Random Stuff X: Something Weird

[Mulk he/him]

14 hours ago, Ammanas said:

Made me think of this:

I see this and raise you this:

[Kaymyth she/her]

This is your friendly neighborhood reminder that lots of big images should go under a spoiler cut. The books are indeed very pretty, but they are also very BIG.

(I edited the original post, but two other posts had already quoted it and zomgsomanypicturesonscroll.)

[Shqueeves]

1 hour ago, Kaymyth said:

This is your friendly neighborhood reminder that lots of big images should go under a spoiler cut. The books are indeed very pretty, but they are also very BIG.

(I edited the original post, but two other posts had already quoted it and zomgsomanypicturesonscroll.)

 How to put images in spoiler while on mobile? 

[Draginon he/him]

@Kaymyth sorry, I thought about it myself after the fact but the damage was already done.

 

I'm trying to figure out transportation options for the sabbatical I want to do in two years and want a little confirmation from any Western Europeans here. Apparently Apple maps doesn't show how to go between countries outside of driving yourself or walking and I want to avoid renting a car at all costs because of the cost of renting and gas would be way more than getting bus and train tickets/passes. Pretty much I want to try getting from the Disneyland Paris Resort to Efteling up in Kaatsheuvel Netherlands followed by going to Günzburg Germany to see Legoland Deutschland. Does anyone know of any train routes that go between these locations or close enough? Also when looking up how to get from the Windsor area up to Alton Towers the map directions said to hop a bus from Windsor to London and take a train to Derby then catch another bus to Alton Towers. Is that as good a route as I'm going to get? I'm good to go on getting my locations in Asia mapped out on the transportation side, none of the locations are close enough to each other so plane is necessary, so no help is needed there.

[Mulk he/him]

30 minutes ago, Draginon said:

@Kaymyth sorry, I thought about it myself after the fact but the damage was already done.

 

I'm trying to figure out transportation options for the sabbatical I want to do in two years and want a little confirmation from any Western Europeans here. Apparently Apple maps doesn't show how to go between countries outside of driving yourself or walking and I want to avoid renting a car at all costs because of the cost of renting and gas would be way more than getting bus and train tickets/passes. Pretty much I want to try getting from the Disneyland Paris Resort to Efteling up in Kaatsheuvel Netherlands followed by going to Günzburg Germany to see Legoland Deutschland. Does anyone know of any train routes that go between these locations or close enough? Also when looking up how to get from the Windsor area up to Alton Towers the map directions said to hop a bus from Windsor to London and take a train to Derby then catch another bus to Alton Towers. Is that as good a route as I'm going to get? I'm good to go on getting my locations in Asia mapped out on the transportation side, none of the locations are close enough to each other so plane is necessary, so no help is needed there.

I'm not a European, but as I've looked at such things myself, I think a great place to start doing some research is on the Eurail website.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

1 hour ago, Shqueeves said:

 How to put images in spoiler while on mobile? 

I click on the eyeball button, it creates a spoiler box and you just make sure you post inside the spoiler box.

[Kaymyth she/her]

41 minutes ago, Draginon said:

@Kaymyth sorry, I thought about it myself after the fact but the damage was already done.

 

I'm trying to figure out transportation options for the sabbatical I want to do in two years and want a little confirmation from any Western Europeans here. Apparently Apple maps doesn't show how to go between countries outside of driving yourself or walking and I want to avoid renting a car at all costs because of the cost of renting and gas would be way more than getting bus and train tickets/passes. Pretty much I want to try getting from the Disneyland Paris Resort to Efteling up in Kaatsheuvel Netherlands followed by going to Günzburg Germany to see Legoland Deutschland. Does anyone know of any train routes that go between these locations or close enough? Also when looking up how to get from the Windsor area up to Alton Towers the map directions said to hop a bus from Windsor to London and take a train to Derby then catch another bus to Alton Towers. Is that as good a route as I'm going to get? I'm good to go on getting my locations in Asia mapped out on the transportation side, none of the locations are close enough to each other so plane is necessary, so no help is needed there.

