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Aphrodite posted:Okay wait, are you guys talking about Karl Marx the socialist or Marx Thespott, the Old Republic era fighter pilot? No Mad Marx; The Red Warrior.
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Phlegmish posted:I don't think the pleb male employees are allowed on the company jet in this scenario Why are you assuming Choco1980 is male?
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I've taken it three times and every time I get "person who doesnt care what other goons got on a dumb online quiz".
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Captain Monkey posted:Test must not be that accurate, since you felt the need to post about it. Probably right. Tests inaccurate, so no point filling the next page and a half with "I got 60% chickenfucker!" posts, right? Unless you are compiling another spreadsheet of goon usernames and fetishes, in which case I apologise for interfering with your research.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Hells yeah! What's the difference between a truck full of bowling balls and a truck full of dead babies?! Also the questions you get asked about your truck full of bowling balls are in a generally calmer and less urgent tone of voice.
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You'd think, but you have to have the same mass of dead babies as you do of bowling balls, otherwise it's not a fair test. And if you pile 'em that high the air resisistance of the babies IS going to make a difference.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:So was Alice in Wonderland, iirc. You do not recall correctly. Alice in Wonderland was written about 100 years before "Quantum Mechanics" would be a thing. Hell, it was written about 50 years before Bohr formulated his model of the atom. I do remember hearing that someone suggested he wrote it as a critique of aspects of mathematics (not physics) he disagreed with as he was a mathematician, thats probably what you are thinking of. I think it was on QI. A quick google suggests to me that the writer of that interpretation decided thats what it was and went looking for evidence rather than letting the evidence suggest the interpretation. Like a nerdier version of edgy kids decidng that X cartoon is about death or whatever and assign that meaning to everything in the show. Or like 70% of CD I guess.
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Choco1980 posted:My ex-father in law was a hispanic ex-business owner that took care of the local community. They used the Don prefix when addressing him. So yeah it's used plenty still, but you have to earn it. Are you totally 100% sure that he he wasnt a hispanic mafia boss? Because I'm just saying, "ex-business owner that "takes care" of the local community and gets addressed as "Don"" is ticking a lot of boxes.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:This isn't an Aristasia honeypot, is it? Aristasia Honeypot was the best bond girl.
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Bad graph/chart threadMamkute posted:I'm the autism spectrum as an ideological position Count Roland posted:I suspect we all are, in this thread.
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Kitfox88 posted:just poo poo in a sock and throw them in the ditch outside your house by the road then you dont need to flush at all save that water bill How much are you spending on socks though?
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syscall girl posted:They still haven't found the body of the third Olsen sibling though. I thought she was in the avengers?
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Are two of the reasons "Deez Nuts"?
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Paladinus posted:It still lives in the hearts of those who remembers it. No one who remembers GBS 1.0 has a heart.
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:I thought we were supposed to put it in eye droppers You need to drink more water.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Congratulations, you were the first person to make this obvious joke! On a serious note, playing System of A Down to rats at volume has been shown to negatively impact their visual acuity, as well as the obvious damage to their hearing. This also led to a marked increase in aggression. The rats appear to experience no lights, no music, just anger.
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Pick posted:emotionally devastated by an etching of tinky winky in the angolan civil war I know, imagine being emotionally effected by art, right? Or having a story remind you of things you have experienced before, or real life situations?
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ChubbyChecker posted:Yes, art. A children's cartoon in a comic book form. You're telling me now they stopped pictures and stories being considered art while I wasnt looking? Man, I should pay more attention. Are we still good with music and sculpture?
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Kitfox88 posted:More like oldselloutmore Every oldpainless joke now might be the last, the final, the ultimate, the one that follows him to his grave, and this weak sauce is what you are bringing? Adpainless, Oldplugless, OldRAIDless were all right there.
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wild drama llama posted:oldsiteless If there was any justice this would have been the last post on this site before the lights went out.
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The Lone Badger posted:That's the other guy I think. The one with the eyepatch. Both of them have managed Cabaret Clubs (Kiryu club four shine in Kiwami 2, and Majima club sunshine in Zero). Kiryu also managed individual hostesses in yakuza 3, but that minigame was dogshit in comparison to the club management.
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Outrail posted:I believe these are in fact dweebs and possible dorks. As a collectively they are all Dweebakin.
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sharknado slashfic posted:What do we consider Squirrel Nut Zippers The final evolution of the Cherry Poppin Daddies.
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Dabir posted:could any of yall explain what a back paddle is for the slow kids You know the controllers your grandkids use when they're playing their nintendos? Its extra buttons on the back of those. They can usually be remapped to be any of the buttons on the front (including clicking in the control sticks, which no-one likes as a control) and many people like them as accessabilty option as they are easy to hit with whichever fingers you are using to support the controller, and many people who dont need the accessability aspect still like them because they are easier to hit than some of the other buttons if you are also using the trigger buttons to aim and shoot or whatever. They've been common in expensive third party controllers for a while now, and Sony recently released an aftermarket plug-in for PS4 controllers that added programmable back paddles. Everyone was expecting them to be standard on the new control pads for the next console generation, but they arent for some reason.
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RFC2324 posted:If you arr like me and don't actually plan putting your shoes on in advance this can lead to hobbling down the hall with one leg longer than the other Because of the peg leg?
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Paladinus posted:Surely, only someone who wants to live in a castle would need a ram. Or someone who needed more sheep. Ewes dont have ram parts.
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BonHair posted:Bing maga Ask Jeetves Kune Do.
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Karate Bastard posted:I'm more of a silly walks person. Yeah, a sunburned taint'll do that to ya all right.
