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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    heh, I wonder if Wesley Snipes caught shit in prison for that horrible boxing movie with Ving Rhames.

    I actually own Undisputed I'm ashamed to admit.

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    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Ya a regular silver bullet would be too soft. the muzzle velocity of a normal gun would vaporize it

    uh, lead is like one of the softest metals out there. and it's used for its density.

    yeah, but we put copper around it so it doesn't go all squishy

    but I guess you could kinda take like a full jacketed round, file off the jacket at the tip making it a ghetto half-jacket, then put a silver "cone" on the tip

    Actually lots of people do lead castings for reloading.
    And you can buy unjacketed rounds pretty easily, too. My dad has a few boxes of unjacketed .45 rounds that he uses for plinking.

    That sounds like it should be a sex term in Urban Dictionary

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I wonder if Hugh Laurie ever let Fry hit that.

    You know, just to try it out.

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  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    heehee

    She got custardy.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Doesn't pretty much every supernatural everything die if its head is cut off?

    Yes, which is why he's over thinking it. Large amounts of explosives kill everything.

    Unless you're playing Shadowrun, in which case some spirits will take reduced damage depending on how corporeal they are and how much intent is behind a strike.

    Then your problem there falls into the "Didn't use enough" category. Although the amount you'd need to kill a Great Dragon does fall into the "cackling gleefully" category.

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I haven't had brunch in the longest time.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    depends on your definition of iron

    the WoD games took it a level further(probably cuz of how common iron is) and extended it to mean only forged iron

    oh sure, if you're gonna go into the whole "only cold-forged iron" but pfft fuck that. That ain't legit.

    A horseshoe on the door wards of the faerie. That's common knowledge. Any iron will do.

    Problem is, bullets aren't iron.

    slippery slope

    you could say a high-carbon knife isn't "really iron" either since there's so much processing involved in refining it from actual iron ore

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Mostly I'm thinking making decorated silver, wooden, iron etc bullets would be a cool project

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I want whatever that french dish is called where you have a bunch of asparagus spears wrapped in bacon, and a couple soft boiled eggs to dip them in.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2010
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Doesn't pretty much every supernatural everything die if its head is cut off?

    Yes, which is why he's over thinking it. Large amounts of explosives kill everything.

    Unless you're playing Shadowrun, in which case some spirits will take reduced damage depending on how corporeal they are and how much intent is behind a strike.

    Mmm, insect spirits.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    heehee

    She got custardy.

    so little time

    so many people to stab......

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Someone needs to start pointing out to conservatives that if enough of them move to Canada, they can basically control the whole country. There's hardly anyone there.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Can I kill something with the iron in my blood.

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  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Honestly, that sketch might be one of the best I've ever seen. It's amazing in every way. The way they keep refilling their drinks from 3 separate, but identical, decanters. The constant cursing and general exaggerated man-ness. And custardy.

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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Ya a regular silver bullet would be too soft. the muzzle velocity of a normal gun would vaporize it

    uh, lead is like one of the softest metals out there. and it's used for its density.

    yeah, but we put copper around it so it doesn't go all squishy

    but I guess you could kinda take like a full jacketed round, file off the jacket at the tip making it a ghetto half-jacket, then put a silver "cone" on the tip

    Actually lots of people do lead castings for reloading.

    And depending on how much silver you actually needed for good effect, you could just mix in a percentage of it to save money and maintain performance. You still would want something frangible or mushrooming though, so as to avoid your expensive rounds zipping through the werewolf or whatever.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Someone needs to start pointing out to conservatives that if enough of them move to Canada, they can basically control the whole country. There's hardly anyone there.
    It didn't work back when all the liberals were threatening to move if Bush got elected.

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    depends on your definition of iron

    the WoD games took it a level further(probably cuz of how common iron is) and extended it to mean only forged iron

    oh sure, if you're gonna go into the whole "only cold-forged iron" but pfft fuck that. That ain't legit.

    A horseshoe on the door wards of the faerie. That's common knowledge. Any iron will do.

    Problem is, bullets aren't iron.

    slippery slope

    you could say a high-carbon knife isn't "really iron" either since there's so much processing involved in refining it from actual iron ore

    er, no?

    there is no iron at all in a normal bullet

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  • RyadicRyadic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Just want to make sure I'm doing this right. I'm tired of switching discs in Bladur's Gate, since my 3rd disc is so scratched it takes forever to read it, so I'm copying the discs to my HD and then modifying the .ini file.

    Here's what the .ini file looks like to begin with:
    [Alias]
    HD0:=D:\Program Files\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate\
    CD1:=D:\CD1
    CD2:=D:\CD2
    CD3:=D:\CD3
    CD4:=D:\CD4
    CD5:=D:\CD5
    CD6:=D:\CD6

    So all I have to do is change the CD1:=<file path> that I copied the discs to, right?

