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When I die I'm going to have all my possessions laid around me in a viking longboat which will in turn be set on fire and drifted out to sea. No, not really.
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Soo.. Pillars is in like a week or something. For those of us not part of the beta.
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White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
Gorgon replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
The Japanese insist on pronouncing everything with their own phonemes. The drawback being that the more sylables the fewer other than themselves capable of knowing what the hell they were talking about. -
White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
Gorgon replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
I mean tNetanyahu. Anyway aren't they basically the same person. -
White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
Gorgon replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Ariel Sharon should STFU though, suggesting that European jewish communites should all move to Israel, he's making it worse. It's bad enough that his government can't seem to stop themselves committing war crimes every other year when there is another Gaza offensive. -
White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
Gorgon replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Germany made a huge mistake in making Nazi symbolism illegal. That's right, you can't actually show a swastika in Germany without special permission. They should have marginalized and ridiculed them instead. Imagine the cool factor you can have simply by virtue of being officially forbidden. This story of a resurgent extreme right in Europe has been told on and off for several decades though. I wonder if anyone has any concrete figures to back it up, remember we are talking about underground movements here. -
Seven Dragon Saga by Tactical Simulations Interactive (TSI) KS
Gorgon replied to Infinitron's topic in Computer and Console
I dunno what happened. I can't see a reason not to move it to C&C though. -
USB 3 is already 5 gbs, that's fast enough to boot from. I think I might have old cables connected to my mobo because I'm getting USB 2 speeds from my external HDD. Doesn't really matter tho. A few seconds more staring at the progress bar.
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White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
Gorgon replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Individual words don't have to matter, especially if focusing on them leaves out a full understanding of the speakers intent. This is usually the case with expletives that come with a heavy emotional burden for some listeners, such as the word '****'. https://www.google.dk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=louis+ck+%27n%27+word Words don't exist in isolation, though. Sure, take the mean as a whole, using context and other social cues. Same goes with sentence to paragraphs and paragraphs to pages, etc. etc. etc. ...And even expletives and the like *do* convey a meaning. Of course, like context, the tone of the words makes a huge difference. Body language makes a huge difference. That's why communicating in writing often takes a lot more finesse, or least a different finesse, than communicating in person. You can smile when you say 'jackass' which softens it and makes it friendlier. Of course, to mimic this, online forums have emoticons. I guess it comes down to 'can you identify the speaker's intention or not ?'. If the intention is not to offend then I don't think there are any words that should be 'off limits'. It gets problematic when you are adressing a larger public audience because then the subtext, the 'inside joke' can't really be assumed to be shared. I recall something from a grammar course years ago that actually made sense http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/speechactterm.htm -
White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
Gorgon replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Individual words don't have to matter, especially if focusing on them leaves out a full understanding of the speakers intent. This is usually the case with expletives that come with a heavy emotional burden for some listeners, such as the word '****'. https://www.google.dk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=louis+ck+%27n%27+word -
https://www.google.dk/search?q=Batman+singularity&oq=Batman+singularity&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
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Jewish Student's character questioned based on her faith
Gorgon replied to Cantousent's topic in Way Off-Topic
What's wrong with displaying the flag? Personally, I don't care what anyone does with the flag. Burn it if you want, display it if you want... I get how some people may be offended by burning or otherwise "disrespecting" it in their mind but I find it hard to follow who is upset by the flag just being visible What's wrong with not displaying the flag ?. It's not a government institution, they don't have to. -
Jewish Student's character questioned based on her faith
Gorgon replied to Cantousent's topic in Way Off-Topic
You could probably burn the Danish flag all day and suffer no ills other than smoke inhalation. I'm quite serious. -
Jewish Student's character questioned based on her faith
Gorgon replied to Cantousent's topic in Way Off-Topic
So they have an ounce of taste. What's wrong with that.,, Americans and their flag obsession, honestly. -
Hardest thing about having a cat or a dog, they die on you.
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Was talking with some people who actually knew their time to run 10, 20, ect km and tried to improve it. They have a running buddy system, you know where you pressure eachother out of making excuses to make sure everybody shows up, and asked me to join. I realised that I have never been 'in shape', not one time in my entire life and accepting would inevitably compromise the system. Maybe I should try, just for the experience. Nahh, too much work.
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I used to for uploading music, since it was the premier video-sharing site at the time (and still is). Hard to do that without signing in. When I'm not signed in it looks like a 13 year old girl's myspace page. Makeup tips, every day 'hacks'. You know stupid **** you can make out of beer cans that is going to make your life sooo much easier, and cookie-whatever the sweedish 'lets play' megastar.
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Remaster Fallout: New Vegas on next generation gaming system.
Gorgon replied to Klemster23's topic in Obsidian General
Can we just have another fallout game please. I've played FONW to death. -
Sooo... Flagship game for source engine 2. I don't see what else it could be.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31716684 Am i the only one who is worried that Netanyahu can only keep track of three or four sentences at a time. Look at that pile of pages. There is room for a lot more bullet points on an A4 page than that and since everything is a punchline I don't see how one would need anything other than bullet points.
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It was something like 20 $ before ? and you get access to their support network. Minor adjustment anyway probably meant to try and get their whole install base be legitimate.
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A little late to the party. How does that guy keep getting his projects up? Doesn't KIckstarter look at them and notice they are ridiculous? He tried to raise 5 million for a farm. Becase they are thinking about their 5% of the 43 $ he has raised so far ?. Or it's more calculating. KS has been getting some negative press about how you never hear about the failed projects, about how they get stigmatised in what is sometimes a crapshoot of PR luck and management. Perhaps seeing projects that 'deserve' to become nothing will help.
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Still battling my way through Homeworld remastered. Battling the bad mission triggers, the fights are easy enough. This is the third time I've had to sift through walkthroughs to complete a mission a certain way guaranteed to work. HW2 works flawlessly, unfortunately it's not the better of the two. It was a bit wonky when it came out, but isn't that what a 'remastering' is supposed to fix ? Did have a few wow moments along the way, like playing through the garden of Kadesh with modern graphics.