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 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: Offen…

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Walt
Sep 25, 2018 00:09
@Strawberry Time doing something that you enjoy isn't "thrown away". It's valuable decompression time.
 

 Discussion on question by user20159: …

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Walt
Jul 29, 2018 15:54
I'm going to pile on a little here: Is she performing her job satisfactorily? If so, "cannot simply let it go" is, to be honest, childish and unprofessional. If not, what does her degree matter? You should have mechanisms in place to deal with underperforming employees.
 

 Discussion on question by Ian Ng: Tel…

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Walt
Jul 20, 2018 13:42
Your character's powers sound a lot like Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen. I don't believe it's explicitly explained how his teleportation works, but considering the fact that he duplicates himself at times, I'd assume it's your option #1.
 

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Walt
Jun 1, 2018 23:10
Honestly, I don't know why I do things most of the time. I can generally rationalize them afterwards, and most of it is reasonable, but the rationalizing is actually a mental step, not an automatic state.
 

 Discussion on answer by ceejayoz: Hav…

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Walt
May 28, 2018 21:54
I'm curious what the numbers are like for police.
 

 Discussion on question by Peter: How …

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Walt
Mar 1, 2018 00:25
Even if this were a lie, this sort of little white lie is very, very, very common, and if you that's enough to give you trust issues, I pity anyone who tries to have a relationship with you.
 

 Discussion on answer by NautArch: Can…

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Walt
Jan 27, 2018 03:02
Also, who says the brine is nonmagical?
 

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Walt
Jan 24, 2018 00:37
@Manuel Most kids will just see that as a weaselly way of setting a 9:30 bedtime. I'd expect a pretty strong negative reaction there.
 

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Walt
Nov 9, 2017 19:14
@JuanCarlosOropeza Yeah, but then you run into "do I actually want to get the law involved?"
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan Bron: Why…

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Walt
Aug 23, 2017 22:14
@DanBron Oh, and the spiderman guide you link refers to the the glaive "returning back to him after he throws it", which heavily leans towards it being the disk type.
Walt
Aug 23, 2017 22:14
@DanBron The GiantBomb page appears to be an editable wiki of some sort; I could easily see someone who's seen Krull and isn't familiar with medieval polearms assume that the Glaive in Angband is Krull-like. Not sure how Mystic Heroes got on the list though. It's even possible that it includes both giant shurikens of some sort and a (different) weapon called a "glaive" and that some wires got crossed somewhere. (Can you tell that I really don't want to work on anything productive right now?)
Walt
Aug 23, 2017 22:14
@DanBron Amazing research; I think maybe Angband should be removed from the list though, as its "glaive" appears to be a polearm and for Mystic Heroes, this is a picture of the character who uses a glaive. Presumably the weapon she's holding is the so-called glaive - doesn't really match either definition, but it's not a frisbee.
Walt
Aug 23, 2017 22:14
Found what claims to be an early draft of the script, a ctrl+f for "glaive" shows that it was already used there, but offers no explanation as to why.
Walt
Aug 23, 2017 22:14
I wish there were some reference (interview or something) as to why Krull called it a glaive. I mean, I suspect the answer is "I don't know, man, it sounded cool", but it'd be nice to hear it from the horse's mouth. (Not a criticism of this answer; I've looked this up a number of times before and never found anything.)
Walt
Aug 23, 2017 22:14
This link claims that Glaives appeared in a number of other games between Krull and darkSector, though I can't guarantee they were actually called by that name in all those cases: giantbomb.com/glaive/3055-927/games
 

 Discussion on answer by Machavity: Wh…

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Walt
May 10, 2017 12:40
@njzk2 because that never happens by accident.
 

