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General Discussion / Re: "Why don't women like nice guys?"
« on: November 15, 2012, 05:45:12 pm »
Actually, the human species is arguably the most proficient romancers on Earth. That's just a similar statement to saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, really. [DA]But... if we're the best there is, how can we say we are not the best that can be? Perhaps it is not mankind that is flawed, but romance.[/DA] Totally want to see this thread morph into "What is love?" One of my profs during the BA did a collab book on the philosophy of sex and love. I... really need to actually read it, heh.

It does seem that we're not really built for long term monogamy (serial monogamy seems a bit more likely, really), though. Most long term (over... what is that phrase, seven year wandering eye? Something like that.) marriages/partnerships have jack-all to do with romance in relation to their longevity. They tend to be founded in other things; economics, supporting a family, social mores, comfort, etc. I sometimes wonder if normalized partner sharing would result in a happier world in general, m'self; benefits of a long term relationship while still having the passion of short term ones. You don't really need romantic involvement to happily live with someone not blood related and of your preferred gender, after all.

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General Discussion / Re: [Pyon] Eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh? (Happy Thread)
« on: November 15, 2012, 04:59:20 pm »
Half-orc Monk, FD. Int was probably a dump stat, or at least pretty low.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 15, 2012, 03:14:21 pm »
... izzat a Vulture? It'd explain a bit of why Russia's apparently such a pain in the ass to invade if they've got one of those.

Well, sorta'. Physics and all. Mechs are terrible weapons platforms in real life, really, which is a damn shame.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends Updated! - End of Season 2
« on: November 15, 2012, 03:08:43 pm »
I... might be convinceable. If it's not SR... or Dominions :-\ And/or you wouldn't mind a fairly terrible player :P

ARAM (Proving Grounds?) might be interesting if we've got the numbers for it.

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Other Games / Re: Anamnesis, text-based RPG TBS awesomeness
« on: November 15, 2012, 03:27:11 am »
Ah, so I did find it, but there's apparently a minor display error or something with the projects menu for units with a resistance over... something or other. 10,000 was displayed as just 20 when I was selecting a unit to upgrade something >_>

With what you confirmed, I loaded it back up and actually tried to upgrade... and the hideout was done in a week. Right, s'working. Though my main dude has currently accumulated a rather ridiculous (I guess... it's at 133 or so.) amount of weariness :P

It's amusing being so awesome things literally just up and die in your presence, though. "Cheatventure Two does nothing for 1680 damage!"

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Other Games / Re: Anamnesis, text-based RPG TBS awesomeness
« on: November 15, 2012, 01:19:03 am »
So, uh. Where'd you find the character's stats? I found the bit that controls how they're displayed, I think, but it doesn't look like it's the parts where that are actually used to do stuff in game.

Arkhe and suchlike was pretty easy to find, but th'stats aren't coming along quite as easily :-\

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General Discussion / Re: [Pyon] Eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh? (Happy Thread)
« on: November 14, 2012, 11:56:47 pm »
... so, uh. May I ask what was the conclusion about the matrices? I'm not much for mathematics, per se, but education practices intrigue me, and I actually have no idea how that's involved with it.

Or, ah. Was... was that some kind of arcane mathematician innuendo? I know not the secret handshakes of the math departments.

Also, have fun ;D

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General Discussion / Re: "Why don't women like nice guys?"
« on: November 14, 2012, 10:34:30 pm »
As a virgin in college, I pretty much just want to get laid right now, that relationship stuff can come later.

Its practically treated as a rite of passage into manhood these days so I figure might as well get that under my belt.
Nah, that's (probably) not actually what you want. You want to get laid in a specific manner in alignment with certain cultural norms, otherwise you'd either indulge in zoophilia, procure the services of a prostitute or offer yourself as one, resort to something illegal and/or immoral, or just aim for some incredibly casual one-night stand thing, probably involving copious amounts of alcohol (at least for the first try). At least three of those options are relatively simple and don't really involve much effort.

As MZ says, just fuckin' is kind of a trivial issue when it really comes down to it, from everything I've seen. Most folks are just after a fair amount more than just that (safety regarding STDs, if nothing else). Can't say I blame 'em, really.

S'why getting laid isn't a very interesting question. It's when you add the conditional modifiers that things get more engaging as a discussion topic!

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 14, 2012, 05:22:55 pm »
As a general rule, I refuse to consume anything that looks strongly like something a young puppy vomits.

Chocolate milk is the only milk. Mayonnaise is right out. Etc., so forth, so on.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 14, 2012, 04:45:59 pm »
Information is a scary, scary thing. Sudden and strange kind of internal dissonance from the realization that I could probably track you down with the zodiac information you just gave, RK. Two wood hares with a fire dog and a metal tiger as children? That's got a be a pretty limited set of individuals, on a country scale.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 14, 2012, 04:27:45 pm »
Bacon and driving your enemy before you. It's like Conan meets soul food. Is there a better combination in this world?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 14, 2012, 04:24:32 pm »
That... that...

Toady totally needs to code it in that elephants stampede away from !!pigs!!. I guess that's all. That they actually set pigs on fire and sent them running towards enemy armies is indeed a bit of a WTF moment.

But hell, if it works...?

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Other Games / Re: Two-player games?
« on: November 14, 2012, 04:03:20 pm »
ptw.

Can you do a website for retro games?  Tekken?  Killer Instinct, Street Fighters.
A lot of the old console games (I think up to PSX? Certainly up to SNES/Genesis, as well as handhelds up to... GBA? Possibly limited stuff for the DS emulators, I'unno.) have emulators nowadays that can do net play, though it might take a lil'finaglin' to get it functioning. Most of those were two player games, when they had multiplayer at all :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 14, 2012, 03:16:10 pm »
Pretty sure it's just fire.
Nah, they do lightning too, so there's more going on than just fire.

Lava or nuclear stuff sounds like it'd be cross-bending of some sort, so it might be an avatar only thing, or somehow take different benders working in concert.

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Which hasn't worked either of the times I tried it :-\

What did was taking a damned knife to the thing and wiggling/sawing it back and forth until I cut a new chasm into the screw for a flathead to stick into.

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