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User avatar #13 - deroderpderp (12/08/2015) [-]
I finally get it.
The philosophers stone contains the very essence of the jews!
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#59 to #13 - randomsnail (12/08/2015) [-]
it is entirely possible genuine spoiler>seeing as the philosophers stone is in fact made out of human souls/essence genuine spoiler<
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User avatar #61 to #59 - kandazz (12/08/2015) [-]
You have made a valiant attempt at warning folks. Good on you. However, if people don't know this **** by now, just what size of rock are they living under?
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#63 to #61 - randomsnail (12/08/2015) [-]
They may be working on an anime backlog and not yet gotten around to watching all of FMA, I only assume it has been watched if it has passed 20 years since it's release.
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User avatar #81 to #61 - anotherponyaccount ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
iI've only read up to book 20
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#3 - psychotayto (12/07/2015) [-]
GIF
First time legitimately liking a tumblr post
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#4 to #3 - anon (12/07/2015) [-]
>being this newfag
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User avatar #6 to #4 - avocadoXD (12/08/2015) [-]
says the anon
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#86 to #6 - donated ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
Anon is oldest fag ever. Bet you seen an anon before you even made your account.
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#42 to #3 - thesinful (12/08/2015) [-]
Only sfw FMA pic I have
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#98 to #42 - liquidflows (12/08/2015) [-]
Here take my gif version.
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#48 to #42 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
Care to share some **** ?
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User avatar #49 to #48 - thesinful (12/08/2015) [-]
Hell, why not.
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User avatar #62 to #49 - kandazz (12/08/2015) [-]
...he said 2 hours ago...
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#67 to #62 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
... he said 2 hours ago...
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#72 to #67 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
... he said 57 minutes ago
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User avatar #76 to #72 - febreezboi ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
he said 55 minutes ago
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User avatar #80 to #76 - yaybacon (12/08/2015) [-]
he said 37 minutes ago
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User avatar #89 to #62 - thesinful (12/08/2015) [-]
...he uploaded 8:55 minutes ago
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User avatar #32 - fatminion ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
at first I was like "why is this funny? Sure, alchemy is pseudo-science at best, but we can garner insight into a few aspects of human nature, perhaps, but how did he know what the definitive book on alchemy is?". And then I read the comments, so now I'm like "oh, it's some ****** manganese ******** ". **** your strange love of Japanese culture.
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#78 to #32 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
you ********** , fma is one of the best mangos and animus out there. it doesn't fill the **** with sexualized little girls and awful losti-in-translation jokes that make no sense. give it a go you turd ferret, everyone I know have loved the series, even if they don't generally like japoinese stuff.
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User avatar #34 to #32 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
FMA: Brotherhood is basically a cartoon about German wizards, though.
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User avatar #47 to #34 - Sethorein (12/08/2015) [-]
Alphonse sounded French to me...
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#73 to #47 - ripgeckosncherios (12/08/2015) [-]
Let's say Germanic, that would probably work?
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User avatar #35 to #34 - fatminion ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
I don't give a **** what it's about, I'm just wondering why when someone says "alchemy" the first thing people think about is a Japanese cartoon instead of a pseudoscience.
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User avatar #36 to #35 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
Because the show's main premise is that alchemy is real, and it's a popular show, while real alchemy's a pretty obscure aspect of early modern and prior history?

This is pretty basic **** .
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User avatar #37 to #36 - fatminion ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
pfft. Maybe to you weeaboos it's "popular" and "basic **** ", but us NORMAL people consider shows like South Park or Simpsons to be popular, and have heard the word "alchemy" in its traditional context many times and never even heard of it in a Japanese cartoon context.

PS - is that the one where they do like, music videos? And a guy has a gun-sword? One time I heard Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" playing from my roommate's room, so I went in, and he was watching some Japanese cartoon. I watched a bit with him, found it odd, and he had a ******* gun-sword. It was weird. But apparently the show often does music videos or something.
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User avatar #38 to #37 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
So, your anecdotal experience is different from others, and this surprises you? I too have heard of alchemy in its traditional historical and literary context. I've written papers about it. I've played D&D which is rife with it. I've also watched Fullmetal Alchemist, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. What's your point?

