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[Timsup2nothin]

This forum needs Wingding support. It is inconceivable that CFC lacks support for the greatest writing system ever devised!

We need a wingding support group.

 

[Lexicus]

We need a wingding support group.

They've already got one, it's called the Republican Party

 

[Snerk]

But do people around you notice any difference?

I've been told I should enter politics.

 

[Takhisis]

That way… you could always be in a party.

 

[Snerk]

That way… you could always be in a party.

This comrade knows what's up^^

 

[tjs282]

OMG WTH did I just watch?

 

[Commodore]

An idea for a game popped in my head: A strategy game where the main goal would be to try to use diplomacy and limited military action (as a last resort) to try to prevent some of the great conflicts in history.

That's pretty much all I got though. Haven't really fleshed out the idea or how any mechanics would work.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

An idea for a game popped in my head: A strategy game where the main goal would be to try to use diplomacy and limited military action (as a last resort) to try to prevent some of the great conflicts in history.

That's pretty much all I got though. Haven't really fleshed out the idea or how any mechanics would work.

Prospective title: Appeasement, the game.

 

[Synobun]

Pick your WW2 simulator of choice and play as Britain.

 

[rah]

The boardgame Diplomacy.

 

[EgonSpengler]

An idea for a game popped in my head: A strategy game where the main goal would be to try to use diplomacy and limited military action (as a last resort) to try to prevent some of the great conflicts in history.

That's pretty much all I got though. Haven't really fleshed out the idea or how any mechanics would work.

The tabletop wargame World in Flames had an expansion called Days of Decision, which moved the game's start date from 1939 to the early 1930s and allowed you to make more of the strategic and diplomatic decisions before the war in Europe started. I can't remember if it was possible to actually avoid the war, since fighting the war was the point of the game, but you could make different decisions. I can't remember any of the game's mechanics now, but maybe it could provide some inspiration.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, come on, that's basically how you play Rome:TW - Barbarian Invasion as the WRE. You either subvert history or you fall.

You get to fight anyway, but all fighting there is classified as ‘last resource’.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The boardgame Diplomacy.

The object of Diplomacy is to take over Europe, using armies and fleets. The diplomacy part is "I won't attack you here if you don't attack me there" or "let's have an alliance for the next two turns and get rid of _______ (fill in the country)."

 

[Takhisis]

The object of Diplomacy is to take over Europe, using armies and fleets.

A one-year history course summed up in one elegant sentence.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've been playing with this fake news generator. You can put in anything as a headline and it'll try to generate an article for it.

Sometimes the results are...confusing:

Spoiler :

A young dragon was at the wheel of a 5,000-pound vehicle on the Chipperie Bridge north of Halifax. The loud bump was so loud the police helicopter hung up.

So began the “People’s Republic of Russia” of a Town called Raffiee. Not a million miles from the foreign internals of Brighton Beach, where a teenage Justin Trudeau once had his first dream to be a “squid” from 2nd Star Hotel and Casino, and where the “dream” would drive out the greatest friend on the planet: Rob Ford’s dad, the great Canadian rock star, you know, Reagan’s genius for factory-bound racism and misogyny.

 

[Commodore]

People say the New Zealand Bob Semple Tank is the worst tank ever designed. Well to that I say this:

Total number of tanks lost by all other powers in the war: 156,174

Total number of New Zealand Bob Semple Tanks lost in the war: 0

I rest my case.

 

[Commodore]

I've been playing with this fake news generator. You can put in anything as a headline and it'll try to generate an article for it.

Sometimes the results are...confusing:

Spoiler :

A young dragon was at the wheel of a 5,000-pound vehicle on the Chipperie Bridge north of Halifax. The loud bump was so loud the police helicopter hung up.

So began the “People’s Republic of Russia” of a Town called Raffiee. Not a million miles from the foreign internals of Brighton Beach, where a teenage Justin Trudeau once had his first dream to be a “squid” from 2nd Star Hotel and Casino, and where the “dream” would drive out the greatest friend on the planet: Rob Ford’s dad, the great Canadian rock star, you know, Reagan’s genius for factory-bound racism and misogyny.

