[RLacey]

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[Trumgottist]

Originally Posted by UPtimist

A couple of these, eh?

No, but the name did strike me as odd when I looked it up in the dictionary. (It was not one of the animals I knew the English name of.)

[RLacey]

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[UPtimist]

Señor Lacey, your empty posts make me sad.

[Giligan]

I agree with Señorita UPtimist.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Trumgottist

What do you do as a database assistant anyway? (That was the correct title, wasn't it?)

Edit: Those questions are too easy. I got them right without re-reading the interview of visiting the game's site despite being unfamiliar with Perry Rhodan. But I suppose that was intentional.

I had to look the "greates achievement" one up, but only because they were equally as likely. But I could have just as well asked my father, as he's been reading Perry Rhodan for as long as I can remember.

Originally Posted by Trumgottist

No, you can't. I've been told that the cake is a lie. Have a cheeseburger.

Icon haschees Burg, err?

Originally Posted by stepurhan

< plays his theremin.

Originally Posted by Trumgottist

Cool. The closest I've been to one is having a music CD on my shelf with two theremin players (Pamelia Kurstin and Joe Wooten) as guest artists. How intuitive or strange are they to play?

Originally Posted by stepurhan

That would be a virtual theremin I'm afraid (response to the Good Vibrations talk) I have seen Bill Bailey play one live though and it looked fairly intuitive. Essentially the distance of your hand from the central rod controls the pitch of the note. It's all done using the principle of heterodyning oscillators.

Yay, I'm not the only one who knows what a Theremin is. ^_^

Am I the only one who wants to learn how to play one, though? I want to have a try at it first before I buy one, though.

Eliot Finthushel playing "Reverie" on Theremin.

Originally Posted by Trumgottist

There's too much ornotology going on here.

Pornotology? O.o

Originally Posted by stepurhan

Anything they can get their hands on.

Your cunning Scottish wordplay doesn't fool us.

Saké and Beer, if they are to end up as Kobe Beef.


Also, what kind of mutant cows do you have in the UK? Last I checked cows around *here* didn't have hands. O.o

Originally Posted by Jat316sob

It's amazing how complicated it is to try and install XP on a machine that came with Vista.

More complicated and/or frustrating than deinstalling Norton?

Originally Posted by stepurhan

All this euphuistic language is stark contrast to the procrustean impuissant turpitude full of nimiety of the ignominious Mr Lacey. I expect his failure to achieve a thread postlude will lead him to trichotillomania

Originally Posted by Giligan

What's up with that ad on this site that advertises plastic rims for CDs? The ad says "scratched disks can seriously damage your wealth." Like, what? "Wealth"? It'd damage your CDs, but your wealth? That doesn't even make sense!

It's not a rim, it's a protective film held in place by said rim. It's called "d-skin". You clip it onto your discs, to protect them from scratches. You don't have to take it off for playing them either (would be kind of pointless if you had to, after all). It works great.

Go to the site, and you can enter the monthly contest and win some of them (and other stuff, like games. And each time you enter counts towards the end of year draw, where you can win a gaming console).

And yes, you *do* actually win stuff there. I entered, and won once already (and yes, I did receive my price. Sadly, I've already used them all up. And you only have to send in your address once your name has been drawn, so don't worry), as did Karasu when he entered.

So yeah, go and enter. It's awesome!

Originally Posted by Giligan

Yeah, but then, shouldn't it say "scratched disks cost you money"? What they've got sounds like something an RPG character would say.

The product is still great, though.

Originally Posted by Jelena

You don't know!?
But I'm telling you that I hate spiders inside my house.

What about daddy-long-legs?

Originally Posted by Jelena

After a quick search on google I've found out that there are a few species that can bite through the skin of a person and cause some discomfort. It's to be compared to a wasp sting I believe. But they are very rare so it seldom happens.

Daddy-long-legs are rather poisonous...but they can't get through your skin.

Originally Posted by Giligan

I hate bad AI. I was drawing a bead on a Nazi soldier, and one of my squadmates stood up in front of me just as I pulled the trigger, and thus I blew my buddy's brains out*. And then they penalized me for friendly fire.

*To the extent that one can blow a guy's brains out in a wussy "Teen" rated game. Ooh, look, I just hit a guy with an anti-tank rocket, and he just groaned and slowly fell over! That's soooo realistic!

I'm playing Mass Effect right now. It is big fun shooting foot soldiers with the MAKO's cannon. They basically burn and are catapulted some meters. Funfun.

^_^

Or driving over people in the MAKO. Much fun too. Or driving into un-anchored watchtowers so the sentries fall down. Yay!


Did I mention I love the MAKO? I want one for everyday use. ^_^



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[Giligan]

I've never understood how three guys fit into that tiny little MAKO.

