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What?
I didn't get curious about whether Final Fantasy was any good and downloaded IV and played it via emulator and instantly fall in love with it - you got curious about whether Final Fantasy was any good and downloaded IV and played it via emulator and instantly fell in love with it!
SpoilerSpoilerSpoilerExcept I lost to a bunch of cave monters which apparently restarts the entire scudding game soooo
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GO TO SLEEP
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Hey friends
3 years now
4 Water Siblings (love y'all) @Condensation @Vapor @Fog
1 amazing real friend who got me on here @Serce Forts (wish I could see you more, but that's life, unfortunately)
2 Sharders who I am now a lot closer to @DramaQueen @Ed Venture and one who I will most likely be getting closer to @Channelknight Fadran
And a few other awesome peeps (I am definitely missing some people here, sorry) @Chasmgoat @revelryintheart @Scarletfox @Spock @Tesh
Anyways, thanks for being amazing
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happy sharderversary!
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This is a complaint against spellcheck, which seems to think I need to pick a side on British and American English. I'll use 'grey' and 'demeanour' followed immediately by 'honor' and 'labor' all I want, thanks.
I don't even know when I started mixing them, though. That's something I'll wonder about for a while.
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nah, it's a grey area in the law
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709 (rep),
Minus,
609 (content),
Means
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I have a positive rep to post ratio.
Nice!
Thanks fellas.
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But the definition of a ratio is what one must multiply one number by to get the other
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709 (rep),
Minus,
609 (content),
Means
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I have a positive rep to post ratio.
Nice!
Thanks fellas.
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but...
you're
subtracting?
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709 (rep),
Minus,
609 (content),
Means
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I have a positive rep to post ratio.
Nice!
Thanks fellas.
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thats not how ratios work-
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it's time
the Marble League has started
SpoilerOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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it's time
the Marble League has started
SpoilerOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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The marble league
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I got a bunch of my dad's old CDs today. I'm so happy! Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and assorted others, including Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and Night On Bald Mountain!
Plus, the soundtracks to The Phantom Menace, Apollo 13, and Gettysburg, and the original cast recordings of Phantom of The Opera and Les Miserables. Today is a good day, indeed!
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I got a bunch of my dad's old CDs today. I'm so happy! Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and assorted others, including Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and Night On Bald Mountain!
Plus, the soundtracks to The Phantom Menace, Apollo 13, and Gettysburg, and the original cast recordings of Phantom of The Opera and Les Miserables. Today is a good day, indeed!
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Which Dvorak :eyes:
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did you know that the acceleration due to gravity on earth is 3.8±10.4 m/s^2
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I have determined that we could completely simulate an ant brain with just 6.25 Gigabytes of data.
Science, please make me the first artificial ant colony.
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So we’re still off by many orders of magnitude
iirc a recent study estimated the global ant population at 4 quadrillion
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I’m a Bondsmith now!
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And out of nowhere...
I'm a Sentient Awakened Object.
On your level now, Clearcut!
Thanks, everyone who gave me upvotes. I'm saving a giant mushy you-all-rock-and-the-Shard-has-changed-my-life for my one year anniversary (I haven't even been here a year yet? Wow, feels like so long and yet so little at the same time...), but again, thanks.
CELEBRATION TIME COME ON!
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I lost this as a bookmark, but now it's back!
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The absolute whiplash I felt when I went to the next song on my required listening playlist for my music class, and it was Fur Elise, by Ludwig von Beethoven (190 songs I have to know the names and composers of, ah!) and it was primarily flute.
It was actually a pretty neat version, I'm just used to Fur Elise being For Piano, it just is.
While I have ya here, why do you think colonel is spelled like it is, but pronounced like it is?
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if you want classical bass solo music recommendations, I gotchu
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i want to be a pirate.
again.
pirates of the caribbean is a criminally underrated movie
and it’s very well rated already
can i switch my major from computer engineering to piracy
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Just watched Rings of Power ep. 1
Better than I expected but not as good as I had hoped. Overall pretty solid mid. At the very least I wasn't feeling a constant ringing of hatred the entire time.
Here's a more in-depth take with spoilers and stuff:
SpoilerFirst of all: nitpicks
- They called it Middle-Earth. False. Back then, the entire continent was known as Beleriand. Probably for the best to keep the normie fans tuned though.
- Galadriel's a warrior? As I recall she was just a frolicking happy-go-lucky sort of elf back in the day. I'll have to double-check though. My memory on this stuff's a little rusty.
- You're telling me a warg couldn't spot a massive group of incredibly loud hobbit children from ten feet away? Come on.
Second of all: stuff I thought was good
- CGI, for the most part. There were a few bits that looked like it could very well be cheap 3D models, but that might've just been me. Obviously you'd be hard-pressed not to have epic CGI if you're presumably the "biggest show of the year" and such, but still; good to know after the horrendous graphics display that is She-Hulk
- Humans. Of all the races they displayed, the little village of regular people seemed the most real and lifelike. Though I guess that could be bias because I happen to be a man myself
Third of all: stuff I thought was less than good
(unfortunately, there's a decent amount of this)
- That wasn't a love arc they're trying to do with Galadriel and Elrond, is it? It started out looking like a love arc and then gradually faded away from it? I bring this up because she's a whole age and a half older than him and his cousin or something. Again, I'll have to double-check this.
- The dialogue seemed pretty off, but I expected that for the most part. Somehow Tolkien manages to get away with nothing but flowery poetics from the elves while no one else can. For the most part it bothered me how conveniently each topic worked themselves into conversation. It was just really fast-paced and threw me off. Again, that's kinda fine though. It just needed some fine-tuning is all.
