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Alondro


Former research biologist who now spends his time dissecting electronics and rolling around in poison ivy.

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  • 10 weeks
    The last research paper I worked on has published at last.

    The process is REALLY slow. I finished all my work on this 3 years ago.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316969121

    This one uses a lot of my histology and in-situ hybridization with RNAscope results.

    But no more science for me. Now I build houses and driveways... and rip them apart too! It's a sort of yin-yang thing I've got going here.

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  • 16 weeks
    A comedic scene from a new Clouseua story I'm fiddling with...

    I just came up with this, and imagining Peter Sellers delivering the line had me laughing for 5 minutes straight.

    Clouseau, "For you see, the murderer was... the bullet!"

    Guy in room, "The bullet?"

    Clouseau, "Of course, no one would suspect the bullet of firing itself!"

    Woman in room, "But that... that's madness!"

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  • 34 weeks
    THE PIRATE KING BREAKS THE NETFLIX ANIME ADAPTATION CURSE!!!

    Only the Pirate King could do it...

    It's as good as possible. You cannot do such a goofy anime any better than this, and it's GREAT! I friggin LOVED it.

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  • 35 weeks
    Last call for Bronycon items up on Ebay!

    I'll be delisting all remaining MLP items Sept 1st to focus entirely on selling my huge stash of collectible magazines, which take up vastly more space than the MLP items. Everything here fits into a single flat box I can pick up with one hand. The magazines... weigh over 700 lbs total. Sooooo, kinda makes sense to deal with those ASAP!

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  • 40 weeks
    Last Bronycon items up on Ebay!

    I'll be delisting all remaining MLP items at the end of the summer to focus entirely on selling my huge stash of collectible magazines, which take up vastly more space than the MLP items. Everything here fits into a single flat box I can pick up with one hand. The magazines... weigh over 700 lbs total. Sooooo, kinda makes sense to deal with those ASAP! Around Sept 1 is when the MLP items are

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Sep
20th
2021

Probably just about done here. · 7:44pm Sep 20th, 2021

The stories I'm still following have all but ceased to update, and others have skewed off into endless tangents that are leading nowhere fast.

What's new is... getting paper-thin. I've seen little worth a glance that makes it to the front page.

It was a good run, but there are seriously pressing matters far more important now than spending hours reading fanfiction based upon a toyline property, the owners of which seem intent on utterly destroying with increasingly banal and thoughtless woke trash, so repetitive and dull that one glimpse at a trailer and you can predict EVERYTHING that's going to happen, and know that it's going to happen in the worst possible narrative way and take a crap all over continuity, as these moron apparently DESPISE proper plotting and world-building... and characterization... and tone... and framing... and pretty much everything they USED to teach in screenwriting...

Most old franchise holders these days have taken up this race to the bottom (except for perhaps "Ghostbusters", seems Sony actually did learn something!).

Anywho, it was nice while it lasted, a fond diversion for the years when the madmen copying Chairman Mao in every way except name were still plotting beneath their rocks. Now that they've come out and MOST of the world is taking the blinders of fear off at last, it is my duty to bury these vile locusts again, as one of the few who was lying in wait for their emergence.

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Onward Christian Soldier, Marching Off To War.

Well shucky darn, who's going to leave bizarre comments now?

What do you know, this is secretly the brightest timeline

Oh no!

Anyways...

I hope that things go for you in a way that is good.

alas. your comments were always a treat to read. it's hard to argue with your assessment, however.

5584583 Enjoy the slow slide into oblivion. No one else knows this fandom even exists anymore.

5584609 Enjoy Season 5... oh who am I kidding, it's going to be horrendous.

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I would say that I'm only here to have fun, but you probably wouldn't understand fun that doesn't involving being a shameless attention whore who can't write worth a damn

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Your unparalleled hatred of G5 will now go on to affect my life in so many intensely meaningful ways.

Well I do hope you come back now and again.

I'll miss you mate:fluttershysad:

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Shameless, yes. The Kwisatz Haderach need have no shame!

Attention whore? No, those are the ones who threaten cast members with death for... whatever the reasons were.

5584974 There's a single story that's updating regularly and appears to keep focus on a primary plot thread, but I'm not going to finish reading until it's completed. Wayyyyy too many really good ones have just died out. Others, like I mentioned, lost sight of any goal or direction and are just meandering about with chapters that don't really advance anything after 3-5 months of waiting.... despite being 9,000+ words per chapter long in one particular case. That gets exceedingly frustrating after a while. It gets to the point where I just skim the whole chapter in 5 minutes... and miss nothing of importance. It's not even purple prose or ridiculously drawn-out Naruto-style battles with 90% flashbacks, it's just... dithering. Running in place. The narrative is flat and dull, no characters develop, nothing is accomplished except some tasks for achievement, as if it were just a game. I finally dropped that one this week.

