Bullet-Magnet In reply to Disgustedorite [2022-03-25 17:38:42 +0000 UTC]

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Disgustedorite In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2022-03-26 17:59:08 +0000 UTC]

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to Draco-94 [2014-02-27 07:29:25 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, you have no idea, I had to train him for months to not do that. That ate into precious potty-training time. For me.

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to ReptillianSP2011 [2013-08-22 03:38:17 +0000 UTC]

I'm not an astrophysicist so I can't comment on the science of the newest ideas. I do notice that it is necessarily untestable, which means that if it is true then it is impossible to know that it is. As far as I can see, there's literally nothing that can be done with such an idea.

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-08-21 20:54:24 +0000 UTC]

Lions and tigers and racism, oh my!

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-08-21 22:30:20 +0000 UTC]

SSSsmsmmmmmoooottttch!!!

I'm in the middle of a depressing job, sending boys to school and generally feeling rather...gloomy.

And ye' fixed it with a silly! Thank you!

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-26 14:14:27 +0000 UTC]

I'm exactly the same way. But I usually end up panicking madly by the end and then don't do anything out of paralysis or something. I barely made it to my friend's wedding on Saturday, and they didn't even know I was showing up!

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-06-26 17:13:38 +0000 UTC]

You wore goggles to their wedding?

Nut!

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-26 17:24:00 +0000 UTC]

I wondered at first whether I should make a scene with them. I had free reign to do as I wish at my mum's wedding, but at this one I didn't know many people. But when the friends encouraged me and the groom said "you brought them! I love you!" I took that as a go-ahead.

Some older guy I'd never met before immediately identified them as steampunk and told me that his daughter would be quite envious.

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-06-26 18:26:51 +0000 UTC]

I'm impressed you went to an event where you didn't know many people!

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-26 18:38:18 +0000 UTC]

I couldn't not go to my old housemate's wedding, even if it did mean entering a church where my powers are diminished.

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-06-26 19:22:35 +0000 UTC]

I don't mind churches; I think they're fun. It's the nonsense religion shit they spawn that's a problem...

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-26 22:28:42 +0000 UTC]

This was, I believe, Church of England, so it's about as liberal as you can get. It was decked out in Arsenal colours at the behest of the bride, and one of the readings was a poem called "The Scientist's Psalm" which I had decidedly mixed feelings about.

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-06-27 01:03:47 +0000 UTC]

Shoot them! Shoot them before they breed!

Oh, nevermind. But...you're friends with an ARSENAL fan?

*shudder*

Well, the outfits were dishie and the guests (well, one, anyway) were fun...so...

I confess: I never got the whole 'wedding' thing. I didn't dream about it as a little girl, I don't understand throwing a massive party to announce that you LOVE someone (if you love someone THAT much, why invite everyone over? I'd much rather snuggle on the couch with said loved-one) and. Nope. No 'and'. I just. Don't. Get it.

Seems as draconian as trading cows for daughters.

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-27 01:21:51 +0000 UTC]

I've picked up on various hints over the years that you are an Aston Villa fan? I had to track that nugget of information down, I don't know what all the stripes and the lions and the colours mean until it is spelled out for me. Though my father and my step-father support Arsenal, and I am surprised at how often that team comes up as a favourite amongst people I know. I don't understand it myself, they all look the same to me. As I like to say halfway through any football match I end up watching: "Oh, I get it! The red ones have to get the round thing through the square hole, and the white ones have to step the red ones and kick it the other way!" Man, if I wanted a football as badly as those players do, I'd order one off Amazon.

As for weddings... I can certainly understand at least one aspect in this case. The pair are pretty earnest individuals and I have no doubt at all that they were serious about the whole "wait until marriage" thing. My friend Tom who saw their hotel room prior to the wedding noted the pile of condoms on the one of the bedside tables and noted that their priorities seemed to be in order. Though my friend, the other Marcus (but not Other Marcus, because that's me), told me later that on the opposite bedside table were two pairs of safety goggles, which he agreed were somewhat more notable. I don't know what they were planning, and I don't want to know.

And the other point is... parties are fun, on occasion. I saw my friends again who I hadn't seen for a while, met a lot of new people who I liked and the extended family of a good friend who also seemed nice. One side of which was apparently, and I assume in jest, drunkenly up for a rumble with the other side when it was suggested (for reasons about which I dare not speculate) by "Best Man" Marcus.

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-06-27 05:54:38 +0000 UTC]

So? Congrats, you're a quarter of a century. Did you mark it in some way?

