Seonid

Firefox on Windows 10. Like Stink, just within the last week or so.

So, for the past few days, whenever I've logged into my account and had new notifications, when I clicked on the red icon on my taskbar at the top, I haven't gotten the drop-down list of notifications. If I want to look at them, I have to open the link in a new tab. Is this a known issue?

So, what have I done to make you believe that I might be a Spiked? Just kidding. I'm honored for the nomination, though I really do feel there are better qualified players to represent us in SE. (Now, if there was a worldbuilding contest or something, or a fantasy/sci-fi physics contest, I'd be much more confident representing us.)

Shrimp mixes surprisingly well with quesadillas, especially if given fajita seasoning. Fish would probably be questionable - though it is good in tacos - especially with a fresh salsa. I had a lobster quesadilla once - it was not worth the money I spent on it... Other seafood? Forget about it

While tempting, two of them are already late... But thanks for the idea

I've played (mostly GMed) D&D 3.5 - never moved on to 4th or 5th ed, and not interested in doing so. My friend just bought me the humble bundle of Pathfinder rulebooks, and I'm starting a game using that system in May. (Actually, it's set in my Thousand Realms setting, so I might want to eventually post some details on that thread...) With tabletops, I tend to want to be the GM - it intrigues me far more than being a player, normally because I can exercise worldbuilding talent there. On computer RPGs, I've done Oblivion, Skyrim, KotOR 1&2 - nothing too exotic.

And the new Rogue One trailer is out!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg

Ok - I have four weeks left until I graduate. In that four weeks I have to do 3 lab reports and a metric ton of Arabic homework. A week from today, I have to present my physics research, and I'm only half through the paper on that. I took three days off from work to do this. And I can't summon the determination to do anything.

I was shown the proof that there are the same amount of rational numbers (numbers that can be expressed by a fraction) as there are integers. That blew my mind for a bit... But I'm still trying to get my head around tensor calculus. And symmetry groups. And the difference between vectors and differential forms. One day I'll get to Lie algebra and the like, and maybe even to advanced topics in topology. Some days it's enough to make me question why I ever wanted to do physics. The rest of them it's like drinking from a firehose.

I'd say Wilson as one of my top choices, but out of respect for her declination, I'll omit her from the list. Meta, Mailliw, Alvron, Haelbarde

Granted, but while trying to maintain blood flow to the extra arms, your heart fails. I wish for all of my remaining homework for this semester to be finished: specifically my senior research project in physics, my senior research project in religious studies, my 3 physics lab reports, and all of my overdue arabic homework from this semester. The finished work must be presented to me in electronic form compatible with Microsoft Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 2013, within 10 seconds (SI units only), contained within a USB drive and be laid 1 cm (again, SI units) above the top of my desk with no velocity relative to my reference frame. The research projects must be written using my own words and phrasing, and must be correct in all of their observations, according to the highest standards of research. They must be formatted properly, using APA formatting, and be indistinguishable in all material respects from the projects I would have written with my current level of knowledge and understanding as of this post. They must be fully accepted by my professors as meeting the requirements of the assignments, and gaining them may not have any adverse impact on my physical, emotional, or mental well-being, or on any of my relationships with others. The USB must be my own property, not stolen or otherwise acquired through dubious means. No other changes may be made to the universe in the process of granting this wish other than the ones expressly described in this post, and if any interpretation of this wish would cause me - at this present time or any future time - to disapprove of the final outcome, I require you to present the interpretation to me in full, with a complete explanation of why I will disapprove of it, before carrying out any portion of the instructions. At that point, I will add further conditions to prevent the consequences of which I disapprove of. This wish may never be interpreted in such a way as to render the initial design null and void.

Excellent. You receive such a pancake. However, since you neglected to specify where and when you wanted it, it will appear in approximately 100 trillion years, well into the heat death of the universe. It's location will be randomly determined.

If it makes you feel better, I'm a year older than you, and just about to graduate with a bachelor's degree...

Accidental downvote! Can someone fix it?

If you're interested, I've got a pm with Twi where I've explained the basic ideas of Mormonism. I'll ask her if it's alright to add you to the pm, or I can copy-paste the contents

You receive a fully cooked, 8 inch diameter and quarter inch thick pancake made of arsenic, lead, and flour made from nightshade leaves and tapioca starch on a uranium plate a kilometer across centered on your current position

True. Is it sad that we live that close, but the only time we see each other is at Brandon's signings?

Oh Howard Tayler, how I love thy book reviews... But Schlock is still better

That makes another one of us. One day I'll meet the folks here in person... Until then, I'll be happy with the Sharders I have met.

(I draw these from the post-medieval traditions of early America - I took a class on that last spring - but those grew out of the medieval European traditions) A witch was thought to be able to cause harm in a number of ways. Common misfortunes were often attributed to malevolent witchcraft. So, we can quickly list a number of ways a witch was supposed to be able to cause harm - they were supposed to be able to cause animals to fall sick, or even die, to blight crops, or to create tension in family relationships. In addition, a witch was said to be able to project themselves and create the sensation of terror and a heavy weight on a sleeping target. Unfortunately, I haven't read Michael Prior's books, so I can't attribute them to a law of magic. Now I gotta think about a question... Umm... I've been on an RPG kick lately - here we go: WLIU, name 4 named characters used to give examples of classes in the Pathfinder system.

I'll go with Rubix. Seems like an interesting choice.

They didn't call themselves the Byzantine Empire, and most of their contemporaries didn't either, to the best of my knowledge. "Byzantine" is a term used by historians - the people who were part of what we know as the Byzantine Empire just called themselves "Romans." And most of the folk around them did too. The city started out as Byzantium, and was renamed Constantinople in AD 330, very close to the time the empire split. At first, of course, the Romans viewed it as an administrative division, though politics meant that it became more than that. And then the city was renamed Istanbul officially in 1930, though the Turks had been calling it that for a long time already.

In the 1830s and 40s, the US had a surge of temperance societies - groups who taught that the use of alcohol was wrong. These groups also promoted coffee and/or tea as substitutes for alcohol. The early Mormons who first heard the revelation would have seen "no alcohol at all, and don't just go replacing it with one of the popular substitutes. You have to make a clean break of it." So to modern Mormons, removed from the original culture that prompted it, it certainly is arbitrary. But there was a reason for it start with. In this, it is rather similar to a number of the commandments in the Torah - some of which seem arbitrary now but had good reasons in their original cultures. And that was your Mormon history lesson of the day, folks!

I just named 35 gods over the last week or two. Mostly I did it by looking up words in obscure languages that were related to that god's theme. When I ran out of names from that method, I turned to Wikipedia, and looked for real-world deity names from various (underrepresented) cultures - one or two Akkadian, several Babylonian, one from Albania, and so on. Then I slightly changed the names - Inanna to Nianna and the like. I rather like the end result. It will almost certainly get a second pass before it ever becomes canon for my worldbuilding, but it's good enough to run a Pathfinder campaign off of (which is what I'm going to be doing over the summer).

We much prefer precisely placed spikes