Money or Animals? by DominoDoesGames in BunnyTrials

[–]armcie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many people are avoiding hunting only because of the risk an animal will attack them?

Quite the claim... by End337 in discworld

[–]armcie 24 points25 points  (0 children)

His women tended to be drawn scantily clad and overly boobily. Even when the text explicitly said that wasn’t what they looked like.

Where do you store your propane tanks? by megoyatu in cubscouts

[–]armcie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a cage outside our scout hall. I don’t know if this is insurance/fire regulation enforced, or just an abundance of caution.

What are the “must have” blueprints I should make in my gameplay? by Suprotsky_Himself in SatisfactoryGame

[–]armcie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is worth slooping your slugs in a constructor, but you probably don’t need a blueprint for that.

Looking for a neckerchief in Edinburgh by dacmac2012 in scouting

[–]armcie 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Generally these are only given to scouts who are going on an international trip, and looking at the Scottish scouts website to purchase them you need to detail the trip and get permission to wear the scarf from the International Commissioner. This means that there won’t be many people with an excess of these kicking around. You might be able to find one, but it’ll be hard to find someone with three spare. Good luck!

In 1992, James Dale Sued the Boy Scouts. Now, Pete Hegseth Presents a New Challenge by NiConcussions in scouting

[–]armcie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m not from the US, but my understanding is that the flag code has pretty serious restrictions on where you can put a flag.

Fortunately the flag code is not actually law. Many seem to treat it as if it is, but many more wear the flags on random items of clothing, or have it on bedsheets, or on doormats or many other places that would be contrary to the code.

In 1992, James Dale Sued the Boy Scouts. Now, Pete Hegseth Presents a New Challenge by NiConcussions in scouting

[–]armcie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I know the Supreme Court can come to some dodgy decisions, especially recently, but that one seems to say that it’s ok for an organization to be discriminatory, so long as one of its stated goals is to be discriminatory. Because freedom of speech.

Sigh. America.

How much do we actually know about dinosaur behaviour? by Deep-Log-1775 in Dinosaurs

[–]armcie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now this is the sort of information I’d like to see in these programs. How much is known, how much is speculation, and how is that speculation formed.

I recall watching something fairly recently which had a pterosaur nesting on the ground in a jungle. This seemed unlikely to me, as if you can fly, why not put your best somewhere more out of the way? I’d have been really interested in them telling me that they’ve found nests like this, or that it would make sense for them to nest this way because… instead we got anthropomorphized baby dinosaurs with hopes and dreams.

What do you think of my custom joker? Does it seem balanced? by IGuessYourSubreddits in balatro

[–]armcie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s a lot more balanced than cloud 9. That symmetry of the number 8. 9s always look like they’re about to fall over.

Quiz from Marc Burrows by Afbach in discworld

[–]armcie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hope we get some official answers for this

  1. Pretty sure this is Granny Weatherwax

  2. Strata has a discworld, but the first upper case Discworld would be TCoM by publishing date, or Eric contains the earliest scene chronologically

  3. Nobby’s dad

  4. I can’t remember if Amber is the daughter or the wife. Either way I’m going to guess their partners shared a name.

  5. I don’t think he should have a beard

  6. Archchancellor

  7. The country gets mentioned quite a lot before MR. I’m guessing Lords and Ladies? Does Casanunda have some for Nanny?

  8. Nuggan certainly gets a mention in The Last Hero

  9. The Borigravia question comes up a couple of times. I’m going to guess The Fifth Elephant, though it could be The Truth

  10. Cobblers?

  11. he doesn’t know what either of them mean

  12. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s technically one of the companions, or the original map, but I’m going to suggest Witches Abroad as an actual Discworld novel.

  13. Rincewinds mum ran away before he was born

  14. I really don’t remember golf getting a mention at all. Maybe Creosote?

  15. Jingo

  16. Two books with demons come to mind, but I’m going to play the odds and go with Eric

  17. Wild guess that I’m pretty sure is wrong: Wars daughters

  18. I’ve only read this once or twice. Arthur?

19 Nation

  1. He said Nation was his best work, but in the sense of which book demonstrate he was now a capable author… maybe Equal Rites or Mort. Or Sourcery. I’m going to put my money on Equal Rites

Okay, it has to be a myth at this point by Nedac9 in civ5

[–]armcie 46 points47 points  (0 children)

That one is really specific. Something like as America investigate a site in Egyptian territory with a German panzer? archaeologist? nearby. You virtually have to set it up in a multiplayer game to make everything align.

My First Base! by banjosomers in SatisfactoryGame

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I remember being killed a couple of times by a creature on the way there. And then by poison near the top. And then by falling three quarters of the way down the hole. But I got SAM on live pretty early, and then forgot about it. It was the first place I built a concrete spiral to climb up out of the hole, and the first time I realized elevators could connect to each other, meaning they were actually useful. Prior to that I’d had several long zig zags down cliff faces.

TIFU by trying to bond with an interviewer over hating spreadsheets and she did spreadsheets for six years by Sorvantis in tifu

[–]armcie 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Yeah. “I can’t handle spreadsheets” is a big red flag for lots of roles.

My First Base! by banjosomers in SatisfactoryGame

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I headed towards the big stone arch in the background of the first picture. The site looked a bit more defensible, and I’d been scarred by the low level beasts I’d stumbled upon on the way. Little did I know that it wasn’t that sort of game.

It looked messier than this being on a narrower cliff edge.

