The fireworks are really going off now. Happy 150th, Canada.
Kirara☆
i am standing outside with some neighbors now awkwardly they were talking about why the power went off someone said someone shot a firework at a light pole but idk if that'd even knock out power unless it was a big one
Anno
Assuming power lines are strung between light poles down there, a well-placed firework could probably do damage to a transformer and interfere with power distribution.
Maria
What if we used fireworks as projectile weapons?
Anno
They hurt a fair bit. There isn't much in the way of physical projectile in them, but the gunpowder is, y'know, ignited. That shit'll burn hot and painfully.
ive had one conversation with a neighbor prior to just now ive said hi to a neighbor a few times other than that
Kannagi@Ganbaranai
I had a letter once asking for them to use my parking spaces. when they had ones of themselves.
I ignored it because I didn't want to talk to them face to face.
Anno
Just send a re:letter.
Kirara☆
my neighbor invited me and my "wife" over for dinner and i tried to politely decline using the judaism card so they were like, well, just come hang out a little bit then! so i tried to explain that fish can't do that and i could tell that they didnt believe in social anxiety also its dark as fucking hell outside
Kannagi@Ganbaranai
>>183732 And invite a conversation? I'd rather be alone at home without the fear of them coming to knock on the door and try and socialise with me.
ive seen it in sitcoms and stuff too like inviting your neighbors in
Maria
>>183737 Have you never done that? I thought eating together was a pretty common social activity
Anno
>>183739 I've never been invited over to dinner by the people in my neighbourhood.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
Who the heck interacts with their neighbors to that level
rook
I think it's more of an old fashioned thing people used to invite their neighbors over back when they didn't have a choice but to be friends with the people nearby
bangu
okay three pizzas you decide which one i eat
1. 12 inch with sweet corn sauce, house mozzarella, chorizo, pickled onion, cotija cheese, crema fresca, and lime wedge. 2. 12 inch with red sauce, provolone cheese, pepperoni, bacon, and banana peppers. 3. 12 inch with kale pesto sauce, provolone cheese, roasted chicken, roasted tomato, and red pepper.
It's kind of both, really. There's usually enough going on to keep you interested. And if you play it smart you can dodge crowds and only observe the absurd from a distance.
Kirara☆
man the crash bandicoot = dark souls meme is getting so strong
When I was looking at getting a powerbar with more outlets on it a while back, Amazon had a sale on a UPS powerbar. It was a bit tempting but ultimately power doesn't go out here often enough for it to be a real nuisance.
>>183859 >>183859 You won't be able to get me unless you use the boulder dodging trick too. If it comes to that I'll be able to tell you how right I was.
>>183861 I can just prevent you from doing that so we both die together.
Anno
The practical world solution to all this anyway is to round the edges of the boulder tunnel so that there's no corners that people thing they can avoid the boulder in anyway. Any self-respecting villain that has a boulder tunnel would design it that way.
Who is going to walk into a hallway with weird rounded floors? It's obvious what's going on there.
The real way to prevent this is to put big spikes on the sides of the boulder.
>>183862 You'd rather kill us both than admit I'm right.
Anno
Sufficiently large spikes would hinder the boulder's ability to maim and kill, not help it. You'd really probably want small to medium-sized spikes, not large ones.
Also a rolling boulder would dull the points of spikes while it's at it anyway. If the boulder is rolling fast enough that would still probably hurt a fair bit but it's a bit detrimental to the purpose of having them in the first place.
>>183870 They don't need to touch the ground, they just need to effectively close up the wiggle room to hide. Because of the shape of the ball and the size of the spike, the area that you could normally hide in is effectively blocked!
>>183873 Do you think the power company would drag you to your mutual deaths to avoid admitting that its wrong?
Anno
That's not the intervals I'm talking about. There would be a period before -period after the spike on the ground lifts up before the spike on top rotates down towards it.
>>183878 You'd have to have a somewhat small tunnel ceiling for that to work. Even assuming the tunnel is two metres tall, that gives about one metre of length between spike impalement. I'm pretty sure I could collapse myself into a space that size if my life depended on it.
