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Baby spinach is a pretty handy vegetable to add to stuff. You can either have it raw as a salad leaf, or you can "wilt" or blanch it while you're cooking other stuff. Some simple methods you can use with it: 1. Boil water in a saucepan, add a dollop of olive oil. Throw a large handful of s...

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P/NP rants The P/NP problems always bugged me due to impossible combinations being checked. For instance, a common problem is "in this list of X numbers, do any sum to 0?". The brute force method is to check every combination, which if there are 100 numbers is 2^100 combinations to check,...

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I teared up, just a little, at the Stan cameo. It was absolutely perfect. There were a few times, mainly in the final action sequence, where the artistic styles made it a bit hard to see what was happening, but otherwise I loved the film. Minor spoilers: I am so glad to see some of the interesting a...

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512 years ago is 1506, which is when Martin Luther became a monk - that was a point where the Church was in a fair bit of turmoil, is it fair to suspect that the Bad Place was involved, maybe even taking measures to make people think too much about their morality? Seems real specific to one religio...

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Dad is mirror-universe native (maybe Mum too), especially given his apparent reversed T-shirt logo (was it mirrored? Was it un-mirrored when back 'this' side? Have to rewatch to unpick that, even if no longer relevant), possibly part of the reason the daughter became blind -...

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I agree that it was a strong episode, although I would argue that the entire "anti-zone" part was completely superfluous to the episode, and it would have been a much better episode without it, especially given how rushed some of the end felt. The handling of Ryan, Graham and (not-)...

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Edit with future speculation based on S1 finale: Is Bow trans? At the end of the finale, when all the princesses hold hands to create the rainbow wave thing, Bow's heart thing clearly glows. In addition we've seen him wearing what looks a lot like chest binding when he took some clothes off...

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SecondTalon wrote:
ConMan wrote:Holdak

Did they change his name?

Nope, I just have a bad memory for names, apparently including fictional ones.

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They show it maybe every other episode? We binged it over the weekend. I'd say it's not quite as, say, the Voltron reboot, but then that show has had several seasons to build up its mythos. She-Ra is, so far, just a good kids' show with a nice amount of depth to it, including an interesting focus on...

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From my interpretation, I think we're going to discover that the point system was a scam all along, as it should rightly be. Shawn seems to be in on the secret, but no-one else is - maybe the Judge? Also, Shawn's comment about how he's looking forward to claiming the show's protagon...

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It looks like it might actually be pretty good. Also, I am pleasantly surprised that it looks like they're reverse whitewashing the game - in the game, the player character and many of the surrounding characters are plainly Caucasian, whereas in the trailer it looks like they've actually cast a bunc...

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Anybody have a recommendation for me and my two 10 year olds? Trying to move past Monopoly and Settlers was way way too much for them. Carcassonne would work great - you can also just decide not to play with some rules to make it easier (no farmers) Sushi Go was already mentioned. Splendor is a bit...

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Anybody have a recommendation for me and my two 10 year olds? Trying to move past Monopoly and Settlers was way way too much for them. The Forbidden series, mentioned by pseudo, probably starting with Forbidden Island. It's co-operative (so you can help them), it has nice big colourful pieces, and ...

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The specifics of which players can PM each other and when is dependent on the game setup, but usually a mod has to be copied in on the discussion and if it's a situation that's outside the norm (e.g. non-Mafia chat, daychat) then it's likely to be hinted at in the setup in some way, especially in a ...

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Jeremy Bearimy My wife wondered whether Jeremy Bearimy came about from a desire to reference "Timey-wimey" without being an outright Doctor Who shoutout. Will the dot in the i just remain a side joke, or will they actually need to use it to escape/set up the next seasons? As one of my frie...

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I watched it a few weeks ago with my wife. Tone-wise, it definitely feels like a cross between Gravity Falls and Adventure Time, but less hectic and crazy. And we really love the subdued palette - lots of pastel browns, with occasional forays into greyscale with highlights for night and underground ...

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I've been getting the updates in my reader, but the title text has been getting cut off. I'm not sure if it's a related issue.

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Analytic functions are just about the most nicely-behaved functions you can find. If there's a property that "makes sense" for functions to do, then odds are that it will be true for analytic functions, but outside of them there will be some weird pathological example that breaks your prop...

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Plytho Congrats! PoGo Also I need friends on pokemon go! Give me more gifts! I'll send you stuff. 916226255893 - cheers. Done, and now I want to see someone run a PoGo-themed follow-up to the brutal Tamagotchi Mafia. OhNo (Leave) I get a decent amount of paid annual leave which accumulates over ...

