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General Discussion / MOVED: Have not received my starter kit yet
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General Discussion / MOVED: Made a mistake, admin plz halp!
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General Discussion / MOVED: Please help me account: my account are all composed of digital
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General Discussion / Which Medieval games do you currently own?
« on: August 30, 2014, 07:01:15 pm »
Yo ho everyone.
If a handful of you would please do this poll we (Donkeys) would hugely appreciate the effort!
Please note that we're not asking if you are playing these games, we're asking if you have bought them.
If people want to share their feelings about said games, e.g. features you like the most and otherwise, anything you can think of really, that'd be great too but not a requirement.
If a handful of you would please do this poll we (Donkeys) would hugely appreciate the effort!
Please note that we're not asking if you are playing these games, we're asking if you have bought them.
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If people want to share their feelings about said games, e.g. features you like the most and otherwise, anything you can think of really, that'd be great too but not a requirement.
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General Discussion / Free Loompoints Lottery [ends 11th June]
« on: June 08, 2014, 12:14:40 am »
The winner has been drawn:
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... and all the other things floating around out there / YouTube/Google buying Twitch for 1 billion dollar
« on: May 19, 2014, 05:19:31 pm »Quote
Sources with Variety report that YouTube is nearing a deal to buy Twitch, the popular game streaming startup, for $1 billion. The deal is said to be an all-cash offer and will close "imminently," according to Variety; The Wall Street Journal, however, has followed up with a report claiming that discussions are "early" and that "a deal isn't imminent." The move, if it succeeds, would effectively put one of the web's most highly trafficked sites firmly in Google's hands.
Gaming #1!
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General Off Topic / Liquid Metal Reconnects Severed Nerves
« on: May 03, 2014, 12:50:04 pm »
http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5931 (article)
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526946/liquid-metal-used-to-reconnect-severed-nerves/
Insert obvious Terminator 2 reference!
This is pretty damn cool though.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526946/liquid-metal-used-to-reconnect-severed-nerves/
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Severed nerves in the body can lead to the loss of muscle function and muscle atrophy, unless the severed nerve endings get reconnected. One possible new solution devised by Chinese researchers uses liquid metal to create an electrical conduit capable of transmitting signals between the severed nerve ends.
The liquid metal solution consists of a gallium-indium-tin (GaInSn) alloy that has successfully bridged severed sciatic nerves taken from the calf muscles of bullfrogs, according to Technology Review. A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing showed that the metal alloy—capable of remaining liquid at body temperature and thought to be benign—could transmit nerve signals much more effectively than the commonly-used Ringer's solution meant to mimic the salt mixture in body fluids.
Such a solution could keep the affected muscles active by continuing to transmit nerve signals and prevent muscle loss. That would buy plenty of time for the severed nerve endings to slowly grew back together at the snail's pace of one millimeter per day. The liquid metal idea also presents an alternative to usual methods of suturing together the cut nerve endings if they're close enough together, or as a tool for even more complex nerve transplants.
Insert obvious Terminator 2 reference!
This is pretty damn cool though.
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Historical Discussion / Charles the Fat and the Viking Great Army : The Military Explanation for the End
« on: April 25, 2014, 07:40:47 am »
Thought I'd share a great piece:
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Quote from: http://www.medievalists.net/
Introduction: In late July 885 a large Viking fleet gathered at the mouth of the River Seine and began to move upstream in the direction of Paris. After overcoming resistance at Rouen and Pontoise, in November the invaders stopped before the towers and bridges of Paris and, having been refused free passage by the inhabitants, dug in to lay siege to the town. Archbishop Fulk of Rheims, alarmed at the situation, sent an anxious letter across the Rhine to the king and emperor of the Franks Charles III (known today as ‘the Fat’) urging him to take action. The letter recalled the sterling job of defence which had been done by Charles’ predecessors in the west Frankish kingdom (he himself had assumed control in this part of the empire only in May) and pointed out the whole empire was in his custody.
Furthermore, Fulk ‘reminded him that the city of Paris, which defends the chief palace and entrance to the lands of Neustria and Burgundy, was surrounded by a barbarian siege, and would quickly fall unless it was relieved by the mercy of God; if it was captured, it would be at the cost of the suffering of the whole kingdom.
Fulk’s gloomy analysis of the situation was in part motivated by self interest. Rheims knew what it was like to be at the sharp end of a Danish raid – in 882 the previous archbishop had been forced to flee with the relics and treasures of the church and had died on the run – and access to the Marne via Paris would again bring the aggressors much too close for comfort. On the other hand his fears may have found favour with a wider audience; the Vikings, who had played a prominent role in Carolingian politics for the entire ninth century, at this point posed a greater threat to the wellbeing of the Frankish empire than even before. After being tempted away from the mainland of Europe to concentrate on the British Isles in the mid-860s, they had returned to Francia in 879, partly driven by the defeat inflicted on them by Alfred of Wessex at the Battle of Edgington in 878, partly drawn by the internal political conflict which had flared up among the Franks over the succession to king Louis II the Stammerer. The Viking forces which came from England in that year and stayed until 892 are known collectively as the Great Army (the term is contemporary), and four main factors distinguish the scale of their activities from those of previous decades.
from: www.medievalists.net/2014/04/22/charles-fat-viking-great-army-military-explanation-end-carolingian-empire/
Read it in full here (as .pdf) http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/4221/1/War_Studies_Article.pdf
Read it in full here (as .pdf) http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/4221/1/War_Studies_Article.pdf
Best part:
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