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Strongest, toughest, most enduring, hardest working? There's plenty of criteria to choose from. Best bet is Celestia though.

The ability to see your own retinas.

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No, but I'm actually more interested in getting through the Silmarillion sooner or later. Which do you think is responsible for your situation more? Things within your realm of control, or things outside your control?

Using the Civilization V In-Game Editor mod to give me an advantage in the early game as if my civ was started by the passengers of a cruise ship that travelled in time, rather than evolved cavemen who discovered agriculture.

My favorite part is when he's used as an ejector seat.

Disney's animated feature films use a different kind of technique than most TV shows. A movie like The Little Mermaid uses a technique called Feature Animation. It's very expensive in terms of effort and time. Every minute detail is planned and created nearly from scratch. It's what people usually think of when they think of someone animating something. A great example of demonstrating how Feature Animation tries to make everything diverse and interesting is they will avoid repetitive action if they can: you will have a hard time finding a scene in a Disney movie of just two people walking together with a flat shot from the front or side. Every TV show you've seen from Magic School Bus and Dexter's Labratory to Miraculous and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic use what's called Limited Animation (or Production Animation). It's purpose is to give the illusion of high quality while cutting corners and reducing the amount of effort and time each sequence takes to make. Common corner-cuts are giving characters standard run and walk cycles that can be repeated, using interchangeable facial expressions and having a set catalog of background details to drag-and-drop, rather than drawing or painting everything nearly new every other scene. For example, having scenes showing characters just from the front or side are common,

Apple is just one fruit. There are so many options! Like pear and peach and cherry and strawberry and blueberry! Pie is a great go-to. Do you think Solar Panels are a good investment?

Chocolate-coated double chunk monster fudge chipwich. Procedure Make monster cookie dough (a large thick cookie with M&Ms or Smarties) Mix with fudge of your choice. Add sweetened chunk chocolate Add more sweetened chunk chocolate Make two of such cookies Use cookies to make an ice cream sandwich with vanilla ice cream Coat in melted chocolate Cool until coating is shiny Enjoy me. On a stick.

All animation turns up in the form of raster pictures in video files, so the term "vector" confused me briefly. I'm assuming: Traditional = Drawn or painted frames (digital or traditional) Vector = Flash formatted animation CGI = 3D polygon-based animation (There are several other 3D animation styles such as NURBS or Voxels but people don't make movies or shows with them.) In the end, they all depend on the story being told. Animation isn't a genre, it's a medium; and a versatile one.

I believe it is impossible for human consciousness to be fully emulated by a computer. And robotic emulation of human existence so that we could survive using artificial replacement implements would be either intolerable or prohibitively complicated. Either way, impractical and not worth pursuing in the end, and definitely making "living forever" also impossible. I mean sure, you could have "living indefinitely" but that's what you're doing right now. Maybe it's possible for a computer to fully encapsulate the functions of a human brain: supposing this technology exists, what if it's not physically possible to make this technology portable on a personal scale, or can't react at natural human real-time? I wouldn't want to live with the body of a bulldozer living at half speed just to accommodate my "lightweight allegedly portable" supercomputer brain. Even if it extended my life 500 years, those would not be years I would enjoy. And it would suck to just exist on the internet. Balls to youtube, I want to climb a mountain and feel winces from my legs, and get guck on my fingers trying light a fire with a stick and a magnifying glass. When it comes to Transhumanism, I always think of a mental picture of millions of people in their homes plugged into the Matrix, and living out their lives virtually, with wealth and ease of access to pleasure and comfort and no need of the physical world because Transhumanism would free humans from the limitations of the physical. Tell me if this imagined world is too strong a fantasy. I know however that while those people in that mental picture of a Matrix would think they would be free of the physical world's limitations, the physical would most definitely still be there. Electrical infrastructure, parts, manufacturing and logistics, all nightmarishly complicated and too involved for a set of computer programs to handle. Such a matrix would require a real world physical economy to support it. Which reduces the fantasy of humans to simply a fantasy of the wealthy.