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These are what I have in my podcast app. They fall into two broad categories. Comedy: ⋅ Childproof - A comedy festival performance of what was originally conceived as a TV sitcom (that no network wanted). 6 episodes total. ⋅ Dragon Friends - A bunch of comedians do a live show ...

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Chaos BF may have spilled the beans in his spoilers already, but the truth is that the random redirect boat has sailed. It was a one-chance-only thing. However, the longer that I can pretend that there's another bullet in the chamber, the longer that scum will worry about who they're targeti...

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More on ConMan: I was wondering about the ordering of ConMan's list and noticed that the input (old target) was apparently the same as the player order from the OP with one exception: mpolo, who is 11 on the player list is in between 4 and 6 on the redirection list. I think this might mean ConMan m...

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Sorry for not being around all weekend - life is busy, and has slightly higher priority than mafia. But still, I'm reading through the thread, and here are my responses to a few things that I've been tagged in. It's worth noting that no-one in this thread until Plytho had seriously considered the po...

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It's worth noting that no-one in this thread until Plytho had seriously considered the possibility that the night kill redirected from BoomFrog was the one that killed Mark, rather than mpolo. Pretty sure somitomi was the one considering that. Sorry, yes, I meant somitomi. @Sabrar: Occam's Razor to...

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It's worth noting that no-one in this thread until Plytho had seriously considered the possibility that the night kill redirected from BoomFrog was the one that killed Mark, rather than mpolo. Sabrar first put out his theory, and everyone went with it. Vote Sabrar FoS everyone else who jumped on tha...

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Chaos So far, Sabrar has posited that the mpolo NK was the one originally meant for BoomFrog. If no-one else calls him on it I will do so tomorrow.The truth, of course, is far stranger - BF used a "scramble all targets" ability, which actually swapped mpolo and Plytho, and redirected thing...

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One piece of info based on night results I received from wam (still haven't had time to read through everything in the thread yet): At least one of the night kills was almost certainly redirected, and the original target was almost certainly BoomFrog (i.e. me now). Sorry not sorry to whoever tried t...

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Confirm

that I am here, but also confirm that I have not had time to properly process what's going on. Suffice to say ... things be crazy.

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I'm guessing Singapore probably gave a bunch of money to the movie, possibly in the form of free access to the various venues. That doesn't take away from how beautiful the film was. Yeah, they used some pretty major landmarks. My wife freaked out when they showed the mansion, which is actually the...

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I watched it with my (not Rich, and not particularly Crazy) Singaporean Chinese wife. Having had some family issues ourselves, there were definitely bits that resonated more than they might have with the average Western audience member; and parts that affected her a lot that weren't necessarily so s...

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Wams Chaos Game Description: Highly Bastard Game (hopefully), action hero themed. Mod: Wam Speed: 5-7 days, 1-2 day nights. Day deadlines will not end on a weekend. Size: Anything from about 10+, the more the merrier! Setup: power-role heavy, I also am not looking at balance in the setup but it wil...

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I'm pretty sure that in this instance, if you followed the super process then all the pots would be empty and there are no balls. From pot n's perspective, it had a ball in it at some point, but that ball was removed and never replaced. Therefore, lim_(t->inf) of the number of balls in pot n is 0. F...

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I think the main problem with Fireworks is that it suffers from the same issue that you see in many anime sci-fi/fantasy films and shows these days (and probably Western ones too) - rather than "Show, Don't Tell", they sit more on "Don't even bother telling and assume the audience can...

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In statistics, the mid-range or mid-extreme of a set of statistical data values is the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum values in a data set.

It's not particularly useful, although it is related to the German tank problem which is one of my favourite statistics stories.

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You know, I read a comic defending Mythbusters once, but it was from xkcd, so I doubt anyone here has heard of it.

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Heimdall - almost certainly staying dead. Loki - heavily signposted as really, really, really dead for real this time we really mean it for real, honest! On the other hand, it's Loki, so... Gamora - high probability of revival, despite the dramatic weight of Thanos killing her. Vision - between...

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No one is mentioning the most interesting statement/orphan in the movie? Why does Thanos know Stark, and why is that the curse of knowledge? I took that to mean that he is acknowledging Tony as a fellow genius, possibly having heard about him from Loki. The "curse of knowledge" is because...

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