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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Mar 28, 2015 3:06:59 GMT -5
What does it mean to say that something is a hypothetical in the pejorative sense?
Somebody made a comment in response to a news article, which I thought was a perfectly valid point, but then somebody else said it was a hypothetical and hence a moot point, and 5 other people "liked" that second comment.
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Post by Chao on Mar 28, 2015 4:19:55 GMT -5
What does it mean to say that something is a hypothetical in the pejorative sense? Somebody made a comment in response to a news article, which I thought was a perfectly valid point, but then somebody else said it was a hypothetical and hence a moot point, and 5 other people "liked" that second comment. Not knowing the original article, maybe they mean that while the point made was valid, it has a highly unlikely chance of actually being put into action/succeeding, hence making it more hypothetical than actual and the commenter feels that it would have been better to write about something that could actually be achievable. |
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Mar 28, 2015 12:41:31 GMT -5
The original article was tragic. XP It was about an indigenous sex worker who had died in an extremely violent way. Her attacker was acquitted.
Commenter #1 said that if the victim had been Caucasian and well-educated, with exactly the same amount of evidence available as to the cause of death, the jury would have cared more.
Commenter #2 said that Commenter #1's point was invalid because it was a "hypothetical."
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Post by Yoyti on Mar 28, 2015 13:05:37 GMT -5
The original article was tragic. XP It was about an indigenous sex worker who had died in an extremely violent way. Her attacker was acquitted. Commenter #1 said that if the victim had been Caucasian and well-educated, with exactly the same amount of evidence available as to the cause of death, the jury would have cared more. Commenter #2 said that Commenter #1's point was invalid because it was a "hypothetical." Commenter #1's proposed situation is hypothetical, in that C1 was describing a sort of situation without citing an actual having-happened situation. That said, C2 is wrong. This does not make C1's point invalid, it just means that there may or may not be any actual evidence to back up the hypothesis. A valid hypothesis, scientifically speaking, must be testable. C1s hypothesis is technically testable (though I think some people might have moral qualms about actually running the experiment), and so the hypothesis is valid. It's just that C1 presented no evidence to back it up, and C2 presented no evidence to refute it, making it a rather weak hypothesis at this moment. (I'm not saying there is no evidence either way, just that, from what I gather, none was provided in this instance.) That's just me being pedantic, though. I don't really know what C2 might have actually meant. |
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Post by Twillie on Mar 30, 2015 12:48:40 GMT -5
I honestly don't know the appropriate place to ask this, but if Lord Woo were to have a symbol represent him, what would it be? (Like his version of the cross or something)
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Post by Shinko on Mar 30, 2015 12:50:25 GMT -5
I honestly don't know the appropriate place to ask this, but if Lord Woo were to have a symbol represent him, what would it be? (Like his version of the cross or something) It's come up a few times- it's called a Woocifix. =3 Basically it's a pendant of three feathers. (One feather for an initiate preist.) |
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Post by Celestial on Mar 30, 2015 12:51:51 GMT -5
I honestly don't know the appropriate place to ask this, but if Lord Woo were to have a symbol represent him, what would it be? (Like his version of the cross or something) The triple-feather Woocifix. It's like an upside-down Weewoo's tail with one single feather pointing out while two other feathers radiating from the base point out at 45 degree angles. A single white feather has also been used. |
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Post by Shinko on Mar 30, 2015 12:53:53 GMT -5
I honestly don't know the appropriate place to ask this, but if Lord Woo were to have a symbol represent him, what would it be? (Like his version of the cross or something) The triple-feather Woocifix. It's like an upside-down Weewoo's tail with one single feather pointing out while two other feathers radiating from the base point out at 45 degree angles. A single white feather has also been used. Ninja'd you Celes. X3 (though your answer was more detailed than mine, lol) |
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Post by Twillie on Mar 30, 2015 12:57:16 GMT -5
So all the feathers meet at the same point, and two of them extend out at 45 degrees?
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Post by Tiger on Mar 30, 2015 13:29:28 GMT -5
Pending approval/corrections from Celestial - as she is the Woocifix's creator - this is what I've always pictured it looking like: |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 14:58:22 GMT -5
This is probably going to end up spoiling what my new pet is going to be after I transfer DaveyBones, but out of these words, which should I use as a base: Ormur or Nathair?