If we're talking about removing all certainty of dodging the boulder, the only really solution is to just take out the corners. You could even make the tunnel hexagonal or octagonal for style and it would still work.
>>183887 That's a good decision! You shouldn't kill people!
>>183886 It's not about making the trap 100% effective, just removing a glaring flaw. If you wanted a 100% effective trap you wouldn't use a boulder trap.
>>183893 Mine greatly increases the effectiveness of the traditional boulder trap quite a bit. No one is going to be able to deliberately dodge it unless they are some kind of spike autist. I also maintain the aesthetics of the trap.
If you're going to go and change the design of the hallway, you may as well just replace the boulder with a giant piston fit to the hallway.
>>183894 I don't think any amount of cuteness can excust killing me!
Anno
And mine would catch even the most autist-y of trapees. Besides, there's plenty of subtle ways to change the feel of a tunnel gradually, subtly. So that by the time they realize they're in a boulder tunnel trap, there's no corners to hide in. That sort of subtle sinister style has plenty of merit on its own.
>>183897 No because you said it would be the boulder killing me right after that.
>>183896 I think people would notice if the tunnel changed into a hexagon. The boulder trap isn't about 100% effectiveness. you can't ruin the aesthetics.
>>183898 The boulder would kill us because your plan wouldn't work.
Anno
>>183898 It would be easy to do it that way. Dingy lighting obscures so much. Unless people are expecting to see the tunnel turn into a cornerless creation, they wouldn't notice until it's too late.
bang eats pizza pizza makes bang tired it's only 1030
Anno
How much pizza did you eat?
bangu
well it was a 12 inch pizza and i atelike 2 slices and then like 2 slices of the cheese bread so like half of a 12 inch pizza because the pizza and cheese bread were cut in 8ths and the cheese bread was the same size as the pizza uhhhh let me look up the calories real quick it's a local pizza place so i ate like 700 - 800 calories of pizza probably like 1000 because i had some apple juice but that puts me at like 2600 for the day so a little too much
>>183935 well i mean like a lot of places that don't have 24 hour stores in most places have like a single one in Las Vegas or New York Panera does not, and I don't think it would be logistically simple to run one so they probably never will
>>183944 I mean I'll try them but neither looks interesting. The fujoshit looks like the bad kind. i'm pretty picky about fujoshit.
It needs to be fun and the characters need to look good. I really liked Free. But these dime a dozen samurai shows with really generic edgy looking samurai where they all kinda fight but really are just gay for each other are boring. They pale in comparison to something like sengoku basara. Shows that don't deliberately set out to be fujo of that type are better, sengoku basara is a good example. Tiger and Bunny is another good one.
>>183942 What a shame. I guess that makes my Fish a pretty hot commodity.
Anno
>>183946 That was one of the best things to come of anime briefly getting on the military otaku bandwagon. That and the good airsoft girl's club anime. I can't remember its name. The one that wasn't C3.
>>183953 I'd like some muffins I particularly like blueberry and raspberry muffins.
Anno
I have a hard time liking blueberries in anything. They've got a texture I struggle to enjoy. Raspberry anything is great though. Cranberry muffins are really good too.
>>183976 I already formed conclusions and decided what's going on.
Anno
I'm having a really bad night for focus tonight. I want to do things other than play video games, but I also really, really wantt -want to play video games. And it feels like it's taking all my resources to not cave in that I'm not really getting anything else done. Kuyashii.
>>184004 It's all coming together now! >>184005 No, I've never really done that I haven't fantasized about having kids with anyone that I wasn't committed to Is that weird?
>>184009 I don't really think it's fantasy. It's just pragmatism. The end goal of any relationship is marriage and kids, it's natural to consider that sort of thing when you're thinking about entering a relationship with someone.
Some of my friends are at Anime Expo for the weekend. There's a concert going on, and the concert has had Garnidelia, Minori Chihara, and currently angela. I'm pretty jealous of that ;_;
Kirara☆
is it a coincidence that both RIKA and RACISM start with an r???
