Welp.

So my Hardcore character on Dragon Tavern (permadeath) just upgraded his equipment enough to stop adventuring cautiously. Today, he died.

Sad, sad day. Sad day.

I just got the title for spending 300 day’s worth of AP as well.

Sad day.

edit: For those of you that know the game, I took 31 hits from a single boss. I didn’t bother to check what my success chance was. It was my first adventure after returning from the tavern >.>

Also it’s like Echo Bazaar is just looking for excuses to throw nightmares at me. Not finding someone (Watchful challenge), thus not getting paid, gives me nightmares? Really? Explain that one to me, please.

I’m stuck on my ambition until I get Watchful 45/Dangerous 37, and I’m stuck on the Absconding Devil until I get Bohemian 3 again, so basically I guess I’m going to go be Dangerous because it’s the least dangerous thing I can do.

Derp.

Meatspace Friend Compatibility Test

After examining everyone’s responses, I’ve decided that vael’s strategy of replying within the quote is the cleanest way to to this. Without further ado…

lilystranger:

I made this little compatibility test. Nothing too serious… Just answer yes or no (unless otherwise stated :P).

• Do you like roller coasters? Eh. However, I am a manly coast-buster, and ain’t afraida no coasts, because peer pressure.
• Your favourite things to talk about are:
  

-events

-discoveries

-things happening with other people, gossiping (that sounds bad but when I have very little about myself to say, other people get involved eventually for the sake of conversation)

-funny things that happened in your day

-universe (though I prefer not to go that far out of myself)

-your achievements

-the mind

-feelings

• Do you like camping? Meh, but I’ve done my share for the family’s sake.
  
• Do you like going to the mall? Not by myself, no. I wouldn’t exactly invite someone to “go to the mall,” either. But it is something you can do to pass the time.
  
• Do you like learning? YES
  
• Are you religious? If not, what view do you hold (e.g. atheist, agnostic theist, etc.)?  APATHETIC
  
• Do you bluntly state what’s on your mind? Not so much, no.
  
• Are you nosy? Nah. That would be rude.
  
• Do you like to compromise? Plenty!
  
• Do you try hard not to hurt/offend others? Yeah, because I feel terrible when I do.
  
• Do you curse a lot? Pretty much never.
  
• Are you jealous of me? Nah.
  
• Do you think you are better than me? Nope.
  
• Are you competitive or hate it when you lose? Not really.
  
• Do you think I’m lazy? No!
  
• Would you be annoyed if I flopped onto your neatly made bed? Would my bed ever be neatly made…
  
• When you hang out with friends, do you usually watch TV, go on the computer, or something of that sort? This is usually what my friends and I did when we hung out, but I doubt I’ll be doing this now.
  
• Do you joke with other people’s fears? (E.g. There’s a spider on you!”) Not in a mean way like that. Lightly tease, maybe.
  
• Are you patient? Very.
  
• Are you great at keeping secrets? I like to think so?
  
• Do you like to take pictures or get your picture taken? Hmm, not really.
  
• Do you like to make video skits with friends? Hmm, not really again.
  
• Do you like cats? *shrug*
  
• Do/did you talk a lot in class while the teacher is/was talking? Nevar. Except when I’m in 10th grade and everything is easy.
  
• Are you honest? Totally, it’s just the right thing to do.
  
• Do you care a lot about your social status and avoid doing things that other people might see as weird/lame? Heck no, I’m just too apathetic to go out of my way for most things.
  
• Would you get annoyed if I got upset about a 96? Nah.
  
• I don’t like being tickled. I hate it and let you know that. Would you tickle me to get me in a laughing fit anyways? No, I wouldn’t.
  
• Do you think I’m just looking for mental disorders to blame everything on? Or do you think that some mental disorders are just ridiculous and that doctors are making normal personalities into “disorders”? I have a hard time answer this question as it’s worded, because it’s a fairly loaded question. Do you like to find mental disorders that sound like they fit you? Yes, I would say so. Do I think doctors sometimes go too far in diagnosing and pushing meds onto people? Yes, I do. 
• Does this quiz/how I made it/the fact that I made this quiz make you annoyed or angry? Nah, not at all.
  

BLACK COAT ANSWER

vael:

Anyone with a decent brain should attempt to answer this question and post it to their tumblrs.

Is silence more like: a fever, a voice never heard, or a question with no receiver?

I’ll post my response on Monday. Wouldn’t want to persuade any of you to my side.

Also “it’s technically all of them!” does not count even if it’s the rightest. You are responding not to be the rightest, but to make your choice the rightest among the three.

I’d like to see everyone attempt this.