But do you still enjoy Hearth's Warming?

Girls: Alexandria Hope Joy Esther Boys: Maximillian Cornelius Franklin Nathan Middle names: Franklin Danger Applejack Very Picard

Our family had that movie on VHS. Does your version still have the song "When Love is Gone" when Ebenezer's betrothed ditches him, or is it a cut-out scene and you have no idea what I'm talking about? The song is so-so, but it's existence is supposed to be a reprise with the song they sing at the end, "When Love is Found". Sorry to hear that. But Christmas is a time when we can still enjoy the relationships we have, and have fond memories of those we lost. This year will be the first Christmas for our family with only one grandparent; two have died in as many years. But we still love each other. Our family traditions largely involve food: producing copious amounts of cookies and desserts. I can't remember a single Christmas where we didn't have a real living pine tree for our Christmas tree. For gifts, a month or two in advance we select names from a hat and the name we draw is our Secret Santa target. Though I realized this year if I really wanted to, I could've just made 7 copies of my name and no one would know. Looking forward to stringing up mistletoe for a certain someone too...

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight." Prologue to The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942).

Boboiboy "Set course for Betazed. ...Warp 9."

I never said that I personally could befriend anyone. I just refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a person who could not be befriended by anyone.

Mornings of Recurring Characters 4:00-5:00 - Big Macintosh, Pinkie Pie (busy days) 5:00-6:00 - Applejack, Shining Armor, Zecora, Mayor Mare, The Cakes 6:00-7:00 - Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie (on good days), Cheerilee, Spa Ponies, Apple Bloom, Princess Celestia 7:00-8:00 - Pinkie Pie (most days), Princess Cadence, Spike, Rarity (busy days), Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Granny Smith 8:00-9:00 - Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie (sleeping in), Rarity (most days), Rainbow Dash (early riser special), Starlight Glimmer 9:00-10:00 - Rarity (most days), Twilight Sparkle (on scheduled sleeping-in days), Rainbow Dash (regular time check before rolling over), Trixie 10:00-11:00 - Who wakes up in the late morning anyways? probably Steven Magnets. 11:00-14:00 or whenever - Rainbow Dash ... 19:00-20:00 - Princess Luna

I think seasons have turned "some people you can never be friends with" into "some people take more time to make into your friend". Personally I find the idea of "absolute unfriendability" ridiculous.

Pleiades crossed with my spirit animal: an elk riding an electric bike.

Friends aren't just finding people who please you to be around. Like a car engine, a marriage or a garden, you have to maintain it and keep it up or else it's going to fall apart. I have friends I've kept in frequent contact with for 7 years whom I've only known on the internet. So I'd say the answer is "yes".

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Chastity is more about self-respect and worth than simply abstaining from sex. It's putting a value on one's own willingness to give of themselves to someone they love, than most pop-culture is willing to. Pop-culture's willingness to just throw sex and sexuality all over the place probably arises from people trying to derive too much of their own self-worth from pleasures.

Glass is an amorphous solid, which means it's not a crystal. As a matter of fact it's sort of like a silica-based plastic, except instead of long chains of repeating molecular structures, it's one giant molecular glob. Every pane of glass you see is one giant molecule. The urban legend that it "slowly melts" is based upon a different mechanical property of semi-crystalline materials called Creep, which behaves like melting in slow motion. (If you put an iron frying pan into an oven at 500ºF for six months, it would look like it half-melted. This is what creep is like.) Glass is subject to creep if it is extremely poorly made and contains large amounts of iron impurities. Mass-manufactured glass achieves its clear flatness by being floated across molten baths of tin when it's still yellow-hot.

How to do a magic trick: hold an eraser with your hand, then close your hand. Using a pencil as a wand, tap the back of your hand with a large upstroke (so that after you tap, you bring your hand up by your head) saying you're going to make "it" disappear. Tap once, twice, and then just before you bring your hand down to tap the third time, wedge the pencil behind your ear. The eraser was a red herring. You have successfully made the pencil disappear. You are now a wizard. But there is an Escape key.