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I have a fun question for you all. Which kind of parrot do you think makes the coolest pet?

NOT a cockatoo. Too screamy. DEFINITELY NOT a macaw, I grew up with a Severe Macaw◊ and it was like having That One Boss in my damn house.

Cockatiels are awesome, I like them. I'm not sure if you're thinking of a budgie as a parrot, but they're super fun to have around. Green-cheeked conures are cool, and most of the Amazons and African Grays I've met have been pretty cool, too.

But! If you're going to get a parrot, do your research! Parrots are super high-maintenance. They need a ton of attention, playtime, and good food. They also need regular vet care from an avian vet. Because many people don't do their research, and think they're getting a fun pet when they've actually just bought a destructive, messy screamypants, there are parrot rescues. (The best one in my area is Macaw and Cockatoo Rescue of New Mexico, so named because the majority of their birds are macaws and cockatoos; however, they do have amazons and conures, as well as budgies and cockatiels)

All that said, if I were to get a parrot, it would be a Blue-Headed Pionus, and only because my aunt has one and wouldn't be able to care for her anymore. Blue-Headed Pionus parrots are fearful and bitey, and it has taken years to make friends with this one.

A long-gone pet shop near me used to have an african grey parrot that proudly displayed his ability to repeat "shut the fuck up!" to people browsing his side of the store.

I actually am looking for the chatty kind. Technically, the parrot isn't for me; it's for my dad.

I really regret buying Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires. Playing it for a little bit, I really don't think it's for me. I think I'll get rid of it.

Why, what's wrong with it?

It's the graphics, which haven't aged well. There's also the mechanics that feel repetitive and the voice acting which isn't that great.

I wouldn't recommend buying someone a pet as a gift, unless they asked for one and are expecting it. A pet is a major commitment.

In tonight's D&D game, thank god Charisma is my warlock's spellcasting stat and thus 18. Had I not made that diplomacy check, at least party member would be dead and the rest likely soon to follow.

Thinking of making a Blue/Black MTG deck.

It's supposed to be a Death by a Thousand Cuts deck, where I build up a immovable line of defense and whittle down an opponent's life with spells and unblockable monsters.

edited 23rd May '17 7:23:39 PM by fredhot16

Ah, pillow fort. The bane of an aggro player. Such as me.

Pillow fort?

Random thought of a day: Sometimes thought can have merit regardless of who says it.

Wonder if at least part of the reason The Internet Is for Cats is because dogs and their owners are more likely to be outside doing outdoor activities.

....Funnily enough, I'm wondering whether I'm too engaged by the whole idea of medieval knights being mixed with modern military practices.

Today I'm going to the Mind Body Spirit festival to conduct a seance

Deme: It's Magic slang. A pillow fort deck is a control deck that uses cards that punish for attacking with creatures while they get their win condition going. My main beef with it is that it's not very interactive.

There's a person A which I follow in Twitter is one of the top players in a Japanese mobile game, so much that one of the player's nickname is A's victim club or somesuch in Japanese.

Then, I tweeted in English, wondering is I am treated the same. A, being not good in English, asked for meaning confirmation in Japanese before responding in English that said player actually likes himself.

Out of nowhere, B, another top player suddenly commented on our thread on his own Twitter in Japanese. This has surprised A and he responded to that in English.

This is a very surreal Twitter experience.

How did it come to be that four of the six periods of the Paleozoic Era are named after things from the British Isles?

Basically, a bunch of British geologists being British all over their field of study. Wales had some really good sites and one got named for Wales itself, while two that followed it were named for Welsh tribes as a hat tip to that, and then the Devonian got named for where all the geologists had a big fight about what to call an era.

"The name Cambrian derives from Cambria, the Roman name for Wales, where rocks of this age were first studied."

"The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively. Lapworth recognized that the fossil fauna in the disputed strata were different from those of either... and placed them in a period of their own."

"The Silurian system was first identified by ... Murchison, who was examining fossil-bearing sedimentary rock strata in south Wales in the early 1830s. He named the sequences for a Celtic tribe of Wales, the Silures, inspired by ... Sedgwick, who had named the period of his study the Cambrian... This naming does not indicate any correlation between the occurrence of the Silurian rocks and the Silures."

"The period is named after Devon, a county in southwestern England, where a controversial argument in the 1830s over the age and structure of the rocks found distributed throughout the county was eventually resolved by the definition of the Devonian period in the geological timescale. The Great Devonian Controversy is a classic case of how the foundations of our present-day geological knowledge and classification of the rock record and geological timescale was socially as well as scientifically constructed."

Carboniferous- named for all the carbon-laden fossils.

"The term 'Permian' was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison... who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil. The region now lies in the Perm Krai of Russia."

edited 25th May '17 5:48:22 PM by TParadox

Anybody have any opinions about a Korean Drama in a Western setting?

Nope

That must have been fun to watch. XD

Heh seeing 20 or so people arguing about a stinking era

Speaking of which, if you ever go back in time, don't go to the Ordovician Period if you have a weak stomach. x_x