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It's something worrisome, unpleasant. Difficult to put words to, I can barely understand it in my own head.

For me it doesn't occur all the time, but often enough that the general phenomenon is concerning. It disrupts my thoughts, and thus my life, sufficiently that I always feel something to be wrong, out of place, even if I don't know exactly what. Thinking about it, it does generally seem to be a...

Something will catch my fancy - a person, an idea, the former being the more severe case - and dominate my conscious mind for some period of time. It's always there, if not at the forefront, then somewhere in the back, but everpresent regardless. It affects my thoughts and actions for as long as...

carbonara plz

Where in Colorado? I'm the south metro Denver area myself. Also, welcome.

I don't know what the hell the console gaming industry thinks it's doing now. I'm just happy that, as a PC gamer, I don't need to worry about this bullshit. Although now that I think about it I'm a bit concerned about the overall direction Microsoft is moving in.

Manila mangoes are the greatest fruit on the planet.

I don't watch much anime although I did really like High School of the Dead.

Empathy is overrated.

It would be like Contra but with more explosions and nipples.

I know how you feel, I used to be an avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy, but recently I've just gotten bored with it. I have a huge pile of books I want to get through, and an even bigger pile of books I don't have yet, but when I try to just sit down and read I lose interest within a chapter or...

So you're saying I should scam people online. I think I'm capable of that.

How do? I'm guessing the best way is to learn programming or some other skill that doesn't require physically being in any particular place.

... I really wish I could draw right now.

I think it's a bad sign when the first answer to this question is "Get some drugs."

Killed by nature. It just happened sooner than if she had died of old age. No one is "killed by science." Science can either speed up death or it can prolong life, but we can't measure its value by "how many lives it has saved." That's absurd. Science doesn't save lives, it improves them.

1. Sleeping late, playing computer games, occasionally doing something slightly more productive, i.e., reading forums. 2. INTP. Although I may be ISTP. 3. Ideally? Flying an airplane. Traveling. Seeing places. More realistically? If I could convince myself to stop being so fucking lazy...

What does this mean, exactly? Who has been killed "by science"? In the entire history of the world, all murder victims were killed by people, regardless of what technology they used. Accidental deaths are much like deaths from natural causes; people die. It's a part of the universe. Some people...

"Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty."

I'm assuming you haven't read the books at all. All the women seem to be mere plot devices at one point or another but overall I think it's fairly strong. Or, headed that way at least. My favorite character in the entire series is female though, if that says anything.

Anyone fighting for transparency of government is doing right, I say.

A hitman is a professional killer, much like a military sniper. They would have at least moderately comparable training. I don't see any reason to be concerned. I understand this technology will become far more advanced and far less expensive in the future, but if someone really wants to kill...

10. I felt the answers were far too polarized.

Selfies, Instragram, hashtags and yolo. How well they all fit together, perfect to throw into the trash compactor where they belong.

I like cats and dogs but I've never felt any need to keep a pet. Constantly cleaning up after them doesn't sound worth it. It's like having a baby that won't eventually pay your medical bills. What's the point?

They heard it from a song. Any appearances of YOLO in text is solely because these people have convinced some poor soul to type things onto the internet for them.

KSP is addicting. But for whatever reason I've never been able to successfully perform a moon landing and return. And all attempts at a SSTO spaceplane end in failure. :confused:

YOLO is carpe diem for illiterates.

Oh come on, if you're gonna have that attitude, you may as well have your body used to freak the shit out of some people. Thrown off the Empire State Building, or left in the walk-in freezer of a restaurant.

I propose we switch to a base 8 counting system, and fuck both imperial and metric.

Skulls for the Skull Throne.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/

On an Android you can install an entirely different OS and customize every single aspect of the UI.

I imagine this is a hallmark of most Sensors. Possibly.

Thermite? Technically not an explosive but... come on, it'd be awesome! I would want my organs to be donated to science / medicine. As for the remnants, in order of preference: A) Hurled into the Sun B) Tossed into a lava lake C) Cremated and scattered to the winds Absolutely not buried...

I should make a crest featuring that.

This thread reminds me of the Unabomber Manifesto. Scientific progress has three possible paths. It can continue as it is, with all the consequences that that entails; it can be subject to "ethical" regulation, meaning restrictions, government involvement; or society can backpedal into a dark...

My understanding is that ISTP's are the most "rational" of the non-rationals. Similar to INTP's but more willing to work with the practical than the theoretical. I don't know any personally, however.

Only problem with P&P is you need other people, and those people have schedules, and sometimes they whine and bitch and moan... But I'd be up for a forum game.

I need to reread that some time. Now I've been going through Industrial Society and Its Future, after which I plan to read Justine by Marquis de Sade.

I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.

Yes. But sadly I lack that power.

What elements does it have? The first thing that springs to mind is a sandbox, though all the sandboxes I've played feel too limiting after a while. Perhaps one in which you have complete control over not only what you can create, but the physics of the universe? For example, set up a massive...

Eat more ice cream.

Science has always been used largely for warfare, because that's the only reason it gets any government funding. It's an enabler, but, like guns, science doesn't kill people, people kill people. If the inventions used to commit wartime atrocities hadn't existed at the time, they would have found...

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Psychology and psychiatry are often labelled pseudosciences because they are subjective by nature. Unless you're attempting to self-diagnose, all the pertinent information is secondhand, and in any case is filtered through the oft-unreliable human mind. If science is about objective...

I used to spend all sorts of time I was supposed to be doing something in class daydreaming instead, mainly about pointless bullshit to keep myself entertained. Now I only tend to daydream whenever I'm idle, or driving or otherwise not partaking in anything cerebral. It's rarely useful though...

If that's the case perhaps I should try Java or Python. Though I'm not sure if it's more actual programming that interests me or just the idea of it.

I thought I might want to get into programming, but I took a class in C for a couple weeks before it just felt too tedious.