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I'm going to try replacing my frequent modern swearing (i.e. fuck and shit) with 1920's expletives like applesauce and horsefeathers.
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When I was walking earlier, the bright sunshine reminded me that, years ago, a friend of mine once had a theory that I was a vampire.
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I think it would add more ridiculousness to life.
I want to try this out with my CoD buddies. Instead of yelling random slurs (we once went several matches using wordplay variations of “corn” ie. “suck my cob”) and calling people “campy little bitches”, we should just call them “shadowy horsefeathers”.
Actually, upon closer inspection, this fits right down our alley…
Waiting for sunset #NYC (Taken with instagram)
Kings Highway Station (Taken with instagram)
I have been dying to do this.
Dammit. I actually had something like this in mind for one of my mini comic strips.
(via fyeahchemistry)
This Memorial Day, we took a look back at how the U.S. soldier has evolved over the years. Did you know camouflage wasn’t introduced until the end of World War II?
A very smart piece by The Daily on the evolution of the soldier.
Persona 3 Portable is hands down my favorite game on the PSP. Hell, I love it so much that I went out of my way to downgrade my CFW to 5.50 Gen-D3 (from way back in 2009) to recover some really old save files just to get them to work again on the most recent CFW (6.60 Pro-B10). Trust me, it’s harder than it sounds. Just a bit of tech jargon service there.
I bought FES from the PSN store (for only $10! That still astounds me.) with the intention to play through “The Answer” route, which isn’t available in P3P. P3P only has “The Journey” route.
I would really love to watch the cutscenes in “The Journey” route, as well as see some of the events “animated” via the in-game models (such as Elizabeth dumping coins into a fountain at Paulownia Mall during a “date” quest), something P3P lacks for obvious reasons. However, I’m also currently replaying P3P with my previous “Game cleared” savefile with the intent of getting through Monad and Vision Quest. It’s really hard to gauge what levels my teammates should be, though, since I’m essentially OP.
I really don’t want to have to level grind twice to get through the same levels in the two games. I’m finding it harder to level up in FES than P3P, but that’s probably because I’m so spoiled by the mechanics in P3P. I miss being able to have direct control over each character, and getting fatigued in Tartarus is annoying/cockblocking my level grinding.
I don’t want to start “The Answer” until I finish “The Journey” either. I also don’t want to do the female’s route in P3P until I see all the social links played out in the guy’s route. I missed a few during my first playthrough, namely the “good end” for each of the heroines, simply because I didn’t raise up my personal stats fast enough. I ran out of time.
For the time being, I’m advancing in P3P and letting my FES Journey playthrough lag a bit, which makes sense since I’m able to take P3P with me wherever I go, and I’m more out than in nowadays.
TL;DR—Persona 3 is awesome. Grinding’s a bitch though.
I wished peeps could be open minded to genres other than shounen, just like this fellow.
Believe it or not, there are anime series out there that aren’t shounen which have exquisite plots and engaging storylines. I’m not saying that shounen series don’t have any/have less than other genres. I just think that it’s a pity that when someone says “anime”, the most generic things that come to mind are the shounens most people are familiar with from childhood and don’t associate it with having much depth otherwise. Those series hardly scratch the surface of the vast amount of anime out there in the world, especially those released in the past decade.
Of course, there’s the counterargument that shounens like those mentioned above are the “entry-level” gateway into anime enthusiasm as a whole. I’m not denying that; in fact, it’s half the reason I respect them a lot (although my personal entry method was different. I’ll write about that someday). It just slightly irks me to know that people get into anime without ever expanding their horizons outside of their preferred genre.
Or maybe that’s the “diversified knowledge” part of me talking. I dunno.
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When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odor that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. This might seem a supreme final act of social responsibility. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid [a fairly complex molecule, CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH2)7COOH, where = stands for a double chemical bond].
What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid?
