The_Mather1

There are two extremes when it comes to intelligence; there are the thinkers, like Galileo, who make the jobs of those who come after them easier and there are the doers, like Tesla, who invent stuff that you wouldn't expect to find anywhere short of a Sci-Fi movie.

Intelligence should not be measured by knowledge but rather ability to learn, adapt and comprehend.

It is indeed trigonometry. Luckily at tests I was able to use Pythagoras's law instead and just randomly [bleep] around on the calculator until I got it right. For some reason some values always correspond to eachother like the sides of a triangle, that's why it applies to impedance and reactance.

I never study. If I didn't learn something the first time I read it then I won't learn it the tenth time either, I have to find a way to apply its use to my interests in order to save it in my long term memory. Sufficient to say: Laws of electronics and electromagnetics = piece of cake. Laws of reactance (AC resistance and phase distortion through inductors and capacitors) = X equals Cos-phi of WTF?

Even if zombies had an impossibly sensitive sense of smell, they won't stand around for much more than a day, they may lack the brains to give up but their instincts will tell them that it's a lost case. This isn't America, people here don't involve the authorities over minor inconveniences, and even if they did the authorities wouldn't do anything. And why would the management care? There's no difference between selling 1 burger to 100 people and selling 100 burgers to 1 guy. And the burgers are so propped full of preservatives that they can easily last longer than a dog lives, the only way to get anything that lasts longer would be to import canned food from Russia. Also they're not just empty calories, they do contain a lot of proteins as well. As I said, I use a pump. Big deal if a zombie blocks it by stepping on it, it'll just resume flowing afterwards. And by securing the end of the hose underwater, I can be sure that it doesn't move or suck in ice. It requires no maintenance whatsoever, it's just an electric heater that uses the same design as any other radiator in order to better distribute the heat and oil as a medium because it can be heated more than water.

A zombie outbreak is most likely to start in a densely populated area, in other words far away from Norway. They're not going to be constantly walking into a wall like those videogame characters that don't stop walking when they hit something. My house is not made of glass, they won't be able to see me when I'm inside. The stairs are not part of the load-bearing structure, the only thing they're holding up is the roof of the downstairs staircase which incidentally is the very same boards as the steps themselves. It's not like they'd stop me from buying a hundred burgers, sure, they'd be confused but why deny profit? Moving water doesn't freeze, I just have to set up the pump. The roof is easy to access from the garage roof which again is easy to access from my sister's roof. Though I could just mount them on the south wall, they would actually get more sun and be more protected there. Yes I did mean insulation and I meant a radiator that heats up oil using electricity, not an oil-fueled water radiator.

I can't even think of anything to compare him to, he's somewhere bellow puppets in the "uncanny valley" (the point where the realism is just at the peak of creepy). Not scary, just creepy... also I want to punch him in the face for some reason.

Firstly the zombie outbreak would take long enough to spread to give me a week or so to prepare. Secondly the zombies would not try to tear apart a house just because they saw someone enter it, at worst they may tackle the wall a few times. Thirdly zombies lack long-term memory (if not memory at all), they are not going to stay around when they can't see me. The still is just disassembled and in my garage, it takes no more than 5 minutes to set up. The stairs are well-made, but there's nothing a crowbar or a sledgehammer can't do to that in at most an hour. McDonald's is 5 minutes away when travelling on foot, five minute drive to the second closest and a ten minute drive to the third and closest Burger King. At the second closest I could pick up some weapons as well. The barrels are a 45 minute drive way at my cabin and hold more than a month's supply each, I would get our water pump and rifle scope at the same time. There's a creek a mere 30 seconds from here and we have enough hoses to cover that distance. The solar panels might be harder to get but I think I should be able to find some at the our internet/TV/electricity supplier whose closest office is a 10 minute walk from here, if not then they likely have some at the closest all-purpose hardware shop. (Just checked, there is one nearby that carries solar panels and has them in store.) And here we generally don't use central heating (nor remote), being in a sub-arctic region we instead have higher requirements for isolation, though the still and the mobile oil radiator would keep the house warm anyways.

I have no problem climbing up there, and I could do so almost one-handed. The zombies would not be able to collapse the wood shed because you need tonnes of force to collapse such a structure sideways and neither snow or bodies could pile the 5 meter up to the garage roof, and even then the zombies wouldn't be smart enough to break open and climb through the window before marching straight off the other side of the roof

Not my stairs obviously, I mean onto my wood shed, onto the roof above my back door, onto the garage roof and in through my sister's window. That amount of acrobatics would by the way be impossible for any zombie I know of other than the fast zombie from Half-Life 2, the Hunter from L4D and the mutants from I am Legend. And why would uselessness be discouraging? Do you have any idea how many people that actually enjoy living on welfare? How would unproductivity be a concern to them?

