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- Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:52 am
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My condolences, Rob. I was never close to my grandparents and never knew any of my great-grandparents, so it's always nice to see families that maintain those bonds.
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:56 am
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It sucks when bad teachers and the pressure of competition ruin an otherwise fun hobby. I'm fortunate that I was never pressured into competing, or I might have soured on music.
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:17 pm
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It's a phrase of my own invention. My new life goal is to inject it into the public consciousness.
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:26 am
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I'm obsessed with the phrase "ape honey."
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:37 pm
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The end? Is it the end? Oh man, I felt like I was just getting started.juliets wrote:Hahahahah this is so you llama. Contrarian to the end.thellama73 wrote:When people change their names here, I refuse to call them by their new name on principle, even if I called them that exclusively before the name change.Golden wrote:You could change now. Everyone would be baffled. You'd probably also get lynched far less often lest people get smited.G-Man wrote:Interestingly enough, I almost registered on this forum as ThunderSnow because the name is cool. But alas, I stuck with G-Man because it's what the folks remember me as.
But I'd probably still call you G.
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:01 pm
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When people change their names here, I refuse to call them by their new name on principle, even if I called them that exclusively before the name change.Golden wrote:You could change now. Everyone would be baffled. You'd probably also get lynched far less often lest people get smited.G-Man wrote:Interestingly enough, I almost registered on this forum as ThunderSnow because the name is cool. But alas, I stuck with G-Man because it's what the folks remember me as.
But I'd probably still call you G.
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 12:57 pm
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No weather has ever frightened me apart from thundersnow, which is like god's wrath in physical form.
- Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:48 pm
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I was never on Lostpedia, so I don't have a horse in this race, but has anyone tried the Internet Archive to see if the forums are still viewable through there?
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:59 pm
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Anchovies. Nothing else comes close. Not even broken glass.S~V~S wrote:So Funny or Die just had a live vote on Facebook about favorite pizza toppings. The choices were Pineapple, Pickles or Broken Glass. Broken Glass won.
I approve.
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:51 pm
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You mean Metalmarsh89?
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:04 pm
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We even let people wear Hawaiian shirts while playing heists.S~V~S wrote:Yeah, as far as I know, Heists were not going to have banners. They are supposed to be more casual.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:39 pm
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I would have thought 4 mafia with 10 civilians would have been way too powerful for the mafia. Three bad lynches and it's over. But I'm pleased to hear it worked out for you!Metalmarsh89 wrote:I forgot to mention this.
I went to a social gaming event in our department at Uni a couple weeks ago, and someone had brought Mafia. Being that I was one of just a couple people who had played before, I offered to proctor a game. We ended up getting 15 people to play in the second round that I modded (after just 7 in the first). I'll say, it was a mighty difficult task to create a balanced and interesting setup on the spot for such a large group. But it was a ton of fun. It was also a little difficult to keep track of everything but I somehow managed without pen-and-paper. Overall, it went smoothly and mafia kicked ass.
I think I had balanced things relatively well. There were 10 civilians, 4 mafia, and 1 neutral. There were 3 power roles among the civilians, a cop, doctor, and bodyguard. But a large majority of players had never played before. There was a definitely noticeable mob psychology during every lynch. The newer players tended to follow each other or someone who looked/acted like they knew what they were doing. This is a drastic difference to party mafia I'd played before where you have a group of experienced players. It was fascinating to observe.
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:57 pm
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Why are you guys all so anxious to piggyback on TheFloyd's name?Long Con wrote:Great idea, thesock73!
Also, I thought the space-God version of your avatar was pretty snazzy.
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:27 am
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Metalmarsh89 wrote:I could call myself themarmot74. It's an extremely unique handle of a format which I've never seen before.thellama73 wrote:But then we'd have to come up with a new nickname for you to avoid calling you by your actual username.Metalmarsh89 wrote:I've contemplated a name change for a while.MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm contemplating a change in my sock. Should I do it? I've had this one on for a while now.
People call me marmot anyway, why not just change it to that to make things easier?
What do you think?
