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I really, really like this game. I think it's a bit unfair to say that the game throws you to the wolves re: puzzle concepts; with one very specific exception* the game has a "training wheels" type area for every symbol you see. And to be honest, the fact that those areas *aren't* forced o...

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A while back I wondered what would happen if a spell had Deathtouch, like Puncture Blast has Wither. It took me on a really long trip through the history of Magic the Gathering, but I eventually came out with the solution :P First, get an Ogre Slumlord . Then use Artificial Evolution on it, changin...

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Sweet, thanks! Off-hand I remember that

Spoiler:

but I could be wrong.

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So this is great etc etc. Anyone happen to know the order of the songs used in the film? Amazon has "awesome mix vol 1" for sale, but it's for sure not in the correct order because it has a song not even in the film, and the song used in the first scene is definitely not the one listed on ...

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The line in the second panel is really awkward sounding. Is it a reference to something? I can't imagine a real person ever lumping "trying really hard all the time" in with being "confused and scared" like that. This comic hit home pretty hard for me. I can understand why you'd...

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Seconding/Thirding/Fourthing/whatever Hendricks as a really good G/T. Personally it's my favorite G/T, especially when you add a slice of cucumber.

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dhokarena56 wrote:hideous festival of debauchery and wanton perversion known as Anthrocon

aaaaaaaaaaaaand foe'd.

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Er, actually, it doesn't work because the additional cost on the first ability isn't affected by the second ability... Move along, nothing to see here!

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Another for the Scorching Mist implementation pile: Scorching Mist - U/R Instant As an additional cost to cast Scorching Mist, you may pay U/R. Each mana spent to pay Scorching Mist's mana cost must be a different color. If you spent U to cast Scorching Mist, counter target activated ability. If you...

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miedvied wrote:Your participation in all aspects of school pre-uni are compulsory

Speak for yourself? About half my classes towards the end of high school were elective.

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So the beer cans come closest, but everyone else screaming "GAWD my country already does this" doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the stuff that's been posted is nowhere close to the concept presented in the comic.

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if there exists some number Y such that X = Y, we can show X = Y and Y = X, so X = X. That doesn't work, because it assumes Y = Y. Reflection of equality is a Peano axiom, transition of equality is a Peano axiom, and symmetry of equality is a Peano axiom. None of them can be used to prove the other...

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Oop, sorry, my memory is rusty. Yes, addition of natural numbers is defined as:

a + 0 = a
a + S(b) = S(a + b)

where S is the successor function.

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adho wrote:Edit: Hold up, how can you not assume x - x = 0? How do you prove that something is equal to itself?

These two questions are different. "x = x" is an axiom; "x - x = 0" is not, and, in fact, neither is "x + 0 = x". These are provable statements.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/rrwoods007?feature=mhee

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http://rickwoods.livejournal.com/141961.html

amex, go die plz

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I think you mitigate (possibly eliminate) the risk of being too obvious by staying away from the song lyrics themselves, possibly to the point of deliberately avoiding the words used to describe the scene in the song. Don't say "mirror" or "ceiling", say "reflection" an...

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Oh man, you totally need song references everywhere too. Empty wine bottles, full champagne bottles, mirrored ceilings.

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I just got my scotchy scotch scotch back, and I has a happy. Finished off what was left of the Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or last night.

So much scotch... I'll have to take a picture and throw it up here at some point

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My 'favorite' is "I'm not going to argue with you." The impression that the word "argue" was negative took me years to shake. In fact I'm still not sure I've shaken it.

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Cocktails involving scotch: Rusty Nail.

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"SO" doesn't imply being engaged. "Fiancé[e]" does.

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Just played Race for the Galaxy this weekend. Not a bad game.

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Pant: iTunes is reading comments in my hosts file. I want to update my phone to iOS 5, but iTunes claims it can't contact the software server. Googling the problem leads me to tons of links where people are suggesting adding the line "# 127.0.0.1 gs.apple.com" to your hosts file to fix the...

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There are a ton of co-op levels in the base game that can be done with one player. People on speeddemosarchive had a field day with that.

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Sweet potato chips (parsed as [sweet potato] chips, not sweet [potato chips]) and hummus.

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Amusement of the day was someone managing to get Ludevic's Abomination out, only to have me keep tapping it with my Avacynian Priest. That's one badass priest. I love that card so much. At my prerelease I got triple Avacynian Priest. Tappy tappy! I tapped down someone's trampler-mill-yourself-for-t...

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This is important so even though it's been said I'm going to repeat it: So for some reason my revised lightning bolt is super different from an M12 lightning bolt, requiring me to purchase a new one No no no no no no no no no. You can play your revised Lightning Bolt anywhere cards named "Light...

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seems sub-par in control decks compared to something like Consecrated Sphinx or Sun Titan. You're probably right. The one thing it has going for it over those cards is that it costs 3, which means you can play it and have backup earlier than you would those other cards. I don't have enough metagame...

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http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 OH GOD. DO NOT OPEN THAT PAGE. DO NOT READ THAT STORY. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN SLOWLY. DO NOT HAVE YOUR EARPHONES ON WITH VOLUME HIGH WHEN YOU SCROLL DOWN SLOWLY. Unless you're not easily scared, that is. I mean, it's not that scary if y...

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While you can mathematically deduce from the 4th wall (you can see everyone with blue and brown eyes and count them.) and create a mathematical model, they can not. Incomplete information does not make producing a mathematical model impossible. Since they are all perfect logicians (and everyone kno...

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12 Island 8 Plains 4 Seachrome Coast 4 Geist of Saint Traft -- 1WU 2/2 hexproof; attack=make tapped+attacking 4/4 flying token, exile token at eoc 4 Sundial of the Infinite 4 Ponder 4 Think Twice -- reprint from TSP 4 Mana Leak 3 Mental Misstep 4 Negate 3 Apostle's Blessing 4 Dismember 4 Snapcaster ...

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Felstaff wrote:core tenant

Dammit, I actually left the page before I realized what you said here.

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I'm at this stage in my life where lots of my friends/acquaintances are getting engaged/married. I'm happy for all of them but I can't help but feel weird about it. Maybe because I still feel pretty young at heart. Ditto. One of my friends is married, has a 1-year old, and has another on the way. I...

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Famous Amos needs to stop changing (or maybe just screwing up) their gorram recipe. The other day my cookies were underbaked. Now they're flat and overbaked. They were perfect for years!

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Also, it just doesn't work in draft and the official line is "never mind". Here's how I imagine the conversation going. Concerned Drafter: "But in draft, everyone will be able to see the back of the card in the pack, and possibly in my draft pile unless I hide it somehow." Desig...

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They're printing on the backs of the cards.

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Words. There are none.

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1.: The standard deviation for each hand is still the same, as the game did not change. The only thing where it gets more complicated is the standard deviation for the sum of both hands. Your calculation is strange, as it scales the result with the square of the individual standard deviations. Var(...

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Two things. 1. There's a particular casino game that when played a particular way yields a player advantage. I know the expected value and standard deviation of the game in terms of initial bet. I also know "the covariance" of the game -- that is, I know the value cov(X, Y) where X and Y a...

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For some population P of size n, I have mutually exclusive sub-populations P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , ..., which collectively represent all of P. I know the number of elements n i in each subpopulation, and I know each subpopulation's mean and variance. Computing the mean of P is easy; a weighted average of ...

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