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[Furtuka]

A significant number of sci-fi "Unified Earth" seem to have purely European/American aestetic. Why is this a thing.

Worse is that when it's instead a Chinese/Non-Euro United Earth, it either basically looks the same, or is a dystopia. :v

Have you been to asia?
It looks just like western countries in developed areas :u

It's not like we tack on buddhas on our buildings.

Yeah. In all honesty you'd probably need a alt-history point of divergence for a significant change in architectural styles.

[Descan]

For some reason, excepting a few people, I'm the only one who initiates conversations with the people I talk to online.

Is... Is that normal? Do you guys experience that too? Or am I just, particularly annoying that people dislike starting conversations with me? >->

[scriver]

If you're friends with generally introverted or otherwise less taljative people, yes. That's pretty normal.

[IcyTea31]

Today I was given six hours to complete an exam, including writing a text. I'm done in two hours with absolutely certain answers to every question, and one of the best things I've ever written. The problem is, the rules say I must stay in an exam for at least half the allotted time. That sure was a fun hour of sextuple-checking my answers and nitpicking every single aesthetic detail, and trying my best not to scream aloud.

[Tack]

I downloaded Farcry 4, a 30 gig game.
Got into the starting cutscene, had to go make lunch.
Come back, it's game over. I win, everything is great.

... What.

[SimRobert2001]

I downloaded Farcry 4, a 30 gig game.
Got into the starting cutscene, had to go make lunch.
Come back, it's game over. I win, everything is great.

... What.

Its an easter egg.  The bad guy puts you ina room and says "Stay here, i'll be RIGHT back!" If you stay here, he comes back, turns out, he knows your mother, and he takes you to put your mothers ashes near Lakshmana. It was your objective,  so, the game is won.

[Yoink]

I downloaded Farcry 4, a 30 gig game.
Got into the starting cutscene, had to go make lunch.
Come back, it's game over. I win, everything is great.

... What.

Its an easter egg.  The bad guy puts you ina room and says "Stay here, i'll be RIGHT back!" If you stay here, he comes back, turns out, he knows your mother, and he takes you to put your mothers ashes near Lakshmana. It was your objective,  so, the game is won.

Huh, so the whole painfully bad story can actually be averted and the main character can act like a reasonable person? Awesome!
Now I regret being so harsh on that game.

[Tack]

So did I just hit the biggest jackpot of spoilers?

[Graknorke]

For some reason, excepting a few people, I'm the only one who initiates conversations with the people I talk to online.

Is... Is that normal? Do you guys experience that too? Or am I just, particularly annoying that people dislike starting conversations with me? >->

No, I too have to be on the warpath of interacting with people online. Even people who are talkative in person.

[TempAcc]

Smacked a spider with an old book.
Five minutes later, an identical spider rests on the exact same place that the other one was.
Check book used to kill the previous spider and find no spider bits on it.

Maybe I found the spider's respawn point :v

[Greiger]

Wall it up and surround it with torches so that it is as bright as it can possibly be in that spot.

One down.

[Akura]

Ugh, why is it so cold today? It's almost June! Did the frost giants suddenly decide "Screw it, let's do the fimbulwinter half-ass."?

Wall it up and surround it with torches so that it is as bright as it can possibly be in that spot.

One down.

No, you build a river flow to send it off a high drop that guarantees its death. Free string!

[Sergarr]

Swedish students are apparently worse than chimpanzees at global health.

[Graknorke]

Swedish students are apparently worse than chimpanzees at global health.

If you are taking TED talks seriously then there is your problem. The parodies by The Onion are not only more entertaining but also probably more mentally stimulating.

[Sergarr]

look I just found a random video that I've found containing a really funny and WTF-worthy statement

why are you so aggro about this