OK that's enough of that for now.

Was it fun?

No complaints other than that it is far too similar to Fallout 3. Not that that is a bad thing: Fallout 3 was great.

Mmhmm

Only one big problem so far.

Somehow a giant radscorpion spawned in the very first area and chased me into the first town.

...how giant?

None of my weapons could damage it significantly, and my armor couldn't stand up to its attacks. So I hid from it and it went and killed a lot of the townies.

Uhhhh. Tail the height of a man?

Probably about three or four manmasses.

If I had to give it a level, I would say level 10.

I am level 4.

Ah. Okay, so like a normal big radscorpion. Not house-sized or anything.

Well, it's in-game name is giant radscorpion.

Nevertheless, it still posed big threat to town, what with being over twice your level.

Ah, I see

I used up almost all of my ammo on it to kill it.

Something like 50 shells.

That is a massive hit to my inventory this early in the game.

Yes, that's actually very bad start.

Yeah

Unyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Someone has this album.

The problem is the person who has the album isn't me.

Is it you who has this album, Okuu?

Because if it is then you need to give it to me so that I can have it.

Nope, I don't have that album

Damn

@SidMeier @Welbog I didn't see anything about your line of work there? I mean obviously, it's something programming related, but what exactly.

I was working in the manufacturing industry up until two months ago when I quit. Now I'm in finance. Hooray!

Money is delicious.

But I'm like Jeff when it comes to money. As long as someone is willing to pay me enough money to live (and to buy video cards every once in a while) to do something I love doing, I don't care about money.

Okuu, I found the album. I'm not sure how these others found it but it showed up just where I needed it.

Elegies, Okuu. Elegies everywhere.

Make my laundry go faster so that I can play New Vegas.

You'll need jQuery for that

$("#laundry").finish();

Aren't you women supposed to be good at doing my laundry? wwwww

When it's long distance work, you have to account for travel time of the cleaningness.

Why don't you have a time/space machine?

What kind of nuclear crow doesn't have a time machine?

Mostly because time travel sucks because space travel sucks because time dilation sucks.

This is true.

There's a thread on 4chan about immortality. Some people say that immortality is a state and that immortals can die if that state is removed. Others are taking a more philosophical standpoint and claim that if immortality can be removed it isn't truly immortality.

I'm inclined to agree with the more philosophical standpoint.

Let's get philosophical, Okuu.

Which do you think is right?

Hm...

That's a good question. But I might take a standpoint that immortality falls under the first standpoint, while "eternal life" is more the one that cannot be removed.

If you think about it, mortality is an ability to die. Immortality is simply the opposite, the ability to not die. I would say you can be absent of the ability to not die if you formerly possessed it.

I'm going to switch computers. Gonna phase out for a bit.

I think that immortality is the lack of the ability to die. To forever be in the living state.

To me it is synonymous with eternal life.

Well, is immortality possible to acquire?

Or is it something which must be present at all times?

Now there is a good question.

If something enters the state of being immortal, wasn't it technically always in that state?

And if it wasn't, couldn't it return to its previous state of mortality.

Aye

Now I don't know what to think.

I will fall back on the second choice, I think.

If immortality is acquired, it should be possible to unacquire it.

That fits into my worldview.

You have changed my mind, three-legged crow.

You're welcome.

You know what I'm starting to loathe, shortly after finally getting my first full time job? Meetings.

Dude, I have been to so many meetings.,

There was a time when I had more meetings than time to do work at the office.

I've heard horror stories

More than 20 hours a week of meetings.

That's even more ridiculous than the stories I've heard

My manager had it worse than I had.

It's the problem of proving yourself to be competent: everyone wants your input on everything.

Both he and I were significantly more knowledgeable about our systems than anyone else.

Input is fine if it can be doled out without needing to consume over an hour of everyone's time, less than a quarter of which is actually spent on the stuff your input concerns.

I agree. The problem is a lot of managery people think that having a lot of meetings makes them look good to the higher-ups.

Another problem is culture. At my last job the culture was to have a meeting about everything.

The place I'm at now is much, much less formal about meetings. I love that facet of it.

We started having meetings because Scrum looked like a good idea, and Scrum involves daily and weekly meetings.

Scrum meetings shouldn't last longer than thirty minutes.

If they're longer it's not Scrum.

Oh, it's not Scrum