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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Houn wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    While i'm not very successful and I think I have some leftover weirdness from it I was a latchkey kid from about 9 or 10 years old onward. I'd say it didn't hurt me though. I even enjoyed the sense of independence to a pretty large degree.

    Thing is, by 9 or 10, you're already capable of handling it, or your not. People don't seem to realize just how much "you" is there by 10; yeah, there's still a shitload you don't know, and plenty of time for teen shit to carve big chunks of your personality up, but the core personality is already there.

    This is entirely true. My Dad was sending me into the store alone to see how I could do at like age 5. So I may have been a little prepared for that sort of thing.
    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Star Trek movies: whales or I feed

    Did you know there was an idea for TNG to have whales on board the Enterprise to help them navigate?

    On my god

    That would be hilarious and awesome

    I am so in favor
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I was very lucky for growing up where I did, I feel. It really is a very good place to be a kid.
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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Star Trek movies: whales or I feed

    Did you know there was an idea for TNG to have whales on board the Enterprise to help them navigate?

    On my god

    That would be hilarious and awesome

    I am so in favor

    BUT THAT'S WHALE SLAVE LABOR
    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I was very lucky for growing up where I did, I feel. It really is a very good place to be a kid.

    A socialist paradise?

    Yeah, p much.
    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    God I just read an account of the 10 year kidnapping thing in Cleveland

    There is so much about it that is horrifying and makes me ask serious questions

    Like

    Did any of my neighbours ever keep sex slaves in their basements
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Star Trek movies: whales or I feed

    Did you know there was an idea for TNG to have whales on board the Enterprise to help them navigate?

    On my god

    That would be hilarious and awesome

    I am so in favor

    BUT THAT'S WHALE SLAVE LABOR

    Cetacean exploitation?
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    A WHALE CAN'T HELP YOU NAVIGATE IN SPACE
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  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Star Trek movies: whales or I feed

    Did you know there was an idea for TNG to have whales on board the Enterprise to help them navigate?

    On my god

    That would be hilarious and awesome

    I am so in favor

    BUT THAT'S WHALE SLAVE LABOR

    Whale families are better off on the Enterprise because they stay together.
    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    What are some good inspirational songs?
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    @Organichu

    I went through my collection and netflix queues and here is what I came up with in the general realm of serious recent-ish movies with action and thriller/espionage/crime/suspense elements:

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    Collateral
    Miami Vice
    Spartan
    Eastern Promises
    A History of Violence
    Spy Game
    The Town
    Michael Clayton
    Monument Avenue
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Croupier
    Layer Cake
    Sexy Beast

    and this one is from out in left field but I saw it on my shelf and was like HOLY SHIT I HOPE CHU HAS SEEN THIS

    Master and Commander

    i bolded the things i've seen

    hmmm

    so

    spy game
    monument avenue
    dirty pretty things
    croupier
    layer cake
    sexy beast

    *taps chin*
  • bowenbowen Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    STATE OF THE ART ROBOT wrote: »
    Best is when my dad started blaming me for all his financial woes and having to pay child support. I was 15

    In some cases child support is insane.

    Like, with a 15 year old and the court still requiring the father to pay 25% of his income. You get a lot of situations where the ruling is punitive and the child doesn't benefit at all from that arrangement (especially with cohabitation).

    Courts really do fuck some guys over, sometimes. Then you get a lot of whiney guys that bitch about having to support their kids for a few hundred dollars a month.

    Then you get guys like the baby daddy of a lady-I-work-with's kids whose child support is, like, $50/mo and he doesn't pay it.

    That's ridiculous.

    I'm in favor of a spending card that tracks expenses now that we've got things like mint and credit cards. Why not?

    I've seen a friend basically living in a loft while wife lives in a 4 bedroom mansion because of their child support and divorce rulings. Those are rare though, so, I'm not going to worry about it.
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    To be fair, spool, I can leave a shortcut in where you just choose to slaughter all of the undead instead of help them.

    The foundry gives you that kind of control?

    *begrudgingly levels to 15*
  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    A WHALE CAN'T HELP YOU NAVIGATE IN SPACE

    A STAR WHALE CAN!

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    /DoctorWhoHasWhalesToo
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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Sexy Beast was so good

    Fuck I should watch that again
  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    21stCentury wrote: »
    What are some good inspirational songs?

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=gNhN6lT-y5U
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    For my Neverwinter questline I was thinking of doing a scorpion and frog sort of thing.

    You find an army of undead trapped under Neverwinter, but you end up finding out they're sentient and friendly pacifists. Eventually they convince you to free them and kill the undead hunters who are wrongly persecuting them. After you do, though, they realize that the flesh of the living seems awfully delicious, and maybe, you know, it'd be better if everyone was just undead anyway. Then they wouldn't have to worry about dying, etc.

    So then you have to scramble to undo everything you just did and trap them underground forever before they overthrow Neverwinter.

    Overdone, or should I go with it?

    Sorry, but I hate it. The "gosh golly these undead are nice!" is a terrible way to subvert the trope. It ignores the lore of undead in Forgotten Realms and punishes players for following the roles they've chosen, only to have them later discover that they should have stuck to their guns and murdered the undead abominations just like they always do.

    It's sort of a double fuck-you to anybody trying to play a good-aligned cleric that fits the setting. First you shit on them for subverting the lore and making them feel bad for their assumptions, then you shit on them again by revealing that naaah, they're terrible and you should totally kill them.