Thank you for that. I'm going to put real headlines into that and see what I get.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thank you for that. I'm going to put real headlines into that and see what I get.

Giving it ridiculous headlines is fun. I got this

Spoiler :

nymag.com
Dinosaur attacks on rise in Nova Scotia
January 4, 2018 - Matthew Zeitlin
Fractured dinosaur head prints from an NGC team on Martin’s Beach, in St. John’s, P.E.I.

The beaches of Nova Scotia are so crowded and crowded with tourists that the diving and surfing alone has taken on the feel of Ibiza to east coast natives, which is why it’s the perfect place for dinosaur assaults. It’s already a well-known part of the world for dinosaurs, and now, new research has found a trend of “dinosaur-home invasions” on local beaches.

“Young dinosaurs are such tricky creatures to study. They’re beautiful, fascinating, and it’s almost impossible to get in their space,” the study’s lead author, Bronwyn Davis, told NPR. “They live in on our cliffs, on our cliffs, and in the deep blue, and they’re under great pressures — and there are so many things we know we don’t know about them.”

Two years ago Davis and her colleagues spent four days with a team of four scientists trying to get to the bottom of this mysterious phenomenon. The researchers went “deep in the ground” with other geologists to examine the area, so they could accurately estimate the size of the two groups of four-legged herbivores. To get an idea of what each was like, the researchers worked backward. “We made assumptions of the numbers, the shapes, the sizes, the biomechanics, the individuals and if you do a twist of time, you can look at the timing for all the positions across all the movements,” Davis said.

The first couple of pairs that were examined contained the first dinosaurs to land, who were likely rearing up, and the late-19th century colonies, who were nipping the other dinosaurs on the back.

What was most important, says Davis, was the history of the site, which dates back to 400 million years ago. “The scientists that I saw were very excited because they realized that we had the first records of these creatures landing,” Davis said.

This is not surprising, of course: It’s 2017, not 1908.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Right, well that's my evening gone then.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I think I've already hit the jackpot with this one, don't think I can get any better:

Spoiler :

Woman invents electronic turtle
July 26, 2019 - Paul Krugman
Written by Paul Krugman, CNN

In what may or may not be a case of science fiction as reality, a woman has invented an e-pet inside her stomach, functioning as an electronic turtle.

The idea has a longstanding pedigree.

For example, last year the Cornell Library published a paper that describes a similar turtle device, a single electrode inserted into the stomach and the neck of a real live tortoise to help it regulate its body temperature and temperature regulating mechanisms.

In 2016, University of Georgia researchers reported similar results, describing their heart monitor in a 90-pound West African redback tortoise, which they implanted in its abdominal cavity and embedded a wireless chip with a microcontroller inside.

And in 2014, Vanderbilt researchers implanted tiny pacemakers into a guinea pig and two wild dogs, one of which was sitting in a portable turtle-inspired device, designed to take normal body movements and activate with a simple electric pulse.

Now, an Israeli man, named Uriel Ariel Levin, has invented his own version. The device, called this Turtle, functions as a microwave-powered external temperature monitor, which measures heat flux and changes in plasma temperature. The device might also be used to control an external temperature regulator in an eye patch.

Levin, who is a robotics engineer, used his engineering skills to build the turtle, producing a customizable custom circuit board. The turtle is described in the paper "My Easy Way to Design, Build, and Test Artificial Turtles" as the size of a honeycomb cluster of human hair.

Dr. Philip Kessler, a surgeon and a professor at NYU Langone Medical Center, previously commented on his own turtle designs.

"You can make your own hands by sewing with infrared light and sticking Velcro wire up your arm," Kessler said. "Your hands are a great place to hide your electronics if you're worried about them being detected by someone who knows about bugs and bugs."

Meanwhile, University of Tennessee researchers may have come up with an even safer alternative: plastic "plastic stickies."