I'm so used to CY's Avatar change, It actually took me by surprise to realize he had changed it, and I hadn't noticed, and realizing I've been looking at it changed and not thinking about it.
Edit: ninja'd by someone I ninja'd how... Ironic.
I am pretty sure Cap used his current avatar (Anubis) before.
Several times in fact.
I am pretty sure I had naked top of the page before.
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Holy shit, Studpuffin!
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^^
I wouldn't mind...
Though all the fish, would be quite a challenge. I generally don't really like fish.
And I get sick from shellfish (mild allergy) and can't stomach mollusks. Actually in general I kind of avoid anything that comes from the sea...
Yea, I'm a bit of a picky eater.Don't really know what to feed you if I got the chance.
But I would probably try and get my hands on some fresh game of some kind. You are a little Om-nom-nom-nivore after all :PYou asked a cat to cook. What were you expecting? =P
But I have friends from various religions and unless you are vegetarian, generally fish is acceptable by most religions. Otherwise you can land into unacceptable by Buddhists/Hindus/Muslim issues. Salmon has scales so it falls under Kosher as well.
So generally when I cook, fish tends to feature prominently so as not to offend anyone's religious sensitivities. I know you are not vegetarian as you eat game.
Shows the highly secular (to the point of obliviousness) and mostly homogeneous society I'm from.
The though of fish being the food, where most religions can meet didn't really cross my mind ^^'
No, up here you are at most a bit cautious about, to whom you would serve pork to.
Hindu dietary prohibition didn't really cross my mind, as we have so few of them up here.
I guess I would try to get know peoples dietary habits/prohibitions before cooking them anything...then again know myself, I would probably be crass enough just to ask outright "If they have any".
Hindus and quite some Buddhists don't take beef.
This is just for completeness sake:
Halal is not that simple also. The easiest form of reading would be no pork, but even things like cows, veal, lamb, sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, ducks, game birds, bison, venison...the exception being seafood has to be slaughtered in a prescribed way.
The slaughterer must be a sane adult Muslim.
The slaughterer must say the name of God before making the cut.
The name of God is said in order to emphasise the sanctity of life and that the animal is being killed for food with God’s consent.
The animal must be killed by cutting the throat with one continuous motion of a sharp knife.
The cut must sever at least three of the trachea, oesophagus, and the two blood vessels on either side of the throat.
The spinal cord must not be cut.
Animals must be well treated before being killed.
Animals must not see other animals being killed.
The knife must not be sharpened in the animal’s presence.
The knife blade must be free of blemishes that might tear the wound.
The animal must not be in an uncomfortable position.
The animal must be allowed to bleed out and be completely dead before further processing.
From here
For the layman, just make sure you buy meat with the halal stamp on it, or if you can't get it, start taking seafood.
True story: I had a Muslim roommate on my school trip to UK. Now that was like 17 years back or so, so London wasn't that aware of the Muslim faith as it is now. My friend was stuck in the hotel room eating canned tuna because she didn't know if the food prepared (except when fish was involved) was halal or not. There were few halal certified restaurants etc.
Freehold --
Did that Old Republic II Xbone release include the expanded content??
Yeah anubis is the one I think I've seen the most.
Freehold --
Did that Old Republic II Xbone release include the expanded content??
There was expanded content? Aww I missed out.
I honestly dont know. I heard there was supposed to be expanded content for the game- the ending in the game was not the original one- but it was never put in.
That should make a new one... just don't let EA get involved...
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Scary movies are less scary if you root for the monster.
You know sometimes the main characters have it coming.
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Math is like a game where many of the players don't know the rules and find it very frustrating.
Now we wait for a certain persons posts in response to that.
Texas, Florida, an unnamed town in Wisconsin, and Ohio, the three places I hope to never see again.that's four, unless the unnamed town is in BOTH Ohio and Wisconsin, which is not something I particularly imagine to be.
I started Googling for a town called Texas in Florida (it definitely wouldn't be the weirdest thing I'd heard of). Thankfully, no such physical location in Florida appears to exist.
Yet.
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Scary movies are less scary if you root for the monster.You know sometimes the main characters have it coming.
My favorite monsters fall into two categories: 1) a monster you can root for or at least empathize with, and b) monsters so incredibly alien that humanity (including the audience) can't really comprehend them.
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Math is like a game where many of the players don't know the rules and find it very frustrating.
And where those who do understand the rules are mentally structured such that they often can't explain those same rules to the ones who don't understand. A subset of these people become easily and angrily frustrated by those who don't grasp the rules. Surprisingly, many of these people are known as math teachers.
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Yeah, KotOR II got railroaded through development because of the timetable being advanced after the first one became 2003's GotY. As such, myriad and sundry bits of character development, game zones, and narrative components were glossed over (at best) or omitted outright (at worst). There's a wikia link out there somewhere that details a great deal of what got cut -- and even for a fan of the game like myself, it's a staggering list.
Off the top of my head:
1) the HK factory (playable zone)
2) better narrative closure for Atton and Visas
3) more complete justification for the Exile's final journey to Malachor V
4) scores of different conversational lines that would have filled in certain glaring holes in the dialogue with certain NPCs
Nevertheless -- I think The Sith Lords is, hands down, the best Star Wars story ever told. The fact that the mechanical aspects of the game are also especially engaging for me is just the icing on a terrific video-game cake.
I just wish I could play through the *entirety* of the envisioned game -- I doubt it would lose any impact, and likely gain MORE.
EDIT: Here's that link.
Math is like a game where many of the players don't know the rules and find it very frustrating.And where those who do understand the rules are mentally structured such that they often can't explain those same rules to the ones who don't understand. A subset of these people become easily and angrily frustrated by those who don't grasp the rules. Surprisingly, many of these people are known as math teachers.
