tanarill | The Question Game

It's okay, I'm not a Black Hatter. No, longpork is not Kosher.

Out of curiosity, why did you want to know?

Morbid curiosity. With extra morbid, I guess. No real reason.

Why is it there are no good movies anymore?

It's your taste in movies. I like happy fluffy funny ones, and the market produces things like shrek and Stardust for me. Whereas you probably like The Ring and the original Creature from the Black Lagoon, and I don't think the market makes bad B-movies anymore . . .

What kind of movies do you like?

In general I like intelligently done movies. For instance I liked Shrek but felt Shrek 3 tried too hard. I am fond of the old movies like the original The Blob, Bela Lugosi's work, and the original Creature from the Black Lagoon. I prefer my movie to have a story in it or at least some history behind it but in addition it also has to be well made.

Which in this day and age usually means WWII movies, well-made historicals, and modern-day Chinese and Thai films. Japanese film is a whole nother animal and one that I tend to not like as much if only for the sheer amount of anime influence in it.

...but then sometimes you're just in the mood to watch Bruce Willis blow up a helicoptor using a car.

And hey, the market makes bad B movies all the time. Peter Jackson was the New Zealand king of bad B movies before LOTR. And the Baldwins come out with new movies every month, all of them low budget bad B movies.

Have you ever seen a Chinese soap opera?

See, I have learned a Thing.

Does Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon count as a Chinese soap?

(Hah! Answered the question with a question!)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a mediocre Chinese film. Its main redeeming quality in the eyes of the masses is the awesome stunts. Feh, if I wanted awesome stunts I'd pick up any Thai film there is.

So you've never seen a real Chinese soap opera?

Not that I know of, then, no.

Why is it important?

No, not really important. Just that after seeing one and going "wow, cool!" you find american film kinda lacking.

Why does boredom remove the ideas necessary to combat boredom?

I don't know, but it's not a new problem. St. Augustine in the fifth century wrote and entire rant on the problem.

Do the Chinese have Sitcoms?

They probably do. I just don't watch them.

So how long do you think this question game will go on? Neither of us seems to letting up.

My goal was to hit 69 comments, which we passed a while back. So honestly, until one of us forgets to post to this thread. I once played a question game on a forum that died at somewhere over 500 pages . . . good times.

Do you know any form of martial arts?

Nope. Google-fu is not a recognized martial art. The fighting techniques I know are not martial arts, they are born of the streets. Like switchblade knife-fighting. And I'm learning the whip.

What about you. Do you know any fighting styles?

Some. When I was a likkle munchkin (2nd grade) I took karate for two years. More recently, I took Tang Soo Do for a semester. I also know a few hold breaks, limb breaks, and judo throws. Really simple stuff, but effective. You probably know more useful things, though.

Is trying to fit a family tree for the Norse gods/giants on one peice of paper a futile task?

Depends. Is firing a rifle "useful"? Especially since I don't know handguns.

Not as futile as the incestuous Greek gods but yes. Unless you have a giant piece of paper then the theological family tree is kinda wtf.

Why is it people who walk into my store believe they can let their kids run wild and it's okay? Do I look like a babysitter?

(ha ha, double question)

I think it depends on the time you have and distance you are shooting from . . .

Norse gods are incestuous too. I'm just trying to plot out how the Loki/Baldr pairing relates to everyone. It's hella complicated.

In the single picture of you I have ever seen, you looked very Domme, not babysitterish at all. I don't know. My parents never did. Anytime we went to Shul, for example, I made a peep (much less run wild) and I was out of the sanctuary. I took ruthless advantage of this fact, too . . .

Can you teach me the mental bitchslap? There are some people I want tomentally bitchslap >.>

If the single pic of me you've seen involves me in a red corset (and it probably does) then that explains it because that pic was taken of me at the Folsom Street Fair which is this awesome street fair for the SF S/M leather culture. Because this is San Francisco and we can totally just have street fairs with naked people and the cops show up to take part in it.

The motions for the mental bitchslap are easy, they involve holding your invisible target by the neck and slapping them once acorss the face while you make the sound effect. But in those instances where the motions are not good or awesome then the mental bitchslap involves either a specific type of glare or the invocation of lots and lots of awesome directed at mental beat-down.

Why is braiding hair so hard? Mine is long enough to be braided normally but it's too thick and so makes a very short braid that prevents me from finishing it.

Yes, it does. I'd like to be SF at least once for a con . . . I can mooch off relatives in the area :>

I have the glare down pat, according to my family. It's the awesome I need to work on. And the sound effects.

I don't know. I usually get MW to start my braid. Tips:
1. Start braid while hair is wet. That way, it's not frizzy while you try to braid.
2. Spend some time at the beginning on getting the hair amount equal, the better you do this the closer to the tips of your hair you can get.
3. Get Pet to do it. I can get MW to do the whole thing about half the time, it's wonderful mother/daughter bonding . . .
4. Braid so tight it hurts. You can sleep with a tight enough braid, it won't some undone or frizz at all.

Is that is any way helpful?

No, not really helpful. I can start it easily it's just really thick hair and therefore makes a hella thick braid. Seriously, the finished braid is a good foot shorter than the unbraided hair.

The braid isn't for avoiding frizz. It's for getting it out of my way because it's that stupid long.

Besides, if I braid my hair wet it's still wet three days afterwards because of the thick. It's not good for hair to stay wet that long, it grows its own hair. Which is gross.

