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A cross check is a 2 minute penalty in which you smash your hockey stick across your opponent's chest. The only punishment you take in that action is being sent to the penalty box by a very polite Canadian fellow.

Cut, counter? Brethren, I don't actually know the terminology. It's when two people knock the crap out of each other at the same time. See it all the time in silly shonen manga~

Quote from: Frumple on September 12, 2012, 09:06:04 pm

Warmth is warmth, meat is meat, fun is fun, pleasure is pleasure. It's all friction and nerve endings anyway, humbug.

Or maybe not humbug. I'unno. Not sure where I was going with that.

Should you have my first flag?

Nah, I'm mostly female biased. Prefer the aesthetics of the form, and less violently annoyed by the cultural baggages. To the extent I'm not something resembling asexual, anyway. Mostly due to the effort involved, and still being within 200 miles of this hellhole. Fucking's not worth the effort, and I'll censor the rest of my thoughts, there. The warmth is, and the trust, but those have much higher barriers of entry and there's complications involved with doing goddamn anything that would actually risk anchoring me to this gods forsaken area. Bleh. Could stand a pet again, but it's cruel to get and start raising one when there's a good chance you won't be able to keep it for very long.

Mostly, anyway. Straight honesty, I've definitely got some sort of something toward that fit Latino/Italian male archetype. Makes me go goddaymn, just a bit. Those and Tchaikovsky. I'd bottom for Tchaikovsky. Or whatever, really. I'd bugger that music happily.

That and, beyond that, I recognize the friction is friction thing. Only thing stopping a person from enjoying most any sort of sex regardless of orientation is the mental aspects. Preference, really. Nerve stimulation is nerve stimulation and it, at the baseline, feels good if done right. So maybe a little need for flag... if I were going to change my sig. (The sig... the sig never changes.).

Well, my day made me pretty sad. Just, everythings all fucked up and there's pretty much nothing I can do about it.

Can't offer much but the condolences, but... y'got those, at least. And most everyone else.

Warmth is warmth, meat is meat, fun is fun, pleasure is pleasure. It's all friction and nerve endings anyway, humbug.

Or maybe not humbug. I'unno. Not sure where I was going with that.

That in particular looks like just bad luck, really. Norgos is pretty much the easiest boss in the game to kill, and you can usually take 'im around level two, level three. Normally you just regen-tank your way through his damage and murder the poor bear... maybe kite a bit if you can't just flat faceroll him. Though that latter bit is obviously difficult when he's there to shake your hand when you walk down the stairs, heh.

Worst comes to worst, you might clear out a few levels on other zones, get another level or two, or perhaps cash in some junk and buy a second regen or heal infusion... maybe a better weapon. All those can help.

Bosses level with you to a degree, yes, but you tend to benefit considerably more than they do from more levels, especially in the early game where every level can exponentially increase your survivability (by giving you access to certain key talents, etc., so forth.). Level three is one of the safer breakpoints for taking any of the first tier dungeon bosses... level four if you're really unsure. The second tier talents tend to make the early bosses considerably easier, as a rule.

Though it's not necessary, per se. All of the first tier dungeons (except the dwarf stuff, I guess.) can and have been cleared starting at level one. Many (perhaps all) of the bosses have been killed at level one. So, it's doable, though there's an element of luck involved.

Quote from: Digital Hellhound on September 12, 2012, 12:44:22 pm

No country has a 'cultural mandate for violence'. That might be the most offensive thing I've heard all week.

Then how do you explain why this keeps happening? This doesn't happen on even a semi-regular basis anywhere else, but if anyone in the West commits an act critical of Islam that gets well known, bam, violence. Every time.

I'm not saying this from nothing, you know. This is an evidence-based claim.

Because they're fucking hungry, MSH. That's most of the foundational cause. The situation is shit poor in the areas in question and the disenfranchised, hungry, poor, hopeless portions of the population (which are a considerably larger fraction compared to the comparatively well fed first world) get violent.

Do you see the same sort of violence coming with the same sort of frequency from followers of Islam in more stable areas?

I think MSH is attempting to draw a divide between the government and the people on the ground, scrive. The general populace doesn't go about their day-to-day doing many of those, and in general even the extremist groups within our population don't tend to spaz out violently very often (at least where we can see, anyway). Meanwhile you do see violence erupting in these flashpoint areas, as RK put it, much more often.

Most of that difference is because we're well fed, I'd wager, but whatev'.

The US government and our people in power may be another story. They do some pretty reprehensible shit pretty often, but just as we shouldn't paint the entire population of these flashpoint areas by the reprehensible actions of a few, neither should we paint the entire population of the first world countries by the actions of their nominal representatives.

E: Just barely ninja'd, bah.

Musta been one hell of a well endowed dolphin...

Either that or it didn't come back 'till fall...

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