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Ruinenlust wrote:

*deadpan teacher face*

*possesses suppression button*

ATTENTION EVERYONE, SCP-RUIENLUST HAS ESCAPED AND HAS POSSESSED THE SUPPRESSION BUTTON

FIRE THE ALPHA WARHEAD, DO NOT LET HIM SPEND INFLUENCE ON EJECTS

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Anyway, movies that were better because they weren't like the books:

Silence of the Lambs
The Princess Bride
Fight Club
It

Now now, let's not say anything we'll later regret... :P

May I ask what you didn't like about the book? I suspect it is the frame story of the fake abridgement of the "original" material, as that kind of thing isn't for everyone. I thought the movie did a great job re-imagining the device as a grandfather reading the book to his grandson but leaving out all of the "boring bits."

Personally, I loved the novel. The movie is definitely great, but for me, both movie and book offer a lot of greatness just in different ways.

Kinectia

...back to Beowulf...
There’s a film version I watched a long time ago that still makes me shudder to think of it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/

Also, unrelated...
So what does a responsible, active and respectful Forestian have to do to acquire one of these “magic buttons” anyway? Is there a level requirement or a need to grind for rep? I’d hate to have to resort to thievery.

Edit:
Game question: When I get a telegram telling me, “Laws have been enacted to bring Kinectia into compliance with the World Assembly resolution Ensuring Safe Syringe Use,” is that just a formality or am I to expect that will have an effect on my stats or the outcome of my Issue choices? I’m anticipating an uptick in Issues around plagues and such soon, so I want to be ready.

Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and The suspicious corner

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:<snip>

Princess Bride was a good movie. I think the book would have been a bore to read from what I've heard of its descriptions.

Kinectia wrote:So what does a responsible, active and respectful Forestian have to do to acquire one of these “magic buttons” anyway? Is there a level requirement or a need to grind for rep? I’d hate to have to resort to thievery.

In my case, stick around for a few years then get asked once or twice to join government.

Kinectia wrote:Edit:
Game question: When I get a telegram telling me, “Laws have been enacted to bring Kinectia into compliance with the World Assembly resolution Ensuring Safe Syringe Use,” is that just a formality or am I to expect that will have an effect on my stats or the outcome of my Issue choices? I’m anticipating an uptick in Issues around plagues and such soon, so I want to be ready.

It's a formality, and no it won't affect your issue choices but it will affect your issue stats to a degree. Most of the time, they are very slight, even imperceptible. Then you have people like Xoriet who lost a ton of agriculture to a WA GA resolution. She's been salty about it ever since.

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Unless you liked the films of The Hobbit of course. In which case, that's objectively wrong. :)

Was looking for this one to give it a Double Thumbs Up.

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Onto the meat of my post. Once again, an author can surprise me. I thought Peter F. Hamilton was a hack because his single book Fallen Dragon was torture to read. Really the only reason I'd recommend it is the worldbuilding he does, and not for the story or the characters (especially the characters, there was nothing I liked about either protagonist). However I've heard about his Night's Dawn trilogy and the Commonwealth Saga, and was curious since he is lauded for them. Coincidentally I saw two books of the same series (which I've just learned is called collectively The Chronicle of the Fallers) at my local library and decided to check them out. First book blew me away, it topped Fallen Dragon by an hundredfold and reinforces my belief that Hamilton is a genius at worldbuilding, and his characterization has improved to the point where his human characters, even in a post-scarcity society as the Commonwealth, are still very familiar and relatable to us ordinary peons.

I loved Hanilton’s Crhonicles, although a bit verbose in mi opinion.. i know it’ almost unknown, mostly because she write in italian, but i love Le Lacrime di Ishtar trilogy... and Also Philip pulmann, is bere anybody fan of His Dark Materials?

Kinectia

Ruinenlust wrote:As of this writing, none of the empowered government officials have responded to my telegram or have accepted our official request, so it's sort of "up in the air,...

Wait - they’re apparently electing a new First Minister - is that the person you’re waiting to hear from? Cuz voting on that is still open until 29 Jan. Do we have an official deadline they have to respond by to avoid evaporation of the offer?

