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I'm old, and I do not know who Tina Turner is?

Does she have something to do with the broadcasting network?

Some singer at some point. And I guess some other stuff? Wikipedia knows more.

And ah, I actually know of Papillon. Sorta'. Heard it mentioned a few times over the years. Just never read it.

Butterfly motif is a'ight. Had a dream once where swarms of butterflies ran around stripping people to the bone and then devouring the bones. It was colorful and awesome.

... okay, so maybe flesh devouring butterfly isn't the best thing to mark your feet with, but... whatever. Butterflies are neat.

No offense dude. But like every post I've seen from you makes you just seem terrified of everything. Seriously dude.

Worried and a lil'hyperbolic, yeah, and no offense taken. S'a bit apt, though there's really a pretty specific (couple of) spectrum(s) of stuff that I get like that with. Going around relatively unprotected in relation to the environmental issues in my area just happens to be one of them Rather take a few precautions and be able to ignore a lot of problems than have to be even more hyperattentive to avoid stuff (and still occasionally bugger up and end up with poison ivy rashes again or somethin'.).

And yeah, I know it's pretty viable and untroubled in a lot of areas, and you probably can get by barefoot in my area, I just... wouldn't want to. Especially if you like meandering about the more interesting places, which usually involve things that probably want to eat (parts of) you. Even being pretty careful with shoes I still end up picking things out of the soles/out of the feet fairly often due to stuff that's just basically invisible. Long-ish grass plus the drunk/idiot issue and various wildlife. And... avoiding the long-ish grass isn't really possible in a lot of places, heh, short of not going there at all.

... science probably disagrees. We're still stealing good ideas from the lil'buggers. Plenty of medical stuffs, number of construction and engineering tricks. Probably some other stuff.

Yeah... I actually kinda' wonder if they really do have vienna sausage over in Europe. The name would sorta' suggest it, but at the same time...

... I ate some, yesterday. It tasted like sadness. Not even like tears. Tears are okay. Or melancholy or whatever, no. It tasted like sad. Just... sad. Worst tasting edible thing I've eaten in quite a long time. The Ramen of meat, except worse. Europe's got better taste than that, right? That's what they say, I think.

People eat that stuff over here. It's pretty cheap. And it was pretty damned filling. Just... at a devil's price.

It's also quite depressing when we start talking about independence, separatism etc and then instantly get into the militaristic/war side of things. I thought we were beyond that bullshit. We're Western and it's 2013, not 1783.

... what exactly would you expect to happen otherwise? I mean, damn, it's not exactly common decency or whatever that's keeping Europe from collapsing into a brawl, it's that stepping out of line would get you squished. Same for everywhere else. 300 years can do a lot but human's still human and the way we operate over a large area is still more or less the same. Give us an "other" that has loot and the inability to stop us from taking it and we will. Individuals can operate differently but the aggregate effect is still pretty much the same, y'know?

S'one of the reasons that globalization and cultural intermingling is by and large a good thing. The less imaginary lines and tradition mismatches we have between one another the harder it is to dehumanize our fellow man and the less likely we have things turn to violence. Throwing a lot of imaginary lines into a previously integrated entity is a good way to foster artificial hostility, which would be one of the reasons why consideration of Balkanization and related concepts pretty much inevitably degenerates into talk of the inevitable violence that'd come from it.

Though I think I haven't posted in the upper boards since I joined.

Waking up at 2:42 AM meant I immediately and sleepily checked your stats out of curiosity. 35 times! 51 if you count posts in modding. T4 chat habits  have led to a tendancy to response to "I think" statements (my own included) with "let's go check, ahahahahahahaha". Playing an open source game with fairly readable code and a chat component does things to a person. The maniacal laughter is only sporadic. _{... filtering out the chat so I can actually play instead of compulsively check code less sporadic.}

... it's been a while since I've posted in the upper boards, too. Did fire up DF recently and have been playing several mods for the hell of it. I like that DFHack makes it much less effort intensive to make superfast minions these days. Not that [speed:0] (tootiredtocapslockbutnottootiredtotypethisheehee) was ever effort intensive but still!

... ones that don't need food, drink, sleep, or emotion still takes a little effort. Days I wish I had a better computer so that having enough critters to get anything done at more than a painful speed didn't turn the game into a screaming FPS morass from hell. But oh well! I can get over 20 or so nowadays, which is nice.

Did have an amusing thing a week or two ago where one of the mods implemented robots or something as a race without paying attention to certain fiddly bits. Cue nudity-embarrassment tantrum spiral and starvation for a species that's supposed to get by on just liquid-stuff and natively starts without clothes.

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I know it's terrible, but just ... what.

... someone on B12 had that as an avatar for a while, a ways back.