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DING DING DING! Well done! :). Redwall! I've been watching the television series on a nostalgia-fueled archive binge, and Rollo has been driving me up a wall: the little blighter seems like a Diabolus ex Machina meant to stand in for creatively designed difficulties in the intra-Redwall plot...

Does the M2's action cycle even if the trigger isn't squeezed? If so, then a one-off cook-off could turn the M2 into a bullet hose with a mind of its own. -Duxwing

So close! Another hint: Up one generation. -Duxwing

You've got the author, now name the story. -Duxwing

Still nope. I'll give you another hint: It involves an abbey. -Duxwing

Nope. Here's a hint: the answer involves a mouse, a tapestry, and a sword. -Duxwing

Anxiety attacks can be debilitating, and their ability to strike at any moment means that those who suffer from them can never be sure if the day will be panic-free enough to work-- or even to play. Side effects are an unfortunate byproduct of the medications used to treat the aforementioned...

Welcome in! You're quite brave to have overcome your shyness. :) I have a riddle, though it's not my own, "I am that is. My sword shall wield for me". -Duxwing

*chuckles* Well yes, of course, reasoning from flawed premises would lead to flawed results. But, for the sake of the argument, we hold our assumptions to be true. I feel a lecture coming on... -Duxwing

I failed Einstein's logic puzzle today, so perhaps I can redeem myself by identifying the fallacy: Invalid Premise: Not all researchers are currently unhappy. Architect and TheHabitatDoctor are or were researchers, and they are or were happy in so being. Black Swan Fallacy: Even if all...

To understand the table, one not only needs to understand the atoms of the table but the relationships between the atoms because any given bunch of atoms isn't necessarily a table, just like any given collection of musical notes isn't necessarily a song. So yes, more to the table exists than...

Theoretical physics as your dream job? Ahhh! Get out of my head, fellow INTP! :) And welcome to our castle's quiet halls. There's food, drink, and conversation aplenty, and we eagerly await a new voice in our choir of reason. -Duxwing

Speaking of artillery, have you read the latest version of Noah and Sloan? I've updated it quite a bit recently. -Duxwing

--Socrates for questioning everything and being brave enough to die rather than renounce himself. In terms of personal behavior, he is to me the ideal philosopher: curious, skeptical, and brave. --Einstein for thinking of relativity. --Voltaire for his polemics, bravery in the face of criticism...

Remember, those who live out of vans are scavenging from a tiny but relatively unused resource pool, so having everyone live in a van would be unfeasible. -Duxwing

Or better yet, diverting 10% of the military budget to AI R&D: The singularity would be upon us in a decade! :D -Duxwing

I try to let "chemistry" happen, but I won't beat around the bush if my mind is made up: I'll try to bump into her more often, literally and figuratively, and eventually try leaning against her shoulder or holding her hand: That usually gets the point across. Sometimes chicks just dig me...

Taking someone else's punishment assumes that doing evil unto others means that the wronged must do evil unto someone else; this is not justice, this is vengeance. And besides, punishment is but one means of discipline, and I bet that your infinitely wise God can think of a better way of...

I bet that the ISTP's made the crazy traps far more often while INTPs made huge proof diagrams in the dirt to test the ideas of the INFJ tribal mystic and, after finding a flaw, asked their ENTP friends to shout the INFJ down for preaching false ideas. -Duxwing

Acne and scar creams are perfect examples of how one can avoid looking ugly without wearing makeup. Consider the former: it allows those suffering from unsightly blemishes to truly remove them, rather than covering them up beneath a dusty facade. Not only does the skin appear healthier after...

A word of advice: The unnecessary blow falls instead upon its sender. Provided that the aforementioned idiots' ideas remain their own, ignore them. And when they cannot be ignored, idiots who control the conversation will either eject you or leave before you can convince or discredit them...

If they voice an objection, then judo-flip them with this: "I'm trying to protect everyone else from your errors." This gives you an unassailable moral high ground because if they say that they've made no errors, then you can either point the errors out or just call them presumptuous, and if...

o_O Used against you? -Duxwing

So is that why I feel far more wonder while reading the text of Wikipedia articles on physics, astronomy, and cosmology than I do while reading the formulas on the same pages-- even when I can perfectly well understand and use them? -Duxwing

My earliest memory is telling another child my age when I was four. I can still remember seeing my hand in front of my face, all the fingers of my left hand (save for the thumb) extended and the words coming from my mouth "I'm four". I also remember riding on a tiny electric car-- the kind...

Wow, what a cop-out. Are you Ni-dominant, by any chance? -Duxwing

You're grossly oversimplifying and twisting my argument: my point is that since exogenous variables like violence the accident of birth and history severely affect agents at random for both better and worse, a legitimate State can use coercion to enable those of lesser means to fully participate...

You've taken what I've said out of context, so I'll clarify: Each individual agent's success in an economy is partly a result of his or her own efforts, and partly an accident of history. Ergo, I cannot say that my status is entirely mine: I ultimately owe a part of it to my circumstances...

Whoa. That's deep insight; I feel as if you've crawled around my head awhile and produced my innermost thoughts before my eyes. Oh, OK then.* -Duxwing *Philosopher>Actor :D

*salutes* A noble cause indeed. -Duxwing

They're older than Skyrim; ergo, the fictional faction might be named after the real one. -Duxwing