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January 04, 2008, 06:38:31 pm

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Quote from: bazookatooth on January 03, 2008, 05:36:15 am

really dude why are you on the internet posting articles about it and changing your member title and stuff? you should go GRIEVE or spend time with your family or something that doesn't involve chatting with random internet people about it. i don't know, i guess you can do whatever you want, but if my brother died i feel like the last thing i would want to do is get on the internet and chat about it with strangers. you should take some time for yourself.

it is pretty weird to see you post this because didn't you argue a while back that the ties you make with people over them interwebs can be as real and valuable as in real life? As dubious as it sounds I'm probably attached enough to GW to come here for feedback at a time of crisis myself.

sorry if I confused you with someone else here and spammed this thread with factually incorrect regurgitation tho!

and for what it's worth, you have my condolences as well elighja. hope it helps.

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Entertainment and Media [tell] Fall and Winter Anime seasons 2007

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January 04, 2008, 06:26:10 pm

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Wow, I was wondering what you guys were on about with nothing of interest in the Winter 2008 season, but I just re-checked the list myself and it appears a lot of the gold has been bumped to Spring 2008 since the last time I read it

. Farewell Haruhi second till we meet again at a later date. I think I'm going to pick the series for preview by peculiar screenshots then, and oh look there's one more Mai-Otome OVA as well.

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General Talk Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game

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December 20, 2007, 08:06:37 am

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Oh yeah sorry, taunting bears is definitely a bad idea, but I was taught in primary school that playing dead is the best way to evade a bear. this was actually the first time I heard it could be applied to moose as well!

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General Talk Riddle thread

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December 17, 2007, 05:35:23 pm

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Quote from: Xanqui on December 17, 2007, 04:36:26 pm

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The solution makes less and less sense the more I think about it. If there were ten people, five with brown eyes, five with blue, and someone said "I see someone with blue eyes," it doesn't help them at all. Five of the green eyed people would know that already, and so would four of the blue eyed people.

But if the people don't know what color eyes they have, the blue eyed people can't all of the sudden just realize after five days "Hey, the other four blue eyed people haven't left, so I must be one of them!" None of the others know their own eye color, because they haven't had any means of figuring it out. So why would they assume that they themselves had blue eyes?

And what about the brown eyed people? Why wouldn't they assume that they had blue eyes if they saw that all these blue eyed people weren't leaving? Where do they come into play here?

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I can't wrap my head around how the guru's statement suddenly spurs them into action either, but the reason the brown-eyed people don't play a part is because they always require one more iteration: if there are n blue-eyed people, brown-eyed people see them all, but the blue-eyed people can only see n-1 people with blue eyes, hence reducing the trial-and-error process by one day.

Suppose that there was only one blue-eyed person. When the guru says that he sees at least one blue-eyed person, each of the brown-eyed people considers that he, too, has blue eyes, but since the blue-eyed man knows he's the only one he's gone the following day and the brown-eyed people give up. With two blue-eyed people, they both see that the other has waited a day, and since no other blue-eyed people are around they know they both have blue eyes. Brown-eyed people still need to know whether or not they happen to be the lucky third one, but alas, the two are gone the following morning.

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General Talk A life-changing experience that I wish to share

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December 17, 2007, 03:06:47 pm

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Wow, this thread really surprised me with how different meanings people have for different words. When I think pessivism and negative thinking, I get this mental image of a caricature incapable of hope, happiness and action out of fear for a less-than-desirable outcome, but the way you describe it the mindset has nothing to do with such qualities: it seems more like a healthy dose of realism combined with a grim perseverance. Looks like I need to be more careful from now on with how I throw the terms around!

In the same way I see optimism as the courage to face failure and firm faith in an upwards trend of humanity instead of this comical disbelief in anything bad happening ever or wistful thinking about miracle powers. Looks like we've been talking about entirely different things!

(ps karma rules it is not some utterly perfect celestial poetic justice but simply the way of the world. be an ass to people and look no one's left to stick up for you!!)

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General Talk JK Rowling shits in a book: makes 4 million dollars

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December 17, 2007, 02:47:04 pm

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My the first page is confusing. Did Myke genuinely not get that Jamicus was joking or was there an iota of truth in there somewhere?

Also

Quote from: kermit the toad on December 16, 2007, 08:41:25 am

I hope that my writing is one day famous enough that I can pull stunts like this.