 Discussion on answer by zephyr: Is it…

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Walt
Mar 26, 2017 02:26
@Polygnome It's not so different from saying "Kleenex" to refer to all facial tissue, or "Coke" to refer to carbonated beverages, or "Thermos" to refer to an insulated container. Would you have a problem with people referring to Martian terrain? What about using geothermal energy on Mars? Solar energy from a star other than ours? In most geo- and terra- root words, there's a strong argument to be made that those roots don't mean "Earth, the 3rd planet from the star Sol" but instead something more like "earth, the ground".
Walt
Mar 26, 2017 02:26
I suspect that, if and when space travel becomes common enough for average Joe to care about surface-stationary orbits around bodies other then Earth, they'll probably be called geostationary by all but the most pedantic. Being pedantic myself, I propose using "surface-stationary" instead as a generic term.
 

 Discussion on question by Jane: How c…

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Walt
Feb 11, 2017 04:46
@LightnessRacesinOrbit it suggests that there are no curtains, not that there are no window fixtures of any kind.
Walt
Feb 11, 2017 04:46
@LightnessRacesinOrbit I guess it just reads as a rhetorical question, rather than one that actually expects an answer: rather than "I would like more information about this situation", the impression I get from your initial comment is "That's ridiculous." Interpreting it as an actual request for information does make the rest of your comments make a lot more sense.
Walt
Feb 11, 2017 04:46
@LightnessRacesinOrbit I don't think anything in the question implies that there's nothing at all.
Walt
Feb 11, 2017 04:46
@LightnessRacesinOrbit If you're used to a very dark room (blackout curtains or just living in a less urban area) then the light that comes in around the edges of the blinds can be enough to mess with you pretty bad. Or, if you have a 1-year-old and live pretty far north, it can cause the 1-year-old to wake up way too friggin early in the summer.
 

 Discussion on question by denormal: H…

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Walt
Feb 1, 2017 13:54
@muru in very-first-entry-level programming courses, when you're just trying to teach the students what an "if" statement does, you don't "expect the students would read and try to understand the skeleton program before improving it". You provide the skeleton code because the students literally don't know how to write it yet.
 

 Discussion on question by Zxyrra: Are…

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Walt
Dec 1, 2016 16:06
I feel like your radius of effect wouldn't be great, even if you could get this working - exothermic bombs tend to force large amounts of energy outwards, but an endothermic bomb's ability to "suck" energy in would be much less effective.
 

 Discussion on question by Helene : Wh…

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Amadeus9
Oct 31, 2016 07:45
Note that "bad intentions" and "knowledge of the law that was broken" are both unnecessary for a conviction for most crimes; IANAL so I can't speak for whatever specific charges have been raised against Hillary.
 

 Discussion on question by Mobal: Why …

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Amadeus9
Jun 28, 2016 18:06
@NoctisSkytower To oversimplify in regards to your original comment, the reason that that options B, C, et cetera have not been posted as answers... is that nobody's posted them as answers. This is a user-dependent site; if you want to answer every question with "A deity did it" that's your prerogative.

Doesn't seem very helpful though; that doesn't provide any information that can be generalized to other solar systems, or used to predict future events, or even used to solve a homework problem.
Amadeus9
Jun 28, 2016 13:46
@NoctisSkytower I can't off the top of my head think what other opinions there may be for this question - which is not to say they don't exist or have any less worth, and if you have one you're more than welcome to post it as an answer - but in a more general sense, the obsession with seeing all the sides of an issue can get silly. If kicking puppies is bad, and everyone agrees that it's bad, do we really need to hunt down someone to argue in favor of kicking puppies? Does it actually need to be a debate?
Amadeus9
Jun 28, 2016 13:46
@NoctisSkytower Who says options B, C, et cetera exist? Not everything needs to have multiple sides.
 

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Amadeus9
Jun 15, 2016 00:39
@Martín-BlasPérezPinilla wasn't there a character in that who was an atheist out of spite, or something like that? Like, acknowledged that, "yes, gods exist, they're all over the soddin' place, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give them the satisfaction of believin' in em!" type thing?
 

 Discussion on question by TrEs-2b: Ho…

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Amadeus9
Apr 28, 2016 21:41
Have you read Jumper?