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Iirc, snake tastes kinda' like kilbasa sausage (however the blazes you spell that), or at least the stuff I had did, however it was prepared. You can occasionally find people selling it down here in florida, at least.

I look up at the sky and generally end up with a massive headache due to information overload. Darkness is multicolored and moves. The stars help, some (for all that the little bastards are constantly changing color *fistshake*), and it's not as bad during fuller moons, but it's always kinda' painful. Mind you, blue sky is exponentially worse (darting whitish specks, everywhere, ahaha!). About the only time I can look up outside without it starting to hurt is heavily overcast days, humdedoo.

Existential wise, the other solar systems don't really ding my radar. They're neat in an abstract way, and definitely aesthetically pleasing, both physically and conceptually, but until they or something interacting meaningfully with them are within my light cone I'm just not terrible concerned. I want for humans to be there when the last one dies, but that's about it.

Eh, who can actually comprehend the size of the universe?

I get scared when I realize that everything is so vastly separate, so far away, that it wouldn't even be physically possible for me to see any of the stuff near us in person. And then I realize that something like the space between galaxies is so many times vaster, and the space between galaxy clusters moreso... fuck.

Wanna' have some real fun? Try to imagine the possibility of distance between pre-big bang singularities. I've still not quite wrapped my head around whether that's actually precluded by our mostly-current conceptualization of astrophysics (I.e. The "scientific creation myth" ). And if it's not, well. Well.

Yes. Mind you, I can't remember any of them I've heard, but I'm quite sure I've heard a couple.

Rap is a musical style that actually has a goddamn incredible potential and pedigree, it's just... I don't really know. Something about the way it's propagated has resulted in the majority of the people utilizing the style being either incapable or unwilling to actually express that potentiality. You can't look at me and tell me the child of R&B, Soul, Jazz, Blues, Beat poetry, Rock, and basically the entire vocal and non-vocal tradition of Protestant and Catholic religious music along with the influence of the African percussive and vocal traditions, does not have the potential to be bloody mind-blowing incredible.

You hear it, occasionally. Sometime someone does something that, to some degree, shines through the solid gold underpinning of the rap style. It's just everyone else buries the damn core under a mile of excrement.

Anyway, vague remembrance. Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure used the same instrumental music, iirc. Someone or another did a solid fusion of the lyrics of the two. I'd say it was pretty good. Not saying it's the best example, but it's one of rap mixing with something else to come out pretty alright.

Most of the time. Most of the time.

FTFY. White doesn't work in darkling.

Chiming in a little, I can usually run 12xx by 10xx without much problem, but have a strong preferance for being able to go lower, at least to 800x600. Sometimes as a just-in-case, sometimes because it tends to make things a bit bigger (larger text, etc.), so to speak.

Anyway, lower res seems to (surprise surprise) tend toward being a bit more forgiving about weaker video cards -- which seem to be one of the more common 'dump stat' choices for lower-end computers. If you're looking to maximize audience, I'd probably suggest giving more attention to lower resolutions than higher.

Of course, having something that can just scale kind of to whatever degree is most ideal. I always love the graphics option menus that just offer a pair of boxes to stick numbers in, and damn the presets (Seriously, damn them. 1400x900 can blow meeeee.)

But the Bad Stuff in our worlds have a point to them. It would stand to reason the Bad Stuff in His creation has a point as well. Maybe we can understand it, maybe we can't; Mario probably wouldn't be too sympathetic to our making obstacles for "fun," toying with his life.

Some. Some of our bad stuff has a point to them. Others are kobolds with exploding darts sitting outside the first and only doorway from the d:1 stairs. There's no point to that, really. It's just making someone die because the code calls for that scenario. No purpose. Just procedure. Sometimes the dev didn't have a point, they just had some code they wanted to implement to see what happens.

Really need a new thread for this part of the conversation. That "the obstacles have a purpose" line always depresses the fuck out of me, at least There's just too much shit that goes down that a conceivable purpose cannot exist for, unless that purpose is sadism or malevolence. And no-purpose leads to blind-idiot god dreaming in the center of the galaxy, kept asleep by it's endless courtiers. Loveecraft's got copyright or something, iirc. Ia, ia, Azathoth ftaghn, etc.

Quote from: Itnetlolor on July 18, 2012, 10:06:30 pm

Why am I now thinking we are *fingers* of somebody from *above*? This can make some people rather *frumple*.

We're the Orz?

Only on Tuesdays, and only those of us who actually sent in for the Orz suit and was selected in the suit lotto. It's a select bunch, really.

Yeah, I do tend to be in a mud hut eating raw zombie flesh whilst tending to my vast field of machinery. Aesthetically pleasing things can come after I can destroy the entire world with a single buttonpress

I convert the surrounding countryside into housing, mostly. In between mining or while waiting for things to cook or whatever. Current world still has a little bit of a ravine to cobble over before it's got a finished roof (the floor's already been slabbed so I can just walk from one end to the other, is good), then I can start... doing something, I guess. Expand the work rooms, start including the greatwood trees outside, stuff like that. Smooth out the ceiling so it's mostly hidden, do something more with the river I've been using for transportation. Definitely mess with the river's curves a bit so I don't have to slow down so much boating along it...

Do the same thing in Terraria, actually. I just like building mostly with or around the world. Not really natural-like, per-se, but using the native shape as a base, starting point, or primary boundary (outer wall, etc). Generally pretty boring from an architectural perspective, I guess (the process tends to be very... unplanned) but I end up enjoying running around in them and that's quite enough, yupyup.

Are you unaware that there are like 20 organizations that publish exactly what you are talking about?

For/from the major candidates?

Tangentally aware about stuff like that from other sources, though I haven't actually gotten around to looking for them. There's not enough give room for discourse in the area I'm in for me to be particularly vigorous regarding politics, bleh.

Still... suggestions? Resource like that sounds like something that might fit in the OP.