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[edit: picture from here - scroll down to "Once you start building space colonies, there's no particular reason to stop."]
[19:47] statikk: hXXp://www.projectrho.com/rocket/saturn10.jpg that is
[19:47] vaecrius:

[19:44] vaecrius: hXXp://www.projectrho.com/rocket/saturn10.jpg AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[19:45] kavitykrunch: AHAHAA
[19:46] vaecrius: wouldn't that be totally fucked up though
[19:47] kavitykrunch: ..yes XD
[19:47] vaecrius: if that's what the probe actually found
[19:47] vaecrius: not rocks
[19:47] vaecrius: just the remains
[19:47] vaecrius: of billions
[19:47] vaecrius: upon billions
[19:47] vaecrius: of people
[19:47] kavitykrunch: 8D8
[19:47] kavitykrunch: that is some end times shit

[19:47] vaecrius: ...oops
[19:47] vaecrius: lol
[19:47] vaecrius: did Fal just send you that too XD
[19:48] statikk: just the picture :I
[19:48] vaecrius: ha!
[19:48] vaecrius: ...and then it turns out every ring on every planet ever is like this 8D
[19:48] vaecrius: and all of space is actually Hell D:
[19:49] statikk: ...
[19:49] statikk: there's a story in there somewhere
[19:49] vaecrius: oh yes
[19:49] statikk: oh man combine that concept with a pail of air somehow
[19:49] vaecrius: 8O~!!!!
[19:51] vaecrius: or a reimagining of the Inferno with nine concentric Dyson spheres and a central entropic anti-star that made things go below 0 Kelvin and wrap around the other way
[19:51] statikk: ...
[19:51] statikk: A+
[19:51] vaecrius: cuz a lotta people gone to hell >_>

I get sidetracked too easily by this question, so I'll formulate a proper cheat-sheet answer now.

At the very bottom of the list of people I'd trust on an issue are those who do not understand how they feel and so accept their feelings as a conclusive moral truth.

Just above them are those who at least understand (or acknowledge) their feelings, but still fail to look beyond them.

Above those are the opposite, the "objective" types who look at the facts only but fail to consider the emotional side, whether because they don't know or are unwilling - or scared - to look.

Closer to the top, we have those who do understand how it would feel, but treat it as no more and no less than one of the facts that they must take into account.

And finally, at the top, we have those who do know how it feels firsthand - and still treat their feelings as no more and no less than one of the facts that they must take into account.

furikku put it better than I ever could:

If you have always wanted to see music videos by the Robot Masters about how much they love/want to sex up Megaman/Rock Man, then boy do I have some links for you!

Ranked in descending order of my own highly subjective preferences.
Bubble Man
Heat Man
Metal Man
Quick Man
Crash Man
Flash Man

And now, to flush the Megaman out of your head, have some Pokemon.

EDIT: And, of course, the synthesis.

So I'm ( dicking around with this Gender Analyzer thing... )
Of all the things that could have registered as the most feminine entry on the Cheapo Stainless Steel Blog-Like Object. I am amazed.

Meanwhile, everybody else except muning (and possibly helarxe!) is ( giving similarly surprising results... ) Apparently LJ's friends-only "You must log in to look at this entry" page is 81% likely to have been written by a woman.

I should write a set of studies, fictively written by and for a man of perfect proportions but a foot in absolute height, dedicated to his art to the point of throwing himself upon the keys in the style of a long-limbed Archy.

In other news. I have finally made Blockage: The Reckoning playable. And Blockage: the Jubilee now looks as I had originally intended it to look. (Screens for the other games available on the infodump too.)



[EDIT: helarxe, would you happen to have a copy of your Pale Fire-ization of this? My original link was to the one hosted on BoF.]

What Sooz said.

Also, whether the victim's identity had been announced to the public, since the rivals of the deceased need to know not to waste their time sending in a clean-up crew.

...also, if buying, who the owner and (if any) other tenants are and any connections they might have had to the deceased.

(Of course I am assuming that organized crime is involved. Welcome to Vancouver.)

A Pail of Air. Fiction. Should be read. It is about people.

Guts. Fiction. Horrifying. Contains Unfunny Aneurysm.

Ben's got another fiver! Blog entry.

How Habitable Is The Earth? Blog entry. Yeah, I know it's already been linked by Instapundit, NYT and Andrew Sullivan, but. Lots of juicy commentary (though watch a few spots of pigeon shit here and there).

--why would someone have a closet full of guns

--your closet is full of swords

--touche

P
W
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T
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( Some thoughts... )

Anyway, enough of that, here's some awesome shit:

Summarize 10 of your fandoms in one sentence each, then see who on your friends list can guess each fandom.

[Some of these are not really FANDOMS, per se, but stuff I like, because I'm not a very prolific fan-type. ^_^;]

1. Rarely does a Christian nation pull off a sword and sorcery heathen mystery as well as this.
2. Being alone in a violent meaningless world is not so bad when you are stronger and faster than everything else.
3. What is left to fight for in this fading world, when the eschaton came and left before we were even conceived?
4. At first I thought his sacrifice noble and perfect, and strove to be like him; I got better.
5. Rarely does a heathen nation pull off a space opera Christian mystery as well as this.
6. It keeps getting worse and worse, until the morbidly obese pederast seems comfortable in his all too human familiarity.
7. Someday, our descendants shall find the great divide once more, and return home to consume and burn a world of beasts.
8. You suffer and die repeatedly until the world ends, that one time you may get lucky and the world ends in a slightly less horrible way.
9. He emerged from the cave, and when he spoke the cave emerged from him, where few left who entered.
10. However pixellated, the horrors of war and the pain of the fallen does not soon leave your eyes.

It has rarely been put better.

For some reason, I find the last two Bunny comics beautiful nearly to the point of tears.

And now, a Doom music moment.


Not insinuating anything, mind, just amused at the similarities. :D

Schools stifle creativity. Also, a certain tag of mine needs love.

There's more to it, of course, and do keep in mind he's talking about the sort of creativity that is clearly not just idle daydreaming but actual problem-solving - and the prescription is not to simply let the kids do as they please but to figure out the right direction for them and give them the tools, training and options that work for their passions and talents.

::reads the examples::

::takes a moment to pop his left testicle back out of his abdominal cavity::

:*) If most RPGs I ran ended up like this, I would consider myself a success.

Same comment as above, replacing :*) with >:D.

But they're usually more like this.

OH GOD I CANT STOP

It's not out yet, but my God, the song:

An interview with macro photographer Thomas Shahan.

His flickr gallery here. It's rare for a photographer to take this time to really bring out the personality of a spider.


(warning: footage of spider suddenly leaping onto the camera)

EDIT: Another for the road, same warning:

Sex trade:

Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution - not quite evidence of absence, but certainly an absence of something.

Ruth Breslin, research and development manager for Eaves which runs the Poppy project for victims of trafficking, said: "I don't know the ins and outs of the police operation. It is incredibly difficult to establish prevalence because of the undercover and potentially criminal nature of trafficking and also, we feel, because of the fear that many women have in coming forward."

I'm not sure what to make of this. I see her point, but I'm getting a bit of an "unfalsifiable conspiracy theory" vibe here.

The Salvation Army does a lot of good work. This isn't it. Also, argument by analogy which will completely and utterly fail to convince people who look at it from the sex angle.

A better linkdump than mine.


Sorcerer minus Sorcerer.


Applied concept of privilege outside class, gender, or race.

This may be the longest time I've ever spent staring at comic book boobs. Srsly guys, the difference is shocking.

Meanwhile, Supes has never looked more fabulous.

:D
8D