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TopicGonna start Xenoblade Chronicles on Switch *preemptive spoilers*
TarElessar
07/11/20 1:56:10 PM
#45
Quick heads-up: If you're planning on playing the additional content after finishing the main game, you'll have to do some of the major side-quests in endgame first, otherwise you might not get part of what's going on.

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TopicWhat has Trump actually done during his term? Anything affected you personally?
TarElessar
06/29/20 6:35:10 PM
#1
Since I'm not American, the only thing I really hear about in the news is his constant Twitter shitposts and the dumb things some of his followers do.
Did he actually do anything major politically? Do you guys feel the effects of it in your daily life?
I'm genuinely curious, would be interested in any experiences, etc (regardless of what your political alignment is)

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TopicThis is painful.
TarElessar
06/26/20 9:01:43 PM
#4
I can't believe you got that wrong when the solution was so simple tbh

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TopicGuess the English Word: German Edition
TarElessar
06/26/20 1:41:17 PM
#49
Choco posted...
Fun fact: They kept Misty's English name in the German Pokmon translations for some reason. >_>
They did change the name of Mist in Fire Emblem

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TopicPost and I'll draw your username in my 'Petition to Ban TC' pic
TarElessar
06/23/20 9:47:18 PM
#175
Looks sick, cheers!

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TopicDo they make actual Android PCs?
TarElessar
06/18/20 8:00:14 PM
#5
DevsBro posted...
The apps. Can I just install Ubuntu and the Google Play store and have all the apps work correctly?
You could use stuff like Anbox for that, but I haven't done anything like that myself so can't say much about performance, etc, but I imagine there won't be many issues

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TopicDo they make actual Android PCs?
TarElessar
06/18/20 7:56:21 PM
#2
I mean, Android is basically just Linux without privileges anyway, what's the point of purposefully limiting your PC's functions...

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TopicSunhawk will now name as many feminists as he can.
TarElessar
06/18/20 5:51:26 PM
#13
Well, Corona had me stuck without a real internet connection for a few months and now that I'm back home I've had to catch up on work for a future publication, so haven't had much time for CE lately unfortunately
Is talking about feminism your new thing these days?

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TopicSunhawk will now name as many feminists as he can.
TarElessar
06/18/20 3:06:24 PM
#11
Oh hey snu, haven't been up to date on CE drama in a while, what's new?
How's the pandemic treating you, you doing ok?

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Topicthere is a waitlist of 500 to get a kitten, what's the easiest way to get one?
TarElessar
06/09/20 10:12:06 PM
#41
Jokes about animal abuse really aren't as funny as you probably think they are.

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TopicPost and I'll draw your username in my 'Petition to Ban TC' pic
TarElessar
05/31/20 10:23:00 PM
#27
Give me some neon green and something purple-ish for contrast please :)

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TopicIn the UK, we generally have GOOD race relations.
TarElessar
05/08/20 2:22:43 PM
#63
lol @ this topic


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TopicHow is Octopath Traveler?
TarElessar
04/19/20 3:22:13 PM
#6
Fun concepts, terrible execution

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TopicWhat's the best Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game?
TarElessar
04/02/20 2:55:09 PM
#2
Sky imo

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TopicI'll probably regret asking these COVID-19 questions.
TarElessar
04/01/20 10:27:26 AM
#6
Really quick answers, someone else can probably do better:

1) It's the official name for it
2) Not be like Trump
3) If they stop socially distancing, it's more likely to spread => bad
4) We're not entirely sure, but most likely not
5) Cough, etc (like a bad flu basically)
6) We're again not entirely sure, we're trying things and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't
7) Depends on the person; satisfaction? - some sense of feeling good about yourself maybe? who knows

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TopicLook for board game players who play Root
TarElessar
03/30/20 6:01:21 AM
#21
It's certainly a game that you need to play a couple of times to get into - if you decide to play it again and need some help / advice, feel free to shoot me a PM or something and I'll try to help :)

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TopicLook for board game players who play Root
TarElessar
03/30/20 5:51:27 AM
#19
Did you not read the attached law of root? They have a secondary rulebook in every box which describes everything in incredible detail, there aren't many things that aren't covered in there.
Incidentally, you can use dominance cards in your decree as usual (only the colour matters for resolving the decree), it's one of the ways to store it so other players can't use it.

