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- Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: What's the question you wish people would ask you?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9591
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:55 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: What's the question you wish people would ask you?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9591
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:13 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions You Dread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5708
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:51 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Mushrooms
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6729
It's lazy and uncreative, even if it's convenient. It tells me that the chef can't be bothered to put a little effort in. [...] And there are a lot of people who hate mushrooms I'm no vegetarian, but I do empathize. I am a hugely picky eater, to the point where I take food with me on any trip where...
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:29 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Mushrooms
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6729
A lot of restaurants and people seem to think that if you can't have meat, you love mushrooms or something - the veggie option is almost invariably mushroom based. Meat is typically the center focus of a dish. If you can't have meat, you still have to have something as the center focus. Mushrooms a...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:24 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Mushrooms
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6729
Re: Mushrooms
Must not... make... Mario reference...I love mushrooms. [...] Their own kingdom, apart from Plants and Animals.
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:18 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Gyromancy vs. Geomancy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2273
If we take this as a potential fantasy element for a story, I've always preferred touch-based clairvoyance. The Dead Zone is a good example. There were also the sniffers from the movie Push (though that's not a great movie) and the PalantÃr (seeing stones) from Lord of the Rings. The Palantir were ...
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:00 am
- Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
- Topic: This movie will be terrible because......
- Replies: 50
- Views: 21624
Re: Would only be a decent movie if...
you either have to film the thing in pieces over a long course of years or change actors as the kids age. They're pretty good at falsifying the age of the same actors for movies these days. See: Benjamin Button, A Beautiful Mind, etc. Doing it with kids would be new, but not impossible, and would n...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:05 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things that I hate
- Replies: 3021
- Views: 769087
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:59 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Letterboxing & Geocaching
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4100
I've heard of Geocaching. I've never really been into it, but I've tagged along with friends who are. It can be kinda interesting to know pretty exactly where something is and still not be able to find it. There's a fairly nerdy offshoot of it called Geohashing . In short, it uses computer encryptio...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:51 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Reaction to Ender's Game
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3424
OSC argues in the introduction to Ender's Game (written long after the book) that he wasn't intending to write childhood as it appears to the audience, but childhood as it appears to children. When you were little and a bully picked on you at recess, it didn't seem trivial. It seemed like a mugging,...
- Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:05 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: New Laptop Help
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5548
I advocate Chrome and Avast (or maybe MSE; I haven't tried that one). AVG was nicer in it's early days, I think. Anyway, I had to fuss with it less to get it to work as intended. And Chrome does a lot of things just blindingly fast. The only reasons to stick with Firefox, I think, are open source ad...
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:47 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Question regarding book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2780
I would assume [the monitor] was able to read all bodily functions such as heart rate, respiration, and pain receptors. Recording sound is obvious, but it's unclear if sight was recorded. I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. You live in somebod...
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:31 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Basil Marceaux : The Next Governor of Tennessee
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2336
Just because he can register to run doesn't mean he's a serious candidate with any hope of victory. Alvin Greene is newsworthy precisely because he actually won a primary, something these kinds of candidates don't often achieve. Notice that no one is claiming Greene made it on merit; average folk re...
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:09 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Rosetta Stone and other language learning tools.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3458
Yes, but mostly at a beginner's level.Is it possible to learn Igbo language from this thing?
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:56 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Gynocracy vs. Guynocracy
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11353
:lol: :lol: :lol: Just how many Indian women do you know? That was my original point; universal generalizations don't fit. I listed Indian women as a populous subgroup, but my generalization is more about Chinese and Muslim women, especially in more backwards and rural areas. I've seen enough about...
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:07 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Gynocracy vs. Guynocracy
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11353
I don't think it would take a couple years. Take 20 people of each gender, and let them live their lives as normal over a four week period. The first couple weeks would be pure culture shock. Useful for reality show ratings, not so useful for determining long-term livability. I suppose it does show...
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:04 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Gynocracy vs. Guynocracy
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11353
I propose a reality show experiment. Fill two isolated islands with enough people, segregated by gender, to allow some personal anonymity, some cultural diversity and conflict, and require government. Then don't provide the government and see who handles themselves better for a couple years. Of cour...
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:50 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Gynocracy vs. Guynocracy
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11353
The demagoguery spewing from Locke is enough to make his name ironic. Well, a female civilization wouldn't be dead in one generation. Cloning is now possible, and with a bit of effort we could even get to the point of mating ovule with ovule. Even that wouldn't be necessary if, say, 0.1% of men surv...
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:17 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Gynocracy vs. Guynocracy
- Replies: 54
- Views: 11353
I can't imagine there'd be much difference between the two civilizations. First, in either case, the survivors would be moved in great numbers to try to fill the void left by the absence of the other sex. There'd be a widespread personality shift toward what the survivors remembered as normal, so yo...
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:43 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Your Dream Team
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4755
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:53 am
- Forum: Ender's Game Movie Rumors, Speculation and Fan Art
- Topic: Who Should Play Adult Roles?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37993
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: You guys... won't happen to be in Facebook?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 16265
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:00 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: You guys... won't happen to be in Facebook?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 16265
Woah now condescending. Pweb is as real as anything you can touch, taste, smell, or hear. By my count, at least 18 members in the top 50 (by post count) have met at least 2 other Pwebbers; 1 has met at least one. Page two adds another 5 who've met at least 2 and another 7 who've met at least 1. The...
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:17 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Achilles - Believable?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7801
Re: Achilles - Believable?
They [the Russians] already had Vlad If I remember right, they didn't trust Vlad to run anything because, from soldiering under Bean, he had a perfect record of losses at Battle School. Thus, they didn't really "have him" because they (unjustly) considered him lesser than any other Battle...
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:09 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: How were u introduced to EG?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 52830
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:30 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things We Set on Fire
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2402
How about pianos?
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:57 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: You guys... won't happen to be in Facebook?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 16265
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:52 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Plot question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6173
The buggers attacked Earth directly in the first invasion couldn't it have occurred to them that maybe there might have been an equivalent of a hive queen on Earth or were they so stupid as to assume that Earth was a colony and the hive queen controlling it would be elsewhere? In bugger societies, ...
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I write like...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4860
I tried a few different stories to check for algorithmic consistency. One said Dan Brown, another Agatha Christie, the longest one Stephen King, and my favorite one Douglas Adams. All of them at once says Stephen King. The first half of the Douglas Adams one results in Isaac Asimov. I'm glad it didn...
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:24 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: How were u introduced to EG?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 52830
I don't remember reading Ender's Game for the first time. I remember I hadn't heard of it yet in 6th grade, and reading crazy amounts during 7th and 8th, and finishing the series in 9th grade. Xenocide just amazed me. I would repeat some chapters just to relive the cool or absorb complex ideas, some...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:45 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Words that are awesome
- Replies: 41
- Views: 15952
Re: Words that are awesome
troubadour Did you misspell "Trogdor?" Yeah, yeah, I know what it really means. I play tabletop RPGs sometimes, and I used to read PvP a decade ago. I especially like made-up words. For example: Morish - adj. - the taste of something you want more of. "This chocolate cake tastes mori...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:36 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: You guys are kinda lame.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4788
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:28 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007438
Considering the one that is awful is the only one that is a released feature-length film... a rather short movie night. What about the TV show and the upcoming movie of unknown length? The latter could come out before you get a date set and guests invited. Speaking of shows about the news business,...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:46 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434