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

[Evo]

In order to help with server load, we are splitting up the larger threads.

This is a continuation of the original Random Thoughts thread located here

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=338126

 

[trollcast]

Yay first post to the new random thoughts thread

 

[Evo]

Congrats!

 

[Astrum]

Yes, that was an incredible game. It's one that I will play again. I have to say, after playing it, it haunts me. I've never been haunted by a game before. Yet there it is with Bioshock: Infinite. Haunting. When I am on my deathbed, I might reminisce about old games, saying "I'm glad I was able to play games such as Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom, Quake, and yes, Bioshock: Infinite." It's that good.

[Edit: And no Quick Time Events (QTEs)! That makes it all the better.]

Haunting is a good word to describe it. It's been two days since I finished it, and my head is still reeling!

Probably the most unsettling part for me (aside from the fate of Elizabeth) is the chapter while you're going through the hospital with the Boys of Silence. The voice acting was pretty convincing, I must say.

I find it strange that the cover art only features Booker, and not Elizabeth. I read somewhere that 2K has some rule about featuring male co-leads on the cover, and female co-leads on the back. Which is ridiculous if you ask me.

I just checked out the alternate covers that were just released for the game. The one that most accurately represents the game is this one (IMO):

 

[collinsmark]

I find it strange that the cover art only features Booker, and not Elizabeth. I read somewhere that 2K has some rule about featuring male co-leads on the cover, and female co-leads on the back. Which is ridiculous if you ask me.

On the official cover (box), Booker DeWitt is on the front, and Elizabeth is on the back. (I only know this because I heard it on the Internet. I downloaded my copy via Steam, so I never actually got a box).

There is an interview with Ken Levine where he implies that taking Elizabeth off of the cover was a compromise he made. He didn't come right out and say that he was against it, or what the compromise was about, but one gets the impression that he was pressured into doing it [Edit: after rewatching the interview it was about market research.] He mentioned that he could accept it because it isn't a compromise that affects the game itself.

Edit: found it! He goes into detail about the box cover starting about about 19:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsjALh2vYA

[Oooh. I made the first page!]

 

[zoobyshoe]

I think it is more a combination of an overactive imagination and a frustrated career in comedy (never

really tried it) . When I was trying to decide between academics and comedy, all comedians suggested I stick

with academics, and all academics told me " I think you should stick with comedy".

I mean the strange chopping of the sentences. Why didn't you write:

"I think it is more a combination of an overactive imagination and a frustrated career in comedy (never really tried it) . When I was trying to decide between academics and comedy, all comedians suggested I stick with academics, and all academics told me " I think you should stick with comedy"."

 

[Bacle2]

I mean the strange chopping of the sentences. Why didn't you write:

"I think it is more a combination of an overactive imagination and a frustrated career in comedy (never really tried it) . When I was trying to decide between academics and comedy, all comedians suggested I stick with academics, and all academics told me " I think you should stick with comedy"."

Oh, I hadn't noticed. I'll try to avoid it from now on. It may come from posting in sites
where ASCII math characters are used, and one is asked to leave spacing to be able
to read more easily.

 

[Astrum]

On the official cover (box), Booker DeWitt is on the front, and Elizabeth is on the back. (I only know this because I heard it on the Internet. I downloaded my copy via Steam, so I never actually got a box).

There is an interview with Ken Levine where he implies that taking Elizabeth off of the cover was a compromise he made. He didn't come right out and say that he was against it, or what the compromise was about, but one gets the impression that he was pressured into doing it [Edit: after rewatching the interview it was about market research.] He mentioned that he could accept it because it isn't a compromise that affects the game itself.

Edit: found it! He goes into detail about the box cover starting about about 19:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsjALh2vYA

[Oooh. I made the first page!]

Yes, but I think it's silly.

Anyway, we can thank Irrational Games for this cool version of "God Only Knows"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ogV49WGco

 

[Bacle2]

Had some pretty tasty ribs for dinner; they had , as the French would say, a certain " I don't know what".

 

[Physics_Chris]

My first post on these forums ^_^
Also almost done with high school

 

[collinsmark]

My first post on these forums ^_^
Also almost done with high school

Welcome to PF, Chris!

 

[dkotschessaa]

Learning that waking up at 5:30 is easier than waking up at 6:00. Guess that's what my body wants to do...

 

[ImaLooser]

Hammersmith odium fillibuster ghostbrain plumb.

 

[Duplex]

Learning that waking up at 5:30 is easier than waking up at 6:00. Guess that's what my body wants to do...

The spirit is willing , but the flesh is weak :zzz:. One of life's unsolved mysteries.

 

[L4xord]

Indeed, a great mystery…

 

[dkotschessaa]

The spirit is willing , but the flesh is weak :zzz:. One of life's unsolved mysteries.

My spirit was willing and my body had a double espresso in bed.

(Realized I've gone quite a few posts without mentioning my espresso machine somehow).

-Dave K

 

[L4xord]

Schola est prope... Latine iterum cogitare incipio...

School is nigh… I am beginning to think in Latin again…

 

[dkotschessaa]

volo Latine sciebant

I wish I knew latin.

 

[L4xord]

volo Latine sciebant

I wish I knew latin.

I wish you did as well.

 

[Duplex]

My spirit was willing and my body had a double espresso in bed.

Bed>expresso machine.
A catch-22.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Bed>expresso machine.
A catch-22.

Well I've solved that, kind of. I set the machine up before I go to bed. First alarm goes off, I hit snooze, and I get up to turn it on and go back to bed. Alarm goes off and then I get my espresso and bring it back to bed. I sit in bed and drink it and snuggle with my wife until we absolutely have to get out of bed.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I wish you did as well.

