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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, August 17 2007 04:33 Profile Homepage #6
Save some of those cookies for yourself. ;)

I hope you're okay or will be okay soon.

quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

This wouldn't have anything to do with exploratory surgery for embedded pencils, would it?
But that surgery would be for others, no?

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Pets in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 22:33 Profile Homepage #26
Interestingly (although unsurprisingly) it seems a significant portion of the pets people here have owned have since passed on.

How does everyone else here handle living with and losing (possibly repeatedly, if they have several pets) a creature with a much shorter lifespan?

[ Wednesday, August 15, 2007 22:34: Message edited by: root ]

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The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 14:10 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Sarcasmon:

I find it fascinating that the last real Ice Age immediately preceded the population explosion of the human species. Is it possible that all that time huddled together caused global warming and the end of the ice age?
Um... or that the population exploded because warm weather is more favorable to our survival, causing us to expend less energy and also giving us more habitable land?

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What was the last book that made you go "Wow"? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 13:50 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by Kingy:

Does "Eeek" and "Ewww" mean you didnt like it at all or just got squeamish during it?
I put it away and was stunned, and I read the rest of the chapters when they were put up, so I guess I liked it. Doesn't mean I was able to sleep in the weeks afterward, though. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 12:01 Profile Homepage #13
A dog with nine lives? That's a new one... :)

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The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 11:59 Profile Homepage #9
But is it cyclical? Some of the scientists seem to believe there might be a critical point at which the climate change accelerates itself.

To rephrase your argument, no, it isn't a problem as long as you are a cockroach.

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Pets in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 10:29 Profile Homepage #9
It's not that redundant. A while ago, we had someone here who was deeply convinced he was a fox.

...

Anyway. I had a green budgerigar once, but he died several years ago at the proud age of 11. I had been thinking about getting a cat after that, but soon afterward I moved away. Current arrangements (student dorm, home on weekends) aren't very ideal for keeping pets, and my mother's allergic to cats anyway.

So it'll be some time before that dream is realized.

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The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 10:21 Profile Homepage #7
Unfortunately I have only pretty graphs, and I know enough of descriptive statistics to know that you can aggregate raw data to support almost any conclusion if your audience does not consist of statisticians themselves.

In a few months, I will learn more about inferential statistics and hopefully mathematical models and simulations. Until then, I'll just have to trust the climatologists that aren't getting paid by think-tanks...

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A Pol. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 07:11 Profile Homepage #20
I question that analogy, Vlish. The Shapers are a civilization. They have an ideology. National Socialism is an ideology. This ideology, by definition, would prevent peaceful, independent coexistence.

The Awakened, however, do not seek to coexist with the Shapers' racist ideology, they seek to coexist with the Shapers by changing their ideology (and they do have Shaper sympathizers, so this could work).

To fix the analogy, Jews and Germans can coexist when the Germans are not Nazis.

[ Wednesday, August 15, 2007 07:12: Message edited by: root ]

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What was the last book that made you go "Wow"? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 04:25 Profile Homepage #26
quote:
Originally written by Kingy:

I've gotta say the book that really do that is John Dies At The End). It has only just began pre-ordering for the actual book but an online copy can be found here.

Also, first post in like 6 months. Might have to start posting here occasionally if I can find the time. I'm freaking losing it and figure at least here I'm no more insane than anyone else.
Less "Wow" and more "Eeek" and "Ewww", personally.

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Sigh...a dilemma in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, August 15 2007 04:19 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Toenail Returns:

I do think that they freeze the water overnight for easy storage. The water on the new water attractions feels like 34 degrees. Brrr...
Nearly body temperature? (Yes, this is obligatory. :P )

Seriously though, freezing water overnight ranks high among the silliest ideas I've ever heard. Aside from the density problem, they expend enormous amounts of energy both when freezing and melting the water, for what benefit exactly?

Unheated water can get pretty cold on its own, overnight.

