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[penguinofhonor]

Less than a week until MH3U. I am pumped.

[Jack_Bread]

I have a friend who left some time last year to Washington for work(I live in California). We had a "farewell" D&D session that night. It was pretty cool.
Anyway, we still had contact with each other via Facebook and Skype, but his internet hours were extremely limited because of his crappy ISP. Earlier today, he messaged my other friend who I live with that he was at someone's house who had XBox Live Gold and Borderlands 2, which meant we could play together. My other friend bursts out of his room happily to tell me to find a save point, as I was playing some JRPG, so we could play Borderlands with our friend. I quickly just leave the game so we could set up for this.
A minute later, our friend who was supposed to be in Washington comes in the door and asks "How's Borderlands going?" It ends up he was at someone's house who had BL2. Quite an awesome day.

[Max White]

Anybody been playing Heart of the Swarm lately?
Campaign has the most adorable love story going on... I hope it stays that way. Oh Jimmy, you romantic hunk of man marine.

[Tiruin]

Anybody been playing Heart of the Swarm lately?
Campaign has the most adorable love story going on... I hope it stays that way. Oh Jimmy, you romantic hunk of man marine.

I'm now recommending this review to my brother who is nearly done downloading the game patch.

But yeah, love the story on how everyone from all branches of Starcraft come together in the game. Jim Raynor is one guy to emulate

[Skyrunner]

"You pig."
"What?! I didn't even say anything!"
"Yeah, but you were thinking it."

[Max White]

Oh come on, that was totally flirting and you know it. We know what Kerrigan is like.

"Clean, simple, devious. I like it."

[10ebbor10]

[Spoilers]

[RedKing]

Spoiler: On the subject of asia and eyes. (click to show/hide)

Nifty. Those are like mine in reverse (hers are green outer, brown inner).

[Flying Dice]

Spoiler: On the subject of asia and eyes. (click to show/hide)

Nifty. Those are like mine in reverse (hers are green outer, brown inner).

Wait. That's notable? Mine are similar to the image, but the green band is slightly thinner. Also, I've got quite a few of those little darker-colored specs that are apparently bits of fat or something, but look interesting.

[RedKing]

Spoiler: On the subject of asia and eyes. (click to show/hide)

Nifty. Those are like mine in reverse (hers are green outer, brown inner).

Wait. That's notable? Mine are similar to the image, but the green band is slightly thinner. Also, I've got quite a few of those little darker-colored specs that are apparently bits of fat or something, but look interesting.

It's called central heterochromia. It's actually a lot more common than people realize (see below -- hazel is heterochromic by definition), but tends to go unnoticed in a lot of cases because the two colors don't have high contrast (ex. olive green/brown). Far more noticeable when it's blue/brown or blue/green.


Fun eye facts: There is no "blue pigment" in human eyes. Blue eyes are in fact unpigmented eyes (or eyes with very low levels of pigment), and the blue color comes from Rayleigh scattering of shortwave frequencies in reflected light (the same effect that causes the sky to be blue).

Grey eyes are similarly unpigmented but have more collagen in the iris, which causes Mie scattering (the same effect that causes a grey sky on overcast or foggy days).
 
The only pigments in human eyes are melanin (brown/black) and lipochrome (yellow).

Green is a combination of small amounts of melanin and/or lipochrome combined with a moderate amount of Rayleigh scattering. Yellow/brown + blue = green.

Amber is a mixture of melanin and lipochrome (brown + yelllow).

Hazel is essentially heterochromic by definition, as it results when the melanin deposition forms a gradient, causing the melanin/Rayleigh scattering combination of green to transition to higher levels of melanin (and conversely lower levels of scattering and reflection by higher wavelengths) resulting in brown.


EDIT: This is also why most Caucasian babies (especially those of Northern European ancestry) are born with blue eyes initially -- no melanin. The melanocytes develop a few months after birth and begin producing melanin, causing the eyes to change color. Other ethnotypes have higher levels of melanin overall, and thus are typically born with melanin already present in the iris.

[SalmonGod]

I'm late to the party, but greetings to Wolfeyez.

It is only entertaining if you are very invested in a team, very drunk AND enjoy watching people get into fights.
Somehow, despite these multiple conditions, it is very popular...

Because you just described most sports fans. 

[Pnx]

Game of Thrones intro, 1995 Style.

[Fniff]

That was amazing.

[Haspen]

That was amazing.

+1

Gods, the nostalgia...

[Pnx]

That was amazing.

+1

Gods, the nostalgia...

My thoughts exactly when I first watched it, it reminded me so much of the cheesy fantasy shows I used to watch as a kid, like that one that was power rangers but in medieval times.