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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:24 am

> Prak_Anima wrote:So Bandai released a Sailor Moon wallet for the 20th anniversary:

I need 7.
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Post by Prak » Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:38 am

I think they're just trying everything they can think of to get all of Koumei's money.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:54 am

Well, it's for putting something in that will make many happy neh? O.o
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Shrapnel » Sun Sep 14, 2014 2:07 am

> Prak_Anima wrote:So Bandai released a Sailor Moon wallet for the 20th anniversary:

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Post by RadiantPhoenix » Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:23 pm

This sounds interesting: supposedly, scientists have found some sort of gender-bending genes in mice. ("DMRT1" and "FOXL2", whatever the fuck that means)
What do y'all know about this?
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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Sep 20, 2014 12:26 am

i know that there are certain animals that can and will switch gender based on needs for fornication . . i did not know that these same genes are to be found outside these species . . but considering that we have a not insignificant genetic similarity to all matter of things, that probably should not come as such a surprise to me i guess . .
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by erik » Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:04 am

> RadiantPhoenix wrote:This sounds interesting: supposedly, scientists have found some sort of gender-bending genes in mice. ("DMRT1" and "FOXL2", whatever the fuck that means)
> What do y'all know about this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMRT1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkhead_box_L2
Basically genes that are involved in gender selection during early development. The way most genetic discoveries are made is by knocking out various genes so that they no longer function and then seeing what happens. In this case, when these genes get knocked out it strongly affects gender development.
Presumably a gene on the X or Y chromosome regulates the expression of these genes.
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Post by RadiantPhoenix » Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:46 am

> erik wrote:

> > RadiantPhoenix wrote:This sounds interesting: supposedly, scientists have found some sort of gender-bending genes in mice. ("DMRT1" and "FOXL2", whatever the fuck that means)
> > What do y'all know about this?

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMRT1
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkhead_box_L2
> Basically genes that are involved in gender selection during early development. The way most genetic discoveries are made is by knocking out various genes so that they no longer function and then seeing what happens. In this case, when these genes get knocked out it strongly affects gender development.
> Presumably a gene on the X or Y chromosome regulates the expression of these genes.

The news article said that this discovery was different because it worked in adult mice.
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Post by Stahlseele » Tue Sep 23, 2014 5:09 pm

Not sure if this is non politic or not but:
http://deepcor.com/news/1230/fox-news-a ... -americans
What the fuck?
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by RobbyPants » Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:03 pm

> Stahlseele wrote:Not sure if this is non politic or not but:
> http://deepcor.com/news/1230/fox-news-a ... -americans
> What the fuck?

> Dumbass from that article wrote:We should have been profiling on September 12, 2001. Let's take a trip down memory lane here: the last war this country won, we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. We dropped nuclear bombs on residential city centers. Yes, profiling would be at least a good start.

I guess it's hard to learn the lessons of history when you think all the bad parts of it were actually good. I'm surprised he didn't have anything in there about gassing them once they've been put in the camps.
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Post by Ancient History » Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:07 pm

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bodymods/j ... idevil.asp
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Post by hyzmarca » Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:31 pm

What's sadder, the fact that it's fake or the fact that so many took something so obviously fake at face value?
On the bring side, a quick google search for polymastia has foud a woman who had four fully functional natural lactating breasts, but had the extras removed because they were painful.
Of course, extra breasts aren't going to appear in the middle of the chest because that's not where th milk lines are. The majority I've found are located in the armpits for some reason.
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Post by schpeelah » Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:09 am

Well, milk glands are modified sweat glands. You'd expect them to be in vertical lines down like other mammals, but I guess that's
evolution for you.
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Post by Prak » Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:19 am

I immediately discounted that story as a fake, and something I would likely soon see in one of Cracked's increasingly regular "Times news outlets fucked up" lists. One of the first things that set off my bullshit-sense was that she was said to have gotten plastic surgery to appear less attractive, and chose something that in every fictional incarnation has been treated as more attractive.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Username17 » Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:50 am

> schpeelah wrote:Well, milk glands are modified sweat glands. You'd expect them to be in vertical lines down like other mammals, but I guess that's
> evolution for you.

