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Originally Posted by Kura
Thoughts on the new fairy typing in pokemon?
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I made a tl;dr about it somewhere but PC is lagging right now so I'll just summarise - I don't really like it, haha. I feel it only exists as a check for Dragon types and it's not something you can really categorise specific Pokémon into so I feel it'll just end up a collection of 'cute' things beating up Garchomp. Grand.
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Originally Posted by droomph
So what's one place you would want to stay for a month? a year? Would you ever leave Manchester for say, scotland and thei scøticisms
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I'd happily leave Manchester for somewhere else for a while, but probably not to live. Just about anywhere really; it's not so much that I don't like Manchester (indeed, I love the place) but I just wanna have some new experiences, yanno? Live somewhere else where they do things differently, meet some new people, get used to new things, etc. It'd be fun!
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Originally Posted by droomph
Scotland or ireland. Like, obviously Ireland but what are some reasons? They're both gaelic so they're very similar in that regard.
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Ireland's home and Scotland isn't, haha. Although I am part Scottish I don't really feel much of a connection to the place and I've never lived there. And yeah, I guess they're similar in that one way, but... they're still completely different countries. Both of them lovely though - I think I remember visiting Scotland once and it was awesome.
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Originally Posted by droomph
If Pokémon was to end in 20 years, how would you suggest to change our forum's focus to keep it alive?
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I don't think this place would die with Pokémon (then again, I don't think it'll be alive itself at such a time, haha) mainly because one of the big things which keeps people coming are the ROM hacks. As far as I'm aware, we're one of the best sites (if not the best?) for that sort of thing and I think people would want to keep playing them. Even if Pokémon did end anyway, we'd still have some things to discuss about it. It's not like this place's activity fizzles out when we're not getting news on new games.
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Originally Posted by Xolace
How many leafs are there in a Razor Leaf?
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42.
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Originally Posted by Xolace
Would you teach Lugia Razor Leaf if it was possible?
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Nah. It's one of my favourite moves but it's by no means a great one. Tho I guess I might just for ****s and giggles, haha. It'd be quite fun having a legendary with moves like that.
...omg now I wanna make a legendary team with totally crap movesets. >_>
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Originally Posted by Xolace
How do you handle disputes on the forums?
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I think this is a really hard question to answer because nearly everything's case-by-case and staff-level disputes are handled differently to member-level disputes. And then we all look at situations differently and blahblahblah etc. Basically, everything's done on a case-by-case basis and this isn't a question I can really answer.
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Originally Posted by Xolace
Are you having a nice day?
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I'm feeling kinda groggy and somewhat hungover. But in any case, yes, it's a fine day! In a bit I'm gonna go out and just chill with some friends which'll be nice. That's what I've spent much of my time doing lately, actually.
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Originally Posted by BlahISuck
What are you studying in biochem? I'm doing the same too, but I'm starting to get disillusioned by labs and I don't think I'm going to go into research. Maybe a more specific question is what have you studied in biochem? Your main-ish focus, some interesting courses you've taken. Personally having to learn the details between RNAP I, II and III, and then those of prokaryotes, stupid open trigger loop gah. I got sick of nucleic acids in a very short amount of time. And I'm not particularly interested in cell signalling either - it's a fundamental so I have to understand it well but I don't fancy it much. I think I love metabolism and enzymes and their structures a lot lot more.
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Haha, I touched on that a wee bit, but not in massive detail, in my molecular genetics module earlier this year. Such a *****.
In terms of what I'm studying right now, nothing. I'm done with uni until September, about to move onto my second year of study. You can read through my course's structure
here to get a rather broad idea of what I've studied and what I am able to study in the coming years. Much of the first year was fairly general stuff building on previous study so there's not a massive amount to say on it since not much of it is massively relevant but naturally I enjoyed the biochemistry and chemistry modules the most. I actually enjoy the chemistry side of things way more than I thought I would which is weird since I always considered myself more a biologist. The straight-up biochemistry unit was full of the stuff I like, though - which is mostly proteins.
For stuff I generally enjoy, I'm in the same boat as you in that I find enzymes and general proteins and their structures pretty interesting but I actually quite liked what little I've done around cell signalling (weirdly, I don't do a module in that until third year). Honestly I enjoy most things that go on at the cellular level, cop-out of an answer as that sounds.
edit: actually, I had a group project set this year which was really interesting. It was all about how bacteria could be genetically modified to help produce antibiotics. We were given an example (fake) antibiotic structure and basically told to suggest how it could be made using GM bacteria in as much detail as possible - from how the GM would happen to which genes would need changing and how, which restriction enzymes would be used, how efficient the whole process was, etc. Of course, we weren't required to actually practically do this ourselves so it was basically a giant secondary research and theory project, but interesting nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by BlahISuck
How do you manage drinking and studying?
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Study in the day, drink at night. Simple! Seriously though, I'm not totally sure, but it's a kind of balance that many students are able to eventually find. University is as much about the social life as it is the academic life so honestly, unless you abstain totally from drinking,
not being able to manage the two is pretty unheard of. Sometimes your studying takes a knock for drinking, sometimes your drinking takes a knock for studying, but usually you can actually find the time to fit the two of them in.
I imagine, though, you're referring to my... rather liberal drinking habits, haha. I admit that they can sometimes get somewhat intrusive and there are times where I know I should be studying rather than drinking, but... eh. I'm sure many of us have times where we play video games, watch films or TV, etc. when we know we should be studying. My equivalent for that would be pub sessions. It's normal enough, just a different activity.
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Originally Posted by BlahISuck
Do you have a second major? Is there something else that comes to a close second to biochemistry - that you'd study had you the time/opportunity?
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We don't have majors and minors in this country. Or at least, they're uncommon. Most people prefer to just specialise in what they want to learn most. Although a lot of places do offer optional units from other studies for interest's sake; I was considering taking a physics one this year but never actually got round to it.
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Originally Posted by BlahISuck
Do you like/have you tried soju or sake? XD
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I've heard of sake but never tried it. Needless to say, I've not tried soju either. d:
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Originally Posted by BlahISuck
How's working out coming along?
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Not bad! I've been pretty busy lately so not had all the time in the world to do it, but I've made a start. I do actually intend to reply to the thread where I asked for help with that at some stage but it keeps slipping my mind and my PC list of things to do is long enough as it is. But I do appreciate the help in any case! I just need to keep slowly stepping up how much I'm doing but for reasons you're aware of it's not hugely easy, haha.
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Originally Posted by BlahISuck
You know what? You should help me study. =D
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OKAY. 8D