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Like with dwarves, only pointier.
Dwarf spores just make more dwarves. Vampire spores apparently... infect people? According to the wiki page.

Vampire spores, man. Or "Wamphyri" spores, anyway. What I'm saying is that wiki page reads like the description of some of the more terrible fanfiction I've seen in my life.

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Have you read the Necroscope books?  Because that sort of thing goes on in them.
... vampire... spores? Spores? Vampire spores?

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Ha. That's the one bit of advice in that article I wouldn't follow if you put a gun to my head. If there were a way to change my bloody school email to be something disassociated from my name, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Well... maybe a throwaway account for formal stuff, I'unno. Damn sure wouldn't use something related to my name for a general use email address. Problem being I have a hard enough time remembering to check one email account, nevermind multiple ones :-\

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Sorta' depends on the situation. Normally I'd say greeting/text/sign-off is sufficient -- as you note, address/return address and date are covered by the program -- but depending on who it's from and who it's going to more or less may be necessary. Signatures seem to be a thing used in email only by folks in some sort of official position, ferex, and then often only when acting in official capacity (so you'll see one on, say, a legal notice or some sort of financial transaction or whatev', but possibly not something in-house.).

For what it's worth, this is what I've been using to first-time contact my teachers with questions this semester. It's a little muddly in places due mostly to local dialect ("I've got", ferex.), but more or less what I'd recommend for anything not hyper-formal:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shakeninja link is good ninjalink.

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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: August 13, 2013, 01:50:51 am »
... I'd disagree*, but it's definitely one of the better ones. Probably one of the few dozen tied for one of the top three spots. S'updated a couple times recently, though! Which is nice. There was a bit of a dry spell. Not that it's ever rolled in particularly quickly, but... still. Always nice to see updates.

*If for no other reason than "best crossover" is a category filled by like twenty plus fics for me, ha. I don't really try to construct a hierarchy, though. There's the good shit, the decent shit, and then everything else.

... that, and ever sorta' implies going forward, too, and it will be one-upped, eventually.

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Perhaps Dutchling just happens to know more about his uncle Takei than we do, hrm?

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Tried one of the Betas out a month or two ago. Very well designed game, but it is HARD. Highly recommended, though. Full version is supposed to come out today too.
Full version is out, yes. 8.99 on steam... 8.00 on the actual website. I, uh. I may have impulse bought. A little.

But. Game is intense. I'm definitely digging it.

Hammerwatch. It is multiplayer, very diablo inspired.
I've so far seen like no meaningful diablo inspiration at all :P

This thing descended from gauntlet so thoroughly
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Also it plays single player just fine, if delightfully brutal in such a state. Currently most of the way through the first level, I think, soloing around with a warlock (I'm loving the in-and-out poison kiting these guys have to do to survive). Have HP regen clutch going, but otherwise default settings. This thing is pretty damn good.

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this game trailer
Someone knows their target audience!

But no demo :(

Need demo to know if makes computer explode or not. Oh well.

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Other Games / Re: Bay12 Games Night!
« on: August 12, 2013, 02:54:37 pm »
I... wouldn't mind jumping in on a round of Terraria, providing nothing happens between then and now. Not sure how long I'd be able to loiter around for a Sunday game (I actually have to sleep this coming Sunday, ha), but providing it didn't start too late hopping in for a few hours would be coo'.

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I have less boob than some guys have pecs.
So does most of the female side of the species. There's, like, guys out there with bigger pecs than my skull.

All is good, though. All is good.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: August 12, 2013, 01:07:14 pm »
I never thought I would find myself defending Monsanto... I've got some thinking to do.
Ehn. Just decouple Monsanto (The Legitimately Evil) from the potential benefit of GMO in your head. GMO can be good without making M(TLE) less scum. You can fund GMO research and run GMO companies without being most of the downsides of capitalism distilled into a single entity. Pretty sure there's a fair few trying just that, really.

As for th'government control, well... better fickle than outright malicious, perhaps? Monsanto (TLE)'s the kind of corp I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see breed specific diseases into their product and then monopolize the cure (or some equivalent thereof). Bloody bastards really do try pretty hard to make themselves a caricature, some days :-\

Though I guess M(TLE) being what they are is somewhat tangential to the larger GMO subject. Eh.

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Well. Nale's dad just got major props from me.

Did... did we know about the
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before? I can't recall.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: August 12, 2013, 12:35:45 pm »
There is nothing more dangerous that screwing with our food supply without appropriate caution.
We've... been doing this since basically day one, poke thing with stick till blood comes out. GMO stuff isn't even a particularly notable thing regarding the amount of ways we [have screwed, screw, will screw] with our food supply without appropriate (or any, nevermind appropriate) caution. Small fish, really...

I'd say it hasn't killed us yet, but all those lovely signs showing things are ramping up to give a go at doing just that and, well. Yeah :-\

Which isn't to say throw caution to the winds or whatever, but singling GMO stuff out when all the other crap we do doesn't get similar scrutiny just. Smells funny? I guess. Unless it's part of a wider "stop fucking with things like idiots" program, which yeah, I can get behind that.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: August 12, 2013, 11:48:56 am »
It was a herbicide/defoliant mix that just happened to kill a shitton of people.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 12, 2013, 07:46:27 am »
... darvi and IO are still around. Irony shows up fairly often in OG, iirc. Think Darv's active in one of the other subforums, too. Aqui still posts every once in a while too, but it's definitely fallen off for 'im. So... no, they're still here?

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