    I'm sorry but you just totally made me love the idea now :P.

    I veto'd a number of these plotlines in the past, and it's not only because of the problematic lore issues or player abuse, but because while abusing players can turn out fun for them, abusing them by demanding they accept your screwy lore and then punishing them for not refusing to accept it is bad for players.
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I was very lucky for growing up where I did, I feel. It really is a very good place to be a kid.

    A socialist paradise?

    Yeah, p much.

    no I meant Hundvåg. We had woods with bunkers from the war and everything.

    and with an old man who cleared and made paths and built awesome tipi-like things and benches and stuff.

    Which became HQs and forward outposts and strongholds to us.

    We probably had larger exercises there than the army did before they opened it to everyone.

    Kids probably did before they did, too. I remember we met a guy when we were walking through there reminiscing and he talked about how they'd use to sneak in there. Special ops shit that was.
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    i'm making a youtube playlist to psyche me up and i need more inspirational songs...

    C'mon guys, you know music a lot better than i do.
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  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    @Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

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    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/178545/higher-education-practical-problems-and-philosophical-foundations#latest

    (Well not really "for you," but youknowwhatImean.)
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    21stCentury wrote: »
    What are some good inspirational songs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomCIXGzsR0

    this, played very, very loud.
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  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    21stCentury wrote: »
    What are some good inspirational songs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXaT_1I-vw
    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 Registered User regular
    The Great Gatsby comes out tomorrow, with showings tonight. I want to see it, but the reviews are pretty weak. Hmm.
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    21stCentury wrote: »
    What are some good inspirational songs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomCIXGzsR0

    this, played very, very loud.

    number one on my playlist.
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  • Knuckle DraggerKnuckle Dragger Explosive Ovine Disposal Registered User regular
    And for your Thursday morning dose of D: I just took this after filling my tanks. We fuel up every day.
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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    Ravenhpltc24 wrote: »
    The Great Gatsby comes out tomorrow, with showings tonight. I want to see it, but the reviews are pretty weak. Hmm.

    I'm going to try to finish rereading it before tomorrow, so I can adequately complain about the adaptation.

    Though to be fair I'm finding that the book isn't as engaging as I remember it being. And what's the deal with the narrator being bisexual but barely even acknowledging it, except for one scene where it's super-apparent?
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  • wanderingwandering Registered User regular
    Ravenhpltc24 wrote: »
    The Great Gatsby comes out tomorrow, with showings tonight. I want to see it, but the reviews are pretty weak. Hmm.
    Maybe it is the reviewers who are weak
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  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    Knuckle Dragger wrote: »
    And for your Thursday morning dose of D: I just took this after filling my tanks. We fuel up every day.
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    you spend my monthly pay every two days on gas
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    Speaking of screen adaptations of books:

    Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is being turned into a movie. Finally, a presumably good story comes to a medium I can consume!
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  • KageraKagera Registered User regular
    Holy Christ will is the mod with the bicycle helmet on all the time.

    It's hilarious!
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    Kagera wrote: »
    Holy Christ will is the mod with the bicycle helmet on all the time.

    It's hilarious!

    Please, Will may have a ridiculous bycicle helmet at all time, he can still hear you and he can still headbutt you.
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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    What holds 150 gallons of gas. And do you have your own pumps or do you really go to a gas station.
  • amateurhouramateurhour Registered User regular
    Hey [chat]
    Here's what I do...
    The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
    Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
  • CasualCasual IT'S CRIME TIME MOTHAFUCKAS WE OUTRegistered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    jacob, jacob in the [chat] thread

    tell me,

    which is the fairest TOS Star Trek movie of them all?

    I mean Wrath of Khan is the only realistic choice

    if you want an interesting discussion ask which one is second-best. There are strong arguments to be made for IV, VI, and the director's cut of I.

    really?

    you didn't like TUC then?

    huh?

    VI is The Undiscovered Country

    I don't really like The Search for Spock or Final Frontier that much, although both have their moments. Kirk beating the crap out of the Klingon while screaming I - HAVE - HAD - ENOUGH - OF - YOU! is one of my favorite Kirk moments ever.

    derp

    i always get the numbers wrong
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    i write amazing erotic fiction

    its all about anthropomorphic dicks doing everyday things like buying shoes for their scrotum-feet
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    To be fair, spool, I can leave a shortcut in where you just choose to slaughter all of the undead instead of help them.

    that'd work better.

    I have a thing about DMs who try to make their good-aligned characters RP feeling like shitty people for sticking to their beliefs, and the contrived "these are good undead look at how you just murdered a sentient being" thing is a pretty common way to do it.
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    amateurhour wrote: »
    Hey [chat]

    Hey professinalminute.
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    My elderly golden cat sheds so much.

    I can't wear my favorite jacket for more than a day because it ceases to be black.
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    To be fair, spool, I can leave a shortcut in where you just choose to slaughter all of the undead instead of help them.

    The foundry gives you that kind of control?

    *begrudgingly levels to 15*

    I think it does, but I may be mistaken. I know you can have optional fights. I'm not 15 yet either :(
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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Gosling wrote: »
    Hyperbole and a Half updated.

    Prepare for feels.

    um how bad is it that I can relate to all of this real well.
    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
  • a5ehrena5ehren Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    What holds 150 gallons of gas. And do you have your own pumps or do you really go to a gas station.
    I think he's a 18-wheel truck driver.
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