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Ask a Staffer Ep. 8 - :ohdear: Edition - TSO
HakureiSM:
--- Quote from: ♪ TheStupidOne ♫ on April 12, 2011, 01:42:30 AM ---I'm number 1 :D!
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Testing is still cooler, though.
I mean, his post count is much higher. He's obviously contributed a lot more to the community.
Nat Tea:
--- Quote from: ♪ TheStupidOne ♫ on April 12, 2011, 02:10:50 AM ---After the AFDay incident, I gave up my admin tag and public responsibilities for the most part. I used IP for the longest time. Then someone decided to actually challenge me to a contest. Winner got ID, and well, I won so I'm currently the only reigning ID.
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:ohdear:
i am sorry about doing that stuff
Yukarin:
MoTK tag really does look nice, helps clear out any sort of confusion.
Mimachiro:
What possession of yours is most likely to turn into a youkai?
Do you have a good memory, or the memory of a goldfish?
What do you believe to be the most valuable thing in the world (tangible or intangible)?
Do you believe in magic?
What's the funniest belief you held as a child? (Like monsters under the bed, or something)
helvetica:
--- Quote from: Guardian of Tempests on April 12, 2011, 03:17:48 AM ---I'm in an island, Mactan exactly, feels desolated(despite the population) since I'm the only one here knowing what's-what. Flight was decent, no internet back at the base and I have one question:
Although I was tempted to make a "Will you forgive me?" question, though instead........
"Anything I missed lately?"
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I... am both confused and frightened by this post.
:ohdear:
--- Quote from: AmmySM on April 12, 2011, 04:21:09 AM ---Testing is still cooler, though.
I mean, his post count is much higher. He's obviously contributed a lot more to the community.
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Sad thing is, I hacked the post count then I disabled the count entirely so now I can't reset it unless I dig directly into the database :derp:
--- Quote from: Nat Tea on April 12, 2011, 04:38:57 AM ---:ohdear:
i am sorry about doing that stuff
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It's done and over with, I realize that it's not worth the time and the effort to do any sort of gags anymore.
--- Quote from: Yukarin on April 12, 2011, 07:39:53 AM ---MoTK tag really does look nice, helps clear out any sort of confusion.
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It would have been up weeks ago but everyone else is lazy >:(.
--- Quote from: Genichiro Tatara on April 12, 2011, 10:00:10 AM ---What possession of yours is most likely to turn into a youkai?
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Probably the walrus plushie. I love that thing to death.
--- Quote ---Do you have a good memory, or the memory of a goldfish?
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:derp:. It depends on what I'm trying to remember. If it's an important number or date or meeting, forget it, it left my head before the words left the room. If it's some stupid trivia junk or an arcane factoid from a show or video game it will never leave my mind.
--- Quote ---What do you believe to be the most valuable thing in the world (tangible or intangible)?
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Knowledge. With knowledge comes the power to better yourself, and the power to dispel fear and irrationality.
--- Quote ---Do you believe in magic?
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Magic is just fancy talk for technology. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. " - Arthur C. Clark.
If any of us took just one piece of technology, even as mundane as something like a digital watch or glasses or even just a strip of velcro, back 200-300 years, people would be absolutely astonished by it. That's why I wouldn't be surprised if we hit a technological plateau where real (as in fantasy-esque) magic would exist.
--- Quote ---What's the funniest belief you held as a child? (Like monsters under the bed, or something)
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When I was little I was a huuuuuuuge astronomy nut (was? still am). One day I read up on the lifecycle of stars and learned the truth that eventually, 2-3 billion years from now, our Sun was going to puff up like a big marshmallow and Earth would be vaporized. I was absolutely terrified of this. I used to have a reoccurring nightmare where the Sun gobbled me up. It never dawned on me that it was wayyyyyyyyyyy into the future and I would be long dead of other things well before then.
I never shook the fear until I went on a trip to a real observatory and got to look through a telescope at the Crab Nebula. It was so beautiful, yet it was created by the violent death of a very large star. Then I learned that these violent deaths created all of the elements that eventually precipitated to our planet, all of the carbon, the iron, the nitrogen, came from supernovae. So in essence the death of a star lead directly to our existence. And it dawned on me that seemingly destructive and violent things happen for a reason, and it doesn't always have a terrible outcome.