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If you scroll down the Wikipedia Uranus page, you get to this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ESO_-_Uranus_%28by%29.jpg It seem that it's the whole Uranus system that is tilted vs the ecliptic, not just the planet. If I'd bothered to skim through the whole article, I'd probably have help...

Isn't it Uranus that rotates sideways? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#Axial_tilt

I think I may have felt like that in the past, but it's been a long time, so I can't be sure it was that good, and it definitely didn't last that long.

Good luck keeping your euphoria as long as possible.

There's also Daesh, the preferred term if you are specifically insulting ISIL as it's apparently a corruption of their acronym or something (and also because there was someone at my old school called Isis, so I'd rather call the bunch of terrorists who took over some subset of Iraq and Syria someth...

Alas, I'm old enough to remember when 'troll' actually meant something - as in posting something inflammatory but completely non-contributory merely to get a rise. Nowadays you crazy kids use it to refer to anyone who persists in posting content you don't like. Every time the media completely mis-u...

Well I don't make etiquette, I just don't follow it and neither do the vast majority of Americans. But pointing at people is officially considered rude as is staring at them. Both at once is very rude. People still do it all the time and gesturing seems to be a loophole. I've always assumed it was ...

Shady314 wrote:Pointing is actually considered somewhat rude however. At least in America.

The whole country decided that they'd take one of the killer apps of the last million years for fingers and bipedalism and deprecate it?

I'd go with "Her over there in the [colour] [dress/top/whatever]", to avoid worrying about race at all. Of course, if there's a work uniform, that may not work.

TiaC wrote:Therefore, you must have gained 12 levels!

Doesn't having used a Manual of Gainful Exercise fit the known facts better?

momothefiddler wrote:...the party stumbled upon a... cultist, probably, I don't recall, and needed to take him out before he could alert his friends.

...it was 4e...

Shouldn't he have been a minion?

Congrats. I hope that your supply of exclamation marks doesn't drop to zero.

[EDIT] does -> doesn't. Doh!

Are they actually pronouncing Myr with two syllables?

I tend to wish that back when I found out about bitcoin, but my computer was too slow to bother doing any mining, that I had bought a whole bunch of it for pennies. Then I berate myself that hindsight is 20-20, and not to think too much like that.

The Tories managed to eek out a narrow victory by demanding that Scottish votes be disenfranchised. Wut. The Conservative party (Tories) attacked Labour by declaring that if you voted for the SNP, then they and the Labour party would form a coalition and <Bad Things> would happen. So in Scotland, b...

Shrapnel wrote:Personally, I think that anyone who refuses to vaccinate their child really deserves whatever happens to them.

The trouble is that probably whatever happens will happen to the child, not the adult.

Can 'D&D Movies' be forked off into its own thread? I think there's definite merit in the discussion. 'Eberron the Movie' concepts sound good (optimism optimism)

I'm willing to give it a go.

I take it that they don't store video on the black box, nor have plans to do so in future?

Wouldn't the Kelpstrand be made to go away by the beholder antimagic, too?

No getting filthy physics on the shiny magic!!

Wasn't healing magic part of Necromancy back in 2eAD&D (and presumably before, but that's before my time) until they split it away in 3e because reasons?

hyzmarca wrote:We'd get a lot more liberal voters if we allowed voting through the internet.

You'd get a lot more votes from hackers, too.

I wonder who 4chan would elect as president?

As Maxus points out, granite is a rock with visible crystals and very little iron or magnesium made with lots of feldspar, quartz, mica and hornblende in it. Feldspar is what causes the granite to stain, because feldspar slowly turns into kaolinite when exposed to water and kaolinite is a slightly ...

Not mentioned in above post: Pop Francis saying, "You know what? Forget the speech I prepared today. Listen to this little girl. Listen to how much she's been suffering. That's more important than what I was going to say." Say what you will about how false his religion is, but the man kno...

Sugar Doesn't Make Kids Hyper (Youtube video, links to research)