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Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote: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.
Stahlseele wrote:wha?Eyes contain part of your brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina wrote: In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain, so the retina is considered part of the central nervous system (CNS) and is actually brain tissue.[1][2] It is the only part of the CNS that can be visualized non-invasively.
??? The nerves in your leg meet those categories too. I don't see anyone claiming that the legs are part of your brain.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Technically not. The nerves in your leg come from a different branch of neural development, whereas the nerves in the retina are an outgrowth from the same stuff (brain vesicles) that become the forebrain.Kaelik wrote:??? The nerves in your leg meet those categories too. I don't see anyone claiming that the legs are part of your brain.
Yes, if we rewind far enough back then everything shares origins, but at a significantly notable juncture the retina is more closely linked to being brain tissue than say, the spinal cord. It's been over a decade since I studied neurology but wikipedia to the rescue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_development
It's semantics. It just happens that an accepted way of identifying what is "brain" is by how it forms in development.
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Why do children put their shoes on the wrong feet?
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
One of two options:
A] They don't understand that shoes have handedness footedness chirality. A left shoe and a right shoe seem interchangeable, and they don't haven't developed the habit of checking which is which.
B] They understand that left shoes and right shoes are different, but thought it would be/feel interesting to put them on the wrong feet and walk around like.
A] They don't understand that shoes have handedness footedness chirality. A left shoe and a right shoe seem interchangeable, and they don't haven't developed the habit of checking which is which.
B] They understand that left shoes and right shoes are different, but thought it would be/feel interesting to put them on the wrong feet and walk around like.
FrankTrollman wrote:I think Grek already won the thread and we should pack it in.
Chamomile wrote:Grek is a national treasure.
Personally, for a long time I knew that they were different, but was not exactly sure how to tell which was which at a glance.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
Same here.name_here wrote:Personally, for a long time I knew that they were different, but was not exactly sure how to tell which was which at a glance.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
See, I've sat down and talked to my son about foot curvature and shoe shape. I've talked to him about which way the velcro straps go. I've written L and R in the bottom of his shoes. I've talked to him about putting the shoe designs on the outside so everyone can see them. We've talked about how shoes feel when you put them on the right feet and when you put them on the wrong feet. Yet still, this morning, he put his shoes on the wrong feet. He doesn't get it wrong a random 50% of the time like you'd expect. It's every damn time. It's so consistent that the best advice I've given him seems to be to put his shoes like he thinks they should be, then switch them.
My son has a memory like a trap. He can usually figure things out in one or two conversations. But he can handle reading and subtraction better than the footedness of shoes. And he's not the only kid that does this. It's just weird.
My son has a memory like a trap. He can usually figure things out in one or two conversations. But he can handle reading and subtraction better than the footedness of shoes. And he's not the only kid that does this. It's just weird.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
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i still do it wrong from time to time, if i am distracted or still tired in the morning <.<
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote: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.
Maybe he just likes having his shoes on the wrong feet.
FrankTrollman wrote:I think Grek already won the thread and we should pack it in.
Chamomile wrote:Grek is a national treasure.
Ehhh... When he's being silly, he's seeking attention - he does it when I'm looking, so to speak. This is not that. He'll put his shoes on by himself in the other room and go about his day like he got it right without any interference from me or Ess.
Apparently, though, I'm not the only person who's asked this because poking around Google has given me all sort of crazy answers from kid has dyslexia, to autism, to children are incapable of distinguishing the footedness of shoes because they're eyes/brains aren't fully developed yet, to they're mirroring what they see adults do, to kids' feet are shaped differently. They all smell of BS, none of them are grounded in anything approaching a fact, and so I'm just chalking it up to one of the unsolved mysteries of the universe.
Apparently, though, I'm not the only person who's asked this because poking around Google has given me all sort of crazy answers from kid has dyslexia, to autism, to children are incapable of distinguishing the footedness of shoes because they're eyes/brains aren't fully developed yet, to they're mirroring what they see adults do, to kids' feet are shaped differently. They all smell of BS, none of them are grounded in anything approaching a fact, and so I'm just chalking it up to one of the unsolved mysteries of the universe.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
Is there an equivalent to the chrome extension SOcial Fixer.
Social Fixer was (still is in many ways) a great extension that modified facebook by removing sponsored stories, letting me track if people defriended me or deleted their accounts and has a nice tabbed browsing options where you can divide who you see on what page.
Social Fixer was (still is in many ways) a great extension that modified facebook by removing sponsored stories, letting me track if people defriended me or deleted their accounts and has a nice tabbed browsing options where you can divide who you see on what page.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
The wrong foot thing can be because he's had shoes explained from the perspective of someone facing him. When he plays it back internally, it gets rotated to his perspective and ends up crossed.
It's like how left and right are weird in a mirror. If you explain "left and right" to someone while facing them, they'll normally get it wrong, because you're pointing to your right when you say left, and they learn by rotating the action and copying it.
It's like how left and right are weird in a mirror. If you explain "left and right" to someone while facing them, they'll normally get it wrong, because you're pointing to your right when you say left, and they learn by rotating the action and copying it.
PC, SJW, anti-fascist, not being a dick, or working on it, he/him.
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You know, I've been reading a lot of old threads and this occurred to me:
The Nifty Message Board and The Gaming Den sure had a fuckton of fascists on these boards. Not like, generic right-wing jerks like tzor but actual fascists who agreed to the major tenets outlined in that one Italian paper. You know, like Gx, Psychic Robot, Elennsar, Arturick...
Is there just something about TTRPGs or TGD specifically that attracts fascists? I mean what the fucking fuck?
The Nifty Message Board and The Gaming Den sure had a fuckton of fascists on these boards. Not like, generic right-wing jerks like tzor but actual fascists who agreed to the major tenets outlined in that one Italian paper. You know, like Gx, Psychic Robot, Elennsar, Arturick...
Is there just something about TTRPGs or TGD specifically that attracts fascists? I mean what the fucking fuck?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
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.
It's vaguely possible that there's something about tabletop games attracting intellectual people who prefers gordian knot cutting, which facism often includes.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Can someone explain what Fascism is -really- about?
It's sort of lost most meaning as a term, just like socialism and communism. They have so much history and baggage to them that it's hard to find an accurate definition of what it was really meant to do.
But funnily enough, I trust you guys on stuff like this.
So what's it about? What's the beliefs and goals?
It's sort of lost most meaning as a term, just like socialism and communism. They have so much history and baggage to them that it's hard to find an accurate definition of what it was really meant to do.
But funnily enough, I trust you guys on stuff like this.
So what's it about? What's the beliefs and goals?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
It's a militaristic ultra-nationalist movement, in which the state holds supreme power for the advancement of whatever the particular facist movement considers the "correct" ethnicity.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
What made these people fascists? I only knew PR from his loltroll days, the others I missed entirely.Lago PARANOIA wrote:You know, I've been reading a lot of old threads and this occurred to me:
The Nifty Message Board and The Gaming Den sure had a fuckton of fascists on these boards. Not like, generic right-wing jerks like tzor but actual fascists who agreed to the major tenets outlined in that one Italian paper. You know, like Gx, Psychic Robot, Elennsar, Arturick...
Is there just something about TTRPGs or TGD specifically that attracts fascists? I mean what the fucking fuck?
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Ah, ok. I wasn't really clear on it either, and was conflating the nazi eugenics stuff with it. TIL
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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