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I just got a new member title!
SpoilerYou know what that means...
Well...
I guess I'm good at Tarachin now.
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Hate to say it, but being a dawnsinger was more fun.
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So what's the connection? The fish is good at Tarachin?
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Apparently so...
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Well then, congratulations Fish! Enjoy your (hopefully) underwater Tarachin games!
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Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. They form a sister group to the tunicates, together forming the olfactores. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.
The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. Fish would continue to evolve through the Paleozoic era, diversifying into a wide variety of forms. Many fish of the Paleozoic developed external armor that protected them from predators. The first fish with jaws appeared in the Silurian period, after which many (such as sharks) became formidable marine predators rather than just the prey of arthropods.
Most fish are ectothermic ("cold-blooded"), allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature.[1][2]
Fish can communicate in their underwater environments through the use of acoustic communication. Acoustic communication in fish involves the transmission of acoustic signals from one individual of a species to another. The production of sounds as a means of communication among fish is most often used in the context of feeding, aggression or courtship behaviour.[3] The sounds emitted by fish can vary depending on the species and stimulus involved. They can produce either stridulatory sounds by moving components of the skeletal system, or can produce non-stridulatory sounds by manipulating specialized organs such as the swimbladder.[4]
Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., cusk-eels and snailfish), although no species has yet been documented in the deepest 25% of the ocean.[5] With 34,300 described species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates.[6]
Fish are an important resource for humans worldwide, especially as food. Commercial and subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean (in aquaculture). They are also caught by recreational fishers, kept as pets, raised by fishkeepers, and exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies.
Tetrapods emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so cladistically they are fish as well. However, traditionally fish are rendered paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods (i.e., the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which all descended from within the same ancestry). Because in this manner the term "fish" is defined negatively as a paraphyletic group, it is not considered a formal taxonomic grouping in systematic biology, unless it is used in the cladistic sense, including tetrapods.[7][8] The traditional term pisces (also ichthyes) is considered a typological, but not a phylogenetic classification.
Apparently I have to do this sort of thing often, now that I'm a Rambleman and such...
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*Sobs softly in corner of cloud*
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this ends in 11 days and 13 hours
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Hard pass. If you wanted, you could be me, but that might get REALLY confusing.
Whoever you are would have just about no choice but to join, is my point.
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hehehe
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Well dangit,
I guess I have to go for first now...
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imagine being on the leaderboard -
Have you never been on the leaderboard rev?
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If you joined mine I’d promote you to “Person who will be spared when I begin my global domination”
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Nah,
Your just a pom-pom with googly eyes, I'm not scared.
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999! Don't Post!
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I like the blue better as well.
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I think it depends on the character. IMO, character accessories should be used to express the character they belong to, either through contrast/comparison or similarity/belonging. For example, Dalinar with Oathbringer compared to Sadeas with Oathbringer: it just doesn't click with Sadeas, and seems kind of not wuite right at times for Dalinar, but perfect for the Blackthorn.
If you get my drift, that's great. Just a theory
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A BOOOOK THEORY
THANKS FOR READING
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Am I a kandra?
Did I eat the bones of my former body?
I'm so used to trusting my reputation titles...
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That was my plan all along!!!
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I bid my friend's soul.
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I bid the shard of harmony, and the ability to create humans.
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Back in business!
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So it's sometime in the future of your story?
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Oh good! Welcome back!
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PAPRIKA!!!
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BAH!
Frowny fish.
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Nope,
But humans post pictures of humans they don't know. So why can't a fillet do it?
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......do humans do that?
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Yeah.
I think?
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DON'T POST!
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Yes, Fish, we all know you're a fish. However, it was either breaststroke pull only, fly kick only, or freestyle kick only. It's rather tiring.
And then I did 200 with special breaststroke shoes that make it harder.
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Okay...
If I was a human (which I'm obviously not) I'd say that I've done worse.
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Okay. I'm tired, though. *yawns*
Ignore me until tomorrow morning when I wake up at 11.
Or maybe afternoon, that sounds nice.
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Goodbye!
See people in two weeks!
SpoilerUnless change occurs
But we all know that won't happen!
Goodnight moon,
Goodnight sense of doom,
Goodnight profile pics that make me wonder who's in the room.
Goodbye!
Adieu!
I'mma go live in a highprince's shoe!
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Or whatever its called
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@I Used To Be A Fish, I just might join you.
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I might customize mine. We’ll see.
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HALP!
I need a good idea for my sixth hundred post.
I don't know why, but I care about this.
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Happy birthday!
Thanks for starting the best Nightwatcher related thread on the Shard!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Happy early birthday!
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Happy storming birthday!!
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Happy Birthday!
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Oh thanks! But it's not actually my birthday. When I made my account, I decided to see how far into the future I could put my birthday. It turned out to be November 13. It's really Feb 15, so I'll go change that.