Can PF Random Thoughts be Split to Help with Server Load?

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The discussion revolves around the splitting of larger threads to alleviate server load, specifically continuing the Random Thoughts thread. Participants express their thoughts on various topics, including the emotional impact of the game Bioshock: Infinite, which one user describes as "haunting." They discuss the game's cover art, noting the absence of the female co-lead, Elizabeth, from the front cover, and reference an interview with Ken Levine that suggests this was a marketing compromise. The conversation shifts to personal anecdotes, including family dynamics and humorous observations about everyday life, such as experiences at McDonald's and the challenges of parenting toddlers. The thread features a blend of light-hearted banter, reflections on gaming, and casual storytelling, highlighting the community's camaraderie.
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Today, the outcome could have been:
  • horrible,
  • really, really bad, or
  • bad but we can live with it.
All were equally likely. Turned out to be, bad but we can live with it. So, I'm happy.

:smile:
 
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lisab said:
Today, the outcome could have been:
  • horrible,
  • really, really bad, or
  • bad but we can live with it.
All were equally likely. Turned out to be, bad but we can live with it. So, I'm happy.

:smile:
Or, to go along with your earlier post today, you could rephrase that as,
turned out to be bad
but we can live with it so
I am quite happy​
 
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  • #1,293
If you decide you are going to, please rain chocolate milk so I can Walden inversion my umbrella into a cup.
 
  • #1,294
collinsmark said:
Or, to go along with your earlier post today, you could rephrase that as,
turned out to be bad
but we can live with it so
I am quite happy​

that's fantastic :smile:
 
  • #1,295
I just love it when you have a bottle with 200 tiny pills in it and the cap won't come off until suddenly, it pops off and the pills go flying all over the room. Finally, you manage to pick all of the pills up and place them back into the bottle, then as you go to set it on the counter, it slips and falls and...
 
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Lol.
 
  • #1,297
:biggrin: what a good description! I like the phrase "all over the room" which is very imagery.
 
  • #1,298
My diet has been unusual lately and today I inadvertently arrived at some deadly combination of food such that I found myself able to sustain unbelievable levels of thrust. I'm sure I was hovering 5 inches above the toilet for at least 2-3 seconds.
 
  • #1,299
The new PF logo, in the top left corner. Shouldn't the atom be inside the balloon? It's pissing me off, as it is. Perhaps I'm a little OCD.
 
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Crake said:
The new PF logo, in the top left corner. Shouldn't the atom be inside the balloon? It's pissing me off, as it is. Perhaps I'm a little OCD.
Nope, this is better. Though it would be better to have a more non-discriminating; the logo's not really fair to all the biologists, computer geeks and mathematicians of the website. I personally would have made it a Promethean torch or a coat of arms with PF written on it and some latin which says something like Nullius in Verba or 'a nuclear physicist's favourite food is fission chips'.
Ah, well its physics forums after all...
 
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am i seriously delusional ?

i see physics chat.
 
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  • #1,302
Whatchu talkin' about? Chat? Where?
 
  • #1,303
top right of the site.

" Physics Forums Chat
PF Chat " tab.
 
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The new 24/7 chat is for Gold (subscribing a.k.a. PF Patron) members, Homework Helpers, Science Advisors, and Staff. You got to pay to play. :wink:

Greg was going to announce it today in Feedback, but it looks like you found it first.
 
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:cry::cry::cry:
 
  • #1,306
I liveeeeee.

I wasn't here for very long, but I had some real life stuff and I had to deal with that. Turns out, you can make a lowly paid worker work 2x as much for the same amount of pay. And we only complain a little. Classes start back up in the spring for me.

pay to play.

But not pay to win, right? ;)
 
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HayleySarg said:
I liveeeeee.

I wasn't here for very long, but I had some real life stuff and I had to deal with that. Turns out, you can make a lowly paid worker work 2x as much for the same amount of pay. And we only complain a little. Classes start back up in the spring for me.



But not pay to win, right? ;)

Welcome back :smile:!
 
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Thanks to the new avatar policy, you can all dream of having my gorgeous hair at times other than when I'm just posting regular pictures.
 
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Anyone know what the IR forum is? Greg provided a link to it in a thread but its an invalid one. Was it discontinued?
[too lazy to start a thread, sorry]
 
  • #1,310
IR forum no longer exists.
 
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The melody of a country song makes me sad(number 37405 -Tim McGraw).Similar melodies often create in my head images of green deserted pastures on a sunny day no matter what the meaning of the lyrics are. In my daily life I don't think about the country life at all. That is strange. Sometimes I feel truly alive and love my life. I am so much moody . If someome here also experiences the same thing I am glad to learn i am not alone.
 
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Comic: Universe hardware specs (I don't remember where this comes from).
Disclaimer: it's just a cartoon, I mean nothing serious whatsoever with it, of course.


9680836693_ccddd00863_o.jpg
 
  • #1,313
Is it me or is the forum chat room available 24/7?
 
  • #1,314
Gad said:
Is it me or is the forum chat room available 24/7?
Yes, for Gold members.
 
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That's cool.. And clever. :biggrin:
 
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Borek said:
IR forum no longer exists.

Were we speeding away from it too quickly?

DennisN said:
Comic: Universe hardware specs (I don't remember where this comes from).
Disclaimer: it's just a cartoon, I mean nothing serious whatsoever with it, of course.

It's from the Abstruse Goose, one of my favorite online comic strips. Here's a link to the page containing that particular strip.
http://abstrusegoose.com/455

Here are a couple more Abstruse Goose strips with related material.
http://abstrusegoose.com/235
http://abstrusegoose.com/244
 
  • #1,317
My space heater has that I-haven't-been-on-for-a-while smell. What is that smell, hot dust?
 
  • #1,319
me too, I like the comics ofthe site.
I realize my English is not good at all, it is that I don't have chances to practice English with non-US/Canada people (especially those from New Zealand, Australia and Britain or UK) I barely understand their statements and questions, their pronunciation is beautiful though. During almost 30 minutes yesterday having a conversation with a British man, I kept "pardon me, excuse me, could you repeat/say it again, one more time please", all of which really affects my oral test negatively. But I am happy no matter what the result will be.
 
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lisab said:
My space heater has that I-haven't-been-on-for-a-while smell. What is that smell, hot dust?
We're in the middle of a tremendous heat wave here. Are you really needing a space heater already there?
 

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