Dikiyoba

http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/07/12/top-25-harry-potter-characters?page=1 http://www.collegehumor.com/toplist/6955792/the-best-characters-in-the-harry-potter-universe http://www.empireonline.com/features/greatest-harry-potter-characters/default.asp Dikiyoba.

It should be pretty explanatory. The average quality of -anned puns was terrible. I expect better from SW members. Only the finest puns should be posted. Forced, lazy puns are just spam. Dikiyoba suggests you post your bad puns on your Facetwittumblr, or whatever it is you have. Post as many as you can. So many, in fact, that social networking sites collapse and everyone flees back to message boards, ushering in a new golden age for SW. It will be glorious!

Uh... what about Hermione, Ginny, Mrs. Weasley, Professor McGonagall, Luna Lovegood, Bellatrix Lestrange, Professor Umbridge, Moaning Myrtle, and more besides? Dikiyoba.

Most novels begin with a vulnerable and ignorant character who develops over time. It has nothing to do with any sort of distressed damsel trope. In fact, damsels in distress are less likely to grow because they are always relying on men to do things for them instead of learning and doing things on their own. Dikiyoba.

Dikiyoba has missed Marlenny and hopes that she chooses to stick around.

Or, you know, the older woman is a good mentor to the protagonist because she also overcame the limitations of a patriarchal society? Dikiyoba.

Well, part of the problem is that some (most?) of the books in that vein (eg, Twilight) are romance novels/films, so of course they're going to be full of problematic tropes. Tamora Pierce's Tortall novels are good young adult novels with girl or woman protagonists. Their quality varies, but they are usually pretty good. It's fairly typical fantasy, though, not contemporary speculative fiction. Dikiyoba.

Yes. If it helps, replace all uses of "test" with "assessment." There's no right or wrong answers, and answer sets are easily compared with one another. And it's a hypothetical perfect test, so questions reliably assess what they claim to be assessing. This would have to be quite a long test that would take multiple hours to complete. It would be hard to be comprehensive with a short test. Dikiyoba supposes you could take only certain sections of the test, if that's what you wanted to do.

You are given the opportunity to take a comprehensive skills and aptitude test. It will assess your physical and mental functioning, your social and basic skills competence (for instance literacy, the ability to order something at a restaurant, and the ability to detect sarcasm), and interests and aptitudes. Do you choose to take this test? Why or why not? If you do choose to take it, how often do you do so? (Assume you live in an ideal world. There are no issues with privacy breaches, any sort of discrimination, or incorrect information. The test is free, and has no gaps, biases, confusing instructions, or misleading questions. Everyone involved in creating, helping you answer, and scoring the quest is competent and completely nonjudgmental. The test can only measure what currently exists, and cannot directly predict anything, although you and the test scorers can make some predictions based on the results. In short, there are no human flaws or foibles that would give you a non-philosophical reason to avoid the test. It can't impact your career or reduce your access to medical care or anything like that. Also assume that everyone else will come to the same decision that you do, so your choice to take the test or not doesn't give you any advantages or disadvantages over anyone else.) Dikiyoba would take the test because Dikiyoba is drawn to information like some sort of data-collecting magpie. If it were taken every year or every other year, it would also have probably caught some of Dikiyoba's health problems before Dikiyoba identified them in this reality, which can only be a good thing. But mostly it would be for the acquisition of knowledge. Yek yek yek!

We do need a new mnemonic for the planets (as well as for the colors of white light), but that one doesn't really work. My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Up Noodles, perhaps? Dikiyoba.

It's a Russian language thread. People are going to post in other languages besides English! Dikiyoba не знает языки, кроме английского языка, но говорит ужасно (и, надеюсь, весело) переводится по-русски просто раздражать Триумф.

They didn't have the finger trick for left and right when you guys were little (except for Lilith, because being able to remember left and right and port and starboard is just awesome)? Hold out your thumbs and index fingers while keeping the other fingers tucked down. The hand that forms the correctly-orientated L is the left hand (and the hand with the reverse L is the right hand, but really, you only need one). Dikiyoba has trouble orienting east and west on a landscape and remembering the definitions of monoecious and dioecious plants. It always takes a few seconds for Dikiyoba to think it through, which is rather annoying.

No, you aren't to blame, and in fact your puns here were quite good. Dikiyoba is nostalgic for the days when this thread was not full of godawful puns.

I doubt a "spam number" would make anyone change their ways. We tell people when they are excessively spammy, first through hints and then directly if the behavior continues. If being told you are spamming doesn't convince someone to change their posting behavior, a number isn't going to do the trick either. Plus, for several years on the UBB board, user ratings were enabled, which worked a lot like this hypothetical spam number would. No one ever stopped spamming because their user rating was low. Dikiyoba only slows down (if necessary) at roadside radars because they're commonly posted in school or construction zones, and Dikiyoba really doesn't want to get a ticket in those areas. Dikiyoba would also slow down without the radars, though, so really the radars aren't the relevant factor there.