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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Echo wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Doesn't pretty much every supernatural everything die if its head is cut off?

    Yes, which is why he's over thinking it. Large amounts of explosives kill everything.

    Unless you're playing Shadowrun, in which case some spirits will take reduced damage depending on how corporeal they are and how much intent is behind a strike.

    Mmm, insect spirits.

    Fuck yes

    One of my favorite SR novels for sure

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Echo wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Doesn't pretty much every supernatural everything die if its head is cut off?

    Yes, which is why he's over thinking it. Large amounts of explosives kill everything.

    Unless you're playing Shadowrun, in which case some spirits will take reduced damage depending on how corporeal they are and how much intent is behind a strike.

    Mmm, insect spirits.

    Insect spirits were always bad mojo. But seriously, I'd rather face a hive of those then run the Arcology again. The group I played in did that a few times. At least with an insect hive you could identify the hostiles pretty easily.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    D: is the best smiley for its unintentional uses.

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Insect shamans were among my favorite aspects of Shadowrun.

    Especially when I got to play a mantis shaman NPC and informant who despite being on the PCs' sides was creepy as all fuck.

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2010
    And depending on how much silver you actually needed for good effect, you could just mix in a percentage of it to save money and maintain performance. You still would want something frangible or mushrooming though, so as to avoid your expensive rounds zipping through the werewolf or whatever.

    Reminds me of a story with some guy melting down his coins to hunt a werewolf.

    Inflation killed him.

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  • RyadicRyadic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    D: is the best smiley for its unintentional uses.

    Yeah, I agree. "Why is my post so sad," I ask myself.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Also, if we're talking supernatural beings, isn't a lot of what hurts them rooted in faith?

    I'm going by sci-fi here, but I remember cults of vampires that used sunlight in small doses until they built a tolerance to it, or weren't affected by holy water or crosses either because they felt righteous in their beliefs, or the one using the weapons did not.

    I mean, it's not the same if we're assuming the supernatural have a weakness due to allergic reaction, but still, other than fire or beheading, I'm not sure any of the other stuff would actually work.

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"

    eyes

    glazing

    over

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Honestly, that sketch might be one of the best I've ever seen. It's amazing in every way. The way they keep refilling their drinks from 3 separate, but identical, decanters. The constant cursing and general exaggerated man-ness. And custardy.

    Oh, you know it's a series of sketches.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NzArMKZftc

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ODnNVByEI0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B375YmrDrPA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2RoHnsh70

    Then there's a sketch where after losing the health club they run a public bathroom but it's not on Youtube as far as I can tell. Then there's this last one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i32312ExBZA

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    So I am now 27. Don't feel any different as per usual with b-days.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"
    They're a call for help. They're saying "Please kill me, I can't stop writing horrible wordy bullshit."

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"

    What the bloody fuck is that piece of writing you put up?

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Also, the "Tideyman's crisis" is a reference to the beginning of the episode where they mention they're being sponsored by Tideyman's Carpets and they have to work it into their sketches.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Does anyone have a link to charts with the history of the federal income tax brackets by year?

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I bought Janson the Bit of Fry & Laurie DVD set for Secret Santa a few years back.

    Pretty proud of that gift.

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Feral wrote: »
    eyes

    glazing

    over

    God damn it don't you quit on me! That's not nearly the hardest pair of sentences in the thing. "Within the conflictual economy of colonial discourse which Edward Said describes as the tension between the synchronic panoptical vision of domination - the demand for identity, stasis - and the counter-pressure of the diachrony of history - change, difference - mimicry represents an ironic compromise."

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Also, if we're talking supernatural beings, isn't a lot of what hurts them rooted in faith?

    I'm going by sci-fi here, but I remember cults of vampires that used sunlight in small doses until they built a tolerance to it, or weren't affected by holy water or crosses either because they felt righteous in their beliefs, or the one using the weapons did not.

    I mean, it's not the same if we're assuming the supernatural have a weakness due to allergic reaction, but still, other than fire or beheading, I'm not sure any of the other stuff would actually work.
    It's all how each individual writer wants to make his vampires.

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  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    So I am now 27. Don't feel any different as per usual with b-days.

    Yeah, I had my 23rd a little while ago, and came to the realization that from now on it's just "Hey, another year."

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    While you guys are making me feel better about struggling with Homi Bhabha's "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse" I am not seeing any parsing! :P

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    So I am now 27. Don't feel any different as per usual with b-days.

    You're now allowed into old people chat.

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