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NFUN
08/31/19 2:19:48 AM
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I will block you if you use the astronomer's definition
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Snake5555555555
08/31/19 3:56:13 AM
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Obscura - Convergence

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08/31/19 4:00:18 AM
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trivium - into the mouths of hell we march

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08/31/19 4:07:56 AM
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UF8
08/31/19 4:46:51 AM
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Mr Lasastryke
08/31/19 5:39:17 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxF-s96Igc" data-time="

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Bane_Of_Despair
08/31/19 7:50:24 AM
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Night Verses - Copper Wasp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORztImWsZk" data-time="

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NFUN
08/31/19 12:27:45 PM
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Snake5555555555 posted...
Obscura - Convergence

sounds like alestorm at points

Steiner posted...
trivium - into the mouths of hell we march

the growling isnt intolerable somehow

greengravy294 posted...
Tungsten

A pretty weird metal. It's in that heavy transition region with metals like osmium and iridium, so it's heavy as well as pretty underappreciated. I don't think most people know its alternative name Wolfram, but without that cool name I'm not sure why it has the popular presence that it does. I don't think it's overhyped like titanium is, just more well known.

Its notable physical and chemical features are too dry to be very interesting, save for its insane melting point. It doesn't melt until like 3000C/6000F which is incredible. It also poses the unique issue that we can't really play around with its liquid form much. It faces the same issue as the universal solvent: what do you hold it in?

I think I'm a little biased against it because I think osmium and iridium are much cooler, but I have to give it respect for its absurd dedication to remaining solid

UF8 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/community/MetalmindStats

doesnt like rice metal

Mr Lasastryke posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxF-s96Igc" data-time="

I listened to some of mycro's umbreon playlist yesterday and snuff from this was there

Bane_Of_Despair posted...
Night Verses - Copper Wasp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORztImWsZk" data-time="

Honestly, fuck copper. I'm sick of copper. Copper is the basic bitch of conductors. If it weren't so common and ductile, nobody would use it. I'm tired of its stupid orange color and its goddamn ubiquity. It's never on a y-level you want to mine at and nobody even cares enough to even finish mining/smelting setups with it because it's stupid and it sucks.

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Tungsten
Copper

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
into the Mouths of Hell we March
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metalmindstats
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Murphiroth
08/31/19 12:38:43 PM
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NFUN
08/31/19 12:55:15 PM
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Murphiroth posted...
Atium

Mistborn spoilers:
Sanderson is one of my favorite writers because his worlds and magic systems are always super thoughtfully developed, especially when you start getting into the Cosmere and comparing how the different Shards work. Ruin and Preservation (and later Harmony) manifesting their physical power as metals is so cool and in-tune with the books, and the sleight-of-hand going on in the background of Hero of Ages is so satisfying to see when everything clicks together according to both unseen and long-forgotten plans.

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Atium
Tungsten
Copper

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
into the Mouths of Hell we March
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metalmindstats
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pyresword
08/31/19 1:15:36 PM
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Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
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NFUN
08/31/19 1:31:06 PM
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pyresword posted...
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)

Fire, water, air, dirt, fucking magnets, how do they work? Ferromagnetism is a very cool phenomenon, though hysteresis is a little frightening to me, can't wait to do that in my lab. I *might* go down a condensed matter route for grad school, so terms like "high carrier mobility" and "rectangular hysteresis loops" and "Curie temperature", which I understand in principle but don't necessarily get, will likely become increasingly relevant to me. I might end up working with this or something very similar.

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Tungsten
Copper

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
into the Mouths of Hell we March
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metalmindstats
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Mr Lasastryke
08/31/19 1:46:47 PM
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evidently, mycro was dead wrong about you having good taste in music!
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NFUN
08/31/19 2:02:13 PM
#15:


i liked snuff a lot!

and everything above "metalmindstats" is good
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Arti
08/31/19 2:17:57 PM
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NFUN
08/31/19 2:27:03 PM
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Arti posted...
Platinum

Platinum is the epitome of an overrated metal. You might think that gold would fill this role properly, but it is pretty and unique, definitely distinct from other metals. Titanium isn't much stronger than steel IIRC, but it is lighter, so it can be said it deserves at least some of its glory. Copper isn't a fabulous conductor, but it is common, so its omnipresence is well explained. Platinum has an unremarkable color, is less conductive than other common metals, isn't notably strong, etc. It's pretty stable, sure, and easy to work with, so it definitely has its uses. I'll admit that its catalytic properties are cool. However, its only real claim to fame is in its rarity. It's completely vapid.