But, no, there's no gun sword. At least, none that I can think of. But, fans make music videos with clips from shows. It's not official, at least nothing with Bon Jovi songs would be. But, people do that sort of thing with clips from American tv shows and video games, too.
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User avatar #39 to #38 - fatminion ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
ah, so you're one of "those" people - dungeon and dragons, larping, japanese culture, you probably can speak klingon and elvish. Deep down, I'm actually quite jealous. I went to an engineering/science college and everyone was a geek/nerd/whatever. I thought I was nerdy because I learned to program when I was 8. Turns out I was one of the most normal ones. I played music and sports and they played DnD and Settlers of Catan. I remember one time some people were having a "game night" and I was like "sweet! Can I come? I love board games!" They laughed and were like "no, we don't play 'board games' - you wouldn't get it and nobody wants to explain to you how to play" and I was like "what the **** ? It's just a game, shouldn't be too hard to learn". I guess some of them were pricks. In any event, I never got to play any kind of RPG or whatever those types of games are called, even though I've always wanted to try. Oh well, back to my normie life. Gotta get up and go to work

peace out

PS this is the one I mean: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Sword
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User avatar #40 to #39 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
You're dismissive and condescending, so I'm honestly not surprised they wouldn't want to involve you, though they do indeed sound like dicks.
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User avatar #43 to #40 - fatminion ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
no man, it was those experiences that made me bitter, mainly because I was secretly jealous they wouldn't let me into their culture. And now it's happening all over again 10 years later on FJ. I just like razzing the anime/manga/DnD people because I was never allowed in their culture / I never got into it. But it's OK - I can't be into EVERYTHING. I spent large portions of my life practicing music, learning to program, and unfortunately in a religious sect. I've since quit, but basically I've missed out on a lot of **** other people did (drinking, drugs, sex) but I did something most people didn't do (music, programming), and those things helped me get the career of my dreams (and I have since caught up on the sex, drinking and droogs). Anyway, to each his own.

peace
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User avatar #45 to #43 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
Well, sorry that happened, breh. It may have been their group was already large, or they were genuinely assholes.
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User avatar #88 to #43 - linkofcourage (12/08/2015) [-]
Yo I don't like the mangos but I loved FMA after being forced to watch it by my roommate, it's just a good show that happens to be made by the Japanese. Literally any other anime I've watched was distasteful to me, but seriously, FMA is some good **** to watch
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User avatar #44 to #35 - davidokuro (12/08/2015) [-]
Alchemy isn't exactly pseudoscience. It is science, it's just wrong. Many people consider alchemy a precursor to chemistry. They are wrong too.

Alchemy is wrong, but at least they were trying to understand how matter works. Of course only an idiot would believe in alchemy nowadays.
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User avatar #50 to #44 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
In the early modern period it basically became a pseudoscience. You had ************* selling miracle cures and books on how to use them effectively in the 16th century. There was one guy I wrote a paper about, Leonardo Fiorovanti, who was like Venetian Doctor Oz. It was wild **** .
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User avatar #51 to #50 - davidokuro (12/08/2015) [-]
Well I only know Newton experimented heavily with it, but there are plenty of things around today that people cash in on. I don't think that's inherently a flaw with alchemy and more a flaw with capitalism.

Anyway, carry on with your studies.
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User avatar #52 to #51 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
It was a pseudoscience because it's basically the same sort of new age nonsense and the organic craze we saw in the 70s and are seeing again today with alternative medicine and anti-vaxxers, plus the resurgence of the organic hype and now gluten-free and free range insanity. Fiorovanti might have been one of the first to actually employ alchemy as a pseudoscientific product, though, yes.
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User avatar #54 to #52 - davidokuro (12/08/2015) [-]
I guess the problem here for me is I should google when the post modern period to make a more educated reply. Be back in a second...

So my magical internet machine says 16th to 19th century roughly, so basically all before and during Newtons life. I guess before Newton, very few people, if any, actually tried to scrutinize alchemy. I don't really know, but I guess there isn't enough foundation to justify it as science.

