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Springity-Sproingity! You're going Doingitty!
You picked up this letterino and what did you diddly findy?!!? A key to secrets untold and unfound! A chittering call from things underground! Craft it and see what with it you can do; because the answers you seek will soon FIND YOU.
Have a Lucky, Ducky, Yucky, Pucky, *#$%@! holiday on this, Eldritch Horror Day!
P.S: Pay no attention to the large stitch on the back of my head. Clearly its unimportant by the fact that I keep calling attention to it and even named myself Stitches. Now do my bidding.
....Guess who I just ran into while Time Travelling?
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Hey everybeing. I've been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. (among many other things in my past which all blend together into doctor gobbledegook.) Feel free to ask about it, it basically just means being a worrywort, far as I can tell. Of course, I've never made much secret of being Mad. But don't be scared about it none, insanity is something different. Losing your mind doesn't need to make you a danger to others. After all, haven't most of our cherished animated characters that we've connected to had moments of... dubious mental stability?
Think that's one thing I love about MLP. Is that it has taken its time to tell you that heading south is something normal that everybeing has done before. Failing to live up to expectations isn't something you should beat yourself up over. But... anyway...
Well... Found my Anthem.
Seems like the Pop Rocks these days is just a tad too intense. That kinda "No! I'm fine! I really am! Really, really am!"
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@Randimaxis TRUUUUUUUUUUUUST MEEEEE.... That DOES happen too.
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Alright now... I've figured out how to provide a link to a Character Biopage from this site onto a document. How do I then get that file in a form where I can then link it to, say here, for you all to click on and view it as the same as I do? Like, putting it in my signature for handy access?
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Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. You can make an account from the Google homepage and the 'Login' (or some variant) button on the top right.
You get a bunch of free nifty features with the email account, specifically, relevant to this case, Google's online word document software (Google Docs, which allows you to create web links directly to your documents, because they're all purely online).
'S almost on par with Microsoft Word.
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Well... but I already have a Yahoo email account? Creating another would just mess things up more?
But it is coming across to you when I do that, @Duality? If I put in the Character List!.odt like that as an "Insert other media" or as an attached file, then you see what I see? Title, Widdershins and a link that redirects to the biopage on this site?
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I live, like, right next to a reservoir lake. So out at night we get just hundreds of these lil' itty-bitty fingernail sized frogs. They're totally super adorable! Like, surprised they don't get carried off by the dragonflies!
I don't want to scare them the way I do when I walk anywhere near them, but they're super skittish too. They're part of the reason to I don't like mowing for fear of running the poor lil' boopies over!
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I forget if I've brought it up before, but there's nothing sweeter then going into the walk in freezers at work! It's quite rejuvenating to chill my lungs after continuously walking through the Boiling room. Sometimes I can even get ice crystals to form on my forearms!
...though I worry that going from a high seventies room to negative three or more so fast might be causing me health problems.
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No, no, that's the point. If you want the formula to reflect the number of dimensions that the figure has, they have to be similar pieces you break it up into. Otherwise you'd be able to break it up into any number of pieces, like you said, and your definition of dimension would be skewed all over the place. The core criteria for fractals are that they have to be self-similar (otherwise the formula won't work) and they have to have a dimension as given by that formula that doesn't match what their dimension 'should' be.
Most human-constructed fractals are quite regular, like the Sierpinski triangle and the Mandelbrot set, but there are other forms of self-similarity that don't mean rigid fitting together of identical pieces. Clouds, trees, lightning bolts - all of those things form fractals, because they're randomised but have the same 'form' at all levels of their structure. A tiny wisp of mist behaves like a scaled-down full cloud, the branches of a tree split off in the same way the trunk does, and the lightning bolt branches and branches and branches again with the same zig-zagging pattern. The man Mandelbrot himself observed that fractals are far more common in nature than any sort of normal geometrical figure. They're ordered, as with many things, but break distinctly from the order of, say, a bland rectangle. Curious constructs indeed.
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Wait, so... you could say.... A Species of Order?!
That Order is defined by what order your looking for, that, like beauty, it is in the eye of the beholder!
...the iris is a pretty decent fractal too, come to think of it. Ironic.
So, in essence, what you're saying is that by using the same parameters, to find the same proportions, finding more of the same in the same makes a Fractal! A natural repetition of sorts!?
