[What you did today]

Red label Vitamin D whole milk is best milk. I like a little half-and-half in cereal sometimes, always in coffee. Large curd cottage cheese is creamy goodness, too. String cheese is like candy around here. Maybe I have a problem. 

 

Either 3% or the natural non homogenized milk if I get it from the stores, sometimes I get myself some milk directly from a farmer I know nearby. Now that's the good stuff!

[Journalism and sexism in the games industry]

I'm mildly curious, what bluehaired idiot?

[What you did today]

I'm in one of those "chatty" moods, where I end up posting nonsense on forums for a few hours instead of doing anything more productive.

 

Did you know that racoons sometimes like to drag cat-waste bags from the garbage can to the backyard patio, where they rip them open and shake them about? It's really fun. For them, apparently, at least.

 

I wish there was raccoons here, but I've got... well, foxes. Two of them, or atleast I had this summer. They scare away my cats to steal their catfood only to be chased away by the badger. Thieving bastards.

 

We do get the occasional drunk moose though. :D

[The general firearms thread!]

Straight pull? I've heard of a Swiss one, K31 or something.

 

Did you shoot any of those slugs yet?

[What you did today]

Those are very valid sources which are almost identical to mine, I know people with a degree in micro biology with a specialization in kidney diseases. (With their knowledge the life of my sick cat which suffered from near-kidney failure could be prolonged by two years) But mainly a lot of highly praised books.

 

Three engineers, microprocessors and mechanical. And an DNA analyst I think it's called, she's offered to have a looksee but I don't want to know what might be hiding in there.

 

 

Pff, too tired to play games, and definetly to tired to read and bored out of my mind. Don't want to go to bed though, since I don't want to mess up my sleep rythm.

[What you did today]

A good stance, but where do you get your scientific consensus from? Getting reliable sources is the problem. I can only think of a handful of valid and proven sources for, for example, medical consensus .

 

 

Generally speaking, I read some science journals and books I borrow from the local library, if I hear something interesting from people that I feel I need to know more about I go looking for more information about it. I have a few friends at Chalmers and Astra Zeneca that I speak to now and then that can clarify things for me if need be.

 

Not really sources of information but I also listen to the Skeptics guide to the universe wich is quite entertaining and I do read Bad Astronomy and Neurologica blog now and then.

[What you did today]

yeah, folks discounting science in lieu o' personal anecdotal evidence is why faith healers and rand paul is able to so easily hoodwink folks.

 

HA! Good Fun!

 

 

 

 

[What you did today]

I'm looking forward to Woldan reaching the age of 30.  Everything changes then.  EVERYTHING.  

 

The thing that I'm the most worried about is what my friends might do to me for my birthday. They tend to do things big and crazy, and as much as I love them, crazy wild days is'nt really my cup of tea.

 

 

I value personal experience, my own observations, over what people say on the Internet.

 

I'm a sucker for scientific concensus myself, I don't trust my own observations enough about most things.

 

I might purposefully ignore scientific concensus though, I don't give a rats ass if milk is bad and increases my chances of prostate cancer. I will still drink two litres a day.

[What you did today]

My family members aren't mutants and luck doesn't exist, especially luck that lasts for over 9 years, I'm simply making the right lifestyle choices, thats all.

 

Well, we all are mutants to some degree, it's what drives evolution afterall.

 

And while luck might not be an actual magic force as such, it's much easier to say luck or chance than saying you've not met contagious people or been exposed.

I'm fairly certain that if you'd have french kissed me shortly before christmas that you'd have a pretty sore throat by now.

 

Edit; Oh, and thank you for determining what movie I'm going to have to watch tonight!

[What you did today]

I haven't been ill in nine and a half years so I guess I must be doing something right.

 

Luck, fitness and genes I'd suppose. I have'nt gone nine a half months in my life without some illness or the other. I really do envy people that rarely get ill

[What you did today]

Thanks guys, and no Azdeus seems I have to be in here for at least 10-14days. So all the infection is killed.

 

Man, that sucks, here's to hoping that atleast you get cared for by many pretty nurses!

[What you did today]

Yeouch. I'm glad to read that you dodged that bullet Ros, are you home now or writing from hospital?

[11 people killed at a French satirical Newspaper]

Hope I'm not posting old news, but I might very well have missed it in all those quotepyramids.

 

https://eu2015.lv/images/news/2015_01_11_Joint_statement_of_ministers_for_interrior.pdf

 

We are concerned at the increasingly frequent use of the Internet to fuel hatred and

violence and signal our determination to ensure that the Internet is not abused to this end,

while safeguarding that it remains, in scrupulous observance of fundamental freedoms, a forum for free expression, in full respect of the law.

 

With this in mind, the partnership of the major Internet providers is essential to create the conditions of a swift reporting of material that aims to incite hatred and terror and the condition of its removing, where appropriate/possible.

 

I'm surprised it took them this long to put something like this out there.