Carry on then. Good luck with this other guy over here. Don't let him get to you, he's just hating for the sake of hatred.
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User avatar #56 to #54 - schneidend (12/08/2015) [-]
Yeah, early modern, at least for Europe, is basically everything in the mid-to-late 1500s to the early 1700s. At least, that's how I understood it, though admittedly I only took the one class that covered the magical and scientific beliefs, trends, and advancements of those times.
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User avatar #55 to #54 - davidokuro (12/08/2015) [-]
oh nevermind that last bit, i realize your encounter with him has ended.
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#65 to #32 - blueboysixnine ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
Fullmetal alchemist is basically an alternate reality where alchemy as a science and religion was pursued instead of technological advancement, the setting is european though instead of the usual japanese superiority theme.
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User avatar #8 - ljxjlos (12/08/2015) [-]
Serious question, tho...how do you actually, scientifically correctly, quote a fictional character? In a book it´s rather easy, you can just use it as a quote by the author...but in a show with several authors? Confusing.
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User avatar #9 to #8 - potatorgue (12/08/2015) [-]
in MLA format you do (author, author, author,...) where you cite. In chicago you just do a footnote and the citation at hte bottom
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#70 to #8 - passwordpassedaway ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
Don't ask me why but I once wrote an essay on why the Joker loves the Batman, had to reference books, comics, films, video games, online articles, tried my best to even reference weirder sources like microfilm. It can be done.

I was using APA and the instructions on how to reference goes pretty deep, although I did have to make up a few rules for myself.
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User avatar #10 to #8 - cdm (12/08/2015) [-]
It was originally in the manga.

Arakawa, Hiromu. Fullmetal Alchemist vol 1 ch 1. Shounen Gangan (July 2001). Square Enix.
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#11 to #10 - ainise (12/08/2015) [-]
Really? Square Enix? Never knew...
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User avatar #12 to #11 - cdm (12/08/2015) [-]
I was surprised, too. Though it was Viz media who published it here in the States.
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User avatar #84 to #11 - Tyranitar (12/08/2015) [-]
Ed and Al for Dissidia
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User avatar #29 to #11 - sketchE ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
square enix makes durarara soul eater and a bunch of other really good anime/manga. look up bones theyre owned by square
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#66 to #29 - ainise (12/08/2015) [-]
No **** ? Nice to know.
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#41 - landartheconqueror (12/08/2015) [-]
she even cited her sources for the quote
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User avatar #5 - samoaspider ONLINE (12/07/2015) [-]
so uh, can anyone explain to me whats the point of bitcoin?
can you pay rent / buy stuff / ??? with it or is it just a huge pyramid scam that just eats up real-life money for virtual imaginary currency?
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User avatar #15 to #5 - thesunpraiser (12/08/2015) [-]
Aside from what the other guy pointed out, you can also use it to put actual prices on real people's heads. As I hear it, Obama is currently the second most expensive contract up for bitcoins.
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#25 to #5 - akkere (12/08/2015) [-]
It's essentially a currency that's run by a (rather non-transparent) private entity. Trust is fundamentally the only thing holding the currency up, like most national currencies, and between that and because of it's nature of being produced through virtual means, its value is very unreliable (it tends to rise and fall quite a bit). Some Sources for reading on the value; www.coindesk.com/price/ www.newsbtc.com/2015/12/06/is-the-time-ever-right-to-invest-in-bitcoins/ The currency's use was initially very restricted; a large part of its historical roots was in a large deal of cybercrime (a trend that pursuits to this day), especially with Eastern European criminal syndicates, who saw the currency's lack of tracking from government entities as a strong plus. However, now it's become more and more accepted from a number of retailers, due to the increasingly prevalent use. However, these are mostly online retailers, and only a minority of them. You most likely wouldn't be able to use them to buy yourself groceries, or convince your landlord to take the digital currency as payment instead of whatever you'd normally use depending on your nationality. Overall, it's in some ways a viable currency and in some ways not so much. There's still a lot of shady acts in relation to it and the lack of ability to prosecute in accordance to these acts burdens it quite a bit in my opinion. But if you can find a way to invest (it's currently on the rise in value) and work it to your advantage, it might be beneficial.
It's essentially a currency that's run by a (rather non-transparent) private entity. Trust is fundamentally the only thing holding the currency up, like most national currencies, and between that and because of it's nature of being produced through virtual means, its value is very unreliable (it tends to rise and fall quite a bit). Some Sources for reading on the value;
www.coindesk.com/price/
www.newsbtc.com/2015/12/06/is-the-time-ever-right-to-invest-in-bitcoins/


