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Large herbivores in general are aggressive most of the time. If a large herbivore evolved into sentient life, they'd be more likely to be like the Krogan rather than like the Ithorians.Whipstitch wrote:Also, predatory behavior is just a subset of aggressive behavior, and you can find the odd aggressive animal out there who just happens to be a herbivore who can bite like a motherfucker. Like hippos.
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I don't know what the story is with how Pandas came to switch their diet from meat to bamboo, but the theory for koala diet is that eucalyptus leaves were an abundant food source that was so poor in nutrients and high in toxins that there was zero competition for them. And while that combination resulted in an animal that sleeps for twenty-three hours a day and is high as a kite for the other one, they seem to do okay. I know a few humans who would sign up for that lifestyle.Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Not to mention we have animals like Pandas and Koalas who ran out of fucks to give and decided to eat one specific thing regardless of how stupid it is.
He's apparently real, and a real doctor. However, looking that up referred me to this as rebuttal: http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htmFrankTrollman wrote:Every part of that chart is insane, and none of the claims made on any part of it are true. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the person credited with making it is either not a real doctor or doesn't even exist.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
It doesn't seem to be working too well for pandas. Maybe they used to eat a balanced diet of bamboo and dinosaurs, and then something very unfortunate happened. The main problem for them is that a proper herbivore has fifty thousand miles of intestine to draw every last bit of nutrient out of the food, whereas a full carnivore has a relatively short intestine so as to not have the food rot and poison them mid-digestion. So they're not getting the full benefit of what they eat.angelfromanotherpin wrote: I don't know what the story is with how Pandas came to switch their diet from meat to bamboo, but the theory for koala diet is that eucalyptus leaves were an abundant food source that was so poor in nutrients and high in toxins that there was zero competition for them. And while that combination resulted in an animal that sleeps for twenty-three hours a day and is high as a kite for the other one, they seem to do okay. I know a few humans who would sign up for that lifestyle.
Humans also made the switch, but in a less extreme way. We were originally herbivores, hence the length of our intestines, but eventually we decided "fuck it, all these animals are getting in the way, wandering into our houses, give me a fork, I'll handle this". Or something. But we have to be way more careful about what we eat than, say, dogs or cats do. Because they can eat some dodgy meat, digest it, and shit the remains out before it turns into a mass of dangerous bacteria inside them. We cannot.
And apparently there's a type of squirrel somewhere that did the herbivore -> carnivore change.
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We have a poster who would probably sign up for that lifestyle (although the alarmingly high rate of chlamydia in female koalas might dissuade them...)angelfromanotherpin wrote:And while that combination resulted in an animal that sleeps for twenty-three hours a day and is high as a kite for the other one, they seem to do okay. I know a few humans who would sign up for that lifestyle.
Best fucking explanation for the early hominid shift from herbivore to omnivore I've ever heard.Koumei wrote:"fuck it, all these animals are getting in the way, wandering into our houses, give me a fork, I'll handle this"
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A moose once bit my sister.Stahlseele wrote:i was bitten by a horse once, that was a very traumatic experience for a small little fry like i was back then <.<
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A wampa bit mine.Count Arioch the 28th wrote:A moose once bit my sister.Stahlseele wrote:i was bitten by a horse once, that was a very traumatic experience for a small little fry like i was back then <.<
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Looking into it more, he's apparently an outpatient physician in Virginia who is also an evangelical vegetarian. His rants are a pack of lies and every single part of it is wrong - so I assume he is doing the whole lying for Jesus vegetarianism thing.fectin wrote:He's apparently real, and a real doctor. However, looking that up referred me to this as rebuttal: http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htmFrankTrollman wrote:Every part of that chart is insane, and none of the claims made on any part of it are true. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the person credited with making it is either not a real doctor or doesn't even exist.
I mean it's really kind of amazing how wrong every single part of it is. Whether animals have sharp claws or not mostly has to do with whether they dig or climb. Lots of herbivores have sharp claws. Hell, guinea pigs have sharp claws, and they are about the most herbivorous herbivores there are. More generally, animal body plans have a lot more to do with what clade they are in than what they eat. The aforementioned guinea pigs have very similar faces, jaws, and digestive tracts to rats and shrews because they are closely related - despite the fact that one is an herbivore, one is an omnivore, and one is a carnivore.
