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21 - Carbonic Park - Movie franchise featuring giant instects.

Jurassic Park + Carboniferous era, part of the mesozoic

 

2-Alo; song by Shia lebeuf - Apiculture and Utilitarian Raelgun.

The big clue here was "Alo" and that ill-fitting "Rael". I'm not entirely sure how Shia Laboeuf, apiculture, and utilitarianism fit in. Alorael has written about at least one of those topics.

 

29 - Mud Monster - Created by Loew to defend the jews in prague.

Reference to the original Golem, which was indeed created by Loew to defend the Jews in Prague.

 

 

Sorry, this is the only Storm.

21 YES! +3 Also carboniferous era was marked for giant insects.

2 YES! +2 hey. It is very fitting thank you >.> Alright its a reference and friendly jab to alorael's view on ethics. Halo by "Queen B". Also on the list of disastrous portrayals shia le beuf's on transformers his being bumblebee. Thus both on beyonce and shia: Apiculture( sorta like farming. But with bees.)

29- YES! +3

Also i only have 30. You must have ravaged through half of it. And not necessarilly the easier.

EDIT:That is the only storm indeed. Long time though.

Technically, an ifrit is a _type_ of djinni, which is the more general term.

They have a ranking system i think it goes. Ghul, Djinn propper, ifrit, marid.

14 YES! +3 IKR!? so saltless -.-' Ifrit is a fire spirit on the same category as djinn. They are powerfull etc... would have gotten 4 point here if not for it.

24 YES! +2 He has a follow up to that marvelous trilogy on the wprkings. Its been decades. Waiting for it is chasing fools' gold.

28 - Whatever floats your gloat - Setting low standarts for yourself to ensure smug satisfaction.

Although I was sort of hoping "standarts" was an Angband reference and not a typo, gloating tends to be smug and "whatever floats your boat" can be a way of accepting anything without regards to standards.

 

6-White House - Largest city in morroco.

CASABLANCA! Casa blanca. Sometimes it really does help to say things out loud.

28. YES! +2 That was an ortographic error. Mostly reffering to people that gloat on average things. As duch feeling smug and content easilly. Great phylosophy though. Always figured that low standards are key to happiness.

6. YES! +3

27 YES! +3 Yep self explanatory. It was for the siege of leningrad. Now and previously known as st petersburg

17 YES! +3 Actually Fado is a whole musical style mostly involves mournfull songs and sea or churches. Or anything really. Fado also means fate as you noted.

25 YES! +3 Maybe cause back in Ancient Greece No didnt mean No?

26 YES! +3 After being sent away by abraham and sara, the quran takes on what happens to Hagar and Ismahel, the hajj traces her quest for water and despair at it. She finds a well after going back and forth between a two mountains if im not mistaken.

RE: Cant beat her portrayal of catwoman but physically she fits. I cant imagine storm not hale berry-ish.

18. YES! +3

Also hale berry an actress famous for portraying storm. Who can control the weather. But nice one on hail, thought people would overlook it.

10. Yes! +3

Foxes and Roses a reference to the fox and the rose, proiminent characters in said book as well as to the band guns and roses which sings sweet child of mine.

12. Yes +3

Animal farm is also called triumph of the pigs in some languages by george orwell, like most his books. A cricticism of stalinism. Also clarice starling from silence of the lambs had a childhood trauma kinda thing involving slaughter of lambs in a farm. I dont remember it right.

Also it is a bit complicated to create it too.

10/10 I'd have monkeys on my roof any time any day.

No. You wouldn't xD

TITLES

1-Trois-Guilbert

3-Evil Panamaya

4-Deadly Malaika

5-Servants of All

7-Absynth vs Italy

8-From moscow do for love

9-Egyptian Godess Expansionism

11-Rabbit hole alegory

13 - Old childhood

15 - Ornstein and Smaug

16 - Love Lizard

19 - Violet O'Hara Carson

20 -Swedish Heavy Rainfall

22 - Merlin Manson

23 - Bread Berry Firemen

30 - Multifacet Shifting Polygon

REFERENCES:

Samael visits africa?

Tupac visits the 3rd rome.

Perhaps the best known song by tribalistas.

Moirai sing mounrfully about the sea.

Liesel Meminger Biggest enemies from a pararel universe ?

How i identify myself.

Maybe a sexual reference to scot's britain after the failure of the third cursade.

Cause of recent Humanitarian Crisis.

Anor Londo proves particularly difficult for Alberich.

Poland loses its status as a great power.

Evolution of underated pokemon.

V from V for Vendeta strugles not to lose a family farm during the civil war.

Plato goes on a posibly drug induced jorney of self discovery.

Since the 3rd age live in the white tower.

Sauron with a hat

Round Table made of metal.

League of Nations fails.

Have fun!

18 - Hail Barry - Archer's cyborg rival can control the weather.

10-Foxes and Roses - Sweet Little Prince of mine.

12- Quiet of the pigs - Clarice Starling makes a cricticism of stalinism based on childhood trauma.

