>>688 I had to google senshi and found out that was Low Ki's old name, so I pick him.
>>689 Is this impressive or stupid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFznI31xFf4
>>694
I can't really say, it never much appealed to me either. It seems as though not just American humour but American media in general is mainly just sex, violence and poo. I'm quite sure there are exceptions but I can't name any high profile ones.
>>696
Approximately, how many real life friends do you have?
>>697
I actually adore a good pair of kneepits. The telltale crease marks of an extended kneepit are suggestive of a entirely bare pair of legs, and you'll only see their bent form in very few scenarios. Shoulderblades, meh, everyone's got them out.
>>699
Which is sexier: oboe or trombone? Please explain why in at least eleven words.
>>702
As the moon approaches hitting distance, it causes an extreme, violent tide that submerges the part of Earth closest to it. This in turn causes extreme, violent storms essentially worldwide. As such, depending on its trajectory and speed, there's a pretty high chance you'll drown or be killed by debris before the moon gets close enough. Assuming you find a way to survive that, though, and manage to make it to the designated location, the moon will certainly have accelerated to such a speed that you won't have time to process the sensation of the moon hitting your eye before your frail body is completely vaporized from the impact energy.
This is referred to as the Apocalypse.
>>704
How should I break the cycle of staying up late, getting up late, and sleeping through most of the day when businesses are open?
>>703
Going a day without sleep usually works for me. Stay up late, then when the sun rises take a shower, get out of the house and try to keep yourself occupied until evening. Keeping your body moving and staying out in the sunlight will help revert your biological clock.
>>705
What's the best place you've lived and why?
>>704
Probably the place I stayed in my second year of university. Positives:
Negatives:
>>706
Would you like a hug?
>>711
No, not really, because it is a misery to cohabitate with the people in my area, but I don't know of a better area to move to.
At night I dream of a big sea-worthy houseboat and a lifetime supply of mittens so I can at last drift away and spend my days cut off from my species but for a satellite internet connection.
>>713
Did you enjoy it?
>>718
I was speeding while drunk on a highway and missed an exit, I fucking smashed the break pedal trying to take it, but my car started spinning out of control. I hit the highway barrier and only manage to fuck up the front bumper, everything else, including myself, was ok. I use Uber to move around the city when drunk now.
>>720
What's the most wasted you've ever been?
>I once took too many xanax on a Friday night
used to do that pretty much every night
SVG sounds good in theory but it's annoying in a lot of ways. I do prefer PNG over JPG though. Adobe Flash was vector-based, and look how well that turned out. Not well at all. But aside from that, I don't really care that much about image formats.
If you're drawing, it makes more sense to use raster graphics because then you can do more complicated images that look like actual paintings instead of a couple of lines whose only advantage is that they look smooth when you zoom in on them. SVG makes sense for icons or some logos or graphs or something, but that's about it. But the solution to pixelated raster graphics is to draw super high-res and then downscale for whatever site you're uploading to. It's easy to start with a lower resolution when drawing, but I think it's better to have a resolution that's too high instead of too low.
>>721
How often do you get drunk?
>>721
I drink alcohol perhaps once every two weeks or so, but only one or two drinks, so I never get more than tipsy. I've only been properly drunk once. My neighbour threw a house party, and my bedroom was directly adjacent to the speakers, so, realising I had no hope of sleeping, I decided I may as well join them. I was slightly feverous, didn't know anyone there, and everyone else was about ten years older than me. I ended up just standing around aimlessly listening in on conversations I had nothing to add to, and drinking every so often. The party pretty much ended around 3am, when I went home, threw up, and collapsed into bed.
>>723
What is your favourite and least favourite part of your own body?
>>722
Favorite: my brain, unironically. Not in a I-think-I'm-smarter-than-everyone-else way, but because I'm glad I don't have any serious mental problems. Look at Terry Davis, for example. He's a genius programmer, but he is hopelessly schizophrenic.
Here's an image of a schizophrenic person's brain compared to a normal one:
https://www.livemint.com/rf/Image-621x414/LiveMint/Period1/2014/04/01/Photos/Venkatasubramanian-Image-2--621x414.jpg
Imagine basically having a big hole in your brain that makes your thoughts and behavior weird. No thanks!
Least favorite:
My ankle, because I injured it and it never fully healed.
>>724
What is something you do that you think nobody else does?
>>726
I love travel, but I hate airplanes. Airport security sucks. Jet lag sucks. At least they sometimes give you alcohol on the flight.
Someone once gave me HORRIBLE advice for dealing with jet lag. "Don't sleep before the trip, just stay up the night before and sleep on the plane!" But the economy seats were too tiny and uncomfortable (and the comfy ones are ridiculously expensive), and there was too much turbulence in order to sleep at all! So I was tired as fuck during a flight across the pacific ocean.
>>727
How many books have you read so far this year?
