
All the better reason to move to somewhere even further north.
I hate to break it to you sir but how far North do you want to go? There's ticks everywhere out here and they do on rare occasions carry lymes disease. Ideally you would go to the tundra because even in places like the Gobi desert it's absolutely hoaching with the little shites.
And it's not all inclusive. For states goers, CDC's got you covered -- and nowhere is safe. You're going to be ranging pretty far to get away from the little bastards.
E: Ooh, here is some nice ones (there's four of 'em, for individual species of particularly high threat) for europe.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 20, 2013, 03:24:33 pm »Smother the little buggers in Vaseline. Blocks their spiracles and suffocates them, so they pop their heads out to breath, and just drop off.Yet another conundrum solved by copious application of lube.
Truly, God let Man make Lube for a Reason.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Song of Sigs Edition
« on: October 20, 2013, 02:59:06 pm »
... I've actually done that in the past. The broom, that is.
Brooms get the point across. Especially if you jab with 'em. Those bristles are prickly and painful.
Brooms get the point across. Especially if you jab with 'em. Those bristles are prickly and painful.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Song of Sigs Edition
« on: October 20, 2013, 02:10:43 pm »
"Helping", of course. In that magical way only the technically inept and intrusive can.
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General Discussion / Re: [ლ( ლ)] He comes (Happy thread)
« on: October 20, 2013, 12:33:29 pm »
Probably better to use rubbing alcohol or somethin' if you're going that route. S'considerably cheaper, last I checked, and probably better at doing what the vodka is intended to do. Wouldn't be particularly surprised if you couldn't find bulk containers normally sold to medical facilities or somethin', either.
Seriously though, look up flower pressing and, wuzzit, butterfly pinning something-something. There's probably techniques among practitioners of those hobbies for preserving leaves and insects. Less sure about doing it without stuff drying out, but... eh.
Seriously though, look up flower pressing and, wuzzit, butterfly pinning something-something. There's probably techniques among practitioners of those hobbies for preserving leaves and insects. Less sure about doing it without stuff drying out, but... eh.
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Other Games / Re: Terraria - 1.2 now out!
« on: October 20, 2013, 12:29:25 pm »
They definitely are. Spiky ball traps and arrow traps at the very least, probably most of the rest, too.
I'unno if it's a thing in SP, but in MP if you put spike traps high enough up, and trigger them from an (extensive) distance, the spike balls will only register to enemies. As far as players are concerned, they're not even there. Can do some work on large enemies or invasions, heh.
Also one of the more ridiculously overengineered (and deadly) ways of cutting grass over a wide area >_>
I'unno if it's a thing in SP, but in MP if you put spike traps high enough up, and trigger them from an (extensive) distance, the spike balls will only register to enemies. As far as players are concerned, they're not even there. Can do some work on large enemies or invasions, heh.
Also one of the more ridiculously overengineered (and deadly) ways of cutting grass over a wide area >_>