So Friday the 13th is apparently good luck for Pokemon Go. I stepped out of my apartment to come to work and there was exactly one Pokemon, a shiny Feebas!
One of my favorites! I actually bred one shiny in XY too, but man this was a VERY nice surprise!
@NEStalgia Japan is strict about how they handle foreigners, but once you're in they only ship you out if you actually violate the law. Otherwise they love it when we as as wacky as their own nerds. My coworkers still get surprised when they hear me understand an anime reference even though they all know I'm a massive otaku even by Japan standards.
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I don't believe 13 is an Unlucky number.
I was number 13 in the class from 43 students when i was grade 12 and nothing bad happened to me.
13 was also the number of my Drastic changes of my gaming habit from pirated gamer into Original gamer (2013)
I oftenly write Capital B letter for my fictional character's outfit as number 13.
I light-heartedly complain about how fast this thread moved sometimes, but The Nintendo Switch Thread is arguably worse.
@StableInvadeel Whew! That's pretty tall! I used to work with a guy who was 6'7", and he'd frequently make jokes about his own height. "The weather's fine up here! What's that? I can't hear you!"
@Ryu_Niiyama Thanks! I am for the most part. The worst was that I had a semi with very bright lights behind me at one point. I could have easily done the 35-40 minute drive without taking the interstate, but i also wanted to get home sooner.
I generally prefer the company of guys as, in my personal experience, they tend to gossip less and seem less superficial. (Not that I've never met a guy like this.) I never seemed to fit in with most females due to my hobbies and introverted nature; I was and still am your stereotypical bookish type who also likes anime and video games (the latter two judged as kiddie or boy hobbies in my youth). It didn't help that some of the ladies at my previous job (HR and day-to-day operations, but the company was small enough that I interacted with nearly everyone on a regular basis) got into some toxic conversations. Ever since college when I gravitated into software development - heck, this probably started in high school when I was playing WoW even - I've been mostly surrounded by guys. Very little of their talk has ever made me uncomfortable. There isn't a lot of locker room talk at my current job to my knowledge, though a lot of those guys are either married, taken, or at least try to keep the atmosphere professional on that front. XD
All that said, my two closest friends are female. Not the superficial types either. We've had some pretty deep conversations.
@ThanosReXXX No night blindness. The photosensitivity was mainly caused by a building headache related to a couple of factors, one of which was the fact that silly me forgot to bring eye drops for my very dry (at that point) eyes. I've had mild dry eye on and off for a couple of years, but the effects are/will be temporarily worse for a little while due to my surgery. It had only been four hours at that point since I had last used them, which is normal. However, sitting that long in an air-conditioned car and a dry building didn't do me any favors.
I had to be careful with night driving for a couple of weeks after my surgery. The light halos were pretty intense. XD
Currently playing: Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy (Switch)
@ThanosReXXX this is a true statement .... Except the garbage stove doesn't really work well so i use a much better portable induction burner. But only one burner........ . It's definitely an unventilated closet though...
@StableInvadeel Are you like the tallest person in Mexico? Ive never thought of Mexico as a land of tall people... Not quite Japan sized but certainly not 6ft being a common finding...
@Ryu_Niiyama steal an extra jamocha in my name. I'm entitled to one!
The trouble for me is that where that remote Arby's is is not only far out of the way, but it's directly across the street more or less from 2 of my favorite places that are both unique, better quality than Arby's and better value to boot (and one is literally an actual left over malt shop from the early 60s.... So their shakes are 3x bigger, 8x better and 30% cheaper than any franchise shop. Steel tumbler or bust. To if i go out that far it's impossible to justify going to Arby's instead. If they were closer I'd be there!
I am not sure if I should tell him... My coworker spent nearly 100 dollars on one of those Bluetooth/USB remotes for his laptop so he could control Power Point presentations without being at the computer. It has less functionality than a 15 dollar wireless mouse... It's literally just forward and backward buttons. The only thing else it has is a slot to keep the USB adapter in when not in use and an extremely low power laser pointer that can't be seen when pointed at a TV screen because it's too weak. But the thing is, I am pretty sure he can't return it now because he's opened and used it. He could only exchange it...
I think it might be better to just leave him in blissful ignorance than to ruin his day by telling him he spent several times more than he needed to... What do you think?
@NEStalgia Although Apollo 13 was a disaster, I loved the movie based on it. My father and I must have watched it together a dozen times.
Also, if I had ANY opportunity to go to space, I would probably take it. Unless it was a blatant suicide mission.
@Heavyarms55 leave him in ignorance... No use telling him the toy he's stuck with is a rip off when some joy can be had from the lie.
Wow, this thread feels like an RPG now. Do i get Paragon points? Oh wait, if this were Shepard, the above would be the printed Paragon option, but what I'd actually say when selected is "let the half wit play with his toy... " And then I'd get renegade points despite seemingly selecting a Paragon response...
Ron Howard makes amazing movies, no question. Not that the whole story of 13 isn't amazing in real life too but Howard's movie certainly makes it more thrilling than the "oh f###" real life reactions . Absolutely one of my top films to always return to!
Of course space was more interesting then. And the government more competent. Since then we "lost" the blueprints for the Saturn V heavy lift..... Were limited to the silly space plane compromised by the USAF insistence on clipped Delta wings they never used, and now we don't even have that and just rent tourist space from Russia....... I know we're working in a new heavy lift... But it would have been easier if we hadn't "lost" the blueprints to the most powerful rocket ever built... (Well, the only one that actually flew... The Soviets had that crazy 12 engine monstrosity that couldn't fly father than a penguin....)
I'd eagerly go on any space flight..... That isn't numbered 13.....
@NEStalgia Yeah, I think I will leave it be. It wouldn't do him any good to tell him. And he might take it as mockery if I do. He seemed to get mildly annoyed last time I explained something computer related to him. And don't talk about Mass Effect. You'll make me want to play it again! And I am still holding on to that irrational hope that we get the trilogy on Switch!
All in all I think space R&D is better left to groups like Elon Musk's SpaceX. While I'm generally loathe of big business, I think a potential profit motivation is much more preferable to the inevitable militarization of space that will come of nationalized development.
Honestly I think we're right on the cusp of a major shift in the world. Although few talk about it, technology is advancing quite rapidly. The first group, private or national, that makes a real breakthrough and develops a truly viable means of space flight is going to change the world. We'll have a real Space Race that will make the lunar missions pale in comparison. I think it will come down to the first group that finally builds a practical nuclear rocket. Plans for such devices date back to the 60s but have always been held back from for fear of failure. On paper though, such rockets are more fuel efficient, can accelerate longer and faster too. I could see a system where mass drivers and low power re-entry vehicles are used for get people and equipment up into orbit where they would dock with nuclear craft assembled in orbit and ultimately at space based construction facilities.
Maybe I've spent too much of my life reading sci-fi and wanting to believe I'll see that sort of thing sometime in my life - but seeing the progress SpaceX has made in recent years gives me hope that it is indeed possible that we could see it in the next 30-50 years. At the inside, I'd still be young enough to go on one of those potential space tourist trips! At the outside... well I'd be 77. My father died well before that but my grandparents all exceeded it by a healthy margin, so it's possible.
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Played some of the DQXI demo and decided to watch some gameplay of the 3DS version to compare, and...
The 3DS one looks like it has better facial expressions! Like, the main character on the switch version looks like in a constant state of Mona Lisa, while in the 3DS he actually emotes.
Would've loved to have the 3DS one. Oh well. I may buy the switch one, I'm enjoying the demo so far.
Speaking about number 13 ...
I saw number 13 on under construction building this evening.
Number 13 & 4 (including any numbers with number 4 such as 14/24/34/40's/etc) are considered as Taboo numbers since i live in Asian territory which number 4 considered as Death number if spelling in Japanese / Chinese, while peoples still believe in superstition about unlucky number 13.
But, this picture.... I guess not everyone believe in silly superstitions.
@Tyranexx Ah, okay. Yellow-tinted shades won't do much good, then.
@NEStalgia Aliens must have once visited @StableInvadeel's pueblo to do genetic experiments. Or maybe they live near a former secret underground nuclear test facility, causing a certain percentage of the population to become freakishly tall...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Heavyarms55 I generally agree about SpaceX and such. Plus even the "government" programs are just profit motive aerospace military industrial complex companies as well (Boeing, Lockheed, the usual suspects, so it's not even very different there short of union versus non-union type companies.) Though NASA never really got into militarization....USAF has their own projects for that, while NASA acts largely as a distraction. They shifted to that model half way through Shuttle development....so NASA or not, the military's been doing their own stuff up there for quite some time.
All that said, China's already working on the militarization of space. Like it or not, militarization of space is inevitable and essential. If one does it, everyone must do it (or just surrender early?) So that ship already sailed. The Deathstar will be built, yadda yadda.
Nuclear rockets.....that makes me instantly think Asimov.... It makes sense...but while I think propulsion is advancing rapidly, it's not advancing rapidly enough for that kind of overnight shift. I think we have to go through a long period of mining drones exploiting resources in space before we get there (assuming adding/removing ridiculous mass to/from the planet by doing so doesn't destabilize the Earth's orbit and send us hurtling into/away from the sun!) The big hangup is even if we can get propulsion going well, we'll still be a long way from the FTL propulsion needed to get to other solar systems to find habitable environments, and we don't appear to have made much headway in terminating for inhospitable environments. I'd love to see it happen as that's really the only alternative to my mass population reduction theories....but I don't see a pace of advancement in those essential areas that indicates either of us will see it in our lifetimes, unfortunately.
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