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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: What's the gay community really like? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 12:47 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 36,711
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| It's something I've wondered a bit about for a while now, but last night I (made the mistake of) watching the first episode of Queer as Folk . I was somewhat disturbed by its portrayal of gay life. Surely it's exaggerated for the sake of TV, right? I fear it's a reasonable portrayal of Canal Street. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: New release of Dwarf Fortress! |
| Ambivalence |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 4:24 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,786
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@Laz - here's how not to do it! Link to the map at the DFMA.
The fortress is reasonably well defended, using several tricks which are worth taking note of, but just read the Points of Interest in order and you'll get the idea.  |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 3:08 pm
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Replies: 4,751
Views: 401,608
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| Le Pont de la Riviere Kwai. Heavy going. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2012, 2:06 pm
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Replies: 4,751
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| "The Pyrates" by George MacDonald Fraser (he of Flashman.) It's good. Quite funny. Very idiosyncratic writing style. Bit Pynchonesque, only not s**t. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: New release of Dwarf Fortress! |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2012, 1:05 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,786
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| I'm still trying to create "that perfect fortress entrance" - there must be something that allows traders in but automatically eliminates all intruders with no need for maintenance whatsoever, then sorts through their belongings, moves the useful stuff directly to stockpiles and destroys the rest...... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: modding consoles |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2012, 10:06 am
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Replies: 6
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| May I ask what you mean by modding consoles? "Using hacktools developed by others." Script kiddie stuff. Unless, by some unlikely chance, the person talking is one of the rare few who genuinely hack into console firmware for kicks using mad programming skillz, in which case kudos and (grey) hats off. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: New release of Dwarf Fortress! |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 5:27 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Okay, cool. The military stuff confused me when it was changed a while back, and I never really got to grips with it (plus it was buggy) but I've got the basics down now, so here goes: The basics : First you need to appoint a militia commander. Appoint a dwarf to this post from the (n)obles screen. ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why aren't British Adverts memes on the internet? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 4:31 pm
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Replies: 62
Views: 4,955
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| I don't really understand what the word "meme" means. I know it's something to do with what people say nad pictures and stuff, but could someone define it properly for me please? Properly, a meme is any idea which propagates itself. A virus of the mind. Internet memes of the sort being referred to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ASDs and intelligence & IQ |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 4:08 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Can you tell me whay, phonic? That would help me understand why I was considered dumb after IQ tests when I was a child. Person who invented the IQ test, told people not to use it for measuring. That a good enough answer? After long study of the phenomenon here, I've determined that people with ASD... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: New release of Dwarf Fortress! |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 2:44 pm
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Replies: 21
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| May day is updated i'm playing the updated version with his tile set. Dwarfhack still needs to be updated if you use Stonesense for the isometric view though I am now making a concerted effort to learn this game but I don't seem to be getting too far at the moment need to watch more tutorial videoe... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What colour is this tent? |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 2:39 pm
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Replies: 35
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IdahoRose wrote: It's scientifically proven that men and women perceive colors differently.
I greatly doubt it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: CLOSED, GO AWAY! |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 2:29 pm
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Replies: 74
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| I've been recently hearing and reading that it's just a made up disorder for pharmaceutical companies to milk money. Standard memetics; take something you don't like, take a group of people you don't like, and invent some absurd and fanciful way in which the one are profiting from the other. You ge... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Hormones |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,107
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: New release of Dwarf Fortress! |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 12:16 pm
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Replies: 21
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| After the untimely abandonment of Crowncoal and a brief-lived fortress on top of a volcano - yes, someone fell in a magma pipe - the weary dwarves of the Mortal Diamonds founded their newest fortress, Shortbush, on a lonely and savage jungle island, safely away from goblins and kobolds. For a while ... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What Role do you like playing in MMORPG's |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 4:02 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 6,173
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why aren't British Adverts memes on the internet? |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 3:52 pm
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Replies: 62
Views: 4,955
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Ganondox wrote: The simple fact is that the US created the Internet
Gosh, who created the Web? ^^ |
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