Lunchtable for the nerdy (warning: only nerdy people allowed)

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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Nerd music of the 80's

    https://youtu.be/vBfFDTPPlaM
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Still listen to Gary and Tubeway Army all the time.

    https://youtu.be/Ldyx3KHOFXw
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    I'm out of touch ha...
    Fail to see the drake degrassi connection :confused:
  • jessiferrrb
    jessiferrrb Posts: 1,758 Member
    I'm out of touch ha...
    Fail to see the drake degrassi connection :confused:

    it's degrassi: the next generation
    he was on the show
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess
  • browneyedgirl749
    browneyedgirl749 Posts: 4,984 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess

    No Beiber? LOL
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess

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  • disasterman
    disasterman Posts: 746 Member
    edited April 2017
    lego kwik-e-mart

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    Awesome! Side note: I can't find an antique style globe. I mean I can find the brown colored ones but not the actual old political boundaries like when Russia was just labeled Soviet Union

    I see globes from the 1920's and 1930's on eBay all the time. Also spot them in local antique stores quite a bit. Most of them aren't rare and usually not expensive either.

    Here's a nice post-WWII one:

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Replogle-Globe-10-Desktop-1946-1947-Metal-Base-/262925336126?hash=item3d37923e3e:g:BUAAAOSwax5Y27eH
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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    solve for the unknowns v, w, x, y, z

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    w=17 because (180- (132+31))
    v=48 because (180-132)
    x=58 because (180-122)
    y= (180-(43 + 58)) = 79

    y + z + w = (180-(43 + 31))
    79 + z + 17 = 106
    Thus z = 10

    Checking z + v + 122 = 10 + 48 + 122 = 180. True.

    Is that all they're teaching in post-grad math these days?
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    Here's something I totally tripped out on...
    Real nerd stuff...
    https://youtu.be/gypAjPp6eps
  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    j_bark wrote: »
    I'm gonna stick with...

    Headphones engaged....

    More like mute button engage


    I mean really, there was a lack of angst up in here. Is it lunchtime yet?

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  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess

    No Beiber? LOL

    Is he your favourite? :lol:
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess

    giphy.gif

    Haha, Kids in the Hall, right?
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Canadian music, which I will refrain from posting here... I've already posted Canadian content music all over mfp, I almost feel bad :)
    I like 90 and up music, and random 80's stuff is fun, then there's Abba, my guilty little secret!

    please say: cowboy junkies

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess

    I saw Mother Mother a few years ago and after the show I couldn't stop laughing because this old woman went up to the male singer and went, "that was just lovely, dear. You are so talented."

    Thanks, Grandma <3

    This is priceless! Adorable!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    So they used a large ring so that the depth of field is actually rather large. With a standard sized ring you'd need a macro lens to get that much detail on the ring that close to the camera. Doing so would make you unable to get anything resembling focus at infinity. Instead they scaled up the ring so they can place it further from the camera, while still appearing large and keeping the background somewhat in focus. This wouldn't be possible with a standard ring.

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  • browneyedgirl749
    browneyedgirl749 Posts: 4,984 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Vikka_V wrote: »

    Since someone asked, I will shamelessly plug some of my current Canadian favourites!
    - Kandle, love her
    - mother mother
    - the new pornographers

    Kinda all indie music I guess

    No Beiber? LOL

    Is he your favourite? :lol:

    Negative!! LOL! We just got stuck with him. I'm sure there are groups that tried to deport him back to Canada. Too bad they didn't succeed. :lol:

  • AlistairBernardNormal
    AlistairBernardNormal Posts: 999 Member
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    So they used a large ring so that the depth of field is actually rather large. With a standard sized ring you'd need a macro lens to get that much detail on the ring that close to the camera. Doing so would make you unable to get anything resembling focus at infinity. Instead they scaled up the ring so they can place it further from the camera, while still appearing large and keeping the background somewhat in focus. This wouldn't be possible with a standard ring.

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    You don't have to tell me - I watched ALL the appendices.

    One hula hoop to rule them all.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
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    Shopping at the Rhino BSDM store again @cee134 ?

  • FeraFilia
    FeraFilia Posts: 4,664 Member
    I'm just going to sit over here in musical ignorance.
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    I must confess I was expecting something different from this thread...

    Guess I'm not a nerd... I'm just a dork... Lol
  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
    edited April 2017
    I must confess I was expecting something different from this thread...

    Guess I'm not a nerd... I'm just a dork... Lol

    Don't buy the hype...

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  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
    Just realized the last 9 books added to my Goodreads queue....graphic novels and comics
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
    edited April 2017
    Historical Rationale:
    By 2001-2002, Napster; Kazaa/Limewire; early, pre-bittorrent P2P; and the resultant RIAA suits made available to even casual observers that year over year record sales were either stagnant or in decline. The only genres to experience year to year sales growth were country and CCM. Jazz and classical were flat. Everything else had been in decline for at least the previous four years.