The currency's use was initially very restricted; a large part of its historical roots was in a large deal of cybercrime (a trend that pursuits to this day), especially with Eastern European criminal syndicates, who saw the currency's lack of tracking from government entities as a strong plus. However, now it's become more and more accepted from a number of retailers, due to the increasingly prevalent use. However, these are mostly online retailers, and only a minority of them. You most likely wouldn't be able to use them to buy yourself groceries, or convince your landlord to take the digital currency as payment instead of whatever you'd normally use depending on your nationality.

Overall, it's in some ways a viable currency and in some ways not so much. There's still a lot of shady acts in relation to it and the lack of ability to prosecute in accordance to these acts burdens it quite a bit in my opinion. But if you can find a way to invest (it's currently on the rise in value) and work it to your advantage, it might be beneficial.
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User avatar #7 to #5 - skyhippo (12/08/2015) [-]
Imagine a bank essentially ran by everyone. To earn bitcoin, people use machines to process other's transactions. This is called "Mining", As a small portion of funding transferred gets given to the people processing those transactions. Once quite a few people's mining rigs have said "Yeah this is okay, let's process this." Then you get the money transferred. People pay paypal or other online currencies to obtain and sell BTC.
Some people use it for drug payments online, or some use it like a stock; investing money in and hoping that the market value rises.
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User avatar #14 to #7 - synthane (12/08/2015) [-]
And a hefty number of stores/restaurants in Western European countries accept bitcoin.
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User avatar #23 to #7 - morkoelorko (12/08/2015) [-]
i don't understand how mining works
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User avatar #26 to #23 - akkere (12/08/2015) [-]
Bitcoin mining is how the currency checks if all general ledgers are legitimate through something called hashing. A hash is a collection of keys which is typically connected to a hash function, which is constantly shifting with the way Bit mining works to ensure no one can learn the hash and fake a transaction. When a transaction has been checked through the hashing process, those that provided the work towards the check-up are rewarded with Bitcoins.
Doing this requires processing power, and a lot of work has to go into it before you can be rewarded. A lot of computer viruses nowadays are actually just subtle bit miners; if a hundred people are infected with a bit miner that only eats up 2% of the average non-specialized computer's processing power, that's two computers' worth of processing power. And some of these networks of bots, called botnets, can go on for thousands of computers.
There's an arbitrary number set as the maximum number of bitcoins produced, but as I mentioned in >>#25, it's completely trust-oriented; there's no way of knowing if the people behind Bitcoin will keep the limit, or come to raise it at some point to appeal to some condition.
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#27 to #26 - morkoelorko (12/08/2015) [-]
that was very informative, thank you.
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#57 to #26 - sirwoot (12/08/2015) [-]
Emperor bless Funnyjunk, because I have to make a presentation about cryptocurrency in about 15 minutes, and your post basically gave me more material that I missed.

Ty.
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#1 - killorpie (12/07/2015) [-]
**killorpie used "*roll picture*"**
**killorpie rolled image**
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User avatar #46 to #1 - rockamekishiko (12/08/2015) [-]
i've seen this dude somewhere else...
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#53 to #46 - killorpie (12/08/2015) [-]
**killorpie used "*roll picture*"**
**killorpie rolled image**ok
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#99 to #46 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
Tom and Duncan Call The Gay Florist
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User avatar #90 - formidableguy (12/08/2015) [-]
Ed.....Ward
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#93 to #90 - darthdingo (12/08/2015) [-]
GIF
Why you make me cry?
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User avatar #96 to #93 - formidableguy (12/08/2015) [-]
Whenever FMA is brought up it where my my mind jumps straight to. Caught me off guard so much!
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#85 - ghostninjaguy (12/08/2015) [-]
FullMetal Alchemist mentioned
Swell with science and ****
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#74 - ordog (12/08/2015) [-]
>Using sources in the introduction
Bitch, do you even essay?
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User avatar #92 - WTFPOWDAH (12/08/2015) [-]
Bitcoin is to electricity what paper money USED to be to gold. It costs electricity to mine it, that's why the creator was a genius.