>>728 I don't know about plot, we're all familiar with the John Carmack quote about plot in a video game I think. But the best writing (subtle difference) of the games I've played was Fallout: New Vegas, I think. It's one of few RPGs where I was invested and immersed enough that I sincerely had trouble and angst doing something I wouldn't do IRL. Especially in the expansions, where each one is based on one central choice, I had trouble replaying it and doing the other choices.
>>731 If the only music you could listen to for the rest of your life was the collected works of one single artist, composer, band, etc, who/which would you pick? Off the record, my "favorite" and the one I picked when a friend posed me this question are different artists.
>>730,731 Croatia. I'm not actually watching the game, but I hope they win. Fuck France.
And Tchaikovsky. Not necessarily my favorite composer/musician of all times, but probably the one with the biggest catalog with the best ratio of things I like to things I don't.
>>732 Is it morally acceptable to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings, in your opinion?
>>737
I don't have a favorite, but I do have a least favorite:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bugman
>>739
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
>>741 I did Visual Basic at school, then when I got a job at a games studio there were sometimes tiny code fixes I was able to do myself to save the programming team's time but I'm not much of a coder at all. When the company folded, I did wonder if I'd be able to take the code-base and make something cool out of the dead project but I have to much other stuff going on to really spare time to learn how to code. The idea I had was to make the player characters... made of constantly-generated water shaped like them, and they splash about.
>>743 Would you play a splashy fighting game where the fighters were made of water?
>>748
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_oath_(Hungarians)
>>750
What is the single most useless piece of information you still remember exactly?
>>749 There's a lot of it in me old noggin, but I can perfectly recall the particular set of noises the toilet the cottage in the woods I lived in until I was 6 made when it flushed. Whhhw-whhhhw, whhy whhhwHhh... ba-dumpah-dshhh...(...)
>>751 What do you do when you can hear your downstairs neighbours are having a party?
>>752
Tabletop: GURPS for the flexibility, though I find 5E surprisingly pleasant. Video game: Planescape Torment, because I felt like I could actually choose what role to play, while also taking in a pretty decent story. (The only JRPG series I've really played is Ys, so I can't really judge that category.)
>>754
What's your favorite pole arm?
>>754
I ate spicy food for dinner last night and I'm dying in my chair at work today.
>756
What is your preferred email provider?
>>757
Cut a piece of salmon. Remove the scales. Add some salt. Simmer for a couple of minutes. You may wish to cut it up while it is simmering to distribute the heat more efficiently.
>>759
If your life was a game, played by beings in some higher plane of existence, what would the speed-run leader board look like for [insert a life goal of your choice]?
>>758
I'm not sure I fully understand the question. I have no idea what the speed-run leader board would look like, because I don't know any beings in a higher plane of existence, let alone their names.
But here are a few random life events that I think would be funny to speedrun:
>>760
What are you watching recently?
>>762 It will affect my currency, or maybe we will have a new currency then and it can just be part of the settling-in period for the new world. Whatever happens, I don't really care, life will happen and I will only sort of be part of it.
>>764 Do you ever worry the weather where people live will be manipulated by malicious forces?
>>763
I did a couple of modules of meteorology back in undergrad, and... no, I really don't. The sheer amount of mass and energy you'd have to manipulate to cause any kind of harmful weather, e.g. a drought or hurricane, is way out of our technological reach. The only weather manipulation we can do at present is cloud seeding, and even that only works locally, temporarily, and only if clouds are on the verge of forming already anyway.
>>765
What is your opinion on body pillows?
>>766 I have a bit of a crackpot theory about astrology... see how the moon affects the tides, well what if the different celestial bodies actually do hold some kind of sway on different people on our planet born at different times? For example if Mars has, I don't know, a lot more iron in its core, and people born at a time when it's close to Earth are more susceptible to something in it, compared to people born when another planet is aligned with the Earth a different way. Like what if people born at different times of the year were affected by which planets were nearest at the time, and as they swing back into orbit, those planets affect the people in different ways? As in the universe is a complex system and the positioning of everything makes a tight, perfectly arranged mechanism for how life on Earth plays out. I'm drunk and pretty sure this is a lot of bullshit, but I also bet there's a lot of variables humans aren't aware of and can't measure/understand yet. I've always thought horoscopes were superstitious nonsense, but it's interesting how often people match the stereotypes they were born into.
>>768 Do you know enough to tear my pseudoscientific inklings to shreds?
>>773
Sorry, I don't know anything about cocktails. I think my sense of taste is plebeian enough that they would be wasted on me.
>>775
Autumn, followed after a gap by winter. Probably because of the lack of humidity (where I live).
>>777
Whoa, 777, an auspicious number. You must be pretty lucky. What's the most recent stroke of good fortune you've had?
>>773
(replying because I missed the first time and >>776's answer was boring)
I make cocktails but nothing fancy, usually just mixing whatever juice I have with whatever alcohol I have. However my favorite is hands down gin + Jamaican ginger beer.
>>776
Yesterday I forgot to bring proper shoes to a basketball event, but it turned out my friend had the address wrong anyway, so we just spent the day drinking craft beer instead. In this way two misfortunes became fortunate.
>>778
What's a fond memory you have of 2018?
