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Dooey Jo wrote:in the books he's actually called ronan dex

this genuinely confused me for a moment

final fantasy 7 had some really fucking great music

evilsoup wrote:final fantasy 7 had some really fucking great music

So apparently SB is having a drama storm over somebody named Athene? Huh.

I remember when SDN was active enough it had drama storms.

evilsoup wrote:final fantasy 7 had some really fucking great music

yea it does

i really like ff8's music too

(and ff9's and ff6 and ff5 and ff4 and ff1 and fft. even a few from ffx. but i think 8 has the best of the bunch.)


what's great about ff7 is the overworld theme. stop and listen to it for a while, it is like 7 minutes long and pretty amazing

then go on youtube and search for the orchestral version

then youtube "the black mages"

i had a chat a few months ago about a character in my fanfiction, a 6'3" woman and the other person was like "that's freakishly tall"

and indeed i agree she is a bit above average, i decided on the specific number after initially just describing her as "towering over the others"

i don't think i know any women in real life quite that tall, but every so often i see people who are close...

and by every so often, i mean every week now. the family with whom i've been having sunday dinners:

1) the mother and oldest daughter are both 5'11" about the same as me
2) the younger daughter is 6'0", slightly taller than me
3) the son-in-law (married to the youngest daughter) is 6'4", a fair amount taller than me and his wife too.
4) the oldest son is 6'2", a bit taller than me
5) the middle son is 5'10", i'm a bit taller than he but he just turned 16 a few weeks ago, there's still time for him to overtake me
6) the youngest son is only 8 years old so gg n00bs pwned i have some height on him


i thought i had some height on the women and they were just wearing bigger shoes than me or something, but yesterday we stood near one another barefooted and yup, i'm the short one in that bunch.


BTW there's an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where ray gets a new driver's license that lists him as 5'11" when he used to be 6' and it was like a big deal to him

i know how he feels, i used to think of myself as being a six-footer myself but eh i can't really justify taking that extra inch and alas it would make a difference here too!

adr wrote:i can't really justify taking that extra inch

i just created a new MTG card what do you think

cost: W
type: instant
text:
You may pay one life instead of paying the casting cost.

Prevent up to two damage to you from any one source.


ok here's the play. other guy goes first

he plays a mountain and a black lotus
throws down a channel and pays 19 life
plays a fireball at you for 20

then you, not having any mana, pay the one life and prevent two damage from the thing. you're both at one....

and it is your turn

you play a plains. go

he plays a mountain and throws down a lightning bolt. you play healing salve.

you play an island and throw down MERFOLK OF THE PEARL TRIDENT go

he plays a mountain and a throws down BALL LIGHTNING attack for 6, trample. gg n00b

you block w/ the merfolk and use RIGHTEOUSNESS

your turn you attack for one.


LOL GG N00BLAR YOUR POWER NINE WON'T WIN THE GAME NOW LOLOLOLOL

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Thanas wrote: Heck, it probably was way worse in the times until the 19th century because until then, non-officers among the crew were considered to be the dregs of the sea and treated little better than scum by their officers. The Royal Navy was particularly cruel in that regard, with their requirement for strict discipline only being enforced with utter terror.

Not quite:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4u1IeRedAqw

http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/04/navy- ... ind-jesus/

lol

Big Orangutan wrote:Link

Thanas wrote: Heck, it probably was way worse in the times until the 19th century because until then, non-officers among the crew were considered to be the dregs of the sea and treated little better than scum by their officers. The Royal Navy was particularly cruel in that regard, with their requirement for strict discipline only being enforced with utter terror.

Not quite

Well go tell him not us.

fucking infinite scroll

and there's no subscribe button on the interface, forcing you to play with the system a bit order to do so, but heh, at least it's somewhat fun.

Joe Biden: "No nation has the right to simply grab land from another nation. No nation has that right."


http://youtube.com/watch?v=3VgufM9iLbI

w00t my book's second draft is almost done in a mere three days. i'm now ahead of the reviewers

like 3 more hours of w0rk on this project and it is finally finished... gotta write the introduction and summary, quickly fix the comments from teh reviewers on the final two chapters, and then to the final readthrough and fix punctuation that got mangled in the previous steps

then we just gotta sell 25,000 copies in the opening week and use the royalties to pay off my house

one last note then i have to get to work for real

but sonia sotomayor has been doing a pretty good job on the supreme court

i don't think she's said anything yet that i hate

David Heinemeier Hansson is an incompetent fool.

this has been a public service announcement brought to you by someone who actually understands relational databases yet is forced to use ruby on rails

adr wrote:David Heinemeier Hansson is an incompetent fool.

this has been a public service announcement brought to you by someone who actually understands relational databases yet is forced to use ruby on rails

But but my magic ORM

So my doctor prescribed Adderall to treat the symptoms of my ADHD. Took my first pill this morning.

I'm not sure i'm reacting well. One minute I want to go and do a million push-ups, the next i'm sweating and freaking the fuck out.

The new show Silicon Valley is everything The Big Bang Theory pretends to be.

And it's glorious.

OK, yeah. Generic brand adderall not good. The doc wants me to take fifteen milligrams of this shit? If this is what ten does fifteen will make my heart explode outta My fucking chest.

i'd take these concerns to the doc, if the drugs don't feel right for you definitely talk to him or her about that before you actually start taking the full thing

these side effects might get less intense as your body gets used to teh medication but still i'd have the chat to see what they say

phongn wrote:But but my magic ORM

i don't even hate orm in limited quantities but it irks me when it tries (and fails) to cover up the stuff beneath

and of course in addition to the nonexistent constraints and weak features, there's a part of my mind worrying about the race conditions in these updates too; active record load then ruby add then active record save isn't even molecular much less atomic

oh dear

* * *

so i was just chatting with the more experienced rails guy on the team and for one he says "we're programmers let's not be afraid of writing some queries" (yay) and also he mentioned if we do a join then the activerecord save won't work

sooooo like the magic doesn't even do all that much. come on, even my database.d's little DataObejct class can handle simple updates in these queries

What version of Rails are you using? I hear ActiveRecord in 4.x is much improved (and from people who like relational databases and Rails)