Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NEStalgia His method for portioning the ribs is just unconventional enough that he can be a hipster chef.

@HobbitGamer I'm certain he's working on his simmering and stewing at medium high temperatures right this moment!

@Anti-Matter - Yes sir. I don’t know why they chose his name for the blast other than it’s a cool name to say. I haven’t watched much Dragonball, just some in college. I watched the big tournament to fight Cell and the Majin Boo story.

@Woomy_NNYes - Nothing worse than shoveling wet, heavy snow/slush. You’re right though, it’s incredibly pleasing to clear off a nice, powdery snow. My dad gave me his old snow blower a few years ago when he upgraded, and it’s a lot of fun. I have a long drive, so it’s handy, and I usually do my neighbor’s drive while I’m out because it’s just fun.

@NintendoByNature - Thanos is getting the same treatment you received when you interviewed for and ultimately turned down that job out of state. We’re pretty darn nice to each other for a group of Internet weirdos. I hope nobody is studying this strange behavior.

@HobbitGamer - I’ve been meaning to give you an update on indoor tree project 2019. They’re all dead. I’m starting to think trees that start life outside really hate being dug up and brought inside, even if they’re babies. I have some red and blue maple seeds, and some jack pine seeds ready to go this spring.

@bimmy-lee Wow. You're like the villain in Ferngulley.

@bimmy-lee
Day 3. I've transferred the babies to an indoor environment for monitoring and observation.
Day 16. The specimens continue to respond poorly to synthetic light and stimulus. Will continue providing nourishment at regular intervals.
Day 24. Specimens showing discoloration, decreased activity and nutrient processing. Will attempt to stimulate with intensified UV radiation.
Day 37. Dead. They are all dead. Specimen survival rate 0.0%. The project is a failure. All traces must be removed and disposed of.
Day 38. Initiating Blue Maple protocol.

I'd watch that as a mini series.

@bimmy-lee ahh good for him then. Anxious to hear the results.

@bimmy-lee Ah, the science of growing plants. If Google gives me garbage, this is one of those times I add "site:.edu" to the Google search to search college academic sites for a particular plant species - sometimes it helps the search. I've been down this road in the past couple years.

@Woomy_NNYes "If Google gives me garbage"

There, I fixed it for you.

@bimmy-lee I don't recall most details from nearly half the dreams I have, if I even recall them at all. I think some of it is because I have a very creative mind in the right situations. Sleeping is a good playground for that creativity as it's less inhibited by other thoughts and distractions. I've never mastered lucid dreaming though.

I've thought of investing in a snowblower, but it would only collect dust most of the time. Shoveling is at least good exercise, and I learned long ago to use my legs and not just my back.

@NintendoByNature The latest snow I can recall in my own existence happened in April one year; I think it was even around Easter. Even then it wasn't deep enough to cause too many problems outside of the normal "take things a little slow" conditions. I was a kid and didn't have to worry about driving yet.

@Woomy_NNYes I could kind of already tell with how clingy that snow was to the trees and to my chain link fence that it was gonna be a pain. I got up extremely early to shovel it; it took me about an hour and a half, and I was late to work (My manager is an understanding person and was totally fine about it when I texted him). Heck, I didn't even shovel my full driveway; I just cleared enough of a path for my car to make it to the road.

I live right along a busy road, so digging out is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand you know the main road has been plowed and treated. On the other, some of that plowed snow, thanks to snowplow physics, ends up back in my driveway and makes the final push pretty exhausting.

@ThanosReXXX Funny that you mention tension, another DQ mechanic. XD It's telling how involved I am with a game when the most random things remind me of it.

On a serious note: at any rate, you know you've tried your best, whatever the results. Tension like you mentioned can be a good thing, it's only when it becomes chronic stress that it becomes a problem. Stress in the right situations isn't bad IMO as long as it isn't a life constant.

I know by this point you've taken the exam, so I reiterate the hope that you passed! At least the actual test part is over.

@Tyranexx
Sometimes i still remember my dreams and my dreams mostly like very Surreal movies with a lot of nonsense things. This one of my dream i still remembered. Wanna hear my story ?

I was in submarine with other peoples to search for legendary creatures under the sea. Then, there was something blocking on the radar. I saw a mud like Delta that suddenly turn into living mud and about to attack our submarine (i called it Hermit Mud). Then, we get rid the living mud with SNES style RPG Fight. We knew if the living mud weak against Fire so one of us cast Fire spell and the Hermit Mud defeated. Once we defeated the Hermit Mud, we continued our journey to find the creatures. We found an underwater cave and we went inside. Suddenly, our submarine got shaked and i lost my consciousness. When i woke up, suddenly i was in the water, could breath inside water too. Then there were two talking giant squids (Black and orange color) asked me why did i come to the cave. I explained about searching the legendary creatures. The two squids explained that i coukd find here. I was wondering their speech as i saw nothing inside the place i stand on. The two squids explained that there was a civilizations here but not visible by human eyes. Then, they snapped their tentacles and suddenly i saw a big city and other sea creatures living on the Utopia. The squids asked me whether which one i should choose to become people that can be trusted or the people who have more wisdom. Suddenly my dream was over as i woke up. 😅

I liked the Underwater Castle from Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. The one in the submarine.

