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Maybe I'm one of the stupid ones too....but a live cannonball? I thought cannonballs were just round balls fired from cannons, projected via an explosion in the cannon between the ball and the end of the cannon's barrel.
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Some googling surprised me too. Cannonballs were pretty diverse. The mainstay were solid iron or stone but they also had cannonballs with explosives inside, cannonballs filled with shrapnel and explosive, and canister/grape shot which was around the size of a coffee can and filled with small metal balls essentially turning the cannon into a giant shotgun.
The more you know!
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Jon McKee wrote:
The more you know!
The less you trust the human race?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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what? no clowns?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Who the f*** recycles a cannonball?
Only a loser. A winner would have used it instead. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No, I don't like sites where I have to ho(o)ver to get information. I prefer decision matrix 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Lol, also it's asking for an email sigup while opening from mobile. 
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0x01AA wrote: I prefer decision matrix
Heck, I just prefer the matrix.
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Quote: Do not try and find the page. That’s impossible. Instead only try to realise the truth
[BOB IN KIMONO WITH THE SPOON]
There is no page.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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THAT was one real big SICK.
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obviously you don't regularly read the insider forum. I vomit over a bad article once a month or so.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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lol I see! 
Actually I was looking for animations in HTML5. That site came up in the search.
I feel the animations are good. But used for a wrong purpose. 
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meanwhile what I did was about as web 1.0 as possible. Non-animated gifs and 's. At one point I asked if anyone knew how I could animate it in the forum so the face started looking forward before turning to the side and spewing, but for some odd reason no one offered any suggestions about how I could manage to abuse the subset of html allowed in forum posts to do so.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So I bought much of the Yakuza franchise to keep me occupied
I started with Yakuza 6, then played 5 and 4. It's interesting playing them in reverse order because each older version offered me something a newer one didn't. In 4, some of the interactive dialogue is more contextual compared to later versions, like when you beat up baddies. In 5 (like 4) you have multiple playable characters and in 4 and 5 the combat mechanics are far more articulated than in 6, whereas 6 is simply a (very enjoyable) button masher game.
In short, I can recommend all the games. Playing one isn't too much like playing the others even though all are familiar. Basically if you enjoy one of them, it's worth getting all of them. I have yet to play Yakuza 3 yet but I bought it as part of a bundle. I expect it's more difficult than the others, based on what I've read.
On to Mad Max. Mad Max is an aesthetically very pleasing game. It's just as gritty and post-apocalyptic as the movie that shares its namesake. The characters so far are enjoyable. The trouble is, it's not such an easy game for a casual gamer like myself. I generally like RPGs because I can make up for my lack of button timing and such by leveling my characters early and often. In this game there's not really an opportunity for that, at least not early on. The trouble then is, I keep getting my behind handed to me by War Boys in basic fights. The driving and fighting is enjoyable, it's just that the fighting is difficult. I haven't played past the 1st part of the game because I got frustrated. I can still recommend it, but I don't recommend it for casual gamers. There's not even a difficulty setting.
Real programmers use butterflies
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All work and no play aside, I thought you were planning to write a state machine article, not indulge frivolous pursuits.
Do you learn any Japanese from the Yakuza franchise?
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I changed my mind about the state machine thing. I wasn't getting my head around it and heart behind it, and I didn't want to force the thing.
I think I learned some swearing in Japanese.
Real programmers use butterflies
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binge watching week bit of a mix.
1. star trek picard: well (ignoring the reduced budget sfx) OK star trek, obvious plot. clearly (age of actors) not designed to be an enduring spin off. where does star trek go next?
2. strike back: OK, but how many times can you tell the same story without covering it up with more gun play? It was a good ending (as in should be all over now.)
3. dispatches from elsewhere: first 4 eps were good, after that just stupid nonsense and then the ending completely undid the last semblance of any merit it ever had. please, no more, not ever. (side note: hopefully not career ending for the main cast because the acting by all 4 main cast was superb.)
4. westworld: actually not bad, worth the look. (it's a show really not trying to be anything else) there's enough left for the next season, but it'll have to be the last.
5. watchmen. actually quite a surprise: having only glanced at the summaries it was pleasantly a lot different than I expected. should have been all done but they just couldn't help themselves from finishing it without a lose thread. (my suggestion for S2: that explosion at the end -> lots of little blue men calamari smurfs? - because I really don't see how they could make any sensible sequel for adults.)
gotta do something with all this extra time off, too retired to bother leaning new stuff, living in an apartment so gardening isn't a thing and beyond my control traveling is off the table.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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lopatir wrote: too retired to bother leaning new stuff,
It is something of a challenge, but I have learned .NET and C#, Python, and a bit of Web forms since I retired. But there are plenty of other things you may find interesting.
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lopatir wrote: 1. star trek picard: well (ignoring the reduced budget sfx) OK star trek, obvious plot. clearly (age of actors) not designed to be an enduring spin off. where does star trek go next?
I think they are doing another prequel with the original Christopher Pike character.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Star Trek Discovery or another spin-off? I didn't watch the first season, but got into it with season 2.
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It's a new spin off: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds[^] - no idea when it will start shooting, Covid-19 made a mess of everyone's schedules.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Covid-19 made a mess of everyone's schedules.
Really? - I hadn't noticed! 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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