Shaggar posted:

yam fries like sweet potato french fries or yam fries like some other fry form of yam cause either way im down

Sneaking Mission posted:

cauliflower is just white brocolli i dont get what the problem is zor

Wikipedia re Cilantro posted:

Belief that aversion is genetically determined may arise from the known genetic variation in taste perception of the synthetic chemical phenylthiocarbamide; however, no specific link has been established between coriander and a bitter taste perception gene.

Wikipedia re Phenylthiocarbamide posted:

Phenylthiocarbamide also inhibits melanogenesis and is used to grow transparent fish.[1]

Shaggar posted:

yea see people who like cilantro are hosed up and like some wierd rear end fish chemicals

Yodzilla posted:

similarly my gf's cousin used to only eat pretzels, hotdogs, fries and ketchup. he developed scurvy

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Hammerite posted:

ppl who say they dont like cauliflower, broccoli, or brussels sprouts are mistaken and only believe so because they have only ever eaten those foods grossly overcooked. i am convinced of this

Lutha Mahtin posted:

I don't think I've ever had brusselses

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Rayguns have a great variety of shapes and sizes, according to the imagination of the story writers or movie prop makers. Most pistol rayguns have a conventional grip and trigger,[citation needed] but some (e.g. Star Trek: The Next Generation phasers) do not. The shapes of some rayguns are influenced by an opinion that they look most effective and weapon-like if they look somewhat like real guns; others, such as this, are not:



V-Gun from the Macross scenario: industrial look.



"Plasma blaster": nuclear laboratory equipment look

(The V-Gun is treated as a Gatling gunpod in Macross, but as a laser when copied as Jetfire's gun in Transformers.)

