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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2012 Nov 12, 18:36:05

sadness

When people in the class I'm grading for turn in multi-page homeworks with the corners of the pages folded over together, thinking that will keep them together. It doesn't. 

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Off-Topic / Re: FUNNY image Thread!!!

2012 Nov 12, 17:10:24

Made me smile, even though I don't recognize that dog-thing.

I don't get it.

You're supposed to see the silhouette and assume that it's Batman. 

[METAL GEAR?!]

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: No-Shave November

2012 Nov 12, 00:37:07

My face is looking like MGS3 Snake's beard, and it's getting itchy.   

METAL GEAR?!

I'm not participating in this... event... but if I were, I'd be glad that my facial hair color is very close to my skin color.

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: i found a ghost at stanly hotel

2012 Nov 11, 22:57:21

ehh its a ghost in my eyes

from my deduction it seems to be a dust particle.

o3o

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: TOBUSCUS HAS WATCHED MLP!

2012 Nov 11, 22:56:40

I wasn't really too bothered by Lesson Zero but then again I have OCD, it can actually cause a lot of stress depending on how bad it decides to act up. I've gotten stressed to the point of not wanting to do anything at all before not a mental breakdown like Twilight though.

But yeah OCD can cause you to worry about crazy things happening because you forgot to do one thing or the other so her freaking out over her lesson is actually normal to someone with OCD though not to her extreme reaction of it.

Twilight Sparkle's OCD is one of the reasons I like the character.

I have OCD too, and I can understand freaking out about things like that... just not to the point where it would make me attempt to screw with other people to the point of mind control. 

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: TOBUSCUS HAS WATCHED MLP!

2012 Nov 11, 22:19:27

Yeah, it just seems like they took that "perfectionist" thing and ridiculously overexaggerated it (compared to previous episodes) for comedy's sake. But that's enough of me going off-topic...

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: TOBUSCUS HAS WATCHED MLP!

2012 Nov 11, 21:56:34

That video still makes my face feel fuzzy.    Magnified by no shave November.

Hopefully if he does watch that trailer he doesn't expect too much from the series some new fans get turned off by the first 2 episodes. A lot of people suggest ep 4+ for the first episodes then watch the Season premiers and stuff.

When you get goosebumps, it can make your hairs stand up, so I think your beard must've been standing up.

And yeah, I suggest Party of One, Lesson Zero, the season 2 premiere, stuff like that.

I'd agree with most of those recommendations, though I'm still not a fan of Lesson Zero sacrificing logic for comedy all over the place... although it was pretty funny 

[Spoiler:]

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2012 Nov 11, 01:38:57

Spoiler: show

might be "English vs American English", which annoys me by the way.

America: You speak and spell funny.
England: WE INVENTED THE *@*$@&%@ LANGUAGE!
America: ...... So?
England: You're the one speakin' and spellin' funny! We know the proper way to pronounce and spell English words.
me: There are two different dialects of English due to the ocean acting as a geographical barrier, thus causing our cultures and language to develop separately and independently.

Sometimes, I try to think about things in a logic perspective too much.

I tend too examine situations too much, or think too much in general even in games sometimes, and if I have nothing to do I think too much.

(And for some reason that makes me want to play chess, or checkers now. )

Oh goodness, I'm not very good at planning very far ahead in strategy. I tend to come up with a starting strategy, then fall back on adapting to the opponent's moves and building strategy up around an opponent's actions.

So, basically, in tactics games like Disgaea and Final Fantasy Tactics, I'd just build a frame of a strategy, then fill in the rest as I adapted to the enemy's movements.

I usually have one solid plan and if  that fails, everything falls apart 

I kind of adapt my strategy as well to a certain extent but in Final Fantasy Tactics case that game just owns me sometimes last time I played it I was stuck at the part where that bearded mercenary dude betrays you. I guess mine is a mix of thinking ahead and adapting my strategy although usually based on the AI I'll make assumptions that are either correct or incorrect. Like "If I move here that unit will attack me." Stuff like that.

I want to play FF Tactics again now as well I might play final fantasy tactics advanced and stream it someday as I never really went far in that game it doesn't seem to have much of a story like the first one did.

