Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Singularity125]

My cat got put down earlier.

He was 13. We'va had him for longer than I can remember.  tried not to be sad, and at first I wasn't. But just now, I went into the closet where he would usually wander into to sleep. I was going to let him up onto my bed, like always, but I looked, and remembered I wouldn't be able to do that anymore. For the first time forever, I am crying about losing a friend.

He stepped in my keyboard. He walked in front of my screen. He woke me up by sitting on my chest, and quite a few other things. I'll miss all of them. RIP.

Feels, man. I remember a few years back, my family's cats all harbored this terrible flea infestation, and they tried everything to get rid of them. Fleabombs, the works. Eventually all that stuff just made them sick, so my parents decided to put them down.

They made this decision without asking me or my brother. They did this before I was awake that day, since it was summer vacation for me. One day they were there, the next, gone. In hindsight I could see why they had to do it, but... they never let me say goodbye or anything.

...now for what I came here to post, which seems petty by comparison... it would be nice to have temperatures rise above zero degrees (Fahrenheit)  again. It's been a couple days. Kinda makes my commute to work suck. Our apartment complex is dumb, and so we also went without hot water for two days. I feel all dirty. :S

[Bauglir]

Huh. I feel like crying for no adequately explained reason. This is pretty unpleasant. I'm not sure if it's worse than yesterday's panic, but at least that made sense given the excessive caffeine. I don't cry when things are legitimately shitty so I really don't know what's going on.

[Putnam]

I was playing Dungeon crawl as a ghoul necromancer the other day and raising up every corpse I could find to be my skeletal servants and eating the leftover flesh, and it was sort of satisfying, but I wish I could do more. I want a game where I can raise up entire hordes and armies of undead and lay waste to entire cities. I want to watch and laugh as the masses of writhing, rotting flesh wash over those pathetic mortals as they try desperately to fight back, and are ultimately consumed as fuel for my unstoppable unholy army. Unfortunately I don't know of a game that will let me do that, so I'll just stick to Crawl and Dungeon Keeper...

Dwarf Fortress. If not now, then next version.

[Tiruin]

I was playing Dungeon crawl as a ghoul necromancer the other day and raising up every corpse I could find to be my skeletal servants and eating the leftover flesh, and it was sort of satisfying, but I wish I could do more. I want a game where I can raise up entire hordes and armies of undead and lay waste to entire cities. I want to watch and laugh as the masses of writhing, rotting flesh wash over those pathetic mortals as they try desperately to fight back, and are ultimately consumed as fuel for my unstoppable unholy army. Unfortunately I don't know of a game that will let me do that, so I'll just stick to Crawl and Dungeon Keeper...

Dwarf Fortress. If not now, then next version.

Dungeon Keeper you say? Where may I play that? :3
And Crawl..yeah. Resourcefulness at its best.


Sads: While I seriously really muchly sincerely thank the people who supported me earlier...I still feel useless. :/
*shakes fist at past*
Grah, you. D:<

[Arx]

I was playing Dungeon crawl as a ghoul necromancer the other day and raising up every corpse I could find to be my skeletal servants and eating the leftover flesh, and it was sort of satisfying, but I wish I could do more. I want a game where I can raise up entire hordes and armies of undead and lay waste to entire cities. I want to watch and laugh as the masses of writhing, rotting flesh wash over those pathetic mortals as they try desperately to fight back, and are ultimately consumed as fuel for my unstoppable unholy army. Unfortunately I don't know of a game that will let me do that, so I'll just stick to Crawl and Dungeon Keeper...

Someone else had the same thought.

[Yoink]

It's my birthday tomorrow.

(Let's see if this post ends up in the right place.)

[Putnam]

Dungeon Keeper you say? Where may I play that? :3

you don't want to

[Donuts]

Dungeon Keeper you say? Where may I play that? :3

you don't want to

Old Dungeon Keeper was beast. Still got DK2 installed.

[Anvilfolk]

My cat got put down earlier.

He was 13. We'va had him for longer than I can remember.  tried not to be sad, and at first I wasn't. But just now, I went into the closet where he would usually wander into to sleep. I was going to let him up onto my bed, like always, but I looked, and remembered I wouldn't be able to do that anymore. For the first time forever, I am crying about losing a friend.

