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Cpt. Obvious
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On 12/13/2017 at 9:11 AM, hkmaly said:(And, technically, The Smurfs, as they are originally in French despite created in Belgium and originally comics despite being more popular as animated television series.)
They've animated The Smurfs? First I've ever heard about that... What's next? Animating Gaston, Spirou or Lucky Luke?
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11 hours ago, hkmaly said:Obviously, someone in Pan Am management thinks that they look more elegant when walking than flying. Or maybe just more traditional.
(Also, filming the flying would cost more. In fact, even the walking effect was done better in later movies ... but it was new untested idea in 1968.)
It could also be argued that as this is supposedly a vessel used to transport passengers between earth and the orbiting stations it often is chock full of landlubbers who have no or very little experience in how to move in microgravity. Having the cabin attendants use their velcro soled shoes (or was it magnetic soles? It's been a long time since I watched this flick) to "walk" may cut down on the number of passengers helplessly bouncing about the cabin trying to get to the loo...
Just think of the problems live cargo like this poses. A few ground hogs flailing about when you need to do a acceleration burn can cause a lot of problems, and waiting until they've been hauled back to their seats and strapped down isn't an option when you are trying to match velocity with a space station or are maneuvering to hit the window to make a landing at a specific spaceport down the well.
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14 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:2001 had one big goof that bothered me even back before 2001.
Why would the people working in spaceships without artificial gravity go to the effort of acting like they are walking?
Floating is so much more efficient and fun.You think of the huge wheel used to generate a pseudo gravity? Simple answer is that the human body works much better with a bit of gravity. Circulatory systems, digestion, sleep. And these are just the things I can think of right now.
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3 hours ago, WR...S said:So, er, is that actual whiskey? I mean, it'd probably be a bit much to bring Hanma up on charges for supplying whiskey to 18-year-olds, but it might make the game a bit hard to market if it couldn't be sold even in US sex shops...
Actually it's supposed to be brandy. Looks like it all started with this painting by Edwin Landseer back in 1820. Ever since st. Bernards has been depicted as carrying these casks with brandy to people being lost in the Alps. Supposedly the brandy was to warm the unfortunate traveler who had got caught in the snow and was in danger of freezing to death. We now know that this would be an exceptionally bad idea as all the alcohol would do was to increase the blood flow to the skin, making the victim radiate more heat and freeze to death even faster, though possibly a bit happier about the whole thing...
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2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:In the webcomic Girl Genius there may be found some rather easygoing and good-natured horrors known as the Jägermonsters. All of them have huge mouths with rows of shark teeth. One of their officers is named Jenka and she is so scary that the other Jägers are afraid of her. The first few times we saw her, she constantly wore a muffler that hid her mouth and teeth. Oddly enough, that made her seem more intimidating than her fellow Jägers even though they were the ones flaunting their big scary teeth.
The last time she reappeared we finally got to see her without her muffler. As it turns out, she has a perfectly normal mouth and teeth that look just like those of an ordinary human. The reason she wears the muffler while together with the rest of the Jägers is that she is kind of embarrassed by this.
Ahhh... But Jenka has backup in the teeth department in the form of Füst. I'd estimate that between them they've got enough teeth to more than match most Jäger, with the exception of General Goomblast and possibly General Khrizhan...
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13 hours ago, hkmaly said:Hmmmm ... well it's possible that while Patrick Stewart is good actor, Picard isn't and though he can't say "Yes, they will be there" convincingly enough. Also, it's possible Picard, as captain and not scientists or technician, really doesn't know.
In any case, based on what we know about holograms, his wife might not even exists (is not part of program) and the simulation will stop processing the moment Picard closes door.
I thought the standard procedure was to halt the simulation and store the instance so it could be resumed from the exact point. At least I think they implemented that as the standard after the Moriarty incident. The problem there being that the simulation wasn't halted when the users left the holo deck allowing Moriarty to observe them leave and by experimentation deduce that he existed in a simulation, and that once the simulation ended he would either be reset to the default state or just frozen in time until someone "real" decided to open that simulation again. Don't remember the details though, so it might have been a malfunction caused by some external source that caused the simulation to keep running. It's been ages since I saw that episode.