Edit:
Oops, double posted (evidence deleted)

Darths and Droids wrote:...In my case, stick around for a few years then get asked once or twice to join government. ...

So, grind for rep. *sigh* Fair enough.

Post self-deleted by Kinectia.

Kinectia wrote:

~snip~

So what does a responsible, active and respectful Forestian have to do to acquire one of these “magic buttons” anyway? Is there a level requirement or a need to grind for rep? I’d hate to have to resort to thievery...

In my case, volunteer for an ambassadorship and then work your way up from there.

Verdant Haven wrote:Ruinenlust and I were just discussing that and taking a look. Their First Minister (responsible for Embassy actions) has been out of the office for a few days, so hasn't been on to respond to the request yet. We're looking at sending a TG to one of their Founder nations just as a heads-up.

I posted something on their RMB regarding this. I think that Gallaton is the person to contact rather than their founder. There is an election in progress but the options are Central Birdland and "[l]ook for other candidates." Central Birdland has previous government experience, so I certainly hope they win! There is also talk regarding making Mer-folks for change a voting state, so good luck to Kinectia! :)

EDIT: Using Forest Breeze, I sent both Gallaton and Evergreen conifer a TG about the embassy request as well as an endorsement of Kinectia/Mer-folks for change's promotion to a voting state.

Long-term capital gains

Long-term capital gains wrote:It turns out pedaling a mountain bike for 45 miles with over 1,900 feet of total elevation gain will get you something called Footballer's Ankle.

Exercise more, they said. You'll be healthier, they said. \:|

In their defense, the non-drive-side bearings in my bike's bottom bracket turned out to be totally seized. That probably didn't help.

Extended today's commute into work from 5 to 23 miles, including 1600 feet of cumulative elevation gain, most of which was in the last 4 to 5 miles. Ankles are doing OK. I'm working on the Montgomery Burns theory that if I break enough of myself, all the damage will hold each other at bay, and I'll basically become immortal.

That's how that works, right?

EDIT: More seriously, I'm also testing the popular notion that vegans/vegetarians** are weak, sickly, and anemic. Granted, I'm just one data point, but I'm thinking the hypothesis is on shaky ground.

Incidently, could someone in the UK find out when Global Cycling Network is gonna have more copies of The Plant-based Cyclist (https://shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com/usd/en/gcn-the-plant-based-cyclist-book) in stock? Let them know there's an American with $17 and international shipping burning a hole in his pocket...
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** By "vegan/vegetarian" I'm assuming someone who primary eats a variety of plants, nuts, grains, and seeds. It's assumed that a diet of primarily french fries, Twinkies, and Oreos is probably crap.

Long-term capital gains wrote: Incidently, could someone in the UK find out when Global Cycling Network is gonna have more copies of The Plant-based Cyclist (https://shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com/usd/en/gcn-the-plant-based-cyclist-book) in stock? Let them know there's an American with $17 and international shipping burning a hole in his pocket...

Sorry Long-term capital gains a tryed tae have a look around on baeth the uk an American website, the only thing a can tell ye is that its in stock in the uk.

Long-term capital gains wrote:

Extended today's commute into work from 5 to 23 miles, including 1600 feet of cumulative elevation gain, most of which was in the last 4 to 5 miles. Ankles are doing OK. I'm working on the Montgomery Burns theory that if I break enough of myself, all the damage will hold each other at bay, and I'll basically become immortal.

That's how that works, right?

EDIT: More seriously, I'm also testing the popular notion that vegans/vegetarians** are weak, sickly, and anemic. Granted, I'm just one data point, but I'm thinking the hypothesis is on shaky ground.

Incidently, could someone in the UK find out when Global Cycling Network is gonna have more copies of The Plant-based Cyclist (https://shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com/usd/en/gcn-the-plant-based-cyclist-book) in stock? Let them know there's an American with $17 and international shipping burning a hole in his pocket...
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** By "vegan/vegetarian" I'm assuming someone who primary eats a variety of plants, nuts, grains, and seeds. It's assumed that a diet of primarily french fries, Twinkies, and Oreos is probably crap.

