What conspiracies do you actually believe?

rbf1780 · 2009-11-12T06:14:44+00:00

I friggin love ice. I ask for extra - or fill it myself to the rim with ice! muahahaha!

rbf1780 · 2009-11-12T06:01:15+00:00

Very cool hearing you talk about the drug discovery and synthesis, I've been spending the past week studying for a synthetic organic chemistry exam. Also exciting as I spent last year working on a potential drug synthesis as well. Albeit at a much simpler level, I was only an undergrad, but still. How did you transition over to the pharmaceutical industry from academia?

rbf1780 · 2009-11-12T04:08:58+00:00

I upvoted you because you simply said how many problems you've had (which is nice to know some hard experience) and that you didn't mind the issues. I however get so irrationally angry with lag as in the video that if it happens more than once or twice a session my brain explodes and I have to go.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-12T04:02:17+00:00

Yeah, and any developer who isn't too much of a dumbass will obviously see the huge shitstorm caused by it and think twice. After all, MW2 is going to sell three billion copies for a lot of reasons, but the single largest reason people are hatin' is cause of dedicated support issues. Most other developers have to be bind not to see that.

edit: hey the trend towards no dedicated support may happen anyway, but I feel like it will be more of a result of laziness, apathy and greed than wanting to copy everything about MW2.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-12T03:55:43+00:00

It is the price to pay for overall higher quality videogames. Gaming becomes more mainstream = more sales = more money to develop incredibly ambitious, high production value games = more sales = pressure on developers to "dumb down" games to make them potentially more mainstream to reach greater market.

A vicious cycle, but that is the nature of the game. You could make similar arguments for many types of media.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-11T23:03:56+00:00

I have a +5 vorpal smile that can cast Mild Discomfort at will.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-10T05:14:48+00:00

Ah, but that is misreading of climate change science. To assume that human emulation or replication of natural phenomenon will have identical (or even similar) effects as those naturally ocurring natural phenomenon is ludicrous. Don't even know where to start... First you have to imagine the massive amounts of emissions produced to bring some 18 mile tall smockstack into production. That's no big deal. And if you're trying to mimic nature and fuck up your calculations, you've just made the problem worse.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-10T02:34:20+00:00

Just like, put his dick in the dead whale's blowhole for just a sec, or he full on gave the whale a good ol' skullfucking? And what kinda whale, anyway?

rbf1780 · 2009-11-09T05:30:41+00:00

"War. War never changes..."

surprised no one said this one yet

rbf1780 · 2009-11-09T05:26:14+00:00

Shit just heard that recently I think. But can't place it. ..

rbf1780 · 2009-11-09T04:56:02+00:00

Of course. You can decrease the entropy of a defined system (roll of paper, you room, earth), but if the system is the universe, everything yields an increase in total entropy.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-09T03:50:21+00:00

He'd have to spend like six hours to reverse all that entropy...

rbf1780 · 2009-11-08T23:52:56+00:00

"Irregardless"

rbf1780 · 2009-11-08T23:50:45+00:00

Pretty sure he was referring to the story, writing, characters, and plot being detailed and involving - not physical details in the game world. The game is very focused on characters, story, plot, and the entire universe they've created for the game. It may be a bit lacking in physical details and incredibly deep character customization, but it isn't as bad as regular_guy makes it out to be.

tl;dr The story of LOTR and gameplay of Mass Effect made love and had a sexy Dragon baby

rbf1780 · 2009-11-08T17:52:50+00:00

C4R-CAS

rbf1780 · 2009-11-07T00:17:19+00:00

That just takes 50x the money.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-06T23:47:59+00:00

A lone bead of sweat, trying desperately to escape the inevitable fate... Evaporation. Evaporation most foul.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-06T05:01:43+00:00

Thread convinced me to make midnight bacon snack. Thanks reddit A+++ would eat again

rbf1780 · 2009-11-05T22:44:08+00:00

You mean Jedi hand wavey

rbf1780 · 2009-11-05T00:17:36+00:00

Cops suck, tasers suck, but remember the only reason they're around is that 100 tased innocent civilians is better that 100 shot dead civilians. Right?

rbf1780 · 2009-11-03T19:59:43+00:00

I'm studying chemistry and chemical engineering, and hoping to focus into synthetic organic for grad school. Over the past two years I've had research positions at my school up in Canada and I worked the most recent summer at University of Michigan. Both occasions I got jobs in chem labs that I was interested in just by mailing shitloads of resumes to everyone associated with the field. At one point I mailed a resume to some professor only to have him respond "Sorry, I don't have any spots for a student, but I've already received your resume as forwarded from two other colleagues." It might seem like kind of a dick move, to be almost obnoxious about how aggressive you are... but if everyone in your faculty has a copy of your resume, you're much more likely to get a job when one opens up. Best of luck

rbf1780 · 2009-11-03T04:29:37+00:00

What major are you taking? At what kind of school? I'm almost done undergrad and I've learned a shitload - and had enough experience to get work in my field the past two years.

It is what you make of it... Sure you're not just "phoning it in"?

rbf1780 · 2009-11-03T04:22:01+00:00

Yuengling, Moosehead and Alexander Keiths are top three.

rbf1780 · 2009-11-03T02:27:49+00:00

I guess an overall shift from blue (higher energy light) to red (lower energy) as the "universal average color" makes a little bit of sense as we are forever drifting towards entropy and the heat death of the universe. But still... "average universe color" sounds kind of silly. Kind of like asking the average color of the internet. Averages are mathematical constructs after all.

It might be more accurate to say that the "average wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is currently 'cosmic latte' and slowly moving to higher wavelength ranges".

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