Nathair is Irish, so I'm tempted to go with that (since I'm a proud Irishman and named Hunter's sword after a legendary Irish/Celtic sword), but since the character is from the Haunted Woods, I'm not sure if it would fit him.
Plus, Ormur sounds more sinister, which is a good thing considering he's a Token Evil Teammate. Well, not EVIL, but morally ambiguous. After all, he's at least a thousand years old and he's just lost track of his moral code.
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Post by Omni on Apr 28, 2015 12:28:51 GMT -5
I've noticed that if I get about 6 hours of sleep, I'll struggle to focus and stay awake. But if I only get about 4 hours, I'll be oddly alert and relatively focused.  (Anyone know why this might be? XD) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 13:08:50 GMT -5
This is a long shot, but I'm running out of ideas (and countless used bookstore searches have availed nothing):
I'm having a difficult time finding a book I had as a child. The problem is, I can't remember the title, the author, or any of the names or terms involved, which makes looking it up difficult. I want to see if anyone here might know this book based on all I can remember about it.
It was a large, hardbound volume published in the United States probably sometime in the early-mid 1990's. It was a picture book in the vein of Dinotopia, describing and illustrating a fantasy world populated by goblin-esque creatures, detailing their cultures, habits, and a little bit of the geography of the land. They were divided into three main races, two of whom - the burly, uncouth soldiers and the greedy, conniving bureaucrats - were antagonistic. The third race was a cute, pastoral group of hobbit-like beings who were always being oppressed by the first two races. The book's in-universe author was the relative (either the uncle or the grandfather, I can't remember) of two children of this third race. The cover illustration was of this author sitting at his desk, looking out a tower window.
Anyway, I've been thinking about this book a lot lately and I miss it dearly, and I wanted to see if the literary equivalent of a "lost dog" poster would turn up anything.
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Post by Breakingchains on Apr 28, 2015 20:08:56 GMT -5
@surfersquid: Hey, long time no see  I don't know off the top of my head, but TVtropes has a section called "You know that show?" specifically dedicated to "lost dog" type questions about shows, books, etc.. They've helped me out before finding things as obscure as specific Batman runs from decades ago and stuff like that, so maybe someone will recognize it there? |
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Post by Yoyti on Apr 28, 2015 22:31:31 GMT -5
I've noticed that if I get about 6 hours of sleep, I'll struggle to focus and stay awake. But if I only get about 4 hours, I'll be oddly alert and relatively focused. (Anyone know why this might be? XD) You go through various phases when you sleep, and how awake you feel when you wake up depends on where in your sleep cycle you wake up. With how your cycle lines up, it may be that six hours generally wakes you up at a bad part of your sleep cycle. Maybe eight hours would make you wake up even better than four. There are fancy wristband things you can buy that monitor your sleeping and wake you up as close to your ideal alarm time as possible, but when you're at an ideal point in your sleep cycle. One of my friends recently bought a different fancy wristband thing that monitors her sleep, and found out that even when she got eight hours of sleep a night, wasn't getting any REM sleep, which is why she'd been feeling so tired. Sleep is a really strange thing! I was just thinking about this the other day, since I've noticed something similar with when I wake up. If I wake up at 6:00 in the morning, I always need to force myself out of bed and through two cups of tea before I can go on with my day. But if I wake up at 7:00, I wake up ready to start my day right out of bed. The kicker is that this is independent of when I actually go to sleep. I could get eight hours of sleep, wake up at 6:00, and feel like I woke up at 6:00, and I could get six hours of sleep, wake up at 7:00, and feel as wide awake as ever. Sleep is a really strange thing! I was actually thinking I might try and experiment with this this summer. Hope I don't mess myself up too bad! |
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I don't know off the top of my head, but TVtropes has a section called "You know that show?" specifically dedicated to "lost dog" type questions about shows, books, etc.. They've helped me out before finding things as obscure as specific Batman runs from decades ago and stuff like that, so maybe someone will recognize it there?