Blood Red Arachnid

There's actually a good reason to do this. I, myself, didn't buy a comic until I was 22 years old and had my own job and income and moved out of my parents place. The reason why was because my parents wouldn't tolerate the comic books.

If there was a much "softer" image to it than a bikini-with-bewb-window woman all over them, them just maybe I would've been buying comics with my parents money a long time ago.

Matter and energy being indestructible is an assumption that works on topology greater than the atomic scale. It is through the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that virtual particles can appear for short amounts of time and vanish just as quickly. Since the universe obviously deals with things larger than single molecules, it is a safe to operate under the assumption that energy is conserved when dealing with any scientific discipline equal to or higher than chemistry. It is indeed considered a far stranger phenomena when energy doesn't appear to be conserved than when it does appear to be conserved.

The universe beginning doesn't suddenly necessitate that matter and energy not be conserved. The beginning of the universe is not some abstract concept that creates ideas that someone can just apply to the world willy nilly like Santa Claus. It is an area of great interest and of great difficulty in explanation simply because it requires weird implications. Those weird results are favorable to the alternative model of an infinite universe, since that produces a fundamental contradiction: If the universe is dynamic and infinite, any point or vector must have a limitless amount information to explain it's position, and a limitless sequence to have physically passed to come to it's position. This necessitates that the infinite events be countable, achieved, and capable of being surpassed by subsequent events; the infinite events must be finite. Since infinite =/= finite, the theory must be rejected on the grounds that it is ultimately nonsense.

A universe that has an infinite amount of mass and space would collapse into itself due to infinite gravitational pull of the infinite mass. There is only one way that this wouldn't happen, and that would be if mass, energy, and the space it occupies were perfectly homogeneous. Since there are no observations to confirm this, and plenty of observations against the assumption that the universe is homogeneous, that theory can be rejected.


Something I noticed a lot of people don't understand about science is that the explanations for phenomena aren't divined. What is really going on is scientists are observing phenomena which behave in a fashion that flies in the face of what they previously understood, and this leads them to scramble for an explanation for this unusual phenomena. They didn't just say "There is multiple dimensions, and therefore a single photon can cause interference with itself". Quite the opposite happened: when they saw an interference pattern in the double-slit experiment, they scratched their heads and after awhile they came up with a strange excuse for this strange phenomena. Then you get multiple camps of people with different theories who fight over it, and the body of people with the theory that dies out the slowest wins.

There is something that a coworker of mine said once, and I think it applies perfectly to the field of cosmology. Unfortunately, I can't remember who he was quoting (memory of a 90 year old man again):

"The universe is not only stranger than what we imagine, but stranger than what we can imagine".

This. So much this. A problem that kind if irked my sister (and me to some degree) is that when WB brought back Batman the Animated Series, they changed it so all of the women in the show had identical body styles. And that they forgot what pants were. Prior to that, each character had different proportions, and you felt like you were looking at different people, and not palette swapped people.

You tell him that, in all seriousness, he smells like a toilet.

Well, if someone smells like a poop sandwich, you'd be amazed how long it'll take before someone says something about it. Until then, that someone just goes around smelling like a poop sandwich, not knowing that they are offending to everyone else.

Checks and balances, man! You don't know you're incorrect until someone corrects you.


Just part of growing up. You know, the whole identifying one's self, applying critical thinking to situations, analyzing yourself critically and how you behave in other situations... that stuff.

To make sure I didn't mess up the definition, I looked it up before I wrote that post.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Significant

Important is a Synonym of Significant, and thus it has the same applications.

Prove that it is important to me. It can't be done.

Mechanically,it is impossible for significance to exist without a universe, but the importance of that to any individual (real or theoretical) is arbitrary. Imposing the standard of "which factor of is more important to having perception to which significance can exist" is also arbitrary, since any necessary factor that is missing means that perception can't exist.


(Sorry if I didn't get the edit in time. My computer is running *really* slow right now for no discernible reason).

Part of growing up is realizing that you don't have to respect other people's choices, and in fact you shouldn't respect other people's choices. Just respecting other people's choices doesn't bring to light the idiocy in them, and thus doesn't provide a check for widespread stupidity. People have to learn that life isn't about "playing how you want" but it is really about "playing how others want". You think a manager will hire you at a new job if you refuse to do the job their way? But think about how many friends that one guy who pees in the corner of the room, doesn't bathe regularly, and refuses to play basketball unless he gets to tackle people has. That's right: none. But hey, he's just living by his own choices...



KK. Got the trolls out of my system. Now to other things!

I thought this was funny, but then I realized I was half way there. Although I don't RP, I have a character named Hare Splittor on Virtue. He's a big scary guy who dresses up like a bunny while he fights crime because he's weird like that. Though most of the pseudo-RPing is how he'll yell at other players for not respecting "the pink" or bunnies. His backstory is that he was always strange, but kept getting in fights as he grew up so now he's tough as nails, and fights crime dressed (kinda) like a bunny to make girly stuff more respectable.





Notice the tail .

Not surprising. MoM and UG are generally run on a tell-only basis. That is, when they advertise that they are running that trial, to get on you need to send a tell that you are interested in joining.


I am still surprised at a lot of the claims made in this thread. I cannot stress this next detail enough:

You do not need a team of all 53 to complete the trial


Seriously, just last night I hosted a PUG MoM with 14 people, only requirement being 52+ (one toon was 51, but I let it slide), and we thrashed it nearly effortlessly with minimal instructions needed. The only hiccup that occurred was when the Giant Monster in the fifth phase was killed behind Shalice, meaning she couldn't get mezzed that run. Afterwards, it was smooth sailing.

It isn't about DPS either. The greatest issue in the MoM trial is survivability. Any toon that doesn't live too long ceases contributing to the run, and the more deaths that stack up the less likely you are to succeed. If everyone can survive, I would expect a team of mixed 50-53 toons to be more than capable of beating the trial. But, as far as my experience goes, level 50 toons just plain don't survive. Whether it is the AoE attacks from GMs in the first phase, the Mother Mayhem copies in the first phase, or Yin's constant DoT + Lighting + Pulse zone wide damage, 50's kiss the floor quicker than Usain Bolt, since they are fighting an enemy that does 66% more damage than an even-conning AV. Failures at the sixth phase of the trial are so rare that they get special mention each time they happen.


Second, I succeeded at my first MoM run. Funny thing, I thought the TPN was a boatload harder than MoM for the longest time because of this. Of course, I am slightly exceptional in the case that I did the following:

• I researched the trials beforehand, reading their descriptions on the CoH official site.
• I actively asked questions before the trial started, and during the MoM trial when we had breathing room.
  • My response to discovering that there was no hospital was, and I quote, "YIKES!"

But enough tooting my own horn; I couldn't have succeeded without that group of 15 other people there beside me, newbies and not as newbies all alike (the trial was recently released at the time). I succeeded in my first UG run, too. It was nearing the line with the Avatar, but the group intrinsically understood that confused = don't attack. The only trial I believe I failed on the first time through was the TPN, hence why I revered it for awhile.

Nowadays, the trials, at least on virtue, have their vets and their newbies grouped together. So each time a run is done successfully, those 3 or 4 guys who have never done the trial before complete it successfully. I'm not sure where that whole 5/100 thing comes from, but if the RP server is any indication of how things go, then I'd say at least a third of all new players succeed first time. The exception to this rule is during when the trial is first released, in which at this time there are no veterans and strategies concocted to ease the difficulty.