getting plats can be fun in some circumstances

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Tungsten
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
into the Mouths of Hell we March
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metalmindstats
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Shaduln
08/31/19 2:37:25 PM
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Mercury
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redrocket
08/31/19 2:39:17 PM
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Hafnium

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handsomeboy2012
08/31/19 2:52:45 PM
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Tin
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NFUN
08/31/19 3:36:19 PM
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MycroProcessor posted...
On The Virg - Native Metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gXeA1mcdm0" data-time="


on the virg is the same composer&drummer as all the planet x stuff.

also I like snuff a lot more than desert girl too actually, but basically every planet x song is 9/10+ for me lol so that doesn't mean much, in most ranking things they'd both be around the top for me

the beginning made me uncomfortable
Shaduln posted...
Mercury

This doesn't even need a writeup

redrocket posted...
Hafnium

There's a very famous allegory told by Milton Friedman about how no one person can really grasp the complexities of international relationships and trades that go on all of the time to make something so simple as a pencil. Metallurgy and material science is kind of like that to me in a more fundamental manner. Sure, you can broadly predict the behavior of different compounds theoretically, but so many weird, unpredicted results are everywhere for everything.

I had a school iPad a few years ago with an app of an interactive periodic table. It only gave short blurbs for each element, yet I loved it because it described uses and properties of elements I barely remember exist. So, I was expecting hafnium to be a typical transition element that's not really special besides being weirdly good at making yellow dyes and happens to have widespread use in a specific type of nail galvanization... and it pretty much is, just with nuclear stuff. It has a high nuclear cross-section so it sees some use in nuclear control rods, and has a metastable excited nuclear state with very high energies, around 2.5 MeV which is like 5 electron mass's worth of energy. Those photons could create electron-positron pairs. Neat! DARPA also once tried to weaponize this.

Hafnium has about the same radius, electronegativity and first few ionization energies of zirconium, despite being 32 atomic numbers above it. The 4f electrons apparently provide poor nuclear shielding, presumably because of their wacky-ass orbits, and the atoms end up looking similar taking this into account. I knew effects vaguely like this existed, but not this one specifically.

So hafnium itself isn't that cool. I'll give it points for how arcane some of its properties are and for it being a learning experience for me.

handsomeboy2012 posted...
Tin

I mean, it's tin. It's aight. You can solder and shit with it. it's one of those wacky elements that retain Latin abbreviations for its symbol, like mercury above. Tin is stannum, and mercury is like hydrargentum or some shit. Hydrargyrum, apparently.

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Hafnium
Tungsten
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metalmindstats
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kateee
08/31/19 3:49:55 PM
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gold
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pyresword
08/31/19 4:11:14 PM
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
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NFUN
08/31/19 4:23:55 PM
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kateee posted...
gold

Like I mentioned earlier, it has a unique color and it's pretty. Got me to read about relativistic chemistry in a slightly different route than hafnium, which is nice. If I'm not mistaken, isolated gold nanoparticles have a vibrant red color. That's fun

MycroProcessor posted...
https://soundcloud.com/modeseven-1/idola-the-strange-fruits-phantasy-star-online-metal-cover

oh not the holy that's why i was confused. got the pso feel down in a different direction

pyresword posted...
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

hrnnngh... colonel

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Hafnium
Tungsten
Gold
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
IDOLA the Strange Fruits (Cover)
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
Into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metalmindstats
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Arti
08/31/19 5:07:32 PM
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NFUN
08/31/19 5:08:14 PM
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MycroProcessor posted...
xaki - over-nove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxkPwDZ8iLs" data-time="

i should finish listening through umineko at some point

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Hafnium
Tungsten
Gold
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
IDOLA the Strange Fruits (Cover)
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
Into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
over-nove
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metalmindstats
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MetalmindStats
08/31/19 5:59:48 PM
#31:


NFUN posted...
and everything above "metalmindstats" is good

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Mr Lasastryke
08/31/19 6:56:00 PM
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NFUN posted...
and everything above "metalmindstats" is good


oh ok, you didn't seem enthused about the track by your writeup so it was hard to tell. i guess your taste is passable, then.