[stepurhan]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

Also, what kind of mutant cows do you have in the UK? Last I checked cows around *here* didn't have hands. O.o

You Germans and your weird handless cows.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Giligan

I've never understood how three guys fit into that tiny little MAKO.

Well, the description of the MAKO *does* state it's rather tight quarters in there and that three people only just fit in there.

I'd assume that three people fit in there just as three people might fit into a tank. Which is "only just".

Also, I imagine the thing is larger than it looks. If you haven't played it yet I can take a picture of Garrus standing beside the MAKO in the garage. The thing is *huge*. Sure, it's mostly wheels, but you're not supposed to stand inside the thing. Sitting should be no problem.

How Wrex (the Krogan) would fit in when it's already supposed to be cramped for three human sized passengers eludes me though.


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[Lucien21]

Time lord technology....It's bigger on the inside.

The Mako has 15 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and a ballroom inside.

[RLacey]

You guys are all crazy.

And I need to play more Mass Effect. Oh for more hours in the day...

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

Time lord technology....It's bigger on the inside.

The Mako has 15 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and a ballroom inside.

Even more reason for me to want one. That ballroom would be an ideal place for me to practice flying my RC helicopter in.




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[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by stepurhan

You Germans and your weird handless cows.

Yeah, and we don't tip them either, as far as I know. Mostly because in my area the only cows you'll find are in stables, and the places where you'd find cows on pastures is areas where tipping a cow would make the cow tumble down the mountainside it was standing on, likely ending up in creating an avalanche.



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[Lucien21]

We only tip cows for excellent service and then no more than 5%.

[Giligan]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

Also, I imagine the thing is larger than it looks. If you haven't played it yet I can take a picture of Garrus standing beside the MAKO in the garage. The thing is *huge*. Sure, it's mostly wheels, but you're not supposed to stand inside the thing. Sitting should be no problem.

No need. I've already played the game. Still, a tank is bigger. I don't know if you've ever seen the inside of a tank, but there's standing room in the turret.

Originally Posted by Lucien21

Time lord technology....It's bigger on the inside.

The Mako has 15 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and a ballroom inside.

So the Mako is actually Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's new house?

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

Even more reason for me to want one. That ballroom would be an ideal place for me to practice flying my RC helicopter in.

You have an RC helicopter? No way. Really?

Gas or electric?

[Jatsie]

I saw a cow skiing down the Obersalzburg.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Giligan

You have an RC helicopter? No way. Really?

Gas or electric?

I've got two. Tiny ones, about the length of my palm from front to back, so they're electric. They're only for inside use, as they'd easily be swept away by the wind. But the fact they're so tiny makes them just more awesome, in my eyes. Though I'd love to have a big one too, which I could fly in the outside (There's actually a Model plane flying place just outside town, so maybe one day I'll have one.).

Here's a video of one which looks to be the same model. I've got a long way to go to be as good at flying mine, though. Hence the ballroom, as right now I keep on flying into things when trying make it take off. Good thing, that despite filigrane construction (other models are basically closed plastic, but this more realistic one held a bigger appeal for me.) of this model, they are amazingly robust when it comes to flying into things. Or maybe it *is* because the things are rather lightweight and small.


I always loved RC toys, even as a kid. I didn't care it was considered a boy's toy, I just love driving the things. I was so happy when I got an RC toy one christmas, even if it wasn't perfect. It was an unremarkable, regular car - not one of those you see on TV, that can drive on its head or stuff like that. Just a car with four wheels, and a classic shape - and a start number.

About two years later I got another one. A little Jeep that was pretty realistic too. This one had an added "twist", if you forgive the pun: The axes of its wheels were rather closely set, giving it an extremely small turning radius - nearly on the spot, in fact (but only "nearly"). That resulted in some funky and fun driving. I still have that one standing around somewhere.

I always dreamed of having an R/C toy that could fly, too, but I imagined them to be pretty expensive (which the big ones usually are), and considering I had no option of getting it to the Model plane flying place as a kid, it definitely was too much seeing as it would see relatively little use. But when I saw these little babies over at ThinkGeek at a price of 30 $ for two helicopters, I just had to get them. And they're really great.


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[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Giligan

No need. I've already played the game. Still, a tank is bigger. I don't know if you've ever seen the inside of a tank, but there's standing room in the turret.

Well, unless we get to see the inside of the MAKO one day, we will never know for sure how similar it is to a tank in that matter.


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[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

We only tip cows for excellent service and then no more than 5%.

Heh. I saw this one coming.





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[Jatsie]

Today I shall mostly be mailing anthrax to my enemies.

Does anyone know where I could procure some? Biological warfare isn't exactly my field of expertise.