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Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Matt on March 01, 2005, 05:29:57 PM
Your missions, should you choose to accept them, is to post! I mostly don't care what you post, so long as it has decent enough content and is posted in more or less the correct forum.

So now, whenever you stop by and there are no active threads, post a new topic.  Bonus points if it's about the comic too.

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Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 01, 2005, 06:25:32 PM
Yessss master...
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Lindsay on March 01, 2005, 06:32:25 PM
Today I found out that I have really really bad depth perception in my right eye. That wasn't so much fun.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 01, 2005, 06:36:54 PM
Quote from: "Lindsay"
Today I found out that I have really really bad depth perception in my right eye. That wasn't so much fun.

You can always get an eyepatch and complete the ruin of your depth perception.  Besides, eyepatches are badass.  :P
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Lindsay on March 01, 2005, 06:41:36 PM
Girls in eye patches???
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Matt on March 01, 2005, 07:33:52 PM
Aye.

Y'arr

It's a pirate's life for thee!
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Shawna on March 01, 2005, 10:11:20 PM
Quote from: "Lindsay"
Today I found out that I have really really bad depth perception in my right eye. That wasn't so much fun.
 The reason that you have really bad depth perception in your right eye is that to have depth perception, you need two eyes.  So, of course, alone, your right eye always has bad depth perception...  :wink:
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 01, 2005, 10:29:27 PM
Quote from: "Lindsay"
Girls in eye patches???

Why not?  Haven't you seen the nun with an eyepatch on that religious channel or the Kill Bill assassin with one?
(http://www.dxmonitoring.com/satellite/galleries/eyepatch/TV2004020919430900.jpg)
Har har har... I'm going to Hell.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Lindsay on March 02, 2005, 05:52:06 AM
I'll take my chances sans the eye patch, thankyouverymuch. If I was a pirate, I'd have to drink rum. The drinking part & especially the rum part doesn't sit well with me.

Matt: You sound frighteningly like Maggie over there.

Shawna: You still have depth perception whether you have one eye or two. :P Obviously only using one eye it is worse than with two, but it is especially bad in my right eye. My left eye is fine.

Hey, Maggie-Boy... are you making fun of a nun who had a stroke?
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 02, 2005, 05:58:59 AM
Quote from: "Lindsay"
Hey, Maggie-Boy... are you making fun of a nun who had a stroke?

I'm Maggie and Maggie-Boy now, eh?  Bullocks.  And yes, I am making fun of her but I didn't know she had a stroke.  I just always found that image funny whenever I saw her on TV.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Steve on March 02, 2005, 06:01:13 AM
Quote from: "Magusman"
I'm Maggie and Maggie-Boy now, eh?


You've always been a Maggie to me.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 02, 2005, 06:02:54 AM
Quote from: "Steve"
You've always been a Maggie to me.

Eh?  What's that supposed to mean, mate?
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Lindsay on March 02, 2005, 06:25:39 AM
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets!! Good book, good book.

Um. The entire... left... side of her face is completely lax. That's a sign of a stroke victim.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 02, 2005, 06:52:32 AM
Quote from: "Lindsay"
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets!! Good book, good book.

Huh?  You hath confuseth me.

Quote
Um. The entire... left... side of her face is completely lax. That's a sign of a stroke victim.

Ooo... I didn't quite notice that and didn't know that was an indicator.  I am definitely going to Hell.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Matt on March 02, 2005, 08:00:29 AM
Quote from: "Lindsay"
Shawna: You still have depth perception whether you have one eye or two. :P Obviously only using one eye it is worse than with two, but it is especially bad in my right eye. My left eye is fine.


I'm not shawna, but that can't stop me from replying.  Technically, any depth perception due to one eye is a trick of your brain.  Depth perception is caused by a phase difference between incoming electromagnetic (read: light) waves hitting each eye that originated from the same source.  Since the same source's light takes slighty longer to reach one eye than the other, your brain can determine the actual distance betweens points of all objects it sees and thus interpret it in a 3d happy depth map of joy.

If you have only one eye, your brain doesn't get this depth information and thus it produces it artificially based on what it expects the depth to be.  Basically you train your brain to learn the depth of things, and it just goes by what you know if you only have one eye.  It's usually enough, but if you've ever driven with one eye closed, it's much much tougher because of the lack of real depth perception.

Yes, I know that technically even expectations produced by the brain are perceptions of a sort.
Title: Re: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Dasha on March 02, 2005, 08:54:17 AM
Quote from: "Matt"
Your missions, should you choose to accept them, is to post! I mostly don't care what you post, so long as it has decent enough content and is posted in more or less the correct forum.


Feh. I don't think you want the kinds of posts I'd make right now. I'm in this mood. --> :rant:
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Lindsay on March 02, 2005, 03:30:43 PM
Matt: Hmm. I actually knew that the brain just produces depth with one eye... but I didn't know the first paragraph. Yay for learning. What I've never understood, though, is why it's significantly better in one eye.

Jessen: Nothing... it just made me think of the book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. It's a very short book by Stephen Crane, I believe. It's about a girl in an impoverished family & how everyone basically views her as a slut even though I still attest that she wasn't. The book is supposed to be pretty accurate to the time & the living conditions. Stephen Crane lived on the streets of NY for awhile in order to research for the book which is pretty cool. Excepted he ended up dying of TB which isn't so cool... hmmm. I guess that's what he gets for living in slums.   [/quote]
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: The Dark Agent on March 02, 2005, 07:00:39 PM
This is The Agent speaking...[/i]

I simply refuse to post.  No no no, I won't I won't I won't.














crap :|
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Matt on March 02, 2005, 08:56:09 PM
You're like 5th in post count now.  You've got a lot of ground to make up. Might as well make it quality ground while you're at it.
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: Magusman on March 03, 2005, 01:36:37 AM
Thank you for that dissertation, Professor Matt.  Will you be teaching Webcomicry 101 next?
Title: Mission: Impostable!
Post by: The Dark Agent on March 03, 2005, 05:27:52 PM
This is The Agent speaking...[/i]
Quote from: "Matt"
You're like 5th in post count now.  You've got a lot of ground to make up. Might as well make it quality ground while you're at it.

Well, before the whole place started crashing and reloading all over the place I used to have the second highest post count here.  Around 300 or so.  But it was sadly lost. :cry: