Lurker > shadowsword87

If you look very closely at him, and do a lot of thinking.
His first name is similar to Penis.

I talked to someone who said they had a chance to work under him.
They don't think he actually believes what he says.

It's heresay, but, I hope so.

JigsawTDC posted...

I have heard good things about Celeste but still have not gotten around to playing it.

It's a good game, you should try it out if you want a hard platformer.

Johnny Eagle posted...

...........pretty sure I've seen this topic before

Such is the law of PotD.

I've started to cut back, only a few spoonfuls for me.
I think it's important to keep health in mind.

Happy birfday.

It's fine.
You're overreacting.

EDIT:
And hunkering down to defend your position, it's ok, let people start emails how they want.

I honestly appreciate how much he's fallen into the self-meme territory. You don't see a lot of people do it, but I'm happy.

Lick the oil that's coming out.
It tastes good.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Everytime I hear X community is nice its always the furthest thing from nice.

I've dealt with a lot of different communities. The most recent one I've been in had a lot of twitter-isms in it, and generally a bunch of "well I don't want to talk about that" as a response to any sort of criticism. Also even saying "that sounds more like depression" is met with 10 people rolling in with "what's all this about unrequested psychiatric advice, how dare they".
The one before that was 4chan-derived, where places banning the n-word was considered a heinous crime by a not-insignificant number of people.

This is the only community I've seen where I can say things like "I like 4e DnD", and not get shit on immediately, because people will listen to me. Where, when I ask about a game, and for someone to show me the ropes, someone showed up, and has spent a solid 6 hours playing games with me, just to explain the mechanics. Where people are more than willing to just help out and show the various pdfs of the rulebooks, because someone was just randomly curious.

It's not perfect, you still get your fair share of assholes, and internet-badasses. But, like, fuck man, it's hard to find a place with a decent amount of people and it not being the worst from one thing or another.

funkyfritter posted...

Small communities built around niche hobbies tend to be nice. If they aren't, they die out completely in short order.

That just ain't true, some of the most toxic people I've ever seen were for a tiny game, Space Station 13 on the old platform BYOND.

Seriously, I don't know what it is with these guys, but I've experienced nothing but love and a willingness to teach.

Every, and I mean every, other TTRPG, videogame, wargame, whatever, community I've seen has a deep shitty and holier-than-thou streak through it.

There's an honest to god friendly rivalry between the inner sphere and the clanners, and in no way mean. I've been constantly flabbergasted at it.

Some nice home cooked bread.
Nothing fancy about it, maybe with some cheese.

Naw, I'm more against the idea of getting soapy water on my fruit.

I wish him all the best.

Mead posted...

Wait, is that fruit over on the top right? Not silverware?

A whole nine? Oh baby that's gotta have at least two cores.

TheNobleWoodApe posted...

I'm not the a****** here. The bullies are the a******s.

You're 100% acting like a bully though.
Being shitty, and expecting other people to be shitty back at you to toughen them up is bullying. You can think it's for a good reason, but you're not acting any better than they are.

What do you mean, I thought this was a brand new account with no relationship to a hard alcohol from Tennessee.

It may also be because a lot of videogames cater to neurodivergent types, and most trans people are neurodivergent.

Probably not, you're likely looking for things like the older complicated wargames.

Ah, so let's just go through the basic types of combat lasers: pulse lasers, IR lasers, and continues beam lasers.

At the moment, we don't have pulse lasers in actual combat. In theory, pulse lasers can go into the GW of energy range. That amount of energy is enough to vaporize metal and cause all sorts of issues. The issue is that, at the end of the day, it's still just light, so a sufficiently reflective material can just... bounce the laser off.

IR lasers are what are used for targeting a lot of the time. Basically, you have a laser shooting out light at a frequency too low for humans to see, but plenty bright for machines to see. So you lase a target, hold it steady on them, and then drop a missile targeted on that lase point. It's illegal (or a warcrime, I'm not smart enough to figure that out) to have a machine do that lasing, so it's done all through human hands. In the future maybe that changes, but that's what it is right now, and what people use right now.

Modern continues beam lasers basically just fuck up cameras. There's some sort of AI that hones in on the sensing module, blast it with lasers, so it fucks up the honing part of a honing missile. The term the navy uses is "dazzle", and that's what you see in the navy ships (I was looking it up because I like lasers). These don't need to be super powerful, it just needs to be accurate.
It's also illegal (or a war crime) to use lasers to blind someone. That's way easier to do than you think, I've got a 1.2W handheld laser that I mess around with, and that can easily blind someone. If you had an AI that just blinded all of the enemies, it would do way more damage than you would ever imagine.

EDIT:
Oh right, the units can be either watts, or lumens for a laser. Either's fine, people use watts for the technical side, but there's no reason to not use lumens.

Joules, that's what you're looking for.
Watts is for electricity, joules is for kinetic energy.

It's one part energy, it's also based on the formation of the bullet.
Throwing a block won't be as effective as throwing a knife.

TV president.

Arcturusisnow posted...

Slowbeef and Diabeetus

Wow that's an old reference.

Mine broke, so I went back to my cheap af headphones.

Jen0125 posted...

I've tried Panda Express twice and didn't like it. What am I doing wrong?

Gotta lower your expectations, it's still fast food.

Also, their rice game is bad, just get noodles.

From what I understand: Someone could make an NFT for something that they don't... own?

Panda Express is annoyingly delicious.

wwinterj25 posted...

Nah. Countryside folk have more respect then anyone for me.

Then why are they the ones spreading it?

MartianManchild posted...

Also I didnt want to get personal with this because I know how some of you trolls like to use the disabilities of siblings against them, but my older sister has a compromised immune system and is unable to receive vaccines. She now has a PhD in engineering and never had to receive any type of vaccination to attend school at any level due to a medical exemption. You have no idea what youre talking about.

Yes, you are correct, immunocompromised people cannot get certain types of vaccines.
So it would be best for you to get the vaccine, so you're less likely to give it to her. You can help keep her safe by doing it.

MartianManchild posted...

Lmao. Im done talking to you because now youre just shifting the conversation all over the place. Believe it or not there are doctors out there who are not vaccinated. I can tell that these truth nuggets really hurt you but theyre good for you in the long run.

Nice evidence bro.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I mainly just don't like ascribing personality traits to genders as I've always seen them as wildly inconsistent

Honestly same, I've found a lot of people ascribe male or female roles to things that... don't need to exist.

Just imagine how awful this would be if Twitter didn't ban Trump.

Hopefully, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission twitter keeps all of their people safe.

I'm confident that the saftey critters will be ok.

Mead posted...

you know any?

Nah, if I did know any ghosts I would use them to become a ghost buster-racketeer.
Tell the ghost to fuck up a house so they call me, and if they don't pay my exorbitant rates, then the ghost gets to fuck up more shit.

Why don't we ask ghosts these things.

I was nice to a trans person on discord, why aren't all of the ladies coming to me in droves, don't they know I was nice to someone.

I demand signals for my virtuousness, like a beacon.

May I suggest my favorite thing: the timeshare lich.
Come over to my area, you will live in paradise. But when you die, your body is used as a skeleton to make other people a paradise doing farm stuff, or whatever.
Consensual body farming.

I don't think it's fair to reference DS9 for the gene roddenberry style star trek.
It's like asking what Picard from the picard show would do if he was in TNG, it's a very different view on everything.

wwinterj25 posted...

Probably best as you've known each other a long time and are just showing concern. I admit I've been drinking a lot more during this pandemic but not as bad as this and I'm not addicted. Who knows? Maybe your friend isn't addicted too and he just likes a drink but it's best to get it out in the open. I'm sure he won't think you're being a nag. If he is a addict the best you can do is offer support and suggest AA meetings or something if he wants to help himself.

There's someone I know online who would take two shots at lunch, and drink 20-25 beers a night.
It can be pretty clear when it's addiction.

Also, want to know if it's addiction or not? Take a break and see how your body reacts.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Roddenberry would have argued that a group like Section 31 literally could not exist in his universe, whereas most modern writers and audiences find it all too likely.

I honestly think that Section 31 would be the most interesting group to follow in Star Trek.
Mostly because I want to imagine what war crimes look like when you can teleport bees into someone's head, or planet-wide stun people.

TigerTycoon posted...

Well, it's more accurate to say that the crew of TNG's enterprise are the 0.1% "perfect people" group who want to work for the sake of working even if it kills them.

There are a few preachy TNG episodes that talk about how all of humanity is that way now, people don't fear death and just want to keep improving humanity, and old humanity was weird for not thinking the same, but that is not reflected in many other Star Trek shows outside of TNG (even within the same timeline).

Hell, we don't even see the B Crew who has to walk in after a hellscape episode and figure out what the hell they did to the engine.

Oh hell yeah, the weirder the better.

Honestly, I can't think of any other folklore with such an intense conspiracy throughline.

Hell yeah, I have some Costa Rica money from when my parents went down there, but I don't have anything else other than american and some canadian pennies.

That's fair, I'm not interested in actually using foreign currency, I just think it would be neat to have some Chinese coins, Japanese coins, EU coins, or whatever in a jar.

What's the easy lazy way of getting foreign currency? Is there some website that I can give $20 for them to send me a box full of random coins?