>>551
For a while I was rather put off by the whole idea of zoos and aquariums and suchlike, but, having read the bit near the start of Life of Pi where he discusses the topic, and having now been to one or two myself, I can appreciate that it's somewhat naive to assume that taking an animal from its natural environment is necessarily harmful to it. It's been a very long time since I went to an aquarium, but I suppose I do like them in the abstract.
>>553
Do you think a procedurally generated text adventure sounds like a good idea?
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>>556
What starch do you consume the most of?
>>557
The first one that comes to mind is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go. I have to admit I was rather lukewarm about it most of the way through and didn't really care that much about the characters or what happened to them. The ending, however, was really excellent, completely unexpected and tied up the story beautifully. It's worth reading for the ending alone.
>>559
Have you ever donated blood?
>>559
One handle, by far. For both showers and taps.
You can use it with one hand, you can turn the water off and on while keeping the temperature constant, and a single handle looks more congruous with the single stream of water.
>>561
How would you feel if you found out mathematics was, in fact, empirical?
>>563
My psychology teacher from years ago had a phobia of birds. She claimed it was from a traumatic experience she had when she was very young: she, her mother and her younger sister (still in a pushchair) were out in the park feeding birds, when an aggressive swan came and tried to bully the bread from her. It apparently bit her by the head and lifted her clean off the ground - meanwhile, she saw her mother running away and abandoning her, prioritising keeping her younger sister from danger. That does sound pretty traumatising, all things considered.
>>565
If you were to die right now, how long do you think it would take for somebody to find your body?
>>564
This very instant? I'm on an office full of people and I don't even get to enjoy the privacy of a cubicle. It wouldn't take very long until someone notices there's a corpse lying in the middle of the hallway, that's assuming somehow everybody around me just failed to see me collapsing on the floor. By the way, if someone passing by were to pay attention to my screen, they'd see I'm wasting time here on DQN instead of working.
>>566
Do you have any strategies to stealthily browse DQN while at work?
>>582
No; all my Christmas meals have been rather traditional and boring. However, I do remember one year, when I was quite young and for reasons I can't recall, my parents took me to a supermarket some time around midnight on Christmas Eve. All the fake joviality of the environment and the obvious fact that every single person present desperately didn't want to be there made it a rather surreal experience. It's the sort of bizarre memory that I almost suspect might've been confabulated or just a misrecalled dream.
>>584
What is your favourite invertebrate?
>>589
A scientist, maybe? And a game programmer! Now I'm hoping I get to finish uni with the CS degree I don't care much for anymore (not surprising, the curriculum is only okay and I've been using computers for almost 3/4 of my life), and then maybe I'll be able to research every topic I will care about! (Ha ha, no, you need funding for that, silly.)
Plus, I can't exactly study chemistry on my own; it was far less complicated and a legitimate interest when you were a teen.
>>591
( ß -ß) A friend of mine is very, very depressed. Too much to kill themselves, I expect, but I feel so powerless, I actually started avoiding talking with him because it's too painful. How much of a coward am I, and how do I put my own mood swings on hold in order to help my friend?
>>590
I remember hearing that apparently one of the most common causes of drowning is untrained people trying to save someone else from drowning and being pulled under themselves. Similarly, if you aren't equipped to help someone with depression then you shouldn't risk your own mental health in an attempt to help them. Of course, you should still try to help your friend where you can, but don't take all the responsibility on yourself. I can't really advise you on mood swings, but I'd suggest that it might be best for both of you if you focus on encouraging him to find professional help.
>>592
What is your opinion of modern art?
>>597
Swedish.
>>599
I want to make a bullet hell game. My plan isn't too complicated, but it would still involve some fairly serious amounts of programming, and I only know basic Python. Should I stick with Python (and make use of existing, well documented modules like Pygame) or should I take the time to learn a more serious programming language first? If so, which one?
>>598
The elitist in me says that you should stop using your crappy language and use my objectively superior language. Really, though, you have a concrete goal right now. You should try to achieve the goal with what you know. If you end up at a point where you say "Gosh, I really wish I had this very specific thing", you'll be in a position to find and use a language which gives you that thing. Maybe in a year you'll look back at the code you write tomorrow and hate it, but at least 1) you'll have written it, and 2) you'll have learned from it.
>>600
What is the coolest CAPTCHA you've ever gotten?
>>614
It's fairly groovy. Non-organised, advocates peace, stoicism, etc etc. It gets nutjob followers, but they're all harmless white hippies rather than the murderous nutjobs that other religions end up with. 8/10 would recommend.
>>616
What is the power balance like between you and your mother/romance partner/sex partner/figure collection?
>>638 I've never tried Japanese whisky but I drink Scottish whisky all the time. My friends think I'm some kind of connoisseur but I don't really know much, I just like the taste. Funny story, one time I was at the pub with my friend and I asked for a Whyte & Mackay with a wee bit of ice. We played some pool and I was savouring the taste thinking "I don't care if this is entry-level potato water, it doesn't matter what whisky experts say you should and shouldn't drink, I'm really appreciating this on a new level right now". I finished it and asked for another whisky, and the barman goes "Whisky? I thought you said rum, that was rum"
>>640 What's the most disgusting thing you've ever drank?
>>643
Without warning, Godzilla is stricken with a crippling existential crisis, releases >>642, and returns under the sea for a long period of solitary contemplation about its place in the world at large. >>642, galvanised by his near death experience, finally writes the legendary piano sonata he had always planned but never gotten around to. It receives mixed to favourable reviews.
>>645
How many people in total, would you estimate, have seen your genitalia?