@MolagBal They usually just meet at that one woman's house. Her house is called Malfoy Manor. I'll see if I can remember any cool-named places that they are associated with.
@MolagBal Mwahaha! :D Okay, here are the Death Eater-est places I could think of: Malfoy Manor is where they hold all their meetings, Knockturn Alley is a place where Dark wizards (including the Death Eaters) go to buy their dark magic things, and Little Hangleton Graveyard which is where the Dark Lord was resurrected.
@MolagBal Yeah. He was able to get resurrected because he kept little pieces of his soul in objects that weren't his body, so if he got killed, he could come back.
@MolagBal Yeah, I agree with you. Either Malfoy Manor or Knockturn Alley would be cool, but graveyard makes us sound more like zombies than Death Eaters.
@MolagBal There's actually creatures called Inferi that are basically zombies created specifically to do a Dark wizard's bidding. So yeah, we could totally do that! :P
@MolagBal Yeah, Inferi would make a very good basis for an army! :) They're expendable and don't care about their own safety, just about following their master's orders. :)
As far as room names, Malfoy Manor is more specifically "Death Eaters", Knockturn Alley is for the broad category of "Dark wizards". There's also Azkaban, the wizard prison where a lot of the Death Eaters were kept. But that meant they weren't able to do Death Eater things.
Slytherincess listed her location as Knockturn Alley on her profile :-o I wonder if we should go with the other one, since people might think this is her room if we name it Knockturn Alley
@MolagBal Yeah, then that's a good idea! Plus... Knockturn Alley is for shopping mostly. It's basically a mall. :P An evil-wizard mall, but a mall nonetheless.
@Bellatrix it tastes like roses :) "but I've never eaten a rose!" you say. however! you've smelled them. They taste exactly like what you might expect based on the smell, if that makes any sense. :)
@Bellatrix yes :)
it's not my favorite flavor, but it's better than you might think
@MolagBal I'm not sure, the picture is too blurry for me to recognize him. There are Death Eaters who look like bouncers, though, so he definitely could be!
@MolagBal Yeah, it's cool! Very fitting for a meeting place. :)
@Bellatrix I like Bella's skirt and what I can see of the shirt under her vest. Not as crazy about the vest but it's still nice. The chair is cool, and the room in general, with those old paintings on the walls. I like the mom's dress but would rather see it on Bella :p. Oh and that lamp in the background is interesting
is Bella wearing purple nail polish and eye shadow? it's neat
@MolagBal Well, the son didn't end up wanting to be a Death Eater (he chickened out), and she turned traitor at the very end, so neither him or the dad would have known until the Dark Lord was killed and the whole thing was over.
@MolagBal Yeah, pretty much. He liked his money more than being a Death Eater, but he was much more loyal than his son and wife. 0_0
@MolagBal I agree with everything you said! :D Yeah, Bella is wearing purple eyeshadow and reddish-purple nail polish. I have some in those colors too! I specifically chose them to match hers. :) And I shape my nails like hers, so it works well.
@MolagBal Usually I don't mind, unless it's one of my favorite items. Right now, I'm waiting for her to fix one of my best Bellatrix skirts, and I'm getting a bit impatient. :P
@MolagBal Do you like that kind of distance?
@MolagBal Luckily, there are very few sewing emergencies then. :P
@Bellatrix yeah, I mean closer would be fine as long as we aren't in the same house. I don't go to see them as often as I should, but 30 miles doesn't take so long to drive. It might be more like 20 or 25, actually. We used to live thousands of miles apart and that wasn't good.
I could hardly stand living with them when I was in high school, but things got much better when I moved out at the start of college
I like them, but I have my way of doing things and my dad has his, and it's better if we have separate houses so we can both get our own way :)
@Bellatrix yeah, and if you have a ton of friends to visit and things to do outside the house it's probably fine. But if you don't, you just sit at home and never see anybody, ever.
@MolagBal I could see how not being able to leave the house much could get on your nerves.
@MolagBal That's pretty much a good description of it. I've never minded though, because I don't mind sitting at home and not seeing people. The people here are boring.
@Bellatrix yeah :( people on this site ought to be OK with Goths, at least
@Bellatrix neat :) I know it can work for some people, depending on temperament and so on. If I had been homeschooled in 3rd grade, it would have been better (I had terrible 3rd grade teachers), and in fact, I think we started homeschooling because my sister was about to enter 3rd grade, and we needed to save her from those teachers.
@MolagBal Here is the best place I've been so far. :) A few people have tried being mean, but most are nice. I don't want to leave, so I'm trying not to let people here think they can push me around.
@Bellatrix maybe they just like one of the protagonists, and hate everybody who opposes them? I don't know. I don't hate Harry, I just think he's a dork
I have considered changing my name back to amaranth, since it's a nice name and I may have made my point by now (solidarity with other chat villains), but I don't know
it's true that it has few practical implications and the most useful conclusions of philosophy are things that most of us already fully understand and believe in, albeit largely taking that knowledge for granted
I knew multiple engineering students who derided physics because it wasn't practical. Umm, it's about unraveling the mysteries of the entire universe. Why should it be practical?
incidentally, the stereotype that the "greatest" philosophers of all time are largely incomprehensible is sadly partially true even if you know philosophy
> In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.
Everett, Edward, Quoted by E.T. Bell in The Queen of the Sciences, Baltimore, 1931, apparently
more interesting to modern metaphysics is the idea that mathematical truths are equally true across all possible worlds, not merely all of time and space in our actual world
it's also worth noting that many famous scientists and mathematicians did a heck of a lot of what we now call philosophy and conveniently omit from the "proper" math and science textbooks
the extent of my philosophy training is reading 1/3 of a book by someone of no importance, reading a few web pages once 5 or 10 years ago, and watching the Matrix
somebody in Solaris said that we go to the stars claiming to want to make contact with alien life, but what we really want is a mirror, to find ourselves in the stars. If we run across something truly foreign, we'll probably just want to kill it.
@Bellatrix there wasn't a lot to understand. they're dreaming and stuff, and then they either stopped dreaming or they didn't. anything else was just made up for purposes of continuing the movie :p
I watched Primer and had to read the explanations for it so it retroactively makes sense to me; imo it would've made perfect sense with just a little bit more exposition in the right places, there was no reason for it to be as baffling on a first viewing as it is
I think I managed to decipher it because I had noticed all the important pieces but I had no idea what anyone's motivations were and had no indication how many duplicates of each character were in the timeline so I couldn't put it all together
I never figured out what exactly happens when you put a box inside another box. I was drawing multiple timelines on a board but couldn't figure out what timeline it would throw you out on once you emerged
@Bellatrix he looks like a minion, so that makes sense. Kind of an Igor.
iirc, no one in Primer ever takes an "active" box back in time, so the result is simply that you and box2 both end up wherever box1 spits you out, same as if you didn't bring a box2
the only reason they appeared to "go back before the first box was turned on" was because the guy who got the boxes working had originally started up two boxes, and the "first box" we see is the second of those two
@Ixrec I drew stuff on a board that made me think that, but that was years ago. That, and it seemed like it was necessary to explain the plot, but I could be wrong