(Fire emblems another tactical game that owns you.  )

I loved FFT - played the PSP version (can't praise the rewritten dialogue or most of the plot too highly...) It definitely makes you think more than most strategy games I've played, but it's really fun. Fire Emblem is indeed pretty brutal though.

FFTA is much, much easier than FFT. (Plotwise, it's pretty good, but it's also a complete ripoff of The Neverending Story, and many people (including me) think that the main character becomes an unlikeable jerk by the end.)

That's probably enough of me going off-topic for now 

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2012 Nov 11, 00:36:27

dialects... *sigh* just trying to communicate normally is hard enough.  Even within single states.

Therefore...

...

...Esperanto! The new world language!

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: GAK?

2012 Nov 11, 00:35:57

Holy gak, that was fast!

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: GAK?

2012 Nov 10, 23:19:35

My little Gak: Adventures in Gakville.

...starring Twigak Gackle.

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2012 Nov 10, 23:15:18

might be "English vs American English", which annoys me by the way.

*British English vs. American English. Sounds biased otherwise. 

American spellings tend to be more phonetically logical IMO, but it's kind of a drop in the bucket, as both kinds of English share tons of counterintuitive, wall-banging craziness.

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MLP: FiM SD Archive / Re: I need help identifying a pony.

2012 Nov 10, 21:49:05

I don't know that much about pony toys, but from what I've seen, they sometimes make random combinations of mane color/coat color/pose/etc and sell 'em anyway. Could be the case here.

[Spoiler:]

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2012 Nov 10, 20:08:31

Spoiler: show

Time...

It's unnecessarily so complicated... There are different timezones. Okay I can somehow understand that. But then there is daylight savings time, months with different numbers of days (so a month isn't a well defined unit), 24 vs. 12 hours system (I still can't get 0:00 AM / PM and 12:00 AM / PM figured out). And then this odd number basis: 60 seconds are a minute and 60 minutes are an hour, but 24 hours make a day... Really? And also there is a leap day (so a year isn't well defined too) and then every now and then a leap second...

All that said... It's really hard to do calculations based on time and date. That really annoys me.

Unfortunately, it took a lot of work and adjusting for people to come up with proper time measurements and year measurements to make sure that it wouldn't slowly shift to being wrong and us having winter in July in the future. They had to get it precise.

I assume the seconds/minutes thing came from someone coming up with a more precise measurement based on sun dials.

I know... But I think nowadays a shift over 50 years or something shouldn't be a problem at all. And a base of 10 or 100 for hours and minutes is much more convenient once you are used to it...

No! Everything has to be done in multiples of 60. Ancient Babylon has spoken; they will brook no disagreement.

It makes intuitive sense, because we have 60 fingers.

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: GAK?

2012 Nov 10, 20:07:29

Kill that meme before it spreads!

It's too late! 

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2012 Nov 10, 17:37:47

Sure makes me glad I didn't get up at 7 AM to watch the premiere, and watched the commercial-less version 6 hours later instead. 

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MLP: FiM SD Archive / Re: Newest Episodes(Season 3, Episodes 1+2(1080p!))!

2012 Nov 10, 17:35:29

Ye gods, this is a long topic.

There were flugelhorns and Spike got to save the day. What more can you ask for?

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Off-Topic / Re: Today's Smile

2012 Nov 09, 22:54:03

ONE MORE DAY

One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
I will join these little schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blooood

...but yeah, I'm excited too.

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Guild Archive / Re: [Herd] Travellers Blessing.

2012 Nov 09, 19:48:37

fun   we should have more of it!

INDEED

I have a new avatar. 

You had the best avatar on the site before.
Somehow you've managed to make it even better!   

Why thanks! I'm really glad someone liked Grog 

Good morning! I just caught up to Adventure Time. Watched the last three episodes of Season 4. ('I Remember You', sniffle.)

And I'm super excited for the opener of Season 5, airing next Monday 12 November! (I picked a good time to catch up.)

Anyone else watch it?

I might check it out; TBH, the only cartoons I've ever watched were Avatar/LoK and MLP. Kind of curious to see if there's other similar quality stuff in Western cartoons these days.

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: need. to. watch. this. now

2012 Nov 09, 16:27:43

He was also loved and adored by Hitler before the war

Huh, I didn't know that... so this was actually sort of targeted at Hitler. Suddenly the speech became a lot more meaningful (not that it wasn't before).