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Rap Battles of Spam

Kaga said
Why are textual rap battles even a thing?

Because it's easy. Like, I'm fairly bad at it, but I can still pretend to be not-bad over text.

Like, you'll see, stupidly rhyming and shit, yet I still blend together some nice mixed,

junk.

Karstberg, City of Adventure: Freeform Fantasy City RP Interest Check and Signups

Well, this looks fun.

Name: Len Nakiya
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance: A tall, slender woman, with short and black straight hair stopping at her shoulders. She wears a billowing green kimono with a wide skirt and sleeves longer than her arms, whilst wearing simple wooden sandals. A small steel flask of wine is strapped at her waist, and cloth rags are wrapped around her hands.
Profession: Martial Artist.
Personality: She is a vain, self-centered person, all while keeping up a screen of good manners and appearances. She is arrogant, and perfectly willing to demonstrate her skills. A long time ago, she was rich, and she still believes herself to be above commoners, going so far as to avoid touching them whenever possible, only ever helping them out of self-interest. In spite of that, she isn't willing to outright insult people, for sake of good manners, preferring a more passive-agressive approach. She is essentially a pretty terrible human being.
Equipment/Weapons: Though she fights with her bare hands mostly, she does keep a set of throwing knives and smokebombs in her sleeves, and often carries a fan with "Purely Decorative" steel spikes on the end.
Abilities: A practitioner of martial arts, she uses a style focused on flying kicks and wild acrobatics, using a little magic to aid her in long jumps and lightly glide over the ground while fighting.
Brief Backstory: The daughter of a paranoid noble, she grew up mostly locked away for her own safety, while being taught to fight properly, alongside her regular education, to prepare her for any would-be assassins. Of which there were none. By the time she came of age, her father had squandered away her familys' money, leaving them deep in debt. She was forced to move to Karstberg, with instructions to pay off the debt somehow.

Mathematics and Physics Questions

Halo said
Why an apology?

Because I feel too out of my depth for what I'm answering, and only adding to the pile of misinformation.

Hey everyone, look at this dumb person

I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and say it's their character speaking, and does not actually represent their opinion.

Magnificent Bastard's of spam.

Butter said
Uhm, I'm sorry if my observation upset you. I was just agreeing that a non-agressive spam was a less interesting type of spam.

It didn't. I just felt like making an aggressive statement to... iunno, make a joke or something on how spam has really quieted down.

...

Uhh, I mean, like, screw you for being nice and calm or something.

I'll just show myself out now.

Guys, check this out,

Jesus. I think he just made me sick. And I'm as guilty as anyone else at pseudo-intellectuality.

Magnificent Bastard's of spam.

Butter said
Yeah I get that feeling. Everyone seems to nice... it's so unnerving.

Yeah, well fuck you, maybe we all grew out of our phase of unnecesary belligerence, and got jobs, got married and had kids. Or perhaps all the assholes just got banned. Maybe this the start of a new and better spam or something. Or maybe nobody feels like pissing people off anymore.

Man, someone needs to start a fight or something.

Guys, check this out,

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he doesn't really mean to be such an egotist, that's just the character speaking.

Mathematics and Physics Questions

K-97 said
Can anyone explain why 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 .... and so on to infinity = -1/12?

Analytical continuation of the Riemann Function. Not that I can actually explain any of that, without pretty much parroting what other people said. But this guy is pretty alright, if you have 20 minutes to spare.

TheMadAsshatter said
Given that you can make loopholes like these in math, is it possible that math is complete bullshit and the smart guys are wrong? If not, is it not true that math is flawed?

Those aren't the loopholes you are looking for, math isn't complete bullshit, but number systems do have at least one inherent flaw in them that we know of.

Godels incompleteness theorems. Essentially, for any set of axioms, there will exist some true statement expressible within them that cannot be proved by them while remaining consistent. The proof for this is along the lines of the liar paradox.(i.e: This sentence is false.)

---Dubious stuff ahead, take with grain of salt and plenty of self research. Actually, just assume everything I say is total bull. :^)---

Say you have some theory T, and some statement G that is "G cannot be proven by T". Should you try to disprove G within T, you will arrive at a contradiction. Which means "G can be proven by T", but that means that you'd have to prove it can't be proven within T, but that means you wouldn't be able to prove it, but to prove that you'd have to prove you could but then you couldn't but had to but couldn't but could but couldn't... and so on. Which means G actually is True, and unprovable.

As a result, it is impossible to prove everything in number theory, at least, not without coming to a contradiction at some point. It's still possible to prove stuff, and it is still possible to add stuff whenever you get to a problem you can't solve with the tools you have available, but never will you be able to prove everything. Even with an infinite amount of axioms, you'd still have something you couldn't prove.

This is the root of key stuff like the halting problem, and the set paradox.

--Also, apologies to Halo--

Another "I hate Skype" thread...

Skype is for squares. IRC is where it's at.

Anyways, the only reason it's still used is because it's popular and there aren't very many useful alternatives to it, afaik. Also while we're at it, I haven't had problems with skype, that actually have to do with skype itself, in spite of the linux version being basically tacked on, and several versions behind the main.

#linuxmasterrace, (even though it has nothing to do with anything)