He stepped in my keyboard. He walked in front of my screen. He woke me up by sitting on my chest, and quite a few other things. I'll miss all of them. RIP.

I'm sorry, man I know how that feels. I was there when we had to put down one of our cats who we also for about that much time. The vet was a bit of a jerk too. It was horrible, but at least he went very calmly. Then you get home and keep thinking about all those annoying things he did, and suddenly they are so cute and make so much sense and you miss them oh so much...

[Pnx]

Spoiler: Psych Assignment (click to show/hide)

2 pages,
Imagine that you are part of a scientific team studying the feasibility of building a robot that can
pass for human. Other team members are responsible for hair and skin, the muscles and joints, an
energy system, and various internal works. Your task is to design the nervous system.
 
Answer the following questions:
 
¾ One approach might be to start by listing all the functions the robot would have to
perform to behave like a human being. What’s wrong with this approach? 2pts
¾ Which subdivision of the human nervous system would be less important for a robot than
for a human being, and why? 2pts
¾ Assume that the robot’s brain will have the same parts that a human being’s brain does
(the pons, cerebellum, hippocampus, etc.). Which parts might you make smaller to save
space because they are less important for a robot than for a person? Explain. 3pts
¾ Which brain parts do you think would be especially important for a robot, and why? 3Pts

*sigh*
This stuff is such a pain.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

My cat got put down earlier.

He was 13. We'va had him for longer than I can remember.  tried not to be sad, and at first I wasn't. But just now, I went into the closet where he would usually wander into to sleep. I was going to let him up onto my bed, like always, but I looked, and remembered I wouldn't be able to do that anymore. For the first time forever, I am crying about losing a friend.

He stepped in my keyboard. He walked in front of my screen. He woke me up by sitting on my chest, and quite a few other things. I'll miss all of them. RIP.

I'm sorry, man I know how that feels. I was there when we had to put down one of our cats who we also for about that much time. The vet was a bit of a jerk too. It was horrible, but at least he went very calmly. Then you get home and keep thinking about all those annoying things he did, and suddenly they are so cute and make so much sense and you miss them oh so much...

This is probably a good time.

Spoiler: My sister's cat died a while back (click to show/hide)

This cat was totally her cat. He would follow her around, let her put jewelry on him, let her carry him. He dragged around one of her Barbies by the hair. She loved that cat and he loved her.

Cat got sick, it would have been a huge operation and they really couldn't validate spending thousands of dollars on surgery that might not work, for a cat. I mean cmon, you need to be realistic here.

Parents and sister leave for a trip. I don't live with them anymore but I agreed to stop by and feed the cats. Was told he probably wouldn't survive until they returned as it would be a long trip.

I go over and he's really bad. Just lying there all day, head nodding, his motor control shot to hell. I feed him his cat food in milk because he's having trouble chewing, but after a couple days he's having trouble just getting up. I come over every day because I feel really bad for this cat. I knew him all his life and now he's dying. I set him up with a little bed on the floor using my sister's bedsheets, but while I'm at the house I put him on a leash and carry him outside.

This was never really an outdoor cat. He would roam around on the roof but only got out once or twice. The leash was kind of unnecessary because he wasn't that mobile at the time. He just laid in the grass smelling the little white flowers and the clover, blinking at the sun. After a few days of this he would get up and come to the door to greet me. He was still getting up to use his cat box, evidently, and was eating a little. But it was hard and he kept falling down. One day he actually stood up when we went outside and started walking. He was just wandering, and was irritated by the leash, but I couldn't risk having him run off.

They were gone for a month, and he almost made it. It was a few days until they would return and I could tell it was nearly over. He hadn't moved or eaten in the past week despite my efforts. He was in the bed I had made for him, and I went and found a photo of my sister and set it next to him where he could see it. The cat forced himself to move and stared at the picture.

By the next day he had died. He had gotten up and moved himself to the front door and curled up there. I wrapped him up in the sheets and brought him out to the yard to bury him like I had been asked. I placed a couple chunks of concrete over him so nothing would dig him up. My parents had bought a pair of concrete cat statues a while back, and I set the one that looked like him on the grave.

I told them that I wouldn't do that for them again, and they would just need to have the cat put down next time.

I gave only a general report when they got back from their trip. I've only ever told the whole story to my girlfriend, once. Crying as I type this.