I've been a vegetarian for fourteen years. During that time, I've been an amateur boxer, a backpacker and backwoods trail builder, and most recently I have been splitting my own firewood with an axe for heat for my wood stove. A balanced vegetarian/vegan diet provides more than enough fuel to build strength and live vigorously, if that's what one wishes to do. I'll be your second data point for this test🙂

Hi Forest! ^_^

Long-term capital gains wrote:EDIT: More seriously, I'm also testing the popular notion that vegans/vegetarians** are weak, sickly, and anemic. Granted, I'm just one data point, but I'm thinking the hypothesis is on shaky ground.

If you want another data point, I was raised vegan from birth (my parents were very early adopters of the trend :P), and although I'm hardly an athlete, I do a bit of running and I've never had health issues.

Mount Seymour, Eryndlynd, Love and Nature, Lord Dominator, and 2 othersSean fiobha, and Long-term capital gains

four stories named i wouldn't have paid two cents for in any medium, print or visual.
of the four, princes bride might have been ok if it were free.
even free there isn't enough tea in china for me to indure fight club, silient lambs or what was the other one?
mundane beligerance i fail to comprehand the entertainment value of.

star wars was only tollerable for its hi-tec looking eye candy and using it to go places i don't remember having been.
which is natural enough since someone else had to have made them up.

space ships aren't the only things that are fun, trees, furry creaturs and trains, even wonderfully odd looking houses, and most things being smaller then we're used to, are enjoyable to me. wars and rectangles are just much too common to be. (trees can be larger and forests more ubiqutous are good though, and goddesss with multiple tails who drop by for tea)

technology(/magic) isn't for war or money, its for making things that give pleasure to they eye and mind.

and dominant beliefs are just as mundane as anything 'material' too.
(but invisible spirit people are fun when they're friendly)
(and its only humans who acuse them of wanting to be feared, and that for entirely human reasons)

now after the fall stories are kind of fun for what people can figure out how to do what with what so called civilization leaves behind.
the more so if the meek who inherit the earth have pointy ears and fluffy tails.

Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Sean fiobha, and Mcclandia

Long-term capital gains wrote:

~snip~

Extended today's commute into work from 5 to 23 miles, including 1600 feet of cumulative elevation gain, most of which was in the last 4 to 5 miles. Ankles are doing OK. I'm working on the Montgomery Burns theory that if I break enough of myself, all the damage will hold each other at bay, and I'll basically become immortal.

That's how that works, right?

EDIT: More seriously, I'm also testing the popular notion that vegans/vegetarians** are weak, sickly, and anemic. Granted, I'm just one data point, but I'm thinking the hypothesis is on shaky ground.

Incidently, could someone in the UK find out when Global Cycling Network is gonna have more copies of The Plant-based Cyclist (https://shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com/usd/en/gcn-the-plant-based-cyclist-book) in stock? Let them know there's an American with $17 and international shipping burning a hole in his pocket...
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** By "vegan/vegetarian" I'm assuming someone who primary eats a variety of plants, nuts, grains, and seeds. It's assumed that a diet of primarily french fries, Twinkies, and Oreos is probably crap.

I was raised ovo-lacto vegetarian, switched to omnivory as a teenager, and then to switched to veganism a couple of years ago. My blood tests always look great, I have lost about 50 pounds, gained muscle, lost my GERD, and increased my stamina. Anecdotal for sure, but I feel so much more healthy than I did five years ago!

Eryndlynd, Lord Dominator, Kinectia, Sean fiobha, and 3 othersMcclandia, Long-term capital gains, and Salvezia

I envy you For the succes in stay vegetarian, i’m trying hard but the dark side is strong (they have ham!)

Ownzone, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Sean fiobha, and 1 otherMcclandia

Salvezia wrote:I envy you For the succes in stay vegetarian, i’m trying hard but the dark side is strong (they have ham!)

Healthy feels better than ham tastes. Also, we do not sit around eating cardboard every day (at least I don't).

Lord Dominator, Sean fiobha, Mcclandia, and Salvezia

As a non-vegetarian who generally avoids fast food, I didn't expect to be in this position, but I can offer an endorsement here of Burger King's new Rebel Whopper, which is basically a whopper made from vegetable protein.