    Conjecture:
    If you liked R&B, the 1990s was YOUR decade. R&B and soul did very well: Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, TLC, Janet Jackson, R Kelly, etc etc etc

    My issue with the decade was the (even more egregious than previous decades) shameless trend pushing-- grunge (Seattle "garage" sound) the most prevalent (looking at YOU MTV and Rolling Stone). There was also the punk, ska, and swing revivals. Rapcore appeared. In the middle of the decade seems like every record executive was looking for the "next" Morrisette, Apple, McLachlan. The CCM side was pumping out "worship" albums every day, it seems. And for rock, excluding the Seattle bands, the top selling of the decade being already well established-- Metallica, Aerosmith, U2-- not really breaking new ground. Not to say any of this wasn't good, but for every one worthwhile act there were 9 copycats pushed by executives trying to capture a piece of an ever shrinking pie.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    I'm extremely fairly new to the whole DM setting, but for now I've shot a few encounters at my PC's. I had previously went to my DM for help and got some good tips, but what I really need is what our party calls... "Nagranda". She is a Duskblade, level 10 with a some sort of *kitten* sword that obliterates anything magic, is sheathed within her, and deals d20's for damage. Point is, I need some advice on where to look to make some Meeseeksanddestroy is a thespian hero that's destroying gods in the background that my PC's will look up to on their adventures. I have some base stats of a hero called Gideon (pretty much lost 3 hero's in this setting and revived them all as this OP cannon of fire): Duskblade-4, Fighter-4, Swordsage-4 Str-17 Dex-17 Con-13 Int-16 Wis-14 Cha-13 Mostly looking for weapons, curses, items, or the-like. Anything for DM advice also helps, Thanks.
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    Gimsteinn1 wrote: »
    OK ok.. I'll step out of the Nerd closet.

    I've got an Ironman Bob Head.. I bought for me but gave my SO cause he's the one in an open relationship with his nerdiness.
    I've got a R2D2 statue I also bought for me but gave him
    I've got a Darth Vader led lamp I also gave him but is really mine
    I've Cosplayed and no, I'm not sharing pics.
    I've played dungeons&dragons

    I've been to not 1 but 6 gaming conventions.
    I've played WOW for more than 300 days in total.
    I've read almost every Orson Scott book
    I've read almost every Star Wars book
    I've watched Star trek so many times I can't even count it
    I've read almost every Douglas Adams book

    I actually own a bloody gaming company and we've released 2 mobile games so far. The third one is on it's way and I'm currently trying to find the motivation to finish the story for the fourth.

    And I bloody hell know that the answer to the life, the universe and everything is 42

    So there.. I'm out.

    You've read the star wars books? <3
    What's your favorite series?
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    dpwellman wrote: »
    Historical Rationale:
    By 2001-2002, Napster; Kazaa/Limewire; early, pre-bittorrent P2P; and the resultant RIAA suits made available to even casual observers that year over year record sales were either stagnant or in decline. The only genres to experience year to year sales growth were country and CCM. Jazz and classical were flat. Everything else had been in decline for at least the previous four years.

    Conjecture:
    If you liked R&B, the 1990s was YOUR decade. R&B and soul did very well: Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, TLC, Janet Jackson, R Kelly, etc etc etc

    My issue with the decade was the (even more egregious than previous decades) shameless trend pushing-- grunge (Seattle "garage" sound) the most prevalent (looking at YOU MTV and Rolling Stone). There was also the punk, ska, and swing revivals. Rapcore appeared. In the middle of the decade seems like every record executive was looking for the "next" Morrisette, Apple, McLachlan. The CCM side was pumping out "worship" albums every day, it seems. And for rock, excluding the Seattle bands, the top selling of the decade being already well established-- Metallica, Aerosmith, U2-- not really breaking new ground. Not to say any of this wasn't good, but for every one worthwhile act there were 9 copycats pushed by executives trying to capture a piece of an ever shrinking pie.

    After 96 it really became about how to sell the music rather than what sounds good...

    And thus Boy Bands (not even really bands) were shamelessly crammed down everyone's throat...
    Rap music lost its edge
    Rock music lost any hint of blues influence and just became a whiny emo genre...
    I started exploring other decades
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  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    Gimsteinn1 wrote: »
    OK ok.. I'll step out of the Nerd closet.

    I've got an Ironman Bob Head.. I bought for me but gave my SO cause he's the one in an open relationship with his nerdiness.
    I've got a R2D2 statue I also bought for me but gave him
    I've got a Darth Vader led lamp I also gave him but is really mine
    I've Cosplayed and no, I'm not sharing pics.
    I've played dungeons&dragons

    I've been to not 1 but 6 gaming conventions.
    I've played WOW for more than 300 days in total.
    I've read almost every Orson Scott book
    I've read almost every Star Wars book
    I've watched Star trek so many times I can't even count it
    I've read almost every Douglas Adams book

    I actually own a bloody gaming company and we've released 2 mobile games so far. The third one is on it's way and I'm currently trying to find the motivation to finish the story for the fourth.

    And I bloody hell know that the answer to the life, the universe and everything is 42

    So there.. I'm out.

    You've read the star wars books? <3
    What's your favorite series?

    My current

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    It's like I've known you my whole mfp life lol...
    Your favorite, just current or both?