Anno
>>184026 And if you re-arrange the letters you get RICASM. That's almost Rikaism.
You won't really see any meaningful effects unless it's your mouth or nose. I guess there isn't anything stopping you from smoking a cigarette through a nostril if you held it in place.
Maven
It seemed pretty effective to me
Maven
The ping pong ball thing is old school People have had to up the game.
The best one could pop balloons with darts
Another one blew out the candles on a birthday cake.
I suppose if you muscles down there were trained? well enough you could do something like that. But smoking a cigarette is pointless if it isn't geting to your lungs.
>>184073 We're also all grown adults here. Except, it seems, for you, you pansy.
Maven
That's also why I got almost beat up yesterday This guy pulled me off the street and said.. Come watch. Beer 100 baht. No cover charge. So im like... Whatever. I'm not doing anything better. Even if it's not a good show there might be some novelty
And I'll tell you the difference The first show I went to was actually a proper show. Stage and lights and production value. People were there as a novelty kind of thing. There were even quite a few female tourists there who just wanted to see the show
This other place was totally different. As soon as the big steel windowless door locked behind me i knew i didn't want to be there. The place was filthy. My shoes audibly made squelching sounds as I stepped across the sticky floor. All the women were pretty badly overweight.
I took like 2 sips of beer, then im like, fuck it. I'm out of here And i stood up and threw down a 100 note and made to step out the door.
And then the bouncer grabbed my arm and pulled out a slip of paper that said Show -watching - 1000 baht. Drinks -300 baht
And I'm like.. The dude outside said there was No cover charge. And the bouncer is like.. He doesn't work here. You pay your bill. And he beckons over a couple other bouncers and they all stand around me in a circle.
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So I put on my calmest, friendliest smile and said something like. 'can I speak to the boss please. There's a man outside telling lies and we should both go and stop him'.
There was sone more backwards and forwards for a while but they eventually let me go.
I haven't been that worried about anything for a while though.
Wow that Yuu image is a little more lewd than I thought it was. Still within acceptable limits!
>>184082 You can't take on 4 or 5 or more bouncers? Did you not have your bowie knife?
Samurai !KW2DbpWwls
>>184026 it's been right in front of us all this time
Anno
Happy after-Canada Day Samu. Enjoy the 150th?
Samurai !KW2DbpWwls
>>184085 twas a jolly day of chilling and relaxing and a phone call with the parental units how bout you
Anno
Same as pretty much any other day. Nothing special.
rook
this door is covered in leather patches
Anno
And what are YOU gonna do 'bout it, huh? HUH?
Maven
>>184083 I would have used it if it came down to it But part of being an honorable warrior is only using violence as a last resort and solving things with diplomacy whenever possible
>>184094 If you want to catch Ika, lay out some barbecue. Ika loves barbecue.
Anno
You'd also attract 80% of the Canadian population. 90% if you offered some sort of vegetarian barbeque component.
Anno
At some point in the last day or two I really pulled a muscle in my shoulder. Putting strain on it has become a minor nuisance, even if I'm just pushing or pulling something with the arm. This morning it was bad enough to even be a bit of a test to lift that arm straight up.
oh that' probably too early on nights that i close but will work fine otherwise
Anno
What time do you figure you get back around on nights you close?
bangu
on monday nights and friday nights wait
on monday nights and thursday nights there's basically no hope whatsoever any other night, a closing shift means i get home around 11pm Central to midnight
Anno
All right, I'll try to keep that information in mind.
bangu
but it won't matter unless there's anime i like this season
Pretty exciting A lot of the "this'll never be an anime" manga are getting anime lately
Anno
Yeah. I'm still holding out for a Dungeon Meshi anime, since it's the most reliable way to get people around here into that series. And it's a really fun series.
There's also going to be a Trigger announcement tomorrow, on a new series. I wonder if it's gonna be the Imaishi mecha series that's supposed to be in the setting up.
