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[FPLOON]

A1: Have you made lunch for him yet in a well decorated bento box?

I haven't... *flips table* No wonder he didn't want to eat lunch with me and not because he meeting someone else in the gym closet!

A2: Maybe something wrong with the cloud?

Well, there has been more than one cloud appearing my area...

A3: Rule of thumb with boss fights: Always kill ads/squishies first.

So that they don't respond when it comes to taking care of the main boss fight!
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Question: Why does the hair on my head grow slower than every other part of my body?

 

[L. Declis]

Question #1: Why won't sempai notice me?

Because you're such a tsundere, and you didn't grow up next door to him.

As a serious aside, go check out "Yandere Simulator".

Question #2: Why wasn't my Portal 2 Steamchievements updated?

Usually means the internet wasn't connected when you unlocked them, and as such, you have to unlock them again, this time with the internet.

Question #3: Why would anyone shoot the deputy before shooting the sheriff?

Because everyone knows when you kill the master first, the student always kills you for revenge.

Question: Why does the hair on my head grow slower than every other part of my body?

Two answers.
Either male pattern baldness...

Or it doesn't but you don't notice a cm of growth on your hair when you do notice a cm of growth on your face, especially if you're a woman.

 

[FPLOON]

Question #1: Why won't sempai notice me?

Because you're such a tsundere, and you didn't grow up next door to him.

As a serious aside, go check out "Yandere Simulator".

*looks up Yandere Simulator*
This is so going on my Steam library during the Summer!

Question #2: Why wasn't my Portal 2 Steamchievements updated?

Usually means the internet wasn't connected when you unlocked them, and as such, you have to unlock them again, this time with the internet.

Well, that sucks... and my internet told me that it was on and everything, that lying son-of-a-bastard!

Question #3: Why would anyone shoot the deputy before shooting the sheriff?

Because everyone knows when you kill the master first, the student always kills you for revenge.

Just like what Samuel L. Jackson did to Ron Perlman...

Question: Why does the hair on my head grow slower than every other part of my body?

Two answers.
Either male pattern baldness...

Or it doesn't but you don't notice a cm of growth on your hair when you do notice a cm of growth on your face, especially if you're a woman.

Damn... No wonder it seems like it talking too long for my afro to grow more than 10 cm pre-"evenly sculpted"...

Question: Whatever did happen to Cartoon Network's cartoon multiverse/crossover? I remember certain CN shows "borrowing" other CN characters/settings as a means to establish that they all took place in the same universe or something... and the last time I saw any indication of it still existing is if the characters just so happen to be in the same movie theater watching the same movie, which tied into whatever movie Cartoon Network was showcasing at the time...

 

[Elfgore]

Question. Why in music and the occasional anime do Japanese VA's/Musicians just put in random English words? Is it for emphasis or just some kind of pop culture thing?

 

[L. Declis]

Question: Whatever did happen to Cartoon Network's cartoon multiverse/crossover? I remember certain CN shows "borrowing" other CN characters/settings as a means to establish that they all took place in the same universe or something... and the last time I saw any indication of it still existing is if the characters just so happen to be in the same movie theater watching the same movie, which tied into whatever movie Cartoon Network was showcasing at the time...

It's dead. They drove all the animators away when having so many talented people together was expensive because they focused on making good animation instead of marketable animation.

Have you seen the updated movie theatre? It's mostly empty now. They're bringing some of them back from the dead in a new art style. Have you seen the new Powerpuff Girls redesign? Tragic.

 

[FPLOON]

Question. Why in music and the occasional anime do Japanese VA's/Musicians just put in random English words? Is it for emphasis or just some kind of pop culture thing?

Well, half of it has to do with either not having an English word equivalent in Japanese or the English word in question musically sounding better in whichever song is being sung at the time... There are even cases where the song would be written in both English and Japanese because the music accompanying the lyrics can work with it, but it usually not one translating from the other and vise verse...

In other words, the "random" English words being said in Japanese songs, for example, probably sound better in rhythm to the song in question... Otherwise, it could be seen as a crossing of cultural languages since Japan's not the only country, both music-wise and communication-wise, to do something like that over the years...