Yeah In my experience math teachers are the worst at teaching. (no offense to anyone here maybe your awesome at it but comparatively...)
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Nice, you guys are so close to 4,000 pages!
Hey there, Studpuffin.
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The first person to drop a Mento into a Diet Coke was probably really surprised. And wet.
Well,before the Mentos craze, I once tried to flavor a diet Pepsi by pouring two Pixie Stix into it.
It erupted all over my desk. It wasn't pretty.
The kids must never find this out.
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Yeah In my experience math teachers are the worst at teaching. (no offense to anyone here maybe your awesome at it but comparatively...)Math is like a game where many of the players don't know the rules and find it very frustrating.And where those who do understand the rules are mentally structured such that they often can't explain those same rules to the ones who don't understand. A subset of these people become easily and angrily frustrated by those who don't grasp the rules. Surprisingly, many of these people are known as math teachers.
To understand Maths, your brain must be wired differently from other people and that makes you bad at communicating with other people, therefore Maths teachers are bad at teaching.
-Said the Maths hating cat.
You added sugar to a diet Pepsi?
What's the point of diet at that point?
I use a ridiculous amount of math in my job, and I do alright, so luckily I don't hate math.
But it's definitely not my favorite subject.
Yeah In my experience math teachers are the worst at teaching. (no offense to anyone here maybe your awesome at it but comparatively...)Math is like a game where many of the players don't know the rules and find it very frustrating.And where those who do understand the rules are mentally structured such that they often can't explain those same rules to the ones who don't understand. A subset of these people become easily and angrily frustrated by those who don't grasp the rules. Surprisingly, many of these people are known as math teachers.To understand Maths, your brain must be wired differently from other people and that makes you bad at communicating with other people, therefore Maths teachers are bad at teaching.
-Said the Maths hating cat.
I've always been decent at explaining math... In person, don't make me do it online. The main problem is that even the people who get it, don't think about how they do it, they just do it, then expect everyone to learn it the same way. (ie. not everyone learns the same way) the thing is, a simple change in realizing what you are actually doing, would make explaining it very easy.
You added sugar to a diet Pepsi?
What's the point of diet at that point?
If you read the studies concerning diet soda you'll realize there is no point whatsoever for diet soda.
If you read the studies concerning diet soda you'll realize there is no point whatsoever for diet soda.You added sugar to a diet Pepsi?
What's the point of diet at that point?
Well, I already knew that, but I was trying to just make a joke rather than any health commentary.
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I'd put up an argument in defense of math teachers here, but in my experience over 50% of them didn't belong anywhere near students.
Especially the Ph.D.s.
*looks at calendar, looks at time*
Well, I'm off to work!
see you all later!
My brother could be a math teacher, as he's really good at explaining it, but he went with YMCA outreach director or some shit.
I only had a couple substandard math teachers. It still boggles me that the best one I ever had was the assistant football coach. For pre-calc. At 8 in the morning. I am still amazed I did as well as I did in that class.
Rare to have a math teacher be a coach; that's usually social studies in my experience.
My brother could be a math teacher, as he's really good at explaining it, but he went with YMCA outreach director or some s&@!.
That the one that tailgates semitrucks?
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So, being HUGE fans of One Punch Man, a while back we tried to watch some of the Mob Psycho 100 anime.
We hated it.
None of the characters were likable, the plot was incomprehensible, and we couldn't believe they'd made such a mess of ONE's work. Yesterday afternoon at Shiro's barbecue we found that Netflix just posted a live-action version of it.
So... how bad could it be? We decided to give it a chance, and watched one 23-minute episode.
And that was all she wrote. We spent the next SIX HOURS binge-watching the live-action version of the show.
It's rather amazing/terrifying how all they did was add some sympatheticness (I know, I know, not a real word) to the main character and his mentor, and it became quite an addictive show.
I know that some people love shows where every character is dislikable. I'm not one of those people.
So for the first time ever I recommend the live-action version over the anime version. The world must be coming to an end.
My brother could be a math teacher, as he's really good at explaining it, but he went with YMCA outreach director or some s&@!.That the one that tailgates semitrucks?
Nope, a different one, I have 6 brothers and a sister.
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@Mort.
Poor roommate! Heck I would probably get over my fish distaste and cook her a "fishy-meal" just to get her away from eating out a can. At the very least go out with her to help her find someplace to get her food that's considered halal...
Really if someone felt they were forced to eat stuff like canned food in their room due to dietary prohibitions, I might actually be so bold as to ask politely if there wasn't ways for them to skirt the prohibitions. I know it can come across as insulting (especially coming from a rather irreligious person as myself), but I try feel that the drop in life quality merits a examination of all possible ways to gain access to other foods.
I do believe though that a lot of scholars of islamic law consider the requirement of being a sane muslim during the slaughtering process (the Dhabihah), has been expanded to include sane peoples of the book (the Ahl al-Kitāb*).
*Qurʼan, Surah 5, ayah 5
Back in my dorm-days, we had a young Cypriot-Turkish girl living with us. She had never touched a cookpot in her life so, me and a couple of others ended up teaching her all the cooking basics. Not a particularly devout muslim, so most of the dietary prohibitions didn't really come into play much (other then the no-unclean animals prohibitions). It was great fun, and she was such a sweet (and pretty) girl. I'll never quite forget the time, when her parents moved her into the dorm as we got a lot of worried looks from her parents. We must have looked quite like a bunch of hungry wolves, when they moved their little lamb in ^^'.
So far, Starfinder has 50 playable races.
I have an idea for either a halfling or elven daredevil type of character for pathfinder.
My first inclination is to make a rogue of some sort, but then they'll probably just end up dead.
Brawler, maybe?