I'm going to have to look up Mandelbrot sometime. I named my Vivillion after the set, on account of it looking terribly like one. Assuming its what I think it is.
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Oh, certainly. If there's one thing maths is good for, it's classifying species of order. Much like, come to think of it, your analogous programme for Pokemon.
Indeed; 'finding more of the same in the same' is what self-similarity is all about. If the part is like the whole or the little is like the big, if the parameters of the full apply to the pieces or if the proportions of the smaller are a repetition of those of the larger - if you can find more of the same in the same -, you've either got a fractal or a good approximation to one.
Also, I took the liberty of looking up a picture of the Mandelbrot set for you.
A constant zoom effect shows its self-similarity:
And this is it displayed on the graph axes that make it mathematically meaningful:
All that infinitely nested detail fits inside the simple rectangle between -2, 1, i, and -i (where i is the square root of negative one or the so-called 'imaginary unit'). The process for obtaining the Mandelbrot set is actually very simple, too. All you have to do is, starting with z(0) = 0, iterate the following formula to find all the values of z(n) up to z(infinity) for a given value of c:
If z(n) tends towards infinity as n increases, the value of c is excluded from the Mandelbrot set. For example, c = -1 gives:
z(1) = z(0)^2 - 1 = 0^2 - 1 = 0 - 1 = -1
z(2) = z(1)^2 - 1 = -1^2 - 1 = 1 - 1 = 0
z(3) = z(2)^2 - 1 = 0^2 - 1 = 0 - 1 = -1
z(4) = z(3)^2 - 1 = -1^2 - 1 = 1 - 1 = 0
The formula's output repeats itself, so z(n) doesn't tend to infinity and -1 is thus part of the Mandelbrot set (in fact, you can see in the above diagram that -1 falls squarely inside the first circle of the set). Fractals are a very shiny species of order, no Pokemon pun intended.
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Today's Widdicism: Whenever you're in a deep funk you can't get back out of do yourself a favor. Go out, buy yourself a single bananna, peel it... then ram it in your ear! Let's see you frown after that!
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A group photo of all my plushies! (And most of my pony & pokemon figurines!) Since @Xeltor & @SolarFlare13 asked!
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Not even that. See, they gave Mewtwo TWO mega-evolutions. One that's a lot bulkier & buff with big, ribbed fists for the super-psychic-punching and another, smaller form that has this big, alien-like head that's a lot smarter but childish looking. Gosh, wonder where they could have derived that design from?
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Hmm, Hmm! Yes. Yes. This works quite well for my biology research, yes quite.
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You got dat from the Game Grumps, didn't ya?
Who in turn got it from a book specifically collecting anti-humor jokes... which are somehow all the funnier for it!
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@Duality Not to mention the skyrocketing price on open-toed miniature spats & finding the proper beak cigar!
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So. Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, had planned some huge shindig out in Chicago where hundreds of people showed up, clogging up the park where it had been scheduled to go down. Some players having spent thousands in the game to prepare for it. This event was to have worldwide implications for players around the world in a fandom that has united countless fans & meant the world to some of us.
Turns out, they couldn't allow people to log on. They botched the whole thing. Wasted the trip out there for so very many people.
Niantic had so very many plans. Admittedly, they started out as an april fool's joke, but caught on once they realized there actually was interest in this, a product involved in a franchise that has formed some lives, that promised to get me-... people out to socialize, make friends and... *cough* Well, they had trading planned, battles & interactivity among players. At most, now its just you wandering blind in public without any second looks or questions.
Really though, what could we have expected? No company is going to put resources into a free-to-play game who's design isn't conducive to profit. Though, could have made sure you could follow through on things you promise beforehand anyhow.
...I do this often. I assume some new change, some decision will change my life, suddenly make things better. In major sections of my life, Pokemon was the only bright spot. Niantic only seems to enforce my delusion that you can't trust anyone or anything, that time after time things just fall through. I want to change... it just seems like nothing ever works...
...sorry... moodswing... I'll feel better in a bit...
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So, uh, status update again.
Quit my job today at the cheese factory. I... I just can't do speed. I can't be that on the ball constantly. It feels too stifling, too...
Ah... feel bad 'bout it.