@Tyranexx weve gotten may snow plenty of times unfortunately. It's to be expected though, up this way.

I dream regularly and remember them when I'm woken up by an alarm, which is at least 5 days a week usually. Most of the time they are just a garble of whatever I did the previous day, mixtures of real life and whatever games, books, movies, I did that day.

Every now and then though, I get nasty dreams. I've been out of university for almost 5 years now. But every now and then I get this dream where I signed up for a class and forgot it was on my schedule, never attended, and now I have to go take a final exam for it or I fail and wasted the money.

Also about 2 or so times a year I end up with "night terrors" which I cannot recall at all, but cause me to wake up screaming in terror. And I do mean terror. Even though I don't remember them, the sense animal fear is always there and it's usually quite hard to calm down.

I've also had a few dreams that were so realistic it took hours to realize they had been, in fact, just dreams. I once woke up totally convinced I had a very weak form of telekinesis. It didn't feel like a dream but a memory, that I'd always had it and it was just barely enough to move a pencil or a light switch but I could. I felt stupid once it wore off. Also had one dream where I was madly in love with a woman, we were going steady and even planning marriage and waking up it felt like I was ripped from another world where that really happened. That was a depressing one (knowing I'll never actually be that lucky).

@Anti-Matter That actually sounds like a really cool dream! Very cinematic, and very RPG-ish. It sounds like you found a sea creature version of Atlantis. Or a place where sea creatures and humans lived in harmony. It kind of reminds me of how Atlantis is portrayed in DC Comics. That'd be cool if Aquaman had worked his way into your dream.

@NintendoByNature We get some subtropical weather here. I'm not sure how much lake effect snow you get on that side of Lake Michigan, but I know that causes a bit of an effect up there too. Though I think everyone in this state experiences all four seasons in a week or less sometimes....

@Heavyarms55 Most of my school dreams involve me going back to high school to retake some random class. Which is absurd once my reasoning comes back to me; I was an excellent student and, if I wasn't doing too well in a class, I'd put in the extra work towards the grade if needed. I don't think I've had any dreams that deal with college to my recollection.

I've had terrifying dreams, one of which is still quite imprinted into my memory (stupid as it is in hindsight), but I don't believe I've ever experienced night terrors outside of early childhood, and I don't think (I'll have to check with the parentals) that any of them were too bad. There was a period of time around age eight where I would sleepwalk randomly. I did some pretty crazy yet harmless things; my parents even got me on film at one point. I was walking in circles in the living room nodding and answering questions. Very weird. I looked like a zombie.

I've had a couple of uncomfortably realistic dreams, but nothing to the extent of that last paragraph with a significant other. Dang, that kind of reminds me of a Justice League (or JLU) episode where Superman essentially had a family on Krypton, essentially everything he wanted...but it was all a cruel illusion.

For those with Netflix that also remember ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark’; check out the show ‘Creeped Out’. Same idea, 24-28 minute spooky stories that are lighthearted yet creepy. Just watched the first 3 of 23 episodes, so neat.

@Tyranexx Oh speaking of high school related dreams, one I've had more than once involves me going back to high school post-university, for some reason. In the dream it makes perfect sense, like, of course you go back to high school after you move back home from uni. In the dream nothing is out of the norm. Then I wake up confused. Never even sure if it's meant to be a nightmare or not.

And I remember that Justice League episode. It was really sad. JL and JLU were such great shows. I really enjoyed the old DC animated universe. I wanted to revisit it, but unless I want to spend a lot of money on DVDs, I don't know where I can watch it legally.

I only seem to have really bad nightmares when I’m about to get very sick. Like, the night immediately before the symptoms start. It’s happened only twice in all my life, but both times I got very sick the following day.

The most memorable one was three in a row during the same night, all three made me wake up all scared and/or sad.

I've had those as well. I had a dream I was doing my Masters degree (I'm not enrolled in a Masters, and don't plan on doing so any time soon) and I was at the end of the semester, and I realised that I hadn't been working on any of my assignments or reviewing the lecture material, and I was panicking that I had major assignments/exams piling up that I hadn't started working on or studying for. It was awful...

And then there are those awful dreams where I end up procuring something really cool and rare that doesn't actually exist.

@Heavyarms55 I suppose that would depend on how much you liked high school. XD I wasn't a big fan of mine; I was usually bored and didn't share a lot of interests with many of my fellow students; two of many drawbacks of a smaller school. I much preferred college; at least I had quite a bit of academic freedom after I got some of the mandatory pre-reqs out of the way.

I'm trying to recall what that thing was that was used on Superman in that episode...The Black Mercy, maybe? That was definitely a sad one for sure; in a sense, Krypton was destroyed all over again. This time, the poor guy had to watch the fallout. I absolutely love the DCAU and would like to add the entirety of every show, even The Zeta Project, to my physical movie library, but...yep, it's all pretty expensive. The DCAU is still my favorite adaptation of anything DC to date.