A Game of Choice

Post by **StevieG** » Sat Jun 08, 2019 4:00 am

90% lover, 10% hater.

Discuss Politics or art?

Post by **Cheval** » Sun Jun 09, 2019 4:29 am

Too much finger-pointing, name-bashing, and shame-blaming
in politics.
I'll take the art talks.

Explore space or Earth's deepest oceans?

Post by **Skyweir** » Sun Jun 09, 2019 1:44 pm

Space .. to go where no .. umm.. person

has gone before

Ugh another question

Would you describe your personality as upbeat or downbeat

Post by **samrw3** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:34 pm

Upbeat definitely

If you could safely explore any planet which would you explore Saturn or Jupiter?

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Jul 11, 2019 11:18 pm

That's a difficult choice. I'm going to go with Saturn, because the rings and whatnot are fascinating.

Have a new book by your favorite author, or a new movie starring your favorite actor?

Fri Jul 12, 2019 12:17 am

LOVE/HATE:
99% lover, 1% hater by volume. The 1% hate is concentrated to a very high energy density though. Even though it's only ever allowed out of the bottle in life threatening emergencies, watching the news can sure make it grumble a bit.

PLANETS/OCEANS:
I'd stay on good old Earth having the best possible time I can on dry land. I'll leave it to the brave to explore the oceans and planets and stick to telescopes and David Attenborough shows!

FULL/EMPTY:
I would describe that glass over there as being at 50% capacity.

UPBEAT/DOWNBEAT:
Ever since I learned to laugh at the madness of my species I've settled into an upbeat kind of downbeat. Pointing at horrible things that make no sense and laughing at them is a wonderful way to cope with existential baggage.

If I briefly get carried away by enthusiasm or optimism, I try to remind myself that it's only a temporary state of affairs and it's best not to step beyond a downbeat kind of upbeat.

BOOKS AND FILMS:
I seem to struggle to read fiction in recent years, having overdosed on it beforehand. I've seen a few reasonable films recently but nothing particularly memorable. The last film that really impressed me was Arrival, but movies like that don't come along too often.

MUSIC:
I really enjoyed Eminem's Kamikaze album but that was a while back now. I heard a Ukranian band called Jinjer for the first time recently. The track's called 'Pisces'. Unless you're into complex musicianship that may have light melodic passages but goes into metal territory then it may not be your cup of tea but... it's very impressive.

The musicians in the band are all excellent, they write strong material and to top it all their singer is beyond talented.

Everything she sings, from quiet melodic parts to flat out death metal growls is performed impeccably. I've checked out some of their other stuff and a lot of it is very niche/heavy indeed, but my god that band has real talent.

If you're a metalhead and you've not checked them out you're missing out.

QUESTION:
OK, I'll add an odd question. When you walk past pine cones, can you resist picking a few up to count the spirals and try to find one that doesn't have a Fibonnaci pair? Or do you enjoy kicking them around?

(I can't. It's been nearly 4 decades since somebody told me. You'd have thought I'd have stopped by now. I always pick a few up and start counting before I kick the other ones around.)

Post by **StevieG** » Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:05 am

Cue Tool's Lateralus

Nice catch up FCP!

Despite the above, I just kick 'em

Are you a night owl or an "early to bed, early to rise" type? Or other?

Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:23 am

Ah, now you're talking my language. It took me a while to figure out what they'd done with that time signature!

The idea of using 9-8-7 instead of 8-8-8 just blew my mind. I remember sitting there doing a lot of confused tapping and counting before I realised it resolved over 24 and started with a 9.

I didn't even realise 987 was a Fibonnaci number or what he'd done with the vocal pattern until years later when I went down an internet rabbit hole.

Incredible piece of music even without all the background info, especially from about 3:50 on. Great band.

I'm predominantly a night owl until the body simply says time to crash. After 3 days of increasingly less sensible sleeping it's back to nights due to the shift work of my youth!

Coke or Pepsi?

Post by **Skyweir** » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:56 am

Coke definitely

its getting tuff thinking of new questions now

Do you consider yourself a people person or a lone wolf

?

Yeah I know we HAVE had it kinda before

ALSO .. cuz that was a lazy Q .. do you come here from your couch or from a computer chair?

Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:25 pm

Lone wolf

Computer chair
Diet Coke AND Pepsi Max

Beach or countryside?

Post by **Skyweir** » Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:46 am

There has to be a both option

Love the countryside.. I live there but love drives to the coast.
But gotta say Australia has the BEST beaches .. and we need them cos summer is soooo hot most of us live on a beach at some time in our lives. Its the only way I could survive thats for sure

I had NEVER perspired in my life before till we came here .. and one day at age 10yo I looked in the mirror and there were bubbles of sweat on my face and brow ... I literally thought OMG Im dying

Yeah I quickly realised that it was a normal response to extreme heat

lol

Post by **Skyweir** » Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:47 am

New question

Simpsons or Family Guy

Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:29 am

Skyweir wrote:I had NEVER perspired in my life before till we came here .. and one day at age 10yo I looked in the mirror and there were bubbles of sweat on my face and brow ... I literally thought OMG Im dying

Yeah I quickly realised that it was a normal response to extreme heat lol

Family Guy!

South Park or American Dad?

Post by **Skyweir** » Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:01 am

South Park no question

30 Rock or Modern Family .. AND salty or sweet

Post by **samrw3** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:09 pm

30 Rock one of the best comedies out there.

And sweets love me some candy and generally sweet things.

Potato chips or French fries?

Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:23 am

I've never seen either show. I love South Park and potato chips better though.

Baked beans or canned tomatoes with your eggs and bacon?

Post by **Skyweir** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:03 pm

Ooooh tuff one .. cant I have baked beans with my bacon, eggs and tomato? Oh and toast .. I like my toast VERY crunchy smothered in butter

Marvel or DC?

Post by **StevieG** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:59 am

Marvel for no particular reason other than I know more about it...

The Godfather or Goodfellas?

Post by **Skyweir** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:32 am

Ive seen neither the Godfather or the Goodfellas

So will defer to the next poster

Post by **StevieG** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:45 am

The correct answer is The Godfather

Superman or Spiderman?

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