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General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck
« on: March 29, 2013, 07:56:59 pm »
That'd be 'cause she's glowin'.

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That... that thing they're sitting on. That... vaguely asymmetrical thing. It's beautiful ;_;

Boxes are neat, too. Particularly like the throwing star tops :P Or I guess flowers if you're being a boring old fuddy duddy. Which is to say they're retroactively ninja stars now and you're welcome. It looks like there's still space for a top on the one on the right. Katana? Or I guess one of the shorter ones or something more exotic, but still. Ninja themed origami boxes of awesome! 95% guarantee to not contain poison gas.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 29, 2013, 07:21:07 pm »
Dream brain has apparently decided I have an urge to climb around battleship sized bunkbeds... and eat some chicken nuggets. The latter of which I have!

So, uh. Breakfast time.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 29, 2013, 04:06:08 pm »
... noticed today that wall sockets look kinda' horrified. S'actually a little offputting.

They should make smiling ones the default or... something. All it'd take would be swapping which side the flat end is on the bottom hole... thing.

Anyone know if ink is dangerous to put on the covering of an electrical socket? Tempting to make them happy instead of of "Oh god wat".

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 29, 2013, 02:52:22 pm »
Yeah... usually the GML is a bit of a chump. Unless DG took invisibility away from it recently? Normally the critter pops invis and completely marginalizes itself. S'kinda' hilarious. Invis did get a bit of an un-nerf lately but I think the damage malus is still out in full force.

... I wonder... oooh. Yeah, that'd do it. Dude got Tricks of the Trade in one of the recent versions, which means he's only ("only") toting a 35% damage debuff when invisible. Which means that he basically got a 35% damage buff, heh. Dude's hitting harder these days. Assault/overpower has always hurt pretty badly when he's not nerfed himself into triviality, though. Especially if he gens with a good sword/shield combo.

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... why is it that the skin is so often the best part, anyway? Especially with birds, but it applies to other things too (potatoes, pork rinds...). Still look at people like they're crazy when they take the skin off chicken or turkey. And then usually swipe the stuff because damn if you ain't eatin' it I will!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 29, 2013, 12:47:13 pm »
That. Also, you're apparently pretty much never going to be working with the people that think lawyerin' is an admirable job. Those ones seem to not get in much trouble or need much help on the contract front.

Kinda' like teaching only you're dealing entirely with irate parents.

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So with that in mind, why is it that a 'sexy' female character is a male sexual fantasy, rather than a female self reflection fantasy? Why can't it be both? Are we scared to admit that women have sexuality? Or am I missing the point. I mean lets be honest, I am a white heterosexual male aged 20 to 30 who is financially doing alright. If anybody is going to misunderstand how discrimination works and need a break down of the situation, I am willing to admit I am a prime candidate.
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It's got a lot less to do with being afraid of female sexuality than it does with how much of a detriment modern body image often is to just that (there's just... vast tracts of text related to this, from what I understand. Reams of it.). Along with how unhealthy it usually is, how frakking unobtainable, how etc., so forth, so on, and continuing. That's a whole other can of violently wriggling worms and seriously something of a scope that could stand its own thread, because gods know it's garnered enough literature over the last few decades. Hell I'm relatively certain we've had threads on that subject, or at least have had it come up several times in varying threads.

It can theoretically be both, though. Just... usually isn't. It's a helluva' subject.

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*scratches head* Probably to some degree? It's hard to say... how fucked up body image, especially for women, is is a topic that extends pretty far from video games. A lot of VG stuff is only marginally exaggerated beyond what the more general media ideal seems to be, yeah? Someone who actually pays attention to that sort of thing could probably say yea or nay with more certainty.

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Well, yes, but I was thinking more about the less stiletto-y heels. Like, uh. Normal ones? Not quite knife pointed, just frakking impossible to walk comfortably in. I think my mind is getting confused and wanting to say they have some sort of name beyond just heels? Just woke up, brain no worky ;_;

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Not sure about expressly like Bayonetta, as I've never played the game or particularly noticed much media related to it, but I'd rather say being able to shoot people with your heels are a universal appeal.

Not necessarily the... the pointy ones that I've forgotten the freaking name of how the hell do you do that I mean it's been a long damn time since I've tried wearing any and let me just say those fucking things are miserable but still -- shooting something with your heels is something Bond would do, honestly. S'just something a tech-y, capable gadget user would do, yeah?

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General Discussion / Re: North Korea Preparing For War
« on: March 29, 2013, 01:12:12 am »
... little bit late to the party with that second one. Just a bit. Y'know, five, six decades. Lil'bit.

I'm honestly kinda' surprised they still have stuff archived from 1950, t'be honest. Especially public facing. Kinda' neat.

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"The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice."
-Marcus Tulius Cicero
-106 B.C.
Pretty words. Unfortunately distanced from the reality of historical record (you can stuff a lot of bias into a text and still pass Cicero's heuristic :P), but that's a topic a bit better suited for a different discussion. Poor thread's derailed enough, really.

Historians do tend to try a lot harder than a lot of folks, though, which is certainly admirable in its own right.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 28, 2013, 05:38:58 pm »
I... think you should be fine? If I'm remembering the correct GRE, I don't recall them being reported as particularly strenuous. Could definitely be misremembering, though.

Not that a surprise "Important Test" is a good thing or anything, o'course. G'luck!

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General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck
« on: March 28, 2013, 05:36:39 pm »
Hnn... doesn't that technically mean that just the stable ones post-date fef? Would insinuate that the phenomena itself was around beforehand, just that individual bubbles (and presumably the dreamers within?) were transient.

Which might tie in a bit with the whole excessive ghost cleaning thing. They might not have been able to linger before Fef talked the wrigglies into mucking things up. Maybe.

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