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[flabort]

>forgetting denmark

Iceland and Greenland are both part of the continental plate, correct?

Meh. Less geography lessons, more duped raws shenanigan; what happens if you try to add tags and then subvert the tags into something else?
Try to give them skin made out of Dwarven Wine, but half-way through the tag turn it into that tag that determines how long their beards are. Add some pref tags, make three castes but only define two of them, and put the graphic symbols into the castes (rather than right at the top, so females and males have different symbols (Like @)), make them egg layers but make the eggs masterwork steel statues.

Like if your garbage creature which you then duplicate looked like this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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[CREATURE:CREATURE]
[NAME:CREATURE:NAME:CREATURE:NAME:CREATURE]
[BODY:HUMANOID:NOSE:HUMANOID:bronze:bronze:INORGANIC:BP_LAYERS]
[CASTE:CREATURE]
[]
[]
[]
[CASTE:CASTE]
[POP_RATIO:CREATURE]
[FEMALE]
[CREATURE_TILE:CREATURE]
[CASTE:NAME:POP_RATIO]
[MALE]
[CREATURE_TILE:5][COLOR:5:7:5]
[SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD_2H]
[NAME:two-handed sword:two-handed swords]
[SIZE:900]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[TWO_HANDED:67500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:62500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:8000:slash:slashes:NO_SUB:1250]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50:4000:stab:stabs:NO_SUB:1000]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100000:8000:slap:slaps:flat:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100:1000:strike:strikes:pommel:1000]

[Orange Wizard]

>forgetting denmark

Greenland isn't Denmark any more than Gibraltar is England

[Putnam]

>forgetting denmark

Iceland and Greenland are both part of the continental plate, correct?

Meh. Less geography lessons, more duped raws shenanigan; what happens if you try to add tags and then subvert the tags into something else?
Try to give them skin made out of Dwarven Wine, but half-way through the tag turn it into that tag that determines how long their beards are. Add some pref tags, make three castes but only define two of them, and put the graphic symbols into the castes (rather than right at the top, so females and males have different symbols (Like @)), make them egg layers but make the eggs masterwork steel statues.

oh, that just brings it back to the creature and says "unrecognized creature tag: MELTING_POINT" etc.

make three castes but only define two of them: probably just crash or nothing interesting

graphic symbols into the castes: we already do that???

egg layers but eggs are steel statues: well that would do merely what you said it does

[flabort]

Edited my post. However, replies to your replies.

1) Darn.
2) Darn; perhaps you could test this anyways.
3) Oh? Interesting.
4) Darn.

[Sirus]

Something that's crossed my mind lately:

What does it mean when you find "dad jokes" hilarious...but aren't a dad and have no real intention of being a dad?
These are the kind of jokes I mean.

[Orange Wizard]

Nothing. Dad jokes are the kind of jokes frequently made by dads, is all. People who aren't dads can still make dad jokes. The nomenclature is irrelevant.

[i2amroy]

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I've managed to usually get relatively normal books assigned, although they're not always the greatest--Of Mice and Me is supposed to be a play. It shows. Badly.

Although we did get this one that was sort of weird, although nowhere near as weird as Kōhai's; the weirdness was mostly contained in the end, thankfully. The idea is that, back in the 70s, this Chinese-American girl is found drowned in a lake. The book is about her family's gradual descent into madness over her death; her father gets into an affair, her brother gets all angsty, her sister withdraws from the world even more, and her mother... she just kind of gets vaguely hysterical, but the book can't decide if she's being reasonable when arguing with the father or if she's been listening to the fledgling sensational mass-media too much.

The characters (mostly the brother) try to find out why she died. He eventually starts thinking she was in a relationship with this slacker kid, then that went south and led to her death, while her mother is convinced it's a serial killer until the very end of the book. Meanwhile the father is having wildly unnecessary non-explicit sex scenes while the remaining sister just kind of sits under the table and watches her parents fight while having flashbacks to when her sister was alive.

Toward the end, the book goes into a lot of flashbacks and explains that the dead girl was really angsty that her mom was living vivaciously through her and trying to get her to be a doctor, but she couldn't bring herself to tell her mom; she was also vaguely enraged and fearful about how her brother was going off to college, because ever since he saved her from drowning when they were little she's been super-duper attached to him. Up to this point the book has mostly made sense (although I still question the necessity of describing how a table has "FUCK" engraved into it) and has been somewhat relatable, albeit to rather specific crowds.