Dikiyoba isn't sure why you think you aren't welcome here, Harehunter.. You are welcome here. Just remember to make relevant posts (because there are dozens and dozens of individual people who read these threads, and if everyone posted very little irrelevant thought they had, SW would become a time-wasting unreadable mess) and you'll have no problems.

Presumably, those are plus fours. Dikiyoba has also reached upgraded status in this thread. 98145-1659!

Are they really, though? Most of the forums I've seen with Introduction forums have the same problem (or worse) that SW does with member retention and inactivity. Dikiyoba knows Geneforge brought in a few members, but probably not more than any other non-Blades game did, and it brought in far fewer members than either Blades game did.

Since English speakers tend to overuse modifiers, the most efficient way to communicate would be to avoid using 'literally' entirely. Dikiyoba will now spend the next hour over-analyzing everything Dikiyoba writes to avoid redundant, inefficient communication. Out, demons of overemphasis, out!

The aliens invaded again, but this time the Spiderweb forces were able to halt the aliens' nebulous attack. I kept everyone alive as long as I could, but sadly, Arctic Wolf (known to the aliens as "the New One") heroically sacrificed himself in the final battle in order to blow up the alien mothership. Highlights from the game: -Playing the first half of the game with just two support people (who do the most effective healing) and far too many snipers before getting the money and experience to hire and dismiss generic troops to even things out. -Lilith getting critically wounded, stabilized at 1 health, and then poisoned (-1 health per turn), but survived because the mission ended that same turn. -Slarty panicking for no real reason (I assume he suddenly realized he wasn't in a decades-old Japanese role-playing video game) and shooting the VIP the squad was supposed to be escorting to safety. (I confess I reloaded to fix that, though.) -Actaeon getting hit by two or three enemy grenades in a single mission, hence his nickname. Here's the full roster: Assault Class Arctic 'Hungry' Wolf (Psi) Lilith 'Pun & Gun' Nocaps (Psi) Nicothodes 'Too Cute' Penstabber Stareye 'Special OP' Bootface Sylae 'Rainbow Dashing' Corell (Psi) Tyranicus 'Naked Fury' Nethergate Upon "Inside Info" Mars Heavy Class Arancaytar 'Kitten' Ilyaran-Belyen (Psi powers) Iffy 'Top Muffin' Flamming (Psi powers) Jumpin 'Sexy Red Slip' Salmon Saunders 'Friendly Fire' Fluffy-Doom Slartifer M. 'Facepalming' Tuckersworth Triumph 'Tsoukalos' Lightbringer (Giorgio Tsoukalos is the guy from Ancient Aliens. Yup.) Sniper Class Actaeon 'Grenadier' Buckshot Al 'Memeworthy' O'Rael Ali 'Neboo' Neb (All of Neb's villagers in Minecraft are named Ali.) Jera 'Commander' Keen Marlenny 'Lenny Latina' Sexycensus Nikki 'Supafly' Mutey Tony 'Evil Eye' Dintiradan Support Class Brother 'Retribution' Ephesos Dikiyoba 'Frank' Dikiyora Nioca 'Furball' Half-Nephil Trenton 'Pinkie' Laundanum (Laundanum has an important presence in Amnesia: The Dark Descent) Dikiyoba over and out.

Mmmmmmm, blueberries. One of the best SW posts of all time. Everyone should know of its greatness. Dikiyoba misses the more active General with its more numerous posters of previous years. Alas, for those days seen gone forever. Nice going, FaceTumblBookSpace.

Oh, a rating thread, huh? This is how Dikiyoba feels about that (and you):

Huh, I didn't know Rowen played Minecraft. Welcome aboard! The best time is Tuesday, March 18 at 8:00 PM Mountain Time (2:00 AM GMT). That's late, but it shouldn't take too long (each round is only five minutes). The time is flexible, so come early if you can and don't worry about being late or not able to make it. We can always use more people, so come if you can. Dikiyoba.

I bet that the number of dog bites and the severity of injury from their bites is much higher than the number and severity of tarantula bites. In fact, according to this site, all spiders found in the US still bite people far, far less than dogs do. (It's old, so tarantulas were probably less common as pets, but tarantulas are famous within the spider world for being exceptionally docile, so that shouldn't impact the rate much, if at all.) Dikiyoba isn't sure that capturing another civilization in a Civilization-type strategy game counts as evil. It may be the most efficient way to stop an aggressive civilization that attacked you or other civilizations first, for instance. Razing a city, on the other hand...

G7? What happened to Geneforge 6? Although given what happened to the last Geneforge series with a multiple of 3 and the discontinuities of G5, maybe skipping G6 was for the best. Dikiyoba suspects it was lost in a bog. Which is also where Blades of Geneforge was thankfully lost. Roamers seem to like marshy areas; maybe one of them ate the games.