i love snuff but it doesn't have allan holdsworth so it's inferior to desert girl.
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NFUN
08/31/19 7:11:32 PM
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i'm only giving detailed writeups to things i originally intended to rank
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Arti
08/31/19 7:28:11 PM
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NFUN posted...
i'm only giving detailed writeups to things i originally intended to rank

what about Metal Sonic
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NFUN
08/31/19 7:31:55 PM
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Arti posted...
NFUN posted...
i'm only giving detailed writeups to things i originally intended to rank

what about Metal Sonic

sorry zen i dont really care

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Hafnium
Tungsten
Gold
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
IDOLA the Strange Fruits (Cover)
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
Into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
over-nove
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Sonic
Metalmindstats
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redrocket
08/31/19 7:49:44 PM
#36:


Caesium

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Shaduln
08/31/19 8:01:05 PM
#37:


I demand my writeup
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Zyxyz0
08/31/19 8:41:13 PM
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Sodium
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NFUN
08/31/19 9:47:33 PM
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redrocket posted...
Caesium

Caesium looks golden for the same reason gold is, so that automatically places it on the same tier. However, instead of being an unreactive little bitch, it blows the fuck up whenever any slutty atoms so much as glance at its electron.

Shaduln posted...
I demand my writeup

I know nothing about MGS2 except codex memes, Fission Mailed and "turn the game console off now". It is lower than things I know enough about to like and above the things I actually don't care about or like.

Zyxyz0 posted...
Sodium

Less fun in all senses, from pyrotechnical to semantic to quantum, than caesium. Nice spectral line colors though

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Atium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Caesium
Hafnium
Tungsten
Gold
Sodium
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
IDOLA the Strange Fruits (Cover)
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
Into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
over-nove
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Sonic
Metalmindstats
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PIayer_0
08/31/19 9:57:41 PM
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U
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NFUN
08/31/19 10:02:52 PM
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PIayer_0 posted...
U

What a classic. Great color, especially when used to make pretty, fluorescent glassware. Radioactive enough to be interesting, but with stable isotopes to be safe when you want it. A great deal of history, which hardly needs to be mentioned. Encouraged significant advances in physics, and chemistry in general, not just radio- or industrial. Dense as hell, so it can ironically be used as shielding in some situations, or, perhaps regretfully, in ammunition. Honestly, it's the full package, and is a great introduction to so many fields in science.

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Atium
Uranium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Caesium
Hafnium
Tungsten
Gold
Sodium
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Copper Wasp
IDOLA the Strange Fruits (Cover)
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
Into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
over-nove
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Sonic
Metalmindstats
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Place
08/31/19 10:15:25 PM
#42:


Beryllium

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Shaduln
08/31/19 10:59:20 PM
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NFUN posted...
I know nothing about MGS2 except codex memes, Fission Mailed and "turn the game console off now". It is lower than things I know enough about to like and above the things I actually don't care about or like.

I nominated Mercury not MGS2.
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TomNook
08/31/19 11:04:00 PM
#44:


Freddie Mercury
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NFUN
08/31/19 11:17:44 PM
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Shaduln posted...
NFUN posted...
I know nothing about MGS2 except codex memes, Fission Mailed and "turn the game console off now". It is lower than things I know enough about to like and above the things I actually don't care about or like.

I nominated Mercury not MGS2.

oh sorry

Mercury: it's a fucking cool-ass beady liquid metal
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NFUN
09/01/19 11:55:58 AM
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Place posted...
Beryllium

Doesn't really excite me much, but the minerals it forms are very nice.

TomNook posted...
Freddie Mercury

This doesn't even need a writeup

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Atium
Uranium
Monolayer iron germanium telluride (Fe3GeTe2)
Mercury
Caesium
Hafnium
Tungsten
Gold
Beryllium
Sodium
Tin
Copper
Platinum

Wrong metal
Freddie Mercury
Copper Wasp
IDOLA the Strange Fruits (Cover)
Harmony Square Station (Combat)
Into the Mouths of Hell we March
Native Metal
over-nove
Desert Girl
Convergence
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Sonic
Metalmindstats
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Shaduln
09/02/19 1:03:14 AM
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NFUN posted...
Shaduln posted...
NFUN posted...
I know nothing about MGS2 except codex memes, Fission Mailed and "turn the game console off now". It is lower than things I know enough about to like and above the things I actually don't care about or like.

I nominated Mercury not MGS2.

oh sorry

Mercury: it's a fucking cool-ass beady liquid metal

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