A Straightforward and Forthright Answer
I just stumbled across this which contains a quote for the ages...
You have worked at the eating lab for some time. What is the eating lab? What does one do at an eating lab? The concept of an eating lab is really cool, but I have to admit that I don't quite know what it is. I don't want to make it sound any less cool, but it is a lab. And it is where we do eating studies.....
There's more to be sure, but the rest of the article merely detracts from the purity of that.
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She's not, though there is a lamia in Monster Musume.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wed Mar 18 12:00:59 2015 (jGQR+)
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The artist is Bubazuke and the character's name seems to be Hygia.
She's cute as a button and I looked her up. Initially all I found were some character sprites from at least two VNs of her making various expressions which I nicked for possible reaction shots. Further digging revealed that one of the visual novels is classed as "adventure" and seems to have as a possible outcome a particularly charming good end...
Regrettably, I ceased researching the matter further shortly thereafter when further inquiry uncovered what I strongly suspect was rather more detail into the precise processes of how that ending came about than was strictly necessary for plot advancement as well as considerably more comprehensive speculation into the biomechanics of snake girl anatomy than I cared to ponder. I think the VN is called Mamono Musume tono Seikatsu ~Lamia no Baai if you feel the need to look into such matters.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Mar 18 20:47:46 2015 (ohzj1)
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DId our host just delete his informative comment or did Meenuvia just suffered a data loss?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thu Mar 19 00:38:16 2015 (RqRa5)
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Mauser's comment is gone too ("if you found her, it would be your lucky day"). I think we ought to poke Pixy.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thu Mar 19 00:49:00 2015 (RqRa5)
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Hrm. Not sure what's missing, but Mauser's comments seem otherwise intact.
I'll run the comment fixer upper script anyway.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Mar 19 03:43:47 2015 (PiXy!)
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It's all back now. I thought I did the shift-reload thing. Oh, well, sorry for the false alarm.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thu Mar 19 11:41:06 2015 (RqRa5)
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BTW, the nickname at Pixiv reads "bubunosuke", which obviously is a portmaneu of "bubu(no)" and the usual suffix of Keisuke, Ryousuke, Shinnosuke, etc. Kinda wondering if he meant "boobies".
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thu Mar 19 11:44:03 2015 (RqRa5)
An Argument Against Friggatriskaidekaphobia
18 minutes left to go and as of yet no disasters have yet befallen any of the staff here at Brickmuppet Blog since midnight.
So close...so close...18 minutes to safety....
Lest people grow complacent, it should be remembered that in a few minutes it will be International Pi day.
If one does not consume pie at exactly 3-14-15 9:26:54 then no one knows WHAT might happen!
If you have someone special, then remember that the appropriateness of a gift can be every bit as important as the thought and effort that went into getting it.
Posted by: Ben at Sat Feb 14 22:42:53 2015 (S4UJw)
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It appears to be an original. I only just found the artist just now.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 14 23:41:25 2015 (ohzj1)
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A true romantic gives their own heart to someone else as a sign of affection. Since she is still standing, she appears to have failed in that regard...
Posted by: Siergen at Sun Feb 15 16:52:56 2015 (ohSuC)
Secret Files and Origins BRICKMUPPET
The new blog-game that all the cool kids are playing right now is this homage to the inventor of the blog* Brian Williams.
Sound Like a Badass Without Committing Yourself to a Lie
My Walter Mitty lifestyle is somewhat non-conducive to this challenge but sacred honor says I have to give it a go.
So, what to write about?
The barracudas? No. anyone who dives regularly knows that barracudas aren't that big a deal.
Changing the bilge punp hanging upside down in the bilge of a fishing boat taking on water during the storm off Hatteras while seasick? No. No one wants to read about me aspirating my own vomit.
Stepping on the Alligator? No That's not badassery, that's clumsiness.
The bear under the trailer? No. Does not qualify. The bear and I achieved a nonviolent resolution to the situation.
The other bear, when the bear cub was behind me? No. See above.