- Biggest biggie is that they didn't give us enough time to figure out each character and situation. While I love me a good multi-POV adventure show, the least they could've done was build up everyone's deals before throwing them for a loop first. All that was clear with Galadriel was that she wants to avenge her brother, who we never had any chance to get attached to. They just straight-up tell us that this hobbit child (who, by the way, is adorable and I love them) wants to go on an adventure, and the elf warrior dude is gets exactly one jump cut to chat up his girlfriend before being presumably yanked away.
- And, of course, what's with all this "evil" coming out all over the place, all the time, at the same time? Sauron's a number of things, but flashy isn't one of them. You can't convince me that the elves went from "we're sure he's gone" to "ah snipe he's poisoning the literal elf trees" in just an episode.
Overall, I'm keeping my hopes up. I definitely think it might be entertaining if not particularly remarkable. Here's hoping we get some numenoreans!
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hehe ringing of hatred
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I finished the (extended) Lord of the Rings Trilogy! It's truly a masterful sequence of films! Music, set design, choreography, acting, costumes, cinematography.... It's all *chefs kiss* Magnifico!
Anyway, my sister and I were interested in the making of the movie and we found a couple fun facts!
- Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) did not have a stunt double and used a real steel sword while filming
- Christopher Lee had read the LotR books every year for over 40 years before getting the role of Saruman.
- Nazgul screeches were made by scraping plastic cups cups together
- Viggo Mortensen formed such a strong bond with the horse he rode on set that he purchased him (and another horse to give him a friend) from the owners after filming.
- Apparently Tolkien wasn't allowed to publish the trilogy until it was typewritten, but he didn't have any experience, so he typed all 1,200 pages of The Lord of the Rings with the two fingers technique!
- Several of the Riders of Rohan were portrayed by women wearing fake beards
- Sean Bean (Boromir) refused to fly to set in a helicopter so each day he hiked in his heavy armor up the mountain to film.
- Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood never actually acted alongside each other because of their immense height difference and so their scenes were spliced together post-production
Kinda crazy, right!
In other news, this next week, I'm going to be very busy, so I don't think I'll be able to be on the Shard much (if at all) until later in the week. Everything's already starting to pick up- school is stressful, y'all!
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and the classic HE BROKE HIS TOE one
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other, non sharderversary updates: I’m learning to make chain mail, Galactic Puzzle Hunt is going on, finished the second book in the Temeraire series.
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*a metal dowel
stupid me and my stupid not getting the right indefinite article
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other, non sharderversary updates: I’m learning to make chain mail, Galactic Puzzle Hunt is going on, finished the second book in the Temeraire series.
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it's pretty easy as long as you have:
a drilltwo pairs of pliers
heavy duty wire cutters
a drill bit that can cut metal
wire
an metal dowel
something that can hold the dowel as it spins
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other, non sharderversary updates: I’m learning to make chain mail, Galactic Puzzle Hunt is going on, finished the second book in the Temeraire series.
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am currently under the effects of the chewy potion of sleeplessness
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Sleeplessness
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am currently under the effects of the chewy potion of sleeplessness
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Nah, it was boba tea
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MORALITY QUESTION:
What do you guys think about consuming media that was produced by a horrible person? Is it moral to do so?Context: I found a cool band I really liked last week on spotify. Great songs. I decide to look them up, only to find out that the lead singer has some pretty strong rape allegations that have been put against him. (not entirely sure about the validity of those claims, still doing research n stuff.)
so that's obviously not good. But I don't wanna talk about that guy specifically, just wondering what you guys think about this in general.
Here's the hypothetical situation I would like you to consider.
-Bob produced a work of great quality. Book, music, play, whatever.
-Bob is now dead. Added this stipulation to avoid the 'don't want to support this person financially' angle. Bob is dead. they cannot benefit from anything financially.
-Bob did a very bad thing. Take your pick =P, it was pretty bad though.
-The Bad Thing that Bob did still has bad effects to this day. Adding this stipulation to balance out the "Bob is dead" stipulation.Is it morally wrong to consume the media that Bob created?
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if the capital generated by consuming said medium does not go to bob or bob-related parties, then I'd say it is not wrong
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A little different from the usual poem, what I have here is a status update as far as what is going on with myself and the woman who captured my mind, body, and soul. @CalanoCorvus your post inspired this one.
Time is a weird thing really. It has been a little more than three months though it might as well have been the most wondrous of eternities. We seem drawn to each other as a shadow to light. Many times over these months she has told me that there is no way for me to get rid of her even if I were to try (not that I ever would). Things moved so fast that I can scarcely believe it. At every turn, our love really has grown fiercer. At this point, I'd pit Odium, Trell, and any other malevolent shard that would get in our way against us. Though I'd pity them afterward.
How things have developed in what appears at times to be no more than a dream from which I worry that I will awake I know not. Time and again she finds ways to take me by surprise and make me aware of just how lucky I am to have her in my life. Just being with her and talking makes me happy, The single most shaking thing she told me was when about a month and a half ago she told me that when the day came for me to ask her to marry me I do not have to worry about the answer. I did not know how to respond other than simply standing there in shock.
That day is distant yet, but I ordered a ring. It will never be known what I did to be so fortunate to have been found worthy of her love. When she expressed absolute desire and intent to spend her life with me and no one else I could only see her wisdom, beauty, wit, creativity, intelligence, humor and so much more as being truly worthy of praise, but beyond my skill. To begin would mean to never stop until the whole of creation runs cold.
This has been my TED Talk.
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I believe early congratulations are in order
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