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[LeoLeonardoIII]

Some dead pixels on my tablet turned out to be random flecks caught under the screen, woo! I just firmly tapped the screen until they slid under the bezel.

Oh that unscrupulous bezel.

[Knit tie]

I've finally figured out how to create rotating avatars! SignAvatar is your friend!

[Flying Dice]

Up until the point where you realize that nobody knows who you are because so many of us identify people first by their avatar, in lieu of a face.

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I had one of those wonderful days where my last, small class ended up derailing itself (yet again) and the conversation (on the typical blend of politics, history, economics, linguistics, and philosophy), enabled by a broken clock, continued until a natural lull, at which point someone checked their watched and noticed that the class had ended fifteen minutes ago. So we kept talking for another half-hour, eventually filed out, and continued to converse across campus, eventually stopping at a convenient patch of grass, until the point where one of us casually mentioned that we'd been standing there for two hours.

That. That is the essence of what the modern educational system so dearly lacks, the sort of environment that enables things like this to happen constantly, and it makes me inordinately gleeful on the rare occasions when it does still arise naturally.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Your story gave me a happy thought, it's great when that happens. And I bet your teacher was so excited to see people leaving class and actually still talking about the material.

[Descan]

Though, he said the class was derailed, so it may well be they -weren't- talking about the material.

If he's a good teacher though, he'd still be happy they were having an intellectual conversation.

[Kedly]

This has been stuck in my head all day and it really does make me happy. The whole thing is cute (I understand that can be taken as demeaning, however that is not how I am meaning it) but OMG are those babies especially cute!

[Dutchling]

That's pretty awesome.

[Yoink]

Spoiler: As requested. (click to show/hide)

[Flying Dice]

Though, he said the class was derailed, so it may well be they -weren't- talking about the material.

If he's a good teacher though, he'd still be happy they were having an intellectual conversation.

Ah, our professor sort of enables us--she participates in it as much as anyone else. That aside, you start talking about the appeal of Stalinist communism in Eastern Europe after the failures and abuses of inter-war capitalist democracy and fascism, which leads to the rebuilding and industrialization of Eastern Europe after WWII, which leads to cultural shifts and the mirrored break with youth culture in East and West, which leads to the differences of perceptions of the other by Russians and Americans after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which leads to mutual lamenting of the quality of education in the U.S., which leads to a discussion of the cultural shift which has enabled recent generations to live without a real sense of purpose or much in the way of emotional maturity, which... &c.

I swear, post-war Europe is as much of a wiki-walk node as Hitler. Everything can lead to it, and everything can be arrived at through it.

That's pretty awesome.

Agreed; I don't think you came off as demeaning there, Kedly. "Cute" as a scornful diminutive is not something that should exist.

[Kedly]

Yeah, I know. I never mean anything but positive when I use the word cute. But I guess it could be taken as patronising? Maybe that's the wrong word, but I think it conveys what I mean? Anyways yeah. I dont know how a video like that wouldnt be able to make me smile. They managed to capture the essence of "happy" in that video ^.^

[Dutchling]

The fedora guy has potentially lethal amounts of swag :v

[Helgoland]

So we played Settlers of Catan today, with three players. One got screwed from the beginning, me and the third one developed quite nicely.

After some time, I started to dominate. They tried to stop me a few points before victory, but I managed to pull through~

[Kedly]

The fedora guy has potentially lethal amounts of swag :v

This is getting sigged when I get home xD

[Karnewarrior]

The fedora guy has potentially lethal amounts of swag :v

This is getting sigged when I get home xD

It gets better. If the swagitude reaches critical swag (aka the hipster horizon) the accumulated swag rapidly undergoes indiezation, resulting in a swagsplosion. The effects shouldnt need description.

[tahujdt]

Swagnificient.