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I know my limits and this ain't for me. Usually eat a couple serrano peppers every days though. But those scales aren't that useful, because different crops can vary radically in the amount of "heat" they pack. I've had jalapenos that are about as bland as bell peppers, and others that have me crying like a baby.

For me, anything hotter than bell peppers are more heat than flavor, and thus completely pointless to me. I do, however, have plenty of respect for the Bachelor's Secret Weapon (aka hot sauce). I can't count how many bachelor dinners have been transformed from "four pounds of tasteless mush" to "fine Mexican cuisine" with the skillful addition of hot sauce and soft tortillas.

My tolerance in spicy food has gone up in the last few years... it's some addictive shit. I dare not touch Ghost peppers though, that is the stuff of madness no doubt.

Khorus said:

What's with the assumption that no WASD = arrows? I use ESDF because I get access to more keys. I find it annoying when there's no way to change weapon key bindings.

I use ESDF as well. Mostly because you can reach more keys, partly because WASD is so mainstream.

I can live with WASD. What bugs me more is when a game has an absurdly long list of controls that I have to memorize before I can start playing. I once read an article where someone, as a thought experiment, figured out how a modern shooter (I forget which one) could theoretically be played with a one-button Atari joystick. It is possible to simplify things.

Creaphis said:

I once read an article where someone, as a thought experiment, figured out how a modern shooter (I forget which one) could theoretically be played with a one-button Atari joystick. It is possible to simplify things.

Got a link? Sounds like a good read.

DoomUK said:

Got a link? Sounds like a good read.

Sorry, I spent some time looking and couldn't track it down.

I've had it for a while, but I get too anxious playing it and have to go do something else to calm down :/

Just got done playing custom story La Caza. Pretty good mod if I say so, at least compared to the others I've played. So if you get done with Amnesia and Justine and you're begging for more, give that one a shot.

Tried it, got stuck reeeeally early and haven't gotten back to it. Somewhere around the second note I think? Part with a ton of bugs appearing in a room with shelves. Couldn't figure out where to go before running out of lamp oil and calling it quits.

Mr. Chris said:

She's married to an intimidating Russian guy whose fursona is a pink bear.

A furry Zangief?

Maes said:

Make that BBW furry surprise.

Uhh.... I think that middle B is debatable.

Also, tried to have a look at it again, this time with sound, but...

The Almighty Bullshit Overlords of Youtube said:
This video contains content from EMI, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.

Xeros612 said that The Almighty Bullshit Overlords of Youtube said::
This video contains content from EMI, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that....

Capitalism will eventually collapse because of its internal contradictions.

Also, speaking of Blair's products, I own one of these.

Exp[x], why do you have a bottle of pure capsicum? For collector's purposes?

Pretty much. I don't intend to ever open the bottle.

Csonicgo said:

AITC

I can't find anything about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate

I hate wasabi, mustard, horseradish, etc.

Eating a Sandwich from Hell for lunch. It consists of rye bread, buffalo turkey, mesquite turkey, jalapeno peppers, Jamaican hot peppers and Zakk Wylde's Stronger than Death hot sauce warmed up in the microwave for 30 seconds.

This is gonna suck.

Most I've ever found is a $50 note on the ground at uni. You'd think that with all the students passing through the area, it would've been picked up before then, but I guess I'm lucky.

In the past year, my dad's managed to find $250 floating around Sunset Blvd., including one $100, one $50, four $20 and two $10 bills at various moments.

Dude's got some luck going for him.

Most I ever got was $1 in front of a vending machine. :/

Happy birthday, Mr. Chris!

Danke, this also amounts I've been fucking around with Doom for about 15 years so far, namely starting with DCK in DOS for map editing and Wintex in a non-64 bit desktop environment.

29 years, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Does 0.999... = 1?

Nope.

Incorrect.

fraggle said:

Incorrect.

I was going to bring that up but was too lazy.

fraggle said:

Incorrect.

It's especially frustrating when the teacher is calculating the average grade, and it results 9.4999997.

andrewj said:

I dig that comic too -- never seems to get old.

lol

happy birthday mr. chris.

Happy birthday Mr. Chris, just 2 more years and you'll be 30 :P

40oz said:

It's a good thing I can make maps under short notice! I need to exercise my mapping abilities anyway.

That was a fun difficult map you made there 40oz.

Happy late birthday :P

What did you get?

Mr. Chris said:

I won't be doing that silly "inb4" thing anymore following this announcement.

Ditto - the Loser's forum is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

WTF happened?

inb421 why aren't you at your post?

It's been too long since my last high. I need to find connections in this city.

Doom Marine said:

Should've told him you sold chess books, and that he can reach a new level of awareness by reading a chess book whilst smoking a fatty.

I didn't at the time. Anyway, the two go together extremely badly. Alcohol and chess are fine (maybe only knock off about 200 Elo points for being pretty much blind drunk - for blitz chess at least*), whereas cannabis more or less scrambles the chess thought process.

* And of course there were some Russian GMs (Kholmov, and Tal to some extent, spring to mind) who were perma-drunks.