Google Maps instead of Apple, maybe?

You can even get driving directions from the continental US to Hawaii from Google. Granted, that includes a step that says, "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean," but they're there!

[Mestiv he/him]

@Draginon I'm from central Europe, but I did my fair share of traveling to the west. 

Fist of all, like Mulk suggested, https://www.eurail.com - that's the cheapest way to travel across Europe except hitchhiking.

Secondly, I had good experiences with Deutsche Bahn website. They somehow know about connections outside Germany.

Thirdly, I think the best option is to just go to Tourist Information point on your arrival and ask there how to get to your next destination. 

I don't know any concrete train routes you might use, but if you have any general questions about traveling in Europe feel free to PM me I'll do my best to help.

 

P.S. Google Maps are waaay better that Apple Maps.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

To begin with, I didn't like the Porg. I thought it was a lame, cutesy gimmick to sell toys. Then, I saw this: 

Spoiler

 

[Draginon he/him]

Thanks @Mulk @Kaymyth and @Mestiv I checked Google while waiting and am wondering now if I might need to rearrange the France, Netherlands and Germany portion. Going from Efteling to Günzburg is 13-14 hours but from Paris it's about 2 hours less so I'm thinking to fly from Heathrow or Liverpool (depending where my last stay there is) to Eindhoven and when I'm done there take the rail to Disney followed by Paris and then the rail to Günzburg, though the Google directions show that it's more transfers between bus, rail and lines so it's going to take some planning. @Mestiv If I ever have questions I'll let you know. On your third point, I will do that but I just wanted to get a general look to know if I need to plan for a day of travel or a partial day between destinations, especially since it's supposed to be for two if things pan out.

[The Invested Beard]

157 flippin' pages?

 

LE CHAIM!

 

[Delightful]

3 hours ago, The Invested Beard said:

157 flippin' pages?

 

LE CHAIM!

 

Lchaim uvracha! 

[Shqueeves]

My stand partner in orchestra just finished Alcatraz and the Dark Talent, and didn't know about (spoilers)

Spoiler

 Bastille's note

Until I pointed it out to her. That was really funny to watch. 

[Draginon he/him]

Apparently there's a lot of people upset that Iceland made it to the 2018 FIFA World Cup but not the US. This isn't Eurovision people! No one team/country is guaranteed a spot here! Honestly, I don't get when people get upset over the US not qualifying for something like this.

Edited October 13, 2017 by Draginon
Year fix

[Mestiv he/him]

5 hours ago, Draginon said:

2028 FIFA World Cup

Greetings time traveler! Can you tell me who wins the 2018 World Cup and with what score?  you know, for research and stuff...

[Oversleep]

40 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

Greetings time traveler! Can you tell me who wins the 2018 World Cup and with what score?  you know, for research and stuff...

Uh... But aren't those every four years? In our timeline it's 2022, 2026 and 2030. And he's from one when they will have had one in 2028.

But while we're at it, could you tell me about the Cosmere books (and Rithmatist) schedule release? We may be able to infer some info from it.

Edited October 12, 2017 by Overstorm

[The Invested Beard]

I wish I could have had an informant from the future when the last season of Lost started so I could quit while I was ahead.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

20 minutes ago, The Invested Beard said:

I wish I could have had an informant from the future when the last season of Lost started so I could quit while I was ahead.

I think we did have one... It was called Season 5!

[Kobold King he/him]

6 hours ago, Draginon said:

Apparently there's a lot of people upset that Iceland made it to the 2028 FIFA World Cup but not the US. This isn't Eurovision people! No one team/country is guaranteed a spot here! Honestly, I don't get when people get upset over the US not qualifying for something like this.

 

But... but... the United States is best country. What about those of us who hinge crucial parts of our identity on how the United States is the best at everything? What are we supposed to do?