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List of rayguns
Alien film series: "PIG" plasma cannon: powered by a backpack powerpack. Uses an electrolaser to create a magnetic containment bottle.
"Particle Beam Phalanx": cannon-sized.
Babylon 5: "PPG" aka "Phased Plasma Gun"
BattleTech: BattleMechs carry a wide variety of lasers, ether beamed or pulsed.
Blake's 7: paragun: Federation standard issue. Image here. More Federation kit images here.
a pistol: Federation issue, image here.
Blood and Blood II: Tesla Cannon: shoots electrical discharges
Captain Proton: blaster: a lethal white electric ray
Command & Conquer: Red Alert series
Tesla coil technology of the Soviets is in
Shock Troopers: elite infantry units equipped with portable Tesla coils
Tesla coils: large electric discharge-firing stationary coils
Tesla tanks
Tesla troopers
Prism technology of the Allies is in
Prism tanks: fire powerful light beams
Prism towers
Mirage tank: contains technology very similar to Prism technology and can camouflage
Command & Conquer: Renegade: "Black Widow" (Volt auto-rifle): an electric beam
Firefly: a laser rifle
Tarantula: a laser chaingun
Merlin: a personal ion cannon: an instantly visible bolt of ions
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars (novel): T7: a Tiberium-fueled laser pulse
EW1: a laser beam
Scrin cannon: a beam of Tiberium particles
Commander Keen: wielded a red raygun in the first game
Crash Bandicoot: raygun: plasma of charged particles
Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops : Raygun is in Nazi Zombie mode and can be obtained in the campaign mission 'Little Resistance' in World at War through an easter egg. (note: Suggests Japanese Origin, as they did experiment with microwave technology). It is also in Black Ops used in Zombie mode can be found on Kino Der Toten, "Five", Dead Ops Arcade, Ascension and Call of the Dead.
Darwin's World: role-playing game: laser rifle: Nd:YAG laser
David Weber's novel Apocalypse Troll: blaster: pulse of plasma
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The alien visitor Klaatu's robotic bodyguard Gort had a conventional laser beam which was shot from his 'eyes'. Not meaning any harm, Gort only used the laser defensively. It could vaporize weapons as large as a tank, or even a rifle in a soldier's hands, though the soldier would not be injured.
District 9: The film's protagonist Wikus utilizes an extremely powerful directed energy weapon (manufactured by the film's resident aliens, pejoratively called prawns) that thoroughly destroys a human body on contact. Other alien weapons are used that seem to be very advanced and powerful ballistic weapons, and are keyed to the alien DNA, preventing them from being used by humans. None of the prawn's weapons are ever named or their workings explained.
Doctor Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators: Rayguns utilizing "infra-wave undulation" and "Phlogiston over-charging" amongst other pseudo-scientific concepts.
Descent series: laser pistols, fusion cannon, omega cannon
Doctor Who: Daleks' guns: "ruby rays", Time Lord's "Stasers", Silurians "ray guns"
Doom: Plasma rifle
BFG 9000: undefined (named "plasma" in Doom 3), unreal physics
Dune: Continuous-wave laser projectors called lasguns exist but are rendered obsolete by the use of personal Holtzman shields. The interaction of a lasgun blast and this force field results in a nuclear explosion which typically kills both the gunner and the target, to say nothing of collateral damage. Subsequently, lasguns are mostly mounted on aircraft.
Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898 sequel to ditto): disintegrator ray
Fallout: "Solar Scorcher" (runs on solar power), "Alien Blaster", various laser, plasma and pulse weapons (rifles, handguns, gatling guns, grenades)
Farscape: various weapons
F.E.A.R.: "Armacham Type-7 Particle Weapon": plasma
Forbidden Planet: hand blasters & larger blasters
The Foundation Series
Original trilogy: blaster: high-powered nuclear particles, shattering the target. Foundation models were seen to cause extensive damage to the surroundings, like shattering the wall behind the target.
Prequels: blaster: weaker. Certain models have been known to kill without producing visible damage.
Sequels: microwave gun
FreeSpace 2: photon beam cannons
Ghostbusters: proton pack: particle beam
Filmation's Ghostbusters: The Dematerializer: disintegrator beam (though it only works on ghosts)
Gridlinked: pulse-gun: various types of fire mode
Gundam
Universal Century series, mega beam cannons: "Minovsky particles" (and the degenerated Mega particles). (Minovsky Physics operate throughout series.)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00, "GN particles", byproduct of a fictional topological bayon decay.
Mobile Fighter G Gundam, some of the martial artist can magnify their Qi by their mobile fighter and make long range attacks similar to rayguns.
Undefined for other series.
Half-Life: The Gluon gun (aka the Egon), a disintegration ray, and the Tau Cannon (aka the Gauss gun)
Halo (series): various plasma weapons
Hammer's Slammers: "Powergun": a plasma pulse
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1927 novel): "hyperboloid"
The Hyperion Cantos: "Death Wand": a laser-like beam weapon
Independence Day: city-destroyer ray
James Bond: Moonraker: "Moonraker laser": laser beam. Images: [1] [2] [3] [4]. It also appears in some videogames.
James Bond 007: Nightfire: Phoenix International Experimental Laser Rifle
Kingdom Hearts II: Gun Arrow: bullet-like laser beams; freezes in midair before homing in on the target
Kingdom of Loathing MMORPG: Toy Ray Gun: laser beam
The Librarian: Quest for The Spear (2004): Tesla's "Legendary Death Ray"
Lucky Starr series: blasters: small slugs which on impact turn a fraction of their mass into energy
Mars Attacks: Both the cards and movie feature alien weapons used by the Martians capable of disintegrating human/animal flesh, and on some occasions, terrestrial weapons and devices.
Metroid (video game series): various, see Items in the Metroid series
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor: typical blasters, similar to disintegrator guns, near the end of the game, created by the Ancients
Perry Rhodan (cover of first issue (1961)) shows a rifle-shaped raygun, and a pistol in its holster.
Phantom Crash (video game): scoobees or mechs carry ether shoulder or arm-mounted lasers
Predator (franchise): Plasma caster, see Predator technology
Quake: BFG10K: plasma
Resistance: Fall of Man: Auger: similar to Half-Life 2's "OSIPIR"
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: "Tesla Gun": a multi-targeting electric shock gun
Robotech: Reflex Cannon (artillery-sized)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: An unnamed raygun firing glowing rings is used by Dex.
Stargate: Staff Weapon: a yellow plasma-bolt
intar: a red ball of energy
Kull disruptor: a blue blast
zat: a blue electrical discharge
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse: raygun: a red/blue bullet of energy
laser shotgun: a steady blue beam of energy
laser RPG: a swirling mass of red and white energy
Super Smash Bros. series: "Ray Gun": plasma
Star Trek: See Weapons of Star Trek
Star Wars: blaster: see blaster (Star Wars), which describes it in detail, but with unreal physics.
lightsaber
various weapons: see List of Star Wars ranged weapons
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 cartoon): traditional laser guns, carried by Bebop and Rocksteady
Terminator (franchise): Beam-weapons
Total Annihilation: may be a traditional laser, or may use coherent meson or pseudo-boson beams instead
Plasma Cannon: Bumble
Transformers (film): Plasma cannon, Bumblebee's secondary weapon
UFO: Enemy Unknown: laser pistols, laser rifles, heavy laser
Unreal Tournament 2004: "Lightning Gun": an electrolaser
V: shock rifle and pistol: unknown
Warhammer 40,000: numerous Imperial laser weapons (Lasgun, Laspistol, Lascannon, Volcano Cannon, Turbo-laser destructor, Ship-based Lances)
War of the Worlds (1898): "Heat-Ray"
(various): plasma rifle

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A typical imaginary raygun



Imaginary raygun, 2 views, with parts labelled



Small artillery sized version of same, being used.



Raygun with particle accelerator drum

graph posted:

i am intrigued

z0ratio fartboner posted:

lightly steamed broccoli is p pro

Sweevo posted:

pizza = tomato + cheese + pepperoni and/or meatballs

if you put anything else on there then you are sub-human filth

Sweevo posted:

pizza = tomato + cheese + pepperoni and/or meatballs

if you put anything else on there then you are sub-human filth

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Director/actor Melvin Van Peebles appears in several real sex scenes. [...] Van Peebles contracted a sexually transmitted disease while filming and successfully filed for worker's compensation.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsimulated_sex_in_film

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

Vincent Gallo is a pig. There I said it.

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

Vincent Gallo is a pig. There I said it.

Sniep posted:

im picky about weird things like i hate raw tomatos and pickles. why? no idea, i just really dont like them.

but that's about it, everything else is good, and i like pickles in tartar sauce and tomatos in any form other than raw.

who knows?

Dixie Flatline posted:

i didn't like raw tomatoes either until i tried 'beefsteak' tomatoes. it doesn't have that 'tang' or 'gritty' texture to it