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Why do computer game programmers purposly make parts in games that are designed to make you want to break your computer? Why do they make you angry if they want you to buy their games again?

because they don't. you just suck at the game. (sorry for stealing the question)

beyonder wrote:because they don't. you just suck at the game. (sorry for stealing the question)

That makes sense... (-_-)

Magic-eye and stereographs (the technical term for two images next to each other designed to create a 3D image) are both based on the same thing: the principle of parallax. Parallax refers to how each eye, when looking at 3D objects, doesn't "receive" the same image. This is why your field of vision changes slightly when you alternate between each eye closed. Human brains, though, are incredibly good at getting information from those two different images, so we "see" in 3D. Now, when we look at an picture of something, both of our eyes are receiving almost the same images, so the picture looks flat. With magic-eye and stereographs, each eye receives a different image, so our brain tries to find 3D information in each image and we see a 3D image. Source: http://www.borndigital.com/arjuna.htm

The gelatin part of JELL-O is mostly made up of the glycine and proline proteins, which are extracted from the hooves and bones of cows and pigs. Normally, these proteins are folded into a stable structure called a triple-helix, (think DNA, except a third line) but dissolving them in hot water causes the helixes to unfold into protein chains. When you pour the hot gelatin-water mixture into a mold and let it cool, only some of the proteins can refold into the triple helix, trapping the rest of the proteins in an unfolded state and creating small pockets of liquid. Since not all of the proteins refolded, the final structure wiggles, but the folded proteins are enough to hold the shape and the flavored water inside. Source: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senes ... tion.shtml

I can't answer this question, since it assumes that every game designer is the same. In all likelihood, you're doing something the game designer didn't think would happen, or the designer purposely created the part of the game to be difficult. Why a developer would do this, though, is a question only the developer can answer.

For some of the past few questions, people have apologized for "stealing" the thread. I assure you, until the thread stops being called "Ask Chromus", you don't have to worry about stealing it from me. I don't mind others answering questions, just as long as they don't me answering them as well.

Does anything happen when you put oil in liquid nitrogen?

How many presidents have been elected without their home state in support of them?

What does the G.I. and G.I. Joe stand for?

Why hasnt Ayana finished making the Ask Chromus Banner/Logo thingy? She doesnt have it listed on her todo on her deviantart thingy either. Is she busy?

Dither

Here are various oils (and their average melting points in degrees Celsius):
Corn Oil (-20)
Sunflower Oil (-17)
Olive Oil (-6)
Sesame Oil (-6)
Peanut Oil (3)
Palm Oil (24)
Coconut Oil (25)

The melting point for nitrogen is -210 degrees Celsius, which is much colder than any of the melting points of the oils listed. That means that putting any of these oils into liquid nitrogen will cause them to freeze into a glass. The reason oils form a glass rather than a crystal (like water) is because the oil is viscous, (read: resists moving) so the oil can't adjust fast enough to form a crystal and traps liquid oil in a structure of solid oil, called a glass. (Just like the stuff windows are made of, silicon dioxide) Of course, at those temperatures, most solids are easy to break, so you might end up with a bunch of shards of oil glass. Sources: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele007.html and http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/c ... m03265.htm

There have been 7 elections of United States presidents without the support of that president's home state. They were:
William Harrison, Virginia (1840)
James Polk, North Carolina (1844)
Zachary Taylor, Virginia (1848)
Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky (1860)
Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky (1864)
George Bush, Massachusetts (1988)
George W Bush, Connecticut (2000)
Sources: http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/ and http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presi ... ndex2.html

The GI in GI Joe stands for General Issue, or Government Issue, a term used during World War 2 to describe regulation equipment issued by the United States for use by its soldiers. A GI Joe is therefore an average soldier in the US military. Source: http://www.joeheadquarters.com/faq.shtml

Yeah, I've been very busy.. Notice I still have to draw 1000 page views picture, and I have over 3000 now...

But I'll add it to my to do list

Why does hair turn grey when you get old?

does Dither post in places besides ask cromus? O_o

I forgot what else I was going to ask you...

Interesting tip about the forum.. If you click ont he profile button under someone's post, then click the 'find all posts by <name>' link, you will see all the posts the person has made. For me, you will see that though i post to Ask Chromus alot, i also post in the Word Game.. and theres a post about The Quest for Pez #12. And im sure if you go back you will find that i post MUCH more to the word game then to Ask Chromus.. not recently though.. back when Chromus and I shared a room up at college, we would post huge streams of stuff to the word game. So the answer to your question would be.. Yes.

If you were a hotdog, would ya eat yourself?

Can you send plushies to people in a bubblewrap bag envelope insted of a box?

The color in hair, and the color of skin, is determined by a special class of proteins called melanin. Melanins are produced by glands in our skin called melanocytes, which cease functioning as we get older. As less and less melanin is produced, hair and skin become more and more transparent, showing the color of the dead skin cells behind, which is why hair turns gray and skin becomes much lighter. While it's not well understood what caused melanocytes to cease functioning, it's beleived that genetics has something to do with it, since a family can have members whose hair turns gray much earlier than average, or much later than average. Source: http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010508.html

Dither and I had long runs of posts in the word game, so I'd have to say that Dither does post elsewhere. As he said, you can check any member's post history by going to that member's profile.

If I were a hotdog, I don't think I would have the mental capacity to think about this problem, let alone the physical capacity to even perform such an act.

It's certainly feasible to send something in a bag envalope, especially if it's cheaper to do so. I don't know of any laws prohibiting you from doing so, either.

Is 1 degree of Celsius the same as one degree of Ferenheit?
or is there more to it than just that?
could you get ferenheit by adding/subtracting celsius?