>>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
( ﾟ -ﾟ) 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?
>>651
I'd probably just wear what I normally do since I already have those clothes, but I'd look into buying those things the Arabs wear that look like dresses since they look comfortable. Women's dresses always have crinkles or other frills on them that I probably wouldn't like. I might just go out in my underwear if it's really hot, assuming public nudity is still taboo. Winter time I'd wear robes and shit over sweats since it doesn't rain much.
>>653
I'm thinking of using my food dehydrator to make tomato leather for sandwiches that I pack for lunch in order to replace fresh tomatoes since they are very moist and contribute to making the bread soggy if left for several hours in a closed and non breathable environment. Is this a good idea or comoletely idiotic?
>>656
Never have, don't see the point. They're such a pain in the neck to legally set up for a few seconds of light that are about as impressive as a screensaver, and there are much more impressive things if you're willing to go outside legality. Perhaps if I'd made them by hand or something I'd have some investment in the result.
>>658
Pen or pencil?
>>657
Pencil. It's more expressive and it's easily correctable. I almost never use pen.
>>659
I've been having trouble getting out of my house and going to work. The job is fine, I need the money, but instead of walking out the door I'll find myself doing things like pace back and forth trying to figure out why I'm pacing back and forth. Any advice?
>>664
See, it's such a nebulous term; each new would-be prophet of scientism has his own definition, it seems. As originally described, we've been there for some time now. But the more imaginative definitions, the one those preaching a gospel of "planetary civilization" and "technological singularity" would have us believe, I say absolutely not. These guys remind me of those guys who keep announcing new dates for the Second Coming... sorry, fellas, I want to live in a better world, too, but it doesn't just get dropped in our laps.
I hope I'm not the only one seeing how ludicrous it is to equate quantifiable figures for energy with "progress". We could expand data centers until we actually had to use planetary-scale energy (to ignore the definitions where all that has to be used on radio signals), but that's clearly not the transhuman robosocialist utopia these people are conjuring up (note that it's not those possibilities I'm specifically rejecting, only that human self-interests don't magically go away just because human needs are exceeded).
>>666
Are you the Boddhi?