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Looks like humanity is entering the next phase of our existence.
I'm glad to be alive during the transition.

video: Asteroid Mining Mission Revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc.

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POLL: Which Character Class Sucks the Most?

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Everything I know about King Arthur I learned from watching
the movie Excalibur (1981).

One thing I never understood is why King Arthur wanted the holy grail?
There seems to be multiple answers.

If anyone can clue me in about this mythology, that would be wonderful! :->

Why did King Arthur want to find the Holy Grail?

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Roll a d12:

1. Giant poop worms. Like rot grubs but they don’t kill you so easy. The worms burrow into the PC’s flesh, reproduce, then send thousands of progeny out each end of the character’s digestive tract. If this happens in front of NPCs then get an Infamous trait with that group.

2. Gold coins. Why would the giant eat gold coins? 1D of cache.

3. A knife. And bloody poop! Ha ha, dumb giant pooped out a knife. Is the knife magic? On a 1-3 roll on the “what’s with this sword” chart, on a 4 it’s proof against acid, on a 5-8 then no – it’s not magic.

4. A humanoid skull. Bury it for a reputation 1D Friend of spirits

5. A living troll arm, it makes half-hearted attacks. (I love this.) Only fire can destroy it.

6. A perfectly intact head sized egg. (it was planted here by something else)

7. Poop eating giant centipede. Agility test or your probing arm gets bitten. Yes you get an armor roll. Learn that you don’t push your arm into the poop, you dork. If you said “Oh yeah I was wearing my armor!” then you have poop all over your armor too.

8. A bunch of springy worms. Each worm’s belly contains a pearl-like gem (value, properties to be determined by GM).

9. Seeds. Are they magic? Are they giant? Are they just giant tomato seeds?

10. A giant’s tooth. This giant got beat up in a fight and swallowed his own tooth. 1 in 6 that it has a silver filling or is gold or whatever.

11. An idol! Geerwyn the Unfortunate. This poor idol has the worst things happen to it and it’s possessors, but it also gives them help in getting out of these situations. While carrying Geerwyn, any random thing that can happen to the possessor does, the more bizarre the better. But, Geerwyn will Help the possessor out of these same situations with +1 or +2 Advantage dice, depending. Geerwyn will also halve random damage from the bad stuff he causes, trading off injury for shame – rather than a B10 burn from the irate fire toad, the character will receive b5 but will have his beard burned off. Bearing Geerwyn automatically gives the holder a 1D “pathetic bumbler” trait.

12. Roll again twice!

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POLL: Which do you like better Star Trek or Star Wars ?

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The Kobayashi Maru is a Starfleet training exercise designed to test
the character of cadets in the command track at Starfleet Academy.

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> Video Link to a previous Student's test <

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Chekov, Sulu, Scotty and Kirk each faced the problem:

o Chekov evacuates his ship and then crashes it into the three Klingon
cruisers, destroying all four ships in the process and (inadvertently)
all of the evacuees as well.

o Sulu realizes it is probably a trap and refuses to cross the Neutral
Zone.

o Scott bypasses the Klingon shields with an unorthodox technical trick
that could only work within the simulation's physics model, and not in
reality. Although he is initially successful, the Enterprise is eventually
overwhelmed by a continual stream of Klingon reinforcements.
Scott was then reassigned from the command track to engineering, which
was his intention all along.

o Kirk reprograms the simulated Klingons to be afraid of "The Captain Kirk,"
arguing that he expected to build a comparable reputation.

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Now, your time as come. How would you win the Kobayashi Maru ?

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Sharp, who alleges that the police beat his friend before arresting
her, pulled out his cell phone to document the encounter. According to
Sharp, several officers approached him and repeatedly demanded that he
surrender his cell phone so they could make a copy of the video to use
as evidence.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news

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If a cop asks you for your phone, just say no.

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Edit: > Here < is a related story.

You can't un-pull a trigger.

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How do you go about determining your strategies? (games, life, driving, ...)

Neil deGrasse Tyson offers some insight in this > youtube bit <.

Discounting the predicted "Escape From New York" style government
he would bring, I would vote for Newt if I could fly to a moon base.

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Perhaps *they* realized ka is a wheel.

http://screenrant.com/dark-tower-movie-warner-bros-sandy-158976/

Warner Bros. is reportedly near to closing a deal
that would ensure (at least) one feature based on King’s
post-apocalyptic, western-flavored magnum opus ends
up being made.

