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Drowning. Fuuuck that. Desperately struggling to do anything to get air, but know you wont, and your body is going to force you to inhale in a second but all you're going to get is water so you know you're dead and you're so pumped full of adrenaline and terror and you're heart's beating so fast and nonononono fuck that.

What skill do you wish you had but know you'll never bother to learn?

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I've always liked 4chan's solution to this problem where you create link(s) to reference the post(s) you're replying to, and a post automatically creates links to posts that reference it. Clicking these links takes you directly to the post in question, or just hovering your mouse over them will either highlight the post if it's on your screen or pop up a little window with the post if it's not. It makes it easy to follow specific threads of conversation, find the context of the post you're reading, or find out who else weighed in on a certain topic.

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I love you Teague, that's awesome.

If I can figure out a setup that records it well, I might break out the Didgeridoo. Hmmm.

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I don't see this being any more effective than regular arrows. If they're armored such that regular arrows are ineffective, I can't see you getting anything into their eyes. If you shoot enough, maybe you can irritate their lungs some, but I can't see it doing anything meaningful. While it's a cool idea, it doesn't pass the bullshit test for me.

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Y'all are awesome and make awesome shit, and I intend to be here for whatever awesome thing you do next. If I could send you a fist bump through the internet I would. Job well done.

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I'm going to second Tom and BDA here. It's more important for the details to serve the story then vice versa. Unless you're writing super hard sci-fi, no one is going to get mad at you because your math doesn't check out. Don't feel beholden to my math and speculation if it's getting in the way of your story. I was going to type more here, but I realized I was just repeating what Tom said in different words, so just go read his post again.

Edit: I will add this: It's ok to tell us about your world, the details you give us help bring it to life, but do it in a natural way, and don't overwhelm us. We should learn about your world the same way we learn that Tattooine has two suns, or that Coriscant is all city. No one sits down to have a conversation about it, it just shows up in an establishing shot and everyone just treats it like it's normal, 'cause to them it is. Those details are an important part of bringing a world to life, Tattooine isn't really the same without it's twin suns, but they're backstage to the story taking place.

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Because you said Neptune, I used actual Neptune to do some quick and dirty math. To have a 30 day orbital period our "moon" has to orbit at about 1,000,000 km. This makes our gas giant have an angular diameter of about 170 arc minutes, or ~ 6 times larger than the moon. This would roughly mean that an eclipse would last about 6 times longer, for a max of about 45 minutes when everything lines up and you're standing in the right place. As for how blue it would make your nights (and, potentially, at least a little bit, your days), use your imagination, I feel like you've got a significant amount of artistic license there.

EDIT: And to add, just in case you don't know, your planet is tidally locked to the gas giant. The above only applies to the gas giant facing side of the planet. The other side will have uninterrupted days and very dark nights. And is probably colder, I think. And gets hit by more meteors.

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A guy I know does audio for weddings and this year he wants to branch out and do video as well. Since I'm his go to video guy he approached me to do this with him. Our current plan to get several GoPro's and mount them around the ceremony as well as have me walk around with one. This gives us several different angles to work with when editing to keep things more interesting instead of being one looooong ass shot of the whole thing. For the reception we'll do something similar as well as have one set off to the side with a mic for people to leave video messages. Does this make sense? Any suggestions? Are we completely fucking this up? Fourth thing?

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I don't watch much anime, but I have seen Fate/Zero and I loved it. I was going to watch Fate/Stay Night, and my friends (who do watch a lot of anime) say it isn't nearly as good.

Man, why is I Feel More Like a Leonard on the bottom of everyone's lists? It's the one that lodged itself firmly in my head and wont leave. Seriously, I should be charging it rent or something.

At last I can follow through on a promise I made to you nearly 4 years ago and buy your album. Can't wait to give it a listen.

For some reason the casualness of the statement after BDA's manicness gave me a good giggle. Care to announce the release date?

Maybe he's waiting to release it on the two year anniversary of this thread, in which case we only need to wait 5 more months

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Hi! What led you to our little corner of the internet?

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I know it's not a movie, but in Avatar: The Last Airbender, in Tales of Ba Sing Se, when Iroh starts crying while singing Leaves from the Vine, I lose it every time.

Poke. Poke poke poke.

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This isn't looking like it's going to make it, and that makes me sad. sad