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  2. Posted

    3 hours ago, Illjwamh said:

    I think you're jumping ahead a little there.

    Only a little... my... time machine's on the fritz, yeah, that's it.

    Speaking of time:

    April 3 in history:

    1693 - John Harrison, inventor of the first really good marine clock, is born.

  6. Posted

    9 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    .... Magus is responsible for Ellen's existence in the worst possible way -- she was intended solely as a fire-and-forget weapon that was supposed to transform Elliot once and could henceforth be ignored...

    Mmmm, I think you're forgetting, or discounting at least, Pandora's contribution to this mess. Magus, betrayed, isolated and hopeless, was under the influence of a master manipulator when he caused Ellen's creation. Doesn't entirely excuse him, of course, but does give me a bit of sympathy for him.

    9 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    The greatest moment Magus had was in my opinion when he refused to commit murder on Pandora's say so. If you wish to look for his redeeming traits, look there.

    OK, so you're not forgetting. :P 

     

  10. Posted

    11 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Yeah, radar map looks like it all sank south of us, so the city proper and southern 'burbs may get another 3 to 6 inches.

    That would be us. Still snowing here; if anything, it's picked up a bit.

  12. Posted

    Snow, followed by snow, then some frozen, fluffy precipitation. After that, snow. Just got back inside after the fifth iteration of shoveling since yesterday. At least the schools are off today, so the stuff hasn't been packed down by dozens of little feet.

    Last year, the weather gnomes kept predicting snow that would, at the last moment, veer off and hit Indianapolis, rather than Chicago. This year, their aim has been better.

    Bastards.

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  14. Posted · Edited by Amiable Dorsai
    Missing period.

    And Marijuana, don't forget the marijuana.

    On 1/6/2018 at 8:16 PM, CritterKeeper said:

    Occasionally they remember that Chicago exists, although if they have someone driving there, odds are good they'll put mountains in the middle of Illinois or something dumb like that.

    That is silly, everyone knows the mountains are in the northern part, like Mount Prospect.

     

    (For those of you who don't live here, "Mount" Prospect is just barely out of the swamp.)

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  15. Posted

    On 1/3/2018 at 9:02 AM, Scotty said:

    We're in an era of clickbait journalism.

    Exacerbated by the constant need to "feed the beast." The 24-hour news cycle creates a demand for something, anything to write or broadcast that never ends, while allowing less and less time for stories to properly gel.

    Also (this may be a function of my own age), it seems to me that today's journalists know less about the wide world than they used to.  The jokes about east and west coast reporters being ignorant of "Flyover Country" (that portion of the United States the plane flies over between New York or DC and LA) have some real truth behind them.

  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    ... certain political ideologies where I do not believe the world is left any poorer if their adherents die.

    Yeah, me too, the problem is being certain. Jamie (the hero of the Outlander books, has good reasons for his extra-legal killings, and while I'm listening to the books (we've been doing a lot of long-distance driving, lately) it doesn't bother me. It's only afterwards, when I'm thinking about it, that the mass of corpses (to be fair, most of them were trying to commit murder or worse just before they assumed room temp.) seems oppressive.

  20. Posted

    Mrs. Dorsai and I have been listening to the Outlander series of books as read by  Davina Porter. Right now,  a very young character is bragging about how his granda has killed two dozen redcoats., pretty that won't be the final accounting.  Nevertheless, his granda is a good guy, and one of the major characters in the series. Susan's body count is two, with more likely coming. It's funny what we'll accept in fiction.

  22. Posted

    Hi Folks, long time no see.  Been too busy to keep up with either the forum or the comic for quite a while. Just got caught up with the comic, haven't had time for the forums. Forgive me if I've been anticipated by others.

    It looks like there are going to be more players on the board than either Sirleck or Magus anticipates--Sirleck's got six Aberrations coming, but Susan the Vampire Hunter can't be part of his calculations. Where is Voltaire? Will Terra make a belated reappearance? If she's an AU Tedd, she's probably been looking for Magus for the last three years.

    And there are tantalizing hints that Sirleck might not be entirely in control of Ellen.

    It seems I'm back just in time. Pass the popcorn.

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