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[Bauglir]

@Vector
I approve of this course of action, especially knowing your plans for the groceries in question. However, I do not know of this "Laurie" fellow, and wish to learn more!

I'm probably going to feel really dumb upon learning the answer.

[Vector]

No, it's not a particular person.

I just look like a man named Laurie right now, and my sartorial effects are very 1860s.

[Aklyon]

Overgrowth (by the Lugaru makers) is freaking amazing. But, holy shit, are group fights difficult! O_O

Oh, if you don't know what Overgrowth is about, watch this video.
It looks pretty good now, as seen in the latest alpha showcase thing.

That game is indeed awesome, and theres a ton of alpha showcase things if you're interested. But I'm going to be terrible at it because it improves on the same fighting system Lugaru HD uses, which I'm not great at.

[Bauglir]

Fair enough!

Also this overgrowth thing looks crazy-awesome, especially if those tools are as intuitive as the salesperson makes them look.

[olemars]

Besides, doesn't quantum entanglement already travel faster than the speed of light?

Travelling without moving.

[Aklyon]

Fair enough!

Also this overgrowth thing looks crazy-awesome, especially if those tools are as intuitive as the salesperson makes them look.

He's one of the devs, not a salesperson.

[Bauglir]

Fair enough!

Also this overgrowth thing looks crazy-awesome, especially if those tools are as intuitive as the salesperson makes them look.

He's one of the devs, not a salesperson.

That was a joke, meant to indicate my skepticism of anything promised in a promotional video.

[Lectorog]

Bah, I was hoping for Scarlet Letter.  But that's okay.  I hope you're enjoying yourself!

I actually am enjoying the Scarlet Letter. The symbolism is still simple, but starting to become rather... beautiful, in its own right. The characters are actually seeming dynamic and interesting as well. I think the defined turning-point from generic literature was Chapter 6, Pearl. While rather dry text, in my almost everyone's opinion, the author has put forth some interesting ideas and advancements. I can't say I enjoy reading the Scarlet Letter, but I do enjoy its contents.

[MC Dirty]

Fair enough!

Also this overgrowth thing looks crazy-awesome, especially if those tools are as intuitive as the salesperson makes them look.

Well, I haven't really tried animating or editing the sky yet, but editing maps is incredibly easy. Scaling, rotating, moving, it all works very well.

[Pnx]

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Yes, I know how to feed myself, but fuck it!  Today is the day I walk down to the store in a ruffled shirt, vest, and pants that fit for the first time in ages and get them to hand over the white bread and non-fat milk!  Yes, that's right, dressed like a man from the 1860s named Laurie!  Tro!  Lolololololololo!

Yes, I am regretting going on the silly nutrition rant now.

Spoiler: But pursuing the now spoilered nutrition conversation anyway! (click to show/hide)

It's more than possible I've been misinformed, but the consensus among my extended family has always been to eat some kind of meat, vegetable, and carbohydrate for dinner.
So that's what I've always been told is the healthy thing to do. Although I'm pretty sure that was always accompanied by something like "eat up, you're a growing boy". So the protein thing may just have been an ongoing campaign to get me to eat like a bodybuilder.

On the subject of milk, I didn't say it didn't contain a lot of protein it's just I've been told that milk is difficult to digest, and that the same issues that cause constipation also cause a lot of it to go through you unabsorbed. I've also been told that cheese is better for this (although it contains less healthy stuff, and more cholesterol).
Honestly, I'm not sure how trustworthy this information is. There's a lot of people involved in health care in my family, but that's really no guarantee.

The information on sugar and carbohydrates comes from my mother. She works in nursing and says that the focus on keeping a patients strength up, is carbohydrates, sugars, and some starch. And that in the short term, it's what's really important to survive.

Besides, doesn't quantum entanglement already travel faster than the speed of light?

Travelling without moving.

sigh
Ok, avoiding the whole issue of influences, the questionability of depicting particles as golf balls and... probably anything else that would get brought up. What I was trying to get at, is that I've always said that the speed of light probably isn't the be all and end all of everything else.
My response to "nothing can go faster than the speed of light" has always been "why do you assume that?" Our basis for that conclusion has always been "it seems to work out that way" (and of course, that goes for just about everything else too).
I don't know if you've noticed, but the universe is a pretty frigging complicated place. I've noticed a lot of physicists seem to jump to conclusions based on flimsy evidence, and sometimes come up with extremely elaborate theories that have, basically, all the evidence of your average conspiracy theory (where do you think the xkcd meme of "string theorists are idiots" comes from?).

So when someone says, "My god! An aspect of our reality doesn't always behave according to a rule we had assumed was always applicable." I say, "Whoop de frigging do."
This just doesn't strike me as being a revelation much bigger than all the others we've had this year, or the year before that, or the year before that.

But this really belongs in the new thread that popped up.