Question: Whatever did happen to Cartoon Network's cartoon multiverse/crossover? I remember certain CN shows "borrowing" other CN characters/settings as a means to establish that they all took place in the same universe or something... and the last time I saw any indication of it still existing is if the characters just so happen to be in the same movie theater watching the same movie, which tied into whatever movie Cartoon Network was showcasing at the time...

It's dead. They drove all the animators away when having so many talented people together was expensive because they focused on making good animation instead of marketable animation.

Have you seen the updated movie theatre? It's mostly empty now. They're bringing some of them back from the dead in a new art style. Have you seen the new Powerpuff Girls redesign? Tragic.

I've seen the updated movie theater... It's depresses me in the nostalgia... And the PPG redesigns took a lot longer than it needed to to get "acquainted" with, believe me...

Question: Should I take my church movie viewing group to see Ex Machina or Tomorrowland with the emphasis of having some kind of spiritual discussion afterwards?

Bonus Question: Outside of Summertime Lovin', is there any other fictitious songs that could touch you like that particular song could do?

 

[L. Declis]

Question: Should I take my church movie viewing group to see Ex Machina or Tomorrowland with the emphasis of having some kind of spiritual discussion afterwards?

No.

Instead, watch a good movie, and then discuss the morality of it. Not even Christian morality. But pick a good film with an interesting premise to discuss. If you can find a film where right and wrong are very hard to define, the better the discussion will be.

Hell, pick a documentary about a social issue, and then ask them how they believe the problem should be sorted.

 

[SweetShark]

Q: Who are these characters?

They are OCs or they belong to a Anime?

 

[DrOswald]

Q: Why does it always rain on me?

Because you are the god of rain and clouds wish to shower you with praise and love.

 

[DrOswald]

Q: What planetary conditions would be needed for actual kaiju?

That depends on the Kaiju, and what it can do do. If you mean Mothra? Magic. Godzilla minus the breath weapon? You'd need a LOT more free Oxygen in the atmosphere, aka Dinosaurs.

That's really the only practical limit, up to a point. You can get really VAST creatures, if the atmosphere is so rich in Oxygen that their circulatory system can keep up. You see this most rapidly reflected in the size of insects, but there is a point after which they can't survive.

Remember, that volume increases by ^3, but area increases by ^2. Nothing can get MUCH bigger than say... a very large dog without active respiration.

Once you have the oxygen, you need to have an environment that either provides enormous quantities of vegetable matter to graze, or plentiful prey. Fortunately the condition that would tend to support giant creatures would tend to support a huge supporting biosphere.

An interesting thought, I would have gone more to structural stability first rather than respiration requirements. But a question: what about more efficient oxygen exchange mechanisms? You bring up insects, one of the big reasons they cannot get very big is because of their less efficient oxygen exchange system. We have a better one, which allows us to get larger. Fish have different (better?) mechanisms that exchange oxygen very efficiently with water (this is why fish don't "breathe" water by taking it in and then expelling via the same orifice, instead running it through one end and out another of their gills.) In theory it would be possible for an animal to develop a highly efficient respiratory mechanism in order to increase the oxygen they can get from the environment, allowing for much larger animals.

 

[EvilRoy]

Q: What planetary conditions would be needed for actual kaiju?

That depends on the Kaiju, and what it can do do. If you mean Mothra? Magic. Godzilla minus the breath weapon? You'd need a LOT more free Oxygen in the atmosphere, aka Dinosaurs.

That's really the only practical limit, up to a point. You can get really VAST creatures, if the atmosphere is so rich in Oxygen that their circulatory system can keep up. You see this most rapidly reflected in the size of insects, but there is a point after which they can't survive.

Remember, that volume increases by ^3, but area increases by ^2. Nothing can get MUCH bigger than say... a very large dog without active respiration.

Once you have the oxygen, you need to have an environment that either provides enormous quantities of vegetable matter to graze, or plentiful prey. Fortunately the condition that would tend to support giant creatures would tend to support a huge supporting biosphere.

