Coyote_Seven

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  1. Coyote_Seven

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Black Zot View Post
    I think it's pretty reasonable to extrapolate...
    No, it isn't reasonable at all. And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.
  2. Coyote_Seven

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Black Zot View Post
    Quoted for being true of every single female I've ever met. Nothing sexist about stating facts.
    So you're saying that you've met every single female human on the planet?
  3. Coyote_Seven

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by BlueBattler View Post
    Doesn't it depend on what your definition of "smart" person is?

    Are we just losing scientists, physicians, engineers or are we also losing mechanics, electricians, carpenters, cement masons, and plumbers?

    Are you talking "Life After Smart People" or "Planet of the Liberal Arts Majors"?
    LOL, fine. Let's say it's all the masters of the hard sciences that suddenly disappear. All of the doctors, physicists and engineers who perform all the research, run all the experiments, and create the designs. That will still leave you with the people who know how to maintain all systems that are already in place, but who would not necessarily know how to improve on them or create new ones....

    ...until they also disappear!!!

    Then the plot thickens.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oliin View Post
    Oddly enough though, sniper attack IOs have range in them ... because sniper attacks really need that longer range in there.
    To this day, my old blaster still has 3x Nucleolus Exposures and 3x Centriole Exposures, all at 50++. I only wish they were all level 53.

    For a time, I did play with those sniper IO sets, but none of them ever impressed me. I haven't done anything with my blaster with regards to the Incarnate system yet, save for unlocking the Alpha slot almost a year ago. My intention though is to boost damage as much as possible: I really want to be able to 1-shot even con minions again! Haha.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    Again, you don't pay for TV by watching commercials, you pay for TV by literally paying for it. The commercials are how the network pays part of the costs, and you are in no way obligated to watch them.
    Well I remember a time when you just paid for the TV and the DV... I'm sorry, the VCR. Of course the channel selection was tiny compared with cable TV. But my point there is beyond that one-time cost, TV was free!

    But then cable TV got really, really popular...
  6. Coyote_Seven

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Reinventing technological civilization, even with documentation, always tends to sound easier than it actually is, because so few people are aware of all the tiny details that are critical to making it all work correctly. Real scientists, engineers, and doctors know when the books are misleading or wrong or incomplete. Most people will not, and it will be costly in many ways to discover. Its not that its impossible, its more a question of how many human beings would be left alive by the time we figured it out, and also whether we would all collectively put enough effort into actually doing it. We're not really marshalling humanity's best efforts to combat global climate change even though the potential downstream effects could be catastrophic. Is it automatically true that humanity would marshal its best efforts to preserving, and then reproducing modern technology if they were told all the people who used to do it are now gone and this will have a potentially serious impact at some indetermined future date.
    I think you just hit on an idea for yet another Discovery Channel series: "Life after smart people".
  7. Coyote_Seven

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by MajorDecoy View Post
    Yeah, that was my reaction too.
    Indeed. Thumbs down on this. Way down!
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    You seem to keep avoiding or ignoring that rather central theme of the thread in your replies and picking away at anything peripheral to it that allows you to ignore the main theme.
    He's so good at doing that, I say he should run for congress. He'd do incredibly well!
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan View Post
    I do get really wound up when the servers at fast food joints ask me "wpuld you like to go large/a drink/fries/a desert with that?", though. I want to respond with "Are you insinuating that I'm a cretin? Because surely only a moron would come into your esrablishment wanting fries/a drink/a desert/to go large and then FORGET TO ACTUALLY ASK FOR IT?"

    But I don't. No point. Sometimes I say something like "I'd like a Bigmac, and only a Bigmac, and I don't want you to offer me anything else at all, ok?" though.
    I wouldn't be so hard on the retail slaves, myself. They're required to upsale like that to everyone. Those companies hire secret shoppers to pose as actual customers in order to spy on their performance, and if they don't do things like that, they'll get written up. The whole store gets blamed for it and the poor wage slave gets chewed out by their boss just because he or she forgot to say "would you like fries with that?"

    You wanna get mad at anyone, get mad at the guys in the monkey suits who probably live nowhere near you and work at the corporate HQ. They have a marketing department who swears that their research says that upselling to customers increases sales and revenue, and so they command all their little trained minions to say dumb things like that all the time.