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:15 am
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But then we'd have to come up with a new nickname for you to avoid calling you by your actual username.Metalmarsh89 wrote:I've contemplated a name change for a while.MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm contemplating a change in my sock. Should I do it? I've had this one on for a while now.
People call me marmot anyway, why not just change it to that to make things easier?
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:00 am
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I prefer the In Prasie of Learning one, myself.MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm contemplating a change in my sock. Should I do it? I've had this one on for a while now.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:02 pm
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I did that the first time I went on radio.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 9:39 pm
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That's a fake voice I put on for radio. I actually sound like Hans Conried.Long Con wrote:Your voice was disappointingly normal for someone with that moustache.thellama73 wrote:Indeed I am! It went well. The host was in Boston and the director in Burbank, so I was in a room by myself with a microphone and headphones. I only got to talk for about 5-10 minutes out of the hour, but I think I handled myself well. The director said "Logan is right" at one point, so that was a high point.juliets wrote:llama, I see you are back from your adventure on NPR - tell us all about it -
The episode has been posted online if you're interested.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 8:19 pm
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Not as proud as I am of you!Mongoose wrote:Good job, I am very proud of you!thellama73 wrote:Indeed I am! It went well. The host was in Boston and the director in Burbank, so I was in a room by myself with a microphone and headphones. I only got to talk for about 5-10 minutes out of the hour, but I think I handled myself well. The director said "Logan is right" at one point, so that was a high point.juliets wrote:llama, I see you are back from your adventure on NPR - tell us all about it -
The episode has been posted online if you're interested.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:32 pm
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My segment starts probably around the 25 or 30 minute mark. Hard to know for sure without listening to it, since they edited the breaks out.Golden wrote:Do you know where in the 46 minutes you are?
Do you know if John (Lee) Hancock has a big signature?
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:29 pm
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Shh, we're not supposed to talk about that.Long Con wrote:GOC 2016 wrote:Are you ready for this?
I'll be sending out role cards shortly. The game will not begin until 8:00 PM though.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 2:45 pm
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Indeed I am! It went well. The host was in Boston and the director in Burbank, so I was in a room by myself with a microphone and headphones. I only got to talk for about 5-10 minutes out of the hour, but I think I handled myself well. The director said "Logan is right" at one point, so that was a high point.juliets wrote:llama, I see you are back from your adventure on NPR - tell us all about it -
The episode has been posted online if you're interested.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:53 pm
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They seem to post the show online, so I definitely provide a link.juliets wrote:Good job llama. I'm also interested in what they saw that was a different angle. And I'm also interested in whether you will be able to post a link to the show. I don't think my NPR station airs that show at 11:00 am though I will double check.
Also interesting to me is that the director of the that movie did Saving Mr. Banks and if I'm remembering the movie thread correctly you also liked that movie. I liked it as well so would probably like this one.
Yes, I did like Saving Mr. Banks a lot. I'm looking forward to meeting the director.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:48 pm
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Thanks, I certainly will.S~V~S wrote:I will try to see if I can get it. I enjoyed the review~ although I am sure had I seen the film I might have drawn different conclusions, I can see why you drew the conclusions that you did. I am curious to see why your review surprised them. If I can't get it, can you post a link after the fact?
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:22 pm
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Link.juliets wrote:Can you link us to your review? And did I in some way indicate I was surprised?thellama73 wrote:I wrote a review of the movie and someone at NPR saw it and found my take interesting. I'm as surprised as you are.juliets wrote:Congrats Quin on your new job!
llama, how did you get selected to interview the director of The Founder on NPR tomorrow?
I should note that I didn't come up with the title. The editors tend to put clickbaity titles on there that I am not thrilled with.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:16 pm
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I wrote a review of the movie and someone at NPR saw it and found my take interesting. I'm as surprised as you are.juliets wrote:Congrats Quin on your new job!
llama, how did you get selected to interview the director of The Founder on NPR tomorrow?
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:51 pm
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Will it disqualify me from your game if I admit to not reading any of your pre-game posts?G-Man wrote:LOL, I still need another week to get my silly pre-game posts out of my system. Someone really needs to stop me from getting so out of hand with my games one of these days.Long Con wrote:I am going crazy I need a Mafia game to start.