That's the reason i haven't been able to climb out of Gold. I didn't have the Sona daki. That's about to change
『ｓｋ』
When game characters have a title like "vet", there's always two possibilities Either they're gonna be real good in a fight because they're a veteran Or they're gonna be real shit in a fight because they're a veterinarian
>>184290 I am sure you can get your degree. I'm probably not going to get my bachelors till then either since I haven't gone to university yet and I still want to! >>184291 I am sure Rika just sounds like me!
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184290 That's not the worst thing that could happen, now is it? I mean, you can gather experience until then. And sometimes it seems like you're well off enough that it's just a piece of paper and means little about your knowledge.
FormerRei@mobile
>>184293 I can't get a job as a physicist without a physics degree.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184294 Good point... What's holding you back? Money shit?
>>184292 What do you want to go for? It's fine, you can sound like each other.
FormerRei@mobile
>>184295 It's complicated but yes thats part of it.
I am sure you can work something out, I am working a shitty data entry job and saving up money an d you are pretty smart so I'm sure you can figure something good out. >>184295 I don't know, I'm split between Japanese and computing.
Also this is probably my favorite post ever on /mu/.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184298 Why not both? Though, it's a little hard for me to judge the true difficulty when I decided to take a second major simply because "I had enough time" to do so...
Kannagi@Ganbaranai
>>184299 I've seen this before! I think Bang has posted it or something. It was a while ago >>184300 I don't think the same major minor something exists in the UK
>>184301 No, this was two majors. I had enough credits that I'd either be taking a bunch of random electives or I could just, you know, toss a second one on there. So I took the stupid route, and majored in math and psychology. If I'd been smart, I'd have done sociology or something not a science.
>>184304 I meant sociology instead of the math or something like music with the math.
Kannagi@Ganbaranai
Well I've never heard of people being able to do two degrees at once except as a single degree like joint honours but they are specific and so few university offer a particular selection of joint honours
Like Japanese and Computing only one university in the country offers that and that is oxford. I'm definately not smart enough for oxford
I don't know entirely what it entails but I know a few things about it that I can say it looks interesting
FormerRei@mobile
Okay, go for it then.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
Picking something that interests you is important. That's why I picked up psych, though I still plowed through the math... And now I don't remember the math at all!
That is why I want to Japanese over Computing. But I feel like the chance of a useful job with a Japanese degree would be pretty low.
It would be nice to be freelance translator or even work at a university in the UK or Japan
FormerRei@mobile
>>184319 >and now I don't remember the math at all That kind of makes me want to ree
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184320 If you do some study in English, you'd be a prime candidate for teaching. Translation work is a thing, considering. A friend of mine studied Arabic and he's looking at political/government positions. I can ask him for more information when he gets back.
>>184321 I mean, I remember bits and pieces. And I'm sure it'll come back if I start doing it again. But if you asked me to pull it out of my ass right now, ha ha, not happening.
>>184323 Bad in what sense? It's just a set of rules and logic you have to follow. Though the theory behind math is hell... I liked computation, though.
FormerRei@mobile
Oh yeah, I just boborrowed a monograph on MEMS from my friend's dad. Its by some aerospace corporation. MEMS are really cool.
>>184326 That's not as important as othr stuff. Although it really irritates me that I have a close friend who is a math major and can't do two digit arithmetic in his head.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184326 Not something you have to do so much, I think.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184327 Whaaaat? I mean, sometimes trying to do two digit multiplication can be hard (memory sucks, can't remember to carry all the time). But...
>>184330 >can't add two digit numbers in his head Wow. Like... You mean without writing it down? Or with writing it down?
FormerRei@mobile
>>184329 Yeah I meant addition, although he akso cant do two digit multiplication.
I think he actually can but chooses not to. Like he's beco e really dependent on calculators.
I haven't tested my maths in a long time. Probably a school child could beat me
FormerRei@mobile
He could probably do it with writing it down. Also fun fact, I never realky learned long division. I'm still good at dividing integers and rationals by hand though. Just don't expect me to be able to do arbitrary decimal expansion of rationals whose base ten digit sequences dont terminate.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184332 Long division is ez. Boring, but ez. I once knew the method for taking the square root by hand, too.