[Pnx]

:[
*Hugs*

[Sirus]

Too many sad cat stories 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

My cat got put down earlier.

He was 13. We'va had him for longer than I can remember.  tried not to be sad, and at first I wasn't. But just now, I went into the closet where he would usually wander into to sleep. I was going to let him up onto my bed, like always, but I looked, and remembered I wouldn't be able to do that anymore. For the first time forever, I am crying about losing a friend.

He stepped in my keyboard. He walked in front of my screen. He woke me up by sitting on my chest, and quite a few other things. I'll miss all of them. RIP.

I'm sorry, man I know how that feels. I was there when we had to put down one of our cats who we also for about that much time. The vet was a bit of a jerk too. It was horrible, but at least he went very calmly. Then you get home and keep thinking about all those annoying things he did, and suddenly they are so cute and make so much sense and you miss them oh so much...

This is probably a good time.

Spoiler: My sister's cat died a while back (click to show/hide)

This cat was totally her cat. He would follow her around, let her put jewelry on him, let her carry him. He dragged around one of her Barbies by the hair. She loved that cat and he loved her.

Cat got sick, it would have been a huge operation and they really couldn't validate spending thousands of dollars on surgery that might not work, for a cat. I mean cmon, you need to be realistic here.

Parents and sister leave for a trip. I don't live with them anymore but I agreed to stop by and feed the cats. Was told he probably wouldn't survive until they returned as it would be a long trip.

I go over and he's really bad. Just lying there all day, head nodding, his motor control shot to hell. I feed him his cat food in milk because he's having trouble chewing, but after a couple days he's having trouble just getting up. I come over every day because I feel really bad for this cat. I knew him all his life and now he's dying. I set him up with a little bed on the floor using my sister's bedsheets, but while I'm at the house I put him on a leash and carry him outside.

This was never really an outdoor cat. He would roam around on the roof but only got out once or twice. The leash was kind of unnecessary because he wasn't that mobile at the time. He just laid in the grass smelling the little white flowers and the clover, blinking at the sun. After a few days of this he would get up and come to the door to greet me. He was still getting up to use his cat box, evidently, and was eating a little. But it was hard and he kept falling down. One day he actually stood up when we went outside and started walking. He was just wandering, and was irritated by the leash, but I couldn't risk having him run off.

They were gone for a month, and he almost made it. It was a few days until they would return and I could tell it was nearly over. He hadn't moved or eaten in the past week despite my efforts. He was in the bed I had made for him, and I went and found a photo of my sister and set it next to him where he could see it. The cat forced himself to move and stared at the picture.

By the next day he had died. He had gotten up and moved himself to the front door and curled up there. I wrapped him up in the sheets and brought him out to the yard to bury him like I had been asked. I placed a couple chunks of concrete over him so nothing would dig him up. My parents had bought a pair of concrete cat statues a while back, and I set the one that looked like him on the grave.

I told them that I wouldn't do that for them again, and they would just need to have the cat put down next time.

I gave only a general report when they got back from their trip. I've only ever told the whole story to my girlfriend, once. Crying as I type this.

You're all making me cry. 


No, seriously. 

[MagmaMcFry]

Spoiler: Psych Assignment (click to show/hide)

2 pages,
Imagine that you are part of a scientific team studying the feasibility of building a robot that can
pass for human. Other team members are responsible for hair and skin, the muscles and joints, an
energy system, and various internal works. Your task is to design the nervous system.
 
Answer the following questions:
 
¾ One approach might be to start by listing all the functions the robot would have to
perform to behave like a human being. What’s wrong with this approach? 2pts
¾ Which subdivision of the human nervous system would be less important for a robot than
for a human being, and why? 2pts
¾ Assume that the robot’s brain will have the same parts that a human being’s brain does
(the pons, cerebellum, hippocampus, etc.). Which parts might you make smaller to save
space because they are less important for a robot than for a person? Explain. 3pts
¾ Which brain parts do you think would be especially important for a robot, and why? 3Pts

*sigh*
This stuff is such a pain.

Spoiler: Revised assignment (click to show/hide)

¾ One approach might be to start by listing all the functions the robot would have to
perform to behave like a human being. What’s wrong with this approach? 2pts
¾ Another approach might be to start by listing all the subdivisions of the human brain the robot
would require analogues to. What's wrong with this approach? 8pts