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[Lysabild]

One of my classes does attendance by passing a notepad around and everyone writes their name.

I discovered that if the first student puts a bullet point or a dash or something next to their name, so will everyone else, even if the previous day and its lack of bullet points are on the same page.

Hmmm...

Try to get first and do a tilde~

[Acanthus117]

Fucking tildes

they're fucking everywhere

[Aqizzar]

I discovered that if the first student puts a bullet point or a dash or something next to their name, so will everyone else, even if the previous day and its lack of bullet points are on the same page.

Write your name sideways.  I had a class in high school that took attendance like that, and the teacher rearranged the seating all the time.  I come up with all sorts of weird ways to write my name.  Of course, since you never see the paper again, you never know if you had any impact...

[Darvi]

Finally managed to unlock Stage 6 for Practice mode in SA! Now let's try to not die too often :/

[Something Evil]

Well, now here's an idea: A Forgotten Beast with a dust attack made up of TILDES~~.
Let's see how you survive that.

[Jackrabbit]

I just watched Wag The Dog, a wonderfully cynical film about an area I might be getting into as a career. It did look like a lot of fun, although

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I'd be upset if I had to kill Dustin Hoffman.

[Max White]

I just watched Wag The Dog, a wonderfully cynical film about an area I might be getting into as a career. It did look like a lot of fun, although

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd be upset if I had to kill Dustin Hoffman.

Your going to work for a political campaign?

[Jackrabbit]

Media and communications. So it's entirely possible, yes.

[Aqizzar]

You want to know the really crazy thing?  As an Australian who was (probably?) in diapers at the time, you may never fully appreciate this but: Wag the Dog is about an American president who starts a fake pocket-war in Albania to distract from an affair.  It was inspired by a comedic interpretation of George H. W. Bush and Desert Storm.  It came out the exact same time anyone first heard the name "Monica Lewinsky" while America was putting ground troops in Bosnia.

Tails wagging dogs wagging tails wagging dogs.

[Jackrabbit]

I really wouldn't know, unfortunately, it was diapers and the Wiggles for me around then.

Still, the movie was great, it's just so amazingly cynical. How much do spin doctor and skilled manipulators control the world? That much?

Well I am so doing that.

[Max White]

I think it may have been hyped for the movie. You might as well ask 'Can people really do that?' after watching The men who stair at goats. The answer, is of coarse, maybe. 

[Jackrabbit]

I disagree, although I admit I'm talking from ignorance here. The idea that spin-doctors can stage huge events and turn them to their advantage is more convincing than the idea that men can stop goat hearts by staring.

[Lysabild]

Røræg and røget ål, why is danish food made of more win than win itself is? Also, not sure how to translate, Stirred egg and smoked eel is directly translated though that may mean nothing to you guys.

[Max White]

I disagree, although I admit I'm talking from ignorance here. The idea that spin-doctors can stage huge events and turn them to their advantage is more convincing than the idea that men can stop goat hearts by staring.

The idea of that movie wasn't so much about the magic powers, but rather how intent can affect a man. The book was a lot better in this regard. You will notice that anything 'physic' that happens is either being told about in a story, or coincidental. But the point that nothing ever disproves the super natural themes is the kicker, because anything happening in the present is possible in some context. You stair at a man and tell him to hit you, he is going to be a little worried what is going to happen, and isn't that likely to hit you.

Ignoring the stories of the past, everything in that movie in possible. Except the very end.

Røræg and røget ål, why is danish food made of more win than win itself is? Also, not sure how to translate, Stirred egg and smoked eel is directly translated though that may mean nothing to you guys.

Smoked eel makes sense, but stirred eggs? Could you mean scrambled eggs?

[Darvi]

I got a PDF folder by email which is full of geometrical properties, some of which I have never even heard of. Damn, that would've been useful in the demi-finals. I guess I shall try to memorize it.