Throughout high school, I enjoyed every history course I took, especially American History.
Thus far in college, my favorite class is stats.

Quote from: Kit Fisto on October 18, 2012, 07:55:15 PM
I really really enjoy the Roman period in History class. But everything else bores me!
p.e. ... I love the swimming sports ( although i'm not very good at it ) WHAT!!!! What kinda guys went to your school!

I don't really like Biology or Chemestry. I would much rather talk about something practical! Taking AP bio, hate it. 

For those who said they like history what time period do you like?

Haha! AP Bio!  LOL!  In the interests of disclosure, I took AP Chemistry, which I understand to require less rote memorization, and got really tired during the examination and don't think I finished it... oh well, it didn't really matter.

I had an appointment with the doctor.  And I had an exam earlier. But it's over.

Quote from: 501st Commander Sharpshot on October 18, 2012, 06:58:18 PM
If you cannot understand then use google translate. It helps if up you don't know a language. 

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Honestamente, eso es lo que yo llamo una historia fresca Bro. Una historia fascinante, sinceramente, copiar y pegar a palabra, guardados en el disco duro, copia de seguridad en una unidad de salto, condujo hasta el banco, poner la unidad de salto en la caja de seguridad, y dejarlo allí hasta que mi hijos a su vez sobre 12 (cuando en realidad se puede afirmar su edad, y preguntarnos qué es lo que les estoy mostrando), cuando voy a recogerlo, lo puso en un lector USB y unidad antigua transmitir esta historia fresca a ellos y decirles que , "los niños, esto es lo que una historia fresca debe verse y sonar como ... no como las historias de su generación diga".

I beat Sev.  Good game. :-D

Quote from: Are§ on October 17, 2012, 02:25:08 PM
I agree with Norris, it would make everything that we did already pointless, since our position wouldn't mean anything. I say we end it and top ten gets awards, obviously top 3 would get specified awards. Or do and end tournament bracket where you seed the players according to their position (1 would play 18, 2 would play 17, etc.) .

How about the top four ranked players, or some other figure, receive a first round bye?

Quote from: Buckler on October 15, 2012, 05:18:57 PM

Heh,  "I know who killed me" starring Lindsay Lohan and Linsay Lohan (as twins).  She won worst actress and worst supporting actress

Lindsay Lohan as both members of a pair of twins?  What an original idea!

Quote from: Josh on October 15, 2012, 08:07:01 AM
Well, I still enjoy the NHL!

Whoosh!   

There's a lockout.

Quote from: Joseph on October 12, 2012, 10:00:24 PM
That was the most beautiful game of baseball I've watched since Game 6 of the WS last year. Did I mention that PETE KOZMA WENT TO MY HIGH SCHOOL?!

The NLCS will be a fantastic series.

Insanity.
The Giants now have home field advantage throughout the postseason, I believe, but the way the Cardinals played... man, can't take anything for granted; what a comeback! Are you kidding me? That happened? Man.  It's going to be crazy.  Each team has the momentum: the Giants made history, coming back from 0-2 and the Cardinals just [pooped] on the team that may very well have the best rotation in the game.  All I wanted was for the winner to be tired.  What team will San Francisco be playing? An invigorated, electric St. Louis club.  Bring it on. 

(As an aside, if you need one, I can point you towards a stream.)

I beat Merlin, 14-1-15.

GG, made me wonder what the exchange rate for command posts was.

Quote from: jdee-barc on October 11, 2012, 02:53:49 PM
The Cubs 

It was implied that this thread is about who will win the World Series this year, not in 2467.  :-)

Quote from: {212}Mart on October 11, 2012, 02:01:50 PM
You have no right side?! 

Don't worry, bro, my rally thong is covering it.

Quote from: Joseph on October 11, 2012, 02:06:15 PM
St Louis.

lol
We'll see you on Sunday.
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Unless...
Naw, we'll see you on Sunday.

I'm holding on for a Bay Bridge Series.
I will give my left [redacted body part] to see that and for the result be different than the last time it occurred.

I've played Surge and capped out. 3-1-4 was my final score.  However, I did not *technically* challenge him formally on this thread, so, Gdh, it's up to you if you want to count it.

[Redacted]

ETA: What about multiple outstanding challenges?

Quote from: sirpimped on October 04, 2012, 08:30:58 AM
Well it depends on your definition of skill. Is it the quantity of kills? Is it the quality of kills (headshots, air kills, etc.)? Is it being able to beat players 1 v 1? Is it being able to kill multiple enemies at once? Is it being able to survive (have less deaths)? Is it the ability to take cps? Is it the ability to hold cps?

Maybe it's all of them, maybe it's some of them, and maybe it's none of them. Honestly, I don't know. It's a matter of opinion I suppose. Maybe a crosshair can make me a better player so that I can do all of those things better, but maybe it can't. Should I not try and never know? I asked myself all these question before. Honestly I still haven't come up with definitive answers.

Some food for thought.  I think this is relevant.

Because a comparison to [anabolic] steroids was made.

(The comparison was made by Joseph, I believe, who noted that unlike Major League Baseball's efforts to fight the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs, testing for radar modifications would represent a unduly prohibitive burden.)

So, let's think of it this way: among other things, anabolic steroids allow people to lift heavier weights than they could otherwise.  But, what is the mechanism for this?  Do they increase your genetic potential by artificially raising your ceiling?  Or do they merely extend the period of linear gains (or, alternatively, delay the plateau)?

Anyways, with regards to radar (the mechanism of how steroids increase performance isn't important to this topic), it's clear that good players with radar tend to be good players without it.  Are they as good as they are with it as they are without it?  I suppose that would vary with the individual players, because I'm sure there are some who are and some who aren't.  I don't think there's any way to determine the effect of radar on ability without introducing significant entropy[FN1].  With that said, if there were, I'd be on the look for players who use radar to still be good, but to regress to the mean (of people who use radar but go without, if that makes sense).

Although I don't think there's an experiment to determine the effects of radar (if we can think of one, let's get on it and, as much as this thread has proven to be funny, we can end--or at least reduce--all this squabbling!), arranging a formula to determine effectiveness of a given player wouldn't seem to be prohibitively difficult (but calculating it would be slightly more difficult, due to constraints in the games mechanics).

[FN1]: One such idea would be to take a given player using the radar modification and have that player compete against a number to be determined later of other players (using radar? not using radar?) and then have that same player do the same thing (the other players would not change their radar from the previous trial) and then compare.  But where's the replication?  And all we have is data on one map, so that's not the greatest proof of all time. 

Last April Fool's Day, I was assigned Chelsea for having the Jets's flair on /r/NFL, so yeah.  Right about now, I'm considering throwing away my flair. :-(

Quote from: 501st Commander Sharpshot on October 03, 2012, 08:08:13 PM
Red-Sox. <--- There's a period there which means Red Sox period.

You didn't get the memo?  They're now the Boston Blue Sox, after asphyxiating on beer and fried chicken.