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    lonjil got a reaction from ChronosCat in Story: Monday 15 Jan 2018   
    I think Sirleck is unaffacted because he is in the spirit plane, rather than the physical plane. Dan did make sure to point out that all the Immortals were pulled into the physical plane before casting the spell, so that detail is probably important.
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    lonjil got a reaction from Drasvin in Story Wednesday March 1, 2017   
    Monastic record keeping was pretty good during that period, actually. And while a lot has been lost, much has survived by copying, and I assume secret magical organizations would be pretty good at that.
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    lonjil got a reaction from Drasvin in Story Wednesday March 1, 2017   
    Monastic record keeping was pretty good during that period, actually. And while a lot has been lost, much has survived by copying, and I assume secret magical organizations would be pretty good at that.
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    lonjil got a reaction from mlooney in Pinup - Sequence - Pint of Tea - Mon Feb 27 2107   
    Ah, that is also my personal favorite, you have a great taste in tea.
    I think they also use leaves from differently grown tea bushes, hence why english breakfast being stronger despite both being made from black tea.
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    lonjil got a reaction from CritterKeeper in Pinup - Sequence - Pint of Tea - Mon Feb 27 2107   
    Those all also exist in hundreds of different blends, making for all kinds of variation, I'm guessing.
    Like, what's the difference between magic earl grey and magic english breakfast?
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    lonjil got a reaction from RainbowWizard in Wednesday, October 26 2016   
    Hmm, you know, there haven't actually been anything that shows that she can't use other people's abilities (rather than just imagining them). Last comic had her question why she didn't see herself glowing, but she wasn't using any spells in the simulation, so of course she wouldn't glow, and this comic she didn't even try to use Tedd's mark. This feels like a red herring, Dan is trying to make us think that she can't simulate abilities, without actually showing it.
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    lonjil got a reaction from RainbowWizard in Story, Wednesday September 21, 2016   
    Audio has only plateaued in the areas of encoding, decoding, and playback of simple audio, one big thing we can't do yet without noticeable performance degradation—or heck, even doing it in the first place—is the generation of proper, real time audio effects, like echos, muffled sound, true 3d positional audio, or just how audio spreads past obstacles of different materials.
    As a comparison, realistic echos require complex calculations that are at least as complicated global illumination, which has been something of a pipe dream in graphics programming for ages.
    No need for the pregnancy, Tedd thinks that (s)he can make transformation wands that changes someone base form, and presumably it would work with any transformation. Just load up that "me when I was 18" form into a perma-wand and BAM! I'm definitely asking about this next Q&A.
     
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    lonjil reacted to TehEpicDuckeh in Story Wednesday October 12, 2016   
    I literally just realized that if Nanase made enough fairy dolls and Susan got a big enough box, they can have free travel by fairy and infinite kamikaze dolls.
    *BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM*BOOM*BOOM*BOOM*BOOM*BOOM*
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    lonjil reacted to CritterKeeper in Story Monday October 10, 2016   
    Well, this is an area where my "building muscles" analogy may break down.  Pandora said that using the spell without enough break between castings wouldn't do much, not anything, so it might be that even when the environmental magic does 98% of the work, Sarah stll gets a 2% workout.  (Or 99.9% vs 0.1%, whatever you think is appropriate.)  So, normally she would want to cast the spell well-spaced to exercise her full capacity.  But, if Sarah were to cast the spell a hundred times, or a thousand, all those small percentages could add up to expanding her capacity.
    Hmm, perhaps there is a muscle analogy -- physical therapy often uses "passive range of motion" exercises to keep temporarily paralyzed or weakened muscles from deteriorating from disuse.  Atrophy sets in if muscles aren't used.  Perhaps Sarah's magic is like a limb that she can't use normally, but PROM exercises would stimulate her "magic muscles" just enough to help them start working more easily and effectively on their own.  Not a perfect analogy, but it kinda works.  :-)
    Either way, I suspect Pandora will promise Sarah she'll help her Awaken if at all possible once the job is done.  Whether that involves power sources like the gauntlet or amulet, or helping her find pockets of magic to exploit ("puddles" left behind, if you will), or somehow directly boosting her power, I don't know.  Pandora may need to provide such a boost in order to get the job done in the first place, depending on whether some small ignition spark of Sarah's innate magic is needed to start casting the spell even with the huge environmental reservoir to do the real work.
    I'm betting half my quatloos that Sarah ends up with magic in the end, one way or another. :-D
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    lonjil got a reaction from mlooney in Story: Friday October 7 2016   
    *facepalm* Yeah, I should probably think before I post. The meaning I had in mind was that she's the queen of using chaos, like the Queen of card games would be the best card player, while the Demigoddess of card games would have some special connection to and power over card games, in a divine sense.
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    lonjil got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday October 7 2016   
    Precisely
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    lonjil got a reaction from mlooney in Story: Friday October 7 2016   
    I think something like Queen of Chaos would work better. (Demi)goddess implies that she has some special providence over chaos, but really, she just likes it a lot.
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    lonjil reacted to mlooney in Story: Friday October 7 2016   
    Queen also implies being a ruler, i.e. having power of command over it.  I use Demigoddess due to her massive power level. Plus it sounds better than "Fangirl of Chaos" or even "Chaos Aficionado".  Or we could fall back on "Agent of Chaos" or what I've been called "The Ultimate Agent of Entropy".  While Chaos and Entropy aren't quite the same, they are close enough.  Another option, of course would be "Looney's Waifu of Chaos." 
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    lonjil got a reaction from mlooney in Story: Friday October 7 2016   
    I think something like Queen of Chaos would work better. (Demi)goddess implies that she has some special providence over chaos, but really, she just likes it a lot.