    EDIT: Or better yet, take your business to an independantly operated local burger place. And I'm not talking about a privately owned franchise, either! You're likely to get a better burger at that local place run by some crotchety old guy who gets annoyed with you if you take too long to make an order, and where the workers have a bit more freedom and don't have to follow a silly set of rules. And the portions will likely be a lot bigger. -- Unless the owner is a tightwad, in which case, go to the other indy burger place!
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    So have you been to the West Corner of the Park lately? I've been there, but it was years ago.
    I think I'm gonna edit that wiki to say something completely different now.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Eventually, but that's not what nailed me your entire biography in one shot.
    If it's the one that says I live in a certain suburb of Los Angeles, among other things... yeah, I kinda made that up.

    But you gotta admit, that's a cool last name.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    How's your back?
    Much better, thanks! But that was too easy. You Google'd my username here and found one of my LiveJournals.

    My fault for using the same moniker for such things.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    Never underestimate the Internet, or those who dwell there.
    Me next! Me next! I want to see if I've been successfully misleading.
  14. We all think that Nemesis is responsible for directing the Well of the Furies into becoming more active lately, but really, he is behind the whole Praetorian goings on. Somehow, he's responsible for the Praetorian Hamidon getting as strong as it did.

    I'm more convinced that it's Professor Echo who is directing the Well.
  15. Coyote_Seven

    Human potential


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MaestroMavius View Post
    Yes, because the truth is so very scary.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan View Post
    fire and brimstone coming down from the skies...

    rivers and seas boiling...

    forty years of darkness...

    earthquakes, volcanoes...

    the dead rising from the grave...

    human sacrifice...

    dogs and cats living together...

    mass hysteria!
    Improved that for you!
  17. Coyote_Seven

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Ummm....
    Just back away very, very slowly...
  18. First we need the Coulromancy set for MasterMinds.
  19. Did you just chastise someone for "getting personal", and then turn right around and do just that to someone else in the exact same post?

    EDIT: Oops. I meant to say that this entire thread is dumb. It's just an elf, for crying out loud. My only complaint is that it's badly drawn.
  20. Coyote_Seven

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by Bubbawheat View Post
    Oh yeah, Timecop was the Jean Claude Van Damme movie where he found an excuse to jump up and do the splits on top of something for some reason.
    He must've been on Broadway.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Void_Huntress View Post
    I just make multiple tabs so I can easily decide what I want to listen to. I don't go back and check the other sets of tabs typically; I switch what frame of mind I am in for how much communication, and exclusively use those tabs on my chat windows for a while.

    This is especially useful for the various LFG channels, so I only have to look at them when I'm trying to find a team.
    I used to have the Help channel on the same tab as where I kept those LFG type channels (there are several that exist on Virtue, of which some I am a member). Since CoH Freedom though, the Help channel has been given its own special tab! Otherwise, it would totally drown out all those other channels.
  22. I'd 2-star someone like that. Can't tell me what trial he wants to form or even thinks he wants to form, and then says something like that at the end?

    Yeah... no.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    I actually didn't know antisocial personality disorder was so particularly diabolical, I thought it meant the first things seebs said people might think it meant, heh.
    It's kind of like chastising someone who doesn't like walking by asking if they're paraplegic (edit: when you're already certain that they are not!). Whether or not they should be walking more isn't the point. The comparison is in extremely bad taste.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    Yes. Yes you did. If you're going to say you never said things, please be sure there's no proof you said it.
    I'll bet he goes back and starts editing his older comments in an attempt to make it look like he didn't say things we remember him saying. I'd say for someone to take screencaps, but I actually don't care enough!

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    So you automatically think that because a person says "sometimes I like to solo and that's how it is" that they NEVER team? I team a lot. I really do. I form stuff in Virtue LFG Beta, I hit up Roleplayers LFT, I invite people to run newspapers with me, I join WST runs regularly.

    But guess what, doc? I also like to solo. We all do. Sometimes we like to run the game at our own pace, on our own terms, with no need to explain to other people why we're doing what we're doing.

    Evidenced by every post you've made in this thread, this is obviously a problem to you. You've gone so far as to make incorrect, rude assumptions about everyone who tells you you're wrong, even questioning their mental stability.

    This isn't our problem with teaming, it's your problem with us soloing. Take it elsewhere, kid. You're just embarrassing yourself.
    Truer words have never been said. We all solo a lot (some of us more than others), but we also sometimes team up. But that's the point. We do what we like, when we like it. This is a videogame, not a job or a charity. And we are not the hermits he's looking for.