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Git Gud (at war) -xxweedlordbonersuntzuxx
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:lotta fake rear end clowns these days... just regular people dressed as clowns. frankly hosed up we still allow it Stop trying to gatekeep clownness, its not up to you to decide who is clown enough.
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pentyne posted:You're doing a disservice to actual clowns. Clowning is a big tent, and a tiny car. In either case theres plenty of room for many types of clown.
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freeedr posted:What book is best to start with Theres like 40 discworld books, so it looks overwhelming, but it isnt game of thrones, most books do not directly lead in to the next, or directly pick up the previous. Although characters and locations recur you can really start almost anywhere. Small Gods is a very good one, absolutely stand alone (is set a while before most of the rest of the books, and the events of Small Gods are generally only every obliquely referenced anywhere else), but my personal recommendation is always Guards! Guards!. The first couple are more sword and sorcery pastiche with some worldbuilding as an afterthought. Equal Rites is when if feels like he starts treating it as a world he cared about rather than just a background for parody, but I think its still a little clunky myself. Really I'd say as a start pick any from Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Mort, Wyrd Sisters or Small Gods, and if you like that book you can either go back and start from the beginning, knowing that the slightly rough first few novels do get better, or continue from there with the sub-series (so if you start with Guards you can pick up the next city watch book, or if you read Wyrd Sisters you could pick up the next witches book) I mean, it doesnt really matter that much, I started with Eric which is arguably the absolute worst place to start (its the 9th book, it picks up more or less from the end of Sourcery, and was originally written as a vehicle to showcase Kidbys illustrations, which my paperback did not have), but enjoyed it enough that I decided to go back and read the earlier books to get the context for the characters.
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I'm sure I remember him specifically being horrified at the posthumous publication of an unfinished novel by Douglas Adams, because Adams was a perfectionist who never would have been happy to let people read something until he thought it was done, but I cant for the life of me remember where I think I read that so I could be entirely wrong.
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Biplane posted:Funny if true because Raising Steam or whatever the last one is called was definitely 98% written by someone else using his notes (his daughter maybe?) and it blew rear end. He started dictating to an assistant rather than physically writing with... I think unseen academicals, but it might have been a little earlier than that, but I think you can feel it with unseen academicals. He just couldnt rewrite and revise like he used to, so chunks of the plot kind of are clunky because where, with his full faculties, he could have gone back and added foreshadowing to a swerve that had just occured to him 75% of the way through he just couldnt any more. Even leaving aside the alzheimers, a perfectly healthy person would struggle with that process just by having to go through an intermediary. All the post-UU books seem to suffer from that to a greater or lesser extent. For my money the two Tiffany Aching books suffer from it least simply because they do less. They are relatively straightforward stories with fairly small casts of characters and with a fairly simple narrative goal; Pratchett wants to say goodbye to Granny Weatherwax, and leave that corner of the world on a hopeful note. Raising Steam though... Theres a lot going on there. Like an awful lot. For the record I actually think its "largely fine", which considering how much I love the discworld novels is damning with faint praise, but I gotta take into account the circumstances under which it was written. Pratchett had been nudging Ankh Morpork towards an industrial revolution for more than a decade (starting in earnest I think with The Truth introducing movable type, but I'd entertain an argument for Men At Arms, but theres too much mysticism in the technology in that one for me to agree). This one had to introduce steam power (and the characters associated with it), resolve the tension with the dwarves and serve as his farewell to Moist, those members of the watch who didnt have large parts to play in Snuff, the patrician and the city of ankh morpork. Thats a hell of a lot of balls to keep in the air, and the juggler has loving early onset loving dementia. I'm not denying its kind of a mess, and honestly (and I feel this with Unseen Academicals as well btw) theres no way the Terry Pratchett of 10 years previously releases the book in the state its in, it needs at least one more lengthy pass over the whole thing. Realistically I think if he had been completely healthy there would have been another Moist Von Lipwig novel before Raising Steam (or at the very least another Ankh Morpork novel) so that Raising Steam could have had less stuff in it. The first half is pretty reasonable, but the back half has a whole lot of stuff happening because it needs to happen to get to the ending he's building towards. With all that, and allowing for my admission that I have a ridiculous amount of affection for those fictional characters and that fictional setting I'm willing to give it a pass. Its not top ten discworld by any stretch, but its perfectly readable and its all the ending those characters are going to get. tl:dr, personally I dont think it was written by someone else using his notes. I think it was written by Terry Pratchett himself using his own notes, or more precisely dictated and organised by him using his notes with a determination to leave Ankh Morpork in the state he'd decided it would end up more than a decade earlier when he didnt realise he was on a timer. And in any case, there is a fairly large difference between "Assemble from my notes under my instruction and with my blessing" and "Posthumously publish whatever the most recent version you can find in my notes of a thing I wasnt really happy with".
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Heath posted:Someone photoshop this shirt on to Kiryu please Would you settle for someone putting the shirt on an official kiryu yakuza coathanger? Kojiro posted:No news of Yakuza 8 so far but their merch department continues to crack me the gently caress up
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Milo and POTUS posted:What are we converting starscream to A plane, its kind of transformers whole thing.
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christmas boots posted:You crack sixteen dwarfs and what do you get? Ejected from disneyland.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:What exactly is that? Transcription of the words said in footage of the show Ink Master?
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Karate Bastard posted:The above post was a joke, but it would hella explain a lot of whatever the hell this is *gestures out the window* I think thats your back yard tbh.
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The Lone Badger posted:So there’s Ranma. And then there’s Ranma 2, which is not a sequel it’s its own continuity. So Ranma One 2.is the direct sequel to the first Ranma aka Ranma 1. Ranma Begins is a prequel to Ranma 2. Ranma (2009) is the live-action reboot most people prefer to ignore… Also Rendezvous With Ramna, which was also followed by Ramna II.
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