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1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:Knowing Susan, I suspect that is not going to happen. She might suggest to Diane that she run, mind you, but whether Diane will run if Susan stays I really don't know. I don't think so, but I am not sure. Temporarily retreat maybe, but leave?
Yea... That's some seriously bad timing, though Jerry didn't really have much choice in the matter. But even at the best of times having some strange guy (I'm guessing she haven't met Jerry 2.0 yet, and I doubt she can see the resemblance, at least not at a glance) barging in and telling her to get the #@%! out of the mall would have Susan question his sanity. And to do so when she's upset at the thought of Dianes dates trying to decide what she's eating... Not a good idea.
You have some fast talking to do Jerry, and not a lot of time to do so if you want to avoid the wrath of Susan. Oh, and after this I'd say getting her to leave the mall would take a small miracle.
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1 hour ago, hkmaly said:Wait, in Egypt incest marriages were totally legitimate weren't they?
Legitimate or not I still think it's a bad idea. Some claims keeping it in the family makes it easier to keep track of the family tree, but I see it as problematic when it comes to breakups. Breaking up in an ordinary relationship is hard enough, but you can at least go your separate ways. Break up with your sister or mother and you are more or less forced to kill them to get some quiet, and that tends to upset the rest of the family.
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2 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:I've seen three car fires so far and was in two of the cars that were on fire. I put out the last two. Fortunately I was a fair distance from the one that exploded.
Note to self: Don't let Tom any where near any car I own, has borrowed or rented, unless I hate it, and then only after checking the insurance first...
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4 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:Ooh, a permanently calm Ashley who can make other people calm at will? Would the other Ashley have spells that affect the moods of others, or be able to magically control her own moods, or what?
I don't think the world could survive two Ashley. She has to little of the ugly to split off for another of her. The cuteness and honesty would reach deadly levels whenever they came in contact.
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5 hours ago, hkmaly said:... is the Calm spell similar to the Serenity spell Jerry used?
The effect might be similar, but this one isn't nearly as fuzzy.
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12 hours ago, Don Edwards said:The gutter, below the gutter, or the perv box?
The gutter, definitely the gutter. Not pervy enough to qualify for anything lower than that. Though as a regular perv box resident I can extrapolate enough details to make it deliciously indecent. It just takes lots of training...
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I keep reading and reading this thread and it seems everyone thinks Sirlek will just leave Ellen once he can get at whoever is his long time host of choice. I don't think he's that civilized. After all what would he have to gain from leaving her alive? However killing her has several advantages, such as keeping her from telling anyone about being possessed. I don't know how much the host remembers of what Sirlek did while possessing them, but if I were to guess I'd say they remember all of it. If that's the case he certainly would want to kill off his former hosts as soon as he's able to get at the next. Sure leaving a short term host babbling about demons and possession every ten years or so might be fine. Almost no one would actually believe them, and most of those who might believe will be total nutcases with no real knowledge or ability to track him down. But here and now in Mopherville he knows there are immortals, magic users and even hunters just about everywhere, and a lot of these would track him down just because they hate creatures like him, and if they have any connection to a former host of his there will be nowhere to hide.
Now I know Ellen most probably is protected by plot armor, but Sirlek doesn't know this...
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10 hours ago, Scotty said:What if using that potion wasn't cheating though, what if before the match Magus went to Terra was said "Hey, I just got this new defence potion recipe! wanna test it out?" and it turned out the recipe wasn't for a defence potion after all. Magus did say he was an alchemist too (he even claimed to know how to turn straw into gold).
I took the whole thing as him speaking that way out of frustration over not being able to do anything. Maybe Magus knows someone in his world that's like Nanase, but male.