[Shqueeves]

On 10/9/2017 at 7:36 PM, Ammanas said:

Made me think of this:

 

[Delightful]

2 hours ago, Kobold King said:

 

But... but... the United States is best country. What about those of us who hinge crucial parts of our identity on how the United States is the best at everything? What are we supposed to do?

People like you, my lord anarchist?  

 

 

Edited October 12, 2017 by Delightful

[Draginon he/him]

Fixed the year but will still reply to old year

@Mestiv The winner was very unexpected, Scotland masqueraded as the English team against the Russians and won with a score of 1-0!

@Overstorm they cancelled one of them so they set it two years later to compensate. Don't ask, something about Scottish independence, North Korea blowing up and Atlantis being found. Here's the schedule so far:

Spoiler

2018: Apocalypse Guard 1 & Legion 3

2019: W&W4 and Apocalypse Guard 2

2020: Stormlight 4 and Apocalypse Guard 3

2021: Stormlight 5 and Silence Divine

2022: New Reckoners Series book 1 (its longer than a trilogy!) & non-Cosmere short story collection

2023: NRS book 2, Elantris 2: Electric Boogie and Silverlight

2024: NRS book 3, Seventh of the Morning (by popular demand Brandon writes a new novel on First of the Sun explaining how there's magic there despite there being no Shards ever visiting. The ending was surprising!) & Mistborn: Metal Hacker

2025: NRS Book 4, Elantris 3: Harmony Arrives (you might be wondering how Harmony features when Elantris is before Mistborn and I won't say) & Bastille (Brandon got sidetracked by the NRS books so it took a while for Bastille to write her book)

2026: NRS Book 6 (Brandon accidentally wrote the sixth book instead of the fifth), Mistborn: Secret History Volume 2, Mistborn: On the Run & Nightblood

2027: Winds of Winter & its sequel (everyone got too impatient with Martin, assassinated him and Brandon was assigned to finish the books. Don't worry about Pat and Butcher, Pat's finally finishing up the fourth book in Kingkiller and Dresden is finished.)

2028: Brandon says he might bring Rithmatist 2 this year but his progress bar is only listing Mistborn era 3 book 3, NRS Book 5 (there's supposed to be a dozen more on a yearly basis apparently) and Stormlight 6 so who knows when it'll come.

(Brandon suffered a bit of a mental breakdown after Stormlight 5 which we now call the Sanderbreak. It took him about two weeks to recover enough to start writing the NRS and some suspect he never fully recovered because of how stupidly long the series is becoming (I think one was just a conversation in a bathtub that lasted almost the entire book with a one page fight scene at the end before the winner finally troweled themselves dry) and his accepting finishing Martin's books. It might be true since SH2 kept mentioning someone with the titles Lord of the Morning, He Who Comes With the Dawn and Woolhead making people wonder how WOT figures into the Cosmere now and then there was a scene at the end of AG3 that seems to be taking place on classical Scadrial and Bastille mentioned how the Librarians covered up the existence of other worlds near Earth and even said how they covered up the true name of Earth: Yolen! My own theory is that when our lord and savior Cthulhu finally appeared Brandon was one of the first to view his true form and it broke something in his brain though I don't know how true it could be)

 

Edited October 13, 2017 by Draginon
Fix spoiler

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Australia vs Syria was *vomits

Australia completely bombed it even if they won.

[Delightful]

Waiting for an email about whether I got a job or not. *is nervous*

[Draginon he/him]

Hearing the Weinstein stuff on tv and radio and I guess I don't know my Germanic pronunciations correctly. Everyone there keeps pronouncing it Winesteen but every German name and word I've seen with the ein sound always the same (Frankenstein, Einstein, stein) so I'm wondering where the een sound came from.

Also currently reading Sherlock Holmes and the Servents of Hell and all I can think after the first chapter is "Finally! A British book where the spelling is British and not American!" It annoys me so much to read British books but to lose some of that flavour when it's brought over here.