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Erebus the Black

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  1. Kidding aside ( I didn't really think the US should nuke Libya), I thought that an attack of a mostly gay hating country with tribal traditions of tying up women's vaginas and of 12 year old girl circumcision that was supposed to become more liberal after its dictator was routed, (how the hell do 12 men assault an armed embassy and succeed?) would rile up these boards a little more; and all I find you talking about is some obscure reference to a game maker's name sake being mauled by a bear. Really?

  2. Originally Posted By: Lilith

    yes starting world war iii is definitely a good way to make the world a safer place

    wait no it isn't, what is the matter with you

    I thought the US was Libya's main ally and so, given neither China, India nor Moscow were too happy with Kadafi's death no serious repercussions would happen from nuking an already mainly desert country that just crossed it's only nuclear ally :E)
  3. Well, given the fact that Trenton's post count is on par with sylae's who has registered 2 years before him and way over acteon's who registered 5 years before him, it seems Trenton is actively vying for entering the top posters list smile

    Watch out nikki or you'll be overrun before you know it smile

    And nightwatcher is breathing down both your necks Euwww wink

  4. Just finished rereading "the hobbit" and also found in the library a dual book of robert asprin and finished reading "myth directions", hilarious, absolutely hilarious. Now I start the second story "hit and myth". I just love how he starts each chapter with a short (sometimes fake) funny quote such as "That's funny, I never have any trouble with service when I'm shopping" -K. Kong.

     

    And here is also another curious excerpt from "the hobbit"

    (it comes right before

     

    the telling of what happened to Thorin when the wood elves captured him

    :

    Originally Posted By: J.R.R.T.

    These [The wood elves] are not wicked folk. If they have a fault it is distrust of strangers. Though their magic was strong, even in those days they were wary.

    They differed from the High Elves of the West, and were more dangerous and less wise. For most of them (together with their scattered relations in the hills and mountains) were descended from the ancient tribes that never went to Faerie in the West.

    There the Light-elves and the Deep-elves and the Sea-elves went and lived

    for ages, and grew fairer and wiser and more learned, and invented their

    magic and their cunning craft, in the making of beautiful and marvellous

    things, before some came back into the Wide World.

    In the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon but loved best the stars;

    and they wandered in the great forests that grew tall in lands that

    are now lost. They dwelt most often by the edges of the woods, from which

    they could escape at times to hunt, or to ride and run over the open lands

    by moonlight or starlight; and after the coming of Men they took ever more

    and more to the gloaming and the dusk.

    Still elves they were and remain, and that is Good People.

     

    Faerie? Is there another reference to West-Earth with that name? Light Elves? Deep-Elves? Sea Elves?

  5. Originally Posted By: Future Wonderbolt
    am i the only one thinking Schrödinger's fridge light.

    Nah, the subject is not affected by the measurement. (putting a camera inside the fridge is no different than putting food, although hardcore quantum physicists would say the inside of the fridge doesn't exist once you close the door :XD)

  6. I think that if it's like in Baldur's gate 2 where you have to pick one (and only that one will remain) or they both ditch you (meaning you can't prevent them from falling in love with you and still have them as a party member), then it's pretty bad. Then it's not optional, it's forced and it truly diminished my enjoyment of the game.

  7. On second thought, because of the extreme heat near the caldera where the microbes are supposed to be and the low Oxygen concentration, this is more likely:

    2CH4 + 3O2 + Heat ==> BOOM + 2CO + 4H2O

    Making it very dangerous to live (and breath) near the calderas

  8. A point for thought is Chitrachs, these existed in the underworld before there were magic mushrooms, which means either oxygen is not produced magically or bugs in Exile do not breath oxygen. (I'm also assuming the other creatures either have their own magic (sliths, vahnati, gremlins, dragons) or were sent down by the empire (giants, nephils, rats, maybe bats and lizards).

  9. I just saw a movie that claimed that the only way someone can bite himself (or herself) and draw blood is if s/he's insane.

    What do you think Myth or Truth?

     

    (The second point was, that because love is a state of insanity people who are in love can do the above to themselves)

  10. Originally Posted By: The praxis of practice

    Since the human gut is full of bacteria and those bacteria do break down a number of polysaccharides that we can't otherwise digest, I'm going to call this one true.

    You have just demonstrated the misconception:
    On second thought you seem to have misunderstood or misread my intention. The misconception is that people think that we have germs specifically in the stomach, not the gut.
    Or did I misunderstand you and by "this one true" you meant that the misconception exists?
    Only the intestine has bacteria, these help humans stay healthy (and produce vit k) not break down foods, the stomach of animals that eat grass (such as cows and sheep) have bacteria in their stomachs to break down the cellulose (and there are probably other examples I am not aware of).

    Originally Posted By: The praxis of practice

    You can't make the statistics say whatever you want;

    However you can make surveys say whatever you want ( I urge you to watch the first two episodes of Yes Prime minister to see what I mean)
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