Recent content by Christars

For what it's worth, the Ciaphas Cain-books are totally awesome. Go read. As for the things you should have a vague idea of: The Imperium of Man - A rather dystopic future human empire spanning a sizeable chunk of the Milky Way. It's mostly shit. Aliens keep attacking and humans keep...

I don't think I ever cried since I turned, what, fourteen, but Clannad: After Story is probably the closest I've gotten. Not only the only anime to do so, the only thing at all. I didn't cry though, OK? I just got very close.

The problem with Baccano regeneration? It also allows infinite torture X| Better to cut-off all sensation of pain first; sure you'd miss out on a few clues ("Hey why ain't I moving? Oh right, my leg's impaled to the floor."), but I think the benefits outweigh the problems.

The only reason people keep thinking of negative aspects of immortality is because most of us are desperately trying to come to terms with the fact that currently we are not immortal. So we invent some arbitrary "good parts" of being mortal and construct arbitrary "negative parts" about being...

When I was a wee lad, my mother picked up a piano from some auction somewhere and decided she wanted to learn playing it as it had always been a dream of hers. Sadly, she never really got around to doing much on it. I, however, thought "hey, that looks fun". When my mother realised that I had...

"I'm a theoretician, dammit!"

The survival of the entire human race. Exactly how many/who that would entail saving is admittedly rather vague, so I hope I can figure it out at the time. But I'd prioritise myself over a country's worth of people. As for all my loved ones, no matter how much I love them, I wouldn't die for...

I consider myself to be lower level genius - that is, way more intelligent than most anyone, but not quite on the level of the Einstein gang just yet. So fucking holy shit intelligent. I'd have to be, seeing as I plan to live my entire life devoted to the study of mathematics; and the only...

Intelligence, because the value I place on my own existence is pretty much governed by how smart I am, being a mathematician and all. With intelligence you are able to act and fulfill your role in society better, helping humanity - not only on the day-to-day-basis of doing your job and...

If there's one thing I ever learned from doing nerdy science all my life it's that there's no such thing as a zero per cent probability. Chin up; for all you know one of these "statistical outliers" of yours actually do like you, or might do so in the future. And if not, just take a look at...

> Elementary school > First crush on a girl > Crush quickly, eh, "crushed" when she makes publicly fun of me for looking in her general direction > Middle school > Somehow, me and some girl always get to school like three quarters of an hour early, just spending time in the classroom...

During the tutorial level of Deus Ex (the original), you are supposed to practice with the sniper rifle. I accidentally hit my keyboard, resulting in the character throwing the sniper rifle into the firing range. Which you can't access. I snapped. Kinda feel like that glitch cost me a good...