Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

For some reason, my phone has gotten into the habit of correcting "in" to "I" a lot of the time lately. It's made posting fun.

@ThanosReXXX I'm not too picky about my glasses unless they're unnecessarily large and unwieldy, like huge beer steins. I'm usually more preoccupied with what's in them. XD

On meat shields: I mean, what else are human beings but piles of meat? I kinda like Organic Companion Shield, but Save Me Sacrifice sounds better IMO. (I can be a bit morbid)

@bimmy-lee A lot of the walls and barricades are typically made of wood. What made it worse in that particular section for that year was that a lot of the darkness was provided by black plastic. The dude came through with (presumably) his wife and some kids, so he wasn't exactly setting an example. We have to tell people (in-character) to put their phones away on occasion since a lot of people like using them as light sources or for recording purposes. We don't allow that; it's another thing that's clearly spelled out in the rules.

We try to keep groups from barging into each other, but this is sometimes easier said than done. Groups tend to move through the attraction at different speeds. There are different ways we can delay groups, but you can only do so much when you can't physically touch the patrons.

Accidental touching does happen on occasion. Most people are pretty good about it, but a few are quite obnoxious. "OMG You touched me!" Gotta love the smart@$$es. We can also bend the rules a bit if we know someone well though....

@bimmy-lee A Titan fossil dig, evidence that humanity didn't originate on Earth, the remains of another civilization that once existed on Earth, there are any number of potential terrestrial things that could be there that the government might want hidden from the public.

@ThanosReXXX There's sort of like four or five vaguely overlapping conversations going on with this general theme at this point. lol

As for those records we launched, I do think that even a species that evolved in such a radically different way would, with enough time and effort, be able to decipher the meaning. Any species that was sufficiently advanced to develop space travel would be able to detect patterns and probably eventually the meaning behind them. And in the event that finding our records was their first evidence of another civilization, I fully imagine they would put that effort in.

@NEStalgia That's entirely true and a real risk. The sort of cataclysm that would destroy a planet is incredibly rare, but is something like a meteor impact or environmental catastrophe happened you could travel all that way to find a planet more hostile to life than a barren rock.

What if there is another life out there and They just don’t want anything to do with us. They keep getting our records like it’s junk mail.

@Tyranexx Well, I certainly think they're good glasses, but I can also imagine that some people would rather drink cocktails or mixed drinks from other, more thin glasses, but good to know your point of view on the matter. I'll keep it in mind for future references...

Concerning your definition of meat shields: sounds more like collateral damage...

@Heavyarms55 An interesting and valid point, so I agree. Which I already kinda did by adding the disclaimer in one of my previous comments, that we ourselves have also been able to decipher all kinds of ancient scripts, so the aliens will probably also be able to decipher ours, or at least to some extent. They would have to understand and learn how to make a record player, though...

Instructions for that are on the disc itself, luckily.

@HobbitGamer That isn't too far off from another of the potential explanations of the Fermi Paradox. One concept is that an advanced civilization surrounds us and has already written us off as primitive and/or violent and lacking in useful, exploitable resources. Early sci-fi works often depicted aliens coming to Earth to take our water, but that concept is laughable now, as water, in the form of ice, is known to be actually very common in the universe.

It's also similar to the zoo explanation where such an advance civilization might have banned contact with us until we develop on our own.

@ThanosReXXX I highly recommend looking up meat shield examples. Some recorded uses of it are quite hilarious. Not only for self-preservation, but sometimes people will physically offer their freaked out friend or partner to us, increasing the terrified person's freakout factor. It's still hilarious, but I don't tend to hold such people very highly lol.

@Tyranexx In Gundam the Earth Federation actually does send hundreds of pilots to their death with the actual intention of them being cannon fodder. That's basically the same as a meat shield, right?

Speaking about Gundam style.....

@Heavyarms55 Pretty much, though usually there's some type of relationship between the shield and the bearer. XD

@Tyranexx I'm now seriously wondering if it's worth the trouble to look that up, seeing as I'll have to wonder if I would really want to have such a weird label like that to forever remain in my search engine history...

My dinner time with Hot Veggie Ramen (with mushroom, carrot, shallots, tofu, green pea, green onion leaf, boiled egg) and Orange Juice. 😋

That looks yummy.

@Anti-Matter That looks really good! Reminds me, I actually tried fresh ramen awhile back. A nearby ramen restaurant opened within the passed year and I finally got around to trying it.

One can never have too much ramen....

Speaking about passing of time and effects of some foods on the stomach, here's a video of a bomb:

Now you're gettin the hang of it!

System is back up, right before I started play LttP Guess I'll do some work

@HobbitGamer I already got the hang of it earlier, except I toned down my annoyance, threw my hands up in the air and simply thought: "well, if ya can't beat em... " although to still give it a bit of a sting (gotta remain my own glorious me, after all) I simply applied my own version of Anti-logic to it...

I dreamed I had the largest, friendliest pet snake.

It was a giant albino python.

@StableInvadeel And did you, in that dream, look in the mirror only to be confronted by this?

Nope. It was too big to hold like that.

And I’d look terrible wearing that.

Besides the unusual pet, it was a pretty mundane dream, just me doing normal things with a giant snake next to me.