 

This did cheer me up though;

Syria Strategic Communication Advisory Team (SSCAT)

 

They really did'nt think that one through, did they?

[The Funny Things Thread]

[The Funny Things Thread]

 

 

The same thing happened with my cat, countless times, but it wasn't a bed, unfortunately it was the cat toilet. Not so funny.

 

 

I disagree! XD

[What you did today]

Happy new year good peoples! =) 

 

I've had my years worth of drinks, got a good buzz going, and now I've got go to bed. I've had to endure people bantering about the walking dead for the past two hours, but the hours before that made it worth it.

Also met a rare person tonight, what I would call a real gamer girl, and while I did'nt agree with her taste in games, she had a great amount of knowledge that I didn't expect! More than my other gamer friends atleast =)

[What you did today]

Belated happy birthday! And merry christmas

[RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS]

bullet drop? maybe, but it doesn't change the fact ballistics aren't very good. I have to say, though, I only really played Call of Pripyat. but things like not being able to zero your weapon (especially the ones with optical scopes), not being able to shoot through stuff etc. maybe I just wasn't paying attention and it was all there. the thing is, I played Arma 2 ACE2 at the time, maybe it was the contrast between weapons in that and CoP that made CoP look bad. 

 

I remember getting to the point in CoP where you have to go to Pripyat, and one of the last quests I had was to clear some factory of bandits. I had a Colt AR-15 with something like an ACOG attached to it, that whole fight annoyed me so much, that I uninstalled the game after I had fought off all the bandits. I don't remember the exact reasons, but it was something about the AI and the gun that ticked me off 

 

Sure, some objects can't be shot through, like paper thin metal, but you can pop people through trees, wood and such from what I remember. Just load up some AP ammo and you should be good.

 

Looked up ACE for Arma 2. Looks fun if you're into that thing, but it does'nt give any thought to actually being a game. :/

[Non-vocal music to game by?]

Two Steps From Hell

 

I could link them almost all day.

 

They're awesome, I'd add in audiomachine aswell, they've got some great tracks.

 

If you don't mind remixes of game music I would recommend ocremix.org they've got some great tracks there.

 

 

[What you did today]

Gratulations Calax!

 

 

Funny, got pretty much the same hair cut. My sides are getting very "fluffy" fast, which looks crappy and annoys the hell out of me... so I let 'em getting cut that short at least every 3 weeks.

Had super long hair just a few years back, but I started to get bald (yay...), so everything had to go. All in all, I think my head looks a lot better with short hair, but the balding still doesn't help it really. :>

 
Yeah I hate it when my sides grow too long which happens in only a couple of weeks, thats why I used to sport and undercut for a while, I simply completely shaved the sides and annoying areas on my scalp every three days. No fluffiness whatsoever! I already miss that hairstyle.

Also I'm pretty scared about balding, every single hair that leaves my scalp gets its own funeral ceremony, followed by a massive panic attack.   
I suffer from severe hair loss paranoia / hypochondria because I had a completely shaven head in my military service time.....and I hated it.

 

 

Pfft, real men have long hair, even if they start to go bald!

 

I will admit though that I have a bit of hair loss paranoia aswell, I have alot of bumps on my head and I really look like **** without hair. I do miss easy maintenance though

[What you did today]

Nice rifle Woldan

 

Was supposed to go to a friends party today, but I did'nt get any sleep so I had no energy for that, wich was sad but not as sad as that I don't have enough energy to watch the Geminids shower and that the camera I was supposed to borrow was fecking broken so I can't set up any timelapse photos. First time in years that I have clear weather and time.

But I did manage to see a few meteors atleast during the 15 minutes I stood and watched with a nice pint of tea in my hands.

[Xmas and NY Plans?]

If you don't mind me asking why do you hate Xmas?

 

Well, it's extremely commercialized. It's all about spending money and consuming, buying stuff for people because you are supposed to, because it's a tradition. It has a "false" feel to it for me.

And I don't like my family particularly much, they never stay off the booze when they are together. Listening to them rant about how the muslims are invading, getting welfare and stealing our jobs while talking about how to best cheat their way around taxes and such will get me in a furious mood that I will have to bottle up.

Then come New Years Eve and if I go drinking...

 

I'm also against religion and I don't like being reminded about it time and again.

 

There are upsides though, Top Gear christmas specials are fun, some of the seasonal food is awesome; Glögg and vörtbröd for instance.

[What you did today]

Ah, I did'nt think that was an actual word, thought it was an autocorrect gone mad

 

I don't have actual double glass windows in my house so we have inserts instead, we usually put some cotton strips and small decorations inside them to make it more festive.

[What you did today]

Tchotchkes?

[Xmas and NY Plans?]

I hate christmas, so I'm going to do what I try to do every year; Avoid people, with the exception of my father since we share the same view of alcohol.

 

New Years eve I'm more torn about, I don't like hanging around my friends when they are drunk, but I do want to meet them.