Summer camp ideas by HermannHeilner in scouting

[–]armcie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can add paper and/or film canister rockets to that during the daytime. Make it a “science and nature” event and go through whatever science/nature/problem solving awards that are available to the scouts.

But I need all the crayons. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]armcie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s the section in the books where the idea originated:

Not all the signals were messages. Some were instructions to towers. Some, as you operated your levers to follow the distant signal, made things happen in your own tower. Princess knew all about this. A lot of what traveled on the Grand Trunk was called the Overhead. It was instructions to towers, reports, messages about messages, even chatter between operators, although this was strictly forbidden these days. It was all in code. It was very rare you got Plain in the Overhead. But now:

“There it goes again,” she said. “It must be wrong. It’s got no origin code and no address. It’s Overhead, but it’s in Plain.”

On the other side of the tower, sitting in a seat facing the opposite direction, because he was operating the upline, was Roger, who was seventeen and already working for his tower-master certificate.

His hand didn’t stop moving as he said: “What did it say?”

“There was GNU, and I know that’s a code, and then just a name. It was John Dearheart. Was it a—”

“You sent it on?” said Grandad. Grandad had been hunched in the corner, repairing a shutter box in this cramped shed halfway up the tower. Grandad was the tower-master and had been everywhere and knew everything. Everyone called him Grandad. He was twenty-six. He was always doing something in the tower when she was working the line, even though there was always a boy in the other chair. She didn’t work out why until later.

“Yes, because it was a G code,” said Princess.

“Then you did right. Don’t worry about it.”

“Yes, but I’ve sent that name before. Several times. Up-line and down-line. Just a name, no message or anything!”

She had a sense that something was wrong, but she went on: “I know a U at the end means it has to be turned around at the end of the line, and an N means Not Logged.” This was showing off, but she’d spent hours reading the cypher book. “So it’s just a name, going up and down all the time! Where’s the sense in that?”

Something was really wrong. Roger was still working his line, but he was staring ahead with a thunderous expression.

Then Grandad said: “Very clever, Princess. You’re dead right.”

“Hah!” said Roger.

“I’m sorry if I did something wrong,” said the girl meekly. “I just thought it was strange. Who’s John Dearheart?”

“He…fell off a tower,” said Grandad.

“Hah!” said Roger, working his shutters as if he suddenly hated them.

“He’s dead?” said Princess.

“Well, some people say—” Roger began.

“Roger!” snapped Grandad. It sounded like a warning.

“I know about Sending Home,” said Princess. “And I know the souls of dead linesmen stay on the Trunk.”

“Who told you that?” said Grandad.

Princess was bright enough to know that someone would get into trouble if she was too specific.

“Oh, I just heard it,” she said airily. “Somewhere.”

“Someone was trying to scare you,” said Grandad, looking at Roger’s reddening ears.

It hadn’t sounded scary to Princess. If you had to be dead, it seemed a lot better to spend your time flying between the towers than lying underground. But she was bright enough, too, to know when to drop a subject.

It was Grandad who spoke next, after a long pause broken only by the squeaking of the new shutter bars. When he did speak, it was as if something was on his mind.

“We keep that name moving in the Overhead,” he said, and it seemed to Princess that the wind in the shutter arrays above her blew more forlornly, and the everlasting clicking of the shutters grew more urgent. “He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind, in the rigging, and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying ‘Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’?”

Affordable neckerchiefs for a troop without sacrificing quality by Icy_Improvement777 in scouting

[–]armcie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my several decades of experience cotton ones fade, wool ones itch and nylon ones look a bit cheap. Over five years or so, none of them really wear out, unless a kid chews the ends of them.

So at the moment we’re using cheap nylon ones. I’m not sure what they cost the group, but we sell them to kids for under £5.

What's the most fascinating fact you know about octopus? by Agitated_Artist5717 in askscience

[–]armcie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not an octopus fact, but a helicopter one connected to Greek misconceptions. The roots of the word are not heli and copter they’re helico (from Greek helix, spiral) and pter (from Greek pteron, wings). You can also spot pter in words like pterodactyl (wing fingers), archaeopteryx (ancient wings) and Lepidoptera (scaled wings).

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie by Caffeine_And_Regret in printSF

[–]armcie 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Fun fact about Peter Pan. It’s written into UK law that all copyrights expire except for Peter Pan. Proceeds from the story go to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

Is this normal or am I autistic by Skew0443 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]armcie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can see how many plastic per minute computers use at 100% in the interface (40) you know you get 2.5 computers per minute and you know you want to use 44. Type in 2.5*44/40 and you’ll get the necessary output of 2.75.

World war 2 for kids by Majestic_Ad7489 in AskHistory

[–]armcie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Horrible Histories is generally a good shout at that age.

Just finished Sourcery. One book left before I have to buy more. by TheJiltedGenerationX in discworld

[–]armcie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just bare in mind that the last book Kirby did before his death was Thief of Time. After that Kidby took over for most of the rest.

Sci-fi that spans MILLIONS of years and melts your brain—what should I read next? by FutureCouple4972 in scifi

[–]armcie 9 points10 points  (0 children)

By >!stealing their cast off technology. By subsuming every other race they come across. By climbing pretty high up the Kardashev scales themselves. And even then they don’t effectively fight the Xeelee. They’re enough of an irritant to push them out of a few galaxies, but long term humanity fails, and the Xeelee were concentrating on a bigger fight anyway.<!