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Local options are better where available, but Greggs do ham and cheese baguettes without mayo or anything and that makes them good with me. The sweet stuff is also a very nice bonus.
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Ms Adequate posted:E: I also wish I didn't get such a bad snipe. 13 is a number which is superstitiously held by some to be 'unlucky' although how a number can have the property of luck eludes me. Saying that, 7 is prime and also considered lucky (and is one more than the smallest perfect number 6**), so  . 13 is also sort of nice on a hex grid because you can make a little star pattern.*That is, the smallest number whose factors (other than itself) add up to more than itself: 1+2+3+4+6 = 16 > 12. ** Smallest number whose factors (other than itself) added up equal itself: 1+2+3 = 6.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:By definition then you cannot podcast. Text-to-speech program, go down the LP Bot route 
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Aug 2, 2019 11:38
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Pochoclo posted:Sometimes it horrifies me how far builders in this country will go to convert the most obtuse Victorian mansion rooms into living spaces and bathrooms Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Free to air coverage of cricket would be very nice, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to save the Union.
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Aug 4, 2019 09:48
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Junior G-man posted:I'm pretty OK with testing that thesis.
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He could move to Wales. Not that I really want him to move here, but I imagine most schools still belt out Mae Hhen Wlad Fy Nhadau here.
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Robot Mil posted:Do they?? I don't remember learning the anthem until I started going to rugby matches... It has, admittedly, been 18 years since I was in comprehensive school and 23 years since I was in primary. Which is a depressing thought!
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Ms Adequate posted:The poo poo Rob Hubbard did back in the day is loving insane, how did he get these noises out of these machines? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIA_0cvS2gQ Only three channels, but the channels are quite flexible, you can do pretty much anything on them. Contrast that with, say, a NES which goes "you get two square pulses, a triangle wave (which is stuck at max volume), a noise channel and a channel for playing whatever samples you can squeeze into the cartridge. Unless you're Castlevania 3 using the VRC 6 soundchip, anyway, then you get two more square pulses and a sawtooth wave". A neat trick is the way he varies the duty on the square waves, which is to say the amount of time on a square wave cycle where the wave is in the "up" position compared with the "down" position. Again on a NES (without some fancy voiving) you got three set duties for your square wave that you could choose between (effectively the difference between an "ahh" and an "ooh") but here there's a lot more flexibility and it goes a long way to giving the instruments their unique timbre. Of course, it may be worth remembering that I think this is the only track in the game? So you can afford to give it a lot more storage space and polish time compared with if you're doing a whole soundtrack for something like, say, Mega Man 2. The NES's simplicity had its upsides there. Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Ms Adequate posted:It was blast processing, OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1jdoB4_UA
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OwlFancier posted:If you powered them on they would even cook stuff.
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Aug 23, 2019 22:23
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I will always love Macbeth, mostly because of the Humphrey Carpenter version in Shakespeare Without The Boring Bits where he turns him into a hard-boiled private eye. It does go without saying that Shakespeare's pretty darn great, though. The dude's grasp of story structure was much better than the reductive three-act structure taught by many writing classes, and he pretty much invented the complex, human villain (even if the more Marlowian, moustache-twirling, monologuing scenery chewers have been more influential on popular culture).
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Aug 24, 2019 06:37
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Just go for the full wizard sombrero, it works for medibot.
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Aug 26, 2019 06:16
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Moon: The fundamental problem of course is that nature doesn't give a drat about our need to label and categorise everything. "Dwarf planet" is not a bad name though, and just because they're not full planets doesn't mean they're not interesting. Personally I quite like "world" as an inclusive term for any planet, dwarf planet or moon that's sufficiently interesting to talk about. One thing that makes me sad is that they decided not to make Charon, Pluto's largest moon, a dwarf planet so they could be a twin dwarf planet system. That would have been cool. As an aside, this is one of my favourite Wikipedia charts (though it has some formatting issues):  Scale is logarithmic. Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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Aug 27, 2019 10:21
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To be fair, there's nothing wrong with a log scale as long as you're up front about it (and the Sun would make it hilariously hard to see any of the other lines in the graph otherwise). I doubt any of those lib dem graphs are a) log scales or b) up front about it.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:53
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"Aesthetically pleasing" is kind of subjective, mind. Like, I reckon Barry town centre looks pretty good, all things considered. But I'm also not expecting someone to cross half the country to shop there. Then again I always thought Swansea city centre looked all right while my parents hate it, so maybe I'm not the best judge .I understand good things are happening in Preston? Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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Aug 28, 2019 07:34
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I quite like pork pies. I will concede that my idea of culinary sophistication is putting walnuts into a ham and cheese sandwich, though. And that I enjoy salt and shake crisps without the salt, which IIRC was described once in UKMT as "Theresa May if Theresa May were crisps" .
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Pochoclo's obviously more of an expert than me on this, but as I understand it Argentina (other than in matters relating to a certain group of islands) is often weirdly Anglophile. In that the Brits were invited in after Spain went "why can't I hold, all this silver" and built a bunch of railways and showed them how to play rugby and cricket.
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