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  1. It's always an experience to indicate to people that I'm a Christian, and the entire religion is pretty dependent on close relationships anyways. It's partially insulting when people take this as some sort of absurdity or surprise.
  2. Blue

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    I most certainly hope not. However people tend to be biased. What is the best kind of dessert?
  3. While I do have an opinion on the matter, I do not think it should come to bear on anyone since my opinion has no weight; why should I declare and pronounce what's right and true on matters from which I have no material bearing, or costs and benefits from which I am protected? Since I am not a married man, father, woman, or a priest.
  4. Uncharacteristically hot and not very humid. I should go swimming.
  5. The latter part of my last post was supposed to be a minor indication that we might be en-route for derailing if we continued on that topic so I tied it off. This thread doesn't exist for my personal satisfaction, nor does it exist for complaining, is what I was saying. Since it would make you guys all irate if I said my position on Ponies has always fluctuated simply to mess with all your heads, color me a contented closet brony.
  6. Sarcasm and other similar rhetoric have become staple elements of internet humor these days. Sarcastic humor is all well and good, I enjoy a joke about a man being struck by an ambulance as much as anyone else. But something I wish to give a name is when people take the sarcasm they spout as some sort of meta-humor when they retain the joke as 'serious', which fails to humor both the recipient and speaker. Let's call it the False Sarcasm Trap. For the sake of example: I am in a conversation with you about television, and I bring up the show My Little Pony [see footnote]. You say "That show is for girls and it is not very interesting." I say (to make a sarcastic jibe) "No, the show is very masculine and informative." What just happened? I, wanting to make a sarcastic joke, have simply taken an entirely contrary opinion to the other person. In the instant in which the other person considers the retort serious as opposed to a sarcastic joke, the humor of the exchange has been replaced by a debate. You say "How on Earth could My Little Pony by manly?" At this point in order to continue to feed what minor subconscious seed remains in my mind that it's still just an appearance of debate when truly it's just a sarcastic joke (in addition to the common cultural ideal that I must defend arguments I make, lest I become a loser), I now must defend my position in this newly created debate. I now have become solidified in a position which I may not actually have cared to be in, in the first place, simply by a loophole of modern humor. This solidified postion can influence future choices, responses and behaviors, because now I have chosen for myself a place on which to stand in regards to My Little Pony. In my mind this is a problem endemic with frequent internet users who converse a lot online and have a very wry sense of humor. False Sarcasm Traps indicate behaviors that usually are negative because of a sarcastic remark that becomes an action or choice. Such as "John, can you take out the trash?" "No, Dad. I'll never do the trash." Over-reaction on such an obviously rhetorical question would mean that John is being sarcastic, but he might start taking the reaction he states jokingly, seriously. There lies the trap- in that example, John now having used a sarcastic quip which if ignored or taken as a joke, would mean that John then has simply said a joke. He didn't actually say anything in regards to the request of doing the chore, leaving him simply with the suggestion and his free will to do as he pleases, to take out the trash or not take out the trash. If he doesn't, then it might encourage him to proceed with similar false sarcasm traps in the future which may result in less respect for the authority of his father. Thus he would begin modeling his actions after the very thing he said he would do sarcastically. It generates an on-going meta-irony of the sarcasm. This second example is somewhat extreme (plausible only,) but representative. Humorous sarcastic remarks in this sense have a remarkable amount of subtle power in how they can change our behaviors and adds another layer of depth to the phrase "Think about what you say". It is my theory that many people are part of organizations or groups, or partake in actions or behaviors simply because of spite of the nature of their own sarcasm. [Footnote: I say MLP because it is a relatable and recent thing to be held in this hypothetical] TL;DR people are just as capable of reading the entire thread as anyone else. It is a symptom of the thing I just described that "prevents" them from thinking otherwise.
  7. One pattern of behavior newer Engineers seem to be taking is both tangentially correct and directly idiotic at the same time, which is placing two sentries directly beside each other. It's good to see that they're trying to learn by replicating the actions of more skilled engineers (such as myself), but two sentries in one spot have twice the damage output, double the target area and all of the same blind spots. One demoman can do twice as much harm with no risk just as he would with one sentry.
  8. Blue

    Q & A Thread

    Picture that mom wants to put on the wall, my shader notes whiteboard, pencil cup, little clock, The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams, an empty can of President's Choice Spritz Up. What's the fastest you've ever traveled?
  9. Don't do it Epsilon! If everyone changes their name on this forum on a whim, then I'll never be able to recognize who is who
  10. Aww yeah Guy, Eff That Guy and Inglip Gropagas are my favorites, but it is an exceptionally rare comic that I actually like.
  11. I thought the major distinguishing feature of the My Little Pony thread was going to be Pony-related conversation, not how much they dislike Anti-Bronies. Little would be more uninteresting than repeated posts of "I dislike X *this* much!"
  12. Blue

    Q & A Thread

    Last wash was never ago. When was the last time you did a full computer virus scan?
  13. I must staple things to things.
  14. 8.5/10 I love the Barenaked Ladies, and I believe that song was the one that got them their first big break from their album "Gordon". Ml7ZleYolro Franz Schubert, Marche Militaire for 8-hands piano
  15. Blue

    Q & A Thread

    Probably the collective wastes of time that have been misread, damaged, deleted or lost files in the process of rendering things in 3D. Probably in the order of a collective 15 gigabytes and 100 personal man-hours over the course of the past six years. I do not recall damaging anything of substantial value within the past twenty years. What would be the first thing you would do if you were in space?
  16. Main opponent: William Wilberforce, and his special ability: bookwriting.
  17. Well then I should think we should be happy at the state of moderation on this forum.
  18. Yelling Getting a Haircut Digesting Ribs Hill Defense
  19. What would I do if I had cybernetic augmentations...? I'd probably look into doing an Iron Man or equivalent exercise thing.
  20. In the event of superstitions, apply encyclopedia to brain.
  21. I bite my tongue and resist the urge to laugh in sardonic loathing mirth of the irony in these two points. Because if I would allow myself to laugh, the irony of those two points would be the funniest thing I have read in over a month. Username, grow up. I am ashamed on both our behalves at how immature you are in such conduct.
  22. Testing lighting solutions in Maya, spending the render downtime on forums.
  23. Blue

    Joke Thread.

    Think for a moment about flamethrowers. Flamethrowers. We have them- well we don't have them, the army has them. That's right.. the army's got all the flamethrowers. I'd say we're screwed if we have to go up against the army, wouldn't you? But think about the fact that we have flamethrowers, the fact that we have them says that at one point somebody said to himself: "Gee, I'd sure like to set those people on fire over there, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. If only I had something that would throw the flame on them." And It might have ended right there, until that fellow mentioned it to his friend. His friend, who was good with tools; and he comes back a month later "Hey, quite a concept!" *FLOOOSZHCSK!!* Of course the army hears about it later and they're all "We have some people we'd like to throw flame on. Give us about 500,000 of them please. Paint them green so they're harder to see in the jungle."
  24. 8-Bit Trip I also consider to be one of the best Lego animated videos I've ever seen (contending alongside The Han Solo Affair and Bowling for Sandercoe)
  25. I read the Bible while eating breakfast, since I've made a habit of always eating breakfast and usually don't accommodate reading anywhere else in my day. Every day in which I have internet access, I will either check the webcomics Cucumber Quest or Rice Boy.
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