Then it's revealed that everything was a red herring and the girl was being a moron and decided to learn to swim in the middle of the night to symbolically get over her need for her brother, so she paddled out into the middle of the lake and dove in.

EDIT: Spoilered for general irrelevance

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And the Swiss moral of the story is "and that's why you shouldn't play near the lake if you don't know how to swim". (Seriously, it seems like pretty much every Swiss fairly tale ends with someone dying and a silly moral about how you shouldn't be stupid like them. I've heard at least one version of the Goldilocks tale that ends with the bears coming home and eating her because she broke all their shit followed by the moral of "and that's why you shouldn't break into other people's houses". Though the larger amount of the time the deaths seem to involve bears eating people, strangely enough ).

[Tack]

Well that's a wildly irrelevant story.
I love it!

[Furtuka]

http://youtu.be/UzKuBKqNRYI

WHAT

WHAT

WHAAAAAAAT

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS. TIME TO GET A PS4 AND IMPORT I GUESS?

[Sirus]

http://youtu.be/UzKuBKqNRYI

WHAT

WHAT

WHAAAAAAAT

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS. TIME TO GET A PS4 AND IMPORT I GUESS?

Wasn't there an ESRB rating attached to this thing at some point? And most of the trailer is in English...why import? Wait for the local release

[Furtuka]

Bandai's facebook announcement claimed it was exclusive, and as hype inducig as it was the ESRB thing is a little questionable as the chinese trailers did that for SRW BX in the past and that turned out to be a red herring. If it does eventually happen then yaaaay, but until such occurs maintainment of sanity demands that there is less hope than there is http://youtu.be/O9CYcvZIIf4

[Sirus]

Ah. Oh well.

[Neonivek]

The book we're studying in French class reads like a bad erotic fanfiction. Like. Wow. This shit is terrible. Really terrible. Like. Bluh. I need to cleanse my brain, preferably with fire.

Spoiler: More details, for those who want them{Hint:You don't}. (click to show/hide)

Basically, we have the story of a refugee coming from Liban[That's the French name. Not sure what it is in English] to Montreal. As is established[Vigorously] in the first few pages, he's hella hot. Every girl in the high school he goes to is throwing herself at him. He stoically rejects them and broods his way through the first few chapters with poorly written journal entries. Then a girl from his class is getting molested by some delinquents and the main character charges in and saves her, sustaining a major stab wound in the process. So far, just a meh. Then we get into the second part of the book, which is a lot worse. Its a flashback to his life in Liban It opens up with ten or so pages of describing just how hot his romantic interest there is[With extra emphasis on how abnormally large her boobs are]. Then she is unceremoniously killed by a bombardment so the main character can get together with her twelve-year old loli sister[Who is often mistaken for much younger then she actually is]. They travel together[Sharing a tent] to a port town so they can escape to Canada, with some vaguely-sexual-shenanigans happening. Then, when the main character "accidentally" starts groping her while asleep and apologizes, she gets huffy and goes off on her own.

...

TL;DR of it is, she ends up dead in a rather unpleasant fashion and the main character gets to Canada.

The third part of the book is just wrapping up the first part and everyone gets along just fine in the end[Including the delinquents from earlier, somehow?]. Kinda dumb, but not AS bad.


Its entirely separate from the other bad stuff, but characters also frequently get multi-page rants, something which annoys me to no end. They're quite clearly the author anvilling you with a message and the message is either dumb as fuck or downright repulsive[Usually both].

I'm not sure what to WTF more about: That the Canadian government actually subsidized this or that our sweet and innocent French teacher is assigning this to us to read.


Alternate WTF with up to 80% less disturbing:

I just realized I have no idea how to spell "delinquent"

I

I didn't know

Wow... that sounds absolutely horrible.

And... oddly anime >_>

Is this book recent enough to be inspired by Anime? since that plot seems like it was taken right out of one. (Even right down to having an easily disposable girlfriend)

[Amperzand]

It certainly strikes me as impressively bad. Definitely brought to mind shitty animu tropes.

[Xantalos]

Heh, I've been struggling to get myself to write this one piece of fiction for a while now yet I'm pretty sure I just sat down for an hour or two and spewed out multiple thousands of words about another, more personal topic. Even my muse is telling me what I've gotta do.

Heh.