I find this fellow's argument to be very linear.

One would imagine he could think of other dimensions to
add to his line of reasoning.

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> Attempting to demonstrate evolution with a line. <

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POLL: What Is Your Personal Alignment ?

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Nearly 1 year ago, an out of print book about flies was listed at over
$23.6 million on Amazon.com. As good as Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a
Fly was, no one could see the sanity in that price.

a cool blog post

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> news link <.

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Imagine that. You paid cash for your house, you don't have a mortgage
and a bank comes and forecloses on you.

What a world we have crafted for ourselves..

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Has there every been a haunted wagon story line in an adventure?

A PC gets charmed by a deamon in the form a 4-wheeled wagon. He begins
driving it around, and running over villagers to whom he is vaguely sexually
attracted to after they scorn him.

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> A small bomb used to blow in a door or gate. <

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If it wasn’t for its appearance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “For ‘tis the
sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his owne petar” and its fossil
survival in the rather more modern spelling to be hoist with one’s own
petard, this term of warfare would have gone the way of the halberd,
brattice and culverin.

A petard was a bell-shaped metal grenade typically filled with five or
six pounds of gunpowder and set off by a fuse. Sappers dug a tunnel or
covered trench up to a building and fixed the device to a door,
barricade, drawbridge or the like to break it open. The bomb was held in
place with a heavy beam called a madrier.

Unfortunately, the devices were unreliable and often went off
unexpectedly. Hence the expression, where hoist meant to be lifted up, an
understated description of the result of being blown up by your own
bomb. The name of the device came from the Latin petar, to break wind,
perhaps a sarcastic comment about the thin noise of a muffled explosion
at the far end of an excavation.

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I think it is fun to look at the "source" column and see where these people
have generated their wealth, and then wonder why you have the job you do.

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POLL: Which is Your Favorite Joss Whedon TV Series?

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POLL: Which Party Will Win the Next Presidential Election ?

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POLL: Which of these Three Weapon-Types Should Drawves Fight With?

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POLL: Which of These 11 RPGs Have You Played in the Last Five Years ?

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WebKit's dominance is causing a real problem for other browser makers.
It is a complicated story but an inevitable one, and perhaps would be
better described as W3C's biggest blunder.

WebKit Is Breaking The Web

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Not so long ago, IE6 was the over-dominant browser on the Web.
Technically, the Web was full of works-only-in-IE6 web sites and the
other browsers, the users were crying. IE6 is dead, this time is gone,
and all browsers vendors including Microsoft itself rejoice. Gone? Not
entirely... IE6 is gone, the problem is back.

THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN

This thread is for all the people who hate dwarves.

The Dwarf is the stupidest construct in gaming, and should be taken
out of D&D, and all other fantasy products.

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This is a list of all the reasons Dwarves are stupid:

1. They are Drawves.

Exclusive from Comic Book Resources - Link

>pic<

... who is the father?

Apparently, the conductor stopped the music, turned and asked
for the cell phone to be turned off.

It took a while because the dude was paralyzed with embarrassment.

> Ha! <

Did you see this thread of emails? I bet with the success of this
ad campaign this dude will pick up many more clients.

>tech site<

>NSFW youtube parody<

> cool pictures <

After more than three months of spaceflight, NASA's twin Grail probes are
set to start orbiting the moon this weekend, with Grail-A arriving
Saturday (Dec. 31) and Grail-B following on Sunday (Jan. 1). The
spacecraft are on a mission to map lunar gravity in unprecedented detail,
shedding light on the moon's composition, formation and evolution.

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I think we should leave the moon alone. It is nice, and soon after
humans arrive there will be Burger King wrappers blowing around the place.

> P i c s <

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*snap*

Kiyoshi Ito, a mathematician whose innovative models of random motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology died. He was 93.

He invented Ito Calculus.

Harry Morgan died yesterday aged 96.

::Stands at attention and salutes while wearing a bathrobe, combat boots, and with a slight hang-over...

Scientists tell us the Earth only has about 2 billion years left.

What can we as citizens do?

Ritual sacrifice := to commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal -- with pie.

Also, I had this whole long diatribe all typed out, but then
I was like, meh..., just watch this --> Buffy clip

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The human spirit is build for exploration.