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@Randimaxis ...that's where you get that eye from?
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Shuga! Where you been?!!? Been wanting to talk to you! What, got you on Steam, I think.
Wanted to ask if you're still the Yugioh expert to get ahold of. Got me a buncha Beast cards I been meaning to work together & I'd like your stance on things!
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"Eldritch Abomination cards" Eeee! Do tell me what they are! Sounds amazadorable!!!
But I think the keyword there is:
Quote"A"
Like, ONE. Not like hearthstone where every single expansion that comes out, each new possible deck arrangement has a new recipe that is incapable of being beat by any other previous deck recipe or renders half of everything else in the same expansion as completely useless. Warrior decks have been unplayable the past, some, four years maybe. And that's a ninth of the game!
Like, you gotta spend money to get what ya brought up. You gotta luck into it. And you can tell that person to play nicer, because you wanna have time to have fun so maybe use a different deck... or just not play with them.
As opposed to Hearthstone, where Rogues get a combo you literally can do nothing to stop, & nobody plays rogue for any other reason, so you MUST immediately concede the moment you see the Rogue's face pop up. Because you know it'll be over in half a minute anyway, so might as well not waste your time. Only reason Quest Rogue decks stopped being used. NO one would ever bother to play against them.
I hate Hearthstone. Have I mentioned?
Beats me why I keep playing it.
Got Rescue cat & Rescue bunny! And the adorable "Emerging Emergency Rescue Rescute" spell! ... what do you mean link beasts? The Chain Dog or Key Mouse?
Sort of the issue there is keeping my critters alive long enough for the bonus to stack up. Or actually getting more than one out at a time... suppose Rescue Rabbit helps to do the 3-Hump Lacooda thing...
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a lil busy right now will say more later if u ping me again
But note extra deck cards tend to be 1 ofs not 3 ofs
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Yeah so it was the two xyzs (black border) idr the combo tho I can find the video I saw the combo on
what else may interest u
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Okay. I'll say it. Freddy's a Gary Stu.
Think about it. We call Batman a Mary Sue/Gary Stu all the time, but its still made apparent that he's willing to share the spotlight. There's others he entrusts with his crimefighting and even the villains get their stories or even defect to help the good guys like Poison Ivy seems to have done lately for some reason. Because we can't have evil women in the Batman world... But I digress!
Even Jason wossnames! His slasher movies are about his origins and him being inexplicably some sorta murder god, but its still about taking him down one way or another and "ending his curse."
Freddy is just terrible. He feeds off the reactions other have of him, he's so god-tier that they've made a point to keeping him to one specific town, and he even literally warps the world to his own theme just to force it on you until the point of death. Freddy is nothing without his audience/victims. A point I think is often addressed in most of his media. I don't believe in him for the same reason I don't believe in a Hell, because logically speaking you'd get used to the torture and stop giving out fear or being repentant for your sins or whatever.
If anything, the reason I dislike Freddy the most is because, as a performer myself, I take umbrage at literally slaying your audience. How do you get repeat customers then, eh?!!?
Snazzy sweater though!
...yes. Yes, I am currently wearing that exact pattern on a sweater as I type this.
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Oh, Taken! I was thinking that was the title of the more recent movie that had some manipulative blond woman faking her own abuse just to screw with a poor guy. Did not want to draw parallels there!
I thought he only killed teenagers? Specifically those related to the adults that did him in. I'm... pretty sure his "old life" didn't involve mass murder. I assume that's more a new stage in his life, so to speak. His seem to be more suckerpunch tactics. Likely not getting too much fear squeezed out if you kill 'em after only a few seconds.
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Freddy's methods changed after the Freddy's dead movie he's now much more opportunistic after all no kids remain on elm street so he found other places and methods, in the former movies he was actually a child serial killer before he died, he usually tries to terrify them with their worst fears before finally killing them and uses some twisted humor as well such as killing a gamer in a video game, smashing an aspiring idols face into a television screen, and becoming an evil super hero to kill a sci fi nerd
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Woof... I don't know what pony that is in today's new banner, but Gee Gollywilkers that's gorgeous! I'm just gonna say that's Celestia!
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Uhm... guys? Think I just ran over a frog with my lawnmower...