To me this looked a lot like Magus was frustrated and prepared to try just about anything to get more power, including using "forbidden" magic. Not entirely unlike Noah, only he didn't have an Adrian Raven to keep him in check. Forbidden magic tends to be forbidden for a reason. Either it is something like the Cruciatus curse in the Harry Potter universe, a spell intended to cause intense and excruciating pain to the degree that the subject can die or suffer severe mental damage, or it's unstable and likely to misfire in spectacular and dangerous ways if the casting isn't performed perfectly. Even so it seems students often search for these forbidden spells and curses believing that learning the secrets will make them more powerful. One such case was Sparrowhawk in the Earthsea. When provoked to duel with an older student he manages to get access to books about forbidden magic and tries to use one of these with quite terrifying results.
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Eh... So, in the first panel Rohdas gym shorts has transformed into some kind of bikini bottom, only to revert in panel three...
What? Why I was staring at Rohdas non shorts? Well the way she's sitting and...
Look, isn't that a demonic duck? (runs off)
"Make way! Pervbox control, I'm coming in hot, prepare for crash landing!"
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On 11/7/2017 at 2:25 AM, hkmaly said:I haven't seen nor heard about any evidence supporting the existence of triangles. Despite that, there are lot of useful mathematics developed on those pure abstract objects having properties not possible in reality, like sum of angles 180 degrees (real universe is curved), sides with two dimensions zero (there are speculations about gravitation singularities which almost have this property, but noone saw them yet), zero volume, and keeping shape perfectly while rotating.
Possible non-existence of angels doesn't make the question useless.
But triangles has been observed in the wild, and by studying them I've found that the current accepted knowledge coincides with my observations regarding their properties. As far as I'm able to determine without further investigation triangles exist and they behave as the mathematical models predicts. Angels? Not so much.
And I didn't say the question was useless, just that the option of any answer being imaginary had to be included.
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22 hours ago, hkmaly said:I'm not sure what you mean so I just drop few links here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F
https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i3/angels-7-3.htm
I haven't seen nor heard about any evidence supporting the existence of angels, so I have to consider it highly possible that any number bantered about when talking about them is just as fictive as the angels themselves are likely to be.
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55 minutes ago, hkmaly said:She might also fool around with a girl at the same time, if the party was wild enough. But I don't think she would be such type.
I would add the classical "how many angels can fit on the head of a pin" but that is actually valid question if you realize it's not about specific number but just if it's finite or infinite.
How about fictive?
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14 hours ago, The Old Hack said:Don't remind me. Danish Parliament just started to fight over next year's budget.
I dare you to ask them about simplifying PI...
It might even bring some good if they become preoccupied with fighting over it, and just maybe it would expose some of the most uneducated among them, though that would require the voters to actually care...
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2 hours ago, Scotty said:9 hours ago, hkmaly said:10 hours ago, Scotty said:Diane did so know about Rhoda being gay, I knew Rhoda and Catalina were worrying over nothing.
Considering how badly Rhoda and Catalina were hiding it, it would be surprising if detective Diane didn't noticed.
Also ... would she REALLY be ok with Rhoda before knowing about Nanase and getting over Rick? We can't say for certain now ... but she DID called Justin defective.
She might have treated Justin the way she did because he reminded her of Rick? Maybe she had the same experience with Rick that Melissa had with Justin and when she heard about Justin from Melissa's Sister in school, it hit close to home?
I think over the course of the past couple weeks, she's really been looking at how she feels about things, or maybe she's known this for a while (like back when she was trying to recruit Nanase into her group)
Overall, it's possible that Diane considered gay men in a separate category than gay women back then, like "it's ok if women are gay because they don't affect me" so it's not like she would have thought all gay people were defective, just gay men.
Diane has grown over time. When first introduced she was extremely shallow, and the only interest she seemed to have in men was in how much money and gifts she could get out of them. Looking at it that way gay men were "defective" as they didn't serve what she considered their only purpose; spending money on gifts and pampering her.