I may poke around for short stories, mainly ridiculous ones. I can't take anything regarding this show seriously anymore, not with what the franchise is turning into.

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14th century Templar? That the one

5585016 14th Century Friar is one I hope actually finishes. The core plot interests me.

There's one that's been updating every week or two, where Twilight's a very cloistered over-powered witch, and Dash ends up as her hostage by being typical Dash. It's written well and quite funny at times. But it's also getting very long, and I don't have the time for the current 12 additional chapters.

I'm currently taking a little break after performing 11 consecutive surgeries on mouse knees. Yes, I am performing surgery on the knees of mice. You cannot imagine how stressful that is. If a 'Destroy the World' button appeared in front of me, I'd be slamming it right now, while laughing like Dio from "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure". :pinkiecrazy:

5585036 Attempting to treat osteoarthritis. Knees of most mammals are virtually identical in physiology and developmental genetic pathways.

Likely won't be doing it much longer. The hospital is refusing pretty much all applications for religious exemptions, after a token application process which I knew was a farce all along.

The head of the hospital practically worships Biden and the creature Levine (the one who took its mother out of a nursing home before shoving COOF-infected patients into them... demonstrating clear premeditation.) and just sent out this nauseatingly gushing email about meeting Biden and talking with him and collaborating with the heads of massive global corporations on forcing more mandates. And yet says NOTHING about the HOARDS of people streaming across the border with ZERO testing, ZERO vaccination... all on Biden's watch. I also go a look at some vids snuck out of those meetings. When they didn't think the cameras were on them, NO MASKS IN SIGHT!! Hmm, almost like they don't believe any of the paranoia they're spewing. Actions speak louder than words, you know. Yeah... I'm about done with that place. I will not work for such hypocritical shills.

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Yeah, I get where you're coming from. The official material has been utter garbage for years and basically nothing worth reading is being produced here any more so I'm honestly shocked I haven't moved on yet myself. Even with the total collapse of the entertainment industry, I would have expected to be drawn into something else by now.

Still, if you want to chat or just vent about the insanity, feel free to PM me.

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if it's the brightest timeline why do you still have me blocked? Checkmate athiests

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you probably wouldn't understand fun not involving being a shameless attention whore who can't write worth a damn

damn I feel attacked but rightly so

5587648 If I were truly an attention whore, I'd be on Tiktok or Twitter. :trollestia:

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Looking at some of his comments, I'd dispute "can't write worth a damn" because some of them are peak comedy. It's just a tad tainted by the knowledge that his exaggerated persona is being used to hide legitimate mental illness.

5592609 Genius is often ascribed as madness by the idiots of the world, as a consequence of their own fervent jealousy and fear of what they cannot begin to understand.

Genius is often ascribed as madness by the idiots of the world, as a consequence of their own fervent jealousy and fear of what they cannot begin to understand.

The only difference between genius and insanity is whether you happen to be right, and unless you can find the Wandering Jew you don't even have the benefit of the doubt.

5592746 I happen to have a Wandering Jew growing on my window sill! I found it YEARS AGO! YOU ABSOLUTE FOOL!! Did you really think you could outwit my dumb-high 189IQ? This was all part of my grand master plan! Yes, YES! Everything has proceeded according to my designs! HA HA HA!

Did you really think you could outwit my dumb-high 189IQ?

I just want to highlight this line as further proof that you can actually write pretty well despite your choice of subject matter; I vaguely remember hearing about the highest confirmed IQ being somewhere in the 190s, although I also remember that guy being unable to hold down a job so it's clear that IQ doesn't mean crap.

Oh, the actual topic? You went back into cartoon supervillain mode so I assume you've conceded the argument. (Or you legitimately failed to understand how it's relevant, in which case here's your link (note the citation to a specific line of the Bible which contradicts your thesis statement of literal Apocalyptic doomsaying... and also the actual meaning of "apocalypse" which involves denial being impossible)

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note the citation to a specific line of the Bible which contradicts your thesis statement of literal Apocalyptic doomsaying.

First of all, you weren't really making an argument. You were insulting me and calling me insane. If you were physically in my presence, this would have resulted in your immediate need for emergency medical care, capiche? I hearken back to the days when personal insults of that caliber MEANT A DUEL TO THE DEATH. People were much more respectful back then when they the wrong word choice meant potentially being ended immediately.

Also, seriously? You are trying to school ME about what the Bible says? Matthew 24. READ IT. Jesus spells it the heck out pretty damned clearly, with no ambiguity.

Comment posted by Herald of Opera deleted Oct 8th, 2021

Just thought of a better one: You want to know the one prophet who objectively accomplished anything useful? It was Noah, because he actually did something about the problem that would save at least a few people he cared about. Any warnings accomplished nothing but wasting the prophet's breath, for him or the others.

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