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[Slayerhero90]

So, yesterday, I took my first steps at not dying if it rains really hard. Apparently, even though I have a hard time floating, I can doggy paddle all the way across a hotel pool and back without stopping. Also, if I push off the wall, I can go more than halfway across the pool.

Michael Phelps, I'm not, I know, but it's the first step of a long journey.

All right!

In other news, I now know that at least one of my family members can take an (accidental) punch to the solar plexus without blinking.

That's supposed to be painful? 

[kisame12794]

If done properly, yes.

[MaximumZero]

So, yesterday, I took my first steps at not dying if it rains really hard. Apparently, even though I have a hard time floating, I can doggy paddle all the way across a hotel pool and back without stopping. Also, if I push off the wall, I can go more than halfway across the pool.

Michael Phelps, I'm not, I know, but it's the first step of a long journey.

All right!

In other news, I now know that at least one of my family members can take an (accidental) punch to the solar plexus without blinking.

That's supposed to be painful? 

I can temporarily cripple people by hitting them there. ^_^

[Slayerhero90]

So, yesterday, I took my first steps at not dying if it rains really hard. Apparently, even though I have a hard time floating, I can doggy paddle all the way across a hotel pool and back without stopping. Also, if I push off the wall, I can go more than halfway across the pool.

Michael Phelps, I'm not, I know, but it's the first step of a long journey.

All right!

In other news, I now know that at least one of my family members can take an (accidental) punch to the solar plexus without blinking.

That's supposed to be painful? 

I can temporarily cripple people by hitting them there. ^_^

You don't count.

[Kadzar]

This coming Sunday I get to see my friend whose been in China the past year doing missionary work.

[MaximumZero]

So, yesterday, I took my first steps at not dying if it rains really hard. Apparently, even though I have a hard time floating, I can doggy paddle all the way across a hotel pool and back without stopping. Also, if I push off the wall, I can go more than halfway across the pool.

Michael Phelps, I'm not, I know, but it's the first step of a long journey.

All right!

In other news, I now know that at least one of my family members can take an (accidental) punch to the solar plexus without blinking.

That's supposed to be painful? 

I can temporarily cripple people by hitting them there. ^_^

You don't count.

Aww.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm closer to ending the samurai/katana debate. My two new favourite anecdotes are from the 16th century.
At 1604 a bunch of English pirates [bunch of English knobs] sailing in the tiger, a small galleon, bumped into a junk [small sailing ship of Chinese origin] commanded by Wakos, Japanese pirates [bunch of Japanese knobs]. It was a friendly meeting between pirates of the East and West, with the Wakos drinking on Sir Edward's ship, the tiger. Then the Wakos drew their swords on the English, killing many until Edwards rallied his men and they drove the Wakos into the tiger's cabin with pikes.
Pikes > Katana
And it doesn't end there, because they then turned two 32 pound culverins [cross between a cannon and a musket] onto the cabin at point blank range.
The second would be at 1610, the Portuguese duel I was originally searching for. And to my absolute surprise, I gave the samurai far too much credit because they also lost to the Portuguese sailors while they were drunk.
The Captain, Pessoa got into an argument with a local governor at Nagasaki after allegedly killing some Japanese sailors at a previous year. The Japanese governor responded by sending 1200 Samurai with 30 ships to attack under cover of darkness.
The Samurai felt confident, and shouted insults at the Portuguese in the dark.
With the element of surprise having been squandered, the Portuguese galley opened fire with two broadsides, ending the first attack.
The Samurai tried the same thing the next night.
And the next.
And the next.
The final assault on the day after the last failure 1800 more Samurai were hired and they attacked the Portuguese ship with some sort of naval siege tower. The Portuguese fought and killed many Samurai, who were also using muskets along with their katana. They killed many Samurai, but after a grenade explosion set fire to the sails Pessoa realized the ship was lost and ordered the powder magazines to be set alight, tearing the ship apart in a massive explosion.

Checkmate Atheists

[Xantalos]

So, yesterday, I took my first steps at not dying if it rains really hard. Apparently, even though I have a hard time floating, I can doggy paddle all the way across a hotel pool and back without stopping. Also, if I push off the wall, I can go more than halfway across the pool.

Michael Phelps, I'm not, I know, but it's the first step of a long journey.

All right!

In other news, I now know that at least one of my family members can take an (accidental) punch to the solar plexus without blinking.

That's supposed to be painful? 

I can temporarily cripple people by hitting them there. ^_^

You don't count.

Aww.

I'm in (almost) the same category as MZ with my solar plexus punches, so I'm surprised the guy didn't flinch or something.

[misko27]

When a girl from the 3rd floor's dog started yapping in the elevator, she got all shy and flustered in front of me and started apologizing while smiling and turning red. Glad to take the periodic reminder I'm not necessarily the forever alone guy.


Haven't seen her again recently, but then again that doesn't seem unlikely given my building has a rather large number of people (17 floors, maybe, 15-30 people per floor? Guesses, but a lot.)

[Bauglir]

I'm just so glad I downloaded the OCRemix torrent. It's a good way of filling the gap left by all the music I've been deleting for... reasons.

[Frumple]

... "the" torrent? There's like a couple dozen ones (Quick check: 48 total). Three primary ones, iirc, for the individual tracks uploaded to the site, and then a buncha' individual album stuff. There is much glory to be found within.

[SalmonGod]

So much good music on OCRemix.  I'm pretty excited about the FF6 album.  My physical copy should be arriving in the mail soon, and I think the torrent is going up in a couple days.

[Bauglir]

... "the" torrent? There's like a couple dozen ones (Quick check: 48 total). Three primary ones, iirc, for the individual tracks uploaded to the site, and then a buncha' individual album stuff. There is much glory to be found within.

The big ones.

[Frumple]

FF6 album

All I care about is "More Stragos Theme Remixes", hahaha. The rest is just window dressing for Frumple

The big ones.

Ah ha!

Well. Get the little ones, too There's some pretty good stuff that didn't clear OC Remix's standards in those things.

E: Also maybe RSS the 10 latest submissions, yes. I really need to clear that out soonish, s'hit the point there's o'er 150 submissions I haven't eyeballed...

[Bauglir]

!!!!!

There's more? Thank you.

Once I've sorted through the six days of music I've already got queued, I shall get the additions.