Cardinal_Sin Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 I just remembered there was a place in gastown me and my coworkers were thinking of going to for lunch. It's called THE SALT TASTING ROOM. The address? 45 BLOOD ALLEY
BagLunch Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Has it created a moment equalling Alexei vs. Chuck in SF4 where Chuck streaked us all for like 20+ wins with Zangief and Alexei ragequit?
Cardinal_Sin Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 not yet, alexey hasn't shown up at mike's place yet. And alexey never quits. he just returns and bitches more!
BagLunch Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Fist of Legend has one of the more amazing reality show concepts I've ever heard. They find generally washed-up middle-aged men who were somehow "legendary" back when they were younger, the events that made them "legendary" are dramatized before a studio audience that votes on whether or not they are worthy of being called "legendary", and then if accepted they are later made to fight each other 1v1 in a ring. Since when did Korean comics get so interesting
Saru Kada Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/17/chinese-panic-buy-salt-japan looks like marvel is just totally sold out in china, not a single copy left on the shelves
BagLunch Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 I'd totally like to know how some of these rumor stories manage to get so believed. Yes there is the immediacy of this disaster and the general conception of NUCLEAR DISASTER AND RADIATION SCARY but what exactly enabled a rumor about salt to take hold of the populace, even outside of China? The normal ease of availability of salt probably helps (as opposed to "exotic herb X will ward off radiation!"), but there are probably spams about every other household/commonplace item warding off radiation. Maybe it's actually a conspiracy by salt manufacturers...
BagLunch Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Well, it's true that iodized salt has iodine and non-radioactive iodine is important for people who might be about to be exposed to harmful amounts of radiation... too bad people aren't aware that iodine tablets have like >100mg of iodine per tablet, and regular iodized salt has like 30mg/kg. You'd have to literally eat multiple bags of salt in order to get as much as one iodine pill, and knowing production standards in China, I'll bet that iodized salt there has way less than 30mg/kg. The ion imbalance (and dehydration!) resulting from eating that much salt would probably kill you outright (maybe in a reverse of what happened to that person who drank a crazy amount of water on a bet to win a wii?) But couldn't any other rumor of sources of iodine taken hold? I'm sure that iodized salt isn't the only common source of the stuff.
rtl42 Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) various kinds of seaweed have been rumoured to help "ward" off radioactive isotopes of iodine because they have iodine (apparently?). my mom asked if i can get kelp around here, and if not should she send some to me lol. those are the only 2 i can remember off the top of my head, both of which were answered by several experts on Japanese news stations as neither being necessary, nor effective even were the radiation levels dangerously high. they were even saying that taking iodine pills without directions from your doctor may lead you to hurt yourself lol; i can't imagine a person normally needs large quantities of iodine in their body, so just popping iodine pills can't be that good for you. Edited March 22, 2011 by rtl42
geogaddi Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 http://xkcd.com/radiation/ to help put things in perspective
ghostgoodboy Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTIYn8NP87Y shut up, shut the fuck up.
rtl42 Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 lo bananaphone. i know i'm late to the party (do people still play TF2?), but i saw this today and bust a gut laughing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbDEBczCoyE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yUYDMtsfU this one's hilarious, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tqg4iA30k
geogaddi Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 so a friend of mine msgd me online today first thing in the morning and said that sentinel has been nerfed to 900k life (YOU SALT, PETER????) though i dont believe it , for this to have happened capcom would have had to roll out a patch covertly without a proper patchnotes, no one knows what else they could have changed, but yeah, test that shit maybe for 360 too, because i had to dl a patch today for my game
MrDolphin Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Just checked some forums and it's true. GET SALTY PEOPLE.
BagLunch Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 This has got to be one of the biggest nerfs in history. They've chopped off about 30% of his life. Maybe the second stealth patch will reduce his health even further, but all you to have a team of 3 Sentinels. You know, for story reasons.
Greed Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Apparently nuclear fallout is just like a really big poo. Incidentally, anyone have an extra laptop they wanna sell? Nothing fancy, just ~1GB ram/1.5ghz . p.s. i wonder how many people tried to actually ingest 3kg of salt after hearing the media reports.
sweetvids Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Hahaha stay free Wu, stay free. I ain't really salty except over the knee-jerk patch because scrubs crying to hard. God forbid you have to block once and a while.
Cardinal_Sin Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 playa haters working overtime This has got to be one of the biggest nerfs in history. They've chopped off about 30% of his life. Maybe the second stealth patch will reduce his health even further, but all you to have a team of 3 Sentinels. You know, for story reasons. 3 Sents + 3x9 Sent drones = 30 sentinels on screen for team hyper combination
sweetvids Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 I like the rationale they did with the patch though. Sent: fuck you nigga if I'm gonna die faster you gonna die faster. damage increase yo.
Cardinal_Sin Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Dear Capcom, I was born without arms and therefore I must block everything with my face. Please remove Sentinel from the game. Signed, scrub
geogaddi Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) Hahaha stay free Wu, stay free. I ain't really salty except over the knee-jerk patch because scrubs crying to hard. God forbid you have to block once and a while. FRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY not like you were planning to stick with sent in there anyways no more akuma inf, noooooooo no more spencer inf, ohhhhhhh? 13 changes in this patch gotta catch them all gotta catch them all woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Edited March 22, 2011 by geogaddi
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