Sharks with laser beams attached to their heads are awesome, aren't they? Their heads can't swivel so they're actually really good at aiming.

Oh, I know. I just want to know what's wrong with having a foot less fuzzy warm woolen blanket on your back in the middle of summer . . .

Yeah, the only thing is, I can't start my own braids unless it's wet. Because of frizz.

The way around wet-hair-braids is to wrap it back up in the towel afterwards, and sleep like that. Capillary action FTW!

Yes. Yes, they are, although I tend to prefer pirhana drop tanks. Or maybe alligators, evil overlord style.

You have Austin Powers on the mind, don't you?

Because I braid my hair for day work. Nighttime I have to sleep on my side with my head elevated or I have stomach problems ( thank you anorexia [/deadpanned] ) so my hair just sort of bunches under the neck and keeps me from getting a cricked neck.

Capillary action fails. It takes wet hair and a damp towel and turns it into wet hair, wet towel, wet pillow, sometimes even wet sheets and a wet Pet pillow.

Not really Austin Powers. We were playing Shadowrun last night and GM went on a rampage on how the rules in the Augmentation book not only allow but encourage sharks with laser beams. Because when he wrote those rules he had Austin Powers in mind.

Why is it that with seven people eating that no matter how much pizza you buy there are no leftovers? Especially antisocial pizza.

[shrugs] I support capiallary action, but I have massive fluffy towels. Like, seven by four feet, wrapped around my braid at least thrice. It works for me.

...I want your GM. I dooo.

Because the rule for pizza leftovers is: hours until all pizza is consumed = (number of pizzas bought) - (0.75 times number of persons present) - (8 times number of persons below the age of 50 present). When you have seven people present and all are below the age of 50, hours until all pizza consumed is a negative number, guaranteeing that all pizza will be eaten as fast as is physically possible. (People abovet he age of 50, on the other hand, can do odd things with Pizza-hours.)

Is it possible to add too many alliums to foods?

That's not the formula for pizza eating. You forgot to add in the variances caused by toppings, pizza size, and sauce awesomeness.

Given last night's pizza's toppings were garlic and onion then I am not thinking there is much of an upper limit to allium concentration in foods. Not if the alliums are sufficiently cooked/carmellized.

Considering the similarities in the chemical structures of caffiene and adenosine, why can't we just use adenosine in the production of ATP backbones? I know why caffiene makes a poor nucleotide, it's bad at hydrogen bonding, but ATP doesn't require hydrogen bonding. Ever.

You're right. And the depth of the pizza. Chicago deep-dishes take more time to eat, definitely . . .

I like too much alliums. I make 40 cloves and a chicken with 100-120 cloves.

Sorry, but you lost me. I get the caffiene is very nearly adenine but not, and I know what ATP does, but ATP structure is more than I have yet learned. A quick Wiki suggests that it would seem to make sense to turn adenosine into ATP (all you do is phosporilate it, right?) but maybe biology runs it the other way and gets adenine as a result of ATP/adenosine production? It would all have to do with which way is more energy-costly, I think, ATP->adenine or adenine->ATP.

It feels good to geek again :)

Why does hydrogen bonding confuse people so much?

And as yesterday's faces when I suggested this would indicate, a beef tongue, zuchini, and anchovie pizza would have few takers in civilized gaming.

ATP vs DNA is very chicken-and-egg in current evolutionary theory. In ATP there's a ribose sugar attached to the ATP at a convenient aromatic N and three phosphates in a line attached to the ribose. And in DNA there's an adenosine with a ribose sugar attached at a convenient aromatic N and a phosphate attached to the ribose. The difference between ATPness and DNAness is more phosphates attached to the ribose to form a chain of phosphates and riboses with nucleotides hanging off like loogies.

The way to get the adenosine and the caffiene is the same. Take a purine double-ring and stick stuff on it. And the body just does that in protien metabolism. It just... doesn't make caffiene for some unknown reason. Not because it's hard, it's really not. But because early life favored adenosine over caffiene.

Though I really bet in a liquid ethane environment like Titan (and I so firmly believe there's life on Titan it's not even funny) caffiene would be the dominant of the two because it's less polar.

Hydrogen bonding confuses people because it's not really an exact bond. It's not a covalent bond, it's not an ionic bond. It's more like the sharing of a skank. Proton (the skank) accepts charge (expensive favors) from two different molecules (the suitors) at the same time. Then when the molecules unbond the skank goes with one suitor and hands the loser back his favors.

What are your thoughts on peroxide-based life? Peroxide as opposed to water, I mean.

That was a mental image I did not need. DNA, if you extract it, looks very much like loogies . . .

I'm going to guess it has to do with polarity and H-bonding. Caffeine doesn't, so early life didn't like it. Your theory about life on Titan in a liquid ethane environment would indeed make caffeine dominant. I wonder if the Titans find adenosine a mild stimulant?

We have taken this metaphor far beyond where it was ever meant to go and we are not stopping now.

You mean H2O2 instead of H2O, or peroxide in the organic sense of ROOR? Because I don't find H2O2 life too likely. Water based life works because per molecule, there are an equal number of partial positive and partial negative charges, which causes H-bonding but also lets the water crowd around positive ions. In H2O2, H-bonding would still occur but positive ions would have nearly nothing to react with, so things like metal-ion pumps would be a good deal less important. I'm not saying that it wouldn't happen; I'm saying that the idiots at NASA would kill it long before they figured out it is life.

Why are all the drivers on the road complete morons?

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