The milk line runs up and down the body from the arm pits to the groin, with most of the line running straight up and down from the nipples. Extra nipples can be anywhere on the line, but are usually no more than a minor cosmetic issue if they are anywhere but the joints. So groin and arm pit extra nipples get more attention than chest or abdomen extra nipples.
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Post by Shrapnel » Wed Sep 24, 2014 1:21 pm

> Prak_Anima wrote:One of the first things that set off my bullshit-sense was that she was said to have gotten plastic surgery to appear less attractive, and chose something that in every fictional incarnation has been treated as more attractive.

I don't know about anyone else, but I would find a three-breasted woman pretty unappealing.
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Post by Josh_Kablack » Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:47 pm

> RobbyPants wrote:

> > Dumbass from that article wrote:We should have been profiling on September 12, 2001. Let's take a trip down memory lane here: the last war this country won, we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. We dropped nuclear bombs on residential city centers. Yes, profiling would be at least a good start.

> I guess it's hard to learn the lessons of history when you think all the bad parts of it were actually good.

It's also a more than a bit weird to hear a wingnut admit that we lost all of the following:

- Korean Conflict,
- War on Poverty,
- Vietnam War,
- Libya - El Dorado Canyon,
- Grenada,
- Panama,
- The Cold War
- Kuwait / Iraq - Desert Shield / Storm,
- Battle of Mogadishu
- Kosovo War - Noble Anvil
- Afghanistan - Enduring Freedom
- Iraq (again)- Iraqi Freedom
- Libya (again) - Freedom Falcon

Because even I myself am not quite that pessimistic.
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Post by Whipstitch » Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:06 pm

> Shrapnel wrote:
> I don't know about anyone else, but I would find a three-breasted woman pretty unappealing.

Yeah, virtually every time I've seen references to such it's pretty clearly intended as cheerfully absurd.
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Post by hyzmarca » Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:41 pm

> FrankTrollman wrote:

> > schpeelah wrote:Well, milk glands are modified sweat glands. You'd expect them to be in vertical lines down like other mammals, but I guess that's
> > evolution for you.

> The milk line runs up and down the body from the arm pits to the groin, with most of the line running straight up and down from the nipples. Extra nipples can be anywhere on the line, but are usually no more than a minor cosmetic issue if they are anywhere but the joints. So groin and arm pit extra nipples get more attention than chest or abdomen extra nipples.
> -Username17

Of course, an extra breast doesn't necessarily have a nipple. Without the extra nipple the extra mammary gland would likely remain unnoticed until the woman begins lactating, at which point it would swell uncomfortably.
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Post by Surgo » Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:30 pm

Remember the Heartbleed security vulnerability? We just got one that's worse. It's being called "Shellshock".
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/techn ... icant.html
It's definitely worse than Heartbleed, but the damage isn't going to be immediately obvious like Heartbleed was. It will probably take a very long time for the damage to become apparent.
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Post by Ancient History » Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:52 pm

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... round.html
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Post by Lago PARANOIA » Fri Sep 26, 2014 12:26 am

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... round.html
Fox News is stuffed to the gill full of boobs as it is. Why, there's Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and...

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> In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.

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Post by Stahlseele » Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:39 am

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/scie ... es-on-men/
reading the article, i am bracing for impact from feminist screeches of outrage over this.
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Ancient History » Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:42 am

Why? Feminism isn't anti-men, it's pro-women. They would no more decry test tube testes than vat-grown vaginas.
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Post by name_here » Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:52 am

> Stahlseele wrote:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/scie ... es-on-men/
> reading the article, i am bracing for impact from feminist screeches of outrage over this.

Were you always a crazy misogynist and I just never noticed, or is this new?

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