27 - Symphony No. 7 - Shostakovich's tribute to St. Petersburg.

17 - The 3 Fados - Moirai sing mounrfully about the sea.

25 - Eternal Carpet Weaver - Odysseus/Ulysses' wife's likelly nickname.

26 - Sarai's Handmaid - Whose steps are Retraced during the hajj.

28 - Whatever floats your gloat - Setting low standarts for yourself to ensure smug satisfaction.

6-White House - Largest city in morroco.

14 - Ifrit Ozai - Not nearly as well written as his daughter.

24 - Pyrite Compass - Philip Pullman's sequel once again eludes his fans.

21 - Carbonic Park - Movie franchise featuring giant instects.

2-Alo; song by Shia lebeuf - Apiculture and Utilitarian Raelgun.

29 - Mud Monster - Created by Loew to defend the jews in prague.

Also... Bonus from the players:

This is the only storm xD

I enjoyed the Wheel of Time series as well, but it did seem to drag out to me. It was a very well crafted world but just so long.

Yah. A few books were by far unnecessary. The great hunt was particularly pointless imo. Some characters are also pretty frustrating. I just hope that by the time i finish, it will be loss and confusion usually available after very good books. Not overwhelming relief that comes with draggy ones.

Awwww.

It raided my house trashed it. Stole eggs and crashed a glass bowl. No Awww for him. Bad monkey. Bad bad bad monkey -.-' *sniffs offensivelly in korean*

Jk. It was cute-ish. If only i knew he was a piece of crap

I crash read 9 books of the wheel time series. Finished the first 3 in less than a week. It is golden. If you like high fantasy books where the author is so good a writer he doesnt try. I mean seriously he doesn't try. Specially with the names and sayings. The books are remmarkable for having painted a strong cultural diversity in that world. It has some of the most remmarkable characters i ever read and most of them are women! Also the book strongly avoids chlichés in fantasy. I guess not strongly but so far it seems to have.

But then, my favorite character in Avadon 2 was deemed not even a character for this exercise, so I'm not sure how much I can relate to any of this.

I feel you bro xD

So in honour of my vacation trip to a place with many beaches and chill, in about 24 hours I will post titles and clues to be matched. Much like triple slartifer. Its basically the same game really.

Example of an answer:

2- Calzone Spire - The future name of the tower of pizza.

This example sucks multitudes but im lazy.

The rating system goes from 0 to 5.

0 Is a wrong answer.

1 Right connection based only on probability with no attempt at getting the references.

2 Right connection with wrong grasp at a refference.

3 Right connection and correct reference.

4 Right connection with detailed references. Or if you just agree with me. Idk i may show favoritism xD jk jk.

5. Right connection detailed references in a complicated answer that has multiple references.( In this episode there is only only one or two)

On the same note some connections are extraordinarilly simple so in order to get points I'll need you folks to get the full reference.

Anyway. If you folks can, please participate for one im curious on weather you'll get the references. Also any cricticism is welcome and will be noted.

Finally you can use google or other search engines. I am sure you'll need google for some. But see if you can get some without.

The listing comes in about 24 hours as I said. Which may be inconvenient for people with different time zones but its the best i can do.

Xenophobia or elitism and patriotic chauvinism maybe. Still bad of course. In any case there is some consensus on kelem food architechture clothing etc... being rich and remarkable which make some statements to be while rude probably true. I.e. privy one. I do remember animosity between her and jennel but it was mutual and fueled by divergent priorities. But then again i very rarelly was ever faced with racism so i wouldnt know it from a jackalope. But i know elitism when i see it

Enter Nathalie, first of the truly polarizing characters. Nathalie is certainly one of the more memorable PCs from Avadon 1, given her combination of youth, prodigy, conceitedness, racism, idealism, and ability to blunder stupidly into deadly situations without proper preparation. I think that says it all, really. For some people, that's a recipe for entertainment; for others, it leads only to frustration.

Wait a minute. She's racist? I am 100% not willing to replay the game to confirm. Can you get me the texts or something if you would.

Solberg is sad and useless. No shinning moments. He wasnt man enough for cheeseball.

Sss tthsss. I figure he wasnt really relevan't until a6. Because even in a1 he is just a by the way. At least its what i felt from him.

To be honest the litalia case is relativelly simple. Rebel without a cause, even if on g3 she appears power hungry. Something other than power tipped her to the rebelion. In all honesty all i see is a woman with strong potential and great fire that needs to activelly fight for something. At points its even relatable. But i can't like her, nor really respect her much. She has no honour. Which is a good thing really as a leader bent on winning. But i cant respect it.

So there's a chance Golden Girl is not *just* looking at the characters fuction. Else miranda would have a lower rating and ghaldrin a higher.

I think we all vote at least partly on how much we like a character.

On another note for the exact same reasons you wrote i strongly dislike benhold. First because he is a desert nomad seems weird that he would rule the underworld of all other areas outside dera. But i suppose italians at least to a degree held the underworld in american eaat coast so... Second the game doesnt explain the previous inhabitants and their cultures. Benhold only serves to further fustrate me on that aspect. Lastly I'd much rather see the natives going for something other than banditry. Some partisan movement for instance, self defence corp, etc... Benhold had potential but fell short. I guess if it started on g4 there could be a decent buildup.

