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  6. Posted

    Has anyone yet considered, while debating how much magic the mirror might have seen since being uncovered, that a seer recharged a wand not far from the mirror? I'm guessing that flares off as much magic as all the spells put together, since the "visual nonsense" is pretty flashy.

  7. Posted

    58 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    I suspect that would trigger a major action by DGB as soon as they heard any thing about it.

    About the only action by DGB that wouldn't make things worse would be to do a full reverse and instead of hiding everything, give parents and children alike genuine information. They could probably get away with just the bare essentials, as long as they were upfront that "Hey, this is the part we're sure won't make things worse to tell you."

  8. Posted

    More or less the same thing I learned from multiple sources -- C will always give you enough rope to hang yourself, so better learn how to avoid coding traps. On the up side, C doesn't make you spend more time dodging language limitations than doing the job.

  12. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    I'll stick with Parsecs per Kessel Run, thankyouverymuch

    Ah, but the advantage of nanos is they don't have to be "per" anything. The speed of light is actually a dimensionless number (light seconds per second is just "light") so one nano-light is also dimensionless.

  14. Posted

    3 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I suspect that if there would be real risk of being cut off, only one who remain unbanked would be the undocumented ones.

    Of course, that may be even bigger advantage for government.

    (Note that personally I find hard to believe AND quite a "success" of the privacy violators if the number of real unbanked is really as high. I would expect lot of them would be using prepaid/gift cards, prepaid SIM or burner phones.)

    In the USA, at least, prepaid cards are often frozen for any or no reason unless you fax the company proof of identity  (which is an obvious temptation for any even slightly shady card companies).

  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

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    ... sure, I wouldn't be surprised if some school would start giving Rohypnol to children just to make them quiet, but why would stimulant make children more likely to comply?

    I know for some students, failure to follow instructions is because of being bored into a stupor. Forcing wakefulness with stimulants might prevent that (while most likely causing other problems).

  16. Posted

    12 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Does her panic explain why the shrinking spell doesn't seem to be working?

    My own guess is that Elliot can clearly tell that Sarah is trying to cut off the conversation before he hears what is going on, and by now he has enough power (and resistance) to refuse to transform for use as a diversion.

  18. Posted

    I've always imagined that Uryuoms have some exceptionally stable form of DNA or its equivalent that codes for enzymes to copy and edit what we think of as "normal" DNA, sort of the way our DNA is a more stable version of RNA that codes for enzymes to (amoung many other things) copy stored patterns into RNA and determine when to copy and/or edit particular subsets of RNA.

    Changing the entire organism to match what it would be if it's DNA had been that way from the beginning would require more than a little magic.

  19. Posted

    3 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Moving faster than light is mathematically one and the same thing as moving backwards through time, which is the one thing that we know for certain can not be done via Magic.

    In our universe, they are one and the same. In EGS they might not be (maybe their Will Of Physics isn't as strict as ours, hence the "polite suggestions").

  20. Posted

    I would expect a more complicated outcome -- because of her ambivalence about actually having magic, a very limited or even "fizzle1" effect (someone shrinks a single inch, etc.).

    1 fizzle -- from the cartoon sound effect for fireworks and such that don't go off.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    One of these days, Sarah needs to canonically indulge in her evil side

    The non-canon/fantasy "Evil Sarah" appearances are just too interesting

    I think Dan is using the tension between Sarah being tempted and resisting temptation as a way to make her almost believably  imperfect without adding the extra plot complications of her actually doing bad things.

    The Old Hack and hkmaly reacted to this

  22. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Are you trying to describe how Latin (where individual letters mostly corresponded to individual phonemes) is pronounced using examples of how someone would spell the pronunciation in English, which is one of languages with most complicated differences between pronounciation and spelling?

    It isn't so much the English spelling; we've incorporated so many words from so many other languages that we are constantly trying (and failing) to guess from which language we borrowed a particular word, as well as how much or how little we modified it after borrowing it. Each of those other languages has different rules for spelling, and we might follow our rules or their rules, with some words modified enough that the original rules won't work at which point we might or might not change completely to English rules.

  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, ijuin said:

    And if mind-altering potions in general are not banned where the consumer does not consent, then why hasn’t Veratiserum for all accused, accusers, and witnesses replaced court trials, since it makes both concealment and false confessions impossible?

    As long as it is clearly spelled out exactly what information you can demand, it could help, but you still need the rest of the trial. For example, demanding to know every time person A hit person B without mentioning that person B was attacking person A at the time would not result in justice.