 

[ChiralWaltz]

My son was flip flopping all over bed last night, a real 3 year old nocturnal acrobat. Must be the new astronaut rocket pajamas.

 

[Bacle2]

volo Latine sciebant

I wish I knew latin.

Don't you? QED : Quod Erat Demonstrandum , E Pluribus Unum , Morituris te Salutamus.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Well if that's the standard, then I know a lot of languages.

Futon teriyaki tofu...

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Don't you? QED : Quod Erat Demonstrandum , E Pluribus Unum , Morituris te Salutamus.

Illegitimi non carborundum

 

[Bacle2]

Illegitimi non carborundum

Yes, I too am trying to cut down on carbohydrates.

 

[Borek]

I am starting to hate facebook. Profile image can't have a white background, as it will be cropped by their algo.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Sci-Fi channel continues to show 2012, the 2009 film about the 2012 end of the world:

 

[Bacle2]

Sci-Fi channel continues to show 2012, the 2009 film about the 2012 end of the world:

I think Orwell mentioned that in his '1984' book, which he wrote in 1948.
The book was banned in many countries in 1950.

 

[Bacle2]

Around 1,045,000 views to go to reach the (so far) 1,045,023 views of the first part of RT.

 

[Borg]

Sci-Fi channel continues to show 2012, the 2009 film about the 2012 end of the world:

I saw that and wondered whether it was still a banned topic on the forum.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Congrats to me for being the first post on page 3

 

[dkotschessaa]

well it was worth a try

 

[Lyrassia]

Random thought:

National Physics Day is on April 24th.

 

[Lyrassia]

Congrats to me for being the first post on page 3

Oops.

 

[lisab]

What a weekend.

First, before 6:00 AM on Saturday, I get a call from my extremely distraught daughter. The night before was her and her cat's first night in their new place. This "new" place happens to be a trailer in the back yard of a house. She woke up, and her cat is no where to be found!

Sometime in the night, she left the trailer to go into the house to use the bathroom. She was afraid the cat got out at that time. In a new neighborhood, he'd be, well, very difficult to find .

But later in the day, she found him, hiding up under the driver's seat. You just can't imagine her relief.

Then on Sunday (again before 6:00!), I heard a big commotion in the yard. I rushed out to find a coyote eating one of my chickens ! I yelled and the coyote ran off. Then the chicken got up and ran to me! She didn't have any bleeding, and she wasn't limping. She had lost a lot of feathers though! The coyote had plucked her lower back . She spent the rest of the day sitting on her nest, recovering. But she's out in the yard today, eating and drinking. Seriously, another 30 seconds and it would have been too late.

Animal drama, animal trauma. But it's all good now.

 

[Kholdstare]

 

[zoobyshoe]

But it's all good now.

I think there's a good chance the coyote will be back, though. You need to provide the chicken with a shotgun and drill on how to use it.

 

[reenmachine]

I'm bored.

 

[Duplex]

I saw that and wondered whether it was still a banned topic on the forum.

I have deleted the solstice December 2012 in my time machine.
I do not want to trigger a time quake and get banned on the forum.

 

[dlgoff]

... I heard a big commotion in the yard. I rushed out to find a coyote eating one of my chickens ! I yelled and the coyote ran off. Then the chicken got up and ran to me! She didn't have any bleeding, and she wasn't limping. She had lost a lot of feathers though! The coyote had plucked her lower back . She spent the rest of the day sitting on her nest, recovering. But she's out in the yard today, eating and drinking. Seriously, another 30 seconds and it would have been too late.

I think there's a good chance the coyote will be back, though.

Have chickens. Will ship.

 

[Evo]

What a weekend.

First, before 6:00 AM on Saturday, I get a call from my extremely distraught daughter. The night before was her and her cat's first night in their new place. This "new" place happens to be a trailer in the back yard of a house. She woke up, and her cat is no where to be found!

Sometime in the night, she left the trailer to go into the house to use the bathroom. She was afraid the cat got out at that time. In a new neighborhood, he'd be, well, very difficult to find .

But later in the day, she found him, hiding up under the driver's seat. You just can't imagine her relief.

Then on Sunday (again before 6:00!), I heard a big commotion in the yard. I rushed out to find a coyote eating one of my chickens ! I yelled and the coyote ran off. Then the chicken got up and ran to me! She didn't have any bleeding, and she wasn't limping. She had lost a lot of feathers though! The coyote had plucked her lower back . She spent the rest of the day sitting on her nest, recovering. But she's out in the yard today, eating and drinking. Seriously, another 30 seconds and it would have been too late.

Animal drama, animal trauma. But it's all good now.

{{{lisab}}}

Happy the cat was found, so glad you saved your chicken, poor thing. I hope you're able to create a secure area like dl did, a lot of work, but worth it.

 

[Evo]

Hey, I thought the internet was supposed to be shut down yesterday (according to Anonymous). Did I miss it?

 

[dkotschessaa]

congrats to me for being either the first post on page 4, the last post on page 3, or some other post.

 

[dkotschessaa]

darn

 

[dkotschessaa]

http://www.tickld.com/images/content/29695.jpg

 

[AlephZero]

Have chickens. Will ship.

This one shipped itself: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22278774

 

[Borg]

A coworker from another building came into my office this morning and asked if he could leave his black backpack in my office while he was in a meeting.

 

[ImATrackMan]

Random thought:

National Physics Day is on April 24th.

Happy National Physics Day, everybody!