Bent over once to poke at some little grey, legless blob and I'm not sure but I must have lopped the legs off a poor little guy... I'm genuinely in tears right now. Poor little froggy was somefroggy's mama or papa froggy an- and I've killed him...
I know I feel like a heel for making them flee in droves from my lawn like that, but its gots to be done. But running one over and mauling the little thumb-sized amphibian is just feels so much worse. I killed the poor little guy...
gad I feel horrible now, i'm gonna have to mow while bawling my eyes out now...
...nobody tell @AmarisNsane about this!
I just gotta tell myself I don't have any proof for certain that I did... I tried to give the little fr froggies enough time to leap out of the way but sometimes they get all scared and confused an leap the wrong way and... maybe I need a moment...
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@Missklang You have a sick sense of humor.
I think we'll get along nicely :3
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Hey guys!!! Hey Pokemon fans! I got a new *twitch* Little Factoid to share wit' ya!
You know that Wiki berry? That in game says its a SOUR flavor?!!? Nope! Turns out its ACTUALLY a DRY flavored berry! Not sour at all! Despite actual game text being designed to describe it as such! Some one was paid to write the wrong thing in!
... They couldn't even label things right in the game. Wooow...
Like...Man, I can excuse a lot. I'm fine cutting dex or however else they manage things... but not even labeling the lists of the items you have in game correctly... just Wooow...
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No, that's not true. I have made all four variants without a hitch, on the same save, one right after the other. Long as you can provide the fossil parts, the lady in the desert area will keep making you fossil pokemon.
Again, some of the parts are rarer depending on your version, but you can still get them via the Skill Brother of the Digging Duo in the Wild Area. You should check Bulbapedia and see for yourself.
The only thing these new fossils cannot do, is breed, since they're incomplete monstrosities, so I'd suggest saving at the revival lady, and then just restart every time you get a bad nature or something like that.
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Look, I gotta be honest. I don't really like apples.
They're frankly pretty bland & mushy & flavorless in my opinion.
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Gosh though! MacIntoshs just have too much juice & meatiness for me!~
Seriously though, think I remember McIntoshes being ridiculously huge as apples go!
As for currants go... I thought they were sour? Seem to remember them as pickled pickle-substitues.
Admittedly, when you only have two produce stores in your town and one is slowly consuming the whole of the town... and you DO have a limited budget, ya kinda got ya appendages tied as to options.
Admittedly, its not as bad as their store brand "Great" "Value". Their mayonnaise seriously tastes like tile grout. All sour and chemical.
… yes, I am closely acquainted with how tile grouting tastes like.
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Wow, the Moon looks beautiful tonight. I can see the Mare in the Moon completely!
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The 'milky way' isn't on a compass direction. O_o
It's swirling around in the sky even now, we're spinning inside a star system, that's spinning INSIDE that very galaxy.
So it's impossible to fixate it to one direction.
As for the face, if enough people stare at something for long enough, they start to see things in/through it.
And people have had thousands of years/generations to stare at and ponder the moon.
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So, Question.
And yes, I know I could just google this, but I want opinions and a varying array of answers from personal experience than just a few disreputable websites that barely even apply to the subject.
What happens if you just plain don't exercise? Like, at all?
Been noticing an almost reliable click in my shins, fatigue, apathy and overall soreness. Really now, Have no idea how to operate a human body. Maybe there's a reason for that.
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The symptoms you're describing could be due to a lot of things, not just physical fatigue.
Could be psychological as well, but to answer your question:
It depends on what you mean by 'don't exercise'To simply lay around and not even get up would be the most literal example of what you're saying, but I assume that's not what you mean.
So to put the closest from what I assume you mean:
I don't work out.at all. I go to work where I sit at chair most of the time and assemble small parts into cabinets n' such. Closest to a 'work-out' I do is lifting said cabinets and putting them on pallets.
Your body will adapt to most things you do, it's recommended that you push yourself to a state that you wish to be in, but not without thinking it through. You need to ensure you're doing so in a slow/fast enough way so as to not hurt yourself, but also still make changes.
If you want to be able to pick up the end of an 1100lb i-beam like one of my coworkers was doing the other day, you need to work out.TL:DR
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I suppose that's sort of the conception I am under & the vicious circle I've gotten into. Kind of always assumed that my body would rise to the occasion and now I simply just cannot care to exercise. Like, if a bear suddenly appeared I figure my body could suddenly be capable of sprinting a full mile if needs be. Despite the evidence to the contrary when I have to stop after jogging more then... twenty-five feet...