I have no idea if it is healthy at all, or if there's a hidden environmental impact, but I ate one yesterday (with mayo left off) and it was really quite good.

Being someone who is environmentally-minded but a bit slack at times, and who isn't vegan but is trying to eat less meat, and who really likes beefburgers but avoids them out of sheer environmental guilt... I think I'm probably exactly who they're targeting with this product. Anyway, it works for me.

Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Kinectia, and 2 othersSean fiobha, and Mcclandia

Post self-deleted by Mcclandia.

Well, I'm not vegetarian or vegan but I tend to avoid a lot of unhealthy foods and eat a lot of food that is good for you.

Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Kinectia, Sean fiobha, and 1 otherLong-term capital gains

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:I have no idea if it is healthy at all, or if there's a hidden environmental impact, but I ate one yesterday (with mayo left off) and it was really quite good.

With regards to if they're healthy, I think it would depend what your measure of healthiness is, and what you're comparing it to. A lot of non-meat burgers are basically made from grains, so they're carb-loaded. Using a system like Weight Watchers, an Impossible patty is actually more points than a high quality beef patty, last I checked. If you're counting calories, an extra-lean ground beef burger is far superior - a 4oz/113g patty will have 130 calories, vs 240 for an Impossible patty of the same size. The beef will also have just 4g of fat (2g saturated), vs 14g for the Impossible patty (8g saturated), 21g protein (vs 19g for Impossible), and no carbs (9g for the Impossible). Basically, an extra-lean beef burger is better for you in every way - it just has the baggage of being an animal product with high environmental impact.

That's different than comparing it to a fast-food beef patty though, which has way more fat. If you start dealing with lower quality beef, your calories go up quickly. With 85% beef, you're dealing with 240 calories (equal to Impossible), and with 80% beef you're up to 290. You're still not going to be getting carbs from the beef, but your total fat count rises quickly higher than Impossible (though the Saturated Fat remains lower even with 85% beef).

Ownzone, Lord Dominator, Kinectia, and Sean fiobha

Armenico-myordas

Do vegetarians even think about plant rights?

Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Kinectia, and Sean fiobha

Post self-deleted by Candlewhisper Archive.

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:As a non-vegetarian who generally avoids fast food, I didn't expect to be in this position, but I can offer an endorsement here of Burger King's new Rebel Whopper, which is basically a whopper made from vegetable protein.

I have no idea if it is healthy at all, or if there's a hidden environmental impact, but I ate one yesterday (with mayo left off) and it was really quite good.

Being someone who is environmentally-minded but a bit slack at times, and who isn't vegan but is trying to eat less meat, and who really likes beefburgers but avoids them out of sheer environmental guilt... I think I'm probably exactly who they're targeting with this product. Anyway, it works for me.

We have the Impossible Whopper here in the US, which is probably the same thing. I have no desire to eat something that is made to accurately imitate ground beef, but I am glad that it is showing others that plant-based meals are a viable option. However, those burgers are saltier and higher in sugar than beef-based Whoppers so they are still ultraprocessed yuck as far as I am concerned. I have a very low tolerance to salt nowadays so I am not sure that I could eat one even if I forced myself to do so. It is alarming that so much sugar and salt have to go into something for Americans to try it!

Lord Dominator and Salvezia

Yeah, I was eating it instead of the Whopper, rather than being under any illusions that it is health food. Even if its just as bad for me, it's still better for the environment.

And I'm eating chocolate right now, so I care way less about sugar than I probably ought to.

Verdant Haven, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Kinectia, and 1 otherSean fiobha

the meat of the day mentioned that at the restaurant at the end of the universe.

hot grease smells way better then anything cooked in it tastes, meat or veg.

humans evolved eating meat, but a lot less of it then most of us do today.
sort of like being vegetarian every day that isn't some kind of holiday, and only eating meat to celebrate them.

that's pretty much the way most people ate before food animals were mistreated so we could have lots of it.
and if we had to butcher it ourselves, most of us wouldn't eat that much of it very often.

Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Kinectia, and 1 otherSalvezia

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