Yeah but that's because San Fran and Cali are like, linked Commiefornia and the gay city They go hand in hand Illinois and the crime town? It doesn't have the same mental connection
>>184337 Also, Chicago is like... never talked about in the context of what state it's in. It's always just "Chicago". Like it's some alternate state in itself.
Kannagi@Ganbaranai
Chicago and corruption Chicago and gang violence
FormerRei@mobile
>>184343 Corruption's actually more of atate thing salso fun fact, most of our living former governors are in prison
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184343 The gang violence is more modern. The corruption feels more... vintage. Like thinking back, way back. For some reason...
FormerRei@mobile
>>184336 Also it's the third biggest city in the US. >>184345 We had gang violence in the 20's too. It's just that the gang members had a different skin color than the ones we have now.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184346 Yeah, but the idea of gang violence now just feels different for some reason. I mean, thinking about it, it's literally the same thing. Maybe we've just romanticized the "old school" gangs too much for it to have the same visceral reaction that modern gang violence has...
FormerRei@mobile
>>184347 Not really, gang bangers aren't nearly as organized as the mafia. Also modern gangsters are much worse shots and get people caught in the crossfire more. Well, the black gangs anyways, the hispanic gangs legit have better accuracy.
I don't live in the US but I know Chicago is famous as heck with gangsters
『ｓｋ』
CHICAGO is famous Illinois is literally where
FormerRei@mobile
>>184349 It's not in the bible belt Also my friend was bitching saying that he knows where sone norwegian cities whose names i dont renemver were located, but i bet like hakf of them have new nanes because hes a histiry buff.
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184348 Do you have a study to back up that anecdote? Or do I need to go perform one?
>>184354 I don't know of a study off the top if my head. But yiu could look up stuff about gang shhoting victims by gang and see which gangs have more unintended victims. Theres also the cultural component of many latin ameeicans owning legal guns and growing up in households where they learn how to use them.
>>184366 Are you in EST? America has way too many time zones!
『ｓｋ』
I rescued some settler who was running from some raiders earlier She's incapable of basically everything But it's one more person, and the raiders have guns, so I profited Shame she doesn't like using guns though, so she's the only one wielding a club
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184364 I've got Poland mostly right, by now. Kinda hard not to.
>>184365 I forgot the word. Oh, as a consequence of knowing many people in said time zone or in time zones more easily differentiated from EST?
>>184403 Someone cherrypicked people bitching that it was too hard or too "old" in terms of design. And it's like... What the fuck? How is it hard? Then I remember the trouble I had trying to play through the first game years ago.
Kirara☆
yeah someone released some review saying crash was too hard now and he was tired of playing dark souls lol
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184405 Yeah, that was one of them. I just don't get it... I mean, it's not that fucking hard.
>>184410 Nah get fucked. Crash was a fun game. Crash 2 has really tight controls and jumping physics. As a technical feat it's art is amazing considering its hardware. It weaves the jagginess of ps1 graphics into its art
>>184413 Yeah I read that. The way they programmed it was pretty cool
>>184424 Crash. Spyro's good, but Crash just appealed more to me. Just like SMW appealed more than SM64 and Yoshi's Island.
Maria
>>184427 Yeah Crash is more about timing and skill where spyro is exploration and collecting Yoshis Island is legit a flawless game btw
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184428 Collectathon exploring isn't my thing. Kinda like, despite the crude humor appeal and pop culture references in Conker's Bad Fur Day, I just can't seem to want to play it...
I just feel like it's not as tight or fun/interesting as SMW. It's also not as simplistic, though.
>>184447 I feel like society got better because it realised it made a mistake
Not So Anonymous !xa1FThiSUY
>>184452 The school of engineering here is like, 2.75 so... that's an option. It might also be all schools, which would be nice. Makes me regret being a terrible student.
>>184526 If you made something this big out of gold it would cost an unimaginable amount of money >>184527 It was lying down, so it was a bit less impressive than if it was standing, but it was probably like 70m long The thing filled a whole h all
>>184534 I dunno about fish, but he wasn't always a good influence on us for the trip. He was always speeding, except when we were in Virginia, and he expected me to follow him!
