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[Kadzar]

Explosions and lasers are on equal footing. The BEST thing you can make is exploding lasers.

Or explosion-powered lasers. Which explode things, setting off laser-powered explosions in other ships.

[LordSlowpoke]

Instead of powering lasers with explosions, make a laser out of explosions. What it does later is irrelevant.

[misko27]

Lasers could activate Fusion, which could power more lasers, which could activate more fusion. which could power more lasers, which could activate Hydrogen Bombs!


A compromise at it's finest.

[LordSlowpoke]

. . . Can we fuse the lasers?

[Bauglir]

I've done a silly thing. There is music I wish to purchase, available legitimately only through iTunes. However, I do not wish to actually install that nonsense, so I've decided to do it on a virtual machine that I give no shits about, then convert the mp3s to another format to strip them of metadata, then convert them back to mp3s and transfer them to my external HD.

[LordSlowpoke]

No human being should ever have to deal with Apple's glorious marketing methods. Unless their ways of doing business changed since Quicktime, which is unlikely. You have done the wise thing to do there. :3

[ArchAIngel]

I found my old copy of morrowind. Fast travel? Pfft, I have flying scrolls! Also, royal signet ring. Gotta love sneak.

[Solifuge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE

This is far better than it should be. And turn on the captions. And look at what the captions are called.

That song he plays in the middle? That too, is called Popcorn.

And yeah, that was pretty damned good. :3

I've done a silly thing. There is music I wish to purchase, available legitimately only through iTunes. However, I do not wish to actually install that nonsense, so I've decided to do it on a virtual machine that I give no shits about, then convert the mp3s to another format to strip them of metadata, then convert them back to mp3s and transfer them to my external HD.

I usually just run my MP3s through an automated process on Audacity, to strip the metadata. Works as well, and you don't have to do it manually!

Spoiler: -snip- (click to show/hide)

Continuing from the Sad Thread:

I had an interview with the manager of the bakery/deli I was looking to work at, and completely won him over with my charm, work ethic, knowledge and experience, and general people skills. I pulled out all the stops, and really made an impression, so much so that he waived the second interview and offered me the job right up front!

...at which point he informed me that it starts at 4am, only offers about 10-20 hours a week, pays $8 hourly, and offers no benefits. Not even discounted food.

"Sign me up! What's that, sir? Will I be looking for other employment in the meantime? Oh, of course not!"

So. Crazy thing.

I get home, and get a call from my friend. The University called his number trying to reach me. Apparently they want me back at the lab, to work on a military study analyzing the health and psychological condition of soldiers after deployment. Despite that it's been 2 months since this project was supposed to start. For some reason, they'd only had my friend's phone number on file as an emergency contact. I updated my info in the University system, but I guess it didn't propagate to the lab?

Anyway, yeah. So I'll be staying at the bakery exactly as long as it takes to train up for the new project, and then scamper on back to my comfortable, free-bus-pass-having, air-conditioned, appreciated, and well-paid position at the Lab. Plus, it'll leave me with all the time and flexibility I need to do Game Design and Graphics for a big old project I recently hopped aboard, which has me quite geeked. It's sort of a pseudo-sandboxy Multiplayer Spaceship/Space Station building game, with an emphasis on interstellar exploration, trade, engineering, and light Strategy/4x/Colony Management elements. It's more or less the game I've wanted to make since I was 10 years old, scribbling out a sandbox redesign of Galaga/Gradius, inspired by all the games my brother and I used to play with Legos.

Spoiler: Scribblings related to the afforementioned Game Project (click to show/hide)

you can never have too many lasers

Clear indicator that this game will be glorious.

If the amount of lasers on your ship requires more power than your antimatter reactors can produce, it's not because you have too many lasers. It's because you don't have big enough antimatter reactors.

[MagmaMcFry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE

This is far better than it should be. And turn on the captions. And look at what the captions are called.

Wow, that was awesome.

[Devling]

Caption guy should really be in more stuff. I want to visit him again.

[AlleeCat]

I found my old copy of morrowind. Fast travel? Pfft, I have flying scrolls! Also, royal signet ring. Gotta love sneak.

I had Morrowind on the Xbox. I could never stand going anywhere in that game because if you went faster than a snail's pace you would drain all your stamina, and then you would end up doing crap for damage if you ran into anything on the way.

[Siquo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE

This is far better than it should be. And turn on the captions. And look at what the captions are called.

That. Was. Brilliant.

[MonkeyHead]

I found my old copy of morrowind. Fast travel? Pfft, I have flying scrolls! Also, royal signet ring. Gotta love sneak.

I had Morrowind on the Xbox. I could never stand going anywhere in that game because if you went faster than a snail's pace you would drain all your stamina, and then you would end up doing crap for damage if you ran into anything on the way.

Heh, I used to overuse that ring you found in the waterbutt in the census office for that very reason, until I could pay to have a restore fatigue constant effect enchanted. Or toughed it out until I obtained Azura's ring.

[Remuthra]

I found my old copy of morrowind. Fast travel? Pfft, I have flying scrolls! Also, royal signet ring. Gotta love sneak.

I had Morrowind on the Xbox. I could never stand going anywhere in that game because if you went faster than a snail's pace you would drain all your stamina, and then you would end up doing crap for damage if you ran into anything on the way.

Heh, I used to overuse that ring you found in the waterbutt in the census office for that very reason, until I could pay to have a restore fatigue constant effect enchanted. Or toughed it out until I obtained Azura's ring.

Yeah, my favorite Elder Scrolls game is Oblivion because even though I recognize Morrowind is a better game, one does not simply play Morrowind.

[AlleeCat]

I found my old copy of morrowind. Fast travel? Pfft, I have flying scrolls! Also, royal signet ring. Gotta love sneak.

I had Morrowind on the Xbox. I could never stand going anywhere in that game because if you went faster than a snail's pace you would drain all your stamina, and then you would end up doing crap for damage if you ran into anything on the way.

Heh, I used to overuse that ring you found in the waterbutt in the census office for that very reason, until I could pay to have a restore fatigue constant effect enchanted. Or toughed it out until I obtained Azura's ring.

Yeah, my favorite Elder Scrolls game is Oblivion because even though I recognize Morrowind is a better game, one does not simply play Morrowind.

You can always mod Oblivion to be more like Morrowind. I've got a mod that replaces the Oblivion leveling system with a more traditional XP-based one. It's really good.