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Welcome to 17th shard! Big spoilers for the cosmere in general below, not directed at any one particular book. Read at your own risk.

It works well enough here or in tech discussion, it's not a particularly huge problem. besides, there's discussions on video games in the entertainment forum as well, so it's fine. As for on topic:

Yep, moved to the WoR forum.

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Heh, it was silus. I just went and found the topic where it happened Edit: Guh. Just realized that was about 3 and a half years ago now....

For every upvote Twi gives, i will give out a downvote to suit! Infinity shall never come! I am the ruin to your preservation! (not really, though, since I like never do downvotes anyways.) Actually, I probably shouldn't joke about down votes. There was one time when we first got the system put in I joked about someone being downvoted into oblivion and people started down voting him because it was funny. I think it was Silus that happened to.....

I live in NOT omaha, nebraska! Actually, I live about a 2 hour drive from omaha, in des moines, iowa. So i guess, all in all, that doesn't really answer your question.

Here's an explanation you've never heard before: I've seen the original BSG, but never the new one. Didn't avoid it for any particular reason, just didn't have the sci-fi channel when it came out, and havent put any effort into trying to find and watch it.

Since we're talking about dr who, and some people here are newer doctor who fans, i will assume that some people have not seen this. Thus, i present to you a comedy bit with rowan atkinson (mr bean) from the mid 90's or so, "Dr who and curse of fatal death"

Dirk Gently novels are awesome. The long, dark, tea time of the soul is great.

Delicious Skaa Slaw. 25% less ash than leading brands!

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Yeah, the old ones ran 20 minutes or so each (30 minutes with commercials), and i think the new ones are at 40 minutes, 60 with commercials, so most of the serials are usually, at most, 3 or 4 episodes of the new series for the longest of the old serials.

well, I don't "shun" it per se. Just never watched it. I don't have any decision one way or the other if it's good or bad, the only thing i found off-putting about it was the decision to cast "younger", "hipper" doctors. The doctors may actually be pretty good for all i know. And Matt Smith is actually a pretty cool guy, i got to meet him at a signing earlier this year at St Louis comic con. For whatever reason, the line for his signing was super short, and my fiancee wanted a signature, but was in some panel and couldn't make it. So I went and got a signature, and talked with him for a few moments. Seems like a really cool guy. Edit: Also, to be fair, pretty much all of the old series had story arcs (serials, as they called them). Most were just in the range of 3-6 episodes, and there was like 4 or 5 serials per season. And while they would occasionally refer to an older serial, they mostly had little connection to each other (other than things that changed stuff significantly, like the doctor changing, or like when was exiled to earth and such)

He's an alien, and his species, when near death, "regenerate" to a completely new body with it's own personality, and only vague memories of his previous lives. They're only supposed to have 12 regenerations, but I think they plot armored him with a new set or something in the new series.

I've never watched any of the new dr who series. I've watched pretty much everything of the pre 2000's dr who, though. I like that they seem to be getting back to their roots by selecting an older doctor, that was one thing I always found off putting about the new series.

Resurrecting because i just found a webcomic pocket princesses people here might like. That's gallery with all of the comics on imgur, this is apparently the source

Nope. The spambots won't have any way to get your password.

Are you trying to tell me that The Stanford Mathematics Problem Book isn't a real page turner to keep me up at night? If that's the case, I suppose I may as well just cancel my order now....

For a more technical explanation (because i know everyone WANTS that), it's actually using a feature of unicode called "character combining". The intent is to let people combine characters so you don't need a special, unique character for every letter that has a tick/umlaut/whatever else mark above or below it. It was intended to make the unicode standard more flexible, but as always happens, the internet corrupted its true nature.

"It's all in this book.....Well...Not all....In fact....there's not much about him in this book in particular. You'll need to read these 20, and watch for the subtle clues. But believe me, they're there."

Well, ok then. You picked a good series to start out with.