An interesting thought, I would have gone more to structural stability first rather than respiration requirements. But a question: what about more efficient oxygen exchange mechanisms? You bring up insects, one of the big reasons they cannot get very big is because of their less efficient oxygen exchange system. We have a better one, which allows us to get larger. Fish have different (better?) mechanisms that exchange oxygen very efficiently with water (this is why fish don't "breathe" water by taking it in and then expelling via the same orifice, instead running it through one end and out another of their gills.) In theory it would be possible for an animal to develop a highly efficient respiratory mechanism in order to increase the oxygen they can get from the environment, allowing for much larger animals.

There's also a gravity issue though. To get some of the godzillas I've seen that are as big as buildings and can walk around you would probably need a planet with severely reduced gravity because there is an upper limit to how big you can make something out of bone and meat before it can no longer support its own weight. Plus it would need a ridiculously large heart to have the power necessary to pump blood 40 stories up. In order to do in skyscrapers now we have to have a series of booster pumps and resevours throughout the building, so either he would need multiple hearts throughout the body or one absolutely huge one. I actually don't know what governs the upper limit of pump size, maybe related to the maximum pressure the pipes can handle.

 

[BrokenTinker]

Question. Why in music and the occasional anime do Japanese VA's/Musicians just put in random English words? Is it for emphasis or just some kind of pop culture thing?

It's done for the sake of novelty as it stands out more in the consciousness of listeners. It has to do with the way people associate language and the way we associate things, common things are relegated to the back of our mind while unique things stands out in our daily action.

This has both negative and positive responses. One specific sample I can give is from experience is techsupport.

An indian colleague with a accent received a poorer evaluation even though the person in question provided the same support as another agent. Once this agent is put onto the text based "Live Chat" instead of voicebased support, their evaluation normalize to close to the average.

Pretty much anything "out of the ordinary" will cause your brain to notice certain things more, this can also be seen in magazine advertisements (a classic example is the model with the 3 legs).


Q: How come neuoroplasticity is so 'overhyped', when experience and experiments have shown that it's merely replace one function with another instead of having the ability to do the same things two different ways.

 

[FPLOON]

Question: Should I take my church movie viewing group to see Ex Machina or Tomorrowland with the emphasis of having some kind of spiritual discussion afterwards?

No.

Instead, watch a good movie, and then discuss the morality of it. Not even Christian morality. But pick a good film with an interesting premise to discuss. If you can find a film where right and wrong are very hard to define, the better the discussion will be.

Hell, pick a documentary about a social issue, and then ask them how they believe the problem should be sorted.

Follow-Up Question: Do you have any movie suggestions that could fit any of the criteria given in the answer of the original question?

 

[Slenn]

I got one question:

Why not Zoidberg?

 

[FalloutJack]

I got one question:

Why not Zoidberg?

Well...look at him.

Question: Which color was it that Cloister intended the hats for the food stands to be, red or blue?

 

[SweetShark]

Q: Is there a similar Android game like "Dungeon Link"? I f*cking AWESOME!!!!

 

[EvilRoy]

Q: How come neuoroplasticity is so 'overhyped', when experience and experiments have shown that it's merely replace one function with another instead of having the ability to do the same things two different ways.

A: Has to do with exercise, as I understand it. For a long time popular understanding of intelligence is that you are born with an IQ and there's nothing you can do about it after that, but stuff like brain training introduces the idea that you can make yourself smarter by "working out". You would think this would be no more attractive than a gym membership, but it is novel in that it counts as self improvement without involving sweat or strain or stiffness. Drop off rates are almost the same as far as I've heard though. I sure as hell didn't last long on that brainage DS game, but I'm probably smart enough anyway. Or at least too stupid to realize I'm not, and lets be honest, that's essentially the same.

Q: Is it possible to jury-rig an air conditioner out of a humidifier, a fan and a block of ice? I've been working at this idea for a little while, because it isn't worth buying one for the 20 days a year I would use one, but I haven't been able to produce a consistent cold breeze yet.

Captcha: I am fine

We need more captcha like that. Feels nice to type out.

 

[SweetShark]

Q:
Can someone suggest to me a Cyberpunk RPG I can play EXCEPT Shadowrun games?

EDIT:
I already had a suggestion to play Deus Ex, so I need something else as well.