Yeah all the time to be honest. Apparently I have stoner written on my forehead. I used to be a stoner in the day but I quit. Ironically enough, most of my run-ins with drug dealers has been at Taco Bell.

GOOD
-Got a new girlfriend, after about 5 years of short-lived, bullshit "relationships" (and the one before that 5 year period was pretty shitty too).
-Graduated. 2:2 but considering i was planning on dropping out "tomorrow" through the entire course right up until the day before the last exam (seriously), it's amazing i finished at all.
-Download Festival 2009, awesome. Got a cold on the Sunday and missed a ton of classic bands, though. But it was still incredible.
-First proper foreign holiday, to Japan no less (as that's where the girlfriend is from - free hotel!)
-Finally started learning a foreign language in earnest after making new years resolutions to do so for, liek, ever. (I did start learning it in July though)
-Got a job pretty quickly after graduation, i was expecting it to take ages.
-The job is pretty good too. The pay isn't amazing but i work with great people and i'm not over worked.
-Got some brilliant bargains in my other hobby (collecting antique story-papers). I got volume 1 of Chums from 1892-3, in amazing condition, for about £25!
-Top Gear was chosen as the best TV show of the decade. TOP GEAR! brilliant!
-Proper snow! It's fairly rare around my way and usually melts away within a day.

BAD
-Getting a girlfriend did screw up another promising relationship, you win some, you lose some.
-My main hobby (making comics) was terribly neglected. I've done maybe 4 pages in the whole year. I wasn't even able to go to the one convention i like to regularly go to.
-Wanted to go to another, small metal festival called Damnation, however it was late in the year, sneaked up on me, and sold out.
-Learning another language is really hard like.
-Spent £150 on a 3D game-making engine called Unity, they then released the next version - for £0! And i must have just been over the refund cut-off date. Not really learned how to use the engine or make models at all either, it's just sat on my hard drive.
-No decent storms
-Wasn't able to get the Mini out over the summer, well i had just finished uni and had no job. I miss driving it.
-Word 97 finally broke, leaving me without an HTML editor, i tried one called Pagebreeze but it's monumentally wank.

Good:
Got engaged
Made lots of money on the stock market
Enjoyed some good travelling
My company's sales good despite financial crisis
New edition of my most successful book published
No international financial apocalypse, and things slowly on the mend (it seems...)

Bad:
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Oh hang on, yes, there is something, and it's quite a biggie:
Lack of progress on tackling climate change

Hmm, dunno, maybe this would work better if separated into "personal" and "global" lists.

deathbringer said:

-Word 97 finally broke

Yikes, now that is a catastrophe. After that version it has been sharply downhill. I have two later versions, and have uninstalled both in disgust!

:(

That's not terribly old for a cat. They can live 20 years, sometimes more. Anyway, sadness...

AndrewB's trolly attention-whoring shit deleted from the thread.

Too bad, we haven't had an epic Andrew thread in a long while. But I guess this isn't the time or the place.

Delete Oblige from your hard drive. The map will be done by tomorrow.

Just delete the map and start over.

Craigs said:

Sounds like it'd be as fun as reading your posts.

So...

That's good, right? In my mind, it sounds like a fucking blast.

Are you sure it's not actually something like this?

Bucket said:

Either you are suffering from Parkinson's or your computer has awful grounding.

Grounding shouldn't be an issue if the drive's powered by a double-insulated plugpack. A couple of years ago I had a wireless router and it's plugpack die in what could best be described as a "murder-suicide pact" - the plugpack failed and killed the router while doing so.

Are you sure it killed the whole drive, or was it just the controller in the caddy?

Tell me how it goes. They just put it in here a few months ago and we're thinking of switching.

How fast is it? How much is it?

Worth it?

Hooray, map 5 under construction! I have been missing your computer console secrets and Baron traps :)

I'm living it up on loans, grants, and scholarships. I hope there's a market for computer engineers when I'm done.

At first we didn't know what to do with all the money. We tried burying it, shredding it, and burning it! But in the end, we decided just to give it all away.

Not long after writing that, I went to my friends house to find he bought himself an entire lawn set: a patio table, 8 chairs, a portable grill and a set of solar-powered lawn lights. Well Hell.

On the other hand, he is living with his fiancee and another couple in a 2-bedroom townhouse.

That sucks, hope your father has some luck.

I _really_ hope so cause we're fucked if he fails to find employment to continue paying the mortgage, which is $1600/month. This month was covered but it will be difficult to do that next month.

So what happens then? You're homeless?

Best of luck to you and your father.

What did you do up there?

He took pictures. Haven't you been paying attention?

I didn't read through clearly, and didn't see he was the ex's older brother. Why would you send your older brother to beat up the new boyfriend? Obviously the ex is a pussy and the older brother is a mindless brainless goon.

Mr. Chris said:

What's that german phrase you said mean in english btw?

Something about always biting back.

The problem is that the brother can get sent to jail for doing that. Anyone in the US with military training is thought of as trained to kill, so beating someone up is legally akin to "assault with a deadly weapon". If the birthday boy is so inclined, he can get a hefty sum... of course, that also means losing a friendship-- but if she's also his ex, I'm pretty sure he's explored all areas of that relationship.