I just can't work up the energy to want to expend energy like that. I kind of feel like I already put so much effort into emotions that I can't see reason to just, like, lift weights for hours or whatever exercisey peeps do. But Echo does bring up a good point. I oughta check back into the yoga stuff I used to do. Maybe see if there's something about stretches on the web. ...probably Yahoo Answers.
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Running takes practice and consistency, the more you do the better you get, so that next time you attempt it you're "better". You can't jog for two days then give up, when you start you got to keep it routine and you got to keep it so it's always challenging and your legs turn to jello. Breathing and hydrating are very important parts to jogging/running, remember to hydrate regularly and also get energy (biscuits, protein bar, M&Ms etc) into your body for energy, you'll burn a lot doing this activity. And don't over do it, this can cause leg injuries from the leg muscles still recovering from your last run, sometimes recovery might take a little longer than your usual time so recover for however long necessary dependant on the pain or leg weakness you feel.
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So, I suppose that since the movie made anthros pretty much a thing in Equestria then I can work my two fursonas into this fandom as well? Bit of a work-around, but I suppose there's no restraint now. And yes, you should be afraid whenever I mention a lack of restraint.
Oh, and as a side note: What exactly was The Storm King's species? They called him cloven once in the movie, but he doesn't have hooves. I assume he was the same as his yeti-like grunts?
Because I really wanna make a Yeti guy too.
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Well, judging by the Wiki at least, and Assuming that Storm King is the same as his underlings; he simply counts as just a "Storm Creature." I can work with that.
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Well, I've finally achieved my dream of a full Alcremie team! Double Battle and just sending out cute little pastry cuties that just buff each other all the time!
Sends out my last Alcremie, Salted Cream variety: "Of all the flavors you had to fight... you had to choose Salty!!"
Upon defeat of my Gigantimax Alcremie: "Oh no! YOU REALLY.... TOOK THAT.....CAAAAAAKE!!"
Let's get Creamy!
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Well, of course its a good story. You’d be okay with murder if you just suddenly had one bummer day. That’s, like, pretty much A Killing Joke and that’s a story published for wide acclaim that i’m not at all bitter about.
What’s scary here? A man made of Cream? If you ask me, Creaminess is pretty much essential to manliness!
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It's a real pity that the original creator of MLPG4 got phased out. Still, showbiz is competitive. You know what they say...FAUST COME, FAUST SERRRVED!!!
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I fail to understand why every bloody compooter don' come with no stinkin' way to write documents on it!THIS ONE sure don't! Far as I can tell! Buncha bloody Walmart hoopla! What good is a computor if it can't write? And don't tell me just to "download" an "Application" or somesuch goobery nonsense! That garbage costs over a hundred dollars for just Microsoft WORD! Stuff that pretty much just gives you buttons and an empty page! And still no instruction! How do I download this brand-new World of Technology, If I have no bloody way of knowing about it enough to find it in the first place!??!
It ain't exactly no easin' ma life iffen I gotta put more money n' effort intae the bloody device then I did when I fir't bought the sack of nuts n' bolts! I hate technology! I hate Everything!
Aye! I do accents when ah'm angry! Shut yer yap aboot it! DON' MAKE ME BEAR-ARM YEH!!!
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Should go with Libre Office - its free, its MS office compatible (in fact, I use it to fix MS Office docs that MS Office won't load) and it works on all the major operating systems - think of it as Open Office with more development work done on it.
I have a bunch of other stuff I install onto new pcs and/or copy from my old one - the XP version of WordPad is one of them (need wordpad.exe, mswrd6.wpc, mswrd8.wpc and write.wpc, from any old copy of XP)
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I only use wordpad as a quick-and-dirty editor anyhow. but it is quite useful for that.
I also have notepad++ on here - it doesn't do documents (it is text only) but it is syntax and context aware for a bunch of different scripting and layout languages, so I use it for XML, JSON, HTML, that sort of thing.
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I have to wonder what else there is to do on these forums. Haven't really felt like lately to go digging through the threads to contribute there.