Then, no matter how strapping and vigorous it might be, it is carried “kicking and screaming” out of the hive. Even the Queen bee, if she’s painted with invisible amounts of oleic acid, will be subjected to this indignity.
Do the bees understand the danger of corpses decomposing in the hive? Are they aware of the connection between death and oleic acid? Do they have any idea what death is? Do they think to check the oleic acid signal against other information, such as healty spontaneous movement? The answer to all these questions is, almost certainly, No. In the life of the hive there’s no way that a bee can give off detectable whiff of oleic acid other than by dying. Elaborate contemplative machinery is unnecessary. Their perceptions are adequate for their needs.
Ann Druyan & Carl Sagan, Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors: Who Are We?, What Thin Partitions](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4llqojM141qgpn9lo1_1280.jpg)
When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odor that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. This might seem a supreme final act of social responsibility. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid [a fairly complex molecule, CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH2)7COOH, where = stands for a double chemical bond].
What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid?
Then, no matter how strapping and vigorous it might be, it is carried “kicking and screaming” out of the hive. Even the Queen bee, if she’s painted with invisible amounts of oleic acid, will be subjected to this indignity.
Do the bees understand the danger of corpses decomposing in the hive? Are they aware of the connection between death and oleic acid? Do they have any idea what death is? Do they think to check the oleic acid signal against other information, such as healty spontaneous movement? The answer to all these questions is, almost certainly, No. In the life of the hive there’s no way that a bee can give off detectable whiff of oleic acid other than by dying. Elaborate contemplative machinery is unnecessary. Their perceptions are adequate for their needs.
Ann Druyan & Carl Sagan, Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors: Who Are We?, What Thin Partitions
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If people think Deadman Wonderland on Toonami is the shit, who knows the fuck will happen when they see Mirai Nikki O_O haha
They need to see Mirai Nikki O.o
Let’s hope the rankings sustain it long enough until the dub can get to that block. I want to see Mirai Nikki hit the mainstream.
In any case, it’s good to see new anime that isn’t DRRR! or FMA or Bleach or Cowboy Bebop for the 100th time catch the eyes of the mainstream for a change. For what it’s worth, Deadman Wonderland has an interesting premise. It’s not my cup of tea—but I can see how it can appeal to people watching the Toonami block.
7) God Paradox (from Wikipedia):
- If God is able to make a mountain more heavy than He is able to lift, then there may be something He is not able to do: He is not able to lift that mountain.
- If God is not able to make such a mountain, then there is something He is not able do: He is not able to make that mountain.
I’ve always had an issue with that one. Maybe it’s because it’s where my logic and faith meet at a crossroad.
The first knee jerk reaction I had when I first learned of this paradox was that of religious context, and that it undermines the concept of “omnipotence”; this paradox implies that God lifts things and would hypothetically be unable to do so because the rock would be too heavy. That would be giving God “human” characteristics, something which God should not be restricted to, from a Catholic perspective anyway.
Taking religion out of the formula, I bumped into this problem again in a logic course I had to take recently. I recall reading something pertaining to C.S. Lewis’s viewpoint on this subject, and it’s one that sticks with me.
It’s illogical because it’s contradictory. If God were able to create something more powerful than himself, it would make him that much more powerful (since he was able to make something more powerful than himself). However, being “more omnipotent” is rubbish. Essentially this question asks “Can an omnipotent being be more powerful than itself”, and the answer is no. Contradiction.
Of course, someone could argue that God doesn’t follow the rules of logic and can be “more omnipotent”, but then that would be bringing faith as reasoning back into the argument, which isn’t the point (and, quite honestly, is redundant reasoning. Just saying “because he can” isn’t the best argument to use.)
The point of this point was to highlight two separate counterarguments to a well-known paradox. One based on religion, the other based on logic. They’re not solutions (otherwise, this paradox wouldn’t be a problem, right?), nor were they perfect explanation. In fact, I stringed up most of that from memory, and my memory isn’t the best.
