23rd August 2003, 9:06 AM
Darunia you silly person, lightning not only DOES strike twice (are there actually people who still believe this very old myth?), but it PREFERS to strike twice!
Lightning doesn't strike PURELY at random you see. It always takes the easiest path. If it struck one time, that prooves that that one time, it was the easiest path. If nothing changes, it's very likely that it will STILL be the easiest path. This is why certain skyscrapers get struck with most of the lightning blows during a storm, because it does in fact strike twice in the same place. Darunia, the old adage wasn't even true in Looney Toons! They always got hit by it twice in a row after reading it in some ridiculous boy scout's surivival guide.
Oh and Darunia, playing dead isn't the solution for a lot of bear attacks :D. If the bear is actively hunting you, you just made the job easier. Heck, they know you were alive a few seconds ago, and that's what they usually eat anyway, dead things that were alive a few seconds ago (though the death is usually by their bear hands). Playing dead works in some very limited situations, like when the bear is attacking you not because it's hungry, but because it's defending it's cubs for instance and wants to eliminate the threat.
And Darunia, feel free to swim directly after eating a hearty meal. You won't cramp up just because you are in water. Yeesh, people jog all the time after eating but for some reason it's swimming that causes the cramps... People need to think about this stuff...
That's not really Ninteno selling the pre-order disks, but the stores selling the leftovers. I'm still expecting Nintendo to print many more copies of the game and sell it as it's own game for full price like the corporation they know they are.
Lightning doesn't strike PURELY at random you see. It always takes the easiest path. If it struck one time, that prooves that that one time, it was the easiest path. If nothing changes, it's very likely that it will STILL be the easiest path. This is why certain skyscrapers get struck with most of the lightning blows during a storm, because it does in fact strike twice in the same place. Darunia, the old adage wasn't even true in Looney Toons! They always got hit by it twice in a row after reading it in some ridiculous boy scout's surivival guide.
Oh and Darunia, playing dead isn't the solution for a lot of bear attacks :D. If the bear is actively hunting you, you just made the job easier. Heck, they know you were alive a few seconds ago, and that's what they usually eat anyway, dead things that were alive a few seconds ago (though the death is usually by their bear hands). Playing dead works in some very limited situations, like when the bear is attacking you not because it's hungry, but because it's defending it's cubs for instance and wants to eliminate the threat.
And Darunia, feel free to swim directly after eating a hearty meal. You won't cramp up just because you are in water. Yeesh, people jog all the time after eating but for some reason it's swimming that causes the cramps... People need to think about this stuff...
That's not really Ninteno selling the pre-order disks, but the stores selling the leftovers. I'm still expecting Nintendo to print many more copies of the game and sell it as it's own game for full price like the corporation they know they are.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)