Feels like I've spent the last four days in this house without leaving or doing anything ... too particularly fun. I have absolutely nothing to do with my time.
I can't help but feel it may be foolish to require others to validate my existence & require socialization, but... I wish I had someone to talk to, someone that could listen & be aware of what I was doing. I need a friend...
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And you often get one... so what is the problem? As for feedback, you'll never get any if you are not asking for it. I mean what do you want feedback on... comments? Status updates? Not really something you can get actual "feedback" upon since they are thoughts and opinions and not really a sustained attempt at providing thought or emotion. If it were creative writing that would be a different story, in which case there are blogs for that. However, none of this really has anything to do with my original statement... if you want to have friends, or get people paying attention to you, you have to start talking to them and messaging them. Making wishes in the status updates is not going to get you there.
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Well. It did hook you.
But I'm being a smart AppluhJec now!
Well, I have done blogatogs before up here. Did a big long thingie of the other things my interdimensional Draconequusona has met over the centuries, and that's been buried somewhere. I suppose I have to give myself credit first before I'm willing to accept others.
Dunno if that counted as "creative writing" so much as a stream of concepts. But that is something I'm good at. Though... think most of all, I'd want some critique on my 7-part OC magnum opus of my Hydra character. I fear I may have not balanced things out as well as I could there.
Not to mention of course that I'm still getting into this whole Creativity shtick. I need to know more of what to do with it.
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I could really go for some Cider.
...Is pony apple Cider supposed to be alchoholic? You never see Apple Alcohol. ... Applecohol?
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HAVE I MENTIONED I REEEEALLY LIKE DRAGONS?!!?
Like, reeeally, reeeally....
Been looking more into Dungeons & Dragons since I heard there's a guy in this local Brony club who runs "Pony Pathfinder." I'm rather excited! And when I get excited about things...
I can see me playing a kobold, you know. Little clever things that aspire to be like their dragony ancestors, yet are mostly food for them. Do love me some toadies!
I can see there being an old, old dragon. Grown crotchety, grumpy and mostly harmless with age. Grumble the ShagScale; so old his scales are growing down over his eyes like a whole-face beard. "Dunno how'm the young welps stay alive these here days. Back in mah day, we collected somethin' of personal value for our hordes... like... my bottlecaps n' scrap metal. Gold jist gits yah kilt, yeh know!" Grumble keeps a whole dungeon's worth of Kobolds scurrying around his lair tunnels and other then the few times a month he eats a few when the weather & his joints are too bad for him to go out and hunt, they have a pretty much free tribe culture as dragonslaves go.
Heh... and I can totally see Widdershins as a Bard. Don't even know what a Bard IS, but it's so him! Though I can imagine most of you would get a little panicked expressive If I announced a Draconequus Bard. Lol!
Now I sing you da song of my peoples! *Flang-a-Twanga, Dwang-Dwang!*
Beeee INSPIRED!!! *Beats monster over the head with his lute*
D&D! It's cooperative storytelling! I can't think of any other notion that gets me all Bright-Eyed! ...and yeah, it's pretty much the only thing I can think of to use as an excuse to "hang out" and find me a friend.
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Obviously, then, your life's work must be towards creating an even larger sculpture of dragons being awesome so as to acquire the record of largest-dragon-sculpture more dragonliciously.
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*#HashtagDragonRant*
You know something I just noticed? Y'see... in Yugioh we haven't had much in the way of dragons for a while. Mostly they tend to be some interchangeable mechanical dragon or something to fit whatever card archetype they've come up with and they don't quite entirely seem like dragons. Way back when we had the big two: Blue-Eyes White & Red-Eyes Black dragons.
The last I've seen of dragons that looked like living creatures was the ones refered to as "Hieratic" dragons. Like... Heresay. ....as if being holy-powered beings of virtue & righteous justice was somehow contrary to what dragons typically are. ...what, you saying dragons be evil or somethin', huh?
An' you know what right bothers me?
Why do I keep seeing f'nart of dragons with decorative tufts of hair? Like accent manes that grow down their backscales or off their arms or something. You can't have both scales and fur! Where you seen that from to get the idea to shove it together like that? Yeah, sure, their magical beings, there used to be a cultural species interpretation of long dragons that had moustaches & manes of hair too boot. But that ain't no cultural depiction!