This was what I found most interesting about the news as well. It's krazy how certain celebrities can just manipulate, essentially, their own demand by selling pieces of their lives. Rowling gets considerable credence for going through the trouble of writing seven entire copies by hand, but man I'd abuse that little perk in a flash.

Also Mark big deal in what sense? I think Sredni worded it pretty well.

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General Talk Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game

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December 17, 2007, 02:31:40 pm

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Quote from: Harry Manback on December 15, 2007, 07:19:30 pm

I hope he runs into a bear and tries that shit.

Wait, isn't this also what you're supposed to do on a run-in with a bear?

And Lars that may be! I myself find the translation absurd, but perhaps I've just lost that gleaming shine of innocence. I just hope he's not going to pick up similar things from other games where he may have gotten lucky with WoW.

Ps. NP what did your post mean the beginning in particular was somewhat esoterically worded.

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General Talk Riddle thread

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December 17, 2007, 02:19:36 pm

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Man, I hate it when the challenge of the riddle comes from finding out the restriction they didn't specify. After voiding our islanders of such human properties as creativity, vocal discourse, mundane vision and civilized tools, we're supposed to consider they also have the patience and memory to pull off a hundred-day trial-and-error process?

But I'm probably just making excuses because I failed to lend enough credence to the element of time in the riddle

(though still I'd bet I'd have gotten it correct were it worded just "consider a set of 200 elements, 100 of which possess the property A and the rest property B yadda yadda yadda.)

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General Talk 11 year old kills 1,051 pound hog

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December 15, 2007, 10:01:05 am

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Quote from: Grin Tree on December 14, 2007, 11:21:21 pm

http://66.226.75.96/pig/

It's a trap.

Man, I was expecting that a stupid newbie had just decided to bring this thread back from the dead with a dumb one-liner, but this is quite possibly the best six-month bump I've ever seen.

Oh well. At least the family got their day in the limelight!

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General Talk Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game

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December 14, 2007, 03:56:57 pm

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Wait wait wait. Does WoW really have situations like this? Granted, I can appreciate the usefulness of a taunt ability to draw monsters away from weaker party members and the play dead skill to dissuade the beast's interest in the wonderful world of MMORPGs, but this is enacted on a computer screen with armored cartoon bull-men and giant scaled lizards, not in front of your eyes with your little sister and a fierce moose. You maintain that he made the connection? That just conjures up the absurd image of him trying to remember that move the funny little animated guy does when you click the Taunt button.

Imo the article seems pretty retarded. I'm guessing he just learned the trick somewhere and decided to recount the story to his parents through WoW parallels and the reporter ate it up.

Ps: I would appreciate it if you could cut down on the one-liner wow joke posts please

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Entertainment and Media Death Note to air October 20 at midnight on Adult Swim

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December 13, 2007, 03:31:04 pm

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Oh damn, at times I forget I'm actually a mod here since it's been so quiet. Thanks for JUMPING AT THE CALL for me NP.

Anyways this thread really went down the drain. Chances are it might still be able to be recovered but I just don't think it's worth this cancerous second page anymore so locked

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General Talk Anger led to Dog Beating

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December 05, 2007, 05:06:54 pm

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Quote from: Zeratul on December 05, 2007, 04:35:30 pm

What unique type of discussion will this topic even generate?
The only possible comments are "That poor dog," "that man was right" or "who cares."

Dude I am getting pretty tired of this sort of replies. if you cannot conceive how to respond to a thread then perhaps you should just not post!
not to say that this is the best of threads prize winner 2007 but we really could do with less topic police.

That being said I would like to think that there's a much higher mental threshold in place for harming a human being out of lost temper, though it really is kind of unnerving that this guy's reaction to a chained dog jumping at him was two swift stabs to the back. It appears that it can be (and was) chalked up to momentary insanity though so I would prefer to avoid stigmatizing the dude. Where did you hear that he was a repeat animal abuser chanicakes?

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General Talk Study confirms that apes are smarter than college students

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December 05, 2007, 11:55:17 am

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I think this is pretty wicked actually. I had no idea that chimps could even be taught things like numerical order, let alone that they could understand a test like this. How did they train them? Classical conditioning? This seems to be a little too complex a task to be the result of a mere trial-and-error, carrot-and-stick methodology. How does one communicate abstract concepts to chimpanzees?

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General Talk My Fat Eye

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November 29, 2007, 06:34:50 pm

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I don't feel like giving topics like this a chance right now so ta~

wait a while see how it works out if it doesnt go to a doctor.