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:27 pm
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Yoga may not be a religious practice, but it's certainly a spiritual one. It is absolutely not analogous to a purely athletic activity like soccer.Mongoose wrote:Yoga isn't a religious practice though - just think of it like Soccer or any other non-religious athletic activity. It can be incorporated into any religious belief (or non belief) the practitioner has.A Person wrote:But it's also a part of non-Catholic religious practices and that makes it bad. Also probably not.Mongoose wrote:Remember that Yoga just means union, and I think that's super apropos for Christianity, where union (amongst followers or the union of the trinity) is a lovely precept. Is your dad even going to know if you are doing Warrior 2 that that's Yoga?
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 6:38 pm
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"Yoga is totally cool with the Lord." - Timothy 9:31Epignosis wrote:"A man reaps what he sows." -Galatians 6:7A Person wrote:He's gone on whole spiels because someone used the word "karma."
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 7:48 pm
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- Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:52 pm
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- Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:07 pm
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For the love of god, yes.juliets wrote:This is a very sllllooooooowwwwwwww day.
Somebody post something entertaining.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:09 pm
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Yeah, I'm a little concerned about that, plus the inaugural parade which was supposed to start over an hour ago now looks like it might be passing by right when I'm trying to leave.juliets wrote:Oh yeah not good. How ironic would it be if you are stuck at work?thellama73 wrote:Pretty close, I think. I can't see them from the building I'm in. We're on the second floor of a pretty secure building, so I am not in danger. We'll see how my walk home is though.juliets wrote:Are you located close to the protests llama?
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 3:41 pm
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Pretty close, I think. I can't see them from the building I'm in. We're on the second floor of a pretty secure building, so I am not in danger. We'll see how my walk home is though.juliets wrote:Are you located close to the protests llama?
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 3:31 pm
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I say "protests" but it's really just vandalism at this point.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 3:30 pm
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Update from ground zero. Apparently the protests are starting to get pretty violent and bad. Cops have told the workers in the nearby Starbucks and Corner Bakery to go home.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:47 pm
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I don't condone this kind of nonsense. Disappointed to see it.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... owntown-dc
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... owntown-dc
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:18 pm
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It's probably for the best.juliets wrote:Interesting, I get the message the media cannot be played. Must use flash. Or something is wrong.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:07 pm
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Apparently there's been a little vandalism so far. A Starbucks, but I'm indoors so not seeing too much of what's going on.juliets wrote:Any updates you can report llama? I can report the First Lady elect is wearing Ralph Lauren.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:05 pm
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Well, sometimes I am, in wide shots.thellama73 wrote:We're live. I'm visible in the background:
https://www.conservativereview.com/comm ... an-bongino
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:02 pm
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We're live. I'm visible in the background:
https://www.conservativereview.com/comm ... an-bongino
https://www.conservativereview.com/comm ... an-bongino
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:48 am
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Made it to work. It's crowded, but not that crowded. I imagine that there are a lot fewer people here than expected. I didn't eve have to talk to secret service to get into the office.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:00 am
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I will do what I can! With all the big brass around, I may not want to be too flagrant about chatroom use, but I will certainly post.juliets wrote:llama, can you post about how you are enjoying your day at work? And can you come to the chatzy this afternoon? God knows you probably can't get any work done.
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:35 pm
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I have a press pass for the inauguration. I'm not allowed to post about it on social media or the secret service will come get me.
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:33 am
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I'm sorry.G-Man wrote:Posting this here because the Politics Thread is just so... well, you know.
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:37 pm
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I'm on too many Slack channels right now. I have a hard time keeping track.
- Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:40 pm
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We played four games of Secret Hitler (similar to mafia) on NYE. I won all four. Playing with you people has trained me well. Thanks, guys!
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 12:09 am
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I feel that way about people who support the government.Vompatti wrote: I equate it to supporting criminal organizations k
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 4:45 pm
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And a happy new year to you... in jail!juliets wrote:llama and dom, i just put in my order for my new mac book air! yay christmas!
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:42 pm
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I really like my Macbook air. It is affordable, fast and portable. I've had no issues with it. All MS Office products are compatible with Macs, and I generally prefer Macs to PCs.