Oh yes, Jars.
(Jesse)
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 8:27:41 am PDT #4825 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Topic!Cindy - May 17, 2005 8:28:47 am PDT #4826 of 10001
What is even happening?
Thank you, ita. Sorry, Jesse.
DavidS - May 17, 2005 8:30:36 am PDT #4827 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sex is better than sticking a finger in your ear? I know this analogy not.
It feels better to the ear than the finger?
What tommyrot said. Tiresias is the blind seer in Oedipus Rex. He began life as a woman and was changed into a man by some caprice of the gods. He was asked which gender enjoyed sex more and said, "Stick your finger in your ear and wiggle it around. What feels better: your finger or your ear?"
I think this is rhetorically fun, but specious logic.
tommyrot - May 17, 2005 8:31:51 am PDT #4828 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We're not gonna talk about ear-fucking, are we?
Betsy HP - May 17, 2005 8:33:30 am PDT #4829 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My favorite, favorite Massive story is about the battle crowds they created for Lord of the Rings. With their first algorithm, the soldiers' AIs told them this was a really good time to run away, so they did.
Life should be more like this.
Frankenbuddha - May 17, 2005 8:34:13 am PDT #4830 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
We're not gonna talk about ear-fucking, are we?
Only if it involves goats, according to the memo.
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 8:35:23 am PDT #4831 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"In [an] early simulation [of the Massive software], Jackson and Regelous watched as several thousand characters fought like hell while, in the background, a small contingent of combatants seemed to think better of it and run away. They weren't programmed to do this. It just happened. "It was spooky," Jackson said in an interview last year."
Betsy HP - May 17, 2005 8:35:59 am PDT #4832 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I just love living in a world that has paragraphs like this:
Massive cloth can be used to generate flowing robes, cloaks, flags and much more. The massive cloth solver is up to 10 times faster than other cloth solutions, and so stable that it can be applied to hundreds or even thousands of agents at once on a single PC.
Jesse - May 17, 2005 8:36:11 am PDT #4833 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No problem, y'all.
Nilly - May 17, 2005 8:36:46 am PDT #4834 of 10001
Swouncing
The reports I heard said they hadn't found a why for it yet.
That's because nobody reads physics journals. We came up with an offer to time traffic lights based on our analysis, but we couldn't make anybody listen. There are big groups who do research on these topics in Germany and Japan, and they start getting heard there.
connie, this paper has the model, and this paper has the traffic lights proposal. The data regarding the obstacles and their removal was never published in such a journal. Not yet, anyway.
A krav maga instructor called me adorable. My work here is done.