That time in junior high when we built the raft and left the paddles on the island and the cops got called and the missing persons report was filed but we had come ashore in a completely different city? Nope not badassery...but might qualify as a failed Darwin award.
That time, at the babysitters with the bees, the baby and the wild pigs?Nope. No one would believe that.
How I became Tidewaters only LIVING comic book supervillain? That's not badass...that's just pathetic.
So I'll go with the origin of my nom de plume....
Everything in this story is true, though some descriptive phrase choices might be debatable.
It was a dark and stormy night. We get those in Virginia sometimes.
Several weeks or months after the storm, this happened.....
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Even better, there's no such thing as "PPK 9mm", at least in U.S. use, because unqualified "9mm" means the Luger round, while, obviously, PPK cannot chamber that. Most of those were chambered in .380 Auto.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Jan 27 13:19:22 2015 (RqRa5)
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She's very quiet and doesn't want to come to anyone's attention?
Posted by: Mitch H. at Tue Jan 27 13:20:31 2015 (jwKxK)
Bastards!
I have grown to have a very dim view of Greenpeace over the years, but this is an exceptionally vile bit of spoiled, trustfunder, narcissism, even for them.
Forget the lawyers. Send the French frogmen after them.
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And what was even the point? "We could have Photoshopped this ad in
five minutes, but instead we decided to do it physically, run up our expense account, and do unfixable damage to an ancient indigenous artistic/religious feat of engineering"?
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Dec 12 15:20:49 2014 (ZJVQ5)
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It was actually better than I expected. When I first heard about the damage, I was expecting to see tire tracks across The Monkey or something like that.
Still horrible, though.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Fri Dec 12 15:47:23 2014 (jGQR+)
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Oddly, this is the first time I have see a photo of that hummingbird figure with a human nearby. For some reason I always imagined the figures were much larger...
Posted by: Siergen at Fri Dec 12 17:16:46 2014 (r3+4f)
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It looks like most of them are going to spend some quality time inside of a Peruvian jail.
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It is greatly to be hoped. Stupid smug self-gratifying bastages.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Fri Dec 12 20:38:00 2014 (PiXy!)
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I'm gonna be the contrarian here. Got no use for Greenpeace and it's a dumb publicity stunt, sure.
That said, seriously, -footprints-? If the surface is bare rock, assuming the Greenpeace guys weren't ramming in pitons to hold down their banners, there just ain't gonna be any wear. If it's dirt, the idea that footprints would last more than a few weeks (or less depending on weather) is just silly.
Mother Nature ain't -that- fragile!
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Sat Dec 13 05:52:40 2014 (ZeBdf)
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Avatar - yes, seriously, footprints. The only reason the Nazca Lines have lasted as long as they have is that there is no weather there - no rain, almost no wind, and not even much temperature variation. The lines themselves are only a few inches deep.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sat Dec 13 16:49:44 2014 (PiXy!)
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Someone showed a link to a local (?) newspaper showing after pictures. They left marks all over the place that are clearly visible and basically, since they scoured away the thin dark layer over the lighter under layer, are never going to go away. It's like making tracks in snow, except that the evidence isn't going to vanish in a season.
Ah, here we go.
Posted by: RickC at Sun Dec 14 14:50:00 2014 (0a7VZ)
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Oops, forgot to add: in the first picture, look at the red area: all the marks there were created by these idiots.
Posted by: RickC at Sun Dec 14 14:50:35 2014 (0a7VZ)
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I don't know if have places that are so fragile in U.S.. At some point, I was leaving tracks in Blackrock and watching how long it takes Google Maps to see them. They had to be reviewed every other year, or else rains would gradually erase them.
Another odd place like that is Botswana - the original area of Aloe. It's a plant that can live almost without water, but it withers really easily and any frost is fatal for it.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Mon Dec 15 17:56:57 2014 (RqRa5)
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The WKRP Thanksgiving standard.
No Thanksgiving is done without it.
That and Alice's Restaurant.