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TopicLook for board game players who play Root
TarElessar
03/30/20 5:41:03 AM
#17
I personally wouldn't take them out - they add another layer of strategy where you need to have a think about which clearings would be too dangerous for an enemy to possess. Since the player with dominion only wins on the beginning of their next turn, it makes everyone team up against them and if they can't hold their position, they're screwed for the rest of the game. It's much harder for the birds to win, so it's also a good way to counter balance that. Consider it kind of a final stand of a lower scoring player in late game.

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TopicLook for board game players who play Root
TarElessar
03/30/20 5:25:26 AM
#14
Hey, I play root quite a lot - you could have played it immediately!

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TopicBe sure to click on this topic for good luck!
TarElessar
03/23/20 8:59:54 AM
#17
mario if he real

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TopicStuck in the UK because airline wrongfully denied my flight - how f***ed am I?
TarElessar
03/19/20 3:04:05 PM
#11
Ps2Twilight posted...
This is what I would do since your flight was wrongfully terminated during a pressing situation.
Yeah, I thought about doing that, I'll see if I can get through (they're most likely very busy right now).
Flights to Canada are about to completely stop though, so even if I got some kind of official document from them, it'd most likely too late.

AsucaHayashi posted...
class action maybe?

i find it hard to believe you were singled out for a flight to canada..
I think I got singled out because I had a very flashy EU passport, the rest were mostly Canadians and Americans (I was second in the queue, so idk if it happened to anyone else).

Parappa09 posted...
wait can you claim insurance since CBS said you were wrongfully denied your flight?
I really don't know, I'm sending in a form to find out, but their response times are ~1 month right now...

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TopicStuck in the UK because airline wrongfully denied my flight - how f***ed am I?
TarElessar
03/19/20 2:25:19 PM
#1
Context: I live in Canada but have been in the UK for work for a few months. I have a EU passport, but have permission to live in Canada as part of one of their programmes (although there is unfortunately no exception for this in the closed border regulations).

Situation: I booked a flight back to Canada which was scheduled to fly before the borders closed - at the airport, the flight company told me I wasn't allowed to board because they're following different guidelines which they didn't tell anyone about. They also didn't let me cancel my flight and basically told me to go away since there were more pressing issues for them (couldn't even get a refund for the flight). The Canadian Border Service Agency got back to me and confirmed that I was wrongfully denied that flight but there's nothing they can do now. Now I'm basically stuck here in the UK, paying for accommodation until who knows when, and things are looking like crap because the UK made some incredibly dumb decisions regarding COVID-19.

Should/could I sue? For how much? Any advice/experiences?

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TopicWhy do we know the universe started from a single point?
TarElessar
03/07/20 1:38:42 PM
#34
YellowMustard69 posted...
Because if you take what we know about how the planets and stars have moved since we started observing them, and then apply that formula in reverse to see where they traveled beforehand, they all wind up originating in the same spot.

At least, I think that's right. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Planet formation is not yet well understood and there are many complicated processes which mean we can't reverse the equations of movement, unfortunately.

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TopicCool maths topic
TarElessar
02/26/20 3:03:13 PM
#61
teepan95 posted...
So say if time symmetry were to be broken, would it manifest itself in total energy being created or destroyed?
We're talking about time in a different context here, on the basis of particle processes.
Think more in terms of the flow of entropy - in a universe where we had time reversal, we would head towards a state of zero entropy (as well as most likely remember the future instead of the past and many other thought experiments).

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TopicCool maths topic
TarElessar
02/25/20 4:56:26 PM
#56
Symmetry or why we actually have stuff in our universe

Before the Big Bang, we assume that there was nothing, but why do we have anything at all? If we have equal numbers of particles and anti-particles, why doesnt the anti-part of our universe just annihilate with the part were living in? How could we actually tell the difference between particles and anti-particles to begin with?

