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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #960 on: October 22, 2015, 10:17:04 PM »
Oktoberfest(SC/Brazil) was amazing. Managed to drink about 75% of all the drafts that were being served in the event, which, given that it was done in the course of 2 days, i think is pretty amazing. Liver is shot to hell and back, i must've drank over 4,5L of beer each day, not counting what i drank as a "warm-up" prior to the event itself!

Now, to go at least two weeks without a single drop of alcohol to give my system time to recover...
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #961 on: October 22, 2015, 11:15:11 PM »
We stopped "cutting it open to see what's inside" over a hundred years ago.  Now we do it in a controlled way.  They wouldn't just come here and start cutting us up.  They'd observe, and then when someone dies of natural causes, cut that person up and see what's inside.
Uh...that's kind of what we still do, especially if samples are plentiful and you require a lot of detailed study, you'd disassemble a bunch for details. Scanning is nice, but controlled disassembly remains one of the best ways to obtain as much detail on a subject as possible.

A bit late to this discussion, but I just wanted to point out that human biologists will kill living specimens  for study purposes even if samples are rare. Like, "Nobody else had photos of this bird yet" rare. It could've been the last living specimen for all we knew. Modern scientists still put it in the chopping block.

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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #962 on: October 23, 2015, 12:23:03 AM »
From the article('s headline even): "controversy as scientist does something a lot of scientists don't like him doing".
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #963 on: October 23, 2015, 05:20:41 PM »
Oktoberfest(SC/Brazil) was amazing. Managed to drink about 75% of all the drafts that were being served in the event, which, given that it was done in the course of 2 days, i think is pretty amazing. Liver is shot to hell and back, i must've drank over 4,5L of beer each day, not counting what i drank as a "warm-up" prior to the event itself!

Now, to go at least two weeks without a single drop of alcohol to give my system time to recover...

Hey late CONGRATS on finishing Law School ...  :clap
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #964 on: October 23, 2015, 06:35:20 PM »
Thanks! I guess it serves a kind of late celebration trip! haha
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #965 on: October 26, 2015, 05:27:21 PM »
Hillary Clinton on Jimmy Fallon, who's playing Trump completely over-the-top.


Hillary :  " So what's your position on Women's Issues ? "

"Trump" :  " I know lot's of Women, and they all have Issues. "

Hillary starts to say her line, chuckles instead, can't stifle her laughter, can't say her line for about 10 seconds, crowd is howling  :lmao


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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #966 on: November 01, 2015, 09:09:11 PM »
So, I'm at a LARPing event. This the second-to-last event of this particular setting - after that, we're moving on to a completely different one.

I play a cleric of an ancient fire deity by name of Doran Johannes Oldstorm ("but my friends call me DIO").

Anyways.

There is unrest in the kingdom. King Bram Wolf has recently been assassinated by his sister-in-law for the murder of her husband. The true heirs to the throne, the Rodnak family, have surfaced, and are currently engaged in trying to recover control over the lands rightfully theirs, as well as driving back the threat of the orcs and the Shadow Lords (which are basically undead).

With the aid of the head of the Order of the Lonely Star, Ubiec Sigmund, DIO manages to calm the tempers enough when Juliet Wolf, the King's assassin, comes to the city of Newood to accuse interim King Proudwolf of being the mastermind of her husband's murder. Meanwhile, the orcs come knocking, and with the aid of a mysterious wizard, DIO and a handful of fighters must fend off the attackers. In the process, they manage to capture a lieutenant of Skullsmasher, the Orc leader. Returning to the city, the old cleric and his entourage proceed to extract information from the orc captive. The new 'king' seems to be in a strange hurry to execute said captive without even getting anything useful... which DIO finds suspicious in and of itself.

Absconding with the captive past the city walls, DIO and Ubiec uncover a sinister plot. The Rodnak and Proudwolf families are both in league with the orcs, and Bram Wolf's murder was actually orchestrated by the new 'King'! DIO also has reason to suspect that the Shadow Lords could be involved, with the Rodnak family being a mere puppet that would allow them to seize power. They are faced with a difficult choice. They could try to expose the Proudwolf crimes and association with nothing but the orcs' words to back them up, and thus initiate a three-front war with no allies to speak of, or they could send the orc back to bring their leaders a message. Tricking the orc into believing he'd been cursed (so he would definitely deliver the message), DIO sends Ubiec back into the city as he alone follows the orc back to their encampment, in an attempt to negotiate. It is up to the fates if he will succeed...

(It will be literally decided with the roll of a die. If he does succeed, it'll be an awesome opportunity to utter the following line:

"You expected the orcs... BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!")
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #967 on: November 01, 2015, 11:02:13 PM »
One of my best buddies just got a $69000 job right out of college.

We went out Friday night and got sloshed (well, he did - I only drank a responsible 44 oz), then had deep, soul-searching discussions in the way only a pair of drunk guys in their early twenties can.
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #968 on: November 02, 2015, 08:07:45 AM »
One of my best buddies just got a $69000 job right out of college.

We went out Friday night and got sloshed (well, he did - I only drank a responsible 44 oz), then had deep, soul-searching discussions in the way only a pair of drunk guys in their early twenties can.

These discussions can get REALLY deep. I probably figured out the meaning of life a few times already, but i always manage to forget it by next day due to massive hangovers...
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #971 on: November 05, 2015, 08:48:15 PM »
NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever.
Isn't that just the usual jets that come out of heavy dense objects from the accretion disc?  Or am I misreading?
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #973 on: November 05, 2015, 10:40:50 PM »
NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever.
Isn't that just the usual jets that come out of heavy dense objects from the accession disc?  Or am I misreading?

I don't think you're misreading.
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #974 on: November 06, 2015, 10:36:15 AM »
32 Free battlemaps. Found on Reddit, very good quality!
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #975 on: November 06, 2015, 09:11:16 PM »
Girl i'm seeing sent me this song. I immediately raised my opinion of her. Anyone who knows, enjoys, and recommends such kinds of heavenly tones to me can't be all bad.
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #978 on: November 07, 2015, 08:32:48 AM »
Ugh, I've seen that. It's really pretty, but she wouldn't slice a boiled egg like that.
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