        Back in the day, I used to write stuff like this (only two options though) for my personal message on MSN. I’d make up a new one every day. I stopped when I couldn’t think of anything else to use lol. But I think I kept it up for a few weeks.

        I don’t want this to be a huge essay or anything, but I think between those choices… Silence is more like a voice never heard. For a long time, namely since I got to know Britt, this has been a focal point in my life, the idea that there are millions of stories playing out around us and few, if any, are ever heard. I find myself wanting to be the person to hear those stories. So that, at least the once, they’ll be able to feel like they have a voice.

        There are two songs that have stuck out for me in name because of that, namely Voice of the Voiceless by Heaven Shall Burn and Rage Against the Machine (not even a cover, they’re completely unrelated songs) - that phrase, regardless of the individual song lyrics, is very appealing to me. A voice never heard, a person with no voice - relatively similar. I want to be their voice, then. Actually, that’s not quite right - I’m not really taking their problems to anyone else. I want to give them a voice, then. By stopping to listen, willingly giving my time when other people might not, it’s breaking that silence. Would things be different if their silences had to continue, left to fester and deepen? Would it broaden the gap between them and the opportunity to connect to people and find that voice?

        I want to be there for those people. I want to make that difference in their lives. Of course, it’s not like I can just walk up to sad-looking people and introduce myself. But I do what I can, you know?

        I don’t even know. Could be I’m making mountains out of molehills. All the mountains look like molehills in retrospect, though.

indestructible book xD

vael:

I have to stop reading this so I can code murcity, but lol @ thinking of “ebooks” as indestructable. I love it.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html

To me, I think the most interesting thing he says is that blu-ray is likely to be the last physical media we see. The more you think about it, the more you realize it’s probably true - what is there to do that blu-ray can’t? You’ve got 23 gb of storage space on a single-layer, and 46 gb on a double-layer disc. How much more would you really need, and if it is necessary, couldn’t you just use another disc?

We invented cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, and then blu-ray because there were things we couldn’t do with the old formats. If you can come up with something a blu-ray disc CAN’T do, a physical limitation of the format that could only be solved by one last hurrah for physical media, I would genuinely like to know.

Fantasy University

Once, I posted an e-mail from Kingdom of Loathing. Now, I post a letter from Fantasy University.

Imagine if KoL were made by the Facebook-generation.

Ready?

“Congratulations!

        Your application to Fantasy University has been accepted!

        We are looking forward to having yet another bright young mind take advantage of the unending knowledge of the country’s finest and foremost Adventuring College (that we know of)!

        We hope you are looking forward to the challenges presented by a Class-A Adventuring Education, and hope that you will meet any and all challenges with the same kind of fervor and optimism we exhibited in preparing this form letter!

        Before you are actually accepted, there is one formality that will be taken care of by this magical letter. It contains a disclaimer form that must be accepted before enrollment becomes final.

        Agreement: I, Demi Victus, do solemnly swear that I will do my best to uphold the traditions and integrity of Fantasy University and will always remember that I become the property of Fantasy University and that any accidents or punishments that may befall me up to and including death, dismemberment, depression, apathy, illness, decapitation (real or imagined), fraud, theft, delusions, nightmares, food poisoning, Rapture, stolen organs, borrowed organs, hallucinations, leg trauma, lupus, being burned alive, water torture, tickle torture, plain old torture, spasms, night sweats, day sweats, pant sweats, restless leg syndrome, restless elbow syndrome, poverty, canings, heat stroke, heat exhaustion, plain stroke, extortion, blackmail (which is technically different from extortion), blindness, deafness, loss of an ear, loss of one or more shoes, dew crotch, being forced to watch bad comedians (you know, the really bad ones where half of you wants to feel sorry for them, but the other half can’t stop laughing at how awful they are), and jury duty are all considered perks of the University and must be enjoyed as such. Furthermore, it remains the right of the University to… Geez, does anyone even read this crap? I spend 24 hours a day down here in this well, shackled to this printing press, writing up legal documents for you people BY HAND, and for what? A few half-hearted chuckles? My humor is all I have to give, and I try so hard, but what’s it all amount to? You’re never going read this anyway, and that’s okay. My wife will probably run off with some romance novelist, who she’ll fall in love with after he writes her into every single one of his best sellers. That’s cool, I’ll chill down here, with the rats, and the constant trickle of dank sewer water. No really guys, it’s fine. I’ll just keep making you laugh throughout this entire game, as you never once question where such brilliant humor stems from. You’ll never realize that every joke you read is really told by one lonely guy trapped in the bottom of a well, and that’s a fate I’m willing to accept. Bye forever.”