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Welp. Dog just got run over. Road claims another one. Had been thinking for a while now just letting the dog out sans leash was gonna' get it killed, but dog's actual owners didn't seem to care and, well. Here we are. Fucking hell. Second time in about a year and a half, two years, close family's lost a dog because of something that basically boiled down to neglect. Wasn't really close to this one, but still. Damnitall. The blue fuck can't people take care of animals? This shit isn't rocket science.

There's... several heroes I wouldn't mind some mixed pen on (I'd think Mundo, poppy, and udyr off the top of my head... maybe grag-whatever. Of the ones I've played, anyway. Maybe Varus, too. Probably a few others.), primarily ones that are mostly AD but with some hefty chunks of magic damage thrown in there because of a damage conversion skill or magic AoE or whatever. There's been a few that just don't benefit enough from AP to hybridize, but do have some hefty (or at least noticeable) sources of magic damage. Or th'other way around.

Mpen lets you get a little extra from their magic damage, but it's not something you'd want to give up arpen or AD or whatever for... getting a bit of both sounds nice, really. Don't want to actually hybridize but do want to get some more oomph out of your magic damage, while still helping out your primary damage source? Seems like a good deal, t'this particular scrub.

Seemingly little known fact about potato chips: You can crush them. You can crush them up and put them in other things. Like macaroni and cheese. Or rather, macaroni and cheese and chicken bouillon and cheese and bacon bits and cheddar and sour cream chip bits. Breakfast <3

Mortar and pestle is ideal for crushing, though. Or a bowl and a spoon or something. Crushing with bare hands is... possible, but ill advised, as I now know. Bit messy, and not quite something you can just rinse off.

Depends how you define "benevolent." There are plenty of ways to have all three, just that they all require God's morality to be different/superior/whatever to your own.

Yeah... the fun one for me went thusly: In order to be omnibenevolent, the argument held, God must maximally possess the most fundamental good, i.e. that good which enables all other goods. That which enables all other goods (or to be more accurate, all things, period) is existence -- a thing must be before it can be something. Therefore the good of God -- the maximal, fundamental, good possessed by the divine -- is existence. In modern parlance, God is the fundamental particle (if we ever actually find it). Medieval theologians (or at least they're the ones I first ran into that were using this line of argument) basically stated omnibenevolence meant hardcore materialism -- the good of God is the good of existence -- and it gave me the giggles.

It also meant that the omnibenevolence of god is logically equal to omnipresence -- saying that "God is good" had the same meaning as saying "God is existent". All good, all existent, etc.

It was a neat and hilariously irreverent trick. "We'e got problems with the divine not matching with human morality! Let's define divine morality as something categorically different from human morality! No one will notice~" Which, being fair, no one really did for a while It's always been a good trick, if one that gets you smacked upside the head if you try it in a decent academic discussion. "I'm not talking about X, I'm talking about X, see? Yes, they're the exact same word, used in the exact same context, and generally kinda' insinuated to mean something similar, but they're actually completely different and utterly unconnected. Neat, huh? Solves alla d'problems!" And then your skull gets beat like a drum at a bongo festival, as it right and proper.

Quote from: Nadaka on August 16, 2012, 04:01:44 pm

Those seem like really low homicide rates...

But I guess I am biased because I grew up near New Orleans where the murder rate is 10 to 15 times higher than that.

http://modiphy.dnsconnect.net/~nolaipm/main/uploads/File/All/BJA_report_on_crime.pdf
page 4/5: new orleans homicide rate for 2009 is about 520 per million

Note that I believe the "total counts" only count the municipality of New Orleans proper, rather than the New orleans metro area where we had annual body counts in the thousands back in the early 90's.

Yeah, the south generally has very big crime issues, it's generally thought to be linked to being next to Mexico. As a general rule of thumb, the further north you go the less violent crime you tend to see. Cities also generally have higher crime rates, so going by that logic it makes sense that New Orleans would have some real huge crime issues. This kind of thing is a really big thing for sociologists.

Next to... Mexico? Louisiana has Texas between it and Mexico, so it's... kinda' far. If I had to wager for a major reason crime's worse in the south-east, it'd be because the tri-state area (north Florida, Alabama, Georgia) is one of the absolute heaviest drug trafficking areas in the USA, from what I understand. There are a lot of narcotics moving through th'rural areas around here, and some of the cities have... problems. That much crime (much of it organized pretty strongly, from what I ken) tends to radiate a bit.

And yeah, iirc we do get violence spikes in the summer. Considering it's goddamn miserable down here during that period of time, that's not much of a surprise.

That... that's hilariously scuzzy. And so... so blatant. I'm sorta' impressed. "Oh, hey... you've got a way for your customers to avoid being tracked. Yeaaahh... I think we want some of that. We'll be in touch."

... but was the machine made of legos? Did it build a Lego car?

Because that would be pretty neat and I would request video and/or pictures.

Bit easier to shiv someone or cold cock 'em in the back of the head with a billyclub and get away without being noticed. Guns are pretty loud, generally. E: Thus the tool of mugging vs weapon of self defense thing... a gun (usually) announces to th'bloody world shit just went down. A knife is more... covert, circumspect. Not as loud, etc. You can stab someone and walk away and the person on the other side of the wall/alley might not notice. Not as possible with gunfire.