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Awwwww, poor Earth.

One of the few companies that doesn't seem to go 'OH MY GOD, CONGRESS!!!!!!! THOSE PENNILESS STUDENTS ARE STEALING OUR CREATIVE PROPERTY!' Of course being that I have zero interest in MLP...or the Internet at large... so I may be reading too much into it. On the other hand, America has fought wars with less trusted intell :rolleyes: On an unrelated note, not sleeping before an exam, instead reading(for the first time) one of the three core texts(having not read the other two), which you surreptitiously obtained from the Library some weeks before but didn't look at much beyond the first 50 pages, interspersed with with watching dramas, cooking pasta and planning how to convince Mather to run a IC server (Given I don't have the capacity and Paul is on holiday...And it might be a good way to sooth hostilities)...Actually helps you a lot. :thumbup: For one thing you don't build up huge amounts of anxiety in the hour before the exam, or during the exam when you see that NONE of the things you thought would be asked, were asked. Another thing is that your carefully laid plan to revise seven specific topics and hope they come up (six out of ten questions), doesn't backfire terribly. Additionally, while everyone else is reading their quadtuple made notes, trying to force out xy and z to accomodate more xy and z, you are sitting there calmly running through four hundred pages of text (Which you cleverly printed in size 6 font, four pages per page, and thus the tiny letters needed every scrap of brainpower to read, let alone understand) in your mind, all the data therewithin fresh and ready to be used. Finally, when the exam is over your brain doesn't worry too much about the answers you missed, or what you didn't put in...everything you knew you put in, and, in any event, your brain is too tired, and carrying too much raw data, to care. :thumbsup: And pretty much Earth...Has electricity, nuclear power, laser rifles and power armour...Pretty fun.

I'd like to, but without other people from the Tavern I might as well just play Industrial Craft 2. Though if people want to play IC2 could set up a server.

I am reminded of Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, "it means what I choose it to mean" For clarity: [hide] Mather: Lesser Geeks don't like DnD. Archi: You aren't a Geek and it wasn't DnD. Mather: I am a Geek/Nerd. Archi: So your a Geek/Nerd. Mather: Actually I am not a Geek/Nerd, except when I am. Archi: So, basically, I can't win because your defination is whatever you want it to be, and not within the confines of the agreed norms of the English Language. Ergo, continuing to argue is an exercise in futility. [/hide] For reference purposes: [hide] Geek Nerd . http://dictionary.reference.com [/hide] Facts...Such wonderful tools.

Thats basically what he said...People claim to like Pokemon, and thus are 90's children, even if they were not born within the timeframe. It will die out as we get further into the teens and early 20s of the 21st century, replaced by millenium children(unlikely) or something else...People who like Avatar or something silly like that.

Well, I was born in the 90s (1990 to be exact) and am not hipster(evidently). However nef is saying, if I have got it right, that people say they liked Pokemon so that they can claim they were 90's kids, so that they can claim they are hipsters. Its very much a sequitur, to use the latin.(For no discernable reason)

So what you are saying, if I get you right, Mather...Is that you are a lesser geek at Crossroads because you spent a large amount of time playing it, without being very good at playing it, and thus introducing a system that required you to not rely on the vagueries that are inherant in geekness, and thus made it entirely impossible for you to play? Or, in summary, you weren't very good at the game, and so you had to give up when a new system was introduced, because you feared you would be even worse at the game, and that is why the system is to blame. Also your defination of a geek/nerd is uttery ludicrious. "I am a nerd in these things, and a geek in everything else" Translated as: "I have a large knowledge and spend large portions of my time on these things, and I spend a large portion of my time doing everything else." Should really compile a list of the self-contradictory statements you make...I could sell them as a book "Matherisms: Oxymorons in Sentence Form." I don't think we really need to bring up the many times this has been proved wrong.

And Lei has some sort of delayed action that makes her post several weeks...nay, months...later? And two things: 1) Lei is not a geek, you are not a geek and Retech is not a geek,* and no one else stopped playing at that time. 2) There is no DnD format. Also, given that your experiances with 'DnD' amount to 'I'm not playing that', your opinion is about as valuable as the Pope's opinion on contraceptives. (Philosophically valid, but lacking in practical weight) So... *Clarification: Lei has no qualities associated with being a geek...other than owning a computer and using the internet. You don't really fit inside the bracket. Muscleman and the lack of any form of scientifical proof to substantiate your theories, all of which makes you very much unsuited to being stuck into the whole field of geeks/nerds/etc. Probably closest you could come would be the old timey explorers...Dr Livingstone, Robert Scott, and the like. Retech quit for reasons unrelated to the change over (What with having quit before it took place) and is very much a nerd, and not a geek. If you are using the broadest possible defination: "A person who likes intellectual pursuits and is lacking in 'normal' attributes which make them an outsider" Then yup, everyone in the Tavern fits under the umbrella, and you end up being wrong by default.

350xp for everyone. 3,485 overall.

I had sort of gathered that by you persistantly not turning up to sessions...Also when you said you were not playing any more...So I assume it relates to the story somehow...So either you have a fear of cats...or are some kind of a...person...

/join #Inn

Needs to mention a fox somewhere.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933804000860 (Have to buy...Would post more, but copyright law and such...) For Night: http://www.readperiodicals.com/201007/2078379131.html (Free) Also: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/822346?uid=3738032&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21100794157351 (Have to buy, but there is an abstract so...) http://www.jstor.org/stable/816910 (Also have to buy, no abstract, see below for front page) [hide] [/hide] Primo Use that, if you find something really interesting but can't get access(most of the stuff) then PM me and I will get samples.

Indeed, they[fighters] are shown as Squadrons[many fighters] on the map, to save hundreds of thousands of individual dots[fighters].

Well, we can help, if you tell us what the research paper is on. French Composition....Someone else can help with =P

I need, they are shown as Squadrons on the map, to save hundreds of thousands of individual dots.

Pretty much. This one might be more useful to you. (Multiple sheets) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12603519/A%20Sheet%20of%20Metal%20Between%20Flesh%20and%20Nothing/Design%20Database%20-%20Copyxls.txt

Bake a cake and offer peices of cake to the judges, and if asked say "The complex interaction between bacteria, organic protiens and plant extracts, makes baking a cake a masterclass in chemistry." Alternatively, make some cheese. Also: If a sharp point is attached to the dome of a VandeGraaff generator, the point will spew charged wind. If you stand in this air stream, it will charged your clothing and hair, which will start clinging to your body. Which will make you feel like you've been dipped in vegetable oil. Thusly, aim it at people (or if you are feeling less cruel, aim it at a 'Stand here' sign.) and science experiment, AWAY. More evil: Take a large crowd of children out into the sunshine and give each one a 20cm square mirror. Show them how to aim all of their little spots of sunlight at the same distant object, then stand back and see what they do. Better yet, run away.

I think so.

One is mistakenly id'ed as a zip file. The other one needs to be saved like I showed you way back when...as an xls file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPkVWwaDo4 For original, less funny, version: Pause it just before the end to read the full quote.

A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk, have at you.

Should have said: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12603519/A%20Sheet%20of%20Metal%20Between%20Flesh%20and%20Nothing/Ship%20Stuffs%20-%20Copyxls.txt http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12603519/A%20Sheet%20of%20Metal%20Between%20Flesh%20and%20Nothing/Ship%20Stuffs%20-%20Copyods.txt

On an unrelated note: Those of a nervous disposition/those who hate Skyrim memes, should look away now [hide] [/hide]

The real question is, who did what :razz: