It's all true, especially the [chat]

AManFromEarth

This is a chat about Elim Garak, hero of a thousand tales

Is he a spy? A renegade? An assassin? Of course not, he's merely a simple tailor.

https://youtu.be/hZKHKDGQ7co

https://youtu.be/t02v9EUHs30

https://youtu.be/PfZQLksfbVk

knitdan

Here's $5 go see a star war

simonwolf

emenenmenememneemnememe wrote:

Can't you play as a lady farmer and seduce all the violinists you want?

what

emnmnme

Garak is a manipulative spy.

"Do you know what the sad part is, Odo? I'm a very good tailor."

P10

i haven't watched ds9 or tng
fake nerd

cB557

I think "You blew up your own shop?!" is one of my fav Garak centric moments.

emnmnme

simonwolf wrote: »

emenenmenememneemnememe wrote:

Can't you play as a lady farmer and seduce all the violinists you want?

what

You can choose from a male or female farmer now.

redx

simonwolf wrote:

Does Harvest Moon have gay marriage, yet, or does it still subscribe to toxic heteronormativity

My man-farmer wants to make a life with that foreign violinist dude, damn it

They probably want to discourage man-farming. Sure, it is attractive and rewarding to some in the short term, but in the long run all that grinding takes away from the core gameplay and will eventually turn people off.

HerrCron

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1jhCrqVtg


Garak is the best.

emnmnme

Interactions between Quark and Garak were regrettably few. They were both characters you love to hate.

simonwolf

emnmnme wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

emenenmenememneemnememe wrote:

Can't you play as a lady farmer and seduce all the violinists you want?

what

You can choose from a male or female farmer now.

Right, but I want my man-farmer to marry the violinist dude

Saying I can just become a woman and marry all the dudes I want is a bit Iranian

spool32

I want to do a sum of all the articles in a single year that that say x behavior or situation costs the economy $y billion per year.

I bet it would be more than the GDP for that year.

Elendil

I feel like doing another dragon age run with a dude

I like the dude voice in that game quite a bit, I've found

If I do I'm gonna romance Dorian, which will make it three to one romanced dudes vs. ladies

Why are there so many sexy dudes

P10

spool32 wrote: »

I want to do a sum of all the articles in a single year that that say x behavior or situation costs the economy $y billion per year.

I bet it would be more than the GDP for that year.

all counterfactuals are bunkus

Organichu

Playing with drums in GarageBand is like my favorite iPhone game

knitdan

What about those ones that say like "a retweet from (famous person) is worth 1.2 million dollars".

really? Can I just get the money then instead of the retweet?

programjunkie

spool32 wrote: »

I want to do a sum of all the articles in a single year that that say x behavior or situation costs the economy $y billion per year.

I bet it would be more than the GDP for that year.

That's not unreasonable, really (if the estimates are good, which is the hard part). Lost growth is still loss.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

spool32 wrote: »

I want to do a sum of all the articles in a single year that that say x behavior or situation costs the economy $y billion per year.

I bet it would be more than the GDP for that year.

If we didn't require herculean justifications for research funding we wouldn't have to use economic arguments so much.

knitdan

I want to watch a professional football game today but there's just BAL/PIT.

AManFromEarth

knitdan wrote: »

I want to watch a professional football game today but there's just BAL/PIT.

I really need Tucker to kick more fieldgoals

fucking ravens

emnmnme

simonwolf wrote: »

emnmnme wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

emenenmenememneemnememe wrote:

Can't you play as a lady farmer and seduce all the violinists you want?

what

You can choose from a male or female farmer now.

Right, but I want my man-farmer to marry the violinist dude

Saying I can just become a woman and marry all the dudes I want is a bit Iranian

Well, that's what they've got. Write a letter to Natsume; the letter-writing campaign to Nintendo over Tamadochi Life not having gay relationships worked and Nintendo more or less promised to include them if there is a sequel.

BeNarwhal

knitdan wrote: »

I want to watch a professional football game today but there's just BAL/PIT.

LeVeon Bell just pulled off the longest 11 yard run I've ever seen for a TD

zepherin

You shouldn't be 3 sheets into the wind when you operate a sail boat.

spool32

programjunkie wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

I want to do a sum of all the articles in a single year that that say x behavior or situation costs the economy $y billion per year.

I bet it would be more than the GDP for that year.

