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My mind wanders a lot, especially when what I'm doing doesn't take much concentration. (Like walking an overencumbered child to the nearest shop to offload all her stuff, as per my very first example.) I pay a criminally low amount of attention to a lot of the things I do. So I end up suddenly snapping out of my train of thought a lot with NO idea what I'm doing, and forgetting to do things I'm supposed to do if I wasn't thinking about them when I went on auto-pilot. (Like forgetting to add a question or scenario or whatever in Q&A or what would you do if.) Actually, I just had another such moment. This time, I didn't realise until she was already in another town and I was looking at the inventory that while I was absent-mindedly thinking about where I could find malachite my Skyrim character just sold her panties to Khajiit traders alongside all the other things she was offloading. I would've thought after catching that mistake last time I wouldn't make it again, but no. Well, at least she didn't pawn off anything useful. I wouldn't put it past myself to not notice selling her armour or something.

I find "I still have the disease, I'll do it again." is an effective way to keep people listening to you and to keep them from attacking you. What? Morality doesn't really apply to this situation.

I had a similar issue with my iPod display and the time. Somebody would ask me for the time, so I'd look at the display. Then I still didn't know what time it was. So I'd look at the display again. Then they'd ask what time it was, and I'd tell them I didn't know, look at the display one more time, then tell them.

Banned for being a total buzzkill in the "What would you do if" and "Q&A" threads.

I've taken clothes out of the dryer and put them in the washing machine before. Same response.

Ever have a moment when you ask yourself what the FUCK you're doing? Share it with the community. Mine was just a couple minutes ago. I was playing (a HEAVILY modded version of) Skyrim, and was starting to think about percentage armour systems (which I generally hate), then that drifted into thought on how the value of percentage resistances is not linear, developed a formula for determining their relative value, and was testing it out with a couple different figures in my head, then I suddenly realised that while I was not paying attention to my actions my pre-pubescent character was now selling her panties to a sleasy man in one of the shops (for FOUR GOLD!) and asked myself the titular question verbatim. I guess that's what I get for leaving my actions on autopilot.

Granted. You now have a shitty CPU from 1998. I wish this neighbourhood wasn't so loud.

It's a shit neighbourhood. It's a hyper-conservative hick town just outside a liberal city, where all the bible-thumping shitheads that couldn't stand the damn city rules about things like "equality" or "seperation of church and state" decided to move all at once when they got the option. Worse, they got the option because a bunch of rich assholes moved out here before them and bought up all the lakefront property to build mansions on, and those rich assholes are a bunch of old as shit bible-thumping hypocrites themselves. The result is a place where the creationist density is about 80%, the school district is full of vindictive old fucks that like to take out their prejudices on their students, creationism is taught alongside evolution in science class, the history classes are filled to the brim with conservative propaganda that is almost always racist as shit, the health classes are absinence-only AND homophobic and as a result of the shitty bible-thumping schools and shitty bible-thumping parents too many of the teens are hateful bigots running around spewing slurs at minorities and occasionally physically assaulting them. Add on Washington's high mental illness rate, the fact that half of the people here are poor as shit, and give them all unsecured guns they were never taught proper respect for as children. Odds on a bet the person being fired at was LGBT or suspected of such. This shit happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Thankfully, the cross-eyed inbred fucking morons around here can't shoot worth a shit, so it's unlikely they're dead if they're wounded at all.

It is FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING. I just have to say that first, it's important context. See, my dog starts scratching at the door at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING, but I don't want to let him out at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING because it's FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING so I ignore him and then he starts howling at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING so I give up and let him out at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING to go take a shit at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING where it's freezing balls because it's FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING and then I step inside to make coffee because it's FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING and the dog starts barking at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING and then I have to let him in at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING so he won't wake up half the fucking neighbourhood at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING, but that's a moot point now anyway because there's gunshots at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING and screaming at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING two klicks away, so now there's sirens at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING making me real glad I'm not trying to sleep at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING because now everybody's awake at FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING and won't go back to bed until FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING. And did I mention it was FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING? Because it's important that you understand the context in which all this is occuring.

Dude... There's GOT to be a better way.

Then why the fuck are we arguing?

osWXbe7MbGE I realise it's not much compared to the rest of this thread, but still.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2359&start=60 Thanks.

Sources for what? There's a lot in there and most of it is at least supposed to be common knowledge. (Then again, I have met people who thought space didn't exist, so I guess "common knowledge" is a bit less than I thought.) Especially since the last of your own sources actually says the part about our limited muscle usage. (It also clarifies that chimps only *SEEM* stronger, because they aren't capable of reserving strength like we do.) And that really IS common knowledge, I mean, that's how adrenalin works. So if that's not it, then WHAT, specifically, are you wanting a source for? I'm probably not going to hunt down sources for every single statement in that entire paragraph, that'd take hours. For the fuck of it, here's a quick source on that: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/circus-arts/adrenaline-strength1.htm Though I'll give you enough credit to say you already know that.