Posted by: topmaker at Sat Nov 29 14:21:21 2014 (2yZsg)
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It's not a drone. Why is this so hard for people to understand? Drones don't use human pilots. When I was a kid, this was called a R/C aircraft... hell, when I was an adult, they were called that.
IT'S NOT A DRONE!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sat Nov 29 19:43:44 2014 (jGQR+)
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That Quadrotor has got some serious OOMPH behind it. Actually, that would be from the fifth rotor they added to the top, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Nov 29 22:06:20 2014 (TJ7ih)
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Sorry, Mr. Duck. The drone boat has sailed long ago. Might as well fight for the return of the adjective "gay".
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat Nov 29 22:10:56 2014 (RqRa5)
As this is obviously suspicious, it has been surmised that Don, who is something of a volcano otaku, had commenced building a volcano in his back yard.
Since this would open up a vast potential for awesomeness in the fields of both geothermal energy and mayhem, we've asked one of the Brickmuppet's Crack Team of Science Babes to to explain how the miracle of SCIENCE! allows this to be possible.
Ummm....It don't 'cause it ain't.
Well then.
Using Occam's Swiffer, the only remaining logical explanation is that one of these rusted through...which could represent a nontrivial product safety issue moving forward.
Why the Publication of this Article is a Troubling Indicator of the State of Journalism Today
I should have something substantive to say about this headline, but the derp is so strong with this one that I find myself without words.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Oct 11 16:54:47 2014 (TJ7ih)
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(I was not logged in and that still posted... probably because Firefox was filling in all the other blanks for me.... wired, but I think that would leave me open to impersonation.)
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Oct 11 16:56:52 2014 (TJ7ih)
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I've enabled unregistered comments for the time being.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Oct 11 21:53:26 2014 (DnAJl)
A cautionary note. Take a moment between staring in horror at the above hyperlink and re-reading Harrison Bergeron to peruse this post by Popehat which Ace discusses at length here. Neither post discusses the story linked above, but focus on another recent infuriating headline; one that turned out not to quite match the facts at hand. Both posts should be read in full by everyone.
Back to the idiocy at hand...
The scary thing about this advertising story is that in this day and age, is that it's not actually inconceivable.
John C. Wright points out an indirect ramification of this story.
Science fiction writers often show the folly of some trend in modern life by envisioning a darkly humorous future where that trend is carried to an absurd extreme. When real life exceeds the imagined absurdity, my life as a science fiction writer grows difficult. [/quote]
On the other hand, this must mean we are finally living in the future....
I got home and noted that I had acquired some spam...13 pages of it in my comments dashboard. Well, I didn't have time to deal with it then so I flitted off to school with the intention of dealing with it later.
However upon arriving home I noted that all 13 pages were gone. This means something. By applying Occam's Shamwow to the problem, I was able to figure out how this miracle occurred. This blog previously noted that Sydney is currently beset by an amphibious assault of green...things.
Pixy lives in Sydney.
Thus Pixy is responsible for the seaside phenomena and is using the quality cabbages to thwart spam.
I have no idea how this can possibly work. However, I don't write code so I shouldn't judge.
Some might suggest that correlation is not causation, but if that were the case, we would not know that UFOs are piloted by Bigfoots (and are attracted to drunks without cellphone cameras for some reason) but thanks to Occam's Shamwow we do!
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If Pixy lived in Hawaii instead of Sydney, would he trying to attract spam, rather than get rid of it?
Posted by: Siergen at Tue Sep 23 18:02:16 2014 (r3+4f)
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You are talking about Spam, which is also written as SPAM and is awesome fried with pineapples.
Pixy is eliminating spam also refereed to as [expletive deleted] spam which is distinguished by its singular lack of any culinary merits.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Sep 23 18:15:12 2014 (DnAJl)
Pixy's Plan
As many of you know, our Webmaster resides in Sydney. Some of us have suspected that he may be up to something but had no idea what that might be.
UPDATE: So this happened on Pixy's blog the same day the story broke. I can only assume the two actions are somehow connected. This must be an exceedingly elaborate scheme.
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