[Bauglir]

Spoiler: Nutrition again (click to show/hide)

Yeah, that's an effective and reliable meal setup, and usually ends up tasting pretty good too. It's also true that you need more than just upkeep while you're growing, but then again you're also smaller to begin with so I'm not sure how it works out. I'm no doctor or nutrition specialist, I know only what I've learned from research for my own (adult) diet and classes. I know that the setup is not necessary for a balanced diet, but if you don't want to track all your individual nutrient requirements then it's a solid way to make sure you're probably getting it done.

Cheese, though, is (by my understanding) basically milk without as much water, lactose, and a variety of ions. It is basically just a lump of coagulated protein, and picks up a lot of calcium besides, but I don't know if it has much else (though many do still have a fair bit of lactose; dry, aged cheeses like parmesan tend to be pretty low lactose, though, IIRC). I could be wrong on how digestible it is, and it's probably impacted a lot by health, given that the mechanisms necessary to do so aren't supposed to be functioning in adults in the first place.

I think she's probably right about carbohydrates being important in the short term, especially since you pick up the energy from them a lot faster. Fat, your body likes to store, and protein, your body likes to incorporate into new proteins or excrete in the urine; presumably because of the build-up of nasty nitrogen compounds, your body hates digesting it for calories and won't do it if has an alternative, IIRC. I could be wrong on that, biochem was a while ago, indeed.

[Virex]

Besides, doesn't quantum entanglement already travel faster than the speed of light?

Travelling without moving.

sigh
Ok, avoiding the whole issue of influences, the questionability of depicting particles as golf balls and... probably anything else that would get brought up. What I was trying to get at, is that I've always said that the speed of light probably isn't the be all and end all of everything else.
My response to "nothing can go faster than the speed of light" has always been "why do you assume that?" Our basis for that conclusion has always been "it seems to work out that way" (and of course, that goes for just about everything else too).
I don't know if you've noticed, but the universe is a pretty frigging complicated place. I've noticed a lot of physicists seem to jump to conclusions based on flimsy evidence, and sometimes come up with extremely elaborate theories that have, basically, all the evidence of your average conspiracy theory (where do you think the xkcd meme of "string theorists are idiots" comes from?).

So when someone says, "My god! An aspect of our reality doesn't always behave according to a rule we had assumed was always applicable." I say, "Whoop de frigging do."
This just doesn't strike me as being a revelation much bigger than all the others we've had this year, or the year before that, or the year before that.

But this really belongs in the new thread that popped up.

Wrong. Moving faster than the speed of light means that casualty can and will be broken. We cannot imagine a reality in which casualty breaks down. We're not talking about quantum-level unimaginable but describable. We're talking about "The Big Bang was caused by the rise of the 10 ft Cthulu wanabees"-level unimaginable. We quite literally cannot work with it. As such, the mere assumption that anything could move faster than the speed of light has to be quadruple-checked and explained and even then it remains controversial. See the Scharnhorst effect for such a case and note that, unlike the case is with the neutrinos, the Scharnhorst effect doesn't actually break causality.
I know there are a lot of people eager to hop on the "new science!" bandwagon, believing that they could be part of the same kind of revolution that general relativity or quantum mechanics were. However, for each of those revolutions there have been dozens of theories that failed and are now forgotten. An anomaly isn't a sign that something is fundamentally wrong, it's an invitation to see if something could be improved. Jumping ahead of yourself and claiming that anyone clinging on to "science as we know it" is unwise at best.


Edit: Sorry for lashing out btw. I just get a bit prickly when people jump at every opportunity to proclaim that "Science as we know it is WRONG!!1!" without awaiting conformation of the data or even knowing what the subject is about. If I had a dollar for every person who made that claim in the past day while who also believe that quantum entanglement allows FTL communication "Because clearly something is happening faster than the speed of light!", then I'd have to be hospitalized because my legs would be crushed under the weight of my wallet.

[Duke 2.0]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Note that milk contains a helluva lot more than just the usual milkfat and proteins in America. We fortify most of our milk with various vitamins and minerals that are more difficult to get a steady supply of with normal diets, although the actual list and their effects have long evacuated my head. I don't know if these carry over to cheese though, but both are amazing foods for keeping healthy in moderation.

 I think I forgot to turn my swag off this morning. The buses were full but not packed, and some random woman still stands around me with close body contact. She was attractive enough that other guys were staring, and if my life were a comedy college movie I would shoot them a glace going "Awwwwwwww yeahhhhhhh that's right", but I maintained my gentlemanly resolve and acted like nothing was going on.

 Then later everybody from every one of my classes wanted to chat me up in the halls on the way to classes. Art professor hung one of my assignments in the art wing, history professor aggressively stated that an assignment that I had yet to complete by the deadline was no problem whatsoever and don't worry about it kid, and my communication professor commended how much my communication improved since the first day of class.

 I am a Juggernaut of manly courage today, wonderful way to end the week.

[Bauglir]

wonderful way to end the week.

You magnificent bastard. I remember having Fridays off, it was a glorious semester.

[ToonyMan]

One of my professors just up and walked at me yesterday and started talking with me.  It's kind of cool when people talk to you.  :]

I saw a bunch of people yesterday too, I think I mentioned that.