Sure it had a spurt of demand, but it's been very stable since that little flash in the pan.
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#69 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
Lets see here.
Hmm
I put chocolate into the milk. Stir the
BOOM
Chocolate milk.
I had milk and chocolate. I combined them and it turned into Chocolate milk!





Chemistry!
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User avatar #91 to #69 - mrsixinch (12/08/2015) [-]
****** magic
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User avatar #71 to #69 - skarba (12/08/2015) [-]
Technically, no... there's just a lot of different molecules floating around. Technically the milk and chocolate are still seperate,it's just that the chocolate is in a liquid state.
Have you ever tried putting sugar into a glass of water and then boiling all the water out? Sugar still in the cup, no water in the cup and the sugar still tastes the same.

DO YOU EVEN SCIENCE BRO!!!!
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#87 to #71 - sheepnut (12/08/2015) [-]
Just because there isn't a chemical change doesn't mean it isn't chemistry. Physical changes and mixtures are also under the umbrella of chemistry.
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#75 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
own about a million in bitcoin.

trying to trade it into gold.

websites are slowly stopping that very transaction.

pls god help me
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User avatar #83 to #75 - merfmerf (12/08/2015) [-]
So you have about 2,500 bitcoins?

Pff, as if.
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#94 to #83 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
i started mining before it was cool / hard. yeah. i've alot of ****** bit coins. its just unfortunate that the earth doesnt view it as a real currency. lets be honest though, it isnt
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User avatar #95 to #94 - merfmerf (12/08/2015) [-]
log in and give proof
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#97 to #95 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
no.
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#68 - shadowpieman ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
Thats ******* amazing.
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#64 - itskennyandjosh ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
**itskennyandjosh used "*roll picture*"**
**itskennyandjosh rolled image**I was wondering why i didn't get it, then i read the comments, i'm not a ****** weeb
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User avatar #58 - PieSoldier (12/08/2015) [-]
Oh **** , this just reminded me that I quoted FMA's first law of alchemy in high school for some essay on The Tempest. How I incorporated it into my essay, I have no clue.
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User avatar #18 - venegal (12/08/2015) [-]
Alright FJ I gots a question, is Full Metal Alchemist worth watching or no?
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#19 to #18 - sinfulsyko (12/08/2015) [-]
Both Brotherhood (which follows the Manga) and the "original" are good and worth watching imo.
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User avatar #21 to #18 - mentlgen (12/08/2015) [-]
Original for a comparably less serious anime, Brotherhood for one that sticks to the Manga and is more serious.
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User avatar #22 to #18 - fabiform (12/08/2015) [-]
I absolutely loved FMA: Brotherhood, never watched the original though.
I heard that you should watch the original and then Brotherhood, because if you start with brotherhood you won't be able to watch the others.
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User avatar #24 to #18 - quinuim (12/08/2015) [-]
Yes
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#33 to #18 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
yes
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#60 to #18 - jubajubejiblets ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
You wanna watch both. There are some differences in lore between the two, but both are satisfying to see to their conclusion.
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#79 to #18 - anon (12/08/2015) [-]
read the mungo.
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User avatar #16 - failtolawl (12/08/2015) [-]
Ok, then whose A Elric, though?
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User avatar #17 to #16 - oodlesandoodles (12/08/2015) [-]
Alphonse Elric, main protagonist of Fullmetal Alchemist
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User avatar #28 to #17 - sketchE ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
id say ed was but well just agree they both were
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User avatar #30 to #28 - oodlesandoodles (12/08/2015) [-]
No, you're right. I've only seen the first series, once, and I always get their names mixed up
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User avatar #31 to #30 - sketchE ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-]
wath the second one its better
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User avatar #20 to #16 - paradoxofnight (12/08/2015) [-]
Alphonse Elric, a character in Fullmetal Alchemist
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#2 - anon (12/07/2015) [-]
whut you mean buying one and then getting one for free aint really no kinda deal?
 
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