The thing you linked to is better, but it still descends into traditional vegetarian religious insanity at the end. The weird quote about cholesterol being a poison that kills us for eating meat isn't just a total non sequitur, it's totally false. Blood cholesterol is bad for us if it gets too high. But we actually do need cholesterol to live, and also your blood cholesterol has very little to do with how much cholesterol you eat. The cholesterol in your blood is synthesized from fat by your liver, meaning that it's totally possible for vegetarians to have elevated blood cholesterol. In food, it is contained in the cell membranes of animals, which means that it is much higher in lean meat than in fatty meat - but fatty meat raises your blood cholesterol much more than lean meat does because of the aforementioned liver fat synthesis problem. Cholesterol is not a poison. It's a vital part of your body which is insufficiently regulated in most humans and can be over synthesized by people who eat high fat diets resulting in increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
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I have no idea how the quotes in the appendix relate to the rest. I assumed the author was citing something he disagreed with, because they are contradicted by the text around them. Since everything up to that point seemed sane, I just ignored them on first read.
I have nearly zero evidence that's actually true (anecdotal: I have heard that some people on cholesterol meds complain that they get confused more easily). But it sounds much more plausible than "meatbags are stupid, and break for no reason".
I've heard a neuro researcher (who was last in a lab when γaba was new and poorly understood) speculate that high cholesterol is actually a symptom of some mild brain badnesses. Roughly: you need cholesterol to brain; if you weren't getting enough because of overly-efficient blood brain barriers, your body might flood your blood with it to compensate. Sure, you'd die when you're 40, but you think faster in the meantime.FrankTrollman wrote:Cholesterol
I have nearly zero evidence that's actually true (anecdotal: I have heard that some people on cholesterol meds complain that they get confused more easily). But it sounds much more plausible than "meatbags are stupid, and break for no reason".
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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For shows that use laugh tracks where the show pauses until the audience stops laughing, about how many seconds do you lose per episode because of this nonsense?
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In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Wouldn't say it is nonsense.
For example, if I watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs
You really realise how stupid and awkward the dialogue is. Terrible shows become a lot more bearable with a laugh track.
For example, if I watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs
You really realise how stupid and awkward the dialogue is. Terrible shows become a lot more bearable with a laugh track.
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Or they could rewrite the show so that it becomes funny without having to ring the Pavlovian dinner bell.ishy wrote:You really realise how stupid and awkward the dialogue is. Terrible shows become a lot more bearable with a laugh track.
But that's besides the point. Regardless of how necessary of laugh tracks are, I'm simply wondering how much raw padding they introduce.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
I really should know this shit already, but is there a way to tell Windows Update to go fuck itself and not set a restart timer?
My PC has various playlists for "waiting to fall asleep", and I've been woken up by the restart process a few times. Not to mention the number of times I've left stuff half-typed in firefox (or kept stuff typed up in notepad and not saved because "I only need it until after tomorrow") and it then decided "OKAY WE'RE RESETTING NOW!" and I lost the info.
My PC has various playlists for "waiting to fall asleep", and I've been woken up by the restart process a few times. Not to mention the number of times I've left stuff half-typed in firefox (or kept stuff typed up in notepad and not saved because "I only need it until after tomorrow") and it then decided "OKAY WE'RE RESETTING NOW!" and I lost the info.
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... e427756cccKoumei wrote:I really should know this shit already, but is there a way to tell Windows Update to go fuck itself and not set a restart timer?
My PC has various playlists for "waiting to fall asleep", and I've been woken up by the restart process a few times. Not to mention the number of times I've left stuff half-typed in firefox (or kept stuff typed up in notepad and not saved because "I only need it until after tomorrow") and it then decided "OKAY WE'RE RESETTING NOW!" and I lost the info.
depending on your version, try start -> control panel, double click windows update, select "change settings" on the left, change your update behavior in the dropdown.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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When I was a kid, I didn't realize things were supposed to be funny by their own merits and didn't know when to laugh if there wasn't a laugh track.Lago PARANOIA wrote:Or they could rewrite the show so that it becomes funny without having to ring the Pavlovian dinner bell.ishy wrote:You really realise how stupid and awkward the dialogue is. Terrible shows become a lot more bearable with a laugh track.
But that's besides the point. Regardless of how necessary of laugh tracks are, I'm simply wondering how much raw padding they introduce.
I had to teach myself what a sense of humor was because it wasn't automatic with me.
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