[ Wednesday, August 15, 2007 04:20: Message edited by: root ]

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Traveling Internationally in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 22:15 Profile Homepage #5
quote:
Originally written by WiKiSpidweb:

Yeah, but Romanian mathematicians are in a league of their own.
More like Hungarian amirite?

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What was the last book that made you go "Wow"? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 22:12 Profile Homepage #24
quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

The recently read book on how sun cycles are driving our climate, rather than the CO2 global warming myth, was excellent material that settled in scientific terms what I already knew was the case more generally. Anyone who relies on a politician to get their science makes me wonder.

-S-
...

How about relying on data to get our science?

Wait, I'll drop it. We don't want a repetition of that topic.

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I Seek to Obtain the Meaningless Approbation of my Fellows in General
Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 12:56 Profile Homepage #25
None, but I'll let hard numbers speak.

PPP tallies my posts to 6731 (so at least that much were not deleted), which does not include the time between May 2003 to June 2004 on non-General forums (PPP2). Until those posts are properly archived, we can only estimate how much of the discrepancy they accounts for.

I don't think I've ever deleted one of my own posts yet, actually. The last few times I double posted, it wasn't on General. :P

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What was the last book that made you go "Wow"? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 12:33 Profile Homepage #18
Ahem.

I believe the topic is about books you have read, not books you are writing or attempting to write.

In that spirit, I encourage every would-be writer to start reading a few books first. It is very helpful.

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Start the Fire? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 09:47 Profile Homepage #15
Vahnatai, no less, which we have since conjectured to be Avernum's version of Shapers anyway...

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Message Boards in General
Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 09:40 Profile Homepage #17
UBB allows you to check all boxes anyway, if you don't activate Javascript.

Client-side validation for the win!

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 05:46 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
At this age, my memory sucks.
Getting old, are we? :P

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Random name generators in General
Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, August 14 2007 03:41 Profile Homepage #1
quote:
???
Pre-emptive joking. I love it. Does he really do that so often?)

I suppose really original names could be generated with that Markov Chain/travesty thing, if given a few additional conditions.

Scumpuke, or Blazefire.

The latter one is pure cheese, but the former one has some comic value.

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What was the last book that made you go "Wow"? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Monday, August 13 2007 21:26 Profile Homepage #1
Cryptonomicon. Since then I've read Snow Crash and Quicksilver by the same author, but while both were great neither astounded me the same as the first.

I get something like claustrophobia when the setting of a book is confined to a small area. The effect I liked most about Crypto is therefore that it appeared to set the whole world as the scene. Even though the story spanned half a century, and the author went into page-long rambles about obscure mathematical phenomena, it was fast-paced.

The story also managed to suspend disbelief completely. It's a bit refreshing, after so many years, to see a novel that actually contains computers without indicating the author as completely ignorant of technology. I can't speak for most of the mathematics (or, in fact, history), but all of these were described with a sense of realism that actually made me check Wikipedia to see which of the historical characters didn't exist and which did.

I last felt this wowed by a book when I read Lord of the Rings seven years ago.

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Start the Fire? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
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 written Monday, August 13 2007 19:52 Profile Homepage #5
Matches aren't that radical an idea. The chemicals they require have been used for a really long time, and I think Ermarian can get away with a sulfur-coated stick (which Wikipedia dates to 3500 BC in Egypt) without becoming too modern.

I don't know if those ancient matches still needed a spark or were friction-ignited, but making a spark is also really simple. You could argue it takes more than one action point in combat, but that's unnecessary detail - in any case, it's far less than a minute.

(Face it: Teleportation, but no fire? WTH?)

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I Seek to Obtain the Meaningless Approbation of my Fellows in General
Arancaytar
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 written Monday, August 13 2007 18:25 Profile Homepage #22
Which makes it a penny's worth of approbation! Thank you! :D

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, August 13 2007 18:10 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
Originally written by No more muffins:

It was not lazyness, it was to see if people are actually paying attention to the poll.
And I see you didn't, while you made it? :)

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