That's not unreasonable, really (if the estimates are good, which is the hard part). Lost growth is still loss.

Lost growth not the same as "drinking costs the nation $40b per year!" and the like.

AresProphet

home from work

beer poured

pants off

#adulthood

Coinage

Garak says anime is good.

BeNarwhal

spool32 wrote: »

programjunkie wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

I want to do a sum of all the articles in a single year that that say x behavior or situation costs the economy $y billion per year.

I bet it would be more than the GDP for that year.

That's not unreasonable, really (if the estimates are good, which is the hard part). Lost growth is still loss.

Lost growth not the same as "drinking costs the nation $40b per year!" and the like.

Not the least of which because I feel like drinking probably earns the nation $400b per year

AManFromEarth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd1UcxQg0-c

emnmnme

Coinage wrote: »

Garak says anime is good.

There's no anime in Star Trek. It is an art lost to the ages.

Cambiata

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

For generations, the people of Britain heated their homes and fueled their stoves with coal gas. While plentiful and cheap, coal-derived gas could also be deadly; in its unburned form, it released very high levels of carbon monoxide, and an open valve or a leak in a closed space could induce asphyxiation in a matter of minutes. This extreme toxicity also made it a preferred method of suicide. “Sticking one’s head in the oven” became so common in Britain that by the late 1950s it accounted for some 2,500 suicides a year, almost half the nation’s total.

Those numbers began dropping over the next decade as the British government embarked on a program to phase out coal gas in favor of the much cleaner natural gas. By the early 1970s, the amount of carbon monoxide running through domestic gas lines had been reduced to nearly zero. During those same years, Britain’s national suicide rate dropped by nearly a third, and it has remained close to that reduced level ever since.

How can this be? After all, if the impulse to suicide is primarily rooted in mental illness and that illness goes untreated, how does merely closing off one means of self-destruction have any lasting effect? At least a partial answer is that many of those Britons who asphyxiated themselves did so impulsively. In a moment of deep despair or rage or sadness, they turned to what was easy and quick and deadly — “the execution chamber in everyone’s kitchen,” as one psychologist described it — and that instrument allowed little time for second thoughts. Remove it, and the process slowed down; it allowed time for the dark passion to pass.

Quite inadvertently, the British gas conversion proved that the incidence of suicide across an entire society could be radically reduced, upending the conventional wisdom about suicide in the process.

AManFromEarth

https://youtu.be/Rew0gHM_kuA

Donkey Kong

If all of us in this country just gave up our vices and worked our hardest for 40 hours a week, then went home to our families and used free time to make babies and stay in peak physical condition and learn news skills, this nation of ubermensch could take over the planet. GDP of infinity.

I'd cut my own throat obviously but...

spool32

knitdan wrote: »

I want to watch a professional football game today but there's just BAL/PIT.

Havelock2.0

Wasn't Harvest Moon the game where
Potential Spoiler:

if you play as a female farmer and get married it's game over, but if you're a guy you get to keep playing?

I think I read that somewhere like in a Cracked article or something. So, grain of salt and all that.

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

http://youtu.be/oESyZXbHNbQ

Mortious

That red hedgehog is jacked

Coinage

emnmnme wrote: »

Coinage wrote: »

Garak says anime is good.

There's no anime in Star Trek. It is an art lost to the ages.

Maybe Starfleet just screens out weaboos.

knitdan

Actually...it's an echidna

redx

Donkey Kong wrote: »

If all of us in this country just gave up our vices and worked our hardest for 40 hours a week, then went home to our families and used free time to make babies and stay in peak physical condition and learn news skills, this nation of ubermensch could take over the planet. GDP of infinity.

I'd cut my own throat obviously but...

I feel this would lead to an economically unhealthy lack of consumption.

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

Mortious wrote: »

That red hedgehog is jacked

Sanicland doesn't have any PED testing programs.

Shivahn

Havelock2.0 wrote: »

Wasn't Harvest Moon the game where
Potential Spoiler:

if you play as a female farmer and get married it's game over, but if you're a guy you get to keep playing?

I think I read that somewhere like in a Cracked article or something. So, grain of salt and all that.

I'm not sure, but the series has never really been noted for its progressiveness

You get random progressive things out of Japan but on the whole there's a lot of really regressive roles in some of their media

(Not that the US is super egalitarian, but the sexism of stuff coming out of the us is usually less role-y and more hyperobjectification-y)