Kobold King
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My grandma's visiting today. We have absolutely nothing in common. Nothing to talk about. She shares none of my interests, and if she has any interests to speak of then I don't know of them. She has proven herself quite content to sit on a couch and stare at me, unblinking, with a slightly dazed smile on her face for up to ten straight minutes at a time without speaking. So what the news of her visit said to me was...
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What do affectionate new mothers nickname their babies in the Reckonerverse? ...Vanilla beans. I don't even know why I thought that was funny. Just ignore me.
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Well, I don't know. The last time my cat Jasnah stayed inside overnight, she sat on my chest and kneaded her claws into my throat. Are pugs more well-behaved than cats are in this case? You could advise Big Al on useful applications of his power.
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Of course, Bruce Wayne supplies some good ones too. "Goats have no limits, Alfred."
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I highly doubt you said anything offensive. There are a few members who use the Reddit Theory of downvotes--downvote not what is offensive, but what you disagree with, or jokes that you simply don't find funny. It's not against the rules, but I find it kind of annoying, especially once your post count is so high you can't figure out what people are downvoting in the first place. On the bright side, all the new users reading through the Sanderson Memes thread for the first time are also netting me a lot of upvotes.
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Where did you get them? I've been getting a few lately myself. I think it's the influx of newcomers, reading through old posts and disapproving of some of them.
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Stare into the face of the Hypnopug!
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D'aww.
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Yep. She'll expect her to stay on the floor, but if she hops into bed she'll be happy to let her stay.
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Steelheart / some gore:
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We're a strong, independent species that don't need no First Contact.
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Or maybe they're observing us for their strange alien reality shows. "This cycle on Civilization Fails, we take a look at some furless primates who are so backwards, they're trying to talk to us with electromagnetic radiation! Don't miss it!"
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Nightwatcher Boon/Bane (Game)
Kobold King replied to killersquirrel59's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Granted, but the only nights you can watch are dull evenings in rural Arkansas, and the only things your Shard allows you to cultivate are specialty turnip varieties. I wish for a good night's sleep tonight. -
"I'm like a goat chasing cars." "I believe that whatever doesn't kill you only makes you goat." "Never start with the goat, the victim gets all fuzzy." "It's simple. We, uh, kill the goat." "If you're good at something, never do it for goat." "I don't, I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... goat me." "Do you want to know why I use a goat? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the... little emotions." "Do I really look like a guy with a goat?" "This city deserves a better class of goat. And I'm gonna give it to them!" "Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes goat. I'm an agent of goat. Oh, and you know the thing about goat? It's fair!" "You remind me of my goat... I hated my goat." "You see, I'm a guy of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite, and gunpowder, and goats!" And finally... "Why so goat?"
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I've read before that the Moff didn't have any particular plans--he was just friends with the writer, and thought having her regenerate would make for a better ending. Any way, if you don't mind potential Season 9 spoilers you fellas might be interested in this article. Maise Williams gives some vague info on whether or not her character is a returning character. (Don't mouse over the link if you don't want to read the article--the title says it all.)
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So, a lot of astrophysicists have expressed their doubts that extraterrestrial civilizations exist, because radio signals from Earth have been beaming outwards into space for nearly a hundred years now. This is the crux of the Fermi Paradox--if the universe is teeming with life, why don't we see any of it? There are plenty of proposed solutions to the Fermi Paradox. Some say alien civilizations tend to go extinct before they become advanced enough to contact us. Some say aliens don't use radio signals, and thus have no reason to listen to our messages. Some say this is proof positive that there is no extraterrestrial life. I prefer a simpler solution, though. Consider that under the most liberal estimages, humanity has only been emitting audible signals into the galaxy for two hundred years. These signals travel only at the speed of light, and thus, our radio signals have only reached an approximate sphere two hundred light years in diameter, centered around our homeworld. The thing to remember though is that the galaxy is huge. In all this time, the only aliens that could have heard our messages are the ones that evolved and developed within that tiny blue sphere. There could a civilization hundreds of years more advanced than our own just three hundred light years away, and they won't get our messages for another century. When you look at this perspective, panicking about the Fermi Paradox seems... kind of silly. The universe is so huge and so ancient that worrying why we haven't gotten a reply after just two hundred years is like a castaway tossing a message-in-a-bottle into the ocean and despairing when minutes pass and he gets no response. Worrying that all the other alien civilizations have gone extinct is like sending a text to your girlfriend, not getting a reply after ten seconds of waiting, and then assuming that she's been murdered by a serial killer. We've only just started looking up at the sky hoping to find other eyes like our own. The galaxies are packed with mystery still, and no one knows what we'd find if we left the bounds of our tiny solar system.
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
Kobold King replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
Kobold King replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
Didn't get much sleep last night because of how hot it was after my fan's battery died. Also, I'm having one of those days where I worry that everything I say is somehow offensive, and I read over the posts and messages I've made over and over again trying to see if I said anything snotty or rude or creepy. -
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Shamelessly stealing fan art from Deviantart and quotes from the Sanderson Pickup Lines thread:
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Not feeling very motivated today, so here's another random comic. Dalles post forthcoming.
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The Goddess of Awkward Stares?
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Sun set about half an hour ago. Obliteration's saving himself for Twi.
