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I remember liking that game a lot, but man are those ever some forgettable bosses
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wwinterj25 posted...

Only it isn't according to the astronomical calendar hence why you still get this type of weather.

for some reason you said astronomical, so maybe you already know this, but meteorological (ie: weather) summer ends Aug 31
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sort of, although the barrow wights would probably have been moreso.
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it depends on relative positioning of everything, but I'd be inclined to put myself in between the man and the van and hopefully be able to do something to at least give her the option of running away, or call his bluff in regards to how violent he's willing to be.
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I think I liked 1 the most. Spidey VS Green Goblin scenes were done SO well.
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I think it's just an (understandable) excuse to be able to keep actresses working longer and extend the practical length of their 'careers'. otherwise they'd all be out of work at 30-35 if not sooner.
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no idea. I think but am not sure that Frogger was the first one I *saw*, and knew immediately that I liked what I saw.

my only guess for which one I actually played first is Venture on Colecovision. but it could also have been any Coleco game, Atari game, original Macintosh game, or TRS-80 game.
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I think I've had a straight flush once or twice. I don't think it was ever a royal flush though.

that's online poker though, if that counts. never played poker with real cards before.
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Lokarin posted...

You shouldn't have to grab the last item in the game to go back to the middle of the game to get a regular missile you'll never use since the game is over.

I think it depends. What you want is to return to level 1 and have it be an almost completely different level/experience because of the new tools you have with which to explore it.

What you don't want is to return to level 1 and have it be 99% identical to the first time you were there, including solving all of the exact same problems you already solved, only to open a single extra door to a single otherwise empty room to retrieve exactly 1 item that you already have 120 of, just so you get 100% instead of 99% at the end of the game.
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used to try to play that way, but now I have a job/'career' which is what you should really apply that kind of effort to.
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reminds me of one of the people I knew from elementary school who I encountered on facebook. bizarrely the guy would post an endless stream of anti-isreal propaganda and talk about anti-jew stuff non-stop. I don't know what ever became of him since I deleted my facebook account a long time ago and looking him up, there are too many people with the same name.
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k that was pretty awesome thanks. I'd seen tiny examples of hovering superconductors before but nothing like that.
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you can order all kinds of food items from walmart.ca. groceries you have to pickup yourself, but dry stuff is shipped right to your door for free as long as you order enough. (I guess I'm in the city though, so maybe not available in remote areas, not sure.)

I myself am down to just 8 cans of chicken soup, but that's completely due to laziness (even laziness to ordering online which is some pretty bad laziness.)
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Resources that are available but locked behind money.

I don't know what this means. the needed resources are owned by others. "money" just represents the valid and fair trade for those resources. to the extent the people are willing to donate resources (money), that's fine, but you can't *demand* that they do so.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

and no, if i ask for coke at a restaurant do not say "is pepsi okay?"

do you understand that restaurants can be sponsored by either pepsi or coca cola, in which case they will have one but not the other's products? and that probably a large majority of people say "yes" to the question.
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I think this is related to light passing through lenses. it goes in a circle, similar to the twisting of the filters in the video.

as the thickness of a lens increases, light is blocked more and more and then less and less and then more and more, basically on a sin wave.

it has to do with probabilities. the probability that a photon will or will not arrive at a particular destination (really, be absorbed by a particular electron), is determined by its "magnitude" which is a complex number (basically, a "2d" number, which can be thought of as a spinning vector). the time that it takes (would take) the photon to arrive at its destination allows the complex number to spin more (or less), modifying the probability of where it will interact/arrive. so, thinking about the filters as "blocking" photons is why it's counter intuitive. really, the filters are modifying the probability, and those probabilities are circular (basically on a sin wave).

this is all known as "quantum electrodynamics" and is one of the most accurate, if not the most accurate, physics theory we have. it basically explains like 99% of all phenomena at an extremely fundamental level. the only things it doesn't explain are gravity and nuclear stuff.

one example: why does light tend to move in straight lines? well, because the probabilities are circular, if you add up the probabilities, the distances away from straight all going to infinity, the circular probabilities all cancel out, leaving you with a single probabilistic hot spot right at the straight forward direction.

another example: why does light bend at a particular angle when entering water? basically the same reason as above, except that light moves at a different speed through water, so the 'probabilistic hot spot' is now slightly offset. (you can think of it as light taking the 'shortest route'. if you think of it as a lifeguard swimming to a drowning victim, there is an optimal path with more time spent on the beach and less time in the water. ends up being the same angle light uses.)

another one is bubbles: why does a soap bubble look all rainbow-y? the bubble actually has various layers, similar to the lenses in the video, and are each mono-chromatic, and also with a more or less randomized surface. pile up randomized mono-chromatic surfaces, with the circular probabilities thing happening, and you get rainbows.

for the best of the best explanation of this (and where I got basically everything I've said here) see Richard Feynman's QED lectures:





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well I took the survey, but I happen to be on vacation and happen to have been playing WoW pretty constantly for the past two weeks, so that seriously modifies what I would normally have answered. hadn't played WoW in years.
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shipwreckers posted...

Sahuagin!!! Where the hell have you been? It's been ages since I've seen you on PotD (though I may simply not have been observant enough).

you must be thinking of someone else? I'm here all the time, and I don't know anyone well enough to be worthy of that reaction...
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probably Simpsons arcade game, although having now played the console port, I guess it's not really that great a game.
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