Damn you, Zeke. Damn you.
Level 9 and pondering the Kinetic Molecular Theory of Gases to get to Level 10. |
I passed level twelve! It took me about thirty tries, but I did it!
Speaking of thirty tries, it took me about that many to spell that sentence right. Ugh. |
It took me about twelve. There's not much skill involved in that one, really. It would take a genius to get a good enough sense of how all 60 particles are moving to formulate a strategy more complicated than "let's see if this spot works."
Two samples from the Partially-Clips-like webcomic Wondermark: - How, I ask you? - Any cat owner can vouch for this one. |
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/239123
This is Pretty Much Ocarina of Time, which is a Flash movie that I'm sad to say is a better parody than my fiver. |
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Those things are just dog gamned creepy.
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You mean second biggest, right?
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I think now would be a good time to point out that when I first saw the title of this thread, I totally had the wrong idea.
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Me too, but I wasn't gonna say anything.
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Eww. And to think I changed my avatar right before that.
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I have no idea what any of you are talking about. You're all crazy. Get off the road.
Meanwhile, speaking of animals I found out about through that webcomic, here's the vampire squid from hell. Well, okay. To be more accurate, I should give its scientific name: "the vampire squid from hell." |
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I want one for a pet. |
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They taste just the same either way, of course. |
When I was a kid, we called 'em potato bugs. They have many names.
(Sigh. I still love that Pokey strip, but it was so much cooler before I knew that "master the possibilities" was an old MasterCard slogan.) |
I think we called them woodbugs. They're the little grey things the roll into an armoured ball when you poke them, right?
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And a link contribution, for whatever it's worth: The Rules for the Annual Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton, WV. |
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Shyeeah, right. Their "plan" is completely ad hoc. They want to kill us all, except that they want to create a pillbug-human hybrid, except that they want to move to Earth. Their sleeper agents -- slater agents, if you will -- have no idea they're really bugs except when they do. And are we ever going to get an explanation for the giant pillbug in my head that no one else can see?
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Ooooookkkkaaaayyyy....
Moving on. If we're going to do a thread of links... http://www.reviewboy.com/ Delta Blues is (dare I say it?) one of the top five Trek sites that any Trekkie has to visit. It's a requirement. It's necessary. |
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'Slater' is an Australian thing too.
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Here's one for chess fans. (Anybody here play on RedHotPawn? I'm CZeke there.)
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I have a rather nice repilca set of the Lewis chessmen. I was even at one point a member of a school chess club. Before you get too impressed though, I should point out that I can count the number of opponents I've beaten on one hand.
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Fairly amusing.
That's one reason why I'm not your average nerd. I'm not a chess addict. Probably because I've gotten smacked by one too many uppity ten dollar computer programs. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtKYOtOIkE
This completes me. Seriously though, it's just perfect. I loved Spitting Image.... Oh why did you go away! |
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But then, the appeal of chess is too universal to try and match it up with some specific group. It's the definitive strategy game. TOS and B5 showed people still playing chess 300 years from now, and I believe it. |
From what I've read, there are many better strategy games out there. Go, for example. Now, I've never played even though I know how. For that matter, what about Hexxegon?
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Anticipating that objection, I said definitive, not best. I think chess has a stronger claim to that title than any other game. "Best" wouldn't even make sense, since there are any number of ways one game can be better than another: simplicity, challenge, accessibility, and so on.
Go is indeed a strong contender, though I think chess edges it out. As for Hexxagon, I apply a simple rule: any game I have to look up is in no way a classic yet. |
I think the whole Go vs. Chess issue is more or less an East vs. West thing. Which you define as "definitive" largely rests on where you grew up.
I say they both co-chair their definity. |
Well, it's just that from what I've heard, if a random person had to go on a hundred-year trip across the galaxy and could only take one game with them, the odds are better that they'd take Go with them.
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@IJD: Exactly. In my home, for example, it was Newfoundland Trivial Pursuit...
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You know, we get pretty silly here sometimes. But I think it's time now to take a moment, as we sometimes do on this show, to look... into the future.
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For some strange reason, I think that the personal flying machine is the most improbable. I daresay that gliders with as little surface area as those would barely (if at all) get you to the ground from a cliff. Going up and down at would be impossible.
The personal waterwheel raft could possibly work if you added a float on each side to keep your balance. The moving pavement is just plain loony. Possible, but there are multiple better and cheaper alternatives. |
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Forty-two.
Hey, it'll answer any question! Maybe not well, but it is an answer. :) |
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