Messing with my little character's hair in Skyrim. (HEAVILY modded, not the point.) I've been doing this for half an hour, trying to get her hair to look pretty, reflect her character, not get in her eyes and be the right colour. I finally found one that looked pretty and fit her character, although it was a bit too long and the wrong colour, then threw ALL that out because the hair in the front irked me by not moving when she ran. (It was hanging suspended in mid-air. Like it was draping over the breasts she doesn't have yet.) I eventually ended up with something that didn't quite fit her character, but didn't block her eyesight, was the right colour, looked pretty and didn't have any weird physical anomalies. I guess I can write off it not fitting her character as "she let daddy do her hair". (Because, you know, she kinda did.) Of course, then I found out it meshed through her amour... Ugh. I'll be at this for ages. I think there might be something wrong with me.

(Can pest please stop answering these? He's a real buzz-kill.) Stop, drop and roll. What would you have done if you were alive in time for project A-119, it actually happened (in real life it was scrapped) and saw the event?

9bZkp7q19f0 (Bet you forgot that existed, didn't you?) Is that even a question? (Wait, am I allowed to answer in the form of a video?)

Starve. What would you do if every game you played *automatically* became virtual reality? (As in, you're completely immersed in the game world like it's VR. As your character if it's first person, with your character if it's any other angle.)

IDIOTS.

I'm talking about total muscle strength, BTG, not how much we normally have access to. Humans use about 1/5 of their strength under normal circumstances, other apes (we ARE apes, keep that in mind) use closer to half. We are also slower to increase the amount we're using for any given circumstance and never use as much. (Our muscle usage usually tops out around 60%, even in life or death situations. That's about as much as a chimp uses normally, and they top out at 100% like most animals.) Humans would be FIVE times stronger if they used their full strength, chimps wouldn't even be TWICE as strong. They're NOT 2.5 times stronger than us, so we have MORE strength in our muscles overall. A human at full strength has so much power it would destroy them. Literally. We'd tear our own muscles, break our own bones and pull out our own joints because we back too much power into our bodies for them to withstand, and that's why we normally use so little of it. (And as a result, humans have THE best stamina of ANY land animal because they use so little of their muscle mass. It's likely our primary hunting method of persistence predation, basically chasing herd animals and keeping them running until one falls behind due to exhaustion so we can kill it by itself, is the reason for this development.)

Invest in space travel. In the mean time, push contraception, set up a reproduction liscence, and set a cut-off age on medical care until space colonization is a thing. Once it is a thing, start slowly lifting the restrictions as technology improves and we branch out into space, starting by making the above restrictions not apply to those who volunteer for space colonies. What would you do if you had the ability to turn *any* video game into virtual reality?

Caitlyn: 6/15/03, age 11

Go back to 1980, take over the PC gaming industry. What would you do if you were talking to a guy so stupid that it literally gave you a headache to listen to him talk and you couldn't leave his idiotic company for hours or do anything to block out his voice?

HOW is that different from now? And who said the teenagers would survive? Any method of elimination practically delivered, especially a disease as I mentioned, would not be able to tell a teenager from an adult. We'd be looking at pre and early pubescent kids *only*. While this isn't the ideal, any method of achieving this would likely only descriminate based on the immune changes during puberty, and that means we're looking at the eldest survivors being in their early teens at the most. And it's not like such a method would be 100% effective, either, and if I did it *I* wouldn't be letting myself die. A considerable percentage of the targeted adults would survive the disease, ideally about 1% but probably more, and since it's statistically unlikely a significant number of them would remain from any form of government, I could move quickly during the spread of the disease and connect (through the internet) to spearhead the peacekeeping and social services that would be left. I'd be in a pretty good position for a takeover, and if that fails I'd just do it again until it works. Once I'm in control, I could direct humanity, or at least as much of it as possible, in a positive direction and spread that as much as possible. At the very least, the old world religions would be completely gone and there wouldn't be a food shortage anymore, the current governments (almost all of which are EVIL) would collapse and we'd get a blank(er) slate for me to work with. I could communicate a secular, egalitarian philosophy to as much of the world as possible and rely on the people that receive it to spread it to all the (importantly not strongly indoctrinated by their parents evil worldview and not very set in their ways) children available, and even though I'd hardly reach them all I'd reach a lot and that'd be a HUGE step up for humanity anyway. And if it's not enough, try again. I could do it several times before I'd have to stop, and I'm confident that even though this is unlikely to be 100% effective (or anything near it) it'd make a big step in the right direction. Yes, I realise this is overly elaborate for a daydream that even if I had the power I doubt I'd ever actually do. Yes, I also realise what kind of psychopath that makes me look like. Trust me, this whole thing is just an expression of extreme frustration.

8wR3rj6Blqg I've been listening to this since some idiot I was talking online (not anyone here) just about had me singing it at him.