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-27 06:19:51 +0000 UTC]

I crossed razor clams off of my List Of Invertebrates I Have Never Et.

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-06-27 17:19:54 +0000 UTC]

And you lived to tell about it!

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-06-27 17:30:05 +0000 UTC]

They taste like mussels, but they're chewier and five times as big.

Which is great, because my main course was mussels in the exact same sauce. Oops.

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-05-09 17:35:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh no, the birds own me now. It's a miserable existence, but I owe them my allegiance for not doing all their shits on my pillow. That could change if I displease them.

Assassin's Creed? Why do you want to know?

I haven't played them much myself, but I'm absorbed quite a lot of information via cultural osmosis. In the first one you play as as assassin called Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad during the time of the third crusade. Well, actually you play as a bartender in 2012 called Desmond Miles who was kidnapped by a mega-corporation called Abstergo Industries which is actually the modern face of the Knights Templar because Desmond is the descendant of a long line of assassins who was himself raised and trained as one but fled that existence for a more normal lifestyle. Yeah.

Abstergo Industries uses a technology called Animus to access Desmond's "ancestral memories," in which Desmond must relive the lives of his ancestors in order to find information concerning the location of the "Pieces of Eden," relics of a pre-human civilisation that was wiped out by a solar flare with the ability to shield the Earth from a second flare that is anticipated to cause another extinction event in 2012.

The gameplay, on the other hand, is of Altair carrying out various assassination missions, often against the Templars, in cities such as Damascus and Jerusalem, involving lots of wallrunning, jumping off building, sword fights with guards and hiding amongst civilians.

The second game featured another assassin in Renaissance Italy called Ezio Auditore da Firenze, with locations such as the Vatican City, Florence and Venice. He has a number of da Vinci gadgets. Sequels to that game feature one where you train other people to be assassins who can assist you.

The third game had a half-British, half-Mohawk assassin called Ratonhnhaké:ton during the American revolution.

The fourth and most recent one which has sparked my attention has you play as Ratonhnhaké:ton's grandfather Edward Kenway, who is an assassin who is also a pirate. Pirates are cool.

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avfc4me In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2013-05-09 20:17:37 +0000 UTC]

BigMonster DESPERATELY wants to play; I'm of a mind to nix it on the title alone but I told him I'd investigate and re-evaluate after I had more info than a title. Is there lots of blood and guts, or is it more like the lego games where everything falls to pieces and then comes back at you five minutes later if you aren't out of there yet. No blood, no guts, its' a kinder, gentler sort of violence. Or is it more like Doom, where there's realistic and very creepifying splatters?

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-05-10 03:05:01 +0000 UTC]

It aims for realism, though no limbs get hacked off or bellies spilled. There's some blood, but no gore. I'd say that the animation makes it brutal but the effects are not gratuitous (like they are in, for example, Gears of War, which is where that dancing guy whose head exploded came from).

Oh heck, take a look. This is some game play from the third one. Have a gander and decide for yourself [link]

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-01-24 21:27:43 +0000 UTC]

I play as the guy with a helmet for that exact reason. Not that it helps.

Well, I did until I unlocked the sarcastic smarty-pants with the goggles. [link]

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2013-01-02 06:19:21 +0000 UTC]

Well, I got a "special hug" from a dog, if that counts.

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to avfc4me [2012-12-05 19:00:05 +0000 UTC]

Did you see Eric Idle at the Olympics? [link]

Also this [link]

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to ReptillianSP2011 [2012-10-28 01:23:19 +0000 UTC]

That both are place-holder names for whatever it is that accounts for some of the more unexpected cosmological observations. What they are is unknown. Whether they are real or simply artefacts of one or more errors in our current models is unknown.

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ReptillianSP2011 In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2012-10-28 01:50:57 +0000 UTC]

I wish we could find out what's in outside of the observable universe, there could be something we'd have to know over there and there and there.

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Bullet-Magnet In reply to ReptillianSP2011 [2012-10-28 16:27:21 +0000 UTC]

What's outside the observable universe is probably very similar to what's within the observable universe. It's just so far away that the universe has no existed long enough for the light from such regions to have reached us.

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ReptillianSP2011 In reply to Bullet-Magnet [2012-10-28 16:49:33 +0000 UTC]

I guess so. There is some evidence that suggests a preferred axis to expansion and some evidence to suggest dark flow extends farther than the observable universe. But more researches is needed to confirm it. There's also cosmic rings as well. From what I seen, that one cosmic ring is in the area of the dark flow highlighted area, maybe this will be considered bunk or they may be onto something.

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