Learned Pinner, hmm i have mixed feelings about her. Mostly varying from pitty to admiration.

You gave a 10 to litalia. And a 7 to khyrik? I am officially intriged. If you could shed a bit of light on that one.

But i agree trying to rate the characters has us anylise them and when we analyse we find flaws. Some of my liked characters had low ratings when i realised they were bad-ish

http:// http://m.imgur.com/a/vN97C

Tada! Lo, behold! Evil monkey from hell

If you're already in dohnals i gotta say speed demon. But g3 also is the best game to move you for the shapers.

Alright. How do you do it on the full site?

A... monkey? An actual monkey? That sucks.

 

How to upload pictures will depend on your mobile OS, presumably.

Yep a monkey! A relativelly big one too. That is a complete piece of crap. I threw water at it and it didnt run. It did move a bit out of surprise but came back just to stare. Like " What you gonna do? " all like. Anyway im using android but i cant see any upload option so imma use the full site. In a while.

Ok, so i have pictures of a monkey on my building. He later on trashed my house and broke many eggs and a glass bowl. I hate him. But my main point is i have pictures anyone know how to upload them from mobile/to the mobile site?

 

The point of ethics is to come up with objective systems for evaluating these decisions. It's all about removing subjectivity. All ethical systems are fraught with edge cases that make us uncomfortable. The ethicists can double down and say that it's because our intuitions are imperfect, or try to better fine-tune the systems, but there is the inherent problem that there isn't any real objective right or wrong besides what we declare to be so. And what basis do we have for those declarations besides intuitions? So I do think there's a real issue of all ethics being only so many steps removed from someone's intuitive and subjective ethics.

 

I'm no expert, but virtue ethics isn't really about becoming the kind of person who does the right thing. The goal is to become a person of virtue and live a good life. Such a person probably should be refraining from evil actions and undertaking good ones, but that's not the point of virtue ethics. The point is "eudaimonia" or living a good life (at least in the classical Aristotelian form of virtue ethics), and that's good in terms of prosperous and happy, not just somehow moral. So a life of virtue ethics is about cultivating excellence in yourself, which leads to a better life for yourself; incidentally it should probably also lead to better things for those around you, but only as a happy accident. One common criticism against virtue ethics over the two millennia that they've been floating around is that the whole thing is extremely self-centered. And that you can go on murder sprees as long as you do it with excellence.

 

—Alorael, who apologizes if he's a bit lacking in clarity at the moment. He's slightly drugged and has undergone some recent less than excellent experiences. Naturally the next step was for him to march onto the internet and argue ethics.

We are what our culture makes us and our culture is what we make it. So our society dictates for us what is right and what is wrong but individuals with overlapping and convergent opinions created those notions and the system in itself. We can find the gauss curve of normal distribution for qualitative data right? That would probably help creating a relativelly objective system. But then it goes to what seneca said. Mobocracy and such. It is quite possible in some countries to see that what the majority find ethical trully isn't. But then again that in itself isn't objective. Which is why i think its the most difficult subject to discuss since you are mostly armed with just your opinion arguing for opinions is notoriously more difficult than for facts or theories or the likes. So in truth the only true way to evolve is to shed ourselves of opinions and further metamorphosise into a jellyfish like blob of facts, because in truth the fact that we have limbs and a skeleton are the main reason we have opinions.

So what exactly is a virtuous person? Because libertinism epicurism and stocism among others are strikingly different systems all with the same objective: living a good life. Thats a part that strongly baffles. Unless it accepts all which then it makes sense. Along with the moral dilema part.

But all in all i slightly disagree with the cricticism to virtue ethics on the basis of if you gain any satisfaction out of helping people or such, your selflessness ultimatelly is selfish. If you gain anything at all from helping people its selfish. So arguing that virtue ethics is bad for that reason its a bit short. Since if you promote excelence and selfishness that will include charitable people too. So long as its all consenting adults i suppose. Murder sprees are bad, but i suppose also unless it involved informed consent in which case they are not bad. Cept it rarelly happens. Or ever. But adding informed consent to virtue ethics and i will think it is the best system.

Also; worry not, clarity is always asked when needed and i don't think lack of it is ever judged. But you were more clear than i am when sober. Also sorry for the less than excelent experiences i hope they get remedied

 

 

Hmm. I'd argue that becoming a better person requires a conscious effort, recognizing old flawed thought-patterns and altering them. If you're thrown into a situation with a moral dilemma, you would automatically and instinctually try to come up with the best choice according to the morals, ethics and values you follow. On the contrary, if you decide to seek out a dilemma and try to solve it, then you're consciously trying to hone yourself into becoming a better person.

Exactly why i think moral dilemas make it automatic. As any kind of dilemas require soms effort to choose between two options otherwise not a dilema.