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General Talk 15 Year Old Girl Jailed With 20 Men!!

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November 29, 2007, 06:16:35 pm

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Well, I don't know - like even if the procedures in Brazil are different, I'd assume a "police station jailhouse" only holds a person a couple of days tops, let alone two dozen in the same cell. Hardly the time to become sexually deprived enough to rape a young girl. I'd sooner blame mob mentality, actually, though I wouldn't say that everyone in the cell suddenly became a rapist - if there were even two or three individuals twisted enough to go through with it, it may have intimidated even those with a fucking conscience into not responding since they were, after all, trapped in a small space with twenty other and potentially dangerous people. (It didn't help that the guards never came to intervene either.)

It's not exactly a place where you want to turn the group against you (thought really, I'd like to expect better even from jail inmates.)

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General Talk Internet Piracy

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November 29, 2007, 05:48:26 pm

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I would like to think that I have some set of "ethics" as regards to piracy, like only pirating things that aren't readily available in Finland, but the truth really is that such things far outnumber what little domestically available entertainment I consume. If I hear a catchy ANIMU/VIDCON BEAT, I prefer eMuling it to ordering The Official SoundTrack from Japan-land with a stellar postal fee just for that one track. Generally, if acquiring it requires me to use the Internet, I might just as well hit The Pirate Bay rather than go through a complex net auction process.

I do have to confess that I've actually recently begun to believe such CRAZY TALK as net piracy and the Internet giving more freedom of choice to the consumer, deconstructing a deathly ill business model, and paving the way to a socialist utopia where information is free and infinite and everybody brushes their teeth after a meal.

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General Talk Competitions are fun

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November 25, 2007, 07:41:27 am

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Last year I participated in this draw a manga comic competition. I didn't win but got my comic published nonetheless and 250 € of fine revenue to boot. Makes me a little sad though since I would've made more bucks by submitting the comic to this Finnish indie manga magazine but oh well!

Also a couple of months ago me and my brother participated in this nation-wide math competition for high schoolers and just recently we both received an invitation to Finland's MATH OLYMPICS TRAINING TEAM hot damn.

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General Talk 15 Year Old Girl Jailed With 20 Men!!

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November 25, 2007, 07:29:29 am

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Just in case Xeno|Soft is considering arguing his case further: don't.

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It should be noted that warns are always debatable. If you feel that you've been given an unfair warn, send a PM to the mod who warned you. Usually, you will be able to either get the warn removed if it was in vain, or at least get some more information about the reason you were given one. Please do not publicly complain about warns or contact other mods (see also "No solving personal disputes in public" below).

Quote from: Doktormartini on November 25, 2007, 03:40:36 am

Am I missing something? Why were (are) all those men in a children's facility?

Well she was thrown into a local police station jailhouse. I don't know if they even have separate cells for juveline offenders there, but the police did also state that they did not think the girl was underage. Not that it helps anymore though - it's not like trapping a young girl into a small space with 20 criminals isn't extremely poor judgement to begin with.

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General Talk Boy, 15, gets 60 years for StL County sex attack of girl, 6

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November 22, 2007, 03:03:26 pm

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Quote from: fatty on November 21, 2007, 06:25:29 pm

everybody=just me right?

I think you'll find that Couch posted after me! But beyond that I have no idea what you're trying to tell me.

Quote from: Dada on November 21, 2007, 07:15:17 pm

He's right though. Doubting whether capital punishment is severe or not based on the fact you don't know what happens in the afterlife is pretty astonishingly stupid.

You're correct, but I was just wondering if I'm really the only one bothered by how aggressive fatty suddenly became in this thread? I just find it slightly unbecoming of him to make what are essentially misappropriated The Truth posts.

Did I accidentally slip some lecturing mod tone in there? I only meant it as a personal aside and kind of regret it now since I didn't expect it to deviate this much.

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General Talk Woman gets jailed and lashed for getting raped.

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November 22, 2007, 02:54:37 pm

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Hahaha wow looks like my post turned this whole thread on its head.

Anyways Jeff none of the posters above me knew about the boyfriend. Everyone, myself included, initially assumed that the "strange man" whose car she was in was an euphemism made up by the judges to describe being trapped and violated in the automobile of a team of rapists. I believe many of them would revise their posts were they presented with the new info. In retrospec it was probably a pretty hasty conclusion but not exactly irrational.

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