Meh, Omega-3 capsules. Also I just thought of a nice past-time; donning my MC clothes then go down and chop up zombies until I'm not longer bored, then climb back up. Because what can be more awesome than donning a full-body, padded kevlar suit and going dual backswords against a bunch of brainless sleepwalkers?

Outlast it? Too easy. All I'd have to do to manage that is to mount some solar panels on the roof, fill a few barrels with water and set up our still, stock up on McDonald's food (removes the necessity of a freezer/salt barrel since it can last for over a decade) and remove the stairs. Heck I could even get a battery bank and set up one of those emergency PSU thingies that keep the power stable to keep the computer up and running so I wouldn't get bored. Because why worry about the apocalypse when you can live through it with all of your everyday luxuries except for the internet. Yes, we do have a still, because... clean... water. *whistle*

Homestuck-based game? Of course it's D&D, I would really love to play something like that but I can't stand the table-top format.

I wish TIF had a ignore function like some other forums have.

Correction, I am now on 4 social websites, Google+ finally has some open spots.

Then why was Hegemony and the Zombie Survival Thread moved there? They are clearly not roleplays.

WHAT?!? No, just no! I mean what the hell? We weren't even supposed to be the place for regular RP and now we become the RP subforum? That's just wrong. Why force this upon us? Don't we get a say in this? We got the subforum for Hegemony, the Zombie Survival Thread and the likes, then we (well, Archi) created Dungeoneering, so shouldn't you rather create a new subforum for RP and put Rusco and Falador Library there?

Wait... WHAT THE [bleep]!?! SERIOUSLY!?!

Official t-shirt on top of sweater day, we're making this happen, spread it.

I do believe I spend more time on my computer than anyone else here, yes, however I am still socially active through 3 social websites, 3 instant messaging services, school and actually leaving the computer whenever a friend asks if I want to do something. I may not go to parties and such, but I never go a day without taking to someone outside of my family.

Mather, you're not a psychologist. None of us here, are psychologists. I realize in saying that I revoke my right to complain over your INCESSANT NARCISSISM, but it's better that you understand your limits as an individual, and accept that you could very well make things worse in an attempt to 'fix' a victim of depression. By your own accounts, you barely receive regular human contact. That says to me that human nature isn't something you have particular knowledge of. You may make a good sounding board, but a sounding board does not a psychologist make. First off, I'm not a narcissist per definition, I put the welfare of others above my own (I am however a narcissist per origin of the term as I have actually "swooned" over pictures and reflections of me). Secondly I am aware that I can cause damage by trying, however in cases like this, I am per sympathy obligated to try. Thirdly I do not lack in social contact, only in social skills and comfort.

Yeah no, I didn't just tell her to shut up, I actually made her see that her life is in fact not hell and that being unable to live a lie is not a reason to be depressed. I can't fix the fact that her parents are Nazi (as in the slang adjective, not the noun) and that her siblings are annoying, but I did in fact fix her mind.

Why yes, obviously whining is way worse than whining and mental issues. Clearly the fact that I cured her psyche made things take a horrible turn for the worse.

I do not resent myself only the situation I'm in. Heck, I think I may actually be slightly narcissistic, but not in the common way, more like Narcissus himself. And my traits are not ill used, I do not boast of my intelligence unless it is put under doubt (though I do offer trivia during conversations) and I don't flex unless I'm asked to or I'm alone in front of a mirror. In fact I think I could actually have had more of a chance if I showcased my body a little more, however by doing that I would only seem like a guido or douche (at least to myself) something I do not wish to be as I am not self-obsessed (I am in fact pretty selfless in the way that I like to help people (apart from my parents) more than anything). And dividing it into 7 is wrong anyways, because there's one cause, one result and one cure. Also it bothers me slightly that it could be fixed if not for how just walking up to a girl and talking to her would be more uncomfortable to me than pulling down my pants in the middle of school (which is actually sort of tempting).

There's nothing not to understand, there's no small things that all add up. I devoted my life to love and so far only two girls have had any romantic interest in me, one which I rejected because I was too busy worshiping a lesbian-to-be and one that lives nowhere near Norway. I don't really care for anything else and the only reason I get by on a day-to-day basis is games and webcomics. I know I basically hit the jackpot with my brains and physique and that I have a tendency to look marvelous in photos but that is worth just about as much to me as it appears to be worth to the ladies; nil.