The answer to all of those questions (at least in theory) boils down to violations of symmetry in nature. Lets talk a bit about what symmetry actually means. Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge tells us that In physics, a symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system (observed or intrinsic) that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation. Consider we have someone running along a road if we as an observer move along with them (i.e. transform the spatial coordinates), we wouldnt expect the physics to change. We can use some mathematical wizardry to show that any such symmetry corresponds to a physical quantity that shall be conserved. Typical examples you might have heard of are total energy (symmetry of time), spatial momentum (symmetry of space), angular momentum (rotational symmetry of space) and more (conservation of probability, etc).

Lets get back to particle physics: for each particle we shall define three essential symmetries, C (charge symmetry, replacing particles with anti-particles follows the same physics), P (parity, mirroring everything along the three axes still gives the same physics), and T (time, on a local scale switching past and future still gives the same physics). Not all of them seem intuitive, and some of them are indeed violated in some processes. Consider in more detail the notion of parity if we apply the parity operator (mirror operator) to any quantity, we would expect it to either stay the same or get inverted since applying it twice should return us to our original state (-1 x -1 = 1 && +1 x +1 = 1). Following from there (but omitting mathematics), we split particles into two states, left-handed and right-handed (as they can have parity components which give -1 and ones that give +1).

The foundation of the classical radioactive decay we know (beta to be precise) is mitigated by something called the weak force (one of the fundamental forces). Experimental evidence (very strongly) shows that the weak force acts to different degrees on LH and RH states. That basically means that if we start with an equal amount of LH and RH states (since we have no reason to think otherwise), some particles can follow certain decays while others dont. Furthermore, mathematics shows that a total CPT symmetry (i.e. applying all three transformations at once) can never be violated. That leads to the (experimentally proven) result that particles and anti-particles participate in different decays not only can we distinguish them by which decays they follow, but it also explains the symmetry break in matter and why we have particles (instead of anti-particles) to begin with. Interestingly enough, it also means that there are some particles in the universe which can not interact with any other form of particles (or do they really exist if we cant observe them?).

Apologies for the rather lengthy read, idk if anyone is interested in these things to begin with since they have both experimental and theoretical components and people usually only like one of those exclusively.

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TopicCool maths topic
TarElessar
02/25/20 4:23:05 PM
#54
Would anyone actually care if I typed up something about particle physics or exoplanets or something related for this thread?

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TopicWhat are some great Switch games, apart from the really obvious stuff?
TarElessar
02/24/20 10:03:08 AM
#7
I quite enjoyed Lacrimosa of Dana

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TopicCool maths topic
TarElessar
02/23/20 3:28:20 PM
#34
Romes187 posted...
but thatll come later. First just know that we decided to label things red blue or green and these correspond to a charge type. You can then graph the vector in 3 dimensions depending on how much of each color the particle has
We usually use colour isospin and hypercharge though, so SU3 is really more of a 2D representation of the degrees of freedom in colour.

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TopicPost in this topic and I'll block you until 3PM Eastern.
TarElessar
02/22/20 2:23:18 PM
#15
Can you still see the posts if you use the direct link, e.g. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78424680/934731633 ?

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TopicPost in this topic and I'll block you until 3PM Eastern.
TarElessar
02/22/20 2:11:02 PM
#10
Ok :)

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TopicDid any of you here go to an ivy league college?
TarElessar
02/01/20 9:21:09 AM
#18
UK equivalent I guess

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TopicPost 19 gets a free Steam key for Niche
TarElessar
01/21/20 8:21:48 AM
#19
What's that

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TopicThe main bookstore in my area has gotten its second wind, for girls.
TarElessar
01/11/20 8:21:21 AM
#2
Sunhawk posted...
Does YOUR nearest bookstore have great women in it?
No, but at least I leave my house once in a while

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TopicError I literally deleted the post 5 seconds after I made it -_-
TarElessar
01/06/20 3:43:25 PM
#40
Lost_All_Senses posted...
And it was responded to by being upheld with this

"Posting offensive content is not permitted on GameFAQs. This includes linking to or posting content containing sexually explicit material, promoting the sexualization of minors, explicitly promoting terrorism or hate speech, and images or video of real-world violence"

With no added context
Keep in mind that those messages are just the automatically generated standard template for moderations of offensive nature - that doesn't mean we think that you explicitly did one of the listed things (that's why it says "this includes").

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