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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-12-09 08:23 pm

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Hello! You know, when I was a kid I always wanted to get horseback lessons? I never got those, but I did learn to code, so that's pretty cool. Anyway! We've been working on horses a little, although mostly it seems like we'll be pouring hours into taste, which seems to be a result of the outside destabilization?

Balancing spinning tops is always kind of a headache. I hope some of you found those loopholes! There's some of those bats in here, too, and I've been carrying things around to fend them off all week. Some people keep herding them into heavily populated areas in the building, though. What a pain!

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retrspec Incorporated

As of this post taste tier 1 has been icly regained; it includes grains. Also as of this post, horses are now recognized in fictional books, games and movies. This is extended to merchandise as well such as the world-equivalent of My Little Pony.

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headpatmenace: (pic#11791354)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-10 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yes?? Please?? Horses??

I would really like to not good looked at like a clown whenever someone looks at my transcript.

My horseback riding experience gets me a weird look from my counselor everytime we talk.
fiddlestick: (headscratch)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-12-10 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[POOR REAN....]

Haha, maybe you should just say you know how to ride chocobos?
I mean, they're likely not gonna check right....?
headpatmenace: (pic#11791354)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-10 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm worried if I do that, they'll be gone..

maybe I'll just say 'riding'.
fiddlestick: (fuq what)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-12-10 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Riding" would work, I think! I mean, it's still honest.

Are chocobos and horses really that different? I mean, besides one being a bird...


[City boy only has basic idea how farm animals work okay.]
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[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-10 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I imagine you have to handle them differently...and they probably eat different things. And I'm not a biology major but I don't think they'd be nearly as good as pack animals, cause of having two legs instead of four, and I think birds have different bones..
fiddlestick: (ohhh noooo)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-12-10 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
So in other words...they're completely different? Oh.

Why do legs number matter for pack animals?
headpatmenace: (pic#11791343)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-11 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, you could carry someone sitting on your back easier than you could give them a piggy back ride, right?

There's more support.

I don't think ostrich farmers use them as pack animals ever...


[He may be full of it. Or right, but still full of it.]
fiddlestick: (fuq what)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-12-11 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Uh...

Oh! Do you mean "pack" as in carry stuff? I thought you meant pack as in a group pack. I guess there's some logic to that.
headpatmenace: (pic#11791346)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-14 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, carrying things

Stuff like horses and

I guess chocobos, probably?

Are herd animals. Pack animals have a linear hierarchy with an alpha male, Herd animals don't, beyond sometimes having a single leader. They just travel and live in groups.


[The farm boy is coming out]
fiddlestick: (handout)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-12-15 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, I get it now!

[This has been very enlightening!!]

So are most domesticated animals herd animals?

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lalliho: (we can sort out the rest later)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-12-10 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
write animal handling proficiency instead
headpatmenace: (pic#11791343)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-10 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
That...

Is a good idea, actually.
lalliho: (don't dead open inside)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-12-10 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
yep

non nerds will think you're smart and nerds will think you're a nerd and like you because of nerd law or whatever
headpatmenace: (pic#11791343)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-11 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Do nerds like animal handling?

I thought they were more into books.
lalliho: (masturbating)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-12-11 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
ah a non nerd

it's a d&d skill
headpatmenace: (pic#11791343)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I exist on the nerd/jock boundary, thank you.

But I'll consider adding it.
lalliho: (considers this)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-12-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
gross
blind_badass: (conjecture)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-12-10 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you could really confuse people and tell them you're proficient at riding both.
headpatmenace: (pic#11791354)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-11 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'm worried one will always be mythical, though...
blind_badass: (Default)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-12-13 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Well, colors have returned, so maybe your affinity with horses will someday not be so odd.
headpatmenace: (pic#11791355)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-13 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
I can only hope.

I guess taste is more important short-term, though..
blind_badass: (well crap)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-12-15 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
I admit that a lack of taste is a bit disconcerting right before Christmas.
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[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-17 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Fruitcake is finally palatable.
blind_badass: (conjecture)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-12-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Fruitcake isn't that bad if it's made properly. But I admit it's quite easy for it to go awry.
headpatmenace: (pic#11791343)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-12-21 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
One time an old fruitcake we left in the cupboard fell out and destroyed our kitchen floor the next year.