Moonrush trailer

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It's pretty impressive no one died from radiation, and stands
as a testament to the great design of modern nuclear reactors.

The entire Fukushima reactor area was hit by an 8.9 earthquake
and then a giant tidal wave . Back-to-back natural disasters
of the highest magnitude.

About the only thing worse would have been being hit by an asteroid from space (or Godzilla looking for a snack.)

Japan took a group of journalists inside its crippled nuclear plant for the first time on Saturday

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The mystery waits to be solved...

To graduate from the Mangan Kung Fu Academy, one has to master the use
of the Nunchuk Supreme. This is a powerful weapon that can be used to
disable an unlimited number of assailants. Think of it as a very long
stick.

The Nunchuk is thrown at the assailants and rotates in the air as it is
thrown. It will strike an assailant, disable him/her and then using this
person as a pivot, rotate about them and strike a second person and then
rotate about the second person until it strikes a third person and
rotates about them and so on until all of the assailants have been dealt
with. Being disabled from fighting does not prevent being struck again
by the Nunchuk and causing a change in the pivot of rotation.

Think of assailants as fixed points in the plane; is it always possible
to choose a first assailant to strike, so that if no three assailants are
collinear and the Nunchuck is long enough, then all assailants will be
struck down?

Damaged goods, or bad loving.

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'Bei Hennef'

The little river twittering in the twilight,
The wan, wondering look of the pale sky,
This is almost bliss.

And everything shut up and gone to sleep,
All the troubles and anxieties and pain
Gone under the twilight.

Only the twilight now, and the soft "Sh!" of the river
That will last for ever.

And at last I know my love for you is here;
I can see it all, it is whole like the twilight,
It is large, so large, I could not see it before,
Because of the little lights and flickers and interruptions,
Troubles, anxieties and pains.

You are the call and I am the answer,
You are the wish, and I the fulfillment,
You are the night, and I the day.
What else - it is perfect enough.
It is perfectly complete,
You and I,
What more--?

Strange, how we suffer in spite of this.

-- D. H. Lawrence

The United Nations declared Monday, Oct. 31 2011 the day that the world's
population officially surpasses 7 billion.

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Were did they all come from?? I'm quite sure there were not this many people around a few decades ago.

The must be arriving from space.

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http://7billionactions.org/

A tyrannosaur is walking around.
This tyrannosaur currently has a full tummy (i.e. 10,000 calories stored).

For this tyrannosaur with 10,000 calories stored:

(i) The tyrannosaur uses calories uniformly at a rate of 10,000 per day.
If his stored calories reach 0, he dies.

(ii) The tyrannosaur eats scientists (10,000 calories each) at a
Poisson rate of 1 per day.

(iii) The tyrannosaur eats only scientists.

(iv) The tyrannosaur can store calories without limit until needed.

1. Calculate the probability that the tyrannosaur dies within
the next 2.5 days.

2. Calculate the expected calories eaten in the next 2.5 days.

I see this stuff on the TV news, and the implication is always the same
— that the Greek people are lazy and don’t like to work.

But that can be reality, because Greece is a modern-day Nation-State.

Can any of you brains around here break down for me why the trouble
in Greece is influencing my 401k profits here in America???

Is this just the Banks and Wall Street inventing stories and using
Greece as another reason to screw us?

I vote we eliminate:

1. Texas
2. Alabama
3. New York

John McCarthy has died at age 84. He was a legendary computer scientist
who was a pioneer in the field of AI, coining the term 'Artificial
Intelligence'. He also invented the Lisp programming language.

::pours a 40oz onto the ground

cnet.com squid.com

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He once told me my cat wasn't conscious. So now I think my cat is a machine of some kind.

(this is based on the average age thread)

Making money is great, but we all have to *pay bills*.

About how much are your monthly bills?

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My bills are about $2,000 per month.

(this is based on the average age thread)

How much do you get to spend?

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I make $50K a year.

I think I could (could have) made more, but I spend too much time gaming.

(this is based on the average age thread)

What is your education level?

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I have a masters degree in Machine Learning

That's how fast the GrrrMan satellite is going.

Where is it going to hit? Let's take bets.

I'm betting it will hit Canada.

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> REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING <

Get ready. We begin writing on November 1.

"The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30."

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What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.

Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.

Why: The reasons are endless!

MIT offers a Master of Finance degree program.

Does anyone here have a degree in Finance??