This didn't make her a nice person, or the comment any less offensive, but at least it wasn't necessarily based on homophobia.
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2 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:Doesn't mean it isn't appropriate. Besides, Susan hasn't summoned the duck yet.
I sort of agree, but her dad was caught hugging an almost naked young blonde in the only home Susan has ever known. If he did it once and got away with it, what are the chances he wouldn't do something like that again?
Whether or not Susan's dad was her "real" dad doesn't really matter; he was the father Susan loved unconditionally until the moment she caught him cheating on her mom (doesn't matter if Mrs. Pompoms is her "real" mom, either). He didn't just score a penalty, he's been banned from the game, even if Susan does still feel for him. And if Adrian Raven does turn out to be Susan's biological father, Susan's going to be at least as angry with him as Dad #1 unless Adrian does some powerful good 'splainin'. The most acceptable explanation if in that case is that Adrian, believing he couldn't father children (or mother them if he can change his gender), has made occasional whoopee with various willing partners over the centuries, and that Susan and/or Diane are the result of a brief liaison 19 years ago after which the mother decided to put the result(s) up for adoption and not to tell Adrian. And if he blonde was Susan's real mother, her plan might have been just to wait until she was sure Cheating Dad was asleep to go up and look at her child sleeping before leaving.
When that happened Diane wasn't old enough to really understand what it meant. All she really knows about it is probably what her mother has told her as she grew up, and that the big blow up happened after she saw her father with the blonde woman. I don't think she stopped loving him that day, but that it was something that grew as she started to understand what had happened that day. What we don't know is her fathers version of the story. I'm not saying her mother has twisted the truth, just that it's often hard to find out what happened to cause a break up if all you have to go on is what one of them says.
Even if there's no malicious intent a parent can screw their kid up real easy by omitting to mention details that is either slightly embarrassing or something they think might be confusing for their child.
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On 10/23/2017 at 9:20 AM, K^2 said:Rules would have to be adapted to fit the mechanics, anyhow. Trying to use rules designed for a board game in a video game directly is a folly. I know some guys who worked on PC version of MTG. Trying to codify all of the special text on each card was a nightmare, because humans interpret rules very different from machines. Something that has an intuitive resolution in written rules to players is a critical bug waiting to happen when the conditions are just right on a machine. And yes, conflicts occasionally happen even in traditional MTG, but there you can at least argue about the rules, trying to come up with a resolution. When playing a game on PC, no such luxury.
I had friends who bought MTG for the PC on launch. The amount of buggs in that game on day one was hilarious. I kind of knew it would be that way as I'd tried my hand at something similar, though much simpler, years earlier. Trying to codify a flexible rules system to something a computer can handle isn't for the faint of heart. A computer takes instructions very literally, and that's a good thing for most situations, but feed it a stack of MTG cards and things will rapidly fall apart. While some cards can easily be classified it's the interesting cards with their complex rules and exceptions that screws things up. I *think* it was eventually playable, but it took a lot of patching, and broken combos and weird rule interpretations kept turning up for a long time.
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On 10/21/2017 at 5:25 AM, hkmaly said:Yes we should totally pretend to care ... although I'm not sure why. It's not like they would have child together.
Hey! I care! Don't let the slack jaw and drooling fool you...
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On 10/21/2017 at 7:14 AM, hkmaly said:Yes. And while she might like her job, it's not exactly the same level of "I would be there even if I wouldn't work there" job as Justins. (Note: Literally in George's case.)
I have a feeling George might have been that kid who spent more time in the store than any of the actual employees, and ended up being hired because he not only knew everything there were to know about comics, but he could be trusted to be there on time no matter what.
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Well... Edward might be right about your average Immortal, but I doubt there has been a lot of them going so far beyond their Best Before date as Pandora. So while it's possible she is weak on the physical plane we don't know how weak. There might not be much of a difference between